A few quotes to begin this article, quotes which I fear too often describe too many “leaders” in the Republican Party.
1. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
Can you say “SAVE Act”?
Can you say “child mutilation”?
Can you say “men in women’s sports and bathrooms”?
Can you say “illegal immigrants”?
2. “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes.” (attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others). "Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it." (Jonathan Swift)
The greatest success error has ever had is convincing countless numbers of people that its lies are the truth. The “Big Lie” is that eternal truth does not exist.
3. “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.” (Exodus 23:2)
Notice, please, that it is a “multitude” that does evil. For whatever reasons, the “multitude,” the “majority,” everywhere and at all times, has always pursued the “evil,” and, in this verse, God, through Moses, felt compelled to command the Israelites not to do that. Well, a subsequent reading of Old Testament history reveals that the Jewish people didn’t obey God’s instructions in Exodus 23:2, any more than anybody else in history, including modern Americans, has ever done. We never listen to God or learn from history. It is part of the problem with both political parties in America today.
The Democrat Party, and its evil, Leftist philosophy and morality, has unquestionably taken over American culture in the last few decades. Many things that we had never even heard of when I was a child (in the 1950s and ‘60s) are commonplace now, accepted by huge numbers of, and often by most, Americans, and some of this crass decadence is not even debated anymore. Abortion, homosexuality, pre-marital and extra-marital sex, same sex marriage, “MAPs” (“Minor Attracted People”), child “grooming” and drag queens, transgenderism, men in women’s sports and bathrooms, child mutilation for sexual purposes, the “f” word as common as dirt, criminals as “victims” and allowed to roam the streets at will, illegal immigration, a massive welfare system that enslaves millions to government, people urinating and defecating on the streets—these, and similar things, are the culture the Democrat Party has given us, and defends as mightily, and often as violently, as they can.
Some of the things mentioned above were indeed totally unheard of when I was young; some were happening, and we knew it. But those who practiced them were ostracized from society to protect our children (especially) from such decadence and filth. “Men don’t kiss each other,” Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) told his robot friend Hymie (twice) in episodes of the popular 1960s comedy, Get Smart. Yes, in the 1960s, homosexuality was a perversion, and we all knew it. But don’t say that today.
Our language and Hollywood are much to blame for this—except, We, the People, have allowed it—it is now gutter language. I know a retired American living here in Thailand and the only adjective he knows is “f***ing.” I’m pretty sure he’s a Democrat, but it isn’t uncommon language in “conservative” circles, too. The Democrats have led and we have trotted right along behind—following the multitude to do evil. We’ve redefined evil in order to find solace and justify our current lusts and cultural decadence. And evil triumphs, not just because good men do nothing, but because “good” men do the same things! How do we ever expect to bring people back to truth and righteousness when we are as degenerate as they are? If we talk like they talk, go where they go, fornicate like they fornicate, do what they do, well, we’ll end up exactly where they are, if only arriving a little bit later. That’s the Republican Party today.
Folks, we aren’t just in a battle over political agendas and how much money the government is going to waste. We’re in a fight for the hearts, souls, and minds of men, for America, a fight of good versus evil, truth versus lies, righteousness versus decadence and depravity. If Republicans don’t even know the war we are in, how in the world can they ever expect to win it? Republicans like Sen. John Thune (R-SD) have no clue who the enemy even is, what they should be fighting for, what Democrats are fighting for, and thus what Republicans ought to be fighting against. So, is it any surprise we’ve been getting our butts kicked for the past few generations?
Democrats know exactly what they want. Too many Republicans don’t understand what Democrats want, or what they must do about it.
Another example (one among countless I could give): Republican Derek Dooley is attempting to gain the GOP’s nomination for Senate in Georgia this year against John Ossoff. Recently, Dooley said that he may have to consider “both sides” of the illegal alien question. There is absolutely no doubt that, if elected to the Senate, Dooley would compromise on illegal immigration. He would give the Democrats what they want—just like the Republicans, for generations now, have been giving Democrats everything they’ve craved. Ultimately, on this vital issue of our time, what is the difference between Dooley and a Democrat? Well, he says he would consider “both sides,” which Democrats never do, of course. But do you have any doubt which “side” Dooley would end up on after he has announced, publicly, his willingness to consider the Democrat Party’s position?
Dooley would compromise because he is a weak man of no strong moral character. He would “follow the multitude (Democrats) to do evil.” And he has many, many cousins in the Republican Party today. And that is what is wrong with the Republican Party. Doing nothing—or doing the same things—and allowing evil to continue to triumph.
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