Like a cold shower, the Holy Spirit shows me who I am, lest I boast.

MAGA is now inhabiting the hollowed out corpse of the Republican Party, while nothing is inhabiting the hollowed out corpse of the Democratic Party. It looks like we have a single party that includes billionaires, labor, farmers, minorities, young people, old people, basically everyone except employees of the New York Times and MSNBC, Satanists, and activists for various sexual perversions. The prospect before us is four years of Donald Trump, eight years of J.D. Vance, followed by eight years of Barron Trump.

As a monarchist I applaud this development, but I realize that many people have a sentimental attachment to the two party system. My advice, the same advice I offer for pretty much every situation, is, snap out of it!

The Golden Age is here.

Little gods gifted with a spark
of divine will and creative power
Intended to serve as His instruments
In the glorious birth of the world.

Corrupted by misuse of His gifts
Redeemed by the Creator in human form
To serve as His instruments
In the glorious rebirth of the world.

A branch cannot bear fruit without the vine.
The vine will not bear fruit without its branches.

Jimmy Carter has gotten a bad rap. Unlike Joe Biden he wasn’t a criminal. Unlike Barack Obama he did not foster racial division. Jimmy Carter was an honest man who wanted to do good. He believed that the United States should be more humble, be one nation among other equally sovereign nations. He believed that the Palestinians had a right to exist. I didn’t agree with him about those things at the time, but I do now. however incompetent a President he may have been, and I’m not at all sure he was incompetent, after George W. Bush and Barack Obama and Joe Biden he is looking pretty good.

I thought I already knew it, but it didn’t completely hit home until yesterday evening, while I was worrying about the fate of someone dear to me. When Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”, He spoke the truth. There is no other way. I and so many others have searched and searched to find another way, a way around it, another way that would let us hold on to a few scraps of our own desires.

There is one way. There is no other way. Our Creator entered His creation to show us the way. He paid the price of our salvation with His own blood. He rose again to defeat death and give us hope. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our guide, our strength, and our comfort.

“Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

— Acts 4:12

The other night I watched again (I first watched it at the Surf Theater in San Francisco many years ago) the movie Gimme Shelter about the Altamount Speedway disaster, where The Rolling Stones looked like idiots. Then tonight I listened to the Let it Bleed album. The Stones were not tough guys. They weren’t bad asses. They were artists. Let It Bleed is an artistic masterpiece.

I think it ultimately comes down to obedience. Can you define your own existence, your own morality? Are you a God who goes to the gym and keeps to his diet and loves his neighbor whenever He decrees? Or are you a weak sinful delusional creature who only imagines himself to be devine? You came from dust, not by your own doing, and to dust your mortal body, which you had nothing to do with creating, shall return. It is the Creator whose love gives, and patiently, lovingly, sustains your life. It is obedience to Him that gives you strength and courage, and fulfills His promise of eternal life, in the unforeseeable future, and now. It is pride (the sin of) that seduces you into thinking otherwise. It is prayer to His Son that reconciles you to Him.

It is inevitable that the euphoria of President Trump’s victory will turn to disappointment as he fails to fulfill all of the dreams of a peaceful prosperous world free of corruption. Original sin will see to that. But a little more free speech, a little less war mongering, a little more attention to the forgotten people who are struggling to make ends meet, a more secure border, a little less genocide, a little more respect for the other nations in the world, would be nice. A moderate dialing back of the homosexual, transgender, pro abortion demonic agenda would also be welcome. We shall see. I expect miracles, but not from the political world.

If we had an honest press, a just Department of Justice, a fair legal system, an uncensored social media, and an unbiased internet search, Trump would have won every state.

Those who voted for Kamala are the people who believe the “news” they see on NBC and read in the New York Times. Their number is shrinking, as this election has proven. Realizing that you have been lied to the whole time can be painful. It is a process we all have to go through. So have some compassion for those still stuck in the web of lies. The good news is that once you step out of the bubble, there is no going back. The propaganda is not working.