Playing with Hell on Earth: Police-State Morality Glorified
By Joseph Andrew Settanni
Over eons of time, sin and damnation, whether admitted to or not, do remain constants of the human condition, of fallen creatures in a fallen world, theologically speaking. But, secularists demur. There are consequences.
The bulk of the American people have ceased, about three generations ago, from being any kind of serious religious-minded people; secularization has, increasingly since the 1960s, become more and more visibly pandemic, as the Left has quite deliberately politicized, meaning so thoroughly ideologized, everything concerning the realities and conditions of human life.
Religious people, as religion has gotten roughly pushed ever further out of the public square and public schools, are now second or third class citizens in their own country.
De-Christianization is the observed norm, as nihilism increases in America. The antidemocratic wishes of, e. g., secularist, unelected Federal judges, acting as an oligarchy, have increasingly outweighed the valid constitutional rights of the bulk of the American people. Moral insanity, if held to be supposedly constitutionally legal, becomes then the law of the land, whether it’s Obamacare or sodomy.
Secularization and Politics
Christians, the majority of them unwilling to vigorously fight for the true rights of God, have deservedly become second or third class citizens whose First Amendment rights, as part of the US Constitution, are almost always trumped by a few determined atheists and others; the, thus, politically and ideologically manufactured mere privileges of a minority do then forever supersede the real civil-liberties and civil-rights of a majority.
The political world, therefore, has been obnoxiously turned upside down, in the progressive names of positivism, pragmatism, and materialism, to better accommodate atheism and its cherished needs. Legal positivism, thus, rules this nation, not classical Natural Law teachings, or even common sense.
Resistance to sin is now truly defined, by government no less, as being immoral and, increasingly, illegal as well, in terms of actual public law. In over ten states, it is now fully unlawful, e. g., to try to restrict sodomites from openly marrying. Cultural Marxism, the laicist rationalization of sin, has been, more and more, rapidly advancing. Furthermore, as an instance of secularism’s highly successful aggressiveness, the sodomite mentality has truly become a basic part of mainstream, 21st century American society, as with, e. g., the Boy Scouts of America’s public endorsement, in effect, of sodomy.
One sees the fundamental ability of devilish Cultural Marxism, through PC thinking being self-enforced, affirmation action promotion, celebrations of diversity, pluralism, and multiculturalism (aka anti-White hatred), etc., to substantially corrupt the mind and soul of the deluded majority, meaning to greater or lesser degrees. Pockets of any resistance are, as such, rather small and ineffectual. And, they tend to be isolated, on average.
Those who do believe that the ends justify the means favor strong authoritarian and establishmentarian attitudes that can rationalize almost anything as being morally positive or needfully pragmatic in service to some terrene god, including, of course, the modern State. Both major sides in the open struggle for power, the liberals and putative conservatives, do seek or expect political salvation of some kind, not the spiritual salvation that is actually needed.
God is the neglected answer, meaning a definitive recourse toward acknowledgment of the absolute moral order above and beyond any mere human order. Political debate, however, is mainly between the rightwing socialists in the Republican Party and the leftwing socialists in the Democrat Party. Any non-socialist debate or discourse is, for all practically purposes, considered illegitimate if it strays from the broadly collectivist (supposed) consensus that, one assumes, defines centrist or moderate politics, meaning, of course, a widely-based secularism in approach.
No matter, the pervasive taint of ethical, moral, and spiritual rot and decay is, now, so broadly evident throughout the notably decadent society, culture, and overall civilization in this nation. This people, the majority, are then more than ready to willingly accept a police-state morality suitable to the vile, degenerate, and depraved nature of the populous so concerned, which means that they will be, in effect, playing with Hell on earth. By venting uncontrolled passions, men do forge their own fetters, as Edmund Burke had recognized.
Americans, thus, have become ripe for oppression because of their massive and ongoing moral failure to rightly uphold, proclaim, and defend the true metaphysical order of reality (aka God). Centuries from now, historians will still be amazed that so grand and imposing an edifice, as was the American Empire, had yet fallen, though not with the expected big bang (as with Hollywood productions), only a whimper. And so, nations and also entire empires do fall, especially when mere human order qua hubris replaces moral order, when immorality and oppression do combine.
The Faith of Many Ages
The same was sadly done, had occurred, in ancient Rome, of course, with its morally and historically infamous bread and circuses routines and related depraved culture. Only the premier religion, the true faith, that successfully had survived the momentous Fall of Rome, which will here be then recognized directly as Roman Catholicism, can provide the, in fact, proven means of overcoming the inevitable disaster that must occur in this country.
How recognition of the right metaphysical order helps to correct the errors of a wayward and terribly errant political order can be, instructively, seen in such good books as Fr. Moorhouse F. X. Millar's Unpopular Essays in the Philosophy of History, besides the more contemporary writings of Fr. James V. Schall, as are cited in this article’s Bibliography.
Historically, the only countervailing force, counter-authority, to the State, in Western civilization, has been the Church; this is as to an alternative viable authority and power that had wondrously created the magnificent and formidable, creative civilizational tension in the West; this has ever splendidly allowed for the positive flourishing of human liberty and freedom versus oriental despotism with its corruptive centralization of power, for whenever the State has become predominant, oppression, suppression, and tyranny result. The safety for a people wishing to be truly free resides in defending the rights of God.
Admittedly, it is difficult, for the pedestrian mind, to cope easily with the valid notion that theological dogmas and doctrines are, in fact, properly consonant and congruent with political needs and teachings pertaining to the desire for government qua governance. An ethically, morally, and religiously based politics must, therefore, always vigorously fight against secularization, contrary to Machiavelli and the nominalist adherents of modernity.
As long as the metaphysical order demands and receives respect for transcendence, the political realm cannot then come to claim any solely absolute allegiance and, e. g., naturalist/materialist immanentism is then really seen, meaning rightly revealed, for what it is, namely, a God substitute.
