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Mark Caserta: We have term limits now – it’s called an election.

1 Nov

Mark Caserta is an opinion columnist and editor for Free State Patriot
People around the world risk their lives to exercise their right to vote, while too many Americans sit on the sidelines.

November 1, 2022

A recent Pew Research survey produced some very disturbing insight as to how U.S. citizens feel about taking advantage of their right to vote.

“Nearly 56% of the U.S. voting-age population cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election, representing a slight uptick compared with 2012 but less than in the record year of 2008.”

Folks, this is unacceptable.  It’s the epitome of hypocrisy for the United States to rattle their saber for Democracy around the world when our own people won’t get off their backsides and vote!

That’s a very, sad commentary, indeed.

The United States is the greatest nation in the world for one reason. It’s foundation depends upon the engagement of its citizens.  It is a government for the people, by the people.

A wise man once said, “Don’t complain about what you permit.”

How many times do you hear someone complain about the conditions or environment in which we live, yet do absolutely nothing to change it – but complain?

If we take our freedoms for granted now, how will our children view them the next generation? 

We know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we have deep-state politicians who blatantly “rely” upon the ignorance of American citizens to the way they are represented.

Over the years, politicians have tended to hide their socialist tendencies and their lack of commitment to representing the people.

But now liberal Democrats run campaigns on that strategy!  The only reason they have the ability to do so is that we’ve allowed them control over our lives.  Politicians have been empowered and emboldened to do whatever they want to do, without fear of recompense.

Our Republic thrives on representation by those elected or hired by the people.  The fact that a representative may have an opposing view to that of their constituents is one matter.  But it’s an entirely different matter for a representative to ignore the wishes of the people in lieu of their own selfish agendas or compliance to their party’s platform!

Our Constitution does not protect the platform of a political party!  It protects the rights of U.S. citizens and the sovereignty of our nation!

I’ve learned over half a century of following politics that politicians understand only one language – the vote. 

Here’s the bottom line.

If you’re tired of lying political leaders who, frankly, are in their line of work for financial gain and power, you have the ability to give them their “pink slip” and send them back to the private sector!  But you have to be willing to exercise your right to vote!

It will take time, but we need to begin the process of training politicians to do their job or face the consequences.  Don’t keep electing the same feckless, hypocritical individuals who care more about their motivations than yours!

We have term limits now.  It’s called your vote.

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Mark Caserta: A Call to Action for Christians to vote!

31 Oct

It’s urgent that you click on the link below and share with as many Christians as possible.

God is giving us an opportunity to speak out on His behalf.

Listen and act…

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I’ll be back…

9 Oct

Mark Caserta: 2020 has exposed evil intent around us.

3 Oct
Mark Caserta is an opinion columnist and editor for Free State Patriot

October 3, 2020

Allow me to say this about those who would attempt to win an election by tearing down one’s opponent.

It makes you look very, very, small indeed.

Yes, it’s possible to win an election by “hook n’ crook”.  But is it worth losing your soul?

I believe God works all things for His good. 

God cannot be out maneuvered!  Satan tried and he and his supporters were all cast into the fiery pits of hell.

2020, with all of its shortcomings, has done one thing – exposed the evil heart and intent of many of those around us – people who are so short-sighted, they fill their day with searching opportunities on social media to disparage all things Godly and good.

They laugh and scorn when a U.S. president and the 1st lady get a serious virus.  They manipulate information digitally to misrepresent a candidate with Godly intent.

They have no life, no argument, and no hope.  So, they wallow in their vomitous message of hate and aspire to bring others into the putrid pit with them.

These individuals slither among society in our nation and in our city of Huntington, WV.

And rest assured, God is keenly aware of each one of them.

So, a message to those who would be filled with despicable joy at the death of our president…

To those who would attack candidates and their families and cause them pain simply to win an election…

To those whose hope rests in the demise and dismay of others…know this!

God is not mocked.  Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” 27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew[f] the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots… the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. 29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

God will protect His children. 

