Not Over Yet…

Header image is the Commodore Perry Battle Flag from the Battle of Lake Erie.

Not going to lie, things don’t look especially encouraging for people who didn’t want a plagiarist, liar with a child-molesting junkie son to be our next Commander-in-Chief. My personal expectation is that the various challenges now on-going will prove insufficient to overcome the level of blatant cheating that the Democrats have used to swing this election their way, and that come January, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as our 46th President.

Followed, a hair more than two years later, by Joe Biden either voluntarily stepping down, or being declared unfit via the 25th Amendment, and Kamala “Kneepads” Harris slinks into the spotlight. I say specifically just after two years, because although the 22nd Amendment places a two-term limit on holding the presidential office, it does allow that a Vice President who assumes the role with less than two years left in a term may run for two additional full terms, for a total time not to exceed ten years. My assumption is that having once again grasped hold of the Presidential office, the Democrat party and their partisan media buddies have no intention of letting go if they can help it.

Likewise, I expect that the Republican party will have learned absolutely nothing from the last four years. Rather than gaining a full understanding of exactly who the enemy is and what they want, the Republicans as a whole will go back to trying to play nice, and losing gracefully. But precious decorum will once again be maintained. Whomever gets nominated in 2024 will not be a Trump-like streetfighter, but instead, a Romney-esque moderate squish who will politely lose to Kneepads, thereby granting her the respectability of having won an election by herself.

In short, I expect a rough few years, and probably a war that my kids will have to fight, because Democrat presidents have a rich history of dragging the country into wars.

Which makes this all sound pretty bleak. In truth though, I don’t feel that bleak. I can’t quite buy into Smitty’s “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled” post over on The Other McCain, but as John Deloney said on one of his recent podcasts, whomever the president is, doesn’t change your purpose. It might make it more difficult, but it doesn’t, shouldn’t change who you are, or what you’re about.

Essentially, control the things that you can control, do the best that you personally can, and leave the rest up to God. Incidentally, I wonder if that’s one of the major reasons why so many people who’ve abandoned any type of religion and put their faith in science and politics seem so miserable all the time. Evolution says that everything is a product of random, uncaring chance. What good is controlling your controllables, when no one is controlling the rest? Politics places all hope in fallen men. What hope is there in humans who fail and let you down time and time again?

“Politics is all the only hope they have, whereas we Christians do not put our trust in princes. Even if we are utterly doomed — the Biden-voting savage horde sweeps down in triumphant conquest — we know that this is within the sovereign will of God, a chastisement ordained for our salvation. Selah.” – Robert Stacy McCain, “Keep Calm and Vote Trump“.