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President Biden hit the campaign trail with a message to voters that democracy was on the ballot in next Tuesday’s midterm elections. It’s a consistent drum Biden has pounded in recent months, warning that former President Trump’s election lies and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the future of the United States. Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker says Biden is right that this election is about the soul of America. However, she says those who value individualism and freedom from government overreach must stand up and have their votes counted to help the GOP regain control of Congress.
The role of government is to keep my neighbor’s sin from me. The role of government is to protect my interests, not to plunder my interests. The role of government is just to secure our nation, our borders, and make sure that they implement the law when someone’s sin enters my space. When we see crime levels where we are, is it any wonder people are very upset? But the other worldview says no actually, we don’t believe that you have the capacity to self govern. We think the country is corrupted from internal out.
We think from its founding it has been systematically stacked against certain people groups so therefore, people always need government help. Therefore, we’re going to always expand government. Therefore, we’re always going to have discussions about who’s the winner, who’s the loser? It’s an us or them game. We heard it really clearly out of former President Barack Obama on the campaign trail during this midterm election. But President Joe Biden has made it very, very clear that that’s what’s at stake. When we go into the polls, we need to understand what is at stake.
We’re either going to have expansion of government in every area in a secular environment, or we’re going to have people live free. We’re going to have people decide whether they want church and community to work, whether they want their schools to be teaching things that are inconsistent with their own values, whether they want high crime and all these misdemeanors that are just being dismissed because somebody else’s fault when somebody does crime. That’s what’s at stake going into the polling booths coming out of November and what we will be determining and arguing about in January, depending on who’s in power.