And you will be covered by the waters of the Red Sea if you attempt to harm them.

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Doug Smith: Everyone Hates the Tax Man

3 Sep

 Recent polls, for what they are worth, (amazingly little) tighten the gap between Trump and Biden and give Trump a clear lead in one particular. Now, does it take a history buff to help you figure out what that one area might be? I’ll wait. (Picture Alex and the Jeopardy Theme playing)

Yes, of course. It is the economy. As Bill Clinton, excellent politician but ethical reprobate that he is, noted: “It’s the economy, stupid.” When it comes down to it, there are a few very basic, visceral things that drive people to the polls (not, by the way, to the Post Office).

People want to be safe in their homes, and able to pay their bills, buy food, and live their lives in comfort. How to do so? It’s the economy, stupid.

They must have an income. Which means a job. Which means those evil businesses must survive, and thrive. (For a detailed study of why Gummint checks to people who don’t work are not artifacts of a thriving economy, I invite your attention to Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State, by William Voegeli.

They must have local governments to keep fire and police protection for their communities, for which they are willing, grudgingly, (if you tell me you are cheerful about paying even taxes that you agree are reasonable and necessary, I will forever doubt your veracity.) This assumes said local governments are not so corrupt or incompetent that for any amount of money, they still can’t manage it.

Finally, the tax man must leave them enough to survive and thrive personally. Can we agree that none of us like the tax man, lawyers, or used car salesmen, even if we must, or do, on occasion interact with them? Hatred of the tax man is ingrained in our culture and our DNA. When Robin Hood of antiquity went after the Shire Reeve of Nottingham, he was fighting the tax man. Sheriffs have traditionally been first of all tax collectors. That they enforce other laws and go after bad guys does not diminish their essential and first function: bringing in the taxes.

There is a point to this. You will, no doubt, find people to cite statistics about how efficient the OBiden administration was at managing the economy. I am reminded of Mark Twain’s note that “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Liars, the best of them at least, can lead you to doubt the evidence of your own senses and memory. Who ya gonna believe, they will ask you, me, or your lyin eyes?

In recent months, we have all found ourselves under constant bombardment by “experts”. Now, if my drains are clogged, I’m not going to call a plumbing expert to lecture me on what to do with my clog. I’m going to call a plumber who knows how to fix it and say, have at it. Aldous Huxley reports on a meeting in 1885 in which “ A well-known lawyer, now a judge, once grouped witnesses into three classes: simple liars, damned liars, and experts. He did not mean that the expert uttered things which he knew to be untrue, but that by the emphasis which he laid on certain statements, and by what has been defined as a highly cultivated faculty of evasion, the effect was actually worse than if he had.” So, instead of seeking an “expert”, I’ll ask someone who has had the problem fixed, “Who cleared your clog?”

So, unless you are just turning 18 and about to vote for the 1st time, you were an adult, in theory, trying to live and thrive in the 8 years of the Democrat administration that began with the 2008 elections, and the last 4. You have worked, or not. You have known others to work, or not. You have seen your paycheck, your tax bill, and your retirement accounts, go up or down. You have seen businesses flourish and put up help wanted signs, or board up their doors forever. You have walked around your town and seen people thriving, or struggling. You have heard your leaders tell you “this is as good as it gets, it’s all downhill from here,” then proceed to lead the country to decline, or tell you “the best is yet to come, “and proceed to somehow lead in such a way that business, and Your paycheck, flourished, your tax bill decreased, Your personal lot in life and outlook became better.

So think back over the last 12 years. Look at your tax returns. Look at your bank statement. And never mind what the “experts” try to tell you, answer for yourself. Is that poll right? Do I want my income and taxes to mirror 08-16, or the last 3 years?

Do you want someone you think can feel your pain, or someone you know will leave more money in your pocket? If you are after empathy, try a therapist. But ask some of your older friends who lived from 76 to 80 how it was to have a leadership based on being such a nice guy, and 20% inflation, long lines at the gas pump, shrinking paychecks, and soaring taxes.

