Analee

[Michael Quinn Sullivan 🇺🇸 @MQSullivan]

We have come to describe our nation as a democracy. While our form of government has democratic elements embedded within it, our Founding Fathers created a republic. We would do well to understand the difference.

For many of that Founding generation, democracy looked a lot like slavery. A majority imposing its will on a minority, including the deprivation of the most fundamental of rights. One of our Founders, Philadelphia physician and abolitionist Benjamin Rush, used “mobocracy” at times, notably in a letter to John Adams.

What seems to have concerned him and others was what we would recognize as “participation bias.” Those who chose to participate in an activity, by nature, hold different views than those who do not. (This explains why polling, which is now conducted via opt-in text messages, has become increasingly unreliable.) The mob might be full of people who agree that “X” is a problem and that “Y” must be done to correct it … but left out of the equation are those who neither see the problem nor endorse the solution.

It was those people whom the wise, cautious, revolutionary men who framed our Constitution sought to protect.

The 19th-century Christian ethicist, historian, and British parliamentarian, John Dalberg-Acton, noted that the genius of the American constitutional system was to curb the “absolute power of the majority.” Economist Ludwig von Mises warned in the 20th century that “democratic majorities” can become as “drunk with power” as any despotic regime.

As we have drifted from the Christian shores upon which our nation was established, the human heart still craves a solid mooring. Or, at least, the illusion of something solid. As such, we have retreated into the prehistoric mentality of “safety in numbers.”

Divorced from God, our culture has begun assigning a positive moral value to “winning” an election. Garnering the approval of 50 percent plus one of those who choose to participate no more legitimizes evil than it justifies the unconscionable.

Holy Scripture is not so flippant about the limits of our approach to democracy. The Prophet Isaiah wrote, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”

Christians are called to participate in the world, not for the purpose of clinging to the dark but rather bringing light. Therefore, we must vote. Not to be on the “winning team,” but to proclaim the favor of the Lord. Our votes are not cast to signify some dimly perceived human righteousness of a particular candidate (“all have sinned”), but to practically pursue “justice.”

Disliking a candidate is not sufficient reason to oppose that candidate when the alternative is empowering someone who works in open opposition to the precepts of orthodox Christian morality. It is not a “kindness” to use our vote as a way to conflate our own personal moral outrage with God’s standard of spiritual perfection.

As Christians, we must take seriously our duty to engage the world. When we vote, we must be like sheep among the wolves; we must be gentle and shrewd. And, of course, “walk humbly” with our God.

Our republic’s democratic elements are limited by the morality our republic’s citizens embrace. We can be enslaved by seeking the approval of the world, or bring forth the joyous freedom found in God’s love.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

Today I stepped inside a 600-year-old Catholic chapel. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Built around 1420 in a small French village near Lyon, the chapel was already standing when St. Joan of Arc was fighting to save France.

For centuries, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered within its walls. Then came the French Revolution, abandonment, and ruin.

In the 1920s, a wealthy American woman devoted to St. Joan purchased the chapel, had it dismantled stone by stone, shipped across the Atlantic, and rebuilt on her Long Island estate.

She also acquired a 13th-century Gothic altar and a stone kissed by St. Joan herself after praying to the Blessed Virgin before battle. That stone now rests behind the altar.
Then, in 1962, disaster struck. A fire ravaged the adjoining French château.

The medieval chapel survived.
It was eventually dismantled AGAIN, loaded onto trucks, and painstakingly reconstructed on the campus of Marquette University, where it stands today.

Six centuries. The Hundred Years' War. The Protestant Reformation. The French Revolution. Two world wars. An ocean crossing. A devastating fire. Two relocations.

And today, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is STILL offered within these ancient walls.

Kings have come and gone. Empires have fallen. The Church remains.
St. Joan of Arc, ora pro nobis. ⚜️

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Sen. Joni Ernst reveals bureaucrats approved pandemic loans for applicants who used DOLL PHOTOS as their ID.

The scammers put in zero effort. The government matched it and gave them the money.

It gets dumber.

Applicants claiming to be OVER 115 YEARS OLD were approved for 3,095 pandemic loans worth $333,000,000.

Claim you’re 157? Here’s $36,000.

A Pandemic Response Accountability Committee report found $79,000,000,000 in potential COVID fraud.

Four basic questions could've stopped it:

1. Is the Social Security number valid?
2. Does the name match?
3. Does the birthday match?
4. Is the person alive?

Too much to ask, apparently.

ERNST: “Seriously, folks, that could have saved 79 BILLION DOLLARS right there.”

And that was just COVID.

In fiscal year 2024 alone, federal agencies shoveled out $162,000,000,000 in improper payments.

The government pisses away billions every year and never stops asking YOU for more.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Good morning.
Christ is King 👑

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

GM Christ is King

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

After our kickoff in Rockwall, we're heading to Killeen for stop #2.

From now until November 3, we've got one Texas-sized message for the left trying to take our state: we won’t back down.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This little boy was aborted simply because he was male. Not because of a medical emergency. Not because of rape. Because of his sex.

Every abortion ends a human life. When the reason is nothing more than the child’s sex, the rhetoric of “choice” and “autonomy” collapses into what it has always been: the deliberate rejection and murder of an “unwanted” child.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The White House says we have a major housing shortage.

America is short about 10 million homes.

The easiest way to fix this isn't to build more houses.

It's to KICK OUT the 30 million illegals that don't belong here.

Duh.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

LFG!!! Elon is a godsend!!! Thank you, Sir!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Elon Musk just issued two of the largest political donations in HISTORY, and it went STRAIGHT to helping Ken Paxton in Texas

Elon surged $83 MILLION and $75 MILLION in two separate donations to the Senate GOP's fundraising arm, and each exact total went directly to a PAC supporting Paxton 👏🏻

THIS MAN IS A LEGEND 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Yet again something he doesn't have to do, but he's doing anyway!

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

Texas needs a fighter who shows up.

The countdown is on: 4 days to early voting.🇺🇸

[Bryan Kemper 🇺🇸 @BryanKemper]

A human’s life begins at conception and abortion is a violent act of murder and must be criminalized.

[Michael Quinn Sullivan 🇺🇸 @MQSullivan]

Fact check: no good Republicans pictured here.

[Dan Hill @dandinohill]

Congressman bragging to his constituents: "I am fighting hard for your future, and your children's future!"

Constituent: "You A-holes in DC have run up $40 Trillion in debt that our children will have to pay off! That's no future!!"

"You haven't been fighting FOR us. You've been stealing FROM us."

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

$64 million in one quarter for a Senate race in Texas.

That is not grassroots. That is the entire national left trying to buy a seat. Texas is not for sale.

Vote Paxton!

[Analee @analee624524]

@Kristalalusher @brianeharrison Unfair? Why are Texas Citizens funding this?!! No one gives you money to fund your life do they?!?

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

James Talarico Insists The Bible Is Silent On Abortion If You Don't Count All The Stuff Between Genesis And Revelation https://t.co/hhgmedemS5

[Jackson2244 @PatriotWoman22]

Wake up Michigan 👿👿👿👇👇👇👹👹👹

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

If it DOES end up being confirmed that a private citizen and FATHER of a student shot and kiIIed the gunman INSIDE the school, we HAVE to rally around him.

Because leftists are UNDOUBTEDLY going to push for him to be charged for possessing the gun.

STAND BY THIS HERO!