Those
who believe in the founding principles America—God, hard work, individual
initiative, virtue, responsible freedom--have become the minority in the
country. A clear, distinct minority. And those who believe in government
dependency, group identification, and “every man does that which is right in
his own eyes” have become a decided majority.
It happens, every time, in the history of peoples. It was inevitable in America, and it has
occurred. America has reached the point
of no return.
It
is possible, I suppose, for the Republicans to elect another President in the
future. But at the moment, it is hard to
see how. It appears the Republicans would
have to nominate a pop star, someone deeply rooted in the cultural rot that now
infests the country, someone more at home on David Letterman’s show and “The
View” than a serious, respectful, dignified man who will talk to the American
people as adults, not adolescents. It
will be difficult for the Republicans to find a candidate like that.
Furthermore, the Republican Party will have to concoct a strategy to out-give the Democratic Party; just to be brutally honest, creating dependency and promoting moral debauchery is what the Democrats are all about. There is nothing spiritually positive about their digressive message. It is all about taking from the hard-working, productive sectors of the society (which discourages such behavior, of course), distributing it to those who have no shame in accepting what they have not earned (encouraging that kind of behavior), and egging on as much lewd moral behavior as possible, which also creates reliance upon government to rescue such people from the consequences of their own conduct. Such behavior has been in the ascendancy for a few decades now, and since it is now clearly in the majority, how can the Republicans ever hope to win a national election again without appealing to it and further encouraging it? Oh, they can win in local areas where there still exist pockets of freedom and decency. But national elections will be increasingly problematic. It will be interesting to see what strategy the Republicans adopt. How can they appeal to Hispanics and blacks? Those two groups, huge minorities and growing, trust in dependency; it’s all they have ever known. As a whole, neither of those ethnic groups believes in hard work and individual initiative and personal responsibility. I don’t mean to be slandering those people and it has nothing to do with race; at the risk of being nauseatingly redundant, it’s history! The culture Hispanics came out of, from colonial Spain to the Latin American countries, is a culture of one-man rule and dependency. As a whole, they have not assimilated into America, indeed, they demand America change to accommodate them. The Republican Party offers them everything that, historically, they don’t understand and, yes, fled from, but not knowing—or being taught—anything else, they will surely revert to the patterns they are accustomed to—government submission and dependence.
Blacks
are the same way. Africans—on that
continent—obviously have no history of a wealth creating economy, and with
Southern slavery, and now welfare slavery, huge numbers of American blacks
still understand nothing about the process.
The Democratic Party keeps them in slavery today—reliance upon
government. It’s not called slavery, of
course, but that’s basically what it is.
Blacks could leave it, but they won’t.
Why should they? They can have
everything they want, given to them by the Democratic Party, without having to
work for it. Blacks aren’t going to vote
against the hand that feeds them. That
liberalism has basically destroyed the black family and greatly degraded them
as a people is something that, tragically, black Americans cannot see. As a whole, they have not been able to break
away from their addiction to government; it has been no easier for them to do
so than for a drug addict to sever his dependency. What can the Republicans put forward to
counter it? Responsible freedom is no
longer popular in the United States.
The
“Tea Party”—the Romney supporters, the people who built America, the people who
make it work—are now the minority. An
increasing number of Anglos are even turning against the founding principles,
and there just aren’t enough left any more to elect someone of those
beliefs. Perhaps the next four years
will be such a disaster for the country that there will be a backlash in 2016
and a Republican can win the presidency again.
But the last four years have been horrible, too, and Obama won re-election
easily. The understanding of moral and
economic law is virtually nil in the majority of Americans today. They can be easily demogogued and the
Democrats are much better at that than the Republicans are. There is at least a little bit of honesty
left in the Republican Party (though not much).
The Democrats have no morals at all, except when expediency demands
it. And, increasingly in America, as
this current election shows, expediency is not
demanding it.
Ultimately,
as I’ve said before, America’s problem is not economic or political, America’s
problem is moral and spiritual; it’s not an imbalance on the bottom line of a
budget, but a rot deep in the hearts of too many people. It doesn’t matter what kind of government a
country has, if it has lousy people, it’s going to be a lousy country, and it
will elect lousy leaders—a reflection of that populous. A nation can exist, for a while, on the
moral, spiritual capital of preceding generations; Rome did it for a rather
long time. An old building can stand for
an extended period if it has a strong foundation. Hosea announced Israel’s unavoidable doom at
least 40 or 50 years before it happened (Hosea 1). So there’s no timetable here, only an
inevitability.
There
is no perfection, of course, in either political party or in any human
being. Mitt Romney was a better option
than Barack Obama, but the Republican candidate wasn’t ideal, either. Perfection exists only on the other side of
the grave. We can point the way, but we
cannot force humans to believe it. And,
if we are wise—which very few people are—we will study the Bible and history to
learn its lessons. Since so few people
do that, nations decline and fall—the predictable outcome of ignoring God and
His will.
Now
it is America’s turn. It was, frankly, ultimately
inescapable from the beginning of the nation because Americans really aren’t
special, they are humans, too, and subject to all the inexorable laws of God
and the consequences of rejecting them.
We are the lucky ones who get to watch it.