Life Matters - July 12, 2026
‘’Democrats were soundly defeated in 2024. I was in a swing state and I won that year. To me the lesson is simple. Democrats had too many priorities. They tried to make everybody happy and answer every question. When you prioritize everything no one knows exactly what you stand for.’ – Elissa Slotkin D – Michigan (June 26, 2026) Earlier in the week Ms. Slotkinhad remarked, ‘Democrats need to get back to basics by addressing issues such as the economy and education.’
It was heartwarming for this most-of-the-time-gentleman to reflect on how soundly Democrats were defeated in 2024 and made doubly so to hear a Democrat Senator acknowledge it. Even if she came across as a bit self-gratuitous. And lacked a vision that would bring equilibrium into the Democratic moral compass. If indeed they have any such thing.
I hadn’t noticed that Democrats tried to make people such as yours truly happy. Nor to attempt answering all of our questions. Well, I suppose many questions from past decades are being answered, not by the Dem establishment but by one provocateur, Donald J. Trump. President Trump is good at a lot of things, provoking liberals to expose who they really are, and what they believe, not being the least of them. If anyone can cause Leftist neck hairs to rise better than Mr. Trump, I haven’t noticed that neither.
Recent developments, with the rise of a ‘Democrat Socialist’ wing within the Democrat party, continues answering questions I’ve had for a long time, with one of the most recent (and not the least of them) being; why does the liberal media keep reporting ‘fake news’ that comes across like propaganda suggestions to Jihadi mullahs more than actual news? Answer: The monster rising from its darkened depths of despair has at least four heads; Islamism – LGBTQ Leftism – Globalism – and Marxism. A many-headed attempt, now through Democrat Socialism, to foist their many-faceted agenda onto Americans by putting Democrat lipstick on their pigs.
All four of those isms have one monster in common; a twisted desire to destroy America as we know it; though all have their own ‘heads’ on that desire. They may not all have the same reason but all have the same driven desire.
A question I often had during the past administration; Does America have an enemy within its White House? Has been answered with a resounding; Yes, we did. I’m thankful the ‘does’ has become a ‘did’. Dumocrats, headed by Joe Biden, pushed acceptance of Islamism, LGBTQism, Globalism, and Marxism all at the same time, lipsticked heads of the same monster. Yes Elissa, it is difficult to follow what Democrats actually stand for as they prioritize being against the values that founded the country they profess to serve.
Accepting Islamism by surrendering Afghanistan to Taliban terrorists then insisting nothing went wrong, LGBTQism being celebrated at the White House, a Globalist opening of America’s border, playing into Marxist hands by emphasizing ‘climate change’, the immediate ‘need’ to go all electric vehicles, the loose border policy, and the attempted destruction of the American dollar, are only a few of the more obvious examples. My trusting brain didn’t want to accept the signs for quite a while but it eventually became too obvious not to accept.
I would argue that Democrats have too many mixed and messed up priorities, prioritizing beliefs that are self-destructive by their very nature. One cannot prioritize wickedness without becoming wicked. Nor prioritize fracture without becoming fractured. And one cannot become a wicked politician in a country dominated by Bible-believing voters without being voted out of office. The crux of the matter is this; which voter-bloc prevails in numbers? God has blessed us with freedom through the Bible-believing Americans in office. All others would wish to bring us into bondage.
But (and that is a liberating ‘but’) Christians have been promised, and have been proving it true for 20+ centuries now, that Bible-believing Christianity is a restful place of soul-freedom, no matter if one’s body is free or enslaved. Getting ‘back to the basics’ of reality leads the soul to a freedom of conscience liberated from the bondage of sin, the reality of having our sins washed away by the blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Though economic and academic education wellness are important for this life, they are after all, only temporary arrangements. For our short sojourn of an unpredictable number of trips around the sun on this spinning orb. We are promised grace, courage for every trial, courage for every day, but the amount of orbits and the number of spins remain an open-ended question until that final closing of the end.
Until that final closing day may all patriarchs, homemakers, children, workers, businesspeople, and politicians, find our proper place in God’s protective order of things. May we stay free, our souls liberated by the happy state of a clear conscience. May we keep our priorities in proper order according to the priorities set forth by God in His Word. United in that proper order of priorities; we stand. Divided by the priorities of the wicked; we fall as a nation. That is the beauty, and the painful reality, of a Constitution dependent upon a moral and religious people for its continuity in upright governance.
The lesson, indeed, is simple.
Life Matters!