Dear Friends of Jesus:

We’re about to face a barrage of information and spin reminding us that an upcoming election is an existential choice, perhaps the most important election of our lifetime. Unless you count all the other elections on which hinged the future of Western civilization itself. Safely banking on our faulty short-term memory or our susceptibility to national frenzy, those who profit from fostering voter turnout are stoking the engines of anxiety for us to fall once again for the dominance of politics above all other spheres of human consideration. The key motivator which will have us again at each other’s throats is the demonizing of the other. Campaign propaganda will serve to ratchet the otherwise banal choice between politicians