Cog-Dis in the Last Days

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To understand some of the key problems within the Democratic party itself regarding the Constitution the founding principles of the nation, and why LDS who turn to the Left feel so marginalized and self conscious of their political beliefs within the context of their wards and stakes, one needs only take a look at some of the comments made by the people that appear in this article.

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We give 10 percent of our income to the church, in addition to a monthly donation. So a lot of Mormons say that's not the role of government, but not everyone has that support structure. That's one of the roles of government, to help those who don't have that support structure. A lot of people don't have what we have."


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My faith is the reason why I'm a Democrat," said Kaitlyn Janis, above, of South Jordan, Utah


This comment echos something Reid said at BYU several years ago, and would provoke a firestorm of apoplexy among LDS liberals and NOM's were a conservative LDS dare to make any similar statement, pointing us again to the cultural double standards that exist between leftists and the rest of the nation in the realm of political discourse. To be among the Anointed is to be within the default position of the culture and hence to be among those that essentially set the terms and limits of appropriate debate for those outside the gnostic temple.

Quite obviously, if a conservative Mormon were to make the same statement ("I'm a Republican because of my faith."), this would set up a conflict in that both statements cannot possible be true at the same time. This is also logically inconsistent with Cooper's statement that "there is political diversity in the Mormon Church." No, there isn't, if Janis' statement is accepted as true. For her, the gospel necessarily implies leftist ideology and Democratic party policies and initiatives.

If for me, my faith necessarily implies conservative/libertarian principles (and support of the Republican party as the place where there is a better likelihood of these principles having some serious effects on policy), then there is no an irreconcilable conflict to be resolved. One of us either doesn't understand the teachings of the Church, or understands them, but doesn't care.

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The Democratic party embraces values I try to emulate: charity, caring for poor and needy, equal opportunities for education. Health care is a big one, ensuring that everyone can live a good life.


Now, for this person, the fundamental purpose of the state is that of a great national caregiver; its purpose is to feed, clothe, house, educate, provide medical services, and ensure that "everyone can live a good life." This person is not so much an ideological socialist as one of the servile Eloi who have transferred her personal responsibilities to give charity and help the poor and needy to the state and its coercive power to do "good works" (with the forcibly confiscated money of people other than herself) by force and mass legalized theft and who make socialism and the destruction of liberty possible.

Government for here is a vast national parent; a vast coercive parent who manages a equally vast and all-encompassing day care center and parental guardian. She understands neither core aspects of the Gospel regarding temporal salvation and welfare, nor the founding concepts upon which the nation in which she lives is grounded. But she doesn't need to. She's one of the Anointed; she's filled with compassion and concern for the "poor and needy," who she has adopted as her moral mascots. Why does one need to know anything when one is overflowing with such righteousness?

R.C. Johnson wants a "fair society" and is doubtless quite ready to transfer to government the vast powers of coercion, control, and suppression of individual liberty that such a cosmic quest for "fairness" requires.

Leftism outside the Church is no different that that within it. Once righteousness and the responsibility to bring it about is transferred from the individual to the state, and as a matter of personal agency to a matter of the forcible conscription of wealth under threat of punitive sanction and from the mutual blessing between the poor and the wealthy to a preemptive claim by the poor upon the fruits of the labor of others, and from a mentality of gratitude and personal responsibility to entitlement, both the gospel and any sense of either a free or fair society have been abandoned.

[_just me]

These aren't the last days.