Thursday, February 16, 2023
Political Mayhem Thursday: The Least of These
The world and its leaders are buffeted by powerful forces: Giant oil companies and foreign nations, for example, conspire to drive up the price of gas; or a rogue nuclear state like North Korea threatens a nuclear attack. Diseases threaten millions, and natural disasters wipe out entire neighborhoods.
And yet, somehow, these powerful people seem to often find a way to define "the real problem" as lying in the least among us-- the poor, the powerless, the vulnerable. Impoverished people are redefined as "welfare queens" for political gain, and desperate immigrants are described as rapists and murderers.
Former Vice-President Mike Pence came to Minneapolis yesterday and gave a speech at the hoity-toity Minneapolis Club. At a time that there is a major war going on in Europe, inflation continues to trouble the economy, climate change threatens us all, and the national debt poses a very real threat to our future prosperity, he focused on.... transgender children.
Could you imagine a more vulnerable and powerless group than that? Bullied, often suicidal, powerless because of their age.
And yet, that is the "evil" he chooses to address.
When a man defines himself publicly as a Christian and then tries to make his mark by ferociously attacking the most powerless among us, we are just seeing another chapter in that slimy playbook.
Someday, it will be called out as wrong.
