House of Eratosthenes

But, the ones who want to characterize “Trump fans” as unreasonable fanatics…this is cause for concern. The size of the big net they’re casting, for one thing. They aren’t referring to cult-worshipers who think Donald Trump is the next Messiah or something. Although they’d certainly like others to think that. They’re referring to anybody who might think about supporting, and/or voting for, Trump. In short, they’re referring to anybody who can legally vote, and is not a fellow #NeverTrump.

They’re arguing that they have a lock on reason, a monopoly on it. The truth is the opposite. They’re not reasoning, they’re not reasonable, they’re not discussing anything…do we really have to argue about this? It’s in the name…”never.”

But, some are going to fall short, thank goodness. Some are reaching the fifth stage of the Kübler-Ross model, like this guy.

This is not easy for me. I did not get to this point lightly. Rather, it has been a matter of intense examination of the candidates and party platforms, studying the Scriptures (particularly I Samuel 8-12; see below), and listening to many thoughtful voices in the debate.

Anyone who has been tracking my writing during the course of this campaign knows how deeply concerned I am about Mr. Trump — his lack of experience, flip-flopping on issues, and the unkind and at times even vulgar or vitriolic language he uses against his critics. I had hoped he would be defeated in the primaries. Or challenged by a plausible third party candidate. Or would drop out after the release of the deeply offensive video of him speaking with Billy Bush.

But this is where we are. Now, it is truly is a binary choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. There’s no way around it, and the moment of decision has arrived.

True, I had previously stated that I could “never” vote for Mr. Trump. So I readily concede this is a reversal. I have no doubt I will disappoint some for changing my position. But this is where I am, and I want to explain how I got here.
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The most important is this: Hillary Clinton must never be elected President under any circumstances. She must be stopped. As I have written, she would be an absolute catastrophe for America. Should she be elected and the Democratic Platform enacted, this dynamic would accelerate the country towards divine judgment and implosion.

Hillary and her advisors may have committed federal crimes. The decision by the Director of the FBI to reopen the criminal investigation put into sharp relief for me the gravity of the situation facing us.

Electing Hillary could very well lead to a constitutional crisis that could paralyze the federal government and make us vulnerable. These were points made this week by Doug Schoen, a senior Democrat pollster and strategist who once worked for President Bill Clinton. Schoen announced that he – a long-time Hillary supporter – could no longer in good conscience vote for her. This helped persuade me that I could no longer in good conscience avoid casting a vote to stop her.

Aside from criminality, Hillary is the most corrupt and flawed candidate ever to run on a major party ticket for President. Americans are exhausted by the culture of corruption and scandal that perennially surrounds the Clintons. Four more years would distract us from tackling the serious challenges facing the American people.

Hillary Clinton is the poster child for “politics as usual” at a time when we need change.
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Finally, I have been studying I Samuel chapters 8 through 12 as I’ve been wrestling with the question, “Can I vote for a candidate for whom I have serious reservations?” In this fascinating passage, the Hebrew judge and prophet Samuel is grieved by the direction ancient Israel is going. He is grieved by Israel’s rebellion against the Lord. They want an earthly king, someone tall and strong and decisive — rather than the Lord — to govern them, lead them, protect them and solve their problems. Samuel goes to the Lord with great anguish to protest, but the Lord tells him three times to “listen to the voice of the people.” The Lord even directs Samuel to publicly anoint and bless a seriously flawed and woefully inexperienced man named Saul to be the king. The Lord does this even though He knows that Saul will fail the people and need to be replaced. But the Lord gives Samuel one further directive: Make sure the people understand what they are doing, and how urgently they need to turn back to the Lord – not to a man – to see their nation blessed and saved. “Now then, listen to their voice,” said the Lord. “However, you shall [also] solemnly warn them.” Did God tell Samuel to support a flawed man for the highest position of leadership in the nation even though it went directly against Samuel’s conscience? Yes, He did. But Samuel was never to stop calling the nation back to the Lord until the day he died. Now I am not Samuel, and Mr. Trump is not Saul. The details are different. But the principle is intriguing, and it has been helpful to me.

It’s going to be tough not to offer up this Bible verse to the #NeverTrump ers, many of whom I notice are ardent evangelicals. But I know from past experience I should not do that. People who are thumping the Bible, don’t take kindly to it when someone else can thump the Bible back at them, and things get ugly after that. Yes, there is shock value. But there is also a great deal offense to go with it, as if to say “How DARE you use MY BOOK to defend an idea I don’t like?”

Instead, I think the best solution is to just use honesty. #NeverTrump ers who envision Trump as the embodiment of evil, and refuse to reach the fifth stage before Tuesday, are playing a treacherous game of “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.” They’re failing to take into account that a Hillary victory would say certain things. It would say America is not yet done with this generation’s destructive flirtation with modern liberalism. It would say America is getting tired of civilization, all this business of everyone, weak & strong, enjoying certain protections under the law. It would say America wants to get on with the revolution, the razing of existing civilization to the ground so a newer utopia can emerge from the ashes. It would be a blessing of brutality. Of, “If I’m bigger than you are and you have something I want, it’s mine already you just don’t know it.”

Some among them will respond with a protest that a Trump presidency would be just as bad. The rest of them might listen to reason. We should make sure they all have at least the opportunity to do that…and the ones that don’t, well, too bad. Maybe next time the occasion arises for us to confront and defeat evil, they’ll get up off the sidelines and do the right thing.

The Bible? The Bible?!?! But I have it on the very best authority that Hillary Clinton and all her minions are running a Satanic pedo sex cult out of a pizza parlor or something like that. Srsly, it’s like all over Wikileaks or whatever.

No one who has ever cracked the cover of a Bible — heck, make that a Bible, a Koran, a Bhaghavad Gita, a Lotus Sutra, or a Tao Te Ching — could ever vote for a Democrat, or through inaction allow one to come to power. I don’t believe Hillary is running a Satanic sex ring, but I know she has no problem with baby-chopping, organ-harvesting Planned Parenthood, which should be enough to put even a lukewarm believer of even the wishywashiest creed off her forever.
- Severian | 11/06/2016 @ 11:05
Yeah…I’ve had that talk. You’d be surprised.
- mkfreeberg | 11/06/2016 @ 11:13
[…] to accept that when you vote, sometimes you lose, she’ll skid along one or more stops in the Kübler-Ross Model, and then come to rest here. The game was rigged, the people who outvoted me are stupid, […]
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