The Coming Catastrophe

<p style= "margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #fa0000;"> <span style= "color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> "No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."  Mark Twain</span></p> <p style= "margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #fa0000;">  </p> <p style= "margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #fa0000;"> <span style= "color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> Avoiding catastrophe is my main hope in this election.  And not just in the usual, long-term sense.  I hope we avoid civil war in the near future.  A chilling poll says 30+ percent of both political affiliations support political violence.</span></p> <p style= "margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #fa0000;">  </p> <p style= "margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #fa0000;"> <span style= "color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> Heather Mac Donald has a good point:  President Trump used leftwing tactics in the debate to both smear strict law enforcement and Joe Biden.  That aspect of his debate sucked.  But the President is a package and wishing for different components is silly.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Victor Davis Hanson said, "The new-old leftist aim is not to operate within either the existing parameters of the Constitution as written or the customs and traditions of America—a 150-year-long nine-justice Supreme Court, the Electoral College, a 50-state nation, a Senate filibuster, two senators per state, and a secure border. All are obstructions to the drive for power."  And how.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”  -Thomas Jefferson</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif