Navigating between two evils

I HAVE no campaign staff or advertising budget. You won’t see my name on lawn signs or my annoying face in your mailbox. I have no big donors — or even small donors. I am bought and paid for by no one.

I have made you no promises and given you no plans. I haven’t offered you cheap prescription drugs like a petty salesman or flashed false smiles from any screen or stage. I’m a woman who doesn’t even believe in women presidents — that’s how bad my sales pitch is.

Still I am confident, despite these obvious handicaps, that this complete and utter nobody will win the presidential election on November 5th. I will wake up the next morning with the heady feeling of victory and new energy to get to work.

What will I gain? What will I win? My soul, that’s what I will win — and there’s nothing better than that. Yes, victory will be mine!

By voting for neither of these selected-and-bought candidates who have zero accountability and are both moral degenerates in a system that is now fundamentally unlawful and evil, I will survive this election season with my integrity intact. Victory will be mine in a world of disappointed losers who have taken the bait and bought into the scam. It is only a matter of time before they realize all they have lost.

This country’s biggest problems are moral. Every person who refuses to sell his soul to the scam of mass democracy is a stone in the foundation of a better building. I want to be one of those stones. I want our descendants to live in that building, imperfect though it will be.

I haven’t traveled through the stormy waters of Scylla and Charybdis this election season, tempted by the false songs of the “lesser of two evils.”

Donald Trump broke his previous campaign promises. He has vowed to keep our borders open to mass, “legal” immigration when there is no need for it and no popular support for it. He violated our so-called constitutional rights during his first term by enforcing the Covid operation, and is responsible for murderous medical harm to many thousands, as well as the ruin of countless businesses. He boldly faked at least one assassination attempt and has shown his complete facility in the art of lying. He is an actor first and foremost. To quote the star of The Apprentice, You’re fired! Where is the accountability? There is none. Mr. French Fry can promise anything and it doesn’t matter. Voters will forgive him because they are incapable of placing their worldly hopes anywhere else. They have no imagination for a better way. They have the mentality of slaves.

Just two weeks ago, Trump paid his respects at the tomb of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, a man who was very open in his lifetime about his hatred of non-Jews. Schneerson was a first-class bully dressed up as a religious figure. Trump supports his legacy and the more than $3 billion we send to the genocidal state of Israel every year and will be more than happy to send our mercenary troops into another conflict against the enemies of international Jewry. Our military sadly does not represent the will of the American people anymore.

As for Kamala — well, she’s not even on my radar. She’s for people, blind and naive they may be, for whom politics are a religion and for whom every solution to every problem is more government. Their dreams always end up empowering the few and bankrupting the many. Utopianism and its search for perfection bring chaos and suffering.

I have not been tempted by those who say that as a Catholic I am morally obligated to give my assent to an evil system. Those theologians who argued that we must vote even if we are dissatisfied with the options were not even remotely speaking about the sort of election system in which we now live, based as it is on the arts of mass manipulation and candidates selected by the biggest donors, not the people.

Call it what you like, but this is not representative democracy.

For support, I quote the great abbot Dom Prosper Guéranger from his essay on the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, which was observed this week. He discusses Jesus’s words, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”

So long as those rulers comply with the compact, or do not turn to the ruin of their people the power they received for its well-being, so long their right to the obedience of their subjects is the right of God Himself, whether they exercise their authority in exacting the subsidies needed for government; or in passing laws, which, for the general good of the people, restrain the liberty otherwise theirs by natural right; or again by bidding their soldiers defend their country at the risk of life.

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When God is not with Him who governs, the power he exercises is nothing better than brute force. The sovereign, or the parliament, that pretends to govern a country in opposition to the laws of God, has no right to aught but revolt and contempt from every upright man; to give the sacred name of law to tyrannical enactments of that kind is a profanation unworthy, not only of a Christian, but of every man who is not a slave. [bold added]

As a patriot, I mustn’t participate or assent. By unjust wars, predatory taxation, the violation of our borders, the shredding of constitutional law, the incessant degrading of the descendants of those who built this country, the continual plundering of the economy by centralized banking and a deliberate destruction of the family, our government has violated God’s laws. It is based now on thievery and the corruption of the people. It’s not what the Founders had in mind when they spoke of liberty.

It is my duty to resist non-violently. Every person who resists is a stone in the foundation of a new structure. Every person who resists has energy to give to the laying of the mental and spiritual groundwork for what’s next. Our energies are finite. I will not waste mine on election day.

I don’t resent those who will vote. To resent them would be to give my emotions to this election, and I’m not gong to stoop to that. Besides, I understand the temptation.

I am, however, tempted to be sad that they too won’t wake up on November 6th in victory and peace. My prayers for my country will be all the more meaningful. With God anything is possible — even a better way for America.

Our first duty now is to have the courage and patriotism to imagine, to yearn for and to pray for something better than this.

— Comments —

Janice writes:

Applause, applause, for this!

I have been going a little crazy over this whole thing myself, what with semi-trad and some Sede armchair theologians all over the net (well-meaning as they may be) telling Traditionalists they must vote for the “lesser of two evils” OR ELSE! According to many of them, to abstain from voting for the little-bit-of-abortion-is-better-than-a-lot, throwing-inconvenient-wives-under-the-bus, take-the-shot!! candidate places you securely in the clutches of Satan.

Phooey! Evil is evil and I believe, according to the Church, that choosing the lesser of two moral evils holds only regarding private, personal issues. Our whole political system has given itself over to evil, so it is only a question of not whether, but how quickly any office holder will enact or ignore future evils. And worse evils will come!

