David Journal

Tag: politics

  • I’m ready to get to work

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    Something switched this morning during scripture study and I am suddenly unburdened by the next Trump administration. My work will be about building America and better democratic processes where I can without reference (mostly) to whatever the trump administration is doing. I’m excited and energized. This evening I even got into a discussion with sobering…

  • The closing argument

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    I listened to Kamala Harris speak at the ellipse tonight—the site where Trump had rallied his people to storm the capitol on January 6th—in what was labeled as her closing argument for the election. I felt fortunate to get to listen to it as it was being given rather than sometime later. In fact, while…

  • A feeling in the air

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    I watched Unite for America tonight—a gathering for the Harris campaign where the many groups that held fundraising calls for the campaign earlier got together. It was hosted or MC’d by Oprah Winfrey but I was struck by the tenor of the gathering. It was joyful, earnest, inclusive, and tender. While there were comments about…

  • More political parallelism

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    I see the way the Gadiantons were embraced by the Nephites and rejected by the Lamanites in a fairly short period of time and I see the takeover of the GOP. Rather than reject someone who went against everything they claimed to value the GOP went from having a loud minority of MAGA faithful to…

  • Walking a tightrope

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    I feel like I will be in constant tension for the next 50 days until the election wanting to keep focused on the race and on doing what I can to support Harris but also wanting to not get lost in a rabbit hole to the detriment of everything else I should be doing in…

  • Encouraging developments

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    A few days ago I had the thought that some prominent Trump-averse Republicans should ensure Kamala Harris. This morning I learned that a group labeled Republicans for Harris has been launched yesterday. I subsequently discovered a group called Latter-day Saints for Harris. We need these kinds of groups spread the word and to demonstrate the…

  • Another major victory

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    Today we were supposed to play dodgeball at the amphitheater at Aspen Grove. When we got there we found that the place was drowning in hikers and that the amphitheater had been reserved by another group for a private function. In past years that has never been a problem but we’ve also gone in the…

  • A new balance

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    Perhaps Alma recognized after the mission to the Zoramites and its social fallout that society had reached a new state of equilibrium. The Zoramites had been divided between those (mostly poor) who were converted and resettled in Jershon and those who began to associate with the Lamanites. Surely not all Nephites were members of the…

  • Many modern Zeezrom’s

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    Zeezrom was struck with the realization of just how much his words had influenced the people for evil. He had said those words in the short-sighted effort to gain power, money, and influence while imagining that the actual truth was a trivial thing. I have seen so many basically decent people who should know better…

  • Marking themselves

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    The Amlicites marked themselves when they came out in rebellion against the Nephites. Some might say that people displaying various Trump or MAGA flags counts as marking themselves but I honestly wonder if the time will come when there is a more obvious mark between those who support the Constitution and those who are modern…