Nice doesn’t pay your bills. This is not Miss America, nor is it a popularity contest.

It is, thank you Bill Clinton, about the economy, stupid.

Think carefully.

Doug Smith is an historian and Associate Editor for Free State Patriot

September 3, 2020

Mark Caserta: Here’s why liberal Democrats want to “defund” the police.

1 Aug

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Mark Caserta is an opinion columnist and editor for Free State Patriot.

August 1, 2020

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It’s positively, unequivocally, and in every other way – moronic.

It’s analogous to removing traffic lights and stop signs because some don’t work properly.

The idea of “defunding” the police by the liberal Democrats is simply the largest leap toward removing boundaries for progressives in our country’s history.  While it is, undoubtedly, ludicrous on the surface, it aligns perfectly with liberal ideology.

Progressivism is exactly what the moniker portrays.  Liberals “progressively” advance their agenda by vehemently pronouncing their presence and being the loudest voice in the room.  Even huge failures often result in small victories by moving the needle of morality ever so slightly to the left.

One must understand liberals view principle and morality on a sliding scale of standards.  It varies with every movement.  It’s consistency lies in the fact that it’s always, always contrary to God’s Word and conservatism and is tenacious in its onslaught.

A perfect example is Roe v Wade.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that a woman’s liberty right (in this instance, whether to be pregnant or not) was stronger than the state’s interest in the life of the baby “up to a certain point” in the pregnancy.

Per the Court’s ruling, at the point of “viability” or the baby’s ability to survive outside the womb, the woman’s right to choose an abortion was outweighed by the potential life of the child. At that point, the Court ruled a state could prohibit women from having abortions. The only caveat was if the birth presented a health risk to the mother.

Just under 50 years later, liberals have challenged case after case and successfully moved the standard for protecting life far to the left.  In 2020, it’s seemingly as easy to have an abortion as it is to have a tooth pulled.  Sadly, it’s become murder of inconvenience.

That, my friend, is the progressive movement.  And that is exactly what is happening with the so-called “defund the police” movement by liberal activists.

Now, the police will not be eliminated.  Intelligent minds will prevail.  But we are seeing those with the ability to do so, reduce police funding and place citizens at risk. This is an impactful victory for liberals and the first step toward achieving a greater goal.

The left’s determination to subvert Democracy should be very disturbing for everyone and be the catalyst for staunch opposition from the right.

What law-abiding citizen in our country would want to eliminate or even reduce law enforcement? Most would support further funding for the safety of our families!  I submit, the majority of those supporting defunding would be only those constrained from committing lawless acts.  It’s extremely important for us to realize the many in the liberal media are complicit in making this happen.

Higher ratings? Perhaps.  But there are those, to include the media, who place the sovereignty of our nation and the safety of our people far below propagating their progressive agenda.

We’ve seen what happens when bad people are left unrestrained!  It results in chaos, destruction, and death – period.  That’s what is transpiring in city’s with liberal leadership!

It’s simply amazing what liberal Democrats are willing to compromise simply to rid themselves of the Trump presidency. They have proven they hate Donald Trump more than they love America – if they even love America at all!

What to do?  I’m glad you asked. It’s a question more people must begin asking.

The absolute only way you can make a difference is vote.  It is the universal language of politicians and the mainstream media.  I often ask how the same derelict representatives get elected year after year.

It’s because good people allow it to happen by not becoming informed, engaged, and voting to advance our Republic. 

Believe me when I tell you it isn’t going to get any easier.  We are at a point where conservatives must win elections by wide margins to reduce the opportunity for fraud.

President Ronald Reagan once said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to.  This is the last stand on earth.”

Who is going to make that stand?  If conservative Christians don’t vote, we lose.  We lose our nation, our freedom, our right to worship and protect our family.

We lose it all.  Because, that’s what the liberal Democrats want from you.  They want it all.

Don’t give it to them.