What is being proposed is not, however, any kind, shape, or type of theocracy as with, e. g., Islam and its ugly and dangerous, distasteful and bloody, fanaticism. One ends up, usually, with the known evils of Caesaropapism, Josephinism, or Erastianism in the West; all such obnoxious extremes, theocracy and its opposite, are to be correctly, studiously, avoided. Statism variously thrives, thus, wherever Christian faith in God diminishes, as can be ever better understood by reading Heinrich A. Rommen’s The State in Catholic Thought: A Treatise in Political Philosophy.
Unsurprisingly, the Catholic dogma of transubstantiation goes well, logically, with the proper notion of a needed transcendence above all absurd laicist superstitions (aka immanentism) to the contrary. The intelligent choice, through religion, is to have political men, a free people, with inalienable rights who are, by that fact, as tall as their God, and not dwarfed slaves of the omnipotent State, meaning when absolute secularization achieves its apotheosis, in the collectivist ant heap thought to be Utopia.
The equal legitimacy of Church and State, however, permits a requisite system of checks and balances to exist by which neither ought to destroy the other; each should, moreover, morally support the other for the greater glory of God. Only the remarkable Faith of many ages has, furthermore, the really proven experience, demonstrated ability, functional competence, and integral spirit needed to properly handle what will become, sooner or later, a disintegrating situation, as to a truly corrupt and corrupting politics develops that cannot realistically sustain either genuine liberty under law or practical free government any longer.
Once again, the functioning of ecclesiastical order, meaning here especially the Roman Catholic Church, needs to be called upon to rightly balance itself against the clear signs of a burgeoning tyranny, which are plentiful in directing attention toward the formation of a police-state regime in the USA. What are, however, the baleful consequences and definite implications and ramifications, therefore, which must nastily result, as night follows day, from this vile rise of domestic tyranny done in the Leftist name of equality (of results)?
The presented point is that only supra-political values heading toward the full acknowledgment of the reality of metaphysical order, not a simply renewed political order, can render any remedy sufficient to substantially turn the tide against what otherwise can only be the inevitable destruction of this nation. Recorded history has, in fact, noted amazing precedents of this kind. In 15th century France, a once obscure teenage girl, of no noble lineage or particular prominence whatsoever, had incredibly led victorious armies against the combined major powers of England and Burgundy.
Only secularist writers would, reductionistically, claim (absurdly) that French nationalism was the sole vital inspiration involved, not ever the doings of a saint, namely, "The Maid of Orléans.” The course of European history dominated at that time by royalty and aristocracy had been, therefore, obviously altered by a mere peasant girl known as St. Joan of Arc, which to the committed laicist mind ought to be thought to be completely inexplicable and totally absurd. Neglect of divine forces, however, encourages a purely secularist attitude that subjectively directs all aspirations, sooner or later, earthwards, not ever toward the eternal verities.
Only until people can learn to intelligently reject the immoral enticements of the secular order, meaning the welfare-warfare State, can they begin to so grasp the clear fact that any power great enough to give out goods and services must be at least equally powerful enough to, also, aggressively tax away the private wealth of a county, including with the hidden tax of inflation. Subordination to the Bureaucratic State, the dedicated upholder of a Godless modernity, weakens the citizenry and generates corruption that, therefore, reduces a citizen into becoming a mere subject of the regnant political power structure.
Relinquishment of Human Liberty and Free Government
People, as a result, are made to live degraded lives. Because the social, intellectual, political, etc. elites do have a cold contempt and hatred for what they do wish to just dismiss as the social issues, they have helped to determine the disgusting kind of depraved society, culture and civilization that so necessarily exists. They bizarrely believe, through their hardened secularism, that only the concern for, at most, economic conservatism is needed.
However, the proverbial cart is then placed before the horse; the worship is made greater than God, which is idolatry, which leads to deserved, merited, damnation of a people. It always has, it always will. [Hint: The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel are still lost.]
The pivotal lesson to be learned is that a sound economic order is primarily dependent upon first having a solid moral order; mass licentiousness has never, in fact, provided a firm foundation for the sustaining of free government qua governance, which ought to make intelligent folks take really good notice of this rather important point. As Lord Acton knew, liberty exercised without morality leads to a dark end, not Utopia. On this matter, he wrote that, “Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought." License qua licentiousness is not any kind of synonym for liberty, as most libertarians wrongly believe.
This nation has become an abomination before God; and, the Boy Scouts of America, with its expressed preference for Sodom and Gomorrah morality, offers much further major empirical proof as to why this country genuinely deserves to be destroyed as soon as possible; perverts, those previously denounced as despised so-and-sos, have become, now, publicly admired role models. Need more be said?
The Great Apostasy from Christianity has, in fact, happened in the Western world, which includes the USA, of course. What has been called neopaganism has overtaken the contemporary situation by which people think and act as if they are simply re-paganized to greater or lesser degrees. Naturalism covers any range of possible perversity imaginable in such a society populated by egotistic individualists seeking full satiation through sex, other bodily pleasures, overindulgences of many kinds, etc. Sexual diseases, pornography, promiscuity, sodomy, and related sinfulness get dismissed as merely being people acting naturally, as if mere mindless goats at play.
Thus, a laicized mentality has produced a laicized morality. Illegitimacy, not surprisingly, just is today accepted as a normal reality for having children. The reality of having divorced-related step-parents or divorced mothers living with their boyfriends is not that unusual these days; in short, the entire social order is substantially decaying and, increasingly, exists in quite clearly fundamental disarray.
This is all very serious because, among other vitally important consequences, no depraved people have ever been able to truly live in freedom under law, for any extended periods of time, before submitting to tyranny, which then becomes inevitable, not just optional. The centralization, the collectivization, of power leads ever toward the necessary creation of a hell on earth as a form of deserved punishment.
