"BIPOLAR AMERICA" - Cal Thomas: November 10, 2020; https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2020/11/10/bipolar-america-n2579761 [AS I SEE IT: I especially point you to what the writer says about asking why voters seem to vote for Republicans in one election and Democrats in the next. It surely is in part because they tend to vote more in terms of the personalities involved. The parties have come to stand for so many diametrically opposed policies that it's hard to understand how people could change their minds so often about how this country should function. I suspect too many are just too lazy to really study the issues involved and vote accordingly. Also, to preach "unity" has come to mean for the losers of an election to "compromise" - that is give in to - the winners for the sake of "unity." That should be too high a price esp. when it comes to some of the policies involved. Attention: Republicans! - Stan]
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If Joe Biden survives recounts and several lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign into what Trump says has been widespread vote-counting fraud (we await proof), do not expect him to be hounded over his and Hunter Biden's business ties to China and Ukraine as President Trump has been over "Russian collusion" charges and numerous other attempts by Democrats, the left and the media to undermine his administration.
In an address to the nation last Saturday, Biden claimed he has been given a "mandate for action on COVID, the economy, climate change (and) systemic racism." He called for healing and unity. Biden reportedly plans to issue a slew of executive orders, reversing those by President Trump. It is his right to do so, but how does that promote healing and unity? For Democrats, healing and unity often means bowing to their policy wishes. It never seems to work in reverse.
Does Biden have a mandate on COVID? Would Americans, including business owners, accept a national lockdown that could cripple the economy? In a Hill-HarrisX survey conducted in July, 53 percent of registered voters approved of President Trump's job on economy, which, despite COVID, is recovering, "albeit unevenly." A September Gallup poll found that 56 percent of registered voters believed they were better off under Trump than under the Obama-Biden administration.
What about open borders and lifting the ban on immigrants from nations that have experienced and, in some cases, promoted terrorism? Does Biden have a mandate for that? Will he be anti-Israel, as some believe Obama was? Will Biden undermine peace agreements brokered by Trump between Israel and three Arab/Muslim states? Was Trump's impeachment by Nancy Pelosi's House a contribution to healing and unity?
The Biden economic plan includes tax increases and more spending. Biden also said, "the purpose of our politics isn't total, unrelenting, unending warfare." You wouldn't know it from the way Democrats behave, starting with their slander of Robert Bork during his hearing to become a justice of the Supreme Court -- ditto Brett Kavanaugh -- through the presidential election of 2000, which many Democrats then and now claim illegitimately elected George W. Bush, to the 2016 election when they claimed Hillary Clinton should have won based on the popular vote and mounted a four-year political assault against the president.
Biden's bromides sound comforting, but Democrats do not practice what they preach. "We may be opponents, but we are not enemies. We're Americans," he said. No credit to Abraham Lincoln. An earlier comment that we are not "red or blue states, but the United States" was taken from President Obama. Speaking of Lincoln, who Democrats like to cite as a great Republican president, I am re-reading Carl Sandburg's brilliant four-volume work on Lincoln called "The War Years." Sandburg quotes some of Lincoln's many critics, including Democrats and the press at a time when the nation was even more divided. After the 1860 election and before he was sworn in, the owner and editor of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, called on Lincoln not to assume office: "A grand opportunity now exists for Lincoln to avert impending ruin, and invest his name with an immortality far more enduring that would attach to it by his elevation to the Presidency." Trump critics planned to impeach him before he was inaugurated and publicly said so.
Biden says he wants to bring us together? On which issues would he be willing to compromise and find common ground with Republicans? To win the approval of Democrats and their media acolytes, Republicans must lose elections and forfeit their principles.
The mystery is why so many Americans vote for Republicans in one election and Democrats the next. Too many it seems vote mainly on personality and superficialities, not substantive policies. It was the media's job to dig under the superficial and reveal the true Joe Biden (and Kamala Harris, who could likely become president sooner than later). They failed, becoming an extension of the Democratic Party and anti-Trumpers. If Biden's policies fail don't expect Democrats to admit it; they will blame Republicans.
Meanwhile we are a bipolar nation, unlikely to unify.
[italics and colored emphasis mine]
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"Against 'Unity'" - David Harsanyi: Nov 13, 2020;https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2020/11/13/against-unity-n2580010
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PRAYER MATTERS:
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against
the disorder of the world. - Karl Barth"Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting/resting in His love and grace to accomplish His perfect will in His perfect time and for His greatest glory. Intercession is one of the great privileges AND responsibilities for EVERY believer."- Stan----------------------------------------------------------------------
World-Wide Praises:
PRAISE GOD for the continuing successes against ISIS !PRAISE GOD for the contining successes of the Trump Admin. to establish peace in the ME!
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Christian girl abducted at gunpoint in ASIA. Maria*, a young Christian woman in a Muslim-majority country in Asia, was abducted at gunpoint. We cannot reveal Maria’s real name, age and country for the protection of Maria and her family. Neighbors witnessed the abduction. However, when the teenager was brought to court to testify, she said she voluntarily left with herkidnappers and is now married and Muslim by choice. The judge ruled the abduction never took place, and Maria left court with her abductors.ETHIOPIA. Building a school. In rural Ethiopia, an Open Doors school is helping a small Christian community regain their place in society. For many years, these believers have lived like outsiders in their own village. A local pastor named Sileshi* proposed building a school, believing it would bring in the church and social outsiders and win the trust of their Muslim community.The school is helping the local church be seen as a valued contributor to the community where children can receive a good education. Believers are treated with greater tolerance, and Christians have the opportunity to live out the gospel in practical ways.
November 13 - Pray for the Christian community reeling from the shock of the judge’s ruling. They’re grappling with feelings of hopelessness as the situation worsens.
*Representative name or photo used to protect identity.
the disorder of the world. - Karl Barth
PRAISE GOD for the continuing successes against
Christian girl abducted at gunpoint in ASIA. Maria*, a young Christian woman in a Muslim-majority country in Asia, was abducted at gunpoint. We cannot reveal Maria’s real name, age and country for the protection of Maria and her family. Neighbors witnessed the abduction. However, when the teenager was brought to court to testify, she said she voluntarily left with herkidnappers and is now married and Muslim by choice. The judge ruled the abduction never took place, and Maria left court with her abductors.ETHIOPIA. Building a school. In rural Ethiopia, an Open Doors school is helping a small Christian community regain their place in society. For many years, these believers have lived like outsiders in their own village. A local pastor named Sileshi* proposed building a school, believing it would bring in the church and social outsiders and win the trust of their Muslim community.The school is helping the local church be seen as a valued contributor to the community where children can receive a good education. Believers are treated with greater tolerance, and Christians have the opportunity to live out the gospel in practical ways.
November 13 - Pray for the Christian community reeling from the shock of the judge’s ruling. They’re grappling with feelings of hopelessness as the situation worsens.
*Representative name or photo used to protect identity.
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