ARE DEMOCRATS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY EVIL?

ha ha ha... unbelievable. The soldier reference was about serving GOD. It was an ANALOGY. As Christians, we are spiritual soldiers, not civilians.

Dear God.

Just a quick philosophical note:


Is "The Lesser of 2 Evils" a legitimate choice?

I'll keep this simple.
Some people argue that if you have to choose between "the lesser of 2 evils", that's not a choice at all, and you should opt out.
Legally, you can certainly do whatever you like.
But philosophically, this is just a pure logic error, a bit of overworked emotion.
Why?

3 Reasons:
1.) You aren't really "opting out" of evil: you aren't opting out in order to receive good, because you're still getting one of those evils - you're just allowing someone else to choose how bad things will be. And it might well be the "worse" of 2 evils.
This is all pretense; you aren't opting out of evil, and you certainly aren't stopping the evil. When you "pretend" to opt out, you aren't really opting out, and you aren't accomplishing anything... it's all imaginary... the EVIL STILL COMES... you're just letting someone else choose how bad it will be.
2.) The "lesser of 2 evils" is still "lesser", it is a choice for "less evil"... and "less evil" is ALWAYS a GOOD CHOICE.
It is always good to have less evil. It is literally absurd to contradict this... it is absurd, and it is unbiblical.
3.) Finally: We make the same kind of choice every day, all day long, about nearly everything in life, and it doesn't bother us at all... but it suddenly bothers us (hypocritically) when the issue is politics.
We make this kind of decision about everything in life.
There is no "perfect" anything... we often choose one thing over another because it is "less bad."
We do this all day, every day, about everything.
We do it all day, every day... and it NEVER causes us any huge moral dilemma.


Let's try a simply example:
Is your insurance perfect... did you choose it because it was perfect? So... the price was perfect, the coverage was perfect, the deductible was perfect, the multi-page set of legal stipulations and caveats was perfect, and the company is above reproach in every way, and they've never cheated anyone ever in their history? Of course not. But you still chose your insurance.

I could list a thousand examples. We constantly face various choices where neither choice is PERFECT... but we still choose.
We do this all day, every day... because it's necessary and practical.
We choose things, all day long, which are imperfect.... we CHOOSE THE THING THAT IS LESS BAD.

Yet, when it comes to politics, our moral virtue (real or imagined) works itself into such a froth that we're literally frozen with outrage... our logical mind is just stopped, stopped dead, in a catatonic state. Our brains just shut down.


Conclusion:
1.) When I am faced with a choice between something bad, and something less bad.... I'm going to chose whatever is "less bad."
2.) So is everyone else... they do it every day.
3.) But when it comes to politics, people become so emotional they turn off their rational mind... that same rational mind that serves them so well 5 minutes later when they're buying insurance.

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One thing among many that the anti-voters get wrong is that they think that if you support your political system, you're substituting it for God. How they arrived at this is beyond me. You can, and should, walk and chew at the same time.

You're only going to get frustrated trying to open their eyes. When fascism arrives, they won't even look in the mirror, they'll blame prophecy, the world, the devil... anything but themselves.

Fascism is here ... hiding under the veil of "we're the party of God" (which they clearly are not).

I'm not actually against politics, I'm just against thinking you are supporting Godly values when you are, in fact, not.

So

You are presented with a Playboy video, which shows naked women, and a Pornhub video, which shows outright sexual intercourse.
You watch the Playboy because it is "less evil", because you think you HAVE to choose between one or the other.

Another thought

When the "lesser evil" says it is of God, when they clearly promote ungodly principles, does that not then make them the greater evil?

Choose the lesser evil if you feel you must. But don't think for a minute you are choosing the Godly path. Because God does NOT promote evil at ANY level.

The Jews thought their Messiah would be a political figure who'd save them from Godless Romans. Thus when the Messiah came they rejected Him

Christians today are looking for a worldly ruler to save them from Godless liberals.

I think I hear the echo of history repeating itself by spiritual soldiers fighting a physical battle.

There's a book going around at Trump Rally's claiming that Donald Trump is the second coming of Christ so there's that

3.) I'm not going to respond to any more comments on this topic: I said what I had to say; it was clear; it was explained; it was rational; it was biblical; and whether or not it's popular I think it stands easily on weight of logic..

There's a book going around at Trump Rally's claiming that Donald Trump is the second coming of Christ so there's that

Hey Maxwell, I would like to respond to this because I like discussing things with you because you are reasonable and not closed minded like the most.

1. First let’s discuss why not voting is better than voting in our current political climate of a 2 party system.

When I don’t vote I get to make fun of both parties because I’m not invested in either. But when I do vote for one, then I have nothing to complain about when my team lost. It’s their fault and my fault for picking them.

2. Suppose I do vote. I live in a blue state. So if I vote for Donald Orange Trump or Mickey Mouse, then my vote won’t matter because it will be invalidated by the majority or the electoral college. So why vote?

3. When the majority run things well, there’s no need to vote. For example I have moved 3 times in my life when the majority got stupid and didn’t run things well. So I’m not gonna waste my time or my children‘s lives by staying in a place where dumb majority rules and try to “make my voice heard “ or “vote’. No, I simply move to another area where the majority has not lost common sense And they know how to run things.

4. All and all voting seems a bit pointless to me in USA because you can simply choose 50 states to fit your lifestyle and live a happy life.
And when America is done totally in 50 states it’s time to move to Canada or something. But I don’t see that happening for centuries.
‘USA is a great place to live and it’s not so bad as people make it. There’s a lot of choices here and a lot of abundance.
Voting seems like a wasteful emotional investment in sports teams to me.


let me know what you think.
thank you.

There's a book going around at Trump Rally's claiming that Donald Trump is the second coming of Christ so there's that

Well, that's your excuse to laugh out loud. Or cry out loud. Take your pick.

Note:
- Anytime I excuse myself from a thread, I'm usually just avoiding drama and endless discussion of things that have already been said.
- If anyone wants further discussion, politely, they are always welcome to message me privately.
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Everybody knew Jussie Smollett was lying
Trump supporters in chicago?
Not...

Summary of the reporting in Wikipedia: On January 30, 2019, public figures expressed support for Smollett on social media.[18][36] Entertainment industry figures, including Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis, tweeted their outrage over the attack and support for Smollett.[36] Democratic Senators and presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker both described the attack as an attempted modern-day lynching.[37] Booker urged Congress to pass a federal anti-lynching bill co-sponsored by him and Harris.[36][38] In an interview with April Ryan of AURN, President Donald Trump was asked about Smollett being attacked and said, "I think that's horrible. It doesn't get worse."[39] Smollett faced skepticism regarding his claim of being attacked;[40] he responded by saying that he believed that, if he had said his attackers were Mexicans, Muslims, or black people, "the doubters would have supported me much more ... And that says a lot about the place that we are in our country right now."[40]

Let's assume that Dude653 is right and everyone knew that this was a hoax. First, why would MAGA radicals be walking the streets of Chicago at the wee hours of the morning and second how would they even know who Jussie Smollett was, and third the so called attack seems "idiotic". So then, knowing this was a hoax why did all these people come forward supporting him, amplifying the story? To me it is worse that Kamala Harris and Cory Booker knew this story was false (or at the very least highly suspect) and yet ran with it.

Knowing a story is false and promoting it anyway is journalistic malfeasance and is much more disturbing than simply being duped and being a useful idiot.