A Dangerous
Victory | The Midterm Elections
Conservatives swept
the mid-term elections, and the Republican Party now has control of the
legislative branch of government. It is a day of rejoicing for those who hold
Judeo-Christian values, along with fiscal conservatives. But the celebration
party better not last too long.
The conservative
sweep of House and Senate has only ramped up the battle for America, with
conservatives at a decided disadvantage. Yes, I said disadvantage. In two
years, a President will be elected. That President will be elected based on the
mood of the country at that time, not at this time. After two-years of a
Republican majority and nothing to show for it, the dismal public opinion of Congress may even be
more dismal. Two-years and nothing to show is a real possibility since Congress
can do very little without the cooperation of the President, and the President
will always have the benefit of the doubt in the American system.
Come
2016, whoever the Democratic nominee is, she will be able to claim
that “Nothing has been accomplished because the Republican controlled congress
blocks every appointment and refuses to debate every Presidential agenda.” If
that nominee can galvanize her base and motivate the disgruntled middle, she
will win. http://www.foxnews.com/
Conservatives, on the
other hand, don’t have much base. They are divided between the more libertarian
con-servatives, the constitutional conservatives, the religious-right
conservatives, the tea-party fiscal conservatives, and the kinder-gentler
conservatives. Whoever the nominee is will likely be battered and bruised by
the time the nomination is secured. Then, at best, many Republicans will “hold their nose and vote.”
This kind of race doesn’t motivate the disgruntled middle nor the
low-information voter. In the end, this kind of party will lose.
Meanwhile, back at
the ranch, the current President has threatened the use of Executive power to
accomplish whatever he wants, without the support of the Legislative branch.
The Judicial branch is the place that this kind of rough-shod action is
constitutionally remedied, and herein lies the problem. While judges have
slapped Obama’s hand more than any President since FDR, the Judicial branch is
a mish-mash of mish-mash, uncontrollable as water. The Legislative branch could
overcome this with impeachment proceedings, but such is unlikely to happen. The
bottom line: over the next two years President Obama may accomplish his agenda
through Executive order, illegal or not, and get away with it.
The State of the
Union is fragile. There is an even-split in populous vote for Presidential
politics. There are no candidates in either party who have an across-the-isle
reach. There is a deadlock between Executive and Legislative branches, and a
Judicial branch with no guiding principle.
Could a candidate
arise in the next two-years who could attract support from the all-American
middle? While anything could happen, such a candidate would be miraculous,
almost Messianic. How could a candidate find a convictional position on
immigration, abortion, gay-marriage, and economic philosophy that would satisfy
that all-American middle? In the end, a consensus candidate is only going to
arise when the heart of the nation is at consensus. Toward that end, I
hold out little hope. The religious foundations of the culture are weak and
weakening. The secular-humanist worldview that has created the open-border,
pro-choice, redefined-marriage mindset is growing, already adopted among
mainline Protestants and quickly gaining ground among Catholics and
Evangelicals.
In the end, all I can
say is this: Get ready. Get ready for the most dangerous period in American
history. A period that will likely end in a state-empowered control of daily
living and a Leninist rejection of all things spiritual. That, sadly, is the
New America.
Dr. Randy White is
Pastor of First Baptist Church of Katy, TX and blogs at
www.RandyWhiteMinistries.org.
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