{"id":25852,"date":"2025-01-13T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/issues-associated-with-the-current-election-the-aleph-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:03:31","slug":"issues-associated-with-the-current-election-the-aleph-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=25852","title":{"rendered":"Issues Associated with the Current Election \u2013 The Aleph Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Picture Credit: derek visser<\/a> (modified to exclude extraneous comments) || Trump and Harris are more similar than different. Both favor the rich, they lie, they are for abortion and against immigration.<\/p>\n

1) For those that follow my Twitter feed<\/a>, you know that I don\u2019t like Trump or Harris much. Trump has bad character and evil policies.\u00a0 Harris is an accidental candidate that initially sparked some excitement among Democrats, but has proven to be a low quality campaigner.\u00a0 Had Biden not sought re-election Harris would not have been the choice of the Democrats.\u00a0 She would have failed the same way she did in the 2020 primaries. She also has the baggage of having concealed Biden\u2019s mental infirmity, when she should have invoked the 25th amendment as her duty.\u00a0 Other problems: Endorsing all the actions of the Biden administration. Also, a history of such a wide range of policy positions that you really don\u2019t know what she stands for.\u00a0 Finally, she is a Democrat so she has evil policies as well.<\/p>\n

For ethical reasons, I can\u2019t vote for either of them.\u00a0 Since I live in Maryland, my vote doesn\u2019t mean anything, anyway.<\/p>\n

2) A while ago, I wrote a piece called NOTA Bene<\/a>, and followed it with NOTA Bene, Redux<\/a>. NOTA: None Of The Above.\u00a0 The idea is that \u201cNone Of The Above\u201d would exist as a choice in every race, and if it wins, the election must be reheld, with none of the prior candidates allowed to run, and (in the more severe version) that none of the parties represented can nominate a candidate.<\/p>\n

Think about it.\u00a0 The far left and far right would gain no advantage from running polarizing candidates, because they would lose to NOTA.\u00a0 We need to create a NOTA-type law or amendment to the Constitution.\u00a0 It ended the Soviet Union; it could end our lousy politics.<\/p>\n

3) One other thing NOTA might help end is the \u201cPurple Party<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 The Purple Party governs America on behalf of the rich.\u00a0 Both Trump and Harris are part of the Purple Party.\u00a0 In general, the wealthy get what they want as result of the structure of the tax code. They pursue a global dominance policy that protects American and allied business interests, rather than the simpler concept of defense.\u00a0 They are the party of big government; the Republicans long ago forsook shrinking the government and the deficit.\u00a0 If we had more moderate conservatives, centrists, and moderate liberals in office, we might be able to work out some of the harder issues.<\/p>\n

4) Fideism: \u201cIf I believe it, it is true.\u201d We have more and more people engaging in wishful thinking.\u00a0 An example is Modern Monetary Theory, which I call Banana Republic Monetary Theory.\u00a0 There are no limits to borrowing?\u00a0 Tell that to Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey, and many other developing nations who borrowed far too much money and ruined their economies.<\/p>\n

What makes the US different? Neither Harris nor Trump sees any reason to not expand the deficit further.\u00a0 For now, other countries want us to buy their goods, so they take in our government debts to make the books balance.\u00a0 But less and less of the world is doing so. Russia, China, and a few other nations are limiting their use of US dollars, and dollar-denominated debt.<\/p>\n

Fideism is a Trump specialty.\u00a0 He makes up his own truth. The 2020 election was not stolen.\u00a0 The State GOP chairmen to a man in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all stated there was no election fraud to the degree of changing the results.\u00a0 If anything, the one trying to steal the election in 2020 was Trump.\u00a0 After losing, and being told by many of his subordinates that he lost, he did everything he could to change the result.\u00a0 It\u2019s one thing to file lawsuits with hard evidence; it\u2019s another thing to do it with vague allegations.<\/p>\n

But fideism is across the political spectrum, amplified by the far right and far left media.\u00a0 They feed people what they would like to be true.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I read from the moderate right to the moderate left.\u00a0 I have a reasonably good idea of what those who disagree with me think.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand your opponents, you probably don\u2019t understand your own position so well.<\/p>\n

5) And why not say, \u201cLet us do evil that good may come\u201d?\u2014as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just. [Romans 3:8 NKJV]<\/p>\n

I have some words for my fellow evangelical Christians here.\u00a0 Choosing the lesser of two evils is choosing to do evil.\u00a0 It is not copping out to say, \u201cI am not playing this game.\u201d\u00a0 Just write in NOTA on every race where the main choice is voting for the lesser of two evils.\u00a0 Voting for Trump or Harris is a sin.<\/p>\n

Remember Jesus is King over all, sitting at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. God has already won, and this election is of no consequence to Him.\u00a0 He does care about what his Church is doing, and in supporting Trump, he sees the sins of the Church.\u00a0 We can engage in politics, but on Christian principles, not those of the Republican (now Trump Nationalist) Party.<\/p>\n

It was good to fight for ending abortion on demand. Roe vs Wade was badly decided in 1973.\u00a0 This should have been worked out by the states.\u00a0 Many intelligent people thought the 1973 opinion was thought out badly.\u00a0 Even RBG thought that.\u00a0 But when the Supreme Court reversed Roe vs Wade, the predictable thing happened.\u00a0 Many states passed laws to allow abortion on demand, and many Republicans (who were always half-hearted about opposing abortion because it was only about keeping evangelicals and other religious people who opposed abortion in the GOP) abandoned the pro-life cause.\u00a0 It was now a vote-loser.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christians, you did your best, but the culture of America has changed.\u00a0 We are a much more cruel society than we once were.\u00a0 Abortion is cruel, killing the weakest of people in their mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n

But America is cruel in another way.\u00a0 My ancestors came to America when immigration was lightly regulated.\u00a0 They would refuse those who were diseased, and exile immigrants that committed felonies.\u00a0 Why do I have the right to live here, and those who want to get away from oppressive governments don\u2019t?<\/p>\n

I favor of the relatively free immigration that existed before the Protestants acted to keep Roman Catholics, and those of other religions out. Those who come to US fleeing persecution now get locked up in US jails with fewer rights than felons, and the grand majority of them get deported back the country from which they fled.\u00a0 Who is to blame for this? Trump, Biden and Harris, and their parties.<\/p>\n

It is a myth that immigrants take jobs away from others.\u00a0 If anything, they create jobs.\u00a0 The jobs they do most Americans don\u2019t want to do.\u00a0 And, many of them build their own businesses, employing others.\u00a0 The skills that it takes to flee your home country and get to America are similar to those that you need to run a business.\u00a0 You have to be flexible, adapt, and be determined to achieve your goal.<\/p>\n

The Bible teaches us fifteen times that we are supposed to take care of the widow, orphan, and stranger.\u00a0 Turning away people who are seeking to live safely in the US is cruel.\u00a0 Yes, if someone is known to be a spy, or commits a felony, exile them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christians, also remember that Leviticus 24:22 says, \u201cYou shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.\u201d\u00a0 To that end, either immigrants get access to welfare programs, or we end those programs for everyone.\u00a0 America should be the beacon of freedom to the world that it was back in the late 19th century.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today I go to the polls and vote.\u00a0 I will be writing in NOTA a bunch of times.\u00a0 I will vote against the proposal to enshrine abortion in the Maryland Constitution. Will it matter? Yes.\u00a0 God is watching me.\u00a0 That is what matters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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