The current frightening and disastrous Republican Administration is not really the root cause of our problems, it is actually the natural result of decades-long decay and corruption in our society. Sadly, our government is a reflection of what our people have become.
For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.
This should be cause for sober reflection among the members of my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, because most of them who live in the United States voted for an ignorant, immoral, narcissistic, convicted criminal, to be President of the United States. Many of these would-be “Saints” voted for the guy 2 or even 3 times!
The polls seem to indicate that the orange one continues to lose popularity, among all groups and on every issue, but I have no idea how many Republican Latter-day Saints have finally awakened and repented for their part in the encroaching darkness. The first step in repentance is to recognize you have done something wrong. It can be hard to recognize one’s own culpability and admit that you have been blinded by lies and darkness.
Moral outrage
Writer Neal Gabler has written an interesting piece suggesting that, perhaps, America may yet be saved by a sense of moral outrage. I strongly recommend reading the entire article (link below). My particular interest is whether, at long last, the members of MY church are seeing the evil for what it truly is (after having been given many clear examples and warnings in the Book of Mormon!).
Gabler posits that the President’s falling poll numbers may be the result of people finally awakening to their sense of what is right and what is wrong. Here is a part of what he wrote:
Morality just might be making a comeback.
Here is how I read the polls:
Trump is losing support for his destruction of Medicaid because taking away people’s healthcare is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support on cutting Food Stamps because denying poor, malnourished children food is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support on his hacking away at medical research because depriving us of medical advances is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support on insisting climate change isn’t a real problem because ignoring global warming is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support because terminating the Department of Education and the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Voice of America and other federal agencies that help Americans and American allies is wrong, and they know it.
He is losing support because his self-interested attacks on law firms and universities and independent media are wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support because transferring FEMA to the states and refusing FEMA aid to blue states is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support because firing federal workers on the false pretense that they are wasteful and fraudulent is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support because giving aid to Israel while ignoring Palestinian starvation, and playing footsy with Vladimir Putin while giving and then withdrawing and then giving again and then withdrawing again aid to Ukraine is wrong, and Americans know it.
He is losing support because many Americans now realize how much USAID contributed to saving lives and he is wrong — dead wrong — to have killed it, and Americans know it.
He is losing support because vaccine denial is wrong and deadly measles outbreaks are unnecessary, and Americans know it.
He is losing support — and we haven’t even begun to make a dent in the list — because all his instincts, everything he does, is wrong. Everything.
And people are beginning to notice, finally, and perhaps too late, that he is so thoroughly transactional that there is no morality in him whatsoever, no moral gene, and we miss it. We miss right and wrong. They are like old friends who went AWOL. And many of us want to welcome them back.
– Neal Gabler
Are we ready to return to moral principles?
Do your LDS Republican family, friends, and neighbors miss the days when (most of) our political leaders felt bound by a sense of morality – of right and wrong? Have they started yet to question the actions and motives of the lazy, corrupt, big-money Republicans they voted for? (I’m looking at you, Stuart Adams, Mike Lee, and Spencer Cox). Are they finally ready to live the generous loving Gospel of Jesus Christ and abandon their loyalty to the selfish hate-filled gospel of MAGA?
I know many of us stopped discussing politics long ago with certain family and friends in order to keep the peace. But, at this point, with armed, masked, secret police grabbing people off the streets, and the economy sinking, and disease spreading, and our former allies working around us, maybe it is time to ask these people, “Have you had enough yet?” “Have they gone too far for you, yet?”
If you find anyone who seems to be opening thier eyes, please share the story with me. I’m running out of hope….
Source:
Neal Gabler, “‘Because It’s Wrong’ — How We Might Save America From Donald Trump“, Who What Why, August 16, 2025.
I agree that many in our country are beginning to express moral outrage and act on it. The sad thing is, I don’t see it happening with many members of the church, at least in Utah. There is still a lot of worship of money in our state. It seems that everything is about acquiring money, but not fulfilling our responsibilities when we have it, such as paying for education, housing, wages, healthcare, or welfare. We give to our own but not to those different than us. I think many in the country are changing to see the immorality of that attitude, but members of the church are slower to react. It’s sad to me.
“…but I have no idea how many Republican Latter-day Saints have finally awakened and repented for their part in the encroaching darkness.”
To the degree they have not awakened this is largely due to the Church owned Deseret News’ silence on Trump. That paper is where LDS go to see what is safe to think and what is safe to think about. I do not understand the News’ silence. Are they afraid of Trump? Do they like Trump? A combination?
I think the Church probably likes most of Project 2025. That may explain some of the DesNews silence.
I thought about this as I sat in Sacrament Meeting yesterday. Everyone comes in and catches up with their friends and then church starts. Sacrament is revenant. Then two guys from the Stake speak and while they were good talks, they were typical talks…I felt that there was just something missing. We are given a general authorities Conference talk as subject matter and to add some personal touches to them (I understand this) but we are told to be careful not to offend anyone. It all seems stale and same old, same old to me. It feels like something is missing or something is wrong…
Thank you for your courage and insight
It’s all over. Trump has summoned troops from all over the country to seize the Capitol. Soon he will do the same in other cities. It is all over, and the Church has done nothing to slow this down. Our democracy is done.
Speaking of morality. The Deseret News blackout on anything Epstein persists. What’s up with this?