Driving around my North Dallas neighborhood, I noticed an unspoken correlation with political signs on construction sites this fall. Since we’ve lived in the same house for 25 years, I have a pretty good idea of ​​who my neighbors are.

One day, I finally realized that every yard adorned with multiple Trump/Vance signs, Trump flags, Ted Cruz signs, and American flags belonged to an old white man. Sometimes an older white woman, but more often a man.

This is not to say that only old white people are considering voting for Donald Trump’s return to the White House; this is to say that they are the most likely to brag about it. They are proud to vote for a racist, a rapist, a racketeer who wants to govern like Hitler. They simply do not seem to understand the historical consequences of such a vote or what it portends for their great-grandchildren.

Mark Wingfield

Yes, I’ve read articles that explain that many Trump supporters just want to go after the “libtards” they hate so much. Even if they vote against their own economic interests, they are energized by the anger of their liberal neighbors like me. OK, yes, this tactic works. You made me angry. And perplexed.

But I have another question to ask you: How will you explain your vote in the 2024 presidential election to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren? Do you really want them to know that their grandfather was someone who voted for irrational tariffs on imports, who voted for racial profiling, who voted for mass deportations that will do good for conservative but who will ruin the American economy? Do you want them to know that their grandfather believed the incessant lies of Trump, JD Vance, and Tucker Carlson so much that he embraced their wild conspiracy theories and thought it would be nice to put them in charge of anything ?

Is this the legacy you want to leave?

What if – and there’s a high probability here – one of your grandchildren turns out to be gay or lesbian or transgender or mixed race or needs emergency care because of a pregnancy gone wrong but can’t get them because you voted to shut down legitimate services. medical care for women in need?

“Will you be ready to explain to your children that you really stuck to the liberals in 2024, but that the price to pay was the disgrace and disappearance of the evangelical Church?

Is this the kind of world you want your grandchildren and great-grandchildren to live in?

Additionally, do you want your offspring live in a world where the Christian Church has been destroyed by an invasion of lies and the adoption of a political agenda over the agenda of Jesus? Will you be ready to explain to your children that you really stuck to the liberals in 2024, but that the price to pay was the disgrace and disappearance of the evangelical Church?

Is this the legacy you want to leave?

Now, I know some of you are already opposed to this and want to interrupt my speech to say that your vote is motivated by the economy and good business decisions. Can you look into the future and realize that this explanation will be deemed fraudulent in future American history because Donald Trump is a fraudulent businessman and a con artist? He is the antithesis of a “good businessman”. Have you actually studied the economic patterns between Democratic and Republican presidents in recent history?

Or are you only motivated by current gas or food prices – over which the US president has very little influence? Could you show me a chapter and verse in the Bible where personal cost of living is the standard for every decision?

Then you will probably object to it by saying you are voting to protect your grandchildren from the influence of gay, lesbian and transgender people. Persecuting and prosecuting people who are not like you in terms of sexual preference or gender identity has never produced good fruit in history. Why do you think that all of a sudden this will be a legacy that you want to pass on? Is this a program of Jesus that you find somewhere in the Bible?

And how are your grandchildren actually threatened by gay, lesbian or transgender neighbors? Do you have real evidence? Or did you just hear stuff on Fox News?

And finally, do you want to explain to your grandchildren that you voted for a man who said out loud that he admired Hitler and wanted to be surrounded by generals like Hitler did?

You might say, “Oh, he’s just saying crazy stuff like that to get attention.” He doesn’t really mean it.

“Everything he embodies and says is the opposite of the teachings of Jesus. He is indeed an antichrist.

That’s what many others said in 2016, and we were left with a horrific preview of what would happen in a second term in the Trump administration. When people tell you what they intend to do with their power, you have to believe them. Donald Trump is telling us exactly what he and his appointees will do.

And he tells us that he is the most unhinged, demented, antichrist presidential candidate in American history. Everything he embodies and says is the opposite of the teachings of Jesus. It is indeed an antichrist.

Is voting for someone Jesus would cast out demons a legacy you want to explain to your great-grandchildren?

Psalm 145:4 says: “A generation praise your works to another and he will declare your mighty deeds.

Do you really believe that your vote for Donald Trump will praise the works of the Lord from one generation to the next? I’m pretty sure your grandchildren and great-grandchildren won’t see it that way.

They are more likely to remember you as someone who drank the Kool-Aid than as someone who shared the Lord’s cup.

Mark Wingfield is executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global. He is the author of Honestly: Telling the Truth About the Bible and Ourselves And Why churches need to talk about sexuality. His brand new book is Disturbing the Truth and Other Current Affairs Stories.

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