Did our Founders foresee our Republic's demise or
dissolution? In a word, unequivocally.
When in 1787 Dr. Benjamin Franklin stepped outside
Independence Hall in Philadelphia wherein delegates from the various States had
fashioned our Constitution, he was met by a woman who eagerly asked if we had a
monarchy or a Republic, to which Dr. Franklin famously replied, "You have
a Republic, madam, if you can keep it." And as it turns out, keeping our
Republic has been a very tall order-- indeed, an abject failure.
From that point forward, our Republic's unraveling
began for all the reasons our Founders had wisely anticipated.
Today, in what conservative Mark Levin has
insightfully characterized as America's "post-constitutional period",
it should be both sobering and, indeed,
alarming to realize that 3/4 of our federal laws have been promulgated, not by
our elected representatives, but by a faceless, heavy-handed and essentially unaccountable
bureaucracy, effectively supplanting bedrock republican principles of
governance with imperious bureaucratic rule.
Alien ideology, self-serving party politics, cynical
political pandering, a destructive squandering of our national wealth to
provide bread and circuses to nurture dependency, the dumbing down of a
politically correct population, relentless attempts to legitimize immoral
behavior, a calculated effort to destroy our
religious foundations and the traditional nuclear family, and widespread
ignorance of or hostility toward our foundational constitutional principles,
have conspired to bring this country to a tipping point of economic collapse
and political suicide.
Astute historians and students of human behavior,
the Founders well-understood and apprehended the age-old tendency of human
nature to corrupt the best laid and loftiest plans of man. Below is but a
sampling of some very astute observations and warnings offered up by our
Founders and other historical figures which should give us all pause:
"I
agree to the Constitution...and I believe, further, that this is likely to be
well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism,
as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted
as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
Benjamin Franklin
"Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"Our
government is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will
pass to destruction, to wit, by consolidation first, and then corruption...The
engine of consolidation will be the federal judiciary; the two other branches
the corrupting instruments." Thomas Jefferson
"The
spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments
in one, and thus to create...a real despotism."
George Washington
"If
Congress can employ money indefinitely, for the general welfare, and are the
sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of
religion into their hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county,
municipality...and pay them out of the public treasury; they may assume the
provision of the poor...Were the power of Congress to be established in the
latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute
the very nature of the limited government establishment by the people of
America." James Madison
If
destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a
nation of freeman, we must live through all time or die by suicide."
A. Lincoln
On the matter of "soft tyranny”, this: "The will of man is not shattered, but
softened, bent, and guided--men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are
constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents
existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes,
and stupefies a people, till the nation is reduced to be nothing better than a
flock of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the
shepherd." Alexis De Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" (1830)
Do we accept the awful reality of our situation and
soberly prepare for peaceful and orderly dissolution, or do we, at our own
peril, accommodate and embrace the Godless Progressive agenda and their
authoritarian reordering of our lives? This is the critical question before us.
And when you hear Progressives proclaim the virtues
of democracy over and over again, remember these sinister quotes:
“Democracy
is the road to Socialism”: Karl Marx
“Socialism
is the road to Communism.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Got
it?
In the throes of wishful thinking, complacency, confusion,
fear, anxiety, anger and uncertainty, with one voice patriots have yet to
define a clear remedial course of action going forward. But, time is running
out, and seizing upon a practicable remedy to our political and economic miasma
cannot be far off.
Whatever form that remedial course of action may
take, when faced with the looming threat of political oppression and economic
self-destruction let us always rely on the wise counsel of our Founders.
Let us never surrender to the utopian assault. In
the end, bullies are bullies, and always back down. Standing up in unity to
these soulless vermin must be our sacred mission.
“Never
give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty,
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to
force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Winston Churchill
