I remember how much I enjoyed learning about axioms and idioms in school. And the short explanation was simple to remember. Axiom: general rule of thumb. Idiom: an accepted expression. And as I hear about (because I don’t watch) the “speaker vote” in America’s so-called “house of representatives,” a variation of a particular idiom comes to mind.
The speaker vote won’t float your boat.
That’s a play on the idiom, “whatever floats your boat.” And that means whatever makes you happy. So, connect the dots, and I’m saying I believe the speaker vote won’t get a result that’ll float your boat.
Unless you’re happy with the political charade that attempts to pass itself off as a necessary process of government. And if you’re happy with truth giving in (and giving up) to that process. Yeah, if those results float your boat, more power (and by more power I mean less) to you.
But my prediction (I’m not a prophet, so I only predict) is that when the dust settles from the vote for speaker of the house, America will not be better off. Maybe not worse off, but certainly not better.
Because the frog has been in the water too long.
Uh-oh. Was that a shaded reference to another idiom? No. It was a reference to the frog in boiling water metaphor. The idea is that if you were to put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it would immediately jump out. Or at least try to jump out. But if you were to put a frog in a pot of cool or lukewarm water, then incrementally increase the temperature, the frog wouldn’t jump out. And it would eventually boil.
Oh, great. Now I’ve got a craving for some frog legs.
Anyway…
I’ll explain my metaphor. The frog, aka: house of representatives, has been in the water, aka: political process, a long time. So, the “frog” hasn’t noticed how hot the “water” has gotten. Because the “frog” has compromised truth and lies for so long, it doesn’t (translate: refuses to) it believes everything is just as fine as, well, frog’s hair.
Because the process must go on. Votes must be cast. Speakers must be elected. And if some truth and justice has to be compromised, in the process, so be it.
Come on in, the water’s fine.
Am I cynical? Axiomatically speaking, not most of the time. But when it comes to government, oh yeah. I’m cynical. Because I know the sad, but general rule of thumb, aka: axiom, is that the majority of the members of congress will not see the Kingdom of Heaven. And that’s because of their lack of an eternal perspective. And their bad decision as a result.
So, since they’re unwise when it comes to their soul, why would I believe they’re wise in political matters? Answer is, I wouldn’t.
But I know the speaker vote will happen regardless of my worldview.
And I know there will be some who applaud the results while others act like they’re upset about it. But, for the most part, it won’t make frog leg’s worth of difference to you and me. We’ll still be tyrannically taxed, unjustly manipulated, and systematically subjected to unrighteous “laws.”
That’s why my faith is, and has always been, in the one, true, living, loving King of all creation. Not congress and political process. Because they are now merely subverted shadows and fading echoes of Jesus who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
So, that being said, I’ll finish up my rant with some words to a song my brother and I wrote and performed on choir tour back in high school.
Have you ever talked to a frog,
Listened to his deep-throat reply?
Do you think that he must be sad?
Have you ever heard a frog cry, when
He gets both of his legs taken,
Stuck in a bag of flour and shaken,
Thrown in a big, black fryin’ pan…
By a man?
Hey, I was a teenager. Cut me some slack. (Yeah, that’s an idiom.)
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