“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue
in the people is a chimerical [fanciful] idea” (James Madison).
“If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.” (Madison)
America has always had murderers, of course, thugs, criminals, lewd fellows of the baser sort, etc. But what we're witnessing today is different. We're not seeing the isolated criminals who individually breaks away from societal mores, who is a social outcast, maybe mentally deranged, certainly morally so. No society in human history has ever escaped that sort of insect, which is why men have always resorted to some form of government (supposedly) designed to protect them from the dangerous animals who walk on two legs.
But individual treachery is not what is happening in America today. What we're seeing is an entire ideological movement of hatred, selfishness, and violence. This is not individual; this is ideological. This is what the Left IS, it’s what it believes, it’s what it has done for over 100 years now in various parts of the world, and it has taken over the Democratic Party in the United States, and is now the ideological foundation for half the country. No, this is not the isolated monster who roams our streets. It is 100% the ideology of the Democratic Party. They are fully behind it and that's not the way it was before.
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
(Madison)
America is certainly one of the most well-blessed countries in human history, the richest, the most generous, the most giving, though we certainly have had our faults and sins in the past. We are, and always have been, composed of imperfect human beings. But for most of our history, we were guided by an “enlightened religion,” as Thomas Jefferson called it in his Presidential inaugural address in 1801. We knew—though again, imperfectly practiced it—what was right and what was wrong, and the vast majority of our people—excepting the isolated gargoyle who, as noted, has existed in every human society—strove to live by it. Knowledge. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Yes, we knew that. It’s ingrained in our history and founding—which is why the Left hates our Founding Fathers, not because of slavery—with rights which come from our Creator, not government, the latter being what the Left and the Democratic Party believes nowadays. “Education is useless without the Bible,” Noah Webster said, understanding—as all Americans did—that the purpose of education was far more than just teaching children how to add 2+2 or read McGuffey’s Readers. Education, first and foremost, must be a moral endeavor, it must instill virtue, righteousness, and quality character into the very heart and soul of the individual. It must find, and root out, the evil that dwells in every human heart, and point citizens towards excellence, self-control, self-sacrifice, honor, integrity, truth, and goodness. We used to know that. Some of us still do.
But somewhere along the way (thank you, John Dewey, they don’t have any air conditioning in hell, do they?) we let the godless, atheistic, immoral, power-hungry, pleasure-seeking, hedonistic, pagan Left take over our education system. They don’t believe in God or the Bible, so they make up their own rules for mankind. And is it surprising that every one of their rules benefits them in some way?
Our country grew up knowing that “enlightened religion” and what it took to “secure liberty and happiness,” and that only “virtue in the people,” and NOT GOVERNEMENT could do it (read the Madison quote at the beginning of this essay again.) We knew that for most of our history. The Democratic Party has not forgotten it, they have simply spit on it, rejected it for blind, godless licentiousness and promiscuity, and the hope of political gain and wealth.
They are evil people, they follow an evil ideology, they are teaching evil things to their followers, and we are seeing the fruits, over and over again, on the streets of America, in our buses, on our university campuses, and everywhere else these vile creatures can work their godless heathenism. If people are taught evil, if people aren’t taught godliness, excellence and virtue, then don’t be surprised when Frankenstein monsters, when Neanderthal savages, walk the streets in untold numbers.
Our only hope of salvation is to educate the rank-and-file members of the Democratic Party—since they apparently refuse to educate themselves—about the ideology that is the foundation of their party. My sister, for example, is as sweet as any human could possibly be. She would no doubt condemn the violence against Charlie Kirk and others, but she votes Democrat, and she doesn't understand. She has no clue about the historical and ideological background of the Democratic Party, that is not just a set of political beliefs that opposes Donald Trump (whom she hates), it is an entire system of thought, a godless one, that not only justifies mass murder, but wants this kind of violence and chaos in order to gain the power they crave. The rank-and-file Democrat doesn't understand that. They should. They have no excuse for not doing so. I understand it perfectly well. Why can’t they?
I fear that most of them just don’t care. And they rationalize it—“too many guns”—in order to pursue their self-centered life of pleasure and hedonism. We are destroying ourselves from within. As long as the violence doesn’t get too close to them, they can justify it. Such people are no better than their masters, for ignorance is inexcusable when evil is sweeping the world.
Someday it will be too late. But there’s no excuse. There never is.
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