Introduction
Yes, our differences don't have to divide us. If every person followed the correct worldview, then our minor differences could be resolved fairly easily. The purpose of this three-part series has been to focus our attention on the correct worldview. The goal is to unite this divided nation by encouraging everyone to stand solidly on and follow the biblical worldview.
This series is focusing on the forthcoming 2024 presidential election. Election day is next Tuesday, November 5th. Part one, the article from two days ago, centered on the ground and aerial views of the conflicting political worldviews. Yesterday's article contrasted the 2024 Republican Party platform with the 2024 Democrat Party platform and concluded that the Republican platform is more in line with the biblical worldview.
This final part three contrasts the positions of former President Trump and current Vice President Harris on key issues. This is the twenty-fourth entry in the Worldviews in Conflict topic section. The conclusion will explain why I am voting for which candidate next Tuesday.
Trump's Key Issues
The Donald J. Trump: Platform is succinct (three-page printout) and includes the following 20 core promises (key issues):
2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.
3. End inflation, and make America affordable again.
4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
5. Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower.
6. Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
7. Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.
8. Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in America.
9. End the weaponization of government against the American people.
10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders.
11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington, DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world.
13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.
14. Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.
15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations.
16. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
17. Keep men out of women's sports.
18. Deport pro-HAMAS radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.
19. Secure our elections, including same-day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.
20. Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success.
The website directs to the 2024 Republican Party Platform, which my previous article referenced.
Harris' Key Issues
The Kamala Harris: Issues are more verbose (seven pages in original, expanded format) and include the following four key issues, each with bullet point specifications:
Build an Opportunity Economy and Lower Costs for Families.
- Cut taxes for middle-class families.
- Make rent more affordable and home ownership more attainable.
- Grow small businesses and invest in entrepreneurs.
- Take on bad actors and bring down costs.
- Strengthen and bring down the cost of health care.
- Protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare.
- Support American innovation and workers.
- Provide a pathway to the middle class through quality, affordable education.
- Invest in affordable child care and long-term care.
- Lower energy costs and tackle the climate crisis.
- Trump's Project 2025 Agenda.
Safeguard Our Fundamental Freedoms.
- Restore and protect reproductive freedoms.
- Protect civil rights and freedoms.
- Trump's Project 2025 Agenda.
Ensure Safety and Justice for All.
- Make our communities safer from gun violence and crime.
- Secure our borders and fix our broken immigration system.
- Tackle the opioid and fentanyl crises.
- Ensure no one is above the law.
- Trump's Project 2025 Agenda.
Keep America Safe, Secure, and Prosperous.
- Stand with our allies, stand up to dictators, and lead on the world stage.
- Invest in America's sources of strength.
- Support service members, veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors.
- Trump's Project 2025 Agenda.
I didn't expand the twenty-three bullet points for this article. Online, each is expandable. I read the introductory material to the four key items and each bullet point under the key items.
The introduction to the first key item includes a link to New Way Forward for the Middle Class, an online, 82-page PDF file. The Table of Contents, on page 3, includes thirteen chapters in two sections. Glancing through the document, I was put off by the citing of so-called experts that are claimed to support Harris' economic plan over Trump's. I wondered why Harris, as sitting Vice President these last four years, has not already implemented her plan.
“Trump's Project 2025 Agenda” is the final bullet point under each of the above four key issues. Claims that Trump has a “Project 2025 Agenda” have been debunked several times. See, for example, “Project 2025 is an effort by the Heritage Foundation, not Donald Trump | Fact check.” USA Today, by BrieAnna J. Frank, 7/10/2024, and The Truth About Project 2025: The Heritage Foundation. Harris' statements about “Trump's Project 2025 Agenda” are false on the face of it.
Trump versus Harris on Key Issues
I am concerned about the size, redundancy, waste, and competence in the federal government. It should be downsized dramatically. Wasteful federal spending should be eliminated. The federal budget should be balanced every year. The national debt should be reduced and eliminated. The national economy needs to be strong. National borders must be secured. Giving illegal aliens free transportation, phones, lodging, and so forth is something that the federal government should never have even imagined doing. These and other issues are on my mind.
As a Christian and adherent to the biblical worldview, key issues for me are abortion (the killing of an unborn child in the mother's womb) and all efforts (i.e., critical race theory, cancel culture, so-called gender fluidity, and so forth) that contradict my worldview.
Former President Trump stands for the right of an unborn child to life outside the womb. In contrast, Vice President Harris, under “Safeguard Our Fundamental Freedoms: Restore and protect reproductive freedoms,” using euphemisms, affirms her desire to allow the killing of unborn children to continue. Remember, “reproductive freedom” and “a woman's right to choose” are euphemisms for killing an unborn child, for reasons other than to save the life of the mother.
Agendas such as critical race theory, cancel culture, so-called gender fluidity, and so forth are not in line with the biblical worldview. Former President Trump stands against those alternate worldviews. Vice President Harris, in contrast, under “Safeguard Our Fundamental Freedoms: Protect civil rights and freedoms,” touts her stand and actions that promote same-sex marriage and the LGBTQI+ lifestyle. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary: LGBTQI (abbreviation): “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (one's sexual or gender identity), and intersex.”)
Conclusion
On election day next Tuesday, Lord willing, I plan to hold my nose and vote for former President Trump. The reason is clear. The Republican Party and Donald Trump are more in line with the biblical worldview than the other choice.
Both candidates and parties need to tone down the rhetoric and display true statesmanship. I am not fond of Trump, but he is better than the other option.
If this nation and all nations could unite by following correctly the biblical worldview, then there would be unity and peace. A nation divided cannot stand. To be truly united, this nation and every nation need to unite under the biblical worldview. This three-part series ends with that hope in mind.
Happy Halloween!