You cannot win a ministry of reconciliation

The political process divides people; only seeking the divine can unite us

I am in America during the Presidential election season, but I am not in any way taking part in the election process — not least because I suspect my visa waiver doesn’t allow it! Nonetheless, I can tag along to events and observe what goes on in my amateur anthropologist role. I can also participate in my ordinary free speech role, and share both my own story, and my tales of the wider spiritual war we find ourselves engaged in. On this basis, I attended and gave short speeches yesterday at two Republican Party gatherings in Tennessee. I could have said essentially the same message at a Democrat event, maybe with fewer Bible references.

Politics does have a purpose, as in the real world there are interests that are pitted against one another. If you have to construct a road crossing over a river, where you locate it, and the choice of bridge or tunnel, affects different people with varying gains and losses. If you build an expensive tunnel rather than a cheaper bridge, then someone else has to go without their infrastructure project. Every decision in the world is tradeoff of cost, benefit, and risk. The “godly” option may default to a materialistic financial analysis, blended with who shouts loudest about their environmental losses. The subjective element of aesthetics swamps any moral concern; my elegant suspension bridge is your ugly imposition on the estuary landscape. Politics resolve this difference, and gives finality to legitimately competing aspirations.

The divine is, by definition, that which reconciles all, and erases any spirit of competition. It doesn’t mean only ungodly men engage in politics; quite the opposite, as we are instructed to be “in the world, but not off the world”. Expecting everyone to seek the highest good for society at all times is unrealistic. If my home is being demolished for the access road to that bridge, I may reasonably seek to assert my family interests, and pursue self-will, without being condemned as selfish. While some may frame seizure via eminent domain as evil, it is not in the same league as issues like human trafficking or debt slavery via fraud.

The meeting of the Republican ladies opened with a prayer (i.e. allegiance to God), then the Pledge of Allegiance (theoretically to the constitutional republic but subverted to the defunct 1871 corporate federal superstate), followed by the Tennessee pledge, then a brief and ambivalent waving of an Israeli national flag with no aloud group buy-in. We exist in an age of deception and confusion — what if these ideals are not in alignment, or even contradict one another? If your country was hijacked by Satanists, it is imperative to have clarity over which deity is being referenced! The space occupied by politics necessarily grows as spirits are misaligned. Our true enemies are criminality, counterfeits, and confusion — and all three are in play here.

Tennessee’s country music scene could be described as the “soul of the heartland of America”. There is something special going on here that is the polar opposite of a Portland, OR or Allentown, PA. It is conservative in the sense of not being destructive or debauched; the base culture of fertile land and honest labour is proximate. State legislators have rejected genocidal geoengineering and supported nullification, signifying the sovereignty of the people over their own land. The Republican ladies are very aware that they are embattled in a genuine struggle with evil that would harm us, yet are finding it hard to express that to neighbours with Harris-Walz election signs outside. Politics seeks domination over rivals; a ministry of salvation reunifies us around overcoming our imperfections.

A worthwhile video from Diane Canada, founder of Lady Up America, dived into the process for engaging people when doing door to door election visits. The emphasis was on listening, then stating “where I lose you is…”, and leaving them with a question. It is a virtuous methodology, as it does not manipulate, but it leaves out half the picture. We ought to be humble in this way because there will be a time when the boot is on the other foot — it is you who is lost, not the person you are persuading. Nashville’s music scene has the same blackmail and paedophilia issues as Diddy’s rapper orgies. Megachurches are run by controlled assets of criminal cartels. The religious right has some very difficult truths ahead, and pride makes them painful.

As a final vignette from this event, the restaurant venue had offered a free meeting room, whether through commercial self-interest or patriotic benevolence. Three of the food tabs accidentally were unpaid at the end, so as the last to leave, I covered them, with a generous tip. (People are good to me, and part of my job is to pass any surplus on.) How we conduct ourselves in the moment is everything — that is our testimony. If you turn up at a home with a Harris-Walz sign and let them know you love them, even if you disagree with their choices, that does far more to heal the world than any pitch about socialised healthcare or the cost of living. That said, you cannot take the political moral high ground if you’re not paying your food tab in a timely manner!

