will the “saving remnant” save the constitution?

8/11/2019 Will the Saving Remnant Save the Constitution?

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Regarding the Midterm Election 2014: Will the Saving Remnant Save the

Constitution?

By Jean F. Drew

In the run-up to the 2014 Midterm Election, our sitting president, Barack H. Obama, has

taken every opportunity to remind us voters that his name is not on the ballot this time.

But like virtually every statement he makes, this one is both true and false at the

same time. It is literallytrue that his name does not appear on any ballot in the nation.

But it is positively false that his policies, methods, and basic ideological positions are not

on the table in this election, to be subjected to the scrutiny, deliberation, and choice of

citizens.

Barack Obama has no concept of citizen. There are only voters, and they can be

depended upon to be swayed, manipulated, and ultimately bought by savvy political

rhetoricians/operators. In Obamas ideological universe, voters are mere passive,

unruly cattle that need a strong master to guide them for their own good.

For the president to use the word citizen, on the other hand, would be to signify that he

acknowledges that decisions regarding matters of American governance and American

civil order ought to be referred to the active participatory decision of the rational, free

adults who compose the American body politic the We the People of the Preamble.

The U.S. Constitution makes We the People sovereign; it requires the legitimacy of the

government to rest entirely on the consent of the governed that is, of citizens. (It even

suggests a remedy in situations where We the People withdraw consent. But that is wellbeyond the scope of the present writing.)

In the big picture, the fate of the Senate rises to preeminence for Christians and other

constitution-loving conservatives or as I argue, should so rise.

To me, the biggest picture in this election involves recognition that the federal

Constitution is not only under full-scale attack from the so-called progressive Left; but

that it may well be on its last legs, unless the saving remnant steps up to the plate. That

would be us Christians and/or other people of conservative temperament who appreciate

that the Constitution derives its core principles from the Judeo-Christian heritage

which makes us Americans culturally a Christian nation, a nation under God.

America is politically secular in the operations of its governmental institutions. But

America is a body politic composed of free individuals, many of whom very likely have

religious convictions. In America, demographically, such convictions are mainly

Christian in some form. The First Amendment states that the federal government is

forbidden to interfere with the expression or transmission of such convictions, which in


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turn have social effects that cannot legitimately be prohibitively, prospectively hampered

or infringed by laws promulgated by a State arrogating political sovereignty to itself.

What most needs to be saved is the Constitution itself which the president despises,

calling it a charter of negative liberties. Translation: The Constitution tells what the

government cantdo. The upshot is you cant be a transformational president underconstitutional constraints. Ergo, dump the Constitution. And a Democrat-controlled

Senate under the leadership of Harry Reid will not object to this. Indeed, the president

needs Harry Reid as his key collaborator and most willing accomplice to achieve his

purpose of usurping legislative powers to expand the power of the Executive.

As Obama and Reid reason, if the Congress is doing nothing when urgent problems

are piling up, then isnt it just logical that this situation requires the President to

arrogate legislative powers to himself, regardless of whether this is constitutionally

permissible?

The Constitution says NO to any such usurpation of power by anyof the separated

branches of the federal government against any other branch, and in no uncertain terms.

For the president to propose such a thing instantly puts him in violation of his Oath of

Office. Were we to stick with the Constitution as wrought by Madison et. al. very much

in the Jeffersonian spirit (see the Declaration of Independence), then any such act

properly would be judged an impeachable offense.

To me, the evident collusion between the president and the Senate leader represents a

monumentally breath-taking swindle being perpetrated on the American people,

seemingly without their notice or objection at all.

On this point, its clear to me that every Democrat senator up for reelection this year has

stood lock-step in Obamas shadow in every vote. When allowed to vote: Which is

something Harry Reid mostly wont allow. For to actually allow votes to take place

would put Democrat senators trying to hold onto their seats under the disadvantage of

having a voting record that can be assessed by their constituents. Heaven forfend!

There are some 300 House-passed bills that moulder on Reids desk: He will not bring

them to the Senate floor for a vote. And then he has the chutzpahto blame the

Republicans for the do-nothing Congress! It would be laughable, were it not so pitiful

and hideous.

So, for me any way, Job #1 of the 2014 Midterms is: to elect a GOP Senate majority. If

the 2012 presidential election is any guide to understanding, this means that the saving

remnant needs to get mobilized if its going to save anything. Which decidedly they

did not do in the last presidential election cycle.


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Evidently, the problem for many of my brothers and sisters in Christ the last time out was

they wouldnotvote for Romney because the LDS theology he embraces is scandalous

to Christians. Therefore, he must be an evil man even though on the public record,

he is a man of sterling character in all other respects. The problem then was these

Christians were also confronted with another, arguably more compelling and obvious

evil: the prospect of reelecting a president who evidently has no sympathy whatsoeverfor American historical order, for the principles, values, and God-given natural liberties

of a free people not to mention for the Christian roots of this understanding of

individual liberty who apparently works 24/7 to destroy any vestige of historically-

founded American civic order. Not to mention the American middle class into the

bargain, who are the main victims of this ideological assault.

That is, these Christians couldnotvote for Obama. This situation put them in the position

of having to make a choice between two evils. Rather than do that, they just washed their

hands of the entire affair, and stayed home that day.

They cited conscience as the reason they did not participate in the election: for evil is

evil; it has no grades that can be described as lesser or greater. They wouldnt get

their hands dirty engaging in such a discriminatory process. Confronted by two evils,

such Christians simply decided to take a pass.

Thus they gave the margin of victory to an even greater evil than Romneys personal

theology: a second term for the most ill-qualified and mendacious president in American

history Barack Obama who is working, in concert with his countless minions, most

of whom are anonymous and will probably ever stay that way to undermine and

destroy American order and American power from within.

I suspect many such Christians even now feel virtuous about their decision to stay

home that fatal day.

But I regard what they did as a seriously grave mistake that I hope and pray will not be

repeated in this election cycle. For if the saving remnant does not save, then who will do

the saving? God himself has appointed man to use his reason and judgment as stewards

of His Creation to navigate, and make decisions, about human existence in a natural

world that God Himself deliberately chose not to make perfect. The Lord deliberately

created a world that leaves scope for evil.

The Lord Himself tells us He did not make a perfect world, only a very good one. Do

you ever wonder why, my dear sisters and brothers in Him?

Had the Lord made a perfect world, there would be no role for human beings in it, no

room for human free will. Such a creation would have the character of a perfect machine,

running itself all by itself, like a clockwork.


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No, in His infinite wisdom, He created a gloriously beautiful world, but one messy

enough to leave room for the free acts of His children; that is, human beings, whom He

regards as sons, intended from the Beginning to be co-creators with Himself in some

fashion.

Yet this situation entails that human beings cannot eradicate evil in this world all bythemselves. All God asks of his faithful ones is that they mitigate evil wherever they may

find it, as much as they possibly can. And when they do that, even if imperfectly, God

will do the rest.

For a Christian, this is not a question of having clean hands. Sometimes in the service

of Gods Truth, man has to get his hands dirty or at least dirty enough to vote for

somebody that one might dislike, but who, if elected, would contribute to a GOP majority

in the Senate.

This is not the be-all, once-for-all cure-all for all the problems that currently afflict the

American people. Perhaps at best, it only represents a holding action that slows down the

seemingly inexorable rot of the historical American way of life again, from within

that Obama and like-minded Left progressives work overtime, constantly, on a very long

timeframe, to realize and perfect.

As if one can perfect rot. But thats theirproblem.

Of all people, the Christian saving remnant should NOT be enabling such a process.

But if theyre going to stay home again on November 4th, I will lose all hope for any

kind of specifically American, let alone Christian future in the territory of what is nowknown as the United States of America.

I must close soon; but not before I add a cautionary tale. On an edition of Fox News

Sundaythat aired a couple weeks ago, host Chris Wallace queried Dr. Benjamin Carson

about his plans, if any, to run for president in 2016.

I was extremely disturbed by Carsons reply in which he raised concern about whether

there would even be a national election in 2016. When Wallace asked him why he had

worries about this, Carson replied to the effect: The United States might very well be in a

condition of total anarchy by then. Which, by implication, could constitute a pretext for

the currently sitting president to declare a national election as unfeasible under thecircumstances. Upshot: No election; entailing Obama would assume the status (by

default, regular elections deemed impossible under anarchic conditions) of some kind of

president for life as if the United States of America were some kind of banana

republic.


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I found Carsons remarks absolutely chilling, frightening. But Wallace did not follow up.

And I have heard nothing about this interchange ever since not one single word.

I conclude: If the saving remnant will not save, then who will? Ultimately, the answer is

always: God.

But I imagine He will only step in when human beings with the authority and

responsibility to engage and decide such issues have utterly failed to do so. Meanwhile,

who can tell the cost of human suffering that will take place absent the timely action

of Gods Saving Remnant?

will the “saving remnant” save the constitution?

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