Historically, e. g., the Weimar Republic gave way to Nazi Germany, which is, of course, so simply an unquestionable fact. One can realize that human liberty and free government do not, moreover, exist simply at will nor are they really autonomous of the reality of there being a requisite and virtuous moral order, as has been historically proven the irrefutable case.
Human liberty and free government do not exist in a vacuum; neither does an economic order genuinely dedicated to free-market economics. The metaphysical foundations of social and cultural order, as seen through history, have reflected upon the society and culture that would exist for a nation or empire.
Religions have, in fact, creatively infused societies, cultures and civilizations with their inspirational vitality and ability to progress within the recorded course of human history. Moreover, the belief in God qua Jesus Christ, in the Western world, has helped to uplift human beings out of savagery and slavery through the promulgation of spiritual ideals, which used to characterize the essence of what once was known as Christendom. Only the Christianized West, e. g., had so originated the morally important movement to abolish human slavery; it became, over time, a product of Christendom.
It is absolutely nowhere recorded, for instance, that an actual nation of atheists ever really created highly substantive and substantial culture, art, literature, etc., which would make the civilized world simply stand in awe. However much the (militant) Godless may wish to strenuously deny this so easily evident truth, the truth remains nonetheless.
Thus, the societal or cultural neglect or disparagement of religion is not just merely unfortunate for any nation; it is really catastrophic, disastrous, in its fuller implications and ramifications, for blatant mass immorality, since time immemorial, has known consequences. Selfishness becomes celebrated as a supposed moral value; the ego is exalted above spiritual duties and obligations; evil is not recognized for what it is; holiness gets mocked as being just dumb and square, not fit for any sophisticated minds.
The degenerate elites, in their obstinate perversity, see things upside down and inside out and know not about their obviously skewed vision of human reality, of the human condition. To secure human liberty and free government, as understood by Alasdair Macintyre and others, solid public virtue in terms of a virtuous (aka moral) citizenry is needed for securing a healthy and long lasting, genuine prosperity, not that which is shallowly based upon the artificiality of a State-sponsored false prosperity.
This is, whether recognized or not, the horrid Weimarization of an economy, society, etc. with its many government-manufactured (read: artificial) rights that, thus, necessarily come to displace all the real obligations of citizenship, of responsible adulthood itself. What results is a nation dominated mainly by low-information voters totally lacking any public virtue and made crescively dependent upon the bounty of the welfare-warfare State, the immoral centralization of power; this acts, supposedly, as a substitute for God.
The manifestly asinine lack of proper public concern for legally allowing abortion-on-demand, liberalized divorce, artificial contraception, sodomite “marriage” sanctioned by government, infanticide (aka partial birth abortion), euthanasia, etc. has, thus, now developed a sociocultural and sociopolitical atmosphere resembling the reeking odors from a cesspool; immorality rules the day.
This nation has seen, e. g., witnesses (aka sluts) at national public hearings self-righteously demand that the taxpayers must pay for all their leisure-time fornication, meaning for their personal contraception. And, the mass media and others become so incredibly angry when such overt degenerates are properly called sluts. The people, ignorantly and selfishly, do turn from religion and seek out other beliefs for wanted consolation and/or justification for their rampant sinfulness and cognate selfishness. What are the corruptive results?
The acquiescent endorsement of homosexuality tends to breeds sociocultural and political corruption, as was, in fact, sadly witnessed by the last thirty years of both Czarist Russia and Wilhelmine Germany (Imperial Germany during the 1888-1918 reign of Wilhelm II), as well as the set entirety of the Weimar Republic of Germany; thus, it is historically known and so proven that whenever homosexuals do attain real positions of power and influence within a country, that nation dies.
Godlessness spreads; morality is subjectivized into being just a meaningless concept when made bereft of a needed metaphysical order for consideration, namely, religion and the always honorable rights of God.
For as G. K. Chesterton, long ago, had rightly noted, when people cease to believe in God, the need to believe does not simply cease; they become then willing to believe in anything; and, among the greatest modern superstitions available is the ideological assumption that the welfare-warfare State is an earthly god worthy to be worshipped. And, as Chesterton had further observed, the 20th century has sought to replace the normal with the abnormal; in the 21st century, he would have, if he lived, seen the abnormal actually gain public/political normativity itself.
Standard or traditional religion or faith is set aside. Idolatry becomes the substitute, especially as a nation becomes filled with what Erik Hoffer called the “true believers” who are quite susceptible to various kinds or types of radicalism or, at the least, radicalization.
It ought to be rather too obvious by now, therefore, as to the clearly police-state direction being taken by Obama and his morally decadent Administration. Based upon Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and other such Leftist ideological weapons, of neo-Marxist inspiration, oriented openly against all free governments and human liberty, Obama and his demonic minions have been and will be, thus, highly effective as to implementing, willingly, its manifest statism.
Alinsky surely had, furthermore, incorporated the principles of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War into his book as well as the much allied thinking of Antonio Gramsci for the Marxist “march through the institutions” strategy. The seeming glorification of the needed police-state morality will occur with its incarnation of a rather hellish resolve.
An “objective” observer would truly be validly impressed by the still “tremendously” minimum abilities exerted that have achieved remarkable and maximizing end results, in that a pro-Administration mass media has assisted in the favoring and growth of democratic despotism; a great deal has been and will, notably, be accomplished at such relatively little cost to Obama and his adamant supporters, as Sun Tzu would have recommended.
This covers both direct operatives and all those who ideologically share the interests involved. To the strategic point being made, even most of the Republican Party’s organizational hierarchy and many members of Congress in the US Senate and House, usually knaves, have helped and will much further assist in the social-market economy/socialist transformation of America.
