Unity

The Bible has a lot to say concerning unity. In fact, Jesus goes so far as to explain that if the church were unified, then the whole world would know that Christianity is from G-d. Of course, we have seen that Christians are not unified, but just imagine that they were. Nothing would be able to stop them! Indeed, when the entire Roman Empire was Catholic, they conquered most of Europe. (At least in the religious sense.) Just about everyone in Europe was Christian for a long time.

But why am I talking about religion on a political blog? The answer is that we can learn from the lesson of unity. Because the Church is no longer unified, people can stand up to the Christians and indeed they seem to be falling from prominence. There is a lesson for us Republicans here. Our views, of course, are not primarily religious. They are political. We believe in capitalism, in the right of a nation to defend itself militarily when necessary, in the right to life, in low taxes alongside low government spending and more. Now we don’t all support all of these issues but they are common to most of us.

But now we get to the problem of some of these issues. While many of us believe that we should stay in Iraq, others believe we should leave immediately. While some of us believe in laws governing morality others believe that morality should be left more or less unlegislated. We are not identical. We are not uniform. Fortunately, unity does not mean that we are uniform. It means we do not attack one another. It means we share many common goals, even if not all of them.

Now, Democrats aren’t uniform either, but they don’t know how to handle this fact. They fight each other endlessly. If anyone does not match the party platform, the others attack them as wolves. My personal favorite example of this was when Lieberman lost the primary for his seat in the Senate. Despite being liberal, he was rejected for thinking for himself on the issue of the war in Iraq. This infighting is devastating to the Democrats.

We Republicans should be wiser. Despite our wide ranging opinions, we need not attack our own party for differences. There are a couple Republican presidential candidates whose policies I do not care for. I think they might do us a lot more harm than good in some ways, but I don’t attack them. I don’t fight with them, and I don’t protest their campaigns. I won’t necessarily vote for them in the primary, but I see that they are at least better than the Democrats running for office. In any contest between either of them and Hillary or Obama, I would definitely vote for the Republican, because overall they are still better.

Democrats are masters of lies and propaganda. They are good at getting fools who don’t know better to vote for them. Republicans are more likely to tell the truth and we don’t win over the idiots with that method. Our advantage must be in unity in addition to our logic and wiser positions. If we can support each other, we can accomplish much, including keeping the white house.