Trump is avowedly against democracy, but he needs democracy in his own image. Hence he despised the elections he lost and exaggerates the one he won. Some are afraid he might outlaw an election. He is after lawyers, media, judges. He does not care if the system fails, so long as he succeeds. This is the flipside of democracy. It does not always work as democracy. Hence Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Humans are not natural democrats. Democracy has been a blip in human history, and it may leave us if we do not protect it. As Maxim Gorky wrote, “the only people who deserve freedom are those who fight for it every day.”

 

 

 

 

They want a Lilly-white paradise. Trump was going to give it to them. But while the blacks and many Hispanics were voting on one side of culture, that is a genuine love of Christ, the whites were voting on another. They had a genuine fear, not of God, but of a society where Trump himself feared when he said, “we won’t have a country anymore.”

 

 

The whites were voting for man in the name of God. The same blacks, by no means a majority, voted for God but ended up endorsing a white supremacy. It is the irony of democracy. We can call this the great delusion.

 

Now, the same Republican Party that invited a Nigerian gospel singer to entertain them, mostly white audiences in Trump’s inauguration, is now sending their dogs after the Christians in New York. They worship in fear, not the sort of fear that God said we should fear Him with. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. This fear is evil.

 

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It is the archaeology of the past that we are seeing today in the United States. Those who belonged to a time of fear and tyranny, the whips of slavery and suffocation of racial contempt. We cannot say the Nigerians knew that they will also work in fear, eat their garri while thinking whether the ghouls are at their doorstep, or work and expect the call of the wild man of the ICE.

 

 

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During the elections, many of those polled said they were going to vote mainly because of cost of living. The cost of things were too high. Costs had dwarfed their paychecks and bank accounts. They loathed Biden for making life so hard. But a few months in, the man says costs would continue to go high, yet the man’s approval rating is still holding up. What does that say? That they like what he is doing by sacking a top black military general, they cherish the fear in the streets, the hounding of those who lashed out at the American government in the media, immigrants who protested Israeli carnage, universities who continue to bring the foreigners into their country.

 

Trump is avowedly against democracy, but he needs democracy in his own image. Hence he despised the elections he lost and exaggerates the one he won. Some are afraid he might outlaw an election. He is after lawyers, media, judges. He does not care if the system fails, so long as he succeeds.

 

This is the flipside of democracy. It does not always work as democracy. Hence Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Humans are not natural democrats. Democracy has been a blip in human history, and it may leave us if we do not protect it. As Maxim Gorky wrote, “the only people who deserve freedom are those who fight for it every day.”

 

During the elections, many of those polled said they were going to vote mainly because of cost of living. The cost of things were too high. Costs had dwarfed their paychecks and bank accounts. They loathed Biden for making life so hard. But a few months in, the man says costs would continue to go high, yet the man’s approval rating is still holding up. What does that say? That they like what he is doing by sacking a top black military general, they cherish the fear in the streets, the hounding of those who lashed out at the American government in the media, immigrants who protested Israeli carnage, universities who continue to bring the foreigners into their country.

 

 

 

They want a Lilly-white paradise. Trump was going to give it to them. But while the blacks and many Hispanics were voting on one side of culture, that is a genuine love of Christ, the whites were voting on another. They had a genuine fear, not of God, but of a society where Trump himself feared when he said, “we won’t have a country anymore.”

 

 

The whites were voting for man in the name of God. The same blacks, by no means a majority, voted for God but ended up endorsing a white supremacy. It is the irony of democracy. We can call this the great delusion.

 

Now, the same Republican Party that invited a Nigerian gospel singer to entertain them, mostly white audiences in Trump’s inauguration, is now sending their dogs after the Christians in New York. They worship in fear, not the sort of fear that God said we should fear Him with. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. This fear is evil.

 

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It is the archaeology of the past that we are seeing today in the United States. Those who belonged to a time of fear and tyranny, the whips of slavery and suffocation of racial contempt. We cannot say the Nigerians knew that they will also work in fear, eat their garri while thinking whether the ghouls are at their doorstep, or work and expect the call of the wild man of the ICE.

 

 

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During the elections, many of those polled said they were going to vote mainly because of cost of living. The cost of things were too high. Costs had dwarfed their paychecks and bank accounts. They loathed Biden for making life so hard. But a few months in, the man says costs would continue to go high, yet the man’s approval rating is still holding up. What does that say? That they like what he is doing by sacking a top black military general, they cherish the fear in the streets, the hounding of those who lashed out at the American government in the media, immigrants who protested Israeli carnage, universities who continue to bring the foreigners into their country.

 

Trump is avowedly against democracy, but he needs democracy in his own image. Hence he despised the elections he lost and exaggerates the one he won. Some are afraid he might outlaw an election. He is after lawyers, media, judges. He does not care if the system fails, so long as he succeeds.

 

This is the flipside of democracy. It does not always work as democracy. Hence Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Humans are not natural democrats. Democracy has been a blip in human history, and it may leave us if we do not protect it. As Maxim Gorky wrote, “the only people who deserve freedom are those who fight for it every day.”

 

 

The church in America is divided, and it has always been so. But today, it is showing a side of victory that is appalling. This is because systems are more about people than about law, justice and institutions. When a human acts like Hobbes’ leviathan, systems pack up, as we saw under Hitler, Franco and Mussolini. Some of the colourful tyrants of today were voted in, like Putin, Erdogan, Duterte and Orban. Democracy voted out democracy in ancient Greece. We are seeing it in America today.

