Today our Congress is debating whether or not to impeach the President with only a few days left before the new administration takes office. They are wasting time and tax payer dollars that could be used to help the many in our country in need during this pandemic. They will call for a vote it looks like this afternoon, but what happened to a trial before judgement? They say that President Trump incited this riot for people to create a coup against the government. Nothing further could be true. Just minutes before setting down to write this I watched President Trump’s speech in its entirety and never did he once give that inclination for violence or any of the condemned actions that were taken last week on the Capital. This is not to defend President Trump who most definitely at times can be theatrical himself. He can do his own defending, but this is to reveal that there is a lot of hypocrisy in Washington. Particularly, when you look on the left side where people have made heinous threats on the President, and those that might support him, but were never held accountable.
President Trump did specifically say in his speech “I know that many are going over to the Capital building to PEACEFULLY and PATRIOTICALLY make your voices heard…” That doesn’t sound like incitement to me or anywhere else in his speech. He made statements we have to be strong and fight for their position, but so has every other politician used this same type of rhetoric but weren’t said they were inciting a riot of mob violence. We have gotten to a place in our country where we already have the narrative we want and just look for anything to grab hold to in which to support our personal narrative whether or not it’s logical. It’s called delusional thinking, and it is prevalent on both sides of the aisle. Looking on the left listen to Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters a couple of years ago, “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere… Waters said at the Wilshire Federal Building, according to video of the event.[1] Actors have discussed created and theatrical ways of killing the President (see Washington Times article referenced below)[2] The outlandish hypocrisy has got to stop for the sake of the future of this country.
As believers it’s hard to know what the next step is or which side to listen to. My encouragement to everyone is our hope is not in politics, but there needs to be a movement of bringing truth back into politics. Looking again to the evidence, pausing before declared judgments, and listening and thinking before we speak. There are examples on both sides of the aisle where truth is either watered down or dismissed altogether, but we are seeing a blaring glow of hypocrisy that is gaining ground. We must be students of truth as followers of Jesus and willing to stand for truth at all costs. As believers this is our value system and vocation to the call of being Christ’s disciples.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-officials/index.html
[2] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/31/how-menacing-invective-against-trump-creates-dange/
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