It's Monday, August 22, I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The midterm elections, like all major elections, in a country like the United States, where

elections are so prominent, those elections are barometers of major moral change, political change to be sure, but moral change,

the cultural landscape is changing before us.

You can think of elections like this, particularly presidential elections, but also the midterm elections, as very clear indicators

of future moral direction.

Now that can be corrected at some point with a future election, but one of the things we need to note is that

when moral progressives'ism moves the meter to the left, even when it's moved back

to the right, it's not moved back to where it was before the progressive action or the

progressive trajectory took place. Now as we're thinking about the current midterm

elections here's what's really really interesting. If you were to go back

just a matter of a few months, given President

Joe Biden's incredibly low popularity ratings, given the economic indicators

particularly high consumer prices and inflation, the indications would be that the

Democrats are in for a shellacking in the midterm elections. In general, midterm

elections tend to go against the party of the incumbent president. That's just the

way it works. If you have a Democratic president, traditionally Democrats lose

at least some seats, if not losing a significant number of seats. If a Republican is the incumbent president during the midterm

election the same thing is likely to be true the exceptions have been

rare and furthermore if the economic indicators are poor as the

voters go to the midterm election, the incumbent and his party, they're punished

even further. And if the incumbent is unpopular and those popularity ratings are now pretty well documented.

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