 

 

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James Caserta: Trust the Way Maker

8 Jul
James Caserta is a vocalist, musician and writer.  He resides in Huntington, WV.

How many times do we get any given song stuck in our heads? Sometimes it’s the latest hit that we immediately add to our playlists, or more likely it’ll be the theme song to some preschool cartoon that you’re obligated to watch with your children. Music moves all of us in different ways, whether it’s in concert, vinyl collections, or a masterful composition for your favorite movie. It speaks to us on levels that people oftentimes cannot in mere spoken word.

Every so often, I’ll hear a certain song that resonates with me on such a level that I’ll hear it in my head, over and over. For me in this season, that song is “Way Maker” by Leeland.

From the very first three words, “You are here,” I think about how many times I’ve thought I had run so far from God that He wasn’t anywhere near me, that He couldn’t hear my cries for help. To think that even after all the years I’ve wasted serving only my selfish desires that God was always here, still loving me, still desiring for me to come back to Him and fulfill all that He has planned is sometimes hard to believe.

Then, as I’m belting out the chorus (alone in my car, of course), I’m dwelling on the words “promise keeper”. Now, throughout my adult life, I’ve made innumerable amounts of promises that I would lose the weight, go back to school, etc, and never fulfilled any of them. In fact, I would go as far as to say many of the positive changes to my life were made possible because of the constant loving determination of my family to see me succeed. Having all this weighing down on my heart for so long, I began to began to place limiting factors on God’s promises. I felt that by now I had squandered too much time and now I must live a life of mediocrity, just getting by like I always have. In this season, God wanted me to know He never gave up on me, and that His word never returns to Him void, so if He spoke it over my life through someone else or said it in the Bible, He is always working, and will make a way to bring His promises to pass.

The bridge of this song really brings it all home for me, saying, “Even when I don’t see it you’re working/Even when I don’t feel it you’re working/You never stop, you never stop working/You never stop, you never stop working.” I remember times when I was only in church physically, but my mind was always somewhere else. I was so focused on everything that was going on around me, all of struggles I was dealing with, that was all I could see. I no longer trusted that God was working in my life, or that He would ever rescue me from where I was.

When I was thinking about all this a moment ago, God showed me something that I just had to put into writing. I think it’s safe to say we’ve all heard the story of Peter walking on the water more times than we could ever count, but when you really stop and think about it, you begin to wonder about certain things. For me, I couldn’t help but think about that moment Peter looked away from Jesus, toward the raging storm around him, and he began to drown. I think about what went through his head in that split moment, when the storm tried to claim his life. We know he was afraid, because after taking his eyes off the one who helped him rise above the raging waters, his fear allowed his circumstances to overwhelm him. I really related to that idea of letting circumstances and fear control every aspect of my life, and completely lose sight of the way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, and the light in the darkness.

After Peter cried out for the Lord to save him, and Jesus immediately pulling him back up, he says to Peter, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31 NIV). That doubt and fear Peter almost succumbed to are my two biggest obstacles in my personal life. That’s why Leeland’s song is such an important message for me; when I truly start to trust that God never stops working even when I don’t see it or feel it, I get the motivation to go after His promises, and see them fulfilled in my life. I’ve felt the Lord reach into my storm and say to me, “why did you doubt me?”

I am learning more about the fierceness of God’s love and just how relentless he can be (I could probably write a whole other blog about You Won’t Relent by Misty Edwards) and I’m working daily to remove myself from the situation and let God be the Lord of my life. I know I have a long road yet to travel, but I know He will always be here with me, that He never stops working on me, and that I can always trust in Him to lead me through all the storms in my life.

 

Check out James’ blog, “Stepping into the Light” at:

https://jamescaserta.wordpress.com/

 

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Doug Smith: Government, money, work and a wisdom deficit.

30 Jun

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Doug Smith is an opinion columnist, historian and associate editor for Free State Patriot.

June 30, 2020

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Has the very entity instituted to protect our Republic become an obstacle to its efficacy?

