How I do relate to the pain of Hillary’s defeat. I related to her outbursts and spurts of anger because her defeat was not just personal, her injurious rejection was a defeat for the American People…as a whole .
No, she is not a perfect person, she’s made mistakes. But, she is human after all, as we all are. None-the-less, for me, Hillary represented what our country is all about; our God-given right of…Freedom of Choice. Seriously, I cannot think of one act, which society frowns upon today, that has not been around since the beginning of time. So, as for me, Hillary represented the Freedom which God gave to us all, beginning in the Garden of Eden and after…the right to choose. Today, law abiding citizens have the right, without harassment, to follow personal convictions that do not harm others but allow an individual to live, be and do what they deem right for them. And, for starters, I am not referring to anything complicated but trifle ‘things’…like wearing a hoodie whenever and wherever I want to without the fear of being ‘targeted’ and killed. Shopping…in a 5-star store without being watched and racially profiled and driving without the potential of being stopped by law enforcement to have my name ‘run’ simply because my car is very nice. To be able to reach for my ID and not be shot to death because a police officer has allowed his ‘stress level’ with regards to people of color, to (purposely or mistakenly) influence his ability to think and act clearly. These ‘things’ exist and the president elect has not publicly censored them.
I was astounded when I learned that only 60% of Democrats voted. However, I had to concede that this was obviously true . I first noted this ‘thin’ turn-out at my polling place on the morning of the 8th of November. What should have been a jammed-pack place was merely a ‘crowded’ one. What happened?!
Well, it would seem that a great deal of our politicians, on both sides of the ticket, lied! Note-worthy leaders that can sway a vote and influence a great deal of voters were, at heart, Trump supporters, though they said they weren’t. Democrats were given the impression that they had a lot more ‘cross-overs’ then they actually had and we forgot; all is fair in love and war.
But still, every vote counts and the fact that Hillary did not have the support that was needed at the polls indicates something else to me, it indicates that perhaps…there are a great deal of everyday ‘hypocrites and pretenders’ walking around. If this is not so, where were the voices of the Americans who seek to maintain a fair and equal status-quo among ‘all’ people? Did they not realize the seriousness of this election? Did they not understand that all of the achievements for which good men were martyred are in danger of being completely reverted and outlawed? Did they not see that the leadership of a man who has promised to take an urbanite's right to walk down a street without arbitrarily being ‘stopped and frisked’ (probably killed) and who negatively mocks and ‘labels’ people of other cultures…is grievously dangerous? Did they not grasp that when an ex(?) KKK affiliate whole-heartedly endorses a presidential candidate as ‘god’ it’s because he’s finally found someone whom he feels will wreak out the sick, hate-infested rhetoric that he revels in?
How did we lose sight of the progress that was made, in spite of the overwhelming opposition, with a health care reform called, ‘Obama Care’? Truly, this is a landmark care package that at last made affordable health care available to the poor and the needy…those who have worked hard and paid insurance premiums but still were not afforded proper care and medication. I bring this up because, of course, now, in the richest country on earth, this available health coverage will soon no longer be available. Little by little it will be ‘chipped away’ until it becomes unrecognizable and obsolete. And what makes it so sad is that the White House…oh, pardon me…the family-stuffed, Trump House…will do it legally and he will enforce his actions in a way that pleases his constituents and pampers the rich and the elite.
In whatever way he deems necessary, the president elect, who cannot relate in the slightest to being without, will slowly but surely, make the America that was always Great, stink with the odor of bigotry and racism- Again. And he will do it with an iron fist and steel boots that will attack the stability, peace, beauty and character of a land which has tragically forgotten that its very soil was irrigated with the blood and built on the back of…slaves.
Putin’s influence should have had ‘absolutely nothing’ to do with America’s Democratic Electoral Process but, whether we want to admit it or not…he, and the likes of him, did. He favored Donald Trump and had no reservations about stating it. Why? Because the president elect is the ‘pawn’ that can be used to compromise our country by allowing the infiltration of our inner circles through a quest to make…Money! It matters very little to me that Mr. Trump, who is an unqualified president elect but is indeed a qualified ‘business man’, has sported the fact that he will take $1.00 as a ‘salary’. The amount of money that the ‘Trump Enterprises’ expects to make in world-wide ‘business deals’ (at the expense of America’s integrity) will exceed by millions of dollars any salary he would have received.
Mr. Donald Trump is by no means a fool. He knows his abilities and his limitations. While he sits in the seat of leadership, ‘others’ (a great deal of them family members) will be actually running this country. But he will be doing what he loves to do. He will do what the object of his candidacy was all about in the first place; make…’more money’!
And what is so pitiful is that ‘blind’ America who voted for him could only understand one thing- his polluted platform; vote for me! I hate what and who you hate and I love what and who you love! Put me in a position to make the changes you want and we will go back to the good ‘old’ days. The ‘divisive’ days…the days when the ‘fruit’ hanging on tree limbs, did not grow there.
However, the blind are not considering this; one cannot entertain evil to get what one wants without…becoming evil. It is a fact throughout history that glorified monsters eventually turn on their supporters and become uncontrollable! A potential ‘dictator’ is soon to be installed in the chief seat of our country.
Presently, he is a ‘closet dictator’. But what is in the closet will eventually seep out and begin to touch every facet our everyday lives. No one should be under the mistaken impression that they will not feel that lash of his ‘hammer’ and ‘sickle’.
Now, having vented and said all of the above I do add that I am, as a common citizen, grateful to be able to air my political points of view. But, I am so please that I have been led to a place where I can squarely look at the ‘core’ of our predicament and what is presently taking place. I can address the riots and unruly demonstrations…which will not help us. The voting is over. The damage has been done and…only ALMIGHTY GOD can save us!
