We can blame the politicians. We can castigate them mightily, and we should, because they have—both parties—become a liability to the nation, wholly untrustworthy, corrupt and self-centered. Hey, Republicans: “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small” (Proverbs 24:10). Maybe no thought in human history describes gutless Republican Party politicians better than that. Here is one that perfectly pictures the Democrats: “Every intent of the thoughts of [their] heart [is] only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). Back to the days of Noah…
But, yeah, while we can, and should, reprimand politicians of both parties, who is really to blame here? Who elects the politicians to office? Ultimately, the American people have no one to blame but themselves for the condition of their country. “The government you elect is the government you deserve” (Thomas Jefferson). It’s our fault, and it is totally inexcusable.
Here are some recent headlines worthy of note, and tell us about some abominations the American people are now unforgivably tolerating:
- From The Gateway Pundit (on “X”): “HORROR: Previously Deported Illegal Alien Charged with Triple Murder After Stabbing 2-Week Old Baby, Mother, and Grandmother—Released from Jail FOUR TIMES in California!” (emphasis in original). This is, of course, repulsive, and no decent country would put up with it. But, as we know, it happens with barbaric regularity in modern America. The American people let it happen. Americans elect the politicians who let it happen. Americans have no one to blame but themselves.
- From “Libs of TikTok” on “X”: “Giant progressive pride flag hanging outside @salemkeizer school in Oregon. Why would a K-12 school promote child mutilation to kindergartners??” The people of the state of Oregon could stop it if they wanted to. They allow it to happen, so it becomes quite obvious they don’t want to stop it. Complete degeneration.
- From The Liberty Daily: “Late Friday Ballot Dump Propels Nithya Raman Closer to Spencer Pratt as Doubts Mount Over Election Integrity.” Barring an intervention by God, Spencer Pratt hasn’t got a prayer of winning the LA mayor’s office. The Democrats will do whatever is necessary to prevent it, and the people of LA won’t prevent whatever the Democrats do to prevent it. Countless such headlines could be produced to demonstrate what Americans are allowing to happen in their country today. This isn’t what America was supposed to be. This isn’t what America should be. This isn’t what any honorable, upright country should be.
But it is what the Democrat Party is trying to make America into. And only the American people can stop it.
The Democrat Party’s definition of a “free,” “great” country is to promote and have as much promiscuity and licentiousness as possible. Let the people live as morally unrestrained as they wish, no virtuous barriers. Let half the people live off the labor of the other half. Let violence, filth, barbarism, and law-breaking have free rein. The Democrats hate the country and have convinced countless people that America deserves all the above because of her past.
But, of course, the true definition of a “great” country to Democrats is one where they have all the power, make all the rules, and everybody obeys them. That is a perfect description of the Communist Party in China, and it is exactly what the Democrat Party wants for America. Licentiousness and the other things mentioned above—including the three headlines I quoted—are simply their road to achieving that. And the only people who can stop it from happening…are the American people. We’ll get what we deserve. We’ll reap what we sow.
I do not want to—will not—blanketly condemn every American. There are millions of good, decent, God-fearing people remaining in the country (Townhall readers, for example). But because of the pure evil of the Democrat Party and the spinelessness of the Republicans, we live in a very dark period in American history.
The three headlines I shared above are thoroughly disgusting, abominable, unworthy of any, even semi-civilized, people and country. The fact that they are happening in America is a sad, tragic indication of how far the nation has slipped into moral slime and decadence. Again, millions of Americans do oppose these things, but not enough.
About 100 years ago, the above would have been utterly impossible for the nation. But today, the Democrat Party has become so evil that sin, perversion, licentiousness, and just about any other kind of degradation one can imagine is acceptable to enough Americans that they let it happen. And vote for it. The only conclusion I can reach is that too many Americans are so unalterably selfish that they don’t care that fellow Americans are being murdered by barbarians or that children are being murdered before birth, or groomed and butchered after birth for the pleasure of sexual perverts. Countless Americans don’t care. Period. If they did, they’d do something about it.
We rail about politicians, and yes, our political leaders have a responsibility to lead, to point the way to righteousness, godliness, and virtue. But very few of them—and no Democrats—are doing that. So, the politicians certainly do share some of the blame. But in a representative democracy, the people rule, government is by the consent of the governed, and Americans get the government they deserve because it is the one they elect. And the filth is deep in the American people, or the above things would never have happened. But they do happen and with regularity, and it is, ultimately, the fault of the people.
And the filth and decadence won’t stop until the American people decide to stop it. And that doesn’t appear to be anywhere on the horizon.
But a final, hopeful thought: it is always darkest before the dawn. Let’s hope that a period of dawning will soon arise over American skies.
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