{"id":15814,"date":"2016-11-18T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=15814"},"modified":"2017-05-27T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:38:52","slug":"u-s-election-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=15814","title":{"rendered":"U.S Election Tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15816\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMAGE-DEMOCRACY.jpg\" alt=\"image-democracy\" width=\"858\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMAGE-DEMOCRACY.jpg 858w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMAGE-DEMOCRACY-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMAGE-DEMOCRACY-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/>Before the election, pundits all over the place somberly warned that if Donald Trump lost, his followers (referred to as a &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; by Hillary Clinton) would take to the streets in violent protest. So be ready!<\/p>\n<p>Well, they got it half-right at least (just about the only thing they got right in the last 18 months!). Someone&#8217;s supporters took to the streets in &#8220;violent protest.&#8221; It just wasn&#8217;t Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters!<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that I doubt there would have been &#8220;violent protests&#8221; had Mr. Trump lost. His supporters seem mostly to be mature, conscientious, realistic, patriotic adults.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with some of Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s supporters it now seems. She lost. Fair and square. In fact, she lost so bad that, contrary to recent DNC practice, she&#8217;s not even asking for major recounts. I suppose the DNC realizes that to do so would run the risk of revealing major examples of attempted election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>It is amusing &#8212; though terribly disappointing &#8212; that we are having to endure a disgusting national temper tantrum. No doubt, most of it is organized and promoted by far-left agitator organizations (such as MoveOn.org and Black Lives Matter) largely funded by Mr. George Soros, whom I have discussed previously on this program.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting side note. MoveOn.org was founded to urge Americans to &#8220;move on&#8221; and stop concentrating on Bill Clinton&#8217;s disgusting and criminal behavior during his time in the White House. Not important, I suppose, but interesting nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting that some of Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s supporters turned out to oddly resemble the &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; she attributed to Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;d say this national tantrum is giving America&#8217;s &#8220;millennials&#8221; somewhat of a bad name. Of course, who can blame them? They&#8217;ve grown up receiving &#8220;participation prizes&#8221; in school and sports. Never learning that in real life there are winners and losers. But I suspect it won&#8217;t improve from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that soon some enlightened educator will determine that even &#8220;participation prizes&#8221; make non-participants feel bad. So we should give out prizes just for &#8220;being.&#8221; That way, everyone will feel included. Unless you&#8217;re dead, and then you probably won&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress, again.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that America is going through somewhat of a national convulsion brought about by forces that do not want to see America abandon the path toward one-world globalism and reassert itself as a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>These are forces that detest the fact that America&#8217;s freedom is founded on and guaranteed by America&#8217;s virtue. They understand that if we forfeit our Judeo-Christian virtue, we will lose that hard-won freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the Bible predicts for the final days of this Age of Grace.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, please pray for Mr. Trump&#8217;s personal safety. The forces that oppose him are so dogmatic &#8212; and in many cases, evil &#8212; that I believe his life may be in more danger than previous presidents-elect.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of danger, that is exactly what Israel is facing during the final few weeks of the current &#8220;lame duck&#8221; administration.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in Bloomberg News, Eli Lake noted that some of Israel&#8217;s friends in Washington fear &#8220;the threat of a last-minute speech, executive order, or UN action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is especially worrying. Michael Snyder notes: &#8220;Barack Obama knows that he is the only one standing in the way of a UN Security Council resolution that would formally recognize a Palestinian state&#8230;. If Obama decided not to use the U.S. veto power to block such a resolution, it would be legally binding on both Israel and the Palestinians, and the next president would not be able to go back and reverse course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given this administration&#8217;s history of slights and insults directed at Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, such a vindictive move is not out of the realm of possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Secretary of State John Kerry refused to assure Mr. Netanyahu that the U.S. would have Israel&#8217;s back at the UN Security Council in the waning days of Obama&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that one of the great tests of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency will be the measure of his personal integrity in his final days in office. If he fails, it will have lasting and dramatic impact on Israel&#8217;s safety in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Again, just as the Bible predicts for these days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 2016, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hallindsey.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hal Lindsey<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F15814&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F15814&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the election, pundits all over the place somberly warned that if Donald Trump lost, his followers (referred to as a &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; by Hillary Clinton) would take to the streets in violent protest. 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