It sounds to me as if you get your news from a few limited sources. Did you know that Wall Street leans more to Biden than to Trump?
Yes, I'm aware of the interest the wealthy elite and big business has in a Biden presidency. They believe he will be wrapped around their little finger.
I also think you're naive if you believe Biden is going socialist in his old age. He's trying to pick up votes from the hard left.
That was my point. He's inconsistent and can be manipulated. He puts a wet finger up to the wind. He changes positions like the weather. He will always take the popular view, and not the best view. He will vote the crowd, or the elite group, and not by personal conscience. He sacrifices his religion on the false notion of "liberty for all." That's not conscience--that's capitulation!
As for petroleum? I have a vested interest in that since I own oil stocks. Trump made a mistake encouraging too much new drilling. The demand for oil was already shaky. Too many people borrowed money to start oil companies. They're going bust now. Don't expect the demand for oil to go way up again for years and years -- with or without Biden. With fewer planes and ships using oil, and with Russia and Saudi Arabia pumping out oil because they need the cash, I'll be happy if I see dividends from my oil stocks by late 2021.
I'm not interested in your portfolio! You play the game. You reap the results. Good luck!
I personally enjoy the new-found atmosphere of being energy-independent. I personally have been interested in alternative energy since the 70s! I wanted to build myself an underground house, have a windmill, buy property by a river so I could produce my own hydro-electric power, and even dreamt of cold fusion power!
I believe in all that, and hope for hydrogen-based, unlimited power for all in the future, combined with solar batteries. Unfortunately, you can't give an edge to evil governments. They will utilize their streamlined fascist government to out-produce slower, democracy-based societies, to club all others into submission.
Biden sold out in the Ukraine and in China, allowing his son to hold compromised positions due to his father's place in government. It's a sham! Companies that want to sell out the US to do business in China would surely love Biden in the short-term, yes!
Get used to it: Solar power and other forms of green energy are going to decrease the demand for oil. It has very little to do with what the government decrees. The question I want answered is are the solar panels going to be manufactured in China or in the US? We cannot sit around talking about oil while China pushes new "green" technology that will be cheaper than oil in the long run.
We are in agreement there!
You lost me here.
I didn't say he didn't win the 2016 election. The question is what do people think of his job performance? If we want a reality television star who knows how to get attention and make headlines, we got it.
That's a very poor imitation of an honest critiquing of the President's performance! Should I judge Obama by the size of his ears? Neither should we judge Trump by his style or severity. The very criticism that his "rudeness" causes us to lose credibility in the world is belied by the fact the world has capitulated to Trump's style, making international agreements, coughing up more of a proportionate share of money, etc.
If you want to be an "honest broker" of Trump's performance, quit repeating the same lines from MSNBC and CNN--they all mimic one another, and take cues from their common email sources.
Just judge how well the economy did before the Coronavirus. Unemployment was low, the stock market was high, and formerly disenfranchised minorities were doing much better. We were no longer spending ourselves into oblivion, as Obama and Biden were doing. Happily, under Trump, we were withdrawing from endless wars.
I stand with the Founding Fathers who did not want an established religion. That is called tolerance; it is applying the Golden Rule. I don't want Catholics and Protestants fighting the way they did in Europe for which brand of "Christianity" would be imposed. I don't want Evangelicals and other Protestants competing for control of the government.
I think you're exaggerating by saying Democrats are trying to sign up illegals to vote.
I suppose that's debatable. But I don't think there's any question about the tactic Democrats are using to reach out to Hispanic voters. That's exactly what many of them want to do, whether overtly or not.
But you're comparing competing Christian religions with non-Christian toleration! These are 2 different animals.
Catholics and Protestants properly allow for competing denominations within Christianity. It is about keeping at bay hierarchies with absolute power, using checks and balances. But it never should've been about freedom for religions and beliefs that are inconsanant with the Christian religion.
If you allow religions and ideologies into our country that are incompatible with Christian values, you will be doing the same thing that God strongly disallowed under the Law of Moses. He begged Israel *not* to allow intermarriage with pagans. The kind of "freedom" we have allowed in our country is not Bible-based! You clearly have a different political Bible transcending biblical values!
What?
Why should my tax dollars pay for someone to get a religious education?
I think Casey does a rather good job of separating his personal religious beliefs from his political views.
Yea, that's the problem. He's sold his religious credentials in the interest of politics. To remove your religious values from your policy is the opposite of "Christian." You're supposed to put Christ even ahead of your own family, let alone politics!
As for what we pay taxes for, there are a lot of programs we all pay for, whether wars overseas, or money sent overseas to help other countries. It is the church's job to evangelize. But where the churches support our state we should not discriminate against them. It is in the interest of the State to educate our people, Christian or otherwise. I'm for Christian education--not anti-Christian education, which is some of what we get in our colleges and universities today.
Is marriage something religion or the government should be regulating? It sounds as if you want the government to impose your religious views on it. What about divorce? Should we go back to the times when divorce was impossible -- because that's what churches wanted?
It sounds like you serve Caesar in place of God? You get your marital values from the Bill of Rights, and not the Ten Commandments? You put the Constitution ahead of the Bible? What kind of Christian sacrifices his Bible for what the Media wants?
Who told you this? The Treaty of Tripoli was not controversial when it was signed.
I do not need the government of the US to tell me how to behave as a Christian. The early Founding Fathers obviously didn't want it either.
Sometime in the late 70s I began to realize how seriously flawed American philosophy is and how influenced it was by Enlightenment philosophy. Our ideals indeed were not Christian-based entirely, and hoped to produce a purely secular state, separate from Christianity. It didn't deny America was largely Christian in religion, but it did hope to establish a system independent of religion so as to be the arbiter between religious denominations and other religious groups. The hope was to prevent a dictatorial established religion, in the same way it hoped to stop a dictatorial political establishment, or a single political party.
I agree that Big Government is bad, and that we should have checks and balances to prevent the buildup of too strong of a centralized power in government. But I don't agree in a purely secularized state, distancing itself from the Christian religion.
I believe the Enlightenment was a form of Anti-Christian apostasy away from Christianity. I think American Philosophy is therefore idolatrous in its outlook. That's what happens when you worship your government, and not God, when you follow people, and not divine law.
What we have today in the Democratic Party is a shift towards One Party. Even though two parties are accepted, the candidates from both have to be sanctioned by one elite group, including wealthy people and big business. They will tell you what to believe, through the Media. They will tell you what is allowed, and what morals, or religion, to have or not have.
Go ahead and follow them. The wide road takes you to your certain destruction. Jesus warned you.
I don't see how you anyone can call himself a conservative and support Trump. I quit the Republican Party after he won the nomination. He is wrecking the Republican Party.
That is the propaganda, because the people were actually allowed to vote and have their vote counted, against the interests of the elite in our society. They serve themselves. The people should not listen to their spokesmen, the Media.
