We have had good Christian people run for office, like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum and Ben Carson (my favorite, before turning to Cruz, then Trump). But despite there being many evangelical and other Christian and like-values’ voters, they failed. There is much more at play here than Christians simply voting for the right people at all levels of government. I’m writing this in April, 2016, and after Colorado and other states, am finding out like many people how little our votes actually mean in the face of political machines and their rules.

I don’t believe the Lord meant for U.S. Christians to succeed as a monolithic political power to rule or “take back our country”. I believe He is allowing our country to decline so that many of us will be shaken from our comfort and security and apathy to turn to Him as never before. I hesitate to say this, but I believe He wants us to turn away from the idolatry of thinking our country is so great and “exceptional”, and instead turn to him as individuals more strongly than ever before. EACH and EVERY ONE of us as His created beings, I believe, is worth so much more to Him than this or any other nation.

I could go on, but this is enough. Except to say, while Democrats and many GOPe like Paul Ryan keep expanding the welfare state, other GOP members obsess on spending big money on defense without discretion. And demographically, the GOP will not be likely able to elect a President after this year, as new immigrant citizen voters, both illegal and legal (yes, the latter too, per research) will vote Democrat. And if by chance the Democrats take back the Senate, or we have enough RINO’s like Lindsey Graham, the GOP SCOTUS nominees will be weak: no more Scalia’s. Thus SCOTUS also will continue to be more liberal, and will usurp even more power from both Congress and the states.

Only God’s intervention can fix this imperfect government of ours, a system that is simply the lesser of evils in a fallen world: take note, lovers of the Constitution. We simply can’t just “take back America”, not going to happen. God alone for his proposes saw fit to make our government work in spite of itself, but now I sense he is letting us create our own dysfunctional governmental quagmire, to go with our debased culture.

All this to say, we as individuals and families must more than ever focus on the Living God, thru His Son Jesus Christ, to live fruitful lives in a nation and world in steady, chaotic decline. May Jesus as the Returning Conquering King please come soon.

As I read this, I kept saying to myself, “Yes, that’s right!”, repeatedly, while being envious I had not written it myself because it’s so on point.

I had concerns about Trump too, as I found well expressed by yes, this same author in a piece he wrote in August 2015, several weeks before this article was written, and accessible by the link in blue above, “a previous article” (the actual link is : http://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/08/10/political-correctness-and-plain-rudeness/).

I too for months saw Trump as a battering ram against the GOP Establishment (Elites), the un-kept promises of most of the people we elect to Congress, the liberal/pro-Democrat bias of the mainstream news media, and its propagandizing of the American public in favor of Democrats and liberal / moderate Republicans.

For me, as well as many others, I was immediately drawn to Trump when came out strongly against illegal immigration, including even deportation of the 12 to 20 million illegals already here. There is no room here for specifics, or how I disagree with many evangelicals who believe we ought not do this because it’s not the Christian thing to do.

In addition, Trump seems be attuned to the needs of our depressed and declining middle class, the underemployment of millions, and the needs of all white-collar and blue-collar workers at all income levels.

However, until recently, I had hoped Trump would fade away, after “paving the way” for other candidates to be more bolder on the issues. Like many evangelicals, I especially liked Ben Carson, and to a lesser extent Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Ben Carson had early on eclipsed Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, good candidates from the past. To me it was unfortunate that the killings in San Bernardino, along with increased concerns about ISIS and Syria, led to Carson’s rapid decline, as he was then perceived as not being strong enough on foreign policy and making war.

Most of us “outsider” voters decided Marco Rubio was not an option, because of his weak (and deceptive) positions on amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. There is also his advocacy of the continuation of many years of high >LEGAL>as individuals<< draw ever so much more closely to our Lord and Savior and our God.