 

Hence the church should be careful how it endorses candidates. The Nigerian church leaders who counselled voting for Trump are struggling with church attendance with the implication for faith, especially for tithes and offerings.

 

 

 

They want a Lilly-white paradise. Trump was going to give it to them. But while the blacks and many Hispanics were voting on one side of culture, that is a genuine love of Christ, the whites were voting on another. They had a genuine fear, not of God, but of a society where Trump himself feared when he said, “we won’t have a country anymore.”

 

 

The whites were voting for man in the name of God. The same blacks, by no means a majority, voted for God but ended up endorsing a white supremacy. It is the irony of democracy. We can call this the great delusion.

 

Now, the same Republican Party that invited a Nigerian gospel singer to entertain them, mostly white audiences in Trump’s inauguration, is now sending their dogs after the Christians in New York. They worship in fear, not the sort of fear that God said we should fear Him with. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. This fear is evil.

 

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It is the archaeology of the past that we are seeing today in the United States. Those who belonged to a time of fear and tyranny, the whips of slavery and suffocation of racial contempt. We cannot say the Nigerians knew that they will also work in fear, eat their garri while thinking whether the ghouls are at their doorstep, or work and expect the call of the wild man of the ICE.

 

 

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During the elections, many of those polled said they were going to vote mainly because of cost of living. The cost of things were too high. Costs had dwarfed their paychecks and bank accounts. They loathed Biden for making life so hard. But a few months in, the man says costs would continue to go high, yet the man’s approval rating is still holding up. What does that say? That they like what he is doing by sacking a top black military general, they cherish the fear in the streets, the hounding of those who lashed out at the American government in the media, immigrants who protested Israeli carnage, universities who continue to bring the foreigners into their country.

 

Trump is avowedly against democracy, but he needs democracy in his own image. Hence he despised the elections he lost and exaggerates the one he won. Some are afraid he might outlaw an election. He is after lawyers, media, judges. He does not care if the system fails, so long as he succeeds.

 

This is the flipside of democracy. It does not always work as democracy. Hence Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Humans are not natural democrats. Democracy has been a blip in human history, and it may leave us if we do not protect it. As Maxim Gorky wrote, “the only people who deserve freedom are those who fight for it every day.”

 

 

The church in America is divided, and it has always been so. But today, it is showing a side of victory that is appalling. This is because systems are more about people than about law, justice and institutions. When a human acts like Hobbes’ leviathan, systems pack up, as we saw under Hitler, Franco and Mussolini. Some of the colourful tyrants of today were voted in, like Putin, Erdogan, Duterte and Orban. Democracy voted out democracy in ancient Greece. We are seeing it in America today.

 

Hence the church should be careful how it endorses candidates. The Nigerian church leaders who counselled voting for Trump are struggling with church attendance with the implication for faith, especially for tithes and offerings.

 

 

 

They want a Lilly-white paradise. Trump was going to give it to them. But while the blacks and many Hispanics were voting on one side of culture, that is a genuine love of Christ, the whites were voting on another. They had a genuine fear, not of God, but of a society where Trump himself feared when he said, “we won’t have a country anymore.”

 

 

The whites were voting for man in the name of God. The same blacks, by no means a majority, voted for God but ended up endorsing a white supremacy. It is the irony of democracy. We can call this the great delusion.

 

Now, the same Republican Party that invited a Nigerian gospel singer to entertain them, mostly white audiences in Trump’s inauguration, is now sending their dogs after the Christians in New York. They worship in fear, not the sort of fear that God said we should fear Him with. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. This fear is evil.

 

Read Also: Edo moves to resolve dispute over ceding of oil wells to Delta state

It is the archaeology of the past that we are seeing today in the United States. Those who belonged to a time of fear and tyranny, the whips of slavery and suffocation of racial contempt. We cannot say the Nigerians knew that they will also work in fear, eat their garri while thinking whether the ghouls are at their doorstep, or work and expect the call of the wild man of the ICE.

 

 

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During the elections, many of those polled said they were going to vote mainly because of cost of living. The cost of things were too high. Costs had dwarfed their paychecks and bank accounts. They loathed Biden for making life so hard. But a few months in, the man says costs would continue to go high, yet the man’s approval rating is still holding up. What does that say? That they like what he is doing by sacking a top black military general, they cherish the fear in the streets, the hounding of those who lashed out at the American government in the media, immigrants who protested Israeli carnage, universities who continue to bring the foreigners into their country.

 

Trump is avowedly against democracy, but he needs democracy in his own image. Hence he despised the elections he lost and exaggerates the one he won. Some are afraid he might outlaw an election. He is after lawyers, media, judges. He does not care if the system fails, so long as he succeeds.

 

This is the flipside of democracy. It does not always work as democracy. Hence Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Humans are not natural democrats. Democracy has been a blip in human history, and it may leave us if we do not protect it. As Maxim Gorky wrote, “the only people who deserve freedom are those who fight for it every day.”

 

 

The church in America is divided, and it has always been so. But today, it is showing a side of victory that is appalling. This is because systems are more about people than about law, justice and institutions. When a human acts like Hobbes’ leviathan, systems pack up, as we saw under Hitler, Franco and Mussolini. Some of the colourful tyrants of today were voted in, like Putin, Erdogan, Duterte and Orban. Democracy voted out democracy in ancient Greece. We are seeing it in America today.

 

Hence the church should be careful how it endorses candidates. The Nigerian church leaders who counselled voting for Trump are struggling with church attendance with the implication for faith, especially for tithes and offerings.