I voted by writing-in several times before (though I knew my choice never stood a chance of winning the presidency). I stopped. Writing in is a statement in an echo chamber that will never be heard, the way things are set up. So … I will sleep easy, too, knowing I have not participated in this satanic charade.

Laura writes:

Glad you will win too!

Those making these theological arguments are simply not willing to admit how bad things are. If you had to choose between Lenin and Trotsky, would you be sinning by not voting for one? Of course not. That’s how bad things are. I know there are many decent people not ready to come to these conclusions, but I believe their patriotism is being abused with clever sophistries. If I were unjustly jailed and the prison warden came to me and said I should join in the vote for a new warden, would I be sinning by refusing to vote? Of course not. This system, as I said, is based on blatant thievery, anti-family policies, unjust wars, mass deception and calculated corruption of the people.

There is no way things will get better unless we first go through the stage of refusing to participate in the existing charade and refusing to give our loyalty to degenerates who are liars and traitors to this country.

There’s one thing they want even more than your vote — and that’s your integrity.

Kathy G. writes:

THANK you for this lovely, inspiring posting. What rules us is so obviously a fraudulent mockery of a government that anyone participating in the charade is complicit in helping it maintain power, an illusion of legitimacy. At this point it is a willful DESIRE to be immersed in the mockery, a denial of reality, out of fear to face the awful Truth of how low we have fallen, how enslaved we are.

The material enslavement is bad, as we powerlessly watch our supposed government telling citizens that they are on their own in the aftermath of a horrific freak flooding event, and are allowed not even help from fellow citizens volunteering, while every few days announcing, with media fanfare, hundreds of millions being transferred to Zelensky.

But the spiritual enslavement is what is killing us. The laughable idea that voting is going to make any difference, that elections are real, that we need an earthly savior to stop the bolshevik dismantling of the country, is resulting in a paralysis of action. This is the same thing the Jews in Christ’s time wanted, an earthly savior to make their oppressors go away. The spirituality of our people has been stripped, they have no belief in anything beyond the earthly, and so they live like mice in fear, not understanding the awesome Power just waiting for His people to turn to Him.

Things are going to get very bad, but we know Who wins.

C. writes:

Thank you so very much for this post, and my thanks to Janice and Kathy G. for their comments and for your reply to them. It is so comforting to know I am not alone in my beliefs about taking part in the charade of voting. The republic is dead, and there’s no way back except through the grace of God. All my Trad friends just cannot see this; they just have to give Trump one last chance to fix things. Why does anyone think he will or can, when, in the interest of getting elected, he encouraged the Republican Party to abandon, in its platform, support for the unborn and to embrace the LGBTQXYZ agenda? Yet nearly everyone I know is putting his or her trust in the “lesser of two evils.” Even our priest said from the pulpit that we can’t sit back and “just pray.” Really, Father? But I will not surrender to that mantra. Why must we vote for ANY evil? I will wake up on November 6 with my integrity and my hope intact. Thanks again, ladies.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I put my trust in You.

Laura writes:

Thanks for writing!

One last chance?!! Jiminy Cricket, what are they thinking?

Don’t they understand how very much they are hated and that if Trump is allowed to win, it will be for one purpose and one purpose only — to discredit his supporters once and for all, to discredit the white middle class, to discredit the remnant of Christians. They will be blamed for whatever financial disasters or wars Trump brings about.

Here’s one of the big problems. A lot of people think that because there is so much negative media coverage of Trump and so many legal actions against him that therefore he is anti-establishment.

They don’t understand that this negative coverage and this war against Trump is a public relations tactic. If the establishment and the powers-that-be were really against Trump, he would get NO traction. He would get no air time. He would be ignored completely because that is the most effective way to defeat a political enemy. Instead they have given him non-stop, free press for many years. He has gotten millions of dollars — maybe billions — in free press. One of the first laws of advertising is this: get the brand name out there even if it’s negative coverage. It all boosts his creds with people who would otherwise not support a philandering liberal, Masonic former casino owner, father-in-law to the Chabadnik Jared Kushner; fanatical, Israel booster and friend of the supposedly deceased Jeffrey Epstein.

Perhaps some people also are so affected by the liberal hatred for Trump that they foolishly rally to his defense out of instinctive tribalism. They are understandably insulted by Trump Derangement Syndrome and want to defend themselves by supporting the guy!

Trump belongs in jail, not public office. He belongs in jail for his part in the Covid operation and protocols. My personal dislike of him has nothing to do with it. I just don’t vote for people who belong behind bars. Call me picky, but I just don’t.

C. writes:

They understand none of that. I’ve been pushing this argument for months and…crickets! Diabolical disorientation is everywhere, not just in the church apparently.

This is why I pray every day for discernment. It’s such a simple thing to ask for.

Laura writes:

You are so very right about praying for discernment. ‘Ask and you shall receive.’ But most of us just don’t ask.

Joseph M. wries:

Thank you for the many great articles at your site. You have most likely seen this, but the five minutes is quite relative to the faux election “process” we are currently subjected to. In minutes 25 to 30, Dr Coleman in 1994 clearly states the false security people get , voting even for a so called “conservative.” He states the process// decision was “already”  made regardless of the acting/facade presented to the public.

P.S. The book by Solange Hertz, Utopia-Nowhere-Now Here  clearly shows the false “liberty” the democracy, we spread around the world was -is–evil. This book is one of her best.

Laura writes:

Thank you for the recommendations.

Veronica writes:

I do not agree with your views, but this was a great piece.

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