{"id":772,"date":"2024-10-21T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/?page_id=772"},"modified":"2024-11-05T03:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T03:16:05","slug":"affordable-and-safer-america-goals-2-2-2-2-4-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/?page_id=772","title":{"rendered":"Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"772\" class=\"elementor elementor-772\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f8ff0b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f8ff0b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a3c78de e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a3c78de\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44b43ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"44b43ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 30.0pt\">Goals<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa0278b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"aa0278b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Neighbors-1-1024x740.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-30\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Neighbors-1-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Neighbors-1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Neighbors-1-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Neighbors-1-1536x1109.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/affordableandsaferamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Neighbors-1-2048x1479.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7660ecc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7660ecc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n \t<li>Encourage civil and reasoned discourse about the issues of our day.<\/li><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n \t<li>Encourage voters to make policy and how policy impacts the lives of people their primary interest. It is a travesty to reduce our vote to a personality contest, most especially when we live in an era when it is so easy to twist or fabricate a personality. The most trustworthy statement on the character of a politician is the policy he or she works to advance.<\/li><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n \t<li>To be thankful for the consideration for others shown by those who voted based on how policy impacts people, near and far.<\/li><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n \t<li>To consider who or what shapes our view of the character of a candidate and if the sources we use are trustworthy or biased sources in regard to that candidate?<\/li><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n \t<li>To help the Christian consider how to vote in light of what Jesus claimed were the greatest commandments: \u201cLove the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is, Love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d \u2013 Mark 12:30-31<\/li><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n \t<li>To help those who have entirely or greatly limited their sources of information to anti-Trump sources to begin to consider other points of view and truly think about the good they can do and the harm they can prevent with their vote.<\/li><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\n<\/ul>\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\nLike any cult, there are levels to how deep the cult message becomes embedded in the mind of a cult member, with the highest level being, &#8220;Defeating Trump is the highest good, regardless of the methods used to eliminate Trump or any possible consequence to anyone.&#8221;<\/span><\/h6>\n\n<h6 class=\"docx_normal\"><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: 20.0pt;\">\nIt is not coincidental that an alliance grew between Trump, RFK, Jr, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. 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