Tyranny has its supporters, even among those who are self-deluded enough (e. g., US Sen. Mark Rubio) to think that they might supposedly be doing good, as the sure road to the Infernal Regions is said to be paved with good intentions. Doubters are to be just denounced as the vile enemies of immigrants, the despisers of the common people, and so unworthy to have their fears and concerns expressed in public forums. The Leftists, as ever, intend to really win, not just to defend their beliefs.
The too feeble and quite laughable opposition is seen as being manifestly childish, fearful, incompetent, and/or disorganized in sharp contrast and, as a logical result, deserves greatly to be so soundly defeated. The solidifying instruments of fear, power, and intimidation are both substantially and substantively well organized, efficient enough, and suitable enough to the horrific needs for successfully establishing a Big Nanny-style totalitarian State, which will act and exist in the basic name of democratic despotism. It will be easily bolstered by the highly evil immanentist myth of egalitarianism, of the never-ending quest for attaining absolute equality on earth.
No doubt that Machiavelli, infamous author of The Prince, would be highly impressed with the demonic skillfulness of those who have been, are, and will be executing the needed, to them, takeover. Obama is not geared or oriented toward defeat; he intends only to win; losing is not in his vocabulary; he has won every election he entered. The planning, Alinsky style obviously, has been well done; Obama has been faithful to his mentor and all the other radicals and communists, who have so willingly advised, guided, trained, and supported him in his nefarious endeavors aimed directly toward the destruction of the USA.
Machiavellian-style admiration is fairly due. Looking upon the interesting and intriguing situation, it is almost (but not quite) incredible to behold. No number of scandals and their still ongoing coverups can ever actually stop Obama; his surely radical, far Left schema has not at all halted; the well-observed, sustainable and definitely neo-Marxist agenda has been and will, moreover, certainly be carried forward with nearly total progressive success.
The myriad blessings of an admiring Satan, one could easily guess, are set upon the hellish road being travelled, while the massive corruption of the scandals ever rockets toward stratospheric heights, as the majority of the American people seem, at most, to just generally remain in a confirmed stupor. This is balanced against the fact that only a virtuous people can sustain the requisites of free government.
The actual empirical institutionalization of the foundations of a police-state tyranny, layer by layer, degree by degree, is being so skillfully, quite deftly, accomplished, even as these very words are being written. Amazingly, so relatively few people are willing to publicly speak the truth about what has, is, and will be, deservedly, happening in this degenerate country. As a direct result, the relinquishment of human liberty and free government must naturally occur in America, if no countervailing great forces are ever set in substantial motion to both effectively and thoroughly thwart what appears now to be just inevitable.
What does that, in a sense, then mean? It would take, one suspects, nothing less than an act of God to prevent what is going to happen, which appears extremely unlikely given the overt Godlessness of this debauched and disgusting nation, with the blood of over 50,000,000 innocent babies that once were in wombs, which cries out forever to Heaven for righteous justice and deserved retribution.
Added to all that is the demonic legalization of sodomy, a pornography industry ever growing, the Satanic spreading of new and old venereal diseases, artificial contraception, liberalized divorce, and many other such terrible matters, all directly contrary to God’s will.
But, fortunately for the vigilant friends of freedom, every police-state regime proverbially sows the wind and reaps, in turn, the deserved whirlwind; this is because the ever attempted centralization of power also, eventually, concentrates many of the forces that can and must destroy it. Every imperium reaches its limits sooner or later, as history repeatedly demonstrates, and cannot sustain itself beyond certain limits, over the course of (many or few) decades and scores of years.
The logic of power, especially as to the lust for it, is that it is insatiable and becomes, as a consequence, bloated such that it reaches the end point at which no further expansion is reasonably or pragmatically sustainable. Every monopoly attracts competition that gains success, over time, versus power that becomes, sooner or later, untenable because of being empirically unsustainable over extended periods of time. But, the neo-Marxists throw this reality to the wind.
Millions of those who had supported the new regime will, nonetheless, also suffer future persecution, suppression, and oppression because paranoia eventually and logically grips dictatorships, as when, e. g., Stalin had wiped out almost all of the Old Bolsheviks. What might be an example of the paranoid style of politics? Quite a number Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, have been using secret government email accounts and the scope of using these secret accounts across government remains a mystery.
Those who tyrannize, thus, end up playing with Hell, meaning that those who, figuratively speaking, dance with the Devil always get burned. And yet, radicals (who really are authoritarian reactionaries at heart) never seem to learn lessons in defeat; by optimistically ignoring the teachings of reality, they absurdly conceive of only victory and revolutionary fervor guiding them toward the never arriving but, of course, ever sought after Utopia on earth. It has been well said that inside every ideologically-inspired Liberal is a totalitarian screaming to emerge into the open, if only able to do so.
Nonetheless, it is known that neither the Stalinist Soviet Union nor Maoist China, however, had survived the very hard and unforgiving impact of long-term reality; and, although regimes upheld by police-state morality may appear completely invincible and quite lasting, modern tyrannies, nonetheless, do have shorter and shorter life spans, as is historically the case. Regimes dedicated to power assume that they will simply exist and persist forever, meaning for and in the name of power.
Obama Scandals as Mere Diversions
Meanwhile, the massively widespread IRS Scandal, which had helped to suppress the 2012 conservative viote,1 [see: Notes] has well served its true purpose of frightening the American people in general concerning the regime’s great power and its ready willingness to use it; and, in particular, opponents of the regime as potential financial contributors, e. g., to the Republican Party or to various Tea Parties have been fiercely put on notice that they can be (and will) be made publicly known as open ideological targets and enemies of the people. Individuals have been directly profiled, not just organizations.
This rather vile psychological, social, political, and cultural intimidation and sure form of threat is a soft tyranny approach, which can be, in most instances, as fairly effective and more efficient than chains and prisons; at a minimum, it is much less expensive.
