It was more than just Obama supporters that asserted those facts.
You’re quite right, but there was a difference, of course. The Ron Paul and other supporters of dark horse candidates had similar feelings. Some threw away the opportunity they had to oppose the evil of another Obama term. A moral failing in my judgment, but they at least recognized the evil.
Obama supporters, on the other hand, played on that to encourage despair among prolifers. One was reminded in that, as well as some more recent counsels, of the scene in “The Passion of the Christ” in which Satan tempted Christ to despair of redeeming mankind: “You can’t do that. No man can do that.” The modern equivalent is “neither party is serious about opposing abortion. They’re all the same. Despair, despair.” It made me sick to witness it in the political contests, and still does. Catholics, in my opinion, ought to do better than to succumb to that. And those who have despaired should refrain from sharing it with others as surely as they should refrain from sharing their lusts or a dread disease.
The shadow of death surrounding the Dem party’s actions grows longer. But the fight is not over. For me, it will never be over. I refuse to give up opposing its evils. And for now, the only political instruments available are the Repub candidates who oppose them. If all Catholics thought that way, we would not now be as locked into abortion on demand and governmental support of it as we are. Nor would we be forced, as Catholics, to either pay tribute to that party’s paganism by buying contraceptive and abortifacient insurance coverage against conscience. Nor would we be seeing the government push the profanation of marriage onto the body politic, to the scandal of the young and impressionable. One remembers Jesus’ caution “Woe be to him who scandalizes one of my little ones. It would be better for him that he hang a millstone around his neck and cast himself into the sea.”
And if one simply cannot bring himself to vote for a Repub without experiencing pain, for whatever reason, he ought to undertake it anyway. For a dyed-in-the-wool, but prolife, pro-marriage Dem, he ought to deprive his party of his support for now. Right now, members of that party (of which you know I was a dedicated member) should be appalled at how their lower-rank political leaders follow this administration over the moral cliffs like so many lemmings. There used to be Democrats of stature and independent judgment. No more. They all follow the Pied Pipers now; Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Soros; the profane ones with the money sources and the power to harm.
Catholic Democrats should stand up like real men and women, and teach their party a lesson it will not forget. But no, like so many servitors tugging their forelocks in the presence of their master, many act against conscience or take refuge in despair. “You can’t do that. No man can do that.”
I recall reading the description of a man once possessed who described it as being “compressed”, like a tiny thread inseparably joined to a massive and dominant personality (Satan’s) that determined everything. His own despair made him Satan’s ally in his own compression and subjugation. His freedom from it when exorcized, he said, was like suddenly expanding into a free human being again. God intended us to be better beings than we, in the face of evil, sometimes allow ourselves to be.
We who are not possessed, should guard against the despair that is Satan’s own tool. And some, perhaps few, Democrat politicians might actually welcome a grass roots that allows and encourages them to be free from “compression” by the elites. But they hae to know their base will support them in regaining freedom and will oppose them if they don’t. Some few just might decide to accept such a metaphorical exorcism. They just might.
