And So It Goes
By Valerie Protopapas
And so the final blows
fall around us, in our institutions and on our streets, and we can say as God
Himself once said, “It is finished.” He said it of His great work of
redemption, but we can now say it of the noblest experiment of government ever
attempted by man—the “united” States of America.
As in all things, we
today witness only the end of a long train of evils which has led to these
final blows. It actually began in 1787 when the convention called to amend the
weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation was hijacked by men—including many
so-called “Founding Fathers”—to accomplish what was in fact illegal
under the terms of the Articles—that is, to revoke that light yoke of union and
create a far more restrictive and dangerous ruling document that came to be
known, paradoxically, as “the glorious Constitution.” In a way, it is almost
amusing to hear so many “modern patriots” call loudly for a “return” to the
Constitution when, in fact, what we have 225 years after that document’s
ratification is the very result predicted by those who rejected it at the time.
But the Constitution was
only the beginning of the effort to destroy a representative republic and
replace it with an Empire ruled by a central authority. The destructive nature
of the so-called “federal government” became more and more obvious as the union
that President George Washington prayed would be “the first love and guiding
duty of Americans,” became a matter of sectional self-interest, political
corruption and economic despotism. Quickly (by historical standards), the former
free association of (formerly) sovereign States became a contest of power and
money based upon section. One section, the South, read the handwriting on the
wall and tried to make use of the much vaunted Constitution to withdraw from
what had become for them political impotence and economic bondage. Former
United States Senator and the first—and only—President of the nation that those
Southern States constitutionally created, Jefferson Davis, said many
years after the bloodiest war ever fought by Americans,
“It is a satisfaction to know that the
calamities which have befallen the Southern States were
the result of their credulous reliance on the power of the Constitution,
that if it failed to protect their rights, it would at least suffice to prevent
an attempt at coercion, if, in the last resort, they peacefully withdrew from
the Union.”
One cannot but wonder if
we listen carefully enough, the ghost of that great Virginia patriot, Patrick
Henry, can be heard calling from his tomb, “Ego me dixi vobis!” (I
told you so!)
Lincoln’s war of
conquest and consolidation put the final nail in the coffin of the already
dying republic, replacing it with an empire eager for conquest and
consolidation. Nonetheless, for all of their suffering and death, the Southern
people were fortunate. Unlike the American Indian, they were permitted to
continue to live in a state of quasi-freedom. Many today believe that they
eventually acquired actual freedom with the end of reconstruction,
but, in fact, by that time the rest of America’s liberties had been eroded away
until there was little or no difference between the South after
reconstruction and the rest of the nation without it. The only thing
that grew stronger was the central government–and this is how it has continued.
For a while, a sort of equilibrium remained because the nation retained its
Christian moral heritage, most strongly in the South. But the
communist/socialist philosophy of Marx’s American statist disciple, Abraham
Lincoln, was not to be denied. Slowly, over the years, “progressives” like
Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and others worked to grow the
power of the central state to encompass ever wider areas within the lives of
the People. Of course, this was often done with the best of intentions and, at
the time, some of these efforts did achieve some desired good (such as TR’s
efforts to provide Americans with healthy food and drugs). The problem,
however, was that these “good intentions” were not and have never been amenable
to limits! Since the concept of states’ rights had been destroyed in
the mis-named “Civil War” and the states reduced to nothing more than
bureaucratic entities within that central government, there simply was no way
to curb Washington’s growing power.
The major stumbling block
to the creation of an all powerful State was, as noted, America’s “Christian
culture.” This was well known and efforts to undermine the morality of the
People in order to create the “New World Order” began even before the end of
the 19th Century. Educators and philosophers such as John Dewey
brought their atheism and humanism into the American educational system with
the understanding that America would never be free of Christian influence until
it was destroyed in the young. In time, that branch of the central government
most feared by Thomas Jefferson, the judiciary, moved not only to increase the
power of government—and especially that of the judiciary—but to strike
down Christian influences in the culture as well as in government. It was a
deliberately slow process because the People were still feared if not
respected—and politicians are generally more venal and self-serving than
idealistic.
But it does not take a
brilliant scholar to realize that if such judicial rulings by the courts as
abortion on demand and “gay marriage” had been attempted before 1950, the
outcry from the American People would have quickly ended such unholy and
perverted policies, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court! But little by
little, America’s values were worn away and little by little, Americans
themselves became as corrupt, venal and wicked as their rulers. Churches in the
name of “social justice” embraced policies that directly contradicted the
teachings of Christ and their own doctrines. What we see today was best expressed
by British poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) who wrote,
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
we first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
The result of this
“embrace” is that fewer and fewer Americans identify themselves today as
“Christians” which is absolutely correct. Even many of those who continue to
use that description believe and live in such a way as to make their claims
ridiculous. Indeed, the only “religion” today that can boast of serious
adherents is itself more bloody and blasphemous than the worst of humanism’s
canons as the Crescent once more threatens to turn the world into one bloody 12th
century caliphate. Ah, where are King Richard of the Lion’s Heart and Prince
Eugen today? Instead, we have a conglomeration of pathetic capons who fear
offending the wicked more than they wish to protect the good. In truth, we have
the “leaders” we deserve.
But the killing blow to
“the great experiment” was not delivered by a communist-Muslim mulatto
homosexual foreigner whose ineligibility for his office both in talent and
credentials was well known—and ignored—neither was it the result of the
machinations of an atheist Jew whose vast fortune is the product of destroying
nations and betraying his own people to their exterminators, nor of a Muslim
prince who, four years before Barack Hussein Obama was foisted upon the nation
confidently predicted that a Muslim would be in the White House—in four years.
No, the killing blow came from none other than “We the People.” No longer able
to resist corruption or maintain our morals because our once great Christian
ethic had been replaced by the utilitarian creed of atheistic Secular Humanism,
Americans have chosen what Milton once described as “…bondage with ease rather
than strenuous liberty.” Of course, what Americans don’t realize is that
“bondage with ease” is impossible. As fewer and fewer of the productive
struggle to bear the burden of more and more of the unproductive and
of the cost of the ruling class, the time must surely come—and soon—when that
“bondage” will make of ante-bellum slavery a light and easy yoke.
No, we cannot blame our
enemies. God knows, they made their intentions very well known throughout the
years from Hamilton to Obama. Sadly, we have proven that nothing of value lasts
and eventually, the greater is supplanted by the lesser. Thus, as of today, we
no longer have the shoulders of giants upon which to stand but instead must
watch the spectacle of our demise from the sewer of a culture we ourselves have
allowed to be created.
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