I guess you could say I’ve spent my life as a wordsmith, as a preacher in pulpits and as a writer with a pen. As such, I’ve learned the importance of being precise in what I say, lest what I say be misunderstood or misrepresented. One of President Trump’s glaring weaknesses is his impreciseness in the things he says. He often speaks off the cuff, extemporaneously, without any forethought of exactness. For instance, he recently said at a campaign rally in Michigan, “You know, our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID. You know that, right?” Thanks to his misspeaking, Trump’s injudicious jabber has since been misconstrued into a malignant incrimination of physicians fighting for the lives of their patients during our present pandemic. Consequently, the condemnation of our president over his imprecise prattle has become the bannered headline over the closing days of his presidential campaign. Progressives, physicians, and the press are all roundly and readily condemning him for making doctors out to be COVID con artists who are only interested in padding their lab coat pockets with ill-gotten gain.

Federal funding, which has been allocated to aid hospitals during our current coronavirus pandemic, is allotted to hospitals according to the number of coronavirus fatalities reported by each hospital. In other words, the more coronavirus fatalities a hospital reports, the more federal dollars that hospital receives. This fact has undoubtedly resulted in the exaggeration of coronavirus deaths by hospitals seeking to fill their coffers with more and more federal funds. Although President Trump miserably failed to clearly communicate this supportive evidence for his contention that coronavirus deaths are being exaggerated by hospitals, I believe this is what he meant by his ambiguous assertion that “doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID.”

Now, the reason I’ve addressed this is not because it is of paramount importance in and of itself, but because it points to something that is clearly important. With the major issues we have on the table in this presidential election—many of which could prove positively transformative to our republic—what does it say about the precariousness of the American voter when he or she could be persuaded to vote one way or another over something like this? It is a scary thing to consider that voters in America can be persuaded who to go to the polls for by nothing more than a single instance of bloviated babble, especially when their vote may determine whether America remains America, whether their constitutional rights and freedoms are defended or discontinued, or whether they will be served by their government or subjugated by it.

Frank Luntz, Fox News’ political pollster, proclaimed yesterday that this presidential election is being determined by persona; that is, by which presidential candidate’s personality is preferred by voters. According to Luntz, many voters, even many who voted for the president in 2016, are turned off by Trump’s temperament and tweets. They feel Biden is the more congenial of the two candidates. Therefore, they’re casting their ballots for Biden, because he, far more more than Trump, gives them the warm fuzzes.

It was Winston Churchill who famously proclaimed, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Undoubtedly, the imbecility of our present-day electorate has our country on the precipice of totalitarianism. While I personally find Luntz’s persona voters ludicrous, I find undecided voters even more imbecilic. According to Luntz, as well as all other political pollsters and pundits, the destiny of our republic is now in the hands of undecided voters, those brainless ballot punchers who can’t make up their mind until the last minute. Oblivious to what’s at stake, these procrastinating peabrains wait for a wild hair to hit them at the polling place or in the voting booth. Isn’t it comforting to know that this presidential election is now in the hands of these “eeny, meeny, miny, moe” voters?

While I’m not sure we should take much solace in it, since divine retribution may soon descend upon our God-forsaking nation at our own request, this presidential election is in the invisible hands of divine providence. It is not in the hands of politicians, pundits, pollsters, the press, or poll goers, but in the hands of God. It may be that God, in His mercy, will see to it that this election gives us a short reprieve from the inevitable divine retribution to come. On the other hand, it may justly unleash the wrath of God on us, when God, in His vengeance, gives us exactly what we’ve voted for!