Trump Derangement Syndrome certainly comes with some strange symptoms. There are, of course, any number of reasons to not like the president elect. I could give you a quite long list myself, though I’m sure anyone could compile a voluminous list of reasons not to like me. TDS, which has reached pandemic levels after the election, is a whole other matter.
We’ve witnessed hollow promises from celebrities to leave the country. We’ve seen the emotional meltdowns. We’ve seen pundits blame Kamala’s loss on Latinos being racist and married women being sexist. We’ve seen hair cutting rituals, uglifications if you will. We’ve seen unions calling for national strikes, and random threats of shooting white males.
Now we are seeing public pledges from female TDS sufferers to abstain from sexual conduct with men. They are, to punish Trump supporters, refusing to fornicate. They are taking TDS inspired vows of chastity. I, for one, wish them well. I think it’s a great idea for all women to stop fornicating. It’s such a great idea, I’m in favor of all men doing the same. In a spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship, may I encourage not just TDS sufferers, but Trump supporters to link arms in making such vows.
Often the vows are connected to the single greatest accomplishment of Trump’s first term, appointing Supremes who overturned Roe. “If we can’t slaughter the children you sire,” these gentleladies seem to be saying, “we won’t put ourselves in circumstances where we might conceive.” Kinda makes you wonder if there just might be not just correlation but causation in the radical spike in fornication rates since the original Roe decision. Maybe the legal freedom to murder increased the sense of freedom to fornicate.
When God blessed Adam and Eve with the marital act, He did not restrict it to the context of marriage between a man and a woman as some kind of loyalty test, or out of a sadistic desire to make us squirm. He did it to bless us, just as is the case with every word of His law. He doesn’t take from us but gives to us. He always knows better than we do.
It will be interesting to see, in the coming months, whether this particular symptom of TDS will diminish. Will it have the same staying power as the celebrexits that never seem to happen? If not, it will be interesting to see how many lives will actually improve. God blesses our obedience, even when it is motivated by spite. We stumble upon the blessing. The men who would be cut off would likewise find blessing. And maybe there will be marriages made and children born and blessed.
The God of heaven and earth makes straight lines out of crooked sticks. He overturns Roe via a man known to be less than gallant toward women, and who blamed pro-lifers for poor Republican showings in the mid-terms. He may use that same man to spread TDS and in turn to slow the raging waters of the ongoing sexual revolutions which have proven to be nothing but mass suicide. Stranger things have happened.