It produces a wanted chilling effect in the opposition by increasing a general fearfulness in attitudes and suspicions, in sustaining a climate of fear, for who says bureaucracy, says socialism; the enlarging bureaucratization of social life slowly enervates public individual initiative, crushes the spirit of entrepreneurial endeavor, and seeks to successfully create an increasing human passivity in the face of power and its ever enhanced demands upon the masses.
The overall pressure, concerted psycho-coercion, and, in effect, social terrorization of people, done by Obama and his IRS minions, has interestingly achieved its basic goal of helping to defeat conservatism and conservative candidates should they seek Republican or, more so, Tea Party endorsements. The IRS constitutes what acts as a secret police in-the-making, especially so regarding Obamacare enforcement, besides the already known quite ominous profiling/targeting insidiously done against individuals, not just organizations.
He is more than just keenly aware of the pivotally important 2014 national elections and, therefore, necessarily wants to dry up substantially many potential sources of money among the truly unwanted political-ideological opposition. One can understand that Obama logically wishes to firmly consolidate, as fully as possible, his imperial presidency that would, thus, become greatly expanded as to its powers.
The vigorous Leftist uses of the Justice Department, IRS, EPA, OSHA, ATF, DHS, etc. are clearly designed to foster a major growing climate of fear and gross intimidation on a scale sufficient to insure what he so hopes will be a surely great Democrat Party victory in 2014; this is added to the steady development of a national police-state morality fully congruent and consonant, of course, with the creation of a secret-police force, which will, later, become more official in nature and scope, for transcendent political (read: ideological) considerations always override concerns regarding justice and law for statists. They do see themselves as being above mere law; they are the law.
And, meanwhile Obama, by perpetually campaigning and not seeming to govern, pretends to be against the very illegal activities and nefarious acts that he himself has so strongly supported or authorized to occur. Although he appears disconnected and disassociated, on the surface, all the scandals lead back to him and revolve about him, if one merely pays attention to this reality; there seems to be no one “smoking gun” in sight because so much smoke has been generated to cover the many shots taken. One sees, therefore, that illegality is, in truth, the new legality in this nation bedeviled by these many public scandals.
But, most of the American people, especially the tremendously ignorant low-information voters, do not really associate the scandals with him. As a seemingly Teflon-coated Chief Executive, he, thus, claims to be fighting quite sincerely against the many scandals, (which he has caused, of course). In addition, the mainstream media and national propaganda networks, being tightly in support of Obama, get to say (in effect) that public opinion is whatever they say it is. He has been sent, one may suspect, as a needed scourge by God to punish a faithless people who do, increasingly, allow Christianity to be minimized in the ever secularized public square.
The various tactically-directed scandals have, significantly, created notably useful diversions of time, effort, etc. to better achieve the neo-Marxist misdirection so obviously intended. Once the tyrannous achievement of demonic control can be then better guaranteed, through the US Congress, in 2014, populated at last with a requisite and reliable cadre of tremendously dedicated radicals enamored with State power and the truly eager willingness to greatly use it to forever crush their hated enemies, the transformation process can, therefore, be suitably completed by which to devilishly establish the police-state tyranny wanted. The handwriting is already on the wall. The hour is late.
One sees that Obama has, thus, a virtually free hand to deal with his hotly despised adversaries who will be disposed of in various ways, over the course of time. In what Mark Levin, a conservative pundit and activist, has notably defined as a post-constitutional America, constitutional checks and balances do not seem to carry much force these days.2 Not even, e. g., the US Supreme Court would really come to stop Obama, as easily judging from Chief Justice John Roberts’ rather too sanguine attitudes, as per Obamacare, etc. Need one really say more on this particular topic?
Very few foes will need to be actually imprisoned; such old-fashioned, antiquated practices are really quite expensive and actually needless in the vast majority of cases. The massive majority of the regime’s opponents can so simply (and much more cheaply) have their civil-liberties and rights more and more significantly reduced, increasingly controlled, and displaced or greatly regulated out of existence by the ever grasping needs of the collectivist State, the police-state power structure.
This abusive technique of control, by the Administrative State, has already been proved useful and pragmatic as well. Opposition can further be dealt with by the security forces that have, in fact, been situationally enriched by literally staggering amounts of ammunition and armaments purchased ostensibly to then merely supplement potential or possible needs, as variously claimed by the public authorities. It is not a mere coincidence, for instance, that DHS agents have actually been on the scene during peaceful protests against the IRS.
Moreover, Obamacare enables “creative” means of other control through health issues and cognate services, from cradle to grave, that put out interrelated tentacles all across the country. Its unstoppable nature has become breathtaking in watching the ever extended scope of that healthcare system qua public fiasco’s reach.
In any event, if Obama, the Salvador Allende of America, were really concerned about Benghazi or any of the major scandals, he would not have appointed Susan Rice (of all such people) as the National Security Advisor; as an obviously “in-your-face” appointee, she is in line now and on track, of course, to become a future Secretary of State. This then clearly shows both supreme confidence and quite bold arrogance in that the Leftist regime’s growing power will not at all be threatened; and, moreover, the ongoing coup d’état will not be stopped. Though Allende in Chile was, fortunately, thwarted, Obama seeks to succeed in America in accomplishing his decidedly neo-Marxist revolution.
Instrumentalities of Oppression Analyzed
The noted takeover is being brilliantly executed. Only a relatively tiny minority among the population, however, can keenly perceive, readily understand, and profoundly comprehend what is, actually, now occurring and, moreover, what is to surely come as a too sad result. Centralization of power continues every day; more and more, it becomes unstoppable and will seek to be implacable.
