How should a Catholic vote?

Jeannie Gaffigan, the hot pocket comedian's wife, tries to tell us why it's the right and proper thing for a catholic to vote Democrat.  

The pope has had his own strong words for American Catholics in recent months. Following the killing of George Floyd, Francis said in a message to the people of the United States, “We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.” The dignity of the human person extends to all of us created in his image, both in the womb and out of the womb. As a Catholic I desire to support a society that strives to protect every life. Systemic racism in our culture has led to such economic and social inequality that it is virtually impossible to have a “culture of life” without addressing the fact that we have been complicit in a long history of devaluing our fellow human beings based on the color of their skin or the way they came to this country.

Can we really sit in our homes with our private health insurance and judge our neighbors who have nothing? How can we strive to heal the tragedy of abortion without acknowledging the deep wounds and life-threatening crises that drive people to it? How arrogant we are to condemn women of any color living in poverty, faced with the unimaginable and horrific circumstances that would drive them to seek an abortion, without taking a good look at how we have failed them by not offering adequate health care, child care, education and employment opportunities? Do we ever stop to think about how far we are from achieving a “culture of life” in light of the well-documented and video-recorded police brutality against Black Americans? Are refugee children, homeless pregnant women or the prisoners on death row not also “society’s most vulnerable”?

Her logical thought process goes something like this.  

• Abortion is bad
• Republicans created a system that might cause people to seek abortions
• Yes, democrats love abortion but they want to make the system better
• Therefore, vote for the people who are actively trying to make more laws allowing something that I already agreed was bad...

In order for that logic to work she would have to prove without a shadow of a doubt that Republicans didn't just work to create a bad system, but instead worked specifically and actively to make laws that allowed people to go out and legally murder these "women of any color living in poverty".  

I would guess that voting is not terribly important in God's eyes, but if one chooses to vote that it would be fairly important to Him that you not vote for people who actively create laws allowing abortion. 

Polarization towards nationalism

The results are in and are surprising to almost no one who understands gender politics.  White suburban women who feel unsafe prefer Trump and those who feel safe prefer Biden.  

Among white suburban women who feel “very safe” in their communities, Biden leads Trump 55 percent to 36 percent. Suburban white women who feel “somewhat safe” are almost equally divided between Biden, with 45 percent supporting him, and Trump, with 44 percent supporting him.

In contrast, white suburban women who say they feel “not safe” prefer President Trump by an eight-point margin, 42 percent to 34 percent.

Essentially, the women who feel unsafe are looking to a strong Alpha to protect them.  Those that feel safe will be inclined towards the candidate who promises more stuff.  Women are typically motivated by fear and while we live in a fairly cushy world right now, the left's violent temper tantrums are bringing unrest and fear to the suburbs.  White women already chose Trump in the last election, and this time they will have more of their white suburbanite sisters with them. 

This is fairly consistent with my recent post on Washington state.  The BLM/Antifa riots that plague the state may be the very thing that edges it closer and closer towards the President.  In the end, it will be the globalists' forced diversity that brings us to an inevitable nationalism. 

Trump is trending upwards

From everything I see, things are looking really bad for Creepy Joe.  Rasmussen reports Trump's new approval rating is at 53%.   

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-six percent (46%) disapprove. The last time the president's job approval reached a high of this number was in September 2019.

The latest figures include 44% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4.

After seeing this, I decidedly wandered over to predictit.org where I remember having won approximately $600 back in 2016.   (Thanks, Democrats, I really enjoyed the books and new TV!)  I don't ever recommend betting, but a "No" bet on Biden right now will make you 58 cents for every 42 cents you spend should he lose.  A look at the 90 day trend indicates Trump's ascent.  

The enemy gets a vote

The headline reads "Portland on edge after suspect in weekend killing is fatally shot by police".  Well maybe they should be.  What else are you supposed to feel like after firing shots that feel like "the beginning of a war"?  This is nothing more than explicit targeting of those willing to protect themselves and their city.  

In one chilling detail contained in the affidavit, a Portland police detective wrote that surveillance footage showed Reinoehl looking back toward Danielson and walking into a garage entryway to conceal himself as he watched Danielson walk by. 

Never let your guard down.  Your enemy always gets a vote.  The right's philosophy has always been one of si vis pacem, para bellum, if you want peace, prepare for war.  The left's philosophy has always been inflict or threaten violence to get your way.  Now is the time that we are put to the test.  Our enemies are now putting our preparation to the test and what happens next will either show our worthiness or our failure. This is why you pledge your allegience to the One who's victory has already been completed.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:57

Vote early and often

If life is politics, then in addition to that realization, we must be voting constantly.  

Cancel your netflix when you see that it's actively promoting pedophilia.  

Drop Disney when they start promoting the LGBTQ+ agenda on your pre-teens.  

When your churches start welcoming all persons, know they've put out an invitation to the god of this world.

 

 

The old saying is "Vote early, vote often."  Some see this as cynical, but I prefer it as a reminder of the requirement that we need to be the early voters and we judge these things for ourselves.  Voting is simply a choice and we need to make these choices constantly.  Once someone shows you they aren't just fallen, but have become actively wicked, remove yourself and your family immediately.