Dwight A. Moody
March. Boycott. Strike. Vote. Pray.
Before this national crisis is over, millions of Americans will join in these five practices of social protest. In fact, in order for this crisis to be over, these are the five things that must happen: march, boycott, strike, vote, and pray.
Not since the Great Depression of 1929-1935 when the stock market crashed, businesses went bankrupt, and workers lost their jobs has the United States faced such a national crisis. Before that, it was the Civil War.
To put down the Rebellion and outlaw slavery, the federal government led by President Lincoln had to act decisively and powerfully. To respond to the Depression and restore economic order and prosperity, the federal government led by President Roosevelt had to act decisively and powerfully.
But now, the federal government is not the solution to our crisis; it is the cause. Led by President Trump, the federal government is blowing up the very means by which our elected officials serve the people: international aid, veterans affairs, immigration, consumer protection, environmental protection, even social security. In an orgy of irrational power, Trump, Musk, and their minions are destroying what we as a nation have labored more than one hundred years to build.
President Ronald Reagan set much of this in motion with his political philosophy: “Government is the not solution. Government is the problem.” What he meant, of course, is that the federal government regulates business with attention to the welfare of the people rather than the profits of the corporations. What he meant, of course, is that federal power supports civil rights and women’s rights, and later, marriage rights, handicap rights, gay rights, and immigrant rights. Reagan and his people did not like either of these.
The Reagan movement gathered up the resentments of the business community, combined them with the grievances of the white Christian community, collaborated with tech oligarchs and their uninhibited reach for economic power, and fueled a two-storied attack on the federal government. They took over, in order, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Republican Party, the Supreme Court, the White House, and Congress (in addition to numerous state legislatures and governors’ mansions). In place, now, is a federal government that prefers the rich to the poor, the white to the brown, the strong to the weak, and the lie to the truth.
Nothing illustrates more clearly than the presidential directive last week to summarily deport 530,000 recent Latin American immigrants—legal immigrants—welcomed into the United States from their native countries burdened with poverty, violence, and chaos. There was no justification given for this unprovoked deportation; and there is no need: just the cruel exercise of raw political power: without justice and without mercy. It is, simply, an act of meanness.
Many Trump-Musk voters claim they support these policies, but now there is among the voting public growing alarm at the shape of the new federal power. Firing civil servants, canceling international aid, reducing environmental protections, deleting immigration and refugee programs, removing civil rights departments, closing social security offices, and blowing up international collaboration have many people alarmed; and a nation-wide, grass-roots movement is emerging, even here in deep red South Carolina.
Marching, boycotting, striking, voting, and praying are the ground-level tools this cohort of citizens will use to push back against the Trump-Musk takedown of a federal government formerly committed to justice, equality, and the rule of law.
I have cast my lot with this Resistance.
Three months ago, I launched my weekly broadcast to give voice to Christian people who reject the Trump-Musk campaign to blow up the federal government. I call my program SUNDAY IN THE HOUSE.
Last week, I made my first protest sign. It speaks to my values: Less Trump, More Jesus. I am staking out a public street corner in my small town.
Marching. Boycotting. Striking. Voting. Praying. These are the tools of Resistance. What are you doing to resist the Regime and follow Jesus?
Dwight A. Moody
March. Boycott. Strike. Vote. Pray.
Before this national crisis is over, millions of Americans will join in these five practices of social protest. In fact, in order for this crisis to be over, these are the five things that must happen: march, boycott, strike, vote, and pray.
Not since the Great Depression of 1929-1935 when the stock market crashed, businesses went bankrupt, and workers lost their jobs has the United States faced such a national crisis. Before that, it was the Civil War.
To put down the Rebellion and outlaw slavery, the federal government led by President Lincoln had to act decisively and powerfully. To respond to the Depression and restore economic order and prosperity, the federal government led by President Roosevelt had to act decisively and powerfully.
But now, the federal government is not the solution to our crisis; it is the cause. Led by President Trump, the federal government is blowing up the very means by which our elected officials serve the people: international aid, veterans affairs, immigration, consumer protection, environmental protection, even social security. In an orgy of irrational power, Trump, Musk, and their minions are destroying what we as a nation have labored more than one hundred years to build.
President Ronald Reagan set much of this in motion with his political philosophy: “Government is the not solution. Government is the problem.” What he meant, of course, is that the federal government regulates business with attention to the welfare of the people rather than the profits of the corporations. What he meant, of course, is that federal power supports civil rights and women’s rights, and later, marriage rights, handicap rights, gay rights, and immigrant rights. Reagan and his people did not like either of these.
The Reagan movement gathered up the resentments of the business community, combined them with the grievances of the white Christian community, collaborated with tech oligarchs and their uninhibited reach for economic power, and fueled a two-storied attack on the federal government. They took over, in order, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Republican Party, the Supreme Court, the White House, and Congress (in addition to numerous state legislatures and governors’ mansions). In place, now, is a federal government that prefers the rich to the poor, the white to the brown, the strong to the weak, and the lie to the truth.
Nothing illustrates more clearly than the presidential directive last week to summarily deport 530,000 recent Latin American immigrants—legal immigrants—welcomed into the United States from their native countries burdened with poverty, violence, and chaos. There was no justification given for this unprovoked deportation; and there is no need: just the cruel exercise of raw political power: without justice and without mercy. It is, simply, an act of meanness.
Many Trump-Musk voters claim they support these policies, but now there is among the voting public growing alarm at the shape of the new federal power. Firing civil servants, canceling international aid, reducing environmental protections, deleting immigration and refugee programs, removing civil rights departments, closing social security offices, and blowing up international collaboration have many people alarmed; and a nation-wide, grass-roots movement is emerging, even here in deep red South Carolina.
Marching, boycotting, striking, voting, and praying are the ground-level tools this cohort of citizens will use to push back against the Trump-Musk takedown of a federal government formerly committed to justice, equality, and the rule of law.
I have cast my lot with this Resistance.
Three months ago, I launched my weekly broadcast to give voice to Christian people who reject the Trump-Musk campaign to blow up the federal government. I call my program SUNDAY IN THE HOUSE.
Last week, I made my first protest sign. It speaks to my values: Less Trump, More Jesus. I am staking out a public street corner in my small town.
Marching. Boycotting. Striking. Voting. Praying. These are the tools of Resistance. What are you doing to resist the Regime and follow Jesus?
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