The firm structuralization of the required political infrastructure is being put into place, step by step. Levers of power are being pushed; the degrees of requisite oppression, from Obama’s point of view, set against the opposition are easily advancing. The mass media, as is known, enthusiastically supports the regime, though it still pretends, occasionally, to dislike some things some of the time, for the sake of appearances, which Obama readily understands; it creates a faux opposition where none really exists. As Garet Garrett, a man of the Old Right, would have certainly recognized, the revolution was.
The hour is already late. The Tea Party Movement is too little and too late. 3 The permanent State bureaucracy now determines the basics of American life, including such minutiae as, e. g., low-water-usage toilets, which devices the tyrants of ancient and medieval eras would not have dared to regulate. The both ever ongoing pervasiveness and pandemically intimate invasiveness of modern tyranny would have impressed them greatly, as to its always expansive reach, depth, and scope of oppression, while claiming to so generously give modern citizens—simultaneously—endless numbers of rights (as their real freedom is confiscated from them, of course).
Much subversive work has been profitably, for the regime, correctly accomplished since 2009 and the then following years, of course. Unfortunately, few see how domestic interventionism and foreign interventionism, regarding the modern State, are linked intimately and symbiotically; one needs and systemically requires the other to exist for its better functional and operational support, as most libertarians and thinkers on the side of the traditionalist right, the Old Right, would totally agree.
The increasingly invasive Regulatory State, the Administrative State, has, therefore, achieved its once long-wanted apotheosis. One ought to perceive, therefore, that the fully planned Obama coup d'état is certainly now in directive and substantive operation; this is by mainly professional “revolutionaries” who intensely hate the very idea of there possibly being any real opposition.
All of the various adversaries (homophobes, rightists, racists, anti-multiculturalists, Zionists, etc.), all such (alleged) enemies of the “people,” are to be then crushed or, at least, disabled significantly from ever resisting. The minimalization, political diminution, of a greatly qualified “tolerance” is to only exist in theory, not practice.
The radical New Order has no place for any of them, except as objects of persecution and derision, of course. Every statist system, as seen in George Orwell’s 1984, requires enemies to be hated for the sake of maintaining the Leftist revolutionary spirit. There is to be the politically enforced and degrading equality of oppressive misery for the masses versus the good life for the masters, the political ruling class, since, as Orwell’s Animal Farm insightfully had demonstrated, some are “more equal” than others.
The true nature of totalitarianism ought, therefore, to be well understood by now. It is the recreation of what had been historically true of premodern civilizations, rulership by having status relationships due to power arrangements, not free contractual situations. Communists are covert reactionaries, not any supposed revolutionaries or radicals, though they may be just regarded as such, of course, in popular thought and because of ideological propaganda. Such PC thinking, as part of Cultural Marxism, disables cognition, however.
Civilian resistance becomes, therefore, nearly unthinkable, more and more, as the regime increasingly consolidates its devilish ability to draw unto the State many enhanced powers and those quite suitable instrumentalities logically related to power and its worship. By 2016, if Obama, filled with an intense hatred of this country, is even just mainly successful in his many nefarious efforts, that national election to be held will become, effectively speaking, entirely meaningless and a public farce.
This is surely because, from 2014 to 2016, events are expected to move rather rapidly; things are to quickly occur that would have greatly astonished almost any Americans living in the late 19th or even mid-20th century. Within a corrupt political order, as run by Obama, dishonesty is a Machiavellian virtue where brazenness gets praised, by one’s ideological supporters, who approve of needed lying to support the cause of the Left. It is surely one of the major reasons why he is admired so highly; lying comes rather easy to him and, moreover, without any noticeable effort ever being exerted. He has a natural skill and talent for duplicity and glibness.
The unconscionable telling of numerous lies, being a confirmed trickster, practicing of intentional deceit, and engaging in much applied deception are truly duplicitous arts qua enemies of free government and notably consistent with despotic political practices greatly favored by liberals and leftists. Obama’s overt multiplicity of lies and ongoing tergiversation is, thus, made more effective and effusive by his obvious boldness and versatile audacity. Dishonesty and deceitful behavior have become the norm of the present political order of things. Calling him a liar, in such a context, is merely to compliment him.
His quite unabashed artfulness, brazen deviousness, is truly very slick, unctuous, and quite immorally impressive; he would have been, in short, fulsomely praised by Machiavelli as an accomplished prince. And, there are consequences. This is a Federal regime that seems “out of control” but it is, in fact, quite substantially in control of events and circumstances aided formidably by the adamant support of a not merely docile mass media, along with its greatly pro-Obama national propaganda networks.
The journalistic establishment press, in general, adores its Chief Executive almost without question. If the Democrat Party succeeds in gaining basic control of both houses of the US Congress in 2014, then nothing can, actually, come to stop the expected final stages of the neo-Marxist socialization of this nation, starting very early in 2015 and continuing thereafter, of course.
The nationalization/collectivization of almost all major industries, corporations, organizations, etc. will be mostly indirectly done through the tremendous Regulatory State apparatus that, in fact, already exists, plus any additional legislation to then be passed, whenever thought needed as such. A jaded, secularized populace, furthermore, has no practical means, logically speaking, of supposed recourse to an appeal to Almighty God for its inalienable rights that come from the Creator, not the State, meaning the Mortal Leviathan. The majority will submit to tyranny, as is expected.
A totalitarian regime, formulated upon the basis of a Big-Nanny State, is then to achieve its demonic consolidation; this is by which the depraved denizens of this then fully European-style, social-democratic country are acting and believing in ways congenial to their ideologically-inspired masters. Citizens are to become mere slaves of the State, of the new imperium, the New Order with its police-state morality.
The self-centered elites of this country are revealed to be so many degenerate swine filled with fatalism and the false assumption that most of them are likely to be supposedly spared from the worst harsh consequences of the full force of Big-Nanny statism, meaning, to all intents and purposes, a blatant tyranny. Their secularist viewpoint is clearly pragmatic, materialistic, and anthropocentric, certainly not Christocentric.
