Reconnecting with America's founding principles this Christmas: Parker

This holiday season is a time to celebrate Republicans reclaiming the presidency and the Senate while retaining their majority in the House. — Image credit: Envato

This holiday season concludes a dramatic election cycle, with Republicans reclaiming the presidency and the Senate while retaining their majority in the House. Meanwhile, Democrats are regrouping and strategizing their path forward. Key issues such as abortion rights, border security, the economy, and climate change continue to highlight deep ideological divides, setting the stage for intense debate over the next four years.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker celebrates Americans‘ rejection of left-leaning messaging. She draws on “the principles of Christianity that built this great nation” and expresses hope that the country will embrace this worldview.

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The following is an excerpt from the above video:

So during this Christmas season, we’re going to continue to work through our problems, even those problems that are reflected here in Washington, D.C., realizing that each and every one of us have capacity, we have purpose, and we can get to the place where we don’t need excessive government — that we can manage our own lives.

Is that debate going to get sloppy? Absolutely, it will. In fact, it will very rapidly get sloppy. But in the meantime, Merry Christmas during this season and Happy New Year, and the fighting will begin again right after the turn of January 2025. We will see a whole new energy as the Congress comes in, takes their place, and then we have an inauguration.

But let’s keep in mind one real truth about our country. We are all Americans, so we should adhere to, pipe into and dream about how we are One Nation Under God.

can you believe already that 2024 is coming to a close? It seems like only yesterday that we were in a primary season, a very contentious primary season, in an election year. In a free country, we still have election years. Not only this year did we have a presidential election, we had another Senate election, another house election, Governor elections, all types of elections all the way down the dog catcher in some communities. But this year, as President Joe Biden has said, this was about the soul of America, this particular election season, boy, did some get caught off guard when during the primary of the Democrats, they switched candidates because of Joe Biden’s performance at the debate he had with the Republican candidate Donald Trump. Oh, Donald Trump made sure that he cleared the field. Didn’t attend any of the debates during his primary season, but when it came to the debate with the current president. It was a Wipeout. So the next thing you know, the Democrats were changing their candidates. There was a new energy level that was in the nation, a lot of anger, a lot of screaming, a lot of working to get us to the place that we were going to decide who we were going to be as a nation. Were we going to continue down the track? We were going big government, secularism, even paganism, when you start thinking about the agendas of some of the hard core on the left, the progressives who want to even mutilate children when it comes to this demand to be able to trans children without their parents’ permission, the aggressiveness of the left when it came to abortion. It was just unbelievable that we would get to the point in this free country, that one of the major talking points of a presidential candidate is kill your offspring, kill your future. Well, by the time we got to election November, America did not buy that messaging. America said, we’re going to take a chance again on Donald Trump. We’re going to allow for him to another opportunity to try to make the country great again, which is his motto. He’s going to make us great in every area. So he says, now we’re in Christmas season, a season that we can say, perhaps we ought to give our country a chance. Perhaps we ought to reconcile ourselves with our founding principles, principles of freedom, principles of personal responsibility, principles of faith. This is a season of faith. Christ, the visible image of an invisible God. People are celebrating all their own ways. People from all different faiths are recognizing this season of believing for the Christian and the Christian worldview that has dominated our society and our culture. Can we get a country that adheres to those principles? Again, it’s the principles of Christianity that built this great nation. It’s the virtues of capitalism that built this great nation. It’s a combination of a rule of law in our constitution that actually made our country special. So during this Christmas season, we’re going to continue to work through our problems, even those problems that are reflected here in Washington, DC realizes that each and every one of us have capacity, we have purpose, and we can get to the place where we don’t need excessive government that we can manage our own lives. Is that debate going to get sloppy? Absolutely, it will. In fact, it will very rapidly get sloppy. But in the meantime, Merry Christmas during this season and Happy New Year, and the fighting will begin again. Right after the turn of January, 2025 we will see a whole new energy as the Congress comes in, takes their place, and then we have an inauguration. But let’s keep in mind one real truth about our country. We are all Americans, so we should adhere to pipe into and dream about how we are one nation under God. You.