Several times I have thought to myself, “At this point in time, with the abuses and overreach of power that the government has continually pressed against us, the founders would have sought redress and/or rebelled long ago. So, why have we not?”
One can say that there are several reasons and not be wrong. We, as a nation, have become wealthy, and with that wealth comes a level of fear and laziness. Fear of losing one’s job, house, or any other way in which one might measure their wealth. Lazy because we still can eat, watch TV, go to sports games. If we are enslaved but get to live as free men, then why do anything? Or perhaps it is because we are a civilized people and we live in a country of laws, and therefore we must go through the processes that have held this country together through all manner of catastrophes and turmoil.
Before I state what I think is the true reason, I’d like to dispel the last reason first. Let us ask ourselves, is that really the case? Are we truly a nation of laws? The true question isn’t, “Do we have laws?” rather “Do we abide by the laws?” I do not believe that we do. For this, let us only examine our most basic laws, the Constitution.
In the Constitution, we have that all men are to be treated equally under the law. However, it seems pretty clear to me that we have a two-tiered justice system. One for the rich and powerful, and one for the everyman. Think of how the Clintons can get away with anything, same with the Bidens. If you’re a famous Hollywood star, all you ever have to deal with is rehab or nothing at all. We have that all legislative power goes to Congress, however, all that power has been handed over to unelected bureaucrats who pass so many regulations it is impossible to know the laws. We have a right against unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant, but the FISA courts and drug laws circumnavigate that. We have a right to free speech which is being suppressed by the government through private companies.
This is just a summary overview of some deeply ingrained injustices which we face in this country that I believe almost certainly cannot be overcome. But there might just be one last thing that might save us from disaster.
The one thing that separates us from the founders, the one thing that I believe is the reason why they would have fought back in one form or another a long time ago and we haven’t is simply because they were moral, virtuous, religious people, and we are not.
To put it simply, a moral, virtuous, and religious people do and fight for things that are right regardless of the consequences because what is right is worth preserving. People who are not moral, virtuous, or religious only care about how things affect themselves. Only care about if they have the right to keep sitting in their chair on the bus instead of giving it to the older person and not if it is the right thing to do.
As a country, we mercilessly murder children in the womb, consume pornographic material prolifically, we tell children it’s okay to have sex as long as you wear protection, we give less value to intact families with a mother and a father as we do to broken families or gay families, we let mentally ill people roam around free on the streets instead of keeping them somewhere safe where they can be taken care of, we drug, dumb, and distract ourselves from the difficulties in life.
Often I see people say when looking at places like San Francisco, Portland, New York, Detroit, Austin and so on, that they deserve what is happening to them because they have voted for it. They get a government that reflects themselves. Yet, they never hold this standard to themselves. These people say that they stand for good morals, virtues, and religiosity, but by their standard, their government would suggest otherwise.
Until we become a moral, virtuous, and religious people again, there is no hope for this country, and we will continue to throw ourselves towards annihilation.
So, then the question is, how do we become a moral, virtuous, and religious people. It’s quite simple, we do as the founders did. We go to church, we read the good book, we believe in what it says about us, about life, about God, and about Christ. Next, we apply all of that to everything that we do. In our families, in our work, in our communities. Then, and only then, after all that hard work and dedication to what is good and true, will we see a change in those who represent us.