Rants and Raves

There has been a haunting chain of events taking place as our new President chooses the people who will rule this country, and I wonder just exactly what any of us can do to stop it. Certainly, these events began long before our current leader’s time, and have continued for generations, but never before has such a level of corruption been so transparent. And so unanswered.   

We now have multiple officials being placed in the highest offices in our nation despite not having paid their fair share of tax contributions for excessisve amonuts of time. There are even more officials who have openly recieved appalling amounts of money from various corporations and foreign countries in exchange for political favors that may or may not be harmful to the American people, all without any sort of reprimand or recourse. We have “former” terrorists teaching in our schools, proclaiming the righeousness of past bombings on American soil, and being given the highest level of credibility from the same highly corrupt institutions who will instantly terminate anyone who might speak of God in their classroom or refuse to teach “soft” science (global warming, for instance) as hard fact despite the growing number of opposing scientific viewpoints. 

What have we come to in this country when we no longer allow our young scholars to openly debate both sides of these important issues? What do we tell our veterans who fought and bled for us, losing friends and family alike to the enemies of freedom when we demonize them without justification for performing their duties to the best of their abilities? And there should be no doubts as to who those enemies are when they have openly declared their opposition to allowing any Americans to continue to breath as long as cold blood runs through their veins. What can Christian parents tell their children when the school teaches them morals that are exactly opposite of those they learn at home? Or when they aren’t allowed to pray or even speak God’s name for fear of some thin-skinned God-hater taking offense?

All of the American offenders would be the worst sort of criminals if they didn’t have the endless resources to avoid any kind of scrutiny or investigation. All of the foreign enemies would be as good as dead as they plot against our citizens and successfully kill our soldiers if they didn’t have so many friends in high places to smooth things over for them. In both cases, the media, (if we can even call them so anymore) gives passes freely as they sympathize with every anti-American agenda. And why not? Those criminals make them money, and give them opportunities for fame; who wouldn’t betray their country for that?   

I wouldn’t, for one. And there are millions of people like me who wouldn’t either. Millions of us are disgusted with the place that these people have brought us to, but we feel helpless in our tiny abilites to make a difference. Are any of us perfect? No. Absolutely not. But to all people who would listen, I have a message that needs to be heard loud and clear. For conservatives and liberals, Christians and atheists, freedom lovers and terrorists, democracies and dictators, the message is the same: 

Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Hatred blinds, no matter its percieved justification. Lies only breed more lies until no one can trust anyone. We have gone too far, and it is time for a massive correction. We must turn from our ways or be destroyed by our own addictions. We must stop! I can say it no other way. 

I was always confused by the expression “History repeats itself” until I looked around and started comparing our “unprecedented” times to the same ones we experienced not so long before. We have been here before, and countless nations have been here before us. The actions have always been similar, if not identical, and the results have always been the same. When a cancer grows unchecked, or even fed to the exclusion of the rest of the body, it will grow to obstruct every healthy thing until nothing is left but the cancer. 

God help us all if we cannot, or will not, listen to His reason.