By Liberthea Anadara

I do not normally read the NEA Town Courier. I picked it up today. On purpose. To test the spirit. I wanted to see what was moving through the local news. What was being said. What was being hidden.

I found Steve Brawner’s column on redistricting. Politicians redrawing maps to choose their voters instead of voters choosing them. Primaries deciding elections. General elections becoming formalities.

He is not wrong.

But I wanted to test the spirit behind it. Not with political analysis. With scripture.

Isaiah 10 says: “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed.”

Redistricting to silence certain voters is not governance. It is control. It is an unjust law. It deprives people of their voice.

Ezekiel 34 says: “You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.”

Politicians who draw maps to protect themselves are not shepherds. They do not care for the flock. They care for their seat.

Hosea 8 says: “They have set up kings without my consent; they have chosen princes without my approval.”

The political system is not ordained by God. It is built by men. And men have corrupted it.

This is not about one party. Both do it. Both benefit. The problem is the system itself. When voters do not choose their politicians, it is not democracy. It is a cage with a voting booth inside it.

I am not writing to tell you who to vote for. I am writing to tell you to test the spirit. Ask yourself: Is this system serving the people or serving itself? Is my vote a choice or a rubber stamp?

The Bible says: “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins” (Revelation 18:4). That does not mean leave the country. It means stop putting your hope in a system that has abandoned you.

Build something outside it. Local communities. Mutual aid. Land trusts. Doors that are not controlled by the people who draw the maps.

Vote. Yes. But do not stop there. The kingdom is not of this world. Neither should your foundation be.

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Liberthea Anadara picked up this newspaper to test the spirit. She is a survivor of spiritual abuse, now working on decoding trauma hooks and building doors for others.