The Progressive wing of the Democratic Party continues its’ unrelenting march of divisiveness. Placing individuals into categories and competing factions has been the modus operandi of Saul Alinsky sycophants since the early 1960’s. They purposefully and thoughtfully create conflicts instead of trying to create harmony. Marxist theory requires class warfare. The oppressed vs the oppressor. Kamala Harris—aka Ms. Willie Brown, and Barak Obama come from the same Marxist background. Abortion vs Pro-Life is the perfect “wedge issue”.
With 40% of the electorate supporting DJT, and 40% of the electorate supporting KH, the over $1billion that will be spent in the next 4 months in our Presidential campaign will be for the heart and soul of the 20% in the “Golden middle”. The talking heads like to say that DJT has a “a high floor and a low ceiling”, meaning that those that support him are solid in their support, but his ability to bring more people into his MAGA tent is limited. I don’t believe this is necessarily the case if he plays his political cards close to his chest. The single biggest wedge issue that the Dems wish to deploy will be ABORTION. The Trump campaign would be well advised to look to the way Abraham Lincoln traveled across his 35-year political and legal career fighting slavery.
Though born in the slave State of Kentucky, his first encounter with slavery was when he was 20 years old while traveling down the Mississippi River when his flatboat encountered a group of enchained slaves. He described feeling nauseated and from that day forward he was anti-slavery. He was always at heart an “abolitionist” but realized that his antislavery positions though moral, had to accommodate to a civil and political narrative that needed to reach the strategic goal of emancipation. This process took place in many deliberate and small steps.
The first step for Mr. Trump would be to say he is against abortion. The right to convenience does not supersede the “duty of protection”. Acknowledge there are circumstances—less than 1% of all abortions performed in our country today are for emergent medical indications. Take that 1% off the table and put that into the hands of doctors and patients. Do not let the Federal government become involved in the process of making abortion legal or illegal. Leave that up to the States.
The “Conservative” USSC ruling in Dobbs gave the issue back to the States and WE THE PEOPLE—not into the hands of government lawyers and bureaucrats. Don’t let the Dems and libs create a political narrative where Dobbs did anything but that. It above all else did not do away with abortions across the board.
Above all show mercy and compassion to any father or mother who is involved or who in their own past has made a decision regarding abortion either way. We are all sinners, and we should always first look to the “log in our own eyes”. Murder, adultery , incest, are all great sins, but none. are greater than God’s love and mercy.
President Mr. Trump should promise to do all that he can to limit the number of abortions being done in this country. He should also promise to help every person know that the limits to God’s love and Mercy are boundless.
Ms. Harris would have a difficult time making such a promise. She has made a career out of marginalizing religious people and religious ideals. Her Pro-Abortion positions are not based on any Biblical or Natural Law moral ideals as our Pro-Life positions are.
As for politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden who claim to be against abortion personally, I am reminded about “the rule of conscience” expounded upon by Edmond Burke in Parliament:
(a legislator’s — jl) “unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
God’s second greatest gift to man is “free will”. It is the basis of all our liberties. To not follow one’s conscience even in the face of great public criticism is to cast aside that great gift and the duties and responsibilities that come with it.
Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Burke both understood that proposition completely and always.
