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Inspired by, and intended to be in appreciative dialogue with, Steve King, as quoted in David Drum's "Peace Talks: The Good News of Jesus in a Donkey Elephant War." p. 82

"Our ultimate identity is not as Elephants or Donkeys but sheep who belong to the utmost King, Jesus Christ. Our supreme citizenship is the kingdom of heaven, and we bring its' values into all our political engagements for the glory of The King of all kings!"

[I do wonder, quietly, within my compassion therapy brackets, if Steve King images Earth's Prince of Peace as the utmost King of all triumphalistic evangelical omnipotent kings, rather than suffering servant messianic Son of Man, because of his white patriarchally privileged last name?]

Our current political identity is not exclusively red conservative or blue liberal atheist/humanist We are also pissed off sheep who have gone astray of richly green domesticated economies, instead red enslaved, blue judiciously penned incorporated property belonging to the utmost OmniPotentating Jehovah Descending from a long royalist blue blood-hierarchy of Straight White Male red-blooded religious and political and economic privilege. Our anti-PatriarchalCapitalist anger is our potential bipartisan win/win supreme civil citizenship delivering us from this Sky Is Falling Kingdom of win/lose zero-sum nationalistic segregated purgatory And, we bring our angry fearful, anxious depressed bicameral values into all our cisbinary/transbinary political EitherOr/BothAnd economic religious reconnecting neuro-sensory co-passionate engagements For the woke glory of Earth's Green SabbathQueen of polyculturally robust HeavenLight inviting eweing/ram yintegral-yang Co-binary co-governing co-operative co-invested co-passionate ego/ecosystemic win/win co-enlightened bipartisan empowerment.

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