ballcoach15 wrote: ↑November 17th, 2021, 11:57 am
Liberty has always been aligned with Republican Presidents. I don't understand why some got upset about Liberty's alignment with Trump. Those who don't support GOP, basically support the liberal Democrats.
"you are either for me or against me"
A binary choice between two political parties, neither of which embodies the whole character of Christ, is a false choice for Christians. If I strive to be all that Christ calls me to be, I won't fit comfortably in either party. Christ is the perfect blend of righteousness and justice, and mercy and grace, covered in love, and that definition applies to none of them. I consider myself politically homeless, and I am very much at peace with that. I practice good citizenship and I vote, but neither political party has my uncritical loyalty.
Besides, "conservative" and "Republican" are not synonymous with one another. Today's GOP isn't conservative and hasn't been for a long time.
For example, conservatives don't try to use state government to dictate to private businesses or local governments what they will or won't do. In fact, conservatives believe that decisions should be made at the lowest level of governance possible, starting with the family. Today's GOP is only against the government when they're not the ones in charge. When they have the reins, they can be as coercive in their application of government power as any progressive. The only difference is they want to use it to enforce some past ideal, while progressives want to use it to dismantle the present order and build something else in its place. If the government is of, by, and for the people, neither of them should get their way.
Conservatives don't believe in absolute loyalty to one person, either. How did the party of individual liberty become a cult of personality? I don't care if it's Donald Trump or Aaron Donald (this is a sports site, after all!), Americans have traditionally distrusted the idea that power invested in one person is the answer to our problems. "We the people" is as fundamental to the American creed as "All men are created equal."
The fact that one man has an entire national political party afraid to even speak against him is disturbing on so many levels, and un-American, in my opinion. This isn't Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or even Kim Jong Un's North Korea.
“I did not defeat King George III to become King George I.” ~ George Washington