Remember the big Government shutdown? And how you couldn’t find toilet paper or hamburger because Congress was not in session while several hundred people who had become millionaires in Congress argued about how much of your money they were going to take and how they were going to waste? uh… I mean spend it.

Of course, you don’t. When Government shuts down, little happens. Government produces nothing but more government. Government does not grow food, make cars, or toilet paper. It is rather refreshing at times when Government shuts down and Congress becomes more useless than usual, because they aren’t finding ways to put their hands in your pocket.

Government has no money. They have no food, medicine, PPE, vehicles, cell phones. They are broke. They only spend money or make pronouncements that force others to spend money.

Government is awfully expensive.

Indeed, one of our earliest meetings of congress voted for General Washington to raise an Army to fight for independence but provided little in the way of funding. It would be very illustrative for our current Congress to study the history of the 1st Continental Congress. Adams, Hancock, and Franklin could not pass bills into law and look to shopkeepers, farmers, and merchants to send them silver, at the threat of a gun, to pay for their desires. They must, of necessity, persuade a bunch of ornery, independent minded colonists, who were ready to break off from the rule of England, to pay a new Government to fight for that point of view. Franklin is credited, in the musical “1776” with asking “Why should I change one Tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants, one mile away?”. Whether he said it or not, it is an excellent point.

Those 56 men, met in congress, (We tend to capitalize that word and make it almost mystical, yet one of its meanings, and that most apropos to those 56 men, is “ met together in agreement”) pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors to the Declaration they signed. They persuaded other men who believed in their cause to finance it, and in many cases, the 56 paid exactly what they had pledged.

Our Congress has evolved to men and women who arrive penniless, stay forever, leave as millionaires, and depend on our powerlessness to back up whatever enriches them. Far from plead their case to us, they often ignore our expressed desires and instead coerce us into paying for their desires.

I should note, at this point, that another meeting of congress is coitus, which considering how our current Congress behaves, may be exactly apropos.

So then, from whence cometh money?

Businesses and people who work and produce have money, and produce food, medicine, PPE, etc. Government gets these things by taking money from business and people who work and purchasing it.  When they print money for it, they are taking out a loan, with nothing to back it up except the promise that business and employees, taxpayers, in short, YOU, will pay it back.

Eventually.

Or not. They will be retired and wealthy by the time the bill comes due – for your grandchildren.

If Government spends 5 Trillion dollars that they don’t have to address a crisis, they are committing you to pay it back.

Implied is that you will work. If the economy is shut down, then we consume all we have stored or saved, and when no one is working to produce food and medicine, people begin to starve, and no one is treated for disease.

Picture a refugee camp, with people sitting with nothing, waiting, and hoping for help. That help must, ultimately, come from people working. So, it is simplistic and wrong to say we must choose work or life. There is a reason we refer to working as “Making a living “.

Ever since we left Eden, we must work to survive. Even in the face of danger, we adapt and keep as safe as possible, and we work.

During the Blitz, Londoners went to work. They crowded into shelters when the Germans flew over, but they worked.

Art, music, philosophy, writing; all are things that we enjoy and enrich our lives. But we live, and have shelter, and clothes, and food, and medicine because people work. Work is how we live. Work is life. We cannot huddle for fear of death and not work. For if we do not work, in large numbers, we will not live as a people or as a civilization.

In the Middle Ages, as economies failed, life was, for millions, (as Thomas Hobbes said) nasty, brutish, and short. It is true that plagues kill people. It is just as true that poverty does, as well.

During the New Deal, FDR s administration came up with the National Recovery Administration. Its stated goal was to “eliminate cutthroat competition.” In practice, the NRA was in the business of picking winners and losers by setting prices and issuing a few regulations. Ten Million pages of them. In 1935, 2 years after it was enacted, SCOTUS  ruled it unconstitutional, because it attempted to regulate commerce that was not interstate in character, that the  industrial “codes of fair competition” which the NIRA enabled the President to issue violated the separation of powers, as an impermissible delegation of legislative power to the executive branch, and that the NIRA provisions were in excess of congressional power under the Commerce Clause.