It is time, indeed, to ‘… look to the hills from when cometh our strength….’(Ps 121:1-2). And I must ask the question which looms in my mind; is this not why God ‘allowed’ Trump to win the election? Certainly, to whatever twist and turns of ‘human frailties’ that we wish to attribute the outcome of this election, the bottom line is…God deemed it so! I don’t care how well informed we were or were not and I don’t care how the opposition schemed or how they strategized…God was still in charge! He did it! He made the final decision as to who would win the election. Yes, we are angry, upset, hurt, but really, it’s nobody’s fault. Because what God orchestrates to come to pass, will come to pass and it cannot be undone!
All of the demonstrations, the house burnings, the arguments, the fights…they are not going to do us any good at this point. Thus, it was ‘His Will’ that Donald Trump should win the election. Why? I have long since given up on trying to figure God out. I just trust Him, love Him and accept the fact that there so many things that He has allowed which I will not ever understand, but it’s all right. I didn’t fall in love with Him because He is a ‘puppet’ God, I fell in love with Him because He ‘is’ God! He is God that made the heaven, earth, sky and seas and ‘all’ that in them is’(Gen 1, Ps 146:6) and…until rivers cease and planets kiss, I’ll ‘still’ belong to Him!
And so, we can enjoy and entertain ourselves by surmising all we’d like to, but the Word of God tells us plainly, ‘…God’s thinking is higher than ours as is the heavens higher than the earth…’(Is 55:8-9). We will never figure ‘Him’ out! For, ‘…the just shall live by faith…’ (Habk 2:4). We have now have been presented with the opportunity to depend upon God as we never have before. If we are to survive the assault of the soon to be installed president elect we will have to depend upon our faith in God and an acknowledgement of the presence of God in our lives in a renewed, more committed way. Prayer is the key!(1Thess 5:17).
We are in the end times and we are fast embarking upon the final days of our existence as we know it. Just who it is that will set himself up as god here on earth is not clear, but I am sure all will agree, the president elect has an insatiable ego. He thinks ‘he’ is the answer to all our problems and he has demonstrated a temperament that will not try to avoid a nuclear confrontation… which will be the end for ‘all’ man-kind. North Korea has their ‘hot head’ and we will soon have ours. Still…God is not a liar, His Word will not return void(Is 55:11). The times that God has already forewarned us of(Rev 16:16-21)in His Word is fast approaching.
I would appeal to those that have threatened to leave our country…please don’t leave us now when you are so needed! Let us stand by our country as our forefather’s did; through the bad and the good. Though we may not like or agree with the president elect, we are obligated by the Word of God…to love him(Matt 5: 43-44).
Let us remain Loyal to our country…Loyal to the position to which he has ascended and the seat that he has been elected to fill…Loyal…to the office that 'God Himself' has placed in him .
Donald Trump is my president elect.
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I AM SO GRIEVED THAT CHRISTIANS SUCCUMB TO A SPIRIT OF COMPLAINT COMPROMISE COMPLACENCY BLAME AND UNBRIDLED ANGER RATHER THAN SUBMIING TO THE SOVEREIGN GOD AND GOD IT IS WRITTEN STRATEGY.
GOD IMPRESSED IN MY SPIRIT THE IDEA IN THE CULTURE IS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET BUT TURNING AWAY FROM ME
(THE MOST HIGH GOD) WHAT YOU GET IS EHAT YOU NOW SEE.
GOD BLESS
JUDITH
thought provoking article
keep writing
As for Hillary, she is as crooked as they come. As a Haitian American, I have first hand information on how through her foundation she stole millions from the 2010 earthquake funds to enrich herself and her friends. A lot of Haitians are aware of what she did, and this is the main reason why she lost in Florida because they did not vote for her.
Additionally, Hillary and the DNC, stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders, and many of Bernie's supporters were miffed and consequently refused to vote for Hillary. Most of them wrote in Bernie's name on the ballot or they voted for Jill Stein.
This is what happens when you cheat and consistently lie. Furthermore, the media and the pollsters lied about Hillary winning when in fact she was in jeopardy of losing the election. How long can one keep up this charade? Donald Trump is definitely not my kind of candidate, but truth be told, the media propelled him to win because of the way they kept attacking him and going out of their way to make crooked Hillary come across as the ideal candidate , when in fact she is far from being ideal.
Lastly, as for Obama Care, let's face it , you can't rob from Peter to pay Paul. I voted for Obama both times, but Obama lied to the American people in order to get Obama Care to pass. I for one, have seen my premiums go from $250 dollars deductible to an astounding 4,500 dollars. Really? I do not think it is fair for me to have to carry the burden of paying for the poor to have free heath care. Yes, something must be done with Obama Care, because the government can't expect the middle class to continue to carry the burden for the poor. Something must be done to help the poor, but not at the expense of people like myself who made many sacrifices to attend college and earn a decent wage and to turn around and have it taken from me to help the poor.
It's interesting that you say what has happened is, "ordained by God."
I would say that much of America has been confused. We've had eight years of stagnation (but no major trauma) that resulted in the country's net worth being increased by 40% with the benefits of that going to the top 10% while the rest of society fell further behind.
So, the results of the election may truly be a way for the real problems to come to a head. Trump and the group that he is gathering up around him, along with a willing and able Congress and a soon to be willing and able Supreme Court, will surely bring on an Armageddon that we didn't even see in two world wars during the last century.
Right now, there is no way to head it off. But, if we can avoid revolution for four more years, real progress and real improvement for everyone may be just around the corner. When we all have a major challenge like we had with dealing with the Axis in World War II and the space race to the moon during the Cold War, we pull together. The hardships posed by global warming and resulting climate change may just be the catalyst for a real fight for our very survival.
Ron