Simpson_David

Our best statesmen have been principled and independent, especially our first president. Washington eschewed political parties and warned Congress of their evils:

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely … to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Washington goes on to describe the dire consequences of seizing partisan power and placing an unwarranted and pernicious trust in its chieftain:

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge … is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction … turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”

This may explain why Republicans reluctantly and yet zealously support Trump despite his instituting lockdowns, heeding Fauci and Birx, abetting the captivity of federal agencies by appointing leaders of industries they are regulating and adding trillions to the national debt.

Similarly, Democrats doggedly support Biden overlooking his cabal of corporate censorship, unending support of foreign wars, relentless promotion of minimally tested and ineffective vaccines, years disregarding massive illegal immigration and increasing the national debt by trillions of dollars.

The principles of liberty that I espouse have more closely aligned with the Republican Party. However, its state and federal leaders increasingly are demanding fealty to themselves, to which I cannot submit. Neither can I overlook their hypocrisy, self-serving and vengeance. This has so alarmed me that I have protested repeatedly.

Now I must go farther. In so doing I am reminded that my supreme allegiance is to Christ. I am a heavenly citizen first, then a Texan and an American. Christ’s kingdom is spiritual and supranational; it is not worldly.

Moreover, this “Jerusalem above” is the mother of freedom. It is for freedom that Christ died, the Apostle Paul reminded the Galatians, and warned them not to be entangled in a yoke of bondage.

Freedom that is in Christ is responsible. It is free from threats, vengeance, murder, and coercion. Such freedom should make Christians an influence for good in politics, but alas the self-righteous zeal of political factions is so infectious it often overwhelms them.

It is time to heed Washington’s counsel that “the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”

Today, I am doing that by declaring myself an independent. Washington led the way as the first and so far only independent president. But now there is hope of another, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who humbly, winsomely and courageously is forging the way of freedom.

Though I disagree with Kennedy on important issues, he is right on the most pertinent issues which we currently face: censorship, medical freedom, food freedom, emancipating industry-captivated regulatory agencies, stopping endless undeclared wars and foreign interventions and reeling in the Fed’s printing press and stopping a central bank digital currency.

Kennedy listens to and stands up for the disenfranchised, the middle class and small business. He is not beholden to big money. With the blessing of God, I believe he can refuse grasping unconstitutional powers like Washington who refused to be a king