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How Christians use politics to do the opposite of what Jesus said
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Transcript: How Christians use politics to do the opposite of what Jesus said
In a firing squad, some of the bullets in the guns of the executioners are blanks. You’ll have maybe five guys lined up pointing a gun at one man, and perhaps two of those guns contain real bullets while the other three contain blanks. What this does is create a kind of plausible deniability. All five of those men can walk away and say, “I don’t think I killed that man. I’m not directly responsible for his death.” It makes people more willing to participate in firing squads and allows society to share the burden of executions. By the way, I’m against executions in all cases.
This is what happens with Christians and politics. You say, “Hey, it’s wrong to take food out of the mouths of inner-city five-year-olds,” and they respond, “I didn’t do that. That’s politics. That’s the government. We’re not even of the government—we’re of the kingdom of God.” Yet the people who put these policies in place rely heavily on evangelical voters. Without their support, many of these policies would not be possible. Yes, there are other voting blocs that keep politicians in power, but evangelicals are the largest. Tax policies that enrich the wealthy, strip resources from the poor, and treat immigrants horrifically exist only because evangelicals are the backbone of that political power.
When asked about this responsibility, evangelicals often say, “That’s politics. We’re not involved.” Yet when the topic is abortion, gay rights, or school curriculums, suddenly politics becomes their moral duty. They insist it’s their obligation to legislate morality and force others to behave according to their standards. This double standard is striking.
It’s easy to say Jesus would not be a Republican. But I also say Jesus would not be a Democrat. Liberal institutions are at least equally corrupt. They claim to stand up for the least of these, to follow Jesus’ teachings with compassion, but their policies rarely empower people. Instead, they foster dependency and victimhood. Their institutions are corrupt, clinging to power as fiercely as their conservative counterparts.
Take Joe Biden as an example. He clung to power long past the time he should have stepped aside. Running in 2020 was questionable, but running in 2024 was selfish and profoundly un-Christlike. He claims to be a Christian, yet his actions mirror the very hypocrisy Jesus condemned. The same can be said for Pelosi, McConnell, and many others in Congress. But the harm caused by Biden’s clinging to power, in my view, outweighs even that of many Republicans. Jesus would not belong to either party, and, true to his style of exposing hypocrisy, he might criticize Democrats even more harshly than Republicans.
It’s disturbing that people who claim to follow Jesus, who have read the gospels, continue to give their approval to leaders enacting policies that contradict Jesus’ teachings. This is not just political—it’s a moral failure.
There’s also the glaring moral double standard. When I was a kid, Bill Clinton’s affair with an intern was considered the most horrific scandal imaginable by conservative Christians. My parents and community insisted that his character disqualified him from leadership. I was told, “The character of the man matters. He represents our country and our values.” I respected their commitment to moral standards, even if I didn’t always agree with what they considered moral.
Fast forward twenty years. Donald Trump openly bragged about sexual assault, faced nearly a hundred credible accusations, mocked the disabled and overweight, and exploited his ownership of beauty pageants to walk into dressing rooms unannounced. Yet many of those same Christians who once insisted on the highest moral standards dismissed all of this. They excused him with, “Well, we don’t have absolute proof,” or “He’s fixing the economy.” They endlessly gave him the benefit of the doubt. The hypocrisy is staggering.
So how did Christians, who claim to know Jesus, arrive at the point of supporting such a man and such policies? I blame talk radio. From my earliest childhood, talk radio was on constantly in my home. Rush Limbaugh’s voice was always booming. Every workplace, every auto shop, seemed to be tuned in. It was unavoidable.
Joseph Goebbels once said that repetition is all you need to make people believe something. That’s what talk radio did—repetition, repetition, repetition. Beyond that, it tapped into our brain’s disgust and outrage centers. Outrage feels empowering. It gives a sense of superiority. And in evangelical culture, which is built on suppressed shame, that superiority is intoxicating.
Talk radio used disgust to rewire the brain. The same part of the brain activated when we recoil from rotten food was activated when people heard about immigrants or liberals. It bypassed logic and morality, turning compassion into disgust. And so Christians, who should be brokenhearted over injustice, instead became disgusted by the very people Jesus called us to love.
That’s my rant on Christians and politics.
Transcript: Straight forward practical solution to our current political situation
Oh no. Why did the founding fathers set up a system where a tyrant could take the executive branch and rule by fiat through executive orders and stacking the courts? Why didn’t they think of this? Why didn’t they plan for this?
They totally did. There is something that can counteract all of this, and it’s called a two-thirds Senate majority. A two-thirds Senate majority can remove the president, not just impeach him. It can change the Senate rules. It can expand the Supreme Court. It can override filibusters. It can override vetoes. It can amend the Constitution and change what presidents can do with executive orders and what constitutes emergency powers. A two-thirds majority Senate can do all of this.