This nicely sets up the evening party meeting, where I was again asked to talk on an impromptu basis (there not being many overseas anti-corruption activists in the Southern countryside), and said the same thing that I would say to a room of Democratic Party activists, albeit expressed differently for each audience. What caught my attention was how a woman organiser opened the meeting with a repeated apology for having mistakenly cancelled a prior gathering based on a misunderstanding, yet had been abused and called a liar, with her contrition rejected. There are none so vicious as the self-righteous and unforgiving with a religious spirit! No man stepped up to thank her for her work and accept the apology on behalf of all.

My key point in both meetings was that we are in a war, albeit an unconventional and unrestricted one. The battlefield is for our children — they want our kids more than they want your guns. At one extreme we have child sex trafficking, paedophile blackmail, and organ harvesting. At the other we have Marxist indoctrination of our offspring at school, and poisoning via toxic vaccines. Until you frame the problem as spiritual and stealthy war, the issues at hand cannot be solved. Politics and lawmaking have a limited scope of action, and treason is a military problem ahead of a civilian one. In a constitutional republic, everyone ought to be a shade of republican, even if a very liberal-minded one; anything else is sedition.

This tension was highlighted in a question from an agitated member of the audience who had called his congressman, Andy Ogles, who was the main speaker. The man was upset at the response he had gotten about illegal immigration in the local area, demanding that matter be addressed in a way that only accommodated his own feelings and limited understanding. Andy seems to be among the extremely small cohort of legislators who cannot be bought, a man who knows the cost of orange juice in Walmart because he hasn’t been paid off, and feels the pinch of rising prices like the rest of us. Andy’s response was framed politically rather than militarily; the mainstream is not ready or willing to confront the existential war against depopulation and totalitarian technocracy.

My final encounter was with Dr Joey Hensley, a longtime state senator of the “old school” kind, who has dedicated his life to public service. He comes over as a gentleman in the literal sense — a gentle man — who seeks to do right and puts his faith at the forefront of his politics. He lamented at the political activism of many judges who ignore the laws he helps to pass, and the loss of the “patriot Democrats” who shared the same passion for America, just with a different emphasis. There was a fear for dwindling numbers of his type, yet he also expressed hope for the future, and a revival. My own sense is that the heartbreak ahead, as the truth of corruption is completely exposed, will test the spirit of everyone, including such lifelong patriots.

You cannot impose truth or morality on anyone; even putting crooks in prison only cages them up to stop crimes, not to change their heart. The real divide in America is between the 85% who recognise they are neither God nor Jesus Jr, and accept there is an innate right and wrong; and the 15% who seek to elevate themselves above Creator, and rule as a self-appointed “lords and ladies of the accredited academy”. They are funded by the 0.01% who steal from the 85% and give kickbacks via preferment. The political process can only contain spiritual malaises, not resolve them. A military takeover can only eliminate traitors, not remove desire for treason. The job to be done is spiritual, and that has a different toolkit to elections or counter-coups.

The people in these meetings have many of the right(eous) ideals, but lack visibility of the spiritual and bio-information war. It will take a shock awakening for them to reconfigure around the real problem. While having communists in the Presidency, Congress, or Senate is obviously undesirable and dangerous, America can only prosper with a population that has vigilance against delusion, and humility to reflect on whether they are the fool. Keeping the “reds” in power, and the “blues” at the sidelines, can never fix the foundational issues that lead to treason and tyranny. A mind virus is not eradicated via election integrity or even constitutional law.

Only a ministry of reconciliation can resolve a crisis of (lack of) conscience. Shared values and reality come from a place of love for the lost, not fear as if they are a foe. The spiritual sickness shows up in how the “lesser” are treated — food servers or event organisers — and the “solution” starts with reconciliation in your own domain. Until those people are respected and valued for their work, there is nothing that a congressman or even Donald Trump can do for you. What seems peripheral is actually figural: the meeting focus is on the congressman, but the locus of power to cancel the meeting is with the wronged volunteer, or the unpaid cook. The spiritual fix has to come from us; there is no way to vote your way to virtue.

You can win elections, but there is no way to “win” a ministry of reconciliation. The whole point is to eliminate the spiritual demand for competition, not to out-compete your rivals. And America needs spiritual reconciliation more than better legislation.

The woods of southern Tennessee.