Every American citizen, especially Christians, has a duty to be gainfully involved in guiding the culture in which they are planted. Paying attention to politics comes with the job;
“Affordability” wasn’t the only byword that was pasted in front of millions to influence their vote for the socialist agenda, and self-involved youth weren’t the only ones targeted.
The campaigns to further undermine the public’s faith in government (I say “further” because elected officials have already done a helluva job all by themselves) demoralized seniors and heaven-focused Christians from different angles.
Then there’s the issue of election integrity. If media would remove their blinders and actually access all the documentation provided by the John Solomon-led White House task force, it would be common knowledge about the inherent vulnerability of voting machines. However, legacy media believes that by insisting on simply avoiding looking at authenticated information and denying its existence, their stilted opinions are validated. The see-no-evil monkey is alive and well.
Because network, cable, and online news outlets refuse to do their job, folks who don’t have time or don’t bother to do even limited research are coaxed into thinking that there is no, and never has been, election fraud. They are also apt to take the talking heads’--that’s all they are, empty-headed yappers--analyses to be pure-as-the-driven-snow truth. By the way… it’s not.
So the affordability bubble machine was cranking out soapy film that coated the internet with tropes designed to make voters believe Trump and the republicans had impoverished them to the point of devastation. It wasn’t true. The economic malaise wasn’t fully attributable to the current administration, but had been fashioned by the previous White House’s policies that this administration is making progress in reversing.
Considering how the price of oil miraculously plummeted immediately after the topsy-turvy midterms, it’s interesting that the oil companies have made immense profits at the expense of the public, blaming it on the conflict with terror-funding Iranian mullahs.
Is the legacy media noting any correlation? Nothing other than to ‘explain’ how the free market works, downplaying the impact of speculation on prices, which doesn’t seem too different from the prediction, gambling to some, platforms. And the paid influencer-directed public (which is not everyone who uses social media) swallows related propaganda whole, voting with their untethered emotions and self-interest rather than examining the complete picture. But that’s what marketing is for, and this election cycle was all about marketing, the facts taking a back seat.
Then there’s the other side of distractive politicking: that of manipulating the vast Christian non-voting block. For this, the media in general can’t take all the blame. Pastors, ministers, and priests by the thousands can for not preaching the truth about involvement in the surrounding culture.
Let’s see, what did Jesus say? Oh yes, that believers were to be in the world but not of it. Did that mean they wall themselves off from the world and ignore it? He also prayed that believers would not be removed from the world:
John 17:14: “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” (NKJV)
Setting themselves outside the culture doesn’t work for Christians because it’s an impossible task. No matter how believers want to look at things, they are given influence in cultural development, that is, if they get involved. If they don’t by claiming that culture is evil and they should be withdrawn from it, then they are not upholding the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. (NKJV)
Being informed and voting Christian values is part of making God’s plan visible in a hurting, dying world. To slough off that responsibility is to take a selfish view of God’s plan to share His truth with every nation. Jesus did not give His followers this assignment lightly. He meant what He said and any who call themselves Christian are directed to do what they can to fulfill their assignment, which will differ from individual to individual.
All those who claim to be Christian but sat at home praying for God to make things right when He commissioned us to do the work, have allowed themselves to be duped by “another gospel,” which Paul warned of, being preached in churches.
Every American citizen, especially Christians, has a duty to be gainfully involved in guiding the culture in which they are planted. Paying attention to politics comes with the job.
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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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