America Given Over To Strong Delusion
Feb 22, 2016 21:13:09 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Feb 22, 2016 21:13:09 GMT -5
May you live in interesting times...
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America Given Over To Strong Delusion
A mob mentality governs a nation that despises scripture and demands a king for it’s ruler.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty….
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens….” – George Washington’s Farewell Address
Few will read the above quote from our First President and let his warning sink in as we watch the spectacle and debacle of this election cycle play out in front of us.
It’s 2008 all over again, except this time, instead of the mob ascribing all their hopes for change on a man running with a ‘D’ after his name, they do so with a man running with an ‘R’ after his.
As with the author of the following essay writes, I’m alarmed at the mentality that has swept up the people of this nation. Not so much over a single candidate , rather the insistence that a single man running for office is somehow going to save us all from the consequences we have sown for ourselves so handily in the past several decades. This is not a hit piece on The Donald, as this author has been appreciative of the ass-kicking Trump has been giving the Establishment. I’m worried over the mentality that has taken hold of those I at one time thought were on ‘my ideological side’ of the equation.
I ‘m convinced that the Executive will forever now be seen as either a Monarchy or a Dictatorship in the minds of those seig-heiling whatever vaunted political candidate is their messiah. And this is beyond dangerous for what remains of liberty and the tatters of the Constitution that still remain to restrain a federal beast.
For such a people are not capable of freedom or liberty. I perceive this people do not want a Republic or the foundational principles that founded it. They want a king. They want a savior, and they do not want any of us bringing God into this. They tell me to leave God in a box at church and shut up about the bible. They say this is about saving the country, not going to church. We are electing a president, not a pastor they insist.
As if choosing a leader who is not governed by biblical and moral principles is a good thing.
As if there was a shred of hope in saving the country devoid of God or the bible.
Fools.
This people will not accept the fact that if we are not governed by God, we will be ruled by tyrants. Under the delusion that this people willingly accept, they do not recognize tyranny anymore than they recognize sin. They justify both as good and right and normal, and who the hell are we to judge?
So they rally to men whom they think will save us and make us great again without the need for any kind of national repentance.
Where I disagree in part, with this author’s position – is the focus of his realization of strong delusion on the meteoric rise of Trump. I think if you replace Donald Trump with Barack Hussein Obama – you will conclude this nation has been under strong delusion for some time.
Half the country wants Communism/Socialism.
More than half are comfortable with making a man a dictator or king in order to achieve what they expect their Deliverer to accomplish on their behalf.
thewordonpolitics.com/america-under-a-strong-delusion/
swordattheready.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/america-given-over-to-strong-delusion/
America Given Over To Strong Delusion
A mob mentality governs a nation that despises scripture and demands a king for it’s ruler.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty….
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens….” – George Washington’s Farewell Address
Few will read the above quote from our First President and let his warning sink in as we watch the spectacle and debacle of this election cycle play out in front of us.
It’s 2008 all over again, except this time, instead of the mob ascribing all their hopes for change on a man running with a ‘D’ after his name, they do so with a man running with an ‘R’ after his.
As with the author of the following essay writes, I’m alarmed at the mentality that has swept up the people of this nation. Not so much over a single candidate , rather the insistence that a single man running for office is somehow going to save us all from the consequences we have sown for ourselves so handily in the past several decades. This is not a hit piece on The Donald, as this author has been appreciative of the ass-kicking Trump has been giving the Establishment. I’m worried over the mentality that has taken hold of those I at one time thought were on ‘my ideological side’ of the equation.
I ‘m convinced that the Executive will forever now be seen as either a Monarchy or a Dictatorship in the minds of those seig-heiling whatever vaunted political candidate is their messiah. And this is beyond dangerous for what remains of liberty and the tatters of the Constitution that still remain to restrain a federal beast.
For such a people are not capable of freedom or liberty. I perceive this people do not want a Republic or the foundational principles that founded it. They want a king. They want a savior, and they do not want any of us bringing God into this. They tell me to leave God in a box at church and shut up about the bible. They say this is about saving the country, not going to church. We are electing a president, not a pastor they insist.
As if choosing a leader who is not governed by biblical and moral principles is a good thing.
As if there was a shred of hope in saving the country devoid of God or the bible.
Fools.
This people will not accept the fact that if we are not governed by God, we will be ruled by tyrants. Under the delusion that this people willingly accept, they do not recognize tyranny anymore than they recognize sin. They justify both as good and right and normal, and who the hell are we to judge?
So they rally to men whom they think will save us and make us great again without the need for any kind of national repentance.
Where I disagree in part, with this author’s position – is the focus of his realization of strong delusion on the meteoric rise of Trump. I think if you replace Donald Trump with Barack Hussein Obama – you will conclude this nation has been under strong delusion for some time.
Half the country wants Communism/Socialism.
More than half are comfortable with making a man a dictator or king in order to achieve what they expect their Deliverer to accomplish on their behalf.
thewordonpolitics.com/america-under-a-strong-delusion/