From JFK to Carter, culminating with Ronald Reagan and a resounding, “Tear down this wall,” communism shuffled to the fringes of societal concerns, becoming almost a faint cry in the wilderness beyond the pond. However, today, communist ideals and policies have cunningly crept their way into American policy, creating cracks in the groundwork laid by our founding fathers. Putting lipstick on a pig, one party encourages masses of people to rebel against the capitalist ideas of its adversary. Embracing Orwellian undertones, this regime demonizes wealth and success in a time of economic despair, pitting the poor against those of means nationwide. Tenuous swagger in tow, they approach November with a confidence that Americans will choose social equality over basic liberty, bread over freedom.

Not to promote either side in the upcoming election, but to endorse the one true King of Kings and LORD of Lords, who can and His word says “WILL” hear from heaven,  forgive our sins and heal our land, I humbly share my thoughts. As a nation, we stand at a crossroads. We can turn back to God or away from Him. His word says, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls,” Jeremiah 6:16. We can search our hearts and the very fabric of our moral integrity and ask, what road will we travel as a nation? This election will undoubtedly set the United States on one of two paths:  God’s or one leading to destruction.

   When scrutinizing political platforms in this race, based on biblical, ethical and moral standards, a pronounced divergence becomes clear. One candidate plainly endorses the ideals of socialism and communism, which emphasize government control and an absence of God as an ultimate authority; the other promotes freedom and democracy established by the Creator, God. Just as Nikita Khrushchev smugly projected to Eisenhower regarding Ike’s grandchildren, our children may face the iron fist of communism as a result of our choices in the upcoming election. In 1959 and years to follow, when communism threatened to blanket and envelope nations worldwide, America stood poised with the same stalemate:  turn back to God or away from him. The cry for peace and freedom roared across this country and manifested itself with culturally devastating outcomes over the next several decades because Americans wavered and did not decisively choose God’s way. One writer observed:

 From the United States to Algeria, from China to Germany, from France to South America, the one theme Russia is playing now is “peace.” Even reaching the moon was played down for “peace,” as if all along they aren’t testing the thrusts, not for scientific space exploration, but for war weapons to hurtle across continents and threaten the very existence of mankind. And the people are just supposed to sit with folded arms, peacefully forget their class struggle, and be drowned in illusions of peace!

But — just as the steelworkers have refused to be cowed, although their stomach are getting pretty empty, and just as all workers, American and European and African, refuse to separate their fight for bread from that for freedom — so the workers in each country on each side of the Atlantic, will prove to be the real antagonists against these hypocritical state-capitalist leaders. Until that struggle is settled, no others can be — because all the others only lead back to the same old exploitative society.  (War & Peace. Raya Dunayevskaya 1959).

 As a child of the 1970s, I experienced firsthand the repercussions of the depraved social movements that resulted from the anti-climactic shift in political beliefs after the Cold War. As Americans straddled the fence on spiritual, political  and economical principles, they allowed such legislation as “Roe v. Wade” to set the course for our culture to plummet into an abysmal descent; leaving God, morality,and any higher standards behind. The Hippie Movement broadened many minds about “love and peace” and perpetuated itself into the prosperous pornography industry and sexual depravity associated with the 1970s and 1980s. Probably the biggest victims of this liberated mindset were children and women who became the exploits of society in various sexual arenas. From child porn to strip clubs, child sex abuse to rape and incest, the spoiled fruits of sexual freedom have been fed to women and men, children, teenagers, and adolescents on the city streets, interstate highways  and dirt roads, with no one untouched by the sickening effects of this disease. Some of the collateral damages include: divorce, families torn apart by sexual sin and idolatry, drug abuse, overcrowded prisons, welfare and dependency, teen suicide, sex trade and exploitation of children, child abuse, and countless other evidences of our societal moral decline.

What starts with the head flows through the body; for sure, this cliché rings true in regard to our leaders in government trickling down from district to borough. As our country has struggled to survive as  a democratic republic, socialist policies have been dressed disguised  as humane solutions to economic difficulties and societal problems. In the political realm, as our society has suffered, politicians have become increasingly exploitative in their quest for power and prosperity. With scandals like Watergate, Monica Lewinsky, and Chappaquiddick, along with numerous other instances of politicians being caught with their pants down, ethical and moral standards languish beneath quests for control and reckless abandon of stewardship. Our government has become an overgrown, unmanageable beast hoarding authority and distorting the foundational principles upon which America originated — all while bartering our basic liberties for votes and polluting American ideals and dreams. Oscar Ameringer  said, “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” This sentiment has never been truer or more poignant than in the 2012 election year. 

Fast-forward to today and this upcoming election, the stage is set for a momentous shift in direction for these United States. Again we stand at a crossroads; one way turns us back to the God under which our forefathers trusted and revered when scripting the laws that would govern this land and the other shuffles us like lemmings toward a cliff of communist decay.  As a Christian voter, I seek wisdom from God when considering my vote in November and implore every American to do the same.