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FOLGER: What are your views on all the folks who are clamoring to the early front runners, saying, “We’ve got to back one of these guys. Otherwise, we’re gonna be facing a Clinton administration again.” What do you say to that?

KEYES: Well, the principle of my political life and choice is that evil may triumph, but not with my help.

FOLGER: Hmm.

KEYES: And that means that the whole notion that you vote for the lesser of evils is evil. It’s an evil notion, and anybody who subscribes to it is gonna have a hard time facing the Lord. And I’ll say that to anybody who’s willing to ask. They really think that it’s gonna make any difference to God Almighty, when it comes down to it, that they supported evil because, according to them, it was the only choice.

There’s always another choice, and that choice is always to follow the right path as exemplified by Our Lord and Our Father God. You can always do that. You don’t have to go out and commit murder in order to live, or steal and rob and loot because you don’t have any money. All these excuses people give for their wickedness, because they “had no choice.” We always have the choice, and that choice, especially from the point of view of people of faith, can never be the lesser of evils.

I’d like somebody to point out to me one example in the witness that has been borne to the life of Christ, where He chose the lesser of evils. I cannot find it. I’ve scoured Scripture for it, and it ain’t there.

FOLGER: Good point. Well said, although I do think that there are a lot of people who sit on their hands now, during the primary process, and they want to have a write-in, or a third-party candidate, and I think the time to get involved is right now, because this is the best chance we have of getting a godly leader, is to support somebody who supports our values, supports what the Bible has to say, right now. Would you agree with that?

KEYES: Oh, I certainly agree with that. But one of the things that bothers me at the moment about people is that they have actually taken the media’s definition of our politics and made it their own. And the media presents politics as a bunch of ambitious people tapping themselves for office, and then running out there and saying, “I want it desperately. I want it badly. I’m the one whom you should choose.”

You know, in a system of self-government, the better way is for people to consider who’s actually got what we need right now. And whether that person is running or not running, you go to them and say, “You must stand forward and do your duty.” And that actually, by the way, in both form and sometimes in substance, was the way our politics was conducted through the early part of the twentieth century. As a matter of fact, it was considered bad form for candidates to go out and campaign for themselves. The whole idea was that people at the grassroots would organize, that they’d agree amongst themselves as to who could really represent what they thought was best for the country, and they would promote that person, who would then have to give a yea or nay as to whether or not they were going to accept the support that these people were offering.

Americans have become passive and lazy. They’re acting like they’re going to horse races instead of an election booth, and that they’re trying to pick who the winner’s gonna be. There’s no payoff, except destruction and death, when we choose to back somebody because they’re the frontrunner, even though they stand for everything that will destroy this country.

And, sad to say, on the Republican side, we have people like this. Rudy Giuliani may or may not be an effective administrator, and all these things. He did a good job with certain aspects of things in New York. But the truth of the matter is, if you stand for abortion, if you’re standing for the destruction of the moral foundation and understanding of family, then you’re going to destroy America.

And who can justify voting for somebody who’s going to destroy your country, because they wear a Republican label rather than a Democrat label? It doesn’t matter a bit. The destruction will be the same.

And yet, we’re not being honest with ourselves. I, myself, am not willing to be the pawn or tool of a bunch of elite interests who want to hold onto power that they use for their own ambition, rather than to use my choice, and vote, and purpose, and life to do what is going to redound to the best future for this country, and that can only be produced if our way of life is preserved on its right moral foundations.

I think people would surprise themselves, if they’d stop all this calculating, and simply ponder for a minute what it is that the Lord and Our Father God want us to do, what’s right, and just do it—and let the Lord take care of the consequences.

When we’re encouraged to do all this calculating, it reminds me of Sarah. Faced with childlessness, she wouldn’t rely on God, so she came up with schemes of her own that, as the Bible suggests, turned out badly. And then, it turns out that it is within the power of God to do what He wills.

So, if He wills that this country is gonna survive, and it’s gonna survive on a decent basis, that’s gonna be in His power. It’s for us to accord our will to His, and to do what we can to contribute to the best outcome.

When Christian people and professed people of faith, and all these so-called leaders start to act that way, and stop calculating, and stop trying to bargain for their seat at the table, then I think we’re going to see a result that leaves room for God’s power and miracle.

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