If the form of government in the United States were an hereditary monarchy, people would more readily understand the nature of the current threat it faces.
Though the word monarchy refers to rule by one individual, every king or queen actually relies upon others to carry out their will. These ministers are like the organs and limbs of the monarch’s political body. Obviously choosing the right ministers is the practical prerequisite for the survival of the sovereign’s rule. Many an incompetent king has found his rule undone due to his poor choice of counselors or generals. In such an instance, there may come a point when some of them form a cabal to overthrow his rule. Though every day they still bow and show outward deference to his will, they have already made sure that all the key instruments of executive power are staffed by people they can count on, people who see their future power, status or benefits flowing from the treasonous ministers, and not the king. Though all have gone through the motions and spoken the words that signify their allegiance to him, their purely selfish interest has replaced the root of honor or piety that should hold them in good faith.
Sometimes a few old retainers, still loyal to his house, realize the danger and try to save the king. They strive to organize and rouse to action forces still loyal to the oath that binds them to defend his person and carry out his will. They go through the motions of outward courtesy toward those they know to be their sovereign’s enemies, biding their time as they prepare to thwart the coup d’état that will once and for all decide his fate. Like the period of so-called “phony war” that followed the German invasion of Poland at the outset of WWII, such a divided royal court endures a period of “phony peace” that masks the incipient civil war already under way in the kingdom.
In outward form, the United States of America remains a democratic republic. Sovereign authority reposes in the body of the people of the United States, acting in and through the Constitution that ordained and established its government. The sovereign is not the people simply. That would not be lawful government, but lawless tyranny. The sovereign is “the people -in-Constitution”, a concept somewhat akin to the “king or queen-in-Parliament” of the old British monarchy. But the Constitution represents the sovereign’s deliberate and publicly proclaimed decision to confine the use of government power within the boundaries of justice and respect for the common good of all the people. It defines the institutions and procedures of government with due regard for those boundaries.
Through periodic elections, this Constitutional sovereign selects the counselors and ministers who are supposed to represent and carry out its will. For some time now, the American people have made what proved to be incompetent choices. It seemed for a time that the incompetent results were just a matter of poor performance by people still loyal to the sovereign’s rule. Since the 2008 election, however, it has become increasingly clear to many that it is also a matter of allegiance. The Obama faction and its RINO fellow travelers in the GOP, clearly and openly reject the concept of constitutionally limited government power. Though still claiming to act on behalf of the people, they willfully ignore and seek to replace the institutions and procedures that reflect the people’s just claim and commitment lawfully to govern themselves. For the sake of the material benefits that will supposedly flow from their new arrangement of power, they manipulate the selfish interests of some to secure their cooperation in destroying the sovereign liberty of all. In this way they are forming the nucleus of the power with which they intend to replace that of the Constitutional sovereign. Biding their time, they complete the infrastructure for a supposedly progressive dictatorship of the people that will in fact mask the renewal of the age old subjection of most people to the whims and passions of a few who claim to be their “betters”.
Unlike the coups d’état of old, this one is not intended to culminate in some single day of reckoning. Rather, like the projects of urban renovation that have changed the nature of life in some areas of our cities, the intention is to leave standing the outward façade of Constitutional sovereignty while demolishing its inward parts, replacing them with the apparatus of totalitarian control. Behind the civil mask of “phony peace”, the progressive dictatorship will manage an incipient civil war that ceases to be a prelude, and becomes a way of life. For in the end, tyrants are forever at war with the people they dominate. This, the ancient warrior and thinker Xenophon rightly portrayed, in his classic dialogue (Hiero)on tyranny. And his insight is confirmed by the terrorist or warrior regimes of our own experience, from open warfare states like North Korea, Syria or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, to the covert states of war in China, Venezuela and even Greece and Turkey.
“They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying Peace, peace when there is no peace.”(Jeremiah 6:14)
Thus the prophet anticipated the tragic irony of the supposedly soft and benevolent despotism that is the ultimate aim of those now working to overthrow the Constitutional sovereignty of the American people. They promise unity, an end to racism, a new era of political civility, and domestic as well as international peace. But they practice division, the exploitation of racial resentment, and a new intensity of invective intended to intimidate and emotionally terrorize any who oppose them. In their pretense of compassion and egalitarian concern, they profess to have the heart of Mother Theresa. In their preparations to abuse, legally silence and eventually suppress their opponents, they display the steely, calculated conscience for atrocity of Mao Zedong.
The telltale sign of their true intention is their consistent commitment to policies that harden and inure the heart of Americans to accept the choice for atrocity as a normal, everyday occurrence. So the choice to murder nascent children is passed off as a woman’s right; the culling of the aged as a routine bureaucratic choice for greater quality in health care expenditures; the careless palliation or appeasement of systematic terrorism as a new era in religious openness and understanding. They intend the deadly combination of constant fear and hardness of heart to produce citizens willing to accept forceful repression as the price of individual security and self-indulgence. In this way a free people is to be brought to accept the mentality of those fit only to be timid slaves.
The inculcation of this mentality is the pivotal project by which the imposition of the regressive, elite dictatorship of the people stands or falls. Those who pretend to care for liberty, but talk only of money and jobs, lead a chorus of distraction meant to preoccupy the unwary as the final links in the mental chains of tyranny are fastened shut. When the closing of the American mind is complete, the very idea of liberty will be incomprehensible. Then who will there be even to remember that once a great republic flourished in the United States of America and that, when still loyal to liberty, it foreshadowed by its good fruits the fulfillment of the Creator’s intention for all humanity to be free?
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Alan,
Thank you for your clarity in identifying the enemies of American sovereignty and the American way of life that was intended from the beginning to protect the dignity of individuals. The “verbal engineering” commonly used to confuse issues can be likened to the half-truths used by the devil in the Bible to lead man astray. The founders of our great nation used the term “the common good” to focus the new government on the God-given dignity of its citizens. Yet, today’s politician diverts the attention to the “uncommon good” – a setting that undermines the trust citizens should have in their fellow man, thwarts the creativity of the charitable heart, and arguably reaches for an unattainable goal. The resolve to return to the high values intended by our Creator and incorporated in our Constitution will depend on our ability to deny ourselves idle pleasure that softens us to the point where we would place our responsibilities in the hands of others. John Quincy Adams said, “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?” “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity”? We have drifted far from where we began and our nation’s health is the obvious victim.
The real question is whether the body of the people themselves still revere the Constitution as law. I had hoped that, even if the nation as a whole cannot be said to care for the Constitution, there were still pockets of freedom loving Americans who would honor that law Providence blessed to make a nation of liberty.
Now, I realize that even so limited a hope may have been unjustified.
We shall see.