And so you say, well, okay, but a two-thirds majority Senate is impossible. Not at all. In 2026, if we captured every seat that we possibly could, we would have 86 senators and we only need 67 to have a two-thirds majority. So you say, well, how in the world are we going to capture Senate seats in Alabama, for example? From what I can tell, if every registered Democrat and everybody who is sympathetic to the need to stop this tyrant while there’s still even an inkling of a chance voted, it would happen.
Without convincing one person to change their position, but by simply mobilizing the people who already agree with us, we could do this. And every campaign dollar should be spent on physically mobilizing people to the polling places in the November 2026 vote. Don’t say his name. He’s like Tinkerbell. All of his power comes from people validating his existence. Don’t burn energy talking about what he’s doing. Everybody on the right side already knows he’s a complete piece of garbage, and everybody on the other side takes our criticism and somehow twists it to strengthen their belief in him.
The best thing we can do is figure out how to get people to the polling places in November 2026. If Trump’s base turns out on average and our base turns out 100%, we win. It’s that simple. You don’t have to convince one person. In fact, I think Trump’s base is likely to turn out in lower numbers. They’re no longer voting against a Black woman. They’re no longer needing to put their person in charge. And frankly, I think a lot of them are rather fatigued. He has certainly disenchanted a few of them with his recent actions.
So you get a Senate two-thirds and a House majority, and the first thing you do is impeach and remove Donald Trump. And then you might say, “Okay, well then it’s just Vance.” Vance is a feckless, simpy servant. And you’ll have your impeach-and-remove gun pointed at him, and he’ll fall in line. If he doesn’t, you impeach and remove him too, and then whoever he appointed as vice president moves up. At this point you have real leverage against the president, because every president wants to stay in power. As long as the Senate can remove them, there will be motivation to cooperate.
You also need to expand the Supreme Court and bring balance back to it. This is day one and day two of a two-thirds majority Senate. From there, we need to clarify which powers belong to Congress and which to the executive, and we need to build teeth and mechanisms for enforcing all of this. Essentially, the Senate majority leader would become the new president of the country until such a time as a populist president could be elected.
It would be a weird way to do business—having a completely impotent president who can do nothing and a Congress that does everything. But it would simply be a reversal of the way things are right now. With a two-thirds majority, you can override filibusters. You can approve judges. You can override vetoes. With a two-thirds vote, you can amend the Constitution. You could even eliminate the executive branch. Not that we should, but the point is we are not powerless.
If you run the math, you’ll see that if the right turns out on average and the left turns out 100%, we would win enough elections to have a two-thirds majority. Then in January of 2027, we could remove Trump, balance the Court, and amend the Constitution to define emergency powers and how they can be activated. The Senate might have to be in session around the clock, like a Silicon Valley startup. If the president issues an executive order at 2:00 a.m., by 3:00 a.m. the Senate could vote to nullify it. Senators will actually have to work and manage the country in real time.
A two-thirds majority of the Senate can do whatever it wants. It can change the Senate rules, change the Constitution, remove the executive, expand the Supreme Court. It’s all possible—but the window is closing. Power is consolidating fast. The 2026 election may be the very last chance. After that, it could all be gone.
I saw something similar firsthand around 2015 when I was working in Nicaragua. Their leader, Daniel Ortega, once a Chavez-style populist, turned into a dictator. He stacked the courts, rigged elections, and consolidated the military. Now he runs the country with an iron fist. It’s not hard to do, and we’re very close to that here.
I believe 2026 is our opportunity to stand up and say we want to keep a democracy. If we don’t show up, we don’t deserve freedom. We need to physically go to the polls. People must believe in this election. They need to see the masses approaching the polling stations. They need to hold up their IDs and declare, “My vote will be counted.” If anyone claims their vote is invalid, it must be addressed on the spot.
And don’t pretend voter fraud is only one-sided. Investigations show most cases came from the right. The accusations are projection. I used to be a conservative Christian and was mostly apolitical. My mom would ask for my ballot, and I’d give it to her. She often collected ballots from friends and family, filled them out, and dropped off stacks at polling centers. None of us thought it was illegal. So when people scream about voter fraud over mail-in ballots, I can only think: we did the same thing.
That’s why we should take the question off the table. Let’s physically vote. Let’s demonstrate clearly what the nation chose. And don’t think Trump isn’t aware that when he calls to eliminate voting machines and mail-in ballots, people will fight him—and he’ll let them win. Because in the end, uncertainty serves him. His whole job is to stir up doubt, then bring it to his stacked Supreme Court to nullify results.
So yes, 2026 is the last chance. It’s totally possible. We don’t have to convince anyone of anything except to put on pants, get in the car, and show up at the polling place. If we spend $50 billion on this election, $49 billion should go toward putting gas in minivans to get people to the polls.