Suspension of a Rule

Posted on October 18, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Site News

For the last two weeks, I am dispensing with my usual avoidance of politics except on Tuesdays and Fridays. These are critical times and I want my voice to be heard.

In the past, I have sometimes allowed a rage to cover my true feelings of affection for America and her people. I know them as a brother. I can see the fear and the anxiety in their eyes. Much of the time, they look at the wrong people, see menaces where there are angels. They overcount demons, undercount our potential for good.

I believe that this election will mark a spiritual renewal of America. If Kerry wins, we will experience a Renaissance, a flowering of optimism and freedom. I do not doubt that if he becomes commander in chief that he will be one of our greatest presidents ever. If Bush wins/steals the election again, we will be afforded an opportunity for witness of conscience like no other we have seen in the history of the world. I look forward to being a follower of Christ among the Romans and their quasi-state religion if Bush wins. I look forward to helping return us to the course of building the New Jerusalem — to use a Christian metaphor — if Kerry wins.

I am sanguine and optimistic as I write this. I will live to see the future. Whether it brings the exuberance of an election in which everything has been turned around for the better or a renewed struggle to reclaim what is best and good about us as people from those selling us an ersatz substitute for spirituality and ethical conviction over the airwaves and in our press, I shall be in my element.

These are reasons to rejoice.