For all the efforts at controlling language and the meaning of words, new words and new lies, the actual purposes behind the “Great Reset” or “Build Back Better,” or behind “equity” and “anti-racism,” “social justice” or “vaccine” can be clearly seen and understood. Indeed, it is amazing how quickly actual Americans can grasp the truth should it be placed before them. We do have to overcome the problem of various media outlets – digital, broadcast, print – being so wedded to agendas, even “narratives,” that truths and facts that belie them must be suppressed. Some will literally purvey the opposite of those truths in order to defend their adopted positions.
The impact of a dishonest “press” is immense. The value of a “free press” in a republic cannot be overstated; a large part of that value is informed skepticism of those in power. Implicit in that value is honesty… truthfulness. The historic tendency of government types to arrogate ungranted (by ‘we, the people’) powers, is legendary. In the presence of tyrannical government an obsequious press makes good business sense; an investigative, “muck-raking” press is in danger. Our present circumstance provides a lens through which to view the nature of “news” and information-media, today. But a bit of historical perspective, first.
No functional constitutional republic has ever been successfully subverted by socialist tyranny, or fascism. There have been many constitutional republics by description, but they were, or are, responses to earlier military or revolutionary governance periods. Their populations never have shared beliefs in economic or moral philosophies; their factions have not been able to compromise for the national good. Some do exist today, having rejected mainly socialist/fascist tyranny –those for the decades since the Second World War.
The United States is the oldest and most successful of them, all. This nation grew from primarily Christian sources. Despite a history of conflicts in Europe, competing royal “houses” and kingdoms, the moral philosophy of Europe was part of every country, as was, essentially, economic philosophy. The greatest “inventions” to come out of Judeo-Christian Europe were democracy, banking, double-entry accounting, and civil structure like courts and republicanism. In other words, the means for civil order and dispute resolution among disparate peoples were imported to the New World. The concepts of the Magna Carta, parliamentarianism and private property, trade and profit, and of social welfare, were planted in America’s soil. Combined with a sense of freedom and individuality abetted by physical separation and insulation from Europe, all the components of a new way to govern and organize were here. Enter the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
However, like any contract or covenant, the Constitution is only as good as the integrity of its “parties.”
The “Founding Fathers” could never have conceived of the divisions that have been created since 1789. Divisions, or “factions” in the 18th century were more, well, practical than those that have erupted since the mid-nineteenth century. Madison and others were developing a people-up granting of power to a limited government. The alternatives were monarchy and militarism. The “world-view” was formed within a basically Christian belief structure. It was obvious – essentially unquestioned – that people would strive for freedom. It was equally obvious that individuals would exercise responsibility for themselves and their families. There were no alternatives and no concepts of alternatives. That a large minority of Americans might agitate and even riot FOR the imposition of tyranny, was an idea virtually no one held upon the ratification of the constitution.
No one should hold it today, either, but here we are.
Since the Garden of Eden, mankind’s ability to dilute the Thesis with Antithesis has proven artful, intricate and continuous… until Marxism. For thousands of years humans have managed to compare their individual sins to those of others that seemed worse, placing the former, psychologically, more on God’s side than the latter, yielding levels of tolerable civilization and sanction that enabled generally better conditions and real “progress.” Looking back, the wise observer can see that great evils were unleashed as monarchical and theocratic institutions grew in sophistication and military prowess. Each advance in technology enabled advances in control of populations and economies while fitfully improving living conditions. As communications became individualized and less architectural, via printing, so did the growth and refinement of grandiose theories of control. Theories of government, economics and philosophies spread from many minds, not just religious or powerful ones. Western civilization entered a period of revolution that has not ended.
The concepts of Communism represent the final step of antithesis, or opposition to the Word of God. Most avowed Marxists are too ignorant to know that Marx, himself, proclaimed the existence of God and his, Marx’, declared opposition to God. Marx was destined for Hell, in his own words. His mission was going to be realized through revolution based on economics and he defined “oppression” based on owners of production, as a class, and workers, as those oppressed, as a class. It was too neat and could not destroy freedom, either economically or spiritually. It did provide the basis for the death of 100 Million to 200 Million people – murderous enough to disprove Marxist theory, one might conclude.
The ability to subvert freedom, which is to say, to subvert the Constitutional Republic known as the United States of America, required a long-term plan on 5 fronts: education, religion, elections, law and communications. The means to accomplish Marxist subversion did not exist until the digital age, or, essentially, since 1980.