The usually booming stock market has sufficiently anesthetized the upper classes, which is its very intended ideological purpose as a useful diversion, while the Federal Reserve System pumps seemingly endless tens of billions of dollars into the quite terribly disjointed economy, for sustaining an artificial recovery.
A mesmerizing Obama, meanwhile, lulls the masses into a befuddlement and confusion by not openly assuming any responsibility and, in fact, appearing to be constantly campaigning against what most see as being unfortunate and real problems he himself is, supposedly, fighting against, not causing. And, day by day, genuine statism, as a direct result, effectively tightens its hellish grasp upon Americans. One can rest assured, furthermore, that both major political parties will work to save the IRS, the principal agency needed to enforce the Obamacare system, a product of an imperial presidency exalting itself.
Democratic despotism (aka kakistocracy) will, then, so reign supreme at last; for the people, on the whole, are to think it fundamentally just and right, due to the predominant grand illusions granted through the odd process of self-enslavement, which is the worst gross form of very terrene slavery imaginable; this is because it is a willingly self-imposed enthrallment that ever justifies itself to itself, quite unendingly. The corrupt regime will say, among its other (overt) lies, that it merely seeks to enforce fairness.
Moral degeneracy and gross degradation, therefore, surely has its natural and requisite consequences. America stands as a seeming paradox of enormous communicational, technological, and military might hovering above a spiritual cesspool whose representative champions do infamously include the evil Dr. Kermit Gosnell, among many others. Admittedly, Gosnell was only doing, though more basely, what literally thousands of other successful abortionists had and are still doing: murdering the innocent on a retail basis every day in America, the land of free and the home of the brave.
A Day of Infamy Discussed
May 22, 2013 will be seen, retrospectively, by cognizant and well-informed historians as having been as significant as Caesar crossing the Rubicon. It was a day of foulest infamy. An unmistakable signal was freely sent to Obama and the Democrat Party that the Republican hierarchy, because of that yacht club/country club minority’s hatred of the political right, had essentially decided to throw the 2014 national election to the Democrats, meaning the Leftist regime. How so?
US Rep. Darrell Issa, at the IRS Scandal Hearing that day, did not logically choose to legally challenge Lois Lerner, an arrogant, haughty and corrupt bureaucrat, by deliberately making interrogatives to critically provoke her into then invoking, repeatedly, the Fifth Amendment. He then permitted what, in legal terms, is known as traversing on the part of Lerner, acting as if she were an aristocrat questioned by a vile bunch of insolent peasants. What was the obvious political implication, meaning for those who intelligently understood what had actually happened?
If there had been such an effort by Issa, it would have then been an indication that Obama’s presumed opponents were going in for the proverbial kill. Thus, this abundantly observed overt lack of resolve and interest gave open notice that the Republican Party was definitely not ever going to let this or any of the scandals politically, meaning actually, hurt Obama; there would, therefore, be no impeachment or other such adverse action ever taken, regardless of all the past, present, and future scandals combined.
One further sees this contention fully confirmed by the hapless decision to launch many investigations for each matter, such as, e. g., five different committees for Benghazigate, four for the IRS, etc. which will dilute each major focus, divide each issue into separate and fragmented parts, foul up questions of jurisdictional disputes, etc. so that any truly final resolution per scandal becomes situationally more and more impossible. The “fix is in” as they say in Chicago, which will be called fairness.
Such is, of course, the real intention of the jaded Republican Party hierarchy in their deliberate effort to protect Obama, to then, in its way, also defend the ruling political class. The American people, thus, will stupidly think that the US Congress is “doing something” to investigate these issues. But, it is, basically, just a farce, a grand political charade for presumed adults having the minds of children. Why this ugly betrayal of truth and justice on so grand a scale of intense perfidy?
Power only loves power and seeks to defend itself first, last, and, in effect, always, in case that fact may not be immediately noticed by politically ignorant people; power, thus, loves not truth or justice and seeks only to fulfill its selfish needs and protection. This is why Big Government Republicans (aka the GOP hierarchy and its followers), including Big Government conservatives, help the Democrat Party as a logical part of political ruling-class solidarity. So, in the Machiavellian-Alinsky name of power and the demonic unending love for it, how was the US Constitution trashed?
In reiteration, one ought to perceive that the noted beginning of the end of republican order, of free government itself, was, in effect, announced publicly on May 22, 2013; and, one can further surmise that the saddened patriots of the American Revolution had all turned in their graves, when witnessing this monumental horror.
But, as can be fairly guessed by now, the just punishment of the Lord God is so set upon this immoral nation that sanctifies what appear to be unending abominations against the Almighty. Levels of vilely increasing immorality observed in politics, society, culture, etc. cry to Heaven for a truly just retribution and redress, not just the inherently evil legalization of sodomy.
In terms of a hyper-secularized society dedicated, as it now is, to materialism, hedonism, and positivism, there is, seemingly, no earthly means of escape from such a too depressing condition. Overt resistance to the Leftist regime, with its deliberate Weimarization of America, can be successfully disposed of, as was above previously so noted; nonetheless, much passive and indirect resistance is, however, to be yet normally expected as such. Many people do yet detest the ideological demagogues and degenerates.
Not everyone, realistically speaking, seeks to goosestep as to the ideological conformity; many seek out spiritual salvation from this world, within in an ugly nation, to be engulfed by a new Caesarism with its cognate imperial excess and police-state morality. Is there no way out of this increasingly terrible mess?
Religious Truth and Political Order
The only religion, however, that has really proven itself, both empirically and historically, to survive and endure, heroically persist and morally prosper, during such periods of notable civilizational decay and destruction has been Roman Catholicism, especially the orthodox, traditionalist understanding and comprehension of it to be always found in the Latin Mass Community. The historical record is rather fundamentally clear, for those who wish to see and regardless of those tens of millions who would rather die to sin than become truly traditionalist Catholics.
