It's Monday, June 3rd, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. It is no small thing

that over the course of the last several days there have been at least three

countries massive elections and in the case of India when we say

massive we really do mean massive.

So we're going to be looking in just a moment at the election in India,

also the election in South Africa,

and furthermore beyond that the election also that took place in Mexico.

Now we don't have the final results in any of these elections and that's not actually the point.

The bigger worldview point is that elections are now taken as normative in much of the world.

Indeed, elections are now taking place even in places where we would not say that a

constitutional system of government with constitutional freedoms exists.

There are elections in totalitarian regimes.

There are elections of sorts, even in places where you have a practical dictatorship, you have

basically an operational totalitarianism, but

there is at least the pretense of elections.

One of the ways that was made very clear in the 20th century was in so many communist regimes. You could start with the Soviet Union, you could go to much of the eastern block.

There were elections that were presented as being legitimate because the government craved legitimacy.

But of course, most of those elections were not

legitimate at all. The point in terms of worldview analysis is that these regimes

nonetheless felt that they had to have the kind of legitimacy that is offered by an election. Now we take that for

granted in the United States and we need to understand however that this is really a

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