Some of our current Governors, who, in the name of safety, have determined that citizens may purchase whiskey, but not vegetable seeds, lottery tickets, but not towels, may shop at Lowes but not at Uncle Joe’s hardware, and who have already been taken to task by State Supreme Courts, might take a lesson.

Neither economies, nor people, nor civilizations, exist in a vacuum.

One choice affects another. Government may make choices for the defense of its citizens that you may not start a campfire in the lobby of a theater. (Remember those?) It may not determine what color shirt you must wear today. There are, quite intentionally, limits on what government may do. Our founders, in their wisdom, and having lived under tyranny, made it difficult to govern us, believing the maxim that a government governs best which governs least.

Walking that tightrope of good governance is a challenge, requiring wisdom, humility, common sense, and restraint.

Clearly, the Governors of Michigan, California, and New York have failed that test dismally. Let us pray they learn from wiser and more humble counterparts.  Hubris and pettiness are poor standards of leadership.

If the primary function of government, as noted above, is to spend money and forbid people to produce the very money it desires and must spend, it is on a path which cannot end well.

It is the current state of our representation that’s opened the door for socio-political malfeasants to re-employ the misstated value of socialism as the solution.

But such is the wisdom of government.  And such is the folly of our leaders.

The only way our Republic thrives is through an effectual, fervent prayer – and a vote.

In that order!

 

 

 

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Mark Caserta: Are you just watching or working to make a difference? The world needs to see our faith in action.

30 May

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Mark Caserta is an opinion columnist and editor for Free State Patriot

June 17, 2020

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Nothing good ever comes from hatred – nothing. 

 The world needs to see our faith in God in action. 

We must be able to discern right from wrong, good from evil and justice from injustice.  I’m afraid I don’t always have the wisdom to do so – without God.

Our country thrives on the rule of law.  I wish everyone followed the rules.  We would have far fewer problems.  But sometimes, people don’t.  We mustn’t strive to re-define Democracy and our very way of life every time someone fails to act in a fair and just manner.  We must leverage the freedom we’ve been given to make sound decisions to preserve and protect what makes America great.

But we can always be greater!

We literally owe police officers our lives. They risk their lives every day to protect ours. But as with any occupation, there are bad people.

Minneapolis is a tragic example of dereliction of duty, black, white or otherwise.

While absolutely not representative of all officers, these individuals deserve the full repercussions provided by the law.  I’m heartbroken every time I watch the horrific video.

George Floyd should be alive. People of all ethnicity should be outraged.

But the outrage must be peaceful. Looting and rioting are not honest methods of protest. Sadly, there are bad people who enjoy promoting anarchy during these times of unrest. They’re not interested in justice, just violence and destruction.

We are living in troubling times. The further we get away from God’s Word, the less stability we will have as a nation.

I have no doubt our Heavenly Father must be watching from His Throne contemplating the time He will send His Son to bring His children home.

One must wonder, if Jesus returned during an evening of rioting and looting and how much fear would overcome those left behind as they contemplated “what just happened?”

One must also wonder how Christians would answer when God asked them why we allowed the world to become so void of His love and compassion for others.  I don’t want to be grasping for words…

God’s Word is the only answer and the devil knows it.  The Bible says the demons “tremble” at the thought of His presence.

Thus, removing all semblance of God from society has been the progressive mantra for decades. The unrest and lack of wisdom from leadership we are witnessing in Minneapolis and across the nation is an example of the fruit this continued movement will produce.

We must unite as Christians. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” If we don’t act on God’s behalf – who will?

Jesus took 12 men and shook the world!

What greater things can the Body of Christ do now?

If Christians get engaged and vote, we can have a huge impact.

Love and the genuine intent to honor our brothers and sisters will always win in the end.

Now is not the time to stay on the sidelines. Now is not the time to wait for it to impact you personally.

