Family of God: Re: [FamilyofGod] Fwd: [Inner Voice Ministries] Commentary: Why 2012 looks like 1860

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On Tue Jun 14th, 2011 12:21 PM CDT Stacy Hutchinson wrote:

>This is good Because I thought that I was going nuts because I've been
>seeing it too. I'm glad I ain't the only one.
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>From: Michael Ford Th.D. <jonsquillministries@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:46 PM
>Subject: [Inner Voice Ministries] Commentary: Why 2012 looks like 1860
>To: InnerVoiceMinistries@yahoogroups.com
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>Commentary: Why 2012 looks like 1860
>By Star Parker,
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>As the season of presidential politics 2012 unfolds, I'm struck by
>similarities between today and the tumultuous period in our history that led
>up to the election of Abraham Lincoln and then on to the Civil War.
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>So much so that I'm finding it a little eerie that this year we are
>observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War.
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>No, I am certainly not predicting, God forbid, that today's divisions and
>tensions will lead to brother taking up arms against brother.
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>But profound differences divide us today, as was the case in the 1850s.
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>The difference in presidential approval rates between Democrats and
>Republicans over the course of the Obama presidency and the last few years
>of the Bush presidency has been in the neighborhood of 70 points. This is
>the most polarized the nation has been in modern times.
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>This deep division is driven, as was the case in the 1850s, by fundamental
>differences in worldview regarding what this country is about.
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>Then, of course, the question was: Can a country "conceived in liberty," in
>Lincoln's words, tolerate slavery?
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>Today the question is: Can a country "conceived in liberty" tolerate almost
>half its economy consumed by government, its citizens increasingly
>submitting to the dictates of bureaucrats, and wanton destruction of its
>unborn children?
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>We wrestle today, as they did then, with the basic question of what defines
>a free society.
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>It's common to hear that "democracy" is synonymous with freedom. We also
>commonly hear that questions regarding economic growth are separate and
>apart from issues tied to morality – so called "social issues."
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>But Stephen Douglas, who famously debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858, argued
>both these points. In championing the idea of "popular sovereignty" and the
>Kansas Nebraska Act, he argued that it made sense for new states to
>determine by popular vote whether they would permit slavery.
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>By so doing, argued Douglas, the question of slavery would submit to what he
>saw as the core American institution – democracy – and, by handling the
>issue in this fashion, slavery could be removed as an impediment to growth
>of the union.
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>Lincoln rejected submitting slavery to the vote, arguing that there are
>first and inviolable principles of right and wrong on which this nation
>stands and which cannot be separated from any issue, including
>considerations of growth and expansion.
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>The years of the 1850s saw the demise of a major political party – the Whigs
>– and the birth of another – the Republican Party. And the Democratic Party,
>in the election of 1860, splintered into two.
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>In a Gallup poll of several weeks ago, 52 percent said that neither
>political party adequately represents the American people and that we need a
>third party. Of the 52 percent, 68 percent were Independents, 52 percent
>Republicans and 33 percent Democrats.
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>So it's not surprising that the field of Republicans emerging as possible
>presidential candidates is wide, diverse and unconventional.
>
>But another lesson to be learned from 1860 is that the conventional wisdom
>of establishment pundits is not necessarily reliable.
>
>These pundits will explain why the more unconventional stated and potential
>candidates in the Republican field – Cain, Palin, Bachmann – don't have a
>chance and why we should expect Romney, Pawlenty or Huntsman.
>
>But going into the Republican Convention in Chicago in 1860, the expected
>candidate to grab the nomination was former governor and senator from New
>York, William H. Seward.
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>But emerging victorious on the third ballot at the convention was a gangly
>country lawyer, whose only previous experience in national office was one
>term in the U.S. Congress, to which he was elected 14 years earlier.
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>A year or two earlier, no one, except Lincoln himself, would have expected
>that he would become president of the United States.
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>Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban
>Renewal & Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit think tank that provides a
>national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner
>city neighborhoods, and public policy.
>
>As a social policy consultant, Star Parker gives regular testimony before
>the United States Congress, and is a national expert on major television and
>radio shows across the country. Currently, Star is a regular commentator on
>CNN, CNBC, CBN, FOX News, and the United Kingdom's BBC. She has debated
>Jesse Jackson on BET; fought for school choice on Larry King Live; defended
>welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and spoke at the 1996 Republican
>National Convention.
>
>Star Parker's personal transformation from welfare fraud to conservative
>crusader has been chronicled by ABC's 20/20; Rush Limbaugh; Readers Digest;
>Dr. James Dobson; The 700 Club; Dr. George Grant; the Washington Times;
>Christianity Today; Charisma, and World Magazine. Articles and quotes by
>Star have appeared in major publications including the Washington Post and
>the New York Times.
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>*coffee is good,*
>*and people are beautiful*