A politician’s true political beliefs are often hidden beneath the rhetoric of a campaign. Speech is tailored to what the crowd wants to hear rather than what the candidate truly believes. (Image source: iStock)

Read the concise and good 384-word commentary by Mr. Lawrence Kadish about what’s inside a politician. Don’t mean to be a spoiler, but the “ingredients” in almost everyone are rotten. Yet people blindly, foolishly continue to elect incompetent buffoons, liars, and criminals [yes, there are many criminals within governments doing unspeakable things most of which will only be unveiled during Judgment]. People foolishly continue to put their faith in a particular political party and the individuals that party rolls out. They all come equipped with a built-in recorded voicebox of recorded rhetoric. To get votes. Whores the lot of them. With very rare expectations.

And, please, don’t come back at me telling me how great your representative is, your Senator is, and it’s all those other ones that are the problem and rotten within. Grow up. Wise up. Be objective at last. No man, no woman, no political party, no political ideology can save or really make this nation, this world a better place.

If such had ever been the case? We would not be where we presently are.

The quality, or lack of it, the void of true statesmen, true leaders, and true public servants has declined just as our society has declined. Where are the Jefferson’s, Adam’s, Lincoln’s, Hamilton’s, Franklin’s, Washington’s, or even a Truman in these times?

Do you really believe the words politicians utter? Do you really believe they are God-fearing Bible-believing men and women by their actions? The fruit they bear?

Our politicians grow ranker and more slimy and hypocritical just as people in our society do.

Why?

Simple. Abandonment of God and the truth of Scripture. Being founded and grounded in the Christian/Jewish faith and practices as the center of life.

Forget what’s rotten in Denmark.

Take a deep inhalation and smell the rising stench of liars, deposits, tyrants, incompetency, corruption, greed, and deviancy of every ilk. Everywhere.

With very rare exceptions.

And, with the next election? The overwhelming majority of people will fall for it all again. And again. And again. It’s why we are where we are and why we’re headed where we are headed.

Each consecutive Executive Administration and U.S. Congress is worse than the previous one. This is the American plan, the American path of politics. The American future.

Forget the chronic lie every president utters before the assemblage of liars and the corrupt in every State of the Union address “Our best days lie ahead of us!”

No, to one and all…

Our best days are well behind us.

This is not cynicism or being negative. This is facing reality and not shying away from saying how things really are, how people really are. Anyone truly renewed of mind and spirit being indwelt of the Holy Spirit and led by God and His Word, His Son, knows this. We do not speak as the world speaks

Or we better not…though most sadly do. Since their hearts and mind are more anchored here than their hearts anchored in Christ, in God, in the Word of God.

They spend more time, so much more time absorbing worldy misinformation to cling to and believe than they ever do spending time absorbing the truth, the way of understanding and life found only in the Bible.

If politicians, if people were good as the lie the world loves to tell?

Our nation and our world would be a totally different place.

Look around. Listen. Inhale deeply and smell the stench, the rot. And stop living in a cotton candy world on the perpetual merry-go-round of your personal amusement theme park.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Thursday, June 9th, 2022

“A Politician’s True Beliefs” Disclosure

Ever look at a sausage package?

How about baby formula?

A candy bar? Yogurt? Cereal?

Virtually everything you consume is obligated to have an ingredients label on it that tells you what’s inside. After all, you are putting it in your body. Accordingly, long ago, Washington rightfully decreed that food processors had to truthfully and factually label their products’ ingredients.

This requirement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, does not extend to politics.

A politician’s true political beliefs are often hidden beneath the rhetoric of a campaign. Speech is tailored to what the crowd wants to hear rather than what the candidate truly believes. Sadly, the truth that we demand from the food on our dining room table is absent in Washington and our nation’s democracy suffers as a result.

While the full truth may still be obscured, we can get closer to the reality by closely examining a politician’s credentials, affiliations, and the source of campaign donations. It is these “ingredients” that accurately reflect who we are being asked to vote for. Through diligent online searches, cross-checking with reliable and verified sources, and researching official filings there is the opportunity for more complete disclosure.

But there are still actions whose genuine motives are shrouded. Take, for example, our nation’s current diplomatic engagement with Saudi Arabia. Is the president’s upcoming visit meant to improve America’s security and role in the Middle East, or is it a ploy for cheap energy at a time when gas on Main Street is more than $5 a gallon. Are our efforts to cut a nuclear deal with Iran intended to slow the pace of the regime’s access to atomic weapons, or are they a strategy to suggest White House leadership at a time of dismal poll ratings?

Unfortunately, the “wrapping” on this “sausage” does not exist. For that reason, we should do what we always do when food is suspect. Smell it to see if it is rotten.

Lawrence Kadish serves on the Board of Governors of Gatestone Institute.