What Would Lincoln Do?

After a futile four hours of trying to fall asleep a slogan occurred to me that soothed my vexatious thoughts. What Would Lincoln Do?

I had put in a call late yesterday about renting a venue where I could announce my candidacy for Congress something I might do in a month or two. It is something more than I have done the last three times I plunked down $300. to be a name on the Republican Congressional ballot opposing one of the lint balls in Donald Trump’s January Sixth justification Cult. If I made an announcement of the means by which I could pick off one more American Democracy betrayer it would be a step towards a more serious campaign. How good Minnesotans could ever contemplate such a deplorable vote seem possible to explain only by some odd condition like mass hysteria.

The WWLD phrase seemed perfect. Its based on the old WWJC bracelets that good about to become Republicans used to wear to proclaim their imminent rescue by God of the terrible conditions bedeviling America. Queers, :(“love the sinner hate the sin”):, Abortion, and the horrible President Clinton who tried to have sex with so many women who weren’t his wife behind her back and then perjured himself to smother the accusation…..spectacularly unsuccessfully is seems unnecessary to add.

When Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone died racing across the state on the way to reelection in 2002ish shocked Democrats began flattering the WWJD folks by putting WWWD stickers on their cars. I saw one a few years ago that had endured nearly two decades of wear. It probably puzzled the young people who saw it as Wellstone died before they were born or were still toddlers.

The WWJD logos are also out of fashion and that’s fortunate for Christianity. Today’s Christians who wore the bracelet now have become supporters of a man who violates everything that Jesus the beggar/prophet stood for. Donald Trump brags about being a pussy grabber, being one the the rich who Jesus denied entry into heaven, a man who has used Government as violently as the Roman conquerors of the Holy Land and a man who had never let a single day go by living by the credo “the truth will set you free.”

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