Politics

 I hate politics.  Like really hate them.  For the last 40+ years I have basically ignored them.  Then the 2016 Elections hit and I realized I needed to stand up and take notice.  The 2020 elections here in the U.S. were brutal.  It even got heated on my facebook page where I literally had never posted anything political before.  

For me politics has always been something everyone else was into and knew about.  I just focused on my little corner of the world and let everyone else figure all that garbage out.  In 2020 there was a lot of tension between parties here and that really separated people, family, friends, neighbors.  I was frankly shocked at how many people that I knew and loved voted for Donald Trump.  People who I know to be good people, yet they vote for someone who is really a disgusting person.  I got so many comments about how his character didn't matter and what mattered was his views on the issues.  So many comments about how it didn't matter what he said/did it only mattered how he voted and "ran the country".  I didn't understand how so many TBM's could vote for someone who clearly stood for so many things that the church teaches against.

Now that I'm out of the church and have done extensive church history research I get it.  They are ok with voting for someone like Trump because they are ok with following men like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.  Men who married and slept with under age girls.  Men who sent other men on missions so they could marry their wives.  Men who married adopted "daughters".  Men who kept secrets from their wives so they could go on to marry as many women as they liked.  Men who in spite of enforcing the Word of Wisdom for others drank and smoked.  Men who cared more about their reputations that what the law of the land stated.  Men who were racist, and this doesn't just stop with JS and BY, it continues TODAY!  So I get it.  If the person they are voting for does ONE thing that is good (or maybe a few things that are good) they overlook the rest.  Now I'm not saying that I am loving the president that we have now but I have not heard the disgusting things about him that I have heard about Trump.  Anything that I've heard has been fabricated and grossly misjudged.  

I can't wrap my mind around the fact that "God uses imperfect people for his work" and he couldn't find ANYONE better than Joseph Smith on the earth?  No one doing better things?  No one that had a clean rap sheet?  No one that was not an abuser, con-man, liar?  No one... 

Hmmmm...seems "sus" as my 8 year old would say. 

So if you're ok with following teaching of a man like JS, someone who is STILL quoted a lot today by church leaders I get why you don't care if a politician is an abuser, racist, misogynistic, predator because that's what Joseph Smith was. 

That does not make it right and you should really rethink your outlook on politics and religion and life.  Seriously.