“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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Liz Cheney is Liz Cheney’s Problem
I am growing weary with the posturing of the “liberal progressive” political left in the U.S., most of whom are Democrats, and globalists in the Republican Party who have been at war with Donald Trump for the past 6 years. They have done more harm to this country than they can imagine. I fear that they will not realize what they have done until it hits them in the face. That day is coming, probably sooner than they think.
Today, I want to focus on Liz Cheney and her recent defeat in the Republican primary for Wyoming’s only seat in the House of Representatives. She thinks Donald Trump is responsible for her defeat, but she is wrong. Wyoming voters rejected Liz Cheney because of who she is and what she stands for. Donald Trump isn’t responsible for either of those things. He simply pointed them out to Wyoming voters.
Wyoming is one of the few states in the U.S. that has more U.S. Senators than it has members of the U.S. House of Representatives. With fewer than 600,000 citizens, Wyoming’s population is smaller than the population of Upstate South Carolina where I live.
Our metro area includes Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson, SC. Our population is about 1,000,000 people, and we are nestled between Atlanta, GA 130 miles to the west and Charlotte, NC 90 miles to the east. Atlanta’s metro area has about 6,100,000 people. Charlotte’s metro area has about 2,600,000. Our three metro areas with just under 10,000,000 people are connected by I-85, and the I-85 corridor that connects us is growing very rapidly. Every year, our three metro areas become more closely connected politically, socially, and economically.
Wyoming’s land area is about 98,000 square miles. The combined land areas of the three metro areas where I live is about 14,500 square miles. That means Wyoming is about 7 times larger than our combined metro areas, but it has only about 6% of our population.
About 90% of the U.S. population lives in large metro areas, but metro areas account for only 3% of the land in the U.S. In other words, Liz Cheney represents the heartland of America. Given her family’s longstanding political strength in Wyoming, Liv Cheney’s defeat tells us a lot about the differences between people who live in the heartland of America and people who live in urban areas.
People who live in the heartland of America know they are under attack, and they are beginning to fight back. Rural people want to be left alone as much as possible. They do not appreciate others trying to interfere in their lives. Urban people think that interfering in others’ lives is their God given right, even their duty.
Rural people tend to have “conservative” moral and political values. They do not believe in lying, cheating, and stealing. They still believe that a man’s word is his bond, but they have learned to engage our legal system to protect themselves and their families.
Urban people take great pride in themselves, because they think they are “liberal progressive.” To them, that means they are smarter and more cultured and urbane than rural people. Having lived in both worlds, I can assure you that rural people are every bit as smart as urban people. Some would say that rural people are smarter than urban people. I am one of them.
Rural people think “liberal progressive” means “anything goes,” and they associate it with depravity. The facts tend to bear that out. In urban areas where “liberal progressives” congregate and rule the roost, just about anything goes. You name it and you can get it in urban areas. No matter how immoral it is, it is easy to find in urban areas. “Liberal progressives” publicly celebrate things that are deeply offensive to rural people, and they assume that rural people are backward, naïve, ignorant, or stupid because they reject the “liberal progressive” mindset.
Recent statistics indicate that people living in urban areas are fleeing their areas like never before. (See “Americans are moving out of urban counties like never before.”) They are cashing in on their overpriced urban housing and taking the money with them to rural areas where housing prices are much lower, but they are also taking along their “liberal progressive,” urbanite mindsets. They should realize that those mindsets are anathema to rural people, but they don’t. They invade rural communities, and try to create what they were fleeing. They should have left their mindsets behind along with the long commutes to and from work, congestion, crime, and depravity. In areas where urban people and rural people mix, those differences become apparent immediately, and culture clashes are the inevitable result.
I believe Liz Cheney was defeated in the Wyoming Republican primary because her views were exposed and rejected by Wyoming voters. By adopting her father’s globalist perspective which is almost identical to the “liberal progressive” Democrat perspective and trumpeting it on the national stage, she alienated Wyoming voters.
Cheney didn’t just attack Donald Trump. She attacked the man who stood up for Wyoming voters and their rights like no one since Ronald Reagan. Trump is the man who singlehandedly put an end to the abomination of abortion on demand and the man who stood toe-to-toe with China and Russia and won.
If Liz Cheney were smart, which she isn’t, she would rethink what just happened to her and look at it from another perspective. She lives in a very rural state that is under constant attack by urbanites, but she has adopted the urbanite mindset that Wyoming voters deplore. Donald Trump is not Liz Cheney’s problem. Liz Cheney is Liz Cheney’s problem. If she can’t see that, she has no future in Wyoming politics. Neither does her father.
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
