Psychopolitics?!

Some acquaintances on Independence Caucus have spent a great deal of time trying to convince me that I shouldn't be using my faith to help sift through the political candidates (vetting questions). This is the substance of my response:

You are missing the point to Restoring the Republic if you leave God out of the equation. Surely as Constitutionalists you must know that the purported separation of church and state is a contorted (and erroneous) reading of the First Amendment. One does not have to be a Christian in order to recognize the divine providence of a higher power (but a belief in God sure helps). Even native Indian tribes believe in the Great Spirit.

I submit that if you do not use your faith to help you sift through the political candidates (status quo for several decades), then you are going to get what you've always gotten--a disappointment when the "fiscal conservative" you supported makes bone-headed decisions on social issues or turns out not to be as conservative as s/he pretended to be. Anyone can lie to you. However, the issue of the sanctity of life is a divisive subject that carries a lot of passion. Not many people can fake that kind of passion.

If you return to Constitutional principles, are you not going to embrace the faith that comes with them? How can you divorce one from the other? Our Constitution was written to "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity." You do know what your posterity is, right? Your future generations (not just your children, but many generations), which means they have to survive a pregnancy. Have none of you ever heard of the personhood imperative? And...what in the world is the 80/20 rule? Is that similar to voting for the lesser of two evils? Okay, let's vote for the lesser of two evils...what is the end result? Evil!

Let's pretend that I offer you a glass of the finest wine that money can buy (hat tip to Tom Hoefling). But before I give it to you, I put a teaspoon of arsenic in it. Will you still drink it? But it was just little bit, it isn't enough to kill you, just make you sick. Remember...it is awfully luxurious wine. Surely it wouldn't hurt to drink it with so small an amount of poison, right?

Let's also pretend that once you accept the poisoned wine and get used to the flavor that I keep increasing the poison, ever so slightly so as not to be noticed. At what point are you going to realize that something is wrong? Would you not agree that our society has huge problems today? Problems that cannot be fixed with legislation? How will you legislate against greed, fraud and corruption if there is no God and no absolutes?

No. No more for me. I've had enough poisoned wine, and I consider myself a recovering republican. This doesn't mean that I won't support another republican, but it DOES mean that the republicans I do support will have a track record of faith (not like Jeremiah Wright), and a passion to protect innocent human life. I have found that when the candidate has these character traits, that his/her fiscal responsibility will fall into place without effort. I will not support or vote for a candidate who has no faith and does not recognize the sanctity of life (without exceptions).

I leave you with this quote from the old Russian textbook on "Psychopolitics:"

http://www.fhu.com/articles/brainwashing2.html#anchor14

THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING
A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

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CHAPTER XIV
THE SMASHING OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS

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We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember, we have yet to influence the "Christian world" to our ends. When that is done we shall have an end of them everywhere. You may see them here in Russia as trained apes. They do not know their tether is long only until the apes in other lands have become unwary.

You must work until "religion" is synonymous with "insanity." You must work until the officials of city, county and state governments will not think twice before they pounce upon religious groups as public enemies.

Remember, all lands are governed by the few and only pretend to consult with the many. It is no different in America. The petty official, the maker of laws alike can be made to believe the worst. It is not necessary to convince the masses. It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner....

(Emphasis mine.) I'd say that their work on this issue is fairly complete.