March 20, 2012
Laodicea
Our upcoming election is a non-partisan race and some candidates come
from opposite political parties. A few days ago I learned that one candidate
declares a party affiliation just long enough to participate in the party caucus
then he switches to become an Independent. I’m not sure how his party feels
about people who are on again-off again, but the Lord certainly has an opinion
on those of faith who have Laodiceian tendencies. “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were
either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither
hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” (Rev 3:15-16 NIV)
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Gail;
-----I’m so tired of politics. The worst part of it is that if you just drop it and go have fun, then the next moment will present you with most of what you know and enjoy having been replaced by what you’ve carefully avoided or once overcome. Good folks have good lives to live, and others are sure those lives need to be altered, changed, and redirected to serving needs of their own choosing. So if you desire any aspect at all of choosing for yourself what you serve, knowing for yourself what the Lord’s direction is in your life, then you are forced to pay at least some attention to politics. For that is the game whose play effects everyone’s life, and if you don’t play it a little, it will play you. I am too young to be tired.
-----So. I think you hit it right on the nail with Independents. A cause benefits from hot people. Cold people at least present an objective for effort. But lukewarm people neither further a cause nor lend it any contrast. They are those who neither lead nor follow, but just linger like deadweight or hang in the air like fog on a highway. They are dangerous because they are made of nothing in particular and are against nothing in particular so they have no handles in particular by which they can be maneuvered out of the way.
-----We may not like the two party system, but today the tussle between the two is priceless. On the one hand there is a party in decline having salvageable inclinations towards the individual sovereignty which was once the fundamental element of our government. On the other hand is a party with an inclination towards the giant, sucking, black-hole of state sovereignty, “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, and nothing against the State.” The two do not mix. The Independent does not realize this. Neither do the mainstream liberals and most moderate conservatives. But what matters at the end of the political day is whether or not anything can escape the enormous gravitational effect made by feeding utopian promises into the stirred-up envy of the mundane masses. And everything this black-hole swallows makes it stronger. Having half swallowed the GOP, Independents, mainstreamers, and moderates are also beginning to fall from its accretion disc into the swirling, inescapable, pull of its hungry throat.
-----I don’t know if there is a way of beating the political black hole of statism. If you think about it, statism has been the overwhelmingly predominant political formula throughout written history. America has indeed been a very bright, very short experiment with individual freedom. As Independents gaze with swirling eyes into the kaleidoscope of economic politics I want to pull my hair out and scream, “GOVERNMENT DOES NOT MAKE AND CAN NOT EFFECTIVELY CONTROL THE ECONOMY! ECONOMICS IS THE FREE EXPRESSIONS OF FREE PEOPLE FREELY PURSUING THEIR INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS! GET A CLUE, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY, BEFORE WE‘RE ALL SUCKED INTO THIS DARNED THING!!!”
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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