@Smokin Joe
"God knows what he is doing!"
I see this in your tagline. What people need to do is to get themselves right with God. The people who have turned away from God and are trying to drag the rest of us down with them need to be dealt with.
@don-o , too.
Fred, some will, some won't. There are those, in the words of Shakespeare's Iago (Othello) 'who would not serve God if the Devil bid them'.
While living as cleanly and as close to the mark as we can, there are others who will fit His plans, too.
We can work to eliminate corruption and try to get honorable and moral candidates elected, but as we have seen, the public may well call for their Barabbas, regardless of the nature of others available. In that sense we, as a society, will end up with the government we deserve.
We can't use our enemies' weapons against them, only their actions, in the sense that honorable ends do not justify dishonorable means. In this we are hobbled unless or until open conflict ensues, and even then must remain as honorable as we can. We cannot do evil in the name of good.
These are the same rules which have, self imposed, kept things relatively clean during campaigns in the past and were demanded by the populace. It appears, for now, that is no longer the case, but we are in mid journey and that can change.
However, if, for whatever reason conflict arises (I would assume with even more extreme violent provocation), consider that there are those people in our society who have talents and abilities which may not be considered necessarily desirable in ordinary civilian life but which would be very useful in an asymmetrical conflict situation. We don't know God's plan for those individuals, and cannot, at any rate bring them closer to him by unnecessarily alienating them. If we treat all people with respect and decency, regardless of their position in life, it will serve all best in the end.
I do not pretend to know God's plan for this country, or even tomorrow, but must trust that He will guide me as He sees fit. In the meantime, we root out what corruption we can, calmly make people aware of it, and try to cleanse our local and State Governments of the bad seed that could grow at the Federal Level, with an eye toward cleaning out that den of thieves in Washington with the approval of the voters.
That means we work with the up and coming generations of voters, not unlike like the Communists did to corrupt the youth of the Sixties, we must show those youngsters of today there is no free lunch, that someone picks up the tab, and that that someone will eventually be them, if they can't get the FSA supply line shut down. Eventually they will pay cost plus markup plus overhead plus interest on the free cheeseburger of today. We need to get them to see that. It means we must be the ones to train them, to teach them, to even hire them when we can and explain to them how things work so they have a better handle on what needs to be changed. We need to teach them to fish, rather than hand them one, and that begins at home. If we can't instill those morals by teaching and example, we will not be able to instill them, and eventually the Republic will be lost.