The Jewish Sanhedrin, Roman Empire, ancient Arians, medieval Albigensians, Protestants, Jansenists, French Revolutionaries, Freemasons, and, in more modern times, the Nazis and Communists have all tried, in various ways, to destroy the Roman Catholic Church; however, it can be observed that century after century, millennium after millennium, they all had ultimately failed.
If it were purely only a human construction, as its vainglorious enemies allege, it ought to have faded ignominiously from history long ago. In just cold terms of rationalist and secularist reasoning, of course, this is simply inexplicable and unexplainable to the sophisticated modern intellect that is so afflicted by the reductionist syndrome.
Really now, in positivist terms of raw analysis, how could a mere dead Jewish carpenter’s son, coming from, at that time, a truly less-than-promising Roman province, ever be (ludicrously) regarded as the Son of God? Instead, over 2,000 years later, the latest Vicar of Christ on earth is still residing in Rome for a religion with over 1,000,000,000 adherents. What, therefore, does this evidently mean? Why, in short, do all the hate-filled and enraged enemies of the Church always lose? [Hint: Because Jesus is the Christ.]
Only a terribly dense and unprepossessing mind does not get the too obvious message, which should not ever require any elaborately interpretive sign language for certain decipherment. The sanctified Rock of St. Peter cannot ever be broken by either the entire assembled forces of Hell or those of this world. The firm recommendation of (orthodox) Catholicism is, as one could guess, not lightly made without thought as to the known and observed success of this (often reviled) religion, including its demonstrated ability to creatively revive civilization and culture, which was documented, magnificently and brilliantly, by such greatly erudite historians as Christopher Dawson.
But, its enormously considerable utility alone would be meaningless unless the Truth defended were true, for as St. Paul put it, if Christ had not risen from the grave, all such resulting faith or belief would yet be all in vain; the Faith proclaims the reality of what needs to be fully known as the requisite Truth through the three theological pillars of (orthodox) Catholicism, meaning Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium; all these as vital principles uphold the Faith of many ages that has enriched cultures and civilizations, for over 2,000 years, with the hope for salvation brought by Catholicism.
All three, a valid trinity of knowledge, foundationally support each other and resultantly reinforce the teachings, doctrines, and dogmas absolutely, as with the Trinitarian Dogma itself in all of its unqualified theological veracity and cognate integrity. Today, as with so many centuries ago, the same sacrament of Baptism is still given in the Holy Trinitarian names of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. It is as it was in the beginning, now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
A Eucharistic life, furthermore, dedicated toward the salvation-important goal of achieving holiness is what is absolutely needed; this logically includes, of course, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the magnificent opportunity to worthily receive Holy Communion when done as a traditionalist, orthodox Roman Catholic. One must seek to genuinely and profoundly bring back the ever requisite belief in the reality of the sacred, not just an obnoxiously vain or absurdly meaningless spirituality that certainly runs off toward many different areas of ambiguity and relativism.
The tremendous sacredness of the meaningful things of the spirit is seen by, in, and through the Mass and its allied Eucharist. What this highly secularized world cannot know is that only those who are intent upon spiritual salvation are well armed for helping to realize a true national salvation. Only great statesmen who can morally grasp intently the immortal words of Polish King Jan III Sobieski, who had celebrated the military victory of Poland against the Moslem Turks, are properly fit for rulership.
What King Sobieski, victor of the Battle of Vienna, had then solemnly stated was: “I came, I saw, God conquered.” But, however, this rare kind of both impressive wisdom and profound humility requires a truly deep and abiding belief in the Catholic Faith, as Dawson, a theo-cultural historian of the first order, knew so well.
The only “other” way out, politically speaking, is at present so totally inconceivable to the majority of Americans. The required equivalent of an Augusto Pinochet, meaning a general or significant national leader of some kind, is definitely needed who would proverbially “beat them to the punch,” as he had vigorously beat Salvador Allende to the punch by acting first to, therefore, suppress and destroy the regnant Leftists and their power-obsessed regime.
And, Pinochet, then, relinquished all power when needed, which few political leaders in all of recorded history have ever done. Only the reconstruction of a moral order, however, can hope to guarantee the successful recreation of a political order reliably suitable enough for free government qua governance.
But, this seems nearly impossible, under the present degraded circumstances and severe realities, in this wayward nation being successfully trained to love its version of bread and circuses. The odds against the appearance of an American version of a Pinochet are, moreover, too enormous to ponder here. The modern permanent bureaucracy (the fourth branch of government, especially the regulatory agencies), the ruling-political class, and the nation’s armed forces are, truly, the real State qua regime, not the typical politicians who are subject to elections; they are, in that sense, mere transitory creatures.
As to the foreseeable future, Obama (aka the Fuhrer) simply appears unbeatable and unstoppable; his horrendous agenda, a massive statist juggernaut of tremendous proportions, directed firmly against the US Constitution and free, representative, republican government qua governance is being effectively pushed ever forward daily, weekly, monthly, year by year. Scandals are not associated with him. He is aided by the pathetic fallacy existent within the rather too primitive minds of the low-information voters who do adore their demigod.
The pathetic fallacy is known by such manifestly fatuous expressions as: If only the Czar knew, if only Hitler Knew, if only Stalin knew, etc. The supposed “fearless leader” can do no (deliberate) wrong. But, there are still real consequences; nonetheless, this is still regardless of what are just fictional pseudo-political suppositions and no matter how “popularly” based they may seem to be.
Obamacare, the incarnation of the collectivist cradle-to-grave supposed Utopia, is the real spearhead of the concerted, vile nihilistic attack against all traditional national institutions of the formerly established order, as Alinsky would have so certainly agreed. Of course, it was always/is meant to fail, so that the regime has an ongoing excuse to permanently intervene into the direction of