Political science has been brought to a low level, to that of a sporting event. Which side is on offense/defense, which is winning/losing, and how next year’s player draft is shaping up, dominates the discussion.
No debate in decades has dealt with fundamentals, beginning with, “what is the purpose of government?”
As you point out, the purpose of government isn’t to oversee the murder of tens of millions of innocents.
Even at FR, as this thread illustrates, almost all conservatives are lost in the weeds. They need to lift up their heads, take a look around at the big picture, and focus their attention on how to restore our republic.
Well; the powers that be gave us a man whose religion claims to have RESTORED Christianity.
That didn't work very well.
We need to 'restore' back to THIS:
Mayflower CompactIn the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.