Can't Beat Evil With Elections

If the GOP ekes out Senate control ultimately it's a pretty minor victory. The big tell of "Danger Will Robinson!" is that someone like Fetterman could get a Senate seat in the once proud state of PA. The way forward is a spiritual reawakening and it seems like it would almost be counterproductive for the GOP to win based on something like inflation or even crime instead of due to basic decency and morality. There was no wholesale nationwide spiritual conversion between 2020 and 2022 that we know of. 

That all assumes that the state elections are on the up-and-up which, as we know, is a giant leap. Part of the problem is it's hard to separate state differences in election apparatus from state differences in vote inclination.  Many times the purple states seem to have more trouble with fraud than blue or red. Cause or effect? 

Ohio is sandwiched between MI and KY.  KY voted 62% for Rand Paul. OH voted 53% for JD Vance. MI voted 44% for the GOP candidates opposing the winners.  So you lose about 10% every state to the north. In other words, the Bible Belt still matters. 

Tucker Carlson sees it mostly in terms of the way elections are run and the advantage of having the media as your Democrat advertising arm. He says this not to excuse Republicans saying it's a case of having to work much harder in spending money on alt media to get the message out and GOP legislatures fixing broken elections. 

So I could easily see a positive case for the country needing to go further downhill. At this point there’s probably no restoration without decimation. No resurrection without crucifixion. America probably needs to be crucified in order to rise again in the time-honored way of God, shown most explicitly through his Son.

Politics is downstream of religion, meaning that with ebbing faith it’s just unrealistic to have healthy politics. You can hope for it and work for it but you certainly shouldn’t expect it. To the extent any one political leader or party receives credit for solving our problems well, therein lies danger. Because then people would think politics, and not the Savior, is our savior.