The Real Solid Politics

If you haven't heard, in the latest conspiracy rumors, Trump is part of God's plan to usher in Christ and His thousand year reign. Or something like that. First, let's be clear, seeing as how we don't know when He's coming back, one will be hard pressed to say Trump has anything to do with Jesus' return. Trump being a sign of His return is pressing way beyond any knowledge that we have from the scripture.  The return of Christ is often discussed and often debated, throwing Trump into the mix just makes it more convoluted. People sell many books tying this to that and that to this with the end result being confusion and fat pockets.  God uses what He wills for His will; there will be no end to that. Guessing the inner workings of His will is a futile attempt, not to mention can cause us to have the scripture say something that it doesn't. We have some pretty stern warnings against that.  Please, if you support Trump, fine. Leave Jesus out of that and give Him

 Foreign policy and geopolitics can be a messy business. It is more messy the more one injects ones nose into someone else's business.  Nation building; more bluntly, empire expansion is costly, and often will fail unless the conquered culture truly accepts its conquered state. Afghanistan is a recent example of this. Trillions of American dollars have been spent on creating and nurturing a democracy. Conspiracy theorist ideas aside, what has happened there is an embarrassment. The majority of Americans, I believe, do feel as though we couldn't be there forever. Pulling out of the country should have been the goal all along, and one should strongly reflect on future occupations of foreign soils after this debacle. I have stated before that we should have never occupied Afghanistan at any point. Leaving is a good idea; how we leave matters. For some reason (maybe nuclear) we, as a country, love Pakistan and there are credible sources who say that most of the problems there are c

 Have we? Much of what has transpired in the last few weeks borders on absurd. We have: the Delta variant of COVID that is locking people's minds up, a government who spent countless lives, hours, and treasure on an Afghanistan government only to see it topple like a game of dominoes, conspiracy theorists saying Trump is part of Armageddon, and I'm sure I'm missing a few things. COVID is real. The Delta variant is real. Our reaction to it? Have we lost our minds? Mandatory vaccines? Really? Is anyone looking at the real data instead of the talking heads?  Afghanistan was a mess from the beginning. Hey, Russia went broke fighting in that land. In my opinion, we never should have occupied it at all; so let's just leave it all for the bad guys oh and in the process leave Americans vulnerable in the region. Really? Have we lost our minds? Trump. Y'all. Trump is not our savior. There's only one savior and His name is Christ. Please stop with the prophecy. Have we los

 For my first blog post, I suppose an introduction of myself is in order and my intent with this blog. My name is Tim and I am a middle aged, middle class father of two and a Christian. My education level, officially, is some college; however, I am a firm believer in self-education and continuing education.  What I have seen in our political environment disturbs me and I will be using this blog to post my thoughts and express what I perceive to be a better path forward. My intent is to use topics and occurances that we experience today and apply historical perspective to these things in hopes of aiding in navigation of a better path. My thoughts are mine alone, but some reading may find common ground and through that we come to a consensus for a path forward. I will share stories, articles, and books that I find to be relevant to a better path forward. Thank you for your time. Together and with reason, we can move toward a better path.