What Happened To Rick Dancer?

Some Of You Aren’t Very Happy With Me

I hear the mumbling.

“What happened to Rick Dancer?”

“Why does he hate Donald Trump?”

“Why is he questioning our president?”

“Is he a liberal?”

“Why is he listening to Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, among others, on our no-fly list?”

What you liked about me three months ago, you now abhor.

My willingness to ask hard questions, dig a little deeper, and talk about things we’re not supposed to talk about, you now dislike.

It’s good when you agree with my questions, but not when you don’t?

Doesn’t work that way for me.

First, if the election were held today, I would still vote for Donald Trump.

But I don’t agree with the direction he’s taking right now, and silence isn't an option.

I believe the Democratic Party is crumbling and has lost its way.

When I voted for Trump, he was against going to war, changing regimes in a country, endless wars, and he wasn’t afraid to spit in the face of the establishment.

I love that about the man.

And look at all the hate he got for doing what he and many of us thought was the right thing.

I don’t see that Trump right now, and it concerns me.

What concerns me more is how quickly some of you jump all over people like me, Tucker, Megyn, and many others, who dare to challenge the direction he is taking America. You don’t listen to what these people are saying; you listen to what the media says about them. It’s what we dislike about the legacy media, but we fall for it when conservative media follows the same playbook.

Rather than consider our thoughts, you do just as the liberals did during the Biden regime, support censorship of such ideas, badmouth us, or repeat the propaganda laid out by those who spend hours crafting the right messaging rather than doing what Trump used to do, tell us the truth, no matter how badly it hurts.

I, and the others mentioned above, still think President Trump is the man for the job.

What you don’t seem to hear us saying is our concern that something in his approach has changed and not for the better.

The truth is out there, but for us, the so-called little white lies are getting in the way.

The president, with no filter, developed one or was forced to, and we don’t like it.

Do me a favor, reread that last line. There is something of deep spiritual truth in that golden nugget.

That’s our concern, that’s what makes us uneasy.

So, consider for one moment that we are not enemies but are reading the same book in different chapters.

I read something in “Streams in the Desert” this morning that spoke to me; perhaps it will resonate with you as well.

“Christ is building His Kingdom with earth’s broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken in building their kingdom, but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth’s broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore.”

I am called to ask questions. I am not called to be successful.

I cannot base my life on what people think of me.

When my life is over, I am not accountable to you or to what you like or dislike about me.

God won’t care how many followers agreed with me or how many “likes” I got on social media.

He will care that I listened, that I asked, and that I tried to find the truth.

I will stand, as you will, before God alone.

That’s both a sobering thought and one that gives me great comfort and the courage to push on.

Have a great Sunday.