I confess—and I need to lay this out upfront—I’m a cynic, I’m a pessimist, it’s basically been my nature all my life, and my studies of human history and man’s relationship with God as revealed in the Bible hasn’t helped me much to overcome my cynicism and pessimism. Seventy-five million Americans on November 5, 2024, didn’t help me, either.
I know I need to be optimistic. I WANT to be optimistic. And honestly, I see many, many things in America today to be optimistic about. The country DID elect Donald Trump as President. That was fantastic. Pete Hegseth at the Defense Department, Tom Homan as border czar, Pam Bondi as Attorney General, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the head of the FBI, Elon Musk and his horde of 19- and 20-year-olds plowing through the federal budget, exposing the stink and flushing the toilet repeatedly—this is wowowowowow stuff. Every patriotic American who truly wants to see America become great again HAS to be ecstatic about what has happened in the past month. Yes, I WANT to be optimistic.
But 75 million people. Eric Swalwell. Nancy Pelosi. Biden-appointed judges. The AP. 75 million people. I can’t get that number out of my head. Seventy-five million people voted for the stupidest, most corrupt, most incompetent, most decadent, most evil gargoyle ever to be offered to the American people as a Presidential candidate. 75 million people who obviously cannot see what Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the Democratic Party in America are. 75 million people.
And they haven’t gone anywhere, folks.
If a deadly cancer was spread over half your body, what would be your chances of survival?
We’re not talking about 2 or 3 percent of the population here. We’re talking about a nation that put Barack Obama in the Presidency twice and allowed Joe Biden into that office, whether he won it legitimately or not.
No, they aren’t in power now—pro-America is. That is a fact that I am very happy about. The right people are at the head of government now.
But the government is NOT the people. The government cannot change people. You and I, conservatives, traditional Declaration of Independence, and 1789 Americans, patriotic Americans, are NOT believers in government. We believe—or at least I do—like our Founding Fathers, that government is a major problem, not the solution to our ills. The government can force people to do things they don’t want to do, but the government cannot convert anybody’s heart. And while Mr. Trump is indeed trying to rein in that monster called the government, he has to fight…
75 million voters. Half the population. And Deep State RINOs in his own party don’t want him to succeed, either.
Rarely does the patient see the cancer that kills him.
Again, part of my cynical, pessimistic problem is I know too much about history and the Bible. Let me give you just one parallel. One of the greatest kings in ancient Judah was a man named Josiah. He reigned from 640 to 609 B.C. He, more than any other king before him, cleaned out the rot and idolatry that had already cost the Northern Kingdom of Israel its freedom and had infiltrated and was rapidly sinking the Southern Kingdom of Judah into a cesspool of sin and decadence. It was not a good time in the Promised Land.
But Josiah tried. “In the twelfth year [of his reign], he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. They broke down the altars of the Baals…he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem…” I don’t have space here to record all the great things Josiah did for Judah. Read 2 Kings 22-23 and 2 Chronicles 34. He performed marvelous works for Judah. And the people couldn’t stop him. He was the king; he was the government, and they couldn’t openly oppose him.
But they weren’t with him. “’ Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,’ says the Lord” (Jeremiah 3:10). Josiah was killed in 609 B.C. in a useless war he should never have gotten involved in. And that was it for Judah. Four years later—FOUR YEARS LATER—in 605, the Babylonians were knocking at Jerusalem’s doors and started carrying people off into captivity. In 586, they destroyed Solomon’s magnificent temple. Israel was never free again, except for one short 100-year period between the Greeks and the Romans.
One man can do great things for a country, break down, and destroy many idols. And there were Jeremiahs in Judah cheering Josiah on.
But 75 million people voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz—almost half the voting population.
Yeah, we’re in power now and they aren’t, and that feels really, really good. We can force them to accept what we want them to accept, just like they tried to ram their putrid garbage down our throats under Obama and Biden. But force is all the government has. Force is all government IS. And force is not freedom. I don’t want to force my beliefs down Leftists' throats any more than I want them to force theirs down mine. We can certainly compromise on some things. But there should never be a compromise with evil. We shouldn’t compromise on babies being murdered and sold, children being mutilated for sexual perverts, or men claiming to be women. There can be no compromise on that, only force.
Now, in power, we need to be more diligent than ever, double down on educating the ignorant, and work twice as hard to secure victory. We haven’t won anything yet. Now is not the time for relaxation and complacency.
Seventy-five million people are 75 million reasons why.
And I apologize for being such a cynic and pessimist. But I prefer to think of myself as a historical realist.
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