I May Live To See It

I have said for a long time that my grand-kids, or maybe even my children would live to see it, but I never thought that I would. I know I don’t have a lot of years left – maybe even fewer if our Savior returns to claim His Bride, but it’s looking more and more like I will see the death of this grand old Nation established in 1776 as a Representative Republic. The Founding Father knew this day could come (read their writings), when men would no longer care about honesty, morality, justice, and become focused instead on lust, greed, and power.

We’ve seen all this before, over and over again, those of us who study history, and we have watched with alarm the incremental degradation of our society. Even now, we are pretending it’s not serious, our slide into socialism, and somehow believe that those who have a thirst for absolute power somehow have our best interest at heart.

Need an example? Here’s a quote from a Associated Press story today – “The administration, pushing Congress to act quickly on its reform agenda, sent Congress a 61-page bill dealing with the expanded powers to seize control of nonbank institutions late Wednesday.”

Continue to believe, if you wish, that this will all somehow stop with a reasonable increase in the value of the stock market, or the recovery of some assets by major suppliers of good and services. Or, imagine with me that soon we will see, for our own good (of course), an oligarchy that will rise to absolute power. That will be followed by an end to elections and confiscatory activities beyond what you would ever imagine.

That can never happen in America, we say. And that apathy, my friend, is exactly the problem.