Post the 2020 election I cannot help but to be thinking, “Why don’t our elected officials represent all the rest of us?” My believes are that very few people hold views that are strictly conservative, or strictly liberal, and that we most all agree the system is broken -- Our Government is no longer serving its constituents. Why and how this has become the case?

Think my next read will be “The Politics Industry” which offers some insights to our dysfunctional system it has become. Though we cannot and should not live under the illusion that we will get everything we want, all the time. Governance is by all measures a series of compromises.

The polarization we have become of representation in our country is dividing a zero-sum outcome for which we cannot stand. We should not be leaving the ideas and positions from both sides that have merit and are good to no path to implementation.

There is a need for a better understanding of what is broken, and what we as citizens can, and need to do is the first step to changing it.

https://www.amazon.com/Politic....s-Industry-Political

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For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades -- Sluggish and uneven wage growth has been cited as a key factor behind widening income inequality in the United States. A recent Pew Research Center report, based on an analysis of household income data from the Census Bureau, found that in 2016 Americans in the top tenth of the income distribution earned 8.7 times as much as Americans in the bottom tenth ($109,578 versus $12,523). In 1970, when the analysis period began, the top tenth earned 6.9 times as much as the bottom tenth ($63,512 versus $9,212).

The disconnect between the job market and workers’ paychecks has fueled much of the recent activism in states and cities around raising minimum wages.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fa....ct-tank/2018/08/07/f

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This is Reagan Escudè thoughts and video on the Gospel and Black Lives Matter - I agree with Reagan: I am deeply grieved over the status of our nation right now, and I am more disheartened by the reaction of our churches, church leaders, and Evangelicals who are failing to preach the Gospel and conforming to the patterns of this world.
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The gate is narrow—more narrow than I thought.
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In this video, I discuss why the BLM movement isn’t Biblical, why Christians should rise above it, and how we can share the Gospel during this time.
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Stop prescribing worldly solutions to spiritual problems. Stop promoting Marxist ideals in the name of compassion. Stop seeking justice where justice cannot be found. Stop looking to the world for advice on what it means to love, have mercy, and seek justice. But instead be transformed by the renewing of your mind through the power of the Holy Spirit, and seek TRUE justice, love mercy, and walk humbly.
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You are not virtuous because you support a movement. You are not glorifying God when you apologize for your whiteness.
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God is sovereign. And His Word is sufficient. Stop adding things to it.
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I know this video is controversial, but my prayer is that you watch with an open mind and an open heart and that the Holy Spirit moves you to repentance.
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“Our hearts are deceiving, and desperately sick. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9
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“So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.” Ephesians 4:14

Click URL below for Video:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/C....BBwcC2hvGd/?utm_sour

Sources:
- The Bible
- @podcast_just “George Floyd & the Gospel” & “Racial Reconcilition” by @darrellbharrison @virgillwalker
- “Quest for Cosmic Justice” by Thomas Sowell (YouTube videos too)
- “Blacks Don’t Empower Blacks” Jason Riley at @prageru - “Conservatives, Black Lives Matter, Racism” YouTube video @rubinreport and @larryeldershow
- “Please Stop Helping Us” Jason Riley
- Relatable Podcast with @alliebstuckey “Does the Truth Matter?”
- The @charliekirk1776 Show “Ben Carson | On Race, White Privilege, & How Black America Can Rise Up”
- Hey America Podcast “George Floyd, Riots & the Church” with @ellisaallen & @thebereanmillennial

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RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor? -- It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.

Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.

Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who’d be staying on in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump.

It happened at an Oval Office meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, intel chiefs John Brennan and Jim Clapper and national security adviser Susan Rice, as well as FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

“From a national-security perspective,” Rice’s memo afterward put it, “President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

Obama meeting could be behind corrupt Michael Flynn probe -- This even as then-President Obama also directed that as many people as possible across his administration be briefed on the (utterly unsubstantiated) allegations against Team Trump — and as Rice and others took unprecedented steps to “unmask” US citizens like Flynn whose conversations had been caught on federal wiretaps of foreigners.

Indeed, the Obama administration went on a full-scale leak offensive — handing the Washington Post, New York Times and others a nonstop torrent of “anonymous” allegations of Trumpite ties to Moscow. It suggested that the investigations were finding a ton of treasonous dirt on Team Trump — when in fact the investigators had come up dry.
Sadly, Comey’s FBI played along — sandbagging Flynn with the “friendly” interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he’d done nothing like collude with the Russians.

Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn’t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.
Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.
Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty.


https://nypost.com/2020/05/11/....looks-like-president

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Nope, not Lego's -- nor did it come with an instruction manual -- This guy built this from a pile of pebbles...

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