What do the January 6 commission, covid deaths and gun massacres have in common? God's chosen
https://stoehr.substack.com/p/what-do-the-january-6-commission
Im going to try connecting things that dont at first seem related. They are the fight over a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection; the disproportional number of covid deaths in states run by Republican governors; this weeks shooting massacre in San Jose, Calif., and every other one like it; and, lets see, what else? Well, feel free at the end of this piece to add your own examples. There are plenty more.
All have in common the political concept that God divided the world between the elected and the unelected, that is, between His chosen and everyone else deserving of eternal damnation. (They deserve whats coming to them, in other words.) For the chosen, anything is possible. For Gods enemies, Gods law. All politics, all historical struggle over power and limited resources, can be seen through a lens in which everything begins with the chosen and ends with the chosen. Its a closed circuitpolitically, religiously, economically and every way that matters. Important for you to understand is this: its impervious to democracy, morality, justice and the truth. If you want to keep this republic of ours, youve got to keep these people away from power.
The commission
The Republicans in the United States Senate filibustered this morning a bipartisan House bill that would have created an independent ideologically neutral commission to investigate the January 6 sacking and looting of the United States Capitol. The United States Congress created such commissions after the Oklahoma City bombing in the 1990s and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Along with being good for democracy and patriotism, a commission of this kind is the right thing to do.
If the Republicans do not explicitly see themselves as Gods chosen, they act like it implicitlyin that they have decided, as a political party over a number of years, that only Republicans can rule legitimately. The country is politically polarized, because the Republicans now insist on a polarized worldview in which the Republicans are good, because they are good and the Democrats are bad, because they are bad.
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