Posted on 10/04/2016 7:48:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
Pundits, increasingly, are saying that both major party candidates are targeting college-educated white women, but Hillary is ahead in that demographic. Some conservative elites are asking how any intelligent person can vote for Trump. I see those responses as emotional, rather than rational, logical decisions. I’m a white woman with a Ph.D. and I’m voting for Trump because of my experience in D.C., my training in logic, and my appreciation for those who can “get the job done.”
When I first came to D.C. more than 25 years ago, I was moving from a successful academic career into a completely different, political one. Admittedly, my learning curve was steep, but it didn’t take long to see through the bluster to realize that some of the most intimidating, articulate people pontificating at meetings and acting so superior and elitist as colleagues were great on paper, but not very productive or accomplished in reality. Some of the so-called experts spouting impressive data and quoting relevant research sounded good and shut down any dissent, but often, I discovered with a bit of research, they were off the mark and sometimes just plain wrong. They, as the saying goes, are “Often wrong, but never in doubt.”
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Oh, how deplorable!
I agree - lots of us here have professional degrees and are voting for Trump. It’s just a meme to make intelligent people feel foolish if they want to vote for him.
“How can a good Christian vote for [any flawed candidate]” is a perennial question.
They might want to hold out for the next St. Francis or Mother Teresa, but like as not, such rare persons probably aren’t going to even care about politics. They may care about issues, but they’ll be quite innocent of politics.
It’s a matter of getting closer to where we want to be than we were before, not a matter of getting a flawless execution.
Amen to that.
And it’s a kind of progress towards the good that a lot of folks who complain about “lesser evils” miss. Get the best you can, promote the best you can through them, and then watch better candidates arise for the next iteration. America hasn’t seen that, at least lately, because it has (to mix metaphors) been like the proverbial herd of cats before God. We all have some evil in us, and continue to subsist only by the virtue of the grace of God, something that we never earned or generated.
Well said.
And the grace of God says something well about God that frankly, a lot of us — God forgive us — do not want.
Out of pride in ourselves (and fear of our shame if it were any other way) we want it to be said on our epitaph that we earned our way to heaven. Nobody’s epitaph will say that. Christ’s cross says, however, that He earned our way to heaven.
The game becomes far simpler now. Accept the grace in such a way to use it better and better, and it has the promised results. This is the explosive good news of evangelism.
People don’t really want salvation until they have, at the least, undergone some amount of persuasion. They’re proud. They want that epitaph. But we humans are fools to think in such a manner.
Trump is only a mortal like the rest of us, but more and more he seems to bear the mark of the Lord on his life, a life that hardly even bothered to intersect with things religious until very recent days. I believe the Lord has something cooking here.
My philosophy is that if a candidate looks like he will advance at least one thing I really care about, while not going against anything I really care about, then he’s an acceptable candidate.
I agree with you that there will never be a perfect candidate.
The problem is that everybody “goes against” something good until they have departed the mortal coil. And if we had enough of the mind of Christ that would ironically put us in the position that we could never give the nod to a political candidate because now we would know something bad that they all would do.
We can make the best prudential move in a situation. Sometimes apparent threats do not pan out due to other factors. Sometimes people change their mind about apparent threats.
Because ultimately the situation could be worse: the person could be chosen by a committee of oligarchs and you might not even be asked for your voice. It is not as though, if you sat on your sofa, the persons asking for your vote would all go away. They won’t.
Not one of us is without sin. That being said, those who believe in a theocracy should consider what that really means. Islamic states are theocracies.
The ideal “Christian” state (short of Jesus’ personal return) would in fact not code Christianity into its laws, but rather the most generous allowance for its practice that is possible. Because it’s going to have unbelievers, and it wants to act seemly even towards the unbelievers.
I chuckle a bit about that, though. We are utter sin basket cases, as far as the pure view of the Lord is concerned. We sometimes tend to think a bunch of mortal compromises is a real good Christian life. It might be as close to perfect as we can get before going through those pearly gates, but it still is pretty ghastly.
One might conclude that was what our Founding Fathers envisioned.
There are some good arguments to be made for that, and why the Constitution was as secular as it was.
I might have put a purposeful salute to the Christian view of God in the Constitution, but as well a promise that nothing specific will be required of unbelievers simply because it is Christian. But I can’t hop in that time machine, so we got what we got, which was flawed.
The only real purification of such a situation has to come from above. We can’t pen it into any official document. God has to pen it into our own lives.
I couldn’t agree more. Otherwise, why the crucifixion?
We are human and thus flawed. It is our misfortune and our redemption.
A misfortune that we (as humanity) wished on ourselves in concert with Adam and Eve in the garden.
I’ve wondered sometimes why such a complicated story, why such grief, both for us and for the Lord.
But I think I’ve concluded that true love could never act in any other way. We would cease to have love — we would have but robotic puppet strings — if our life before God were mechanistic. God went to all that trouble, and put us to all that trouble, in order that love could be true, even though hatred could be genuine too.
Yes. We are in the image of God, which includes love and anger.
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