The “Press” had been transmuting itself since Watergate, moving closer and closer towards advocacy for leftist points of view. As leftists are wont to do, owners of leftist media became more concerned with the social/political change that would encourage more widespread leftism among the population, than about the business aspects of their publications. As a group they were ready for the ability to shift America to the left. Computerization and, since 1983, the internet, completed the needed toolkit. News and web-based information has both proliferated and become less-trusted since then. Indeed, Americans are divided, in one way, simply by the name of the news source we watch or read. News has become a matter of belief and, sadly, hatred.
Education has enjoyed over 100 years of subversive transformation, first as so-called “public” education and, as leftists and anti-Christians took over teaching and the certification of teachers, states’ licensing and teacher education at the college level, private education became infected, too.
We are reaping that whirlwind, now manifesting in the epidemic of transgenderism and public policies of removing parents from the education and even development of their children.
Our system of laws is the fundament of our successful survival as a Constitutional Republic. Further, EQUAL justice under the law, which is to say, equal application of the laws, is our basis for equality of individual citizens and for the basic honesty of our business and other contracts. Interleaved amongst all of our legal relationships is equal responsibility of every adult, parent, employee or business owner, public employee or elected official, to follow the laws and bear the consequences of their actions, good or bad. With the grossly tilted elections of District Attorneys who so disagree with law enforcement as to ignore crimes rather than prosecute them, and with elected officials, even Presidents, who blithely ignore the Constitution they swore to uphold, the rule of law has become tattered and misshapen and, now, only barely the basis for the protection of citizens or their civil rights. Watching riots and un-restricted looting in many cities, promulgated by a political hatred for a president and by communist efforts to dissolve society, and specifically NOT resisted by municipal and state elected authorities, leads any observer to wonder what directives or orders from elected authorities or their police forces even are worth. Mob violence and threats of violence, as in the weird case of George Floyd, penetrates into courtrooms and juries. When they cannot uphold the laws, then any citizen might wonder whether the laws he or she doesn’t agree with may also be ignored?
As for law, itself, we are staring down a steep slope toward social disintegration. Without equal application of the laws, there is only tyranny. When illegal aliens are not held even to the laws that govern citizens, but to looser ones, or where individuals arrogate the power to undo legislated legal codes and refuse to enforce laws of their own choosing, as many District or State’s attorneys are now doing, there is only tyranny or anarchy – sadly, the goal of militants amongst us.
Subverting elections became a science in 2020. The leftist media uniformly deny that the election could possibly have been stolen; “there is only the occasional error or attempted voting by a few ineligibles, but nothing of any significance.” Subverting elections is almost the perfect crime. Not only are there but a few weeks in which to investigate and examine “evidence” that has passed through many hands, and the same short period within which to files lawsuits against people who are only tangentially responsible for pieces of the evidence and who have no interest whatsoever in helping a complainant find evidence against their employer(s), but there is equally as much intransigence among courts and jurists who may have to run for their positions and who can’t / won’t avoid political realities.
Added to the built-in difficulties and limits to the ability to bring a case, are the media who have already proclaimed a winner, particularly when the winner is on “their” side. Immediately upon “calling” a race the media are aligned against a challenger who claims the election to be fraudulent. After all, everyone “knows” that claiming fraud is merely a right wing conspiracy theory. Who wants to be seen as helping those crackpots – or, in the case of Donald Trump, that crackpot above all? Careers are on the line, small and large. In a presidential election, cases must be brought in multiple states all within a 5- to 6-week window. Once an election result is “certified” by the state involved, the likelihood of proving statewide fraud or even fraud in a few cities, is essentially gone. If a state IS found to have certified a fraudulent total, there exists no mechanism of enforcement – or agency of enforcement – to require deeper investigation or recalculation or re-certification of its votes. A perfect crime, and all the criminals are hapless bureaucrats.
All of the “new disintegration” of America is both abetted and celebrated by modern media. Even social media – ostensibly non-press – must be included in this wave of anti-Americanism and anti-Christianity. Because media companies have their butts on the scales, the information that screen-addicts absorb is tilted severely leftward and anti-morality. Social media, combined with the mostly leftward tilt of cable and broadcast “news,” leave large swaths of Americans receiving partial, yet “comfortable” information that need not threaten even the oddest beliefs.
So, on the 5 key institutional frontiers, while things look far from rosy, there are scattered bright spots. Disappointingly, churches are largely becoming more liberal, more “politically correct,” when what is needed is a more unified adherence to gospel. The jury is out on the mid-term success and survival of organized Christian churches. Because of this, the same question applies to Western civilization. The role of the United States of America and its citizens, is exceptional. As we rush to dis-avow that role, we seem oblivious to the consequences to the whole world and to ourselves. God bless us and save us, everyone.