A couple of quotations to begin this article. The first from a recent column on “Business Today:”
“America’s national debt has shattered the $37 trillion mark, triggering alarm across financial and policy circles as the cost of simply paying interest approaches $1 trillion annually, a level that could soon choke the federal budget and cripple core government functions. As of June 20, the U.S. government owes more than the entire economy produces in a year.”
This is utterly obscene, of course, but it is what the American people have let their government do.
The second quote is from Thomas Jefferson, in his inaugural address as President, March 4, 1801. After listing several fundamentals that would make America a better nation, he said, “still one thing more [is needed], fellow citizens: a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
I have written many times and will continue to write it as long as the Good Lord gives me breath on this earth, that the number one problem in America today is moral. It is not political, economic, or social, but a human, moral obstruction that underlies all the others. It is humans—us—that have let our government become so wasteful and profligate. Profligacy—waste, fraud, abuse, bribery, theft, corruption—is, first and foremost, a moral issue. And the American people have let it happen. No moral person, or nation, spends more money than they take in, except in brief emergencies. And that is primarily a moral failing. Clean up the immoral rot in America, and profligacy will stop. We could have the “wise and frugal” government Jefferson said we needed to “close the circle of our felicities.” But it’s never occurred in human history and hasn’t, and isn’t happening, in our nation.
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The Democratic Party has been infiltrated by the most evil people on this planet. They are only challenged by the Chinese Communist Party and terrorist thugs in countries like Iran and North Korea. But the Democrats are worse because they should know better. Our country was founded upon Judeo-Christian moral values, the greatest and highest the world has ever seen. China wasn’t built upon such a thing; they don’t have that heritage. And the Democratic Party has completely—and deliberately—rejected that superior Judeo-Christian moral tradition for godless, atheistic, Marxist decadence. The Democrats have no excuse. They are pure evil. When half-wit John Fetterman is the only person in your party speaking even a modicum of common sense and rationality, your political party is very, very sick. But the Democrats do not, WILL not, see that. Deliberately.
The Democrats have simply lost their minds and souls, and with it their consciences. They have fled all connection with reality, decency, science, history, God, and common human sense. The Democratic Party has jumped completely off the cliff into total irrationality, degeneracy, and stupidity. And they show absolutely no sign of turning around and heading in a moral direction. They appear fully determined to destroy the country that gives them the freedom to do just that.
And it’s not just Democrats. The Republicans ARE better, but not by much. They usually wimp out and cave at the worst possible moments (e.g., “same-sex” marriage). And don’t forget, a whole lot of that $37 trillion of profligate debt happened under Republican Presidents and Congresses. Politicians, on both sides of the aisle, are corrupt and completely devoid of true human decency and virtue. Or “wisdom and frugality.”
But as decadent, as scummy as our politicians are, Democrats AND Republicans, it is ultimately the fault of the American people. We elect those reprobates, and we refuse to remove them. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. “The government you elect is the government you deserve” (Jefferson).
We keep electing immoral refuse who are wasting our resources, exalting freaks, perverts, butchers, thieves, and murderers, and dragging us into a flushing toilet bowl. Whose fault is that?
It hasn’t happened overnight, except from an overarching historical viewpoint. Seeds take time to grow. They do not sprout immediately, which is one of our historical ignorance's greatest problems. If we do not have the proper historical perspective, then, like the frog in the pot, we sit there, and let the heat rise and slowly cook us in our blitheringly stupid unawareness. We simply do not study history to learn the long-range effects of certain eternal principles, lessons history has repeatedly taught us, lessons like the horrors of a government-run…anything. In America, these seeds have finally grown and sprouted into fruit. And that fruit is rotten and poisonous. And the American people are gobbling it down as fast as they can. That is the harvest of ignoramuses we have self-produced over the past few generations.
A welfare system that encourages sloth instead of hard work, that “takes from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned”; a military-industrial complex that wants to fight wars all over the globe; a dissolute political party that doesn’t even know the difference between a man and a woman…yes, seeds eventually sprout.
Many have put their hopes in Donald Trump to stop it, but the task is too gargantuan for one man. And nobody is Jesus reincarnated, though Trump is light years ahead of ANY Democrat. The immoral weeds, produced by decades of the planted seeds of misguided morality and profligate policies, will not be eradicated in a few months—or even a few years. And Americans must first wake up to what they are doing.
And it appears as though not enough have truly done that yet.
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