Rick Perry and His Rapture Loving Friends – A Terrifying Combination
(by Mark McCutchan)
January 20, 2017, Washington, DC – “I, James Richard Perry, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
On a chilly winter’s morning in Washington DC, Rick Perry starts his second term as president of the United States of America.
President Perry reenters office after a wildly productive first term; while he won the White House promising a “Texas Miracle” for the entire country by expanding job growth, he rapidly demonstrated to America just how he did it down south. Within months of his inauguration, both chambers of the Tea-Party controlled Congress passed his “Small Government Brings Full Employment” package of bills that abolished the minimum wage, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education. Oddly enough, the number of unemployed rose in response, while the average hourly wage fell. President Perry responded at the time by saying, “I’m all too aware of government’s limitations when it comes to fixin’ things that are spiritual in nature. That’s where prayer comes in, and we need it more than ever. With the economy in trouble, communities in crisis, and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism, we need God’s help.”
Perry also promoted construction of the so-called “Freedom Wall”, and in a famous 2014 ceremony placed the first brick into place on the expensive high-tech security system that is being constructed along the full length of the US/Mexico border, to protect America’s sovereignty once and for all.
This was followed up in 2015 by a difficult battle to abolish the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs, which then-candidate Rick Perry declared unconstitutional 3 years ago. The Democrats remaining in Congress tried to fight this elimination of social programs by filibustering the budget bill as was done successfully by the GOP/Tea Party in 2012, but the opposition’s steadfast refusal to compromise led to most of the federal government being shut down completely for 2 months. Mexican drug lords took control of substantial sections of border states not yet protected by the Freedom Wall, and chaos reigned elsewhere across America before Democrats threw in the towel. The GOP/Tea Party successfully eliminated the wasteful programs of Medicare and Medicaid, and converted the Social Security program into a voucher system good for sustenance-level food stamps and reserved spots at charity-run homeless shelters.
President Perry said today that he has high hopes for his second term, “Now that we have cleansed America’s house economically, we must complete the task that God has given me of ensuring that America’s laws and policies – foreign and domestic – conform with Biblical law. “ Speculation abounds that this conformance process will include among other things, replacing the Supreme Court with a panel of biblical scholars tasked with a massive review of state and federal law, a requirement that all officeholders take new oaths pledging allegiance to the Bible in addition to the US Constitution, and a realignment of America’s foreign policy to favor nations designated as “Christian states”.
This is America’s future if Texas Governor Rick Perry wins the presidency next year. Think it’s an exaggeration, that it just couldn’t happen in this country? Consider the facts:
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) – As documented in this (Texas) Observer article, the Houston prayer rally where Governor Perry lead prayers August 6th was organized by the New Apostolic Reformation, a movement that believes there are modern-day prophets and apostles. Instead of just waiting for the Rapture as many evangelicals do, NAR followers believe the only way the world can end is if they clear the way for it, and to do this they must infiltrate and take over the “Seven Mountains” of society: family, religion, arts and entertainment, media, education, business, and government. These are the nerve centers of society that God (or his people) must control, and the NAR leaders support Governor Perry as “God’s Choice” to reform America and the world.
Religion Above Politics – Previous presidential contenders have had questions about their religious convictions: John Kennedy and his Catholicism, Mitt Romney and his Mormonism. But there has never been a contender like Rick Perry who so publicly wore his faith on his sleeve (other than perhaps Michelle Bachmann), and placed his faith and dedication to “God’s will” above his dedication to America and the running of our government for the good of all citizens. Two examples are Rick Perry’s efforts to put prayer in schools in Texas as well as changing curriculum to teach creation as science. The “God will help our economy” quote in my fictional opening comes directly from Perry’s promotional video for “The Response” prayer meeting.
GOP’s Shifting Ideology – The Republican Party has veered sharply to the right over the last 3 years, sounding and acting more extreme to catch the attention and passion of conservative voters. Demonizing President Obama and his modest progressive programs of the Affordable Care Act as socialist “Obamacare”, and the Dodd-Frank bill as “class warfare” are meant to evoke biblical good vs. evil imagery that gets the evangelicals in the party fired up. Opinions that seem extreme when considered in a civic light appear reasonable or even common from a biblical perspective, and so Gov. Perry gets serious consideration despite his radicalism:
* He wants to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.
* He thinks that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional – “I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term “general welfare” in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that.”
* He has promoted the need for Texas to secede from the United States, if federal policy does not conform with what he thinks is in the best interests of Texas.
Despite such wild talk and after only 3 days as an official presidential contender, Rick Perry leads the usually reliable Intrade GOP presidential nomination predictions at 38.5% over Mitt “Flip-Flop” Romney’s 30.1%.
May providence help us if Governor Perry actually wins the White House in 2012. But first, let’s help ourselves by making sure that Gov. Perry does not get anywhere near the Presidency.
Tags: 2012 Elections, New Apostolic Reformation, rapture, Republicans, Rick Perry, theocracy
