The Democrats Pulled It Off - With Some Help

Originally published at http://www.onlinebyram.com on Nov. 8, 2006.

A hundred or so years ago, there were Republican newspapers, and there were Democrat newspapers. I think that was a good thing, since we human beings are imperfect and there is no truly unbiased reporting.

Then, at some point, the Democrats played a dirty trick on all of us. They used the post-World War I desire for world peace (by their own contrived definition meaning "the absense of conflict") to supposedly create a totally fair, completely unbiased, and unquestionably honest mass media empire. Note that word, "unquestionably."

Christian and conservative media were minimized. Only the ones with the liberal slant were deemed, by them, to be trustworthy. They vilified anyone and everyone who disagreed with their already-failed philosophy, while they treated their favorite people and organizations as if they were above reproach and as if we weren't allowed to even question their truthfulness.

Well, folks, they're still doing the same thing today. They never have gone away. There's still a mass market for what they pass off as news, although that market has been shrinking in recent years. But you've got to hand it to them. The liberals engaged in an all-out blitz this year, and it worked. With help from the mass media arm of the Democratic Party, they lied about Republicans, they copied Republicans (at least they did in Arizona), they lied to us about who they really are, they pretended to be conservative, and they held onto the knowledge of Republican scandals until October when they knew it could hurt Republican chances of winning, while at the same time minimizing Democrat scandals. And I'll say it again, even though they were wrong, their strategy worked.

Our human nature is such that we are still susceptible to sin even if we've given our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ and are trying to do good. We must be on our guard constantly, or else we'll fall into the snare of the enemy, and the outcome will be anything but good. And the poor souls who have never given their lives to the Lord are, oftentimes, like people in a lifeboat without any oars and in the middle of a storm, tossed about to and fro. We have the capacity to do tremendous good or horrendous evil, and in the election in which we just voted yesterday, I don't think that the majority of the people understood what the sorry results of the way they voted could turn out to be.

Then again, I think that the main reason why our side lost is because Republicans, when they had control of the White House and both houses of Congress, failed to do what they should have done. They didn't lead -- or at least not in the right direction. They shouldn't have waited until they thought it politically expedient to start working on stopping illegal immigration, but they did. President Bush shouldn't have appointed homosexuals to high-level government positions, but he has. None of them should have let the liberal mass media get away with outright lying about there not being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they have. I could go on and on, but I won't.

What we've got to do right now, and I mean right now, is get ready for the elections that are in the near future. If I may use my home state of Mississippi as an example, we have statewide elections next year, and we'll be voting on every office from Governor to Justice Court Judge, and we had better start getting ready now.

Whoever we elect to the legislature next year will redraw the district lines after the next U.S. census, which will be in 2010, and those lines will include the boundary lines for our four U.S. Congressional Districts. Whoever we elect as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and as our state legislators will either help protect us from the abuse of eminent domain or they'll let our homes and lands be taken by greedy developers and greedy municipal governments to be made into strip malls or whatever else they want to do with them.

Well, I could go on and on, and so could you, I'm sure. But please let me leave you with one closing thought. We should take every election seriously. We should vote, but we should prepare to vote long before Election Day rolls around again. You need to know that the qualifying deadline will be around March 1st. After that, we'll know who's running for what, and we'll have somewhere between three and five months to get to know them before the Primaries roll around. And we'd better get to know them, because so much of what affects our lives and the lives of our children, our extended families, and our neighbors depends on it. Pick whoever you believe are the best candidates. Give $10 or $20 to the campaign of your favorite one. And ask the Lord right now, "Are You calling me to run for something?" In some cases, the qualifications are much less than you might think.