Now is the time to get engaged!

God isn’t looking for ability, just availability.

Stop complaining about what you permit to happen with your inactivity!

Go make a difference. And if you aren’t willing, then get out of the way of those who are!

Jesus had little patience for apathy. But He greatly admired faith – especially faith in action!

Show the world your faith by your works!

Blessings

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Mark Caserta: Why have liberal Democrats been so successful?

30 May

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Mark Caserta is an opinion columnist and editor for Free State Patriot

August 7, 2020

 

President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously said in 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

Hence the corruptive modus operandi of the Democrat Party.  The tactics are clearly visible in the COVID-19 controversy and now in the death of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. 

These are not the Democrats of John F. Kennedy or Franklin D. Roosevelt.  In fact, they aren’t worthy of shining these former president’s shoes.  They certainly aren’t capable or even willing to serve our country.

Allow me to say, once again, it’s not the “Democratic Party” as so many clumsily ventilate.  I refuse to use the moniker! The term “Democratic” is an adjective describing the party. Understand, Democrats forsook Democracy years ago!

There are many adjectives I could use to describe the party of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer – Democratic isn’t one of them.

Let’s be clear. The rioting and looting in Minneapolis and across the nation have little to do with the death of George Floyd, as tragic as it was.  People genuinely desirous of making positive change protest passionately, but peacefully.  The solution can’t be worse than the problem.

It wasn’t until the professional protestors showed up that matters escalated out of control.  The majority of individuals being arrested at these violent gatherings are not locals, but “ringers” financed for the sole purpose of inciting violence and reckless behavior.

Groups like ANTIFA, a militant, left-wing, anti-fascist political activist movement seek out these opportunities like “heat-seeking” missiles with the aim of achieving their destructive objectives of chaos and violence.

ANTIFA comes to the scene fully equipped to spur hatred, fuel the fire of violent protest and capture video supporting their anarchical cause.

After the buildings are burned, the smoke clears and enough people have paid the price of Capitalism, they leave.  Citizens are left to deal with the damage and pillage through the ruins.

It’s the perfect storm for socialist-minded, liberal-leaning, U.S. hating punks without functioning lives to live.  And they are willing pawns for those seeking to gain from disaster.  It’s the epitome of despicable.

These folks place their agenda above the peace and prosperity of our nation – period.

Unfortunately, many of them represent us in government supported by disengaged, destructive-minded, liberal minions.

But, who funds these pathetic purveyors of pandemonium?

You may or may not be surprised to know that beyond the philanthropic support of liberals like George Soros, there are groups posing as news organizations who rely on clamor and commotion for ratings. 

These organizations have a “waiting list” of reckless-minded individuals ready, willing and able to travel to the otherwise “peaceful” protests to ignite the flames of rebellion resulting in crimes of looting and destruction.

Just follow the camera angles and view the footage for clues as to who these “journalistic” organizations and financiers may be.  All crimes need a motivated offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian.  You can be “Columbo” in this investigation.

It’s simply the age-old battle between “good” and “evil”.

There are good people in our nation simply wanting to live their lives, support their families and prosper in a nation God has so richly blessed with good and perfect gifts. These people will rise to defend their families and nation in a responsible manner.

But there are also bad people, blinded by the enemy and driven by evil who are hiding in the darkness waiting for the opportunity to steal, kill and destroy.  These individuals will compromise your rights as the means to an evil end and not think twice about it.

We know who wins in the end.  But it’s up to good people to bring light unto the world. When light enters, darkness has to flee.

But why have liberals been so successful? Sadly, we’ve allowed it to happen.

If there was ever a time for Christian conservatives to do their duty and vote – the time is now.

We are the absolute only hope for stopping the progressive movement!

I repeat – the only hope.

The spoils of this war involve the future of our nation and the safety of our children.

I’m not willing to give that up. You shouldn’t be either.

Together, we will win. Guaranteed.

Divided, we lose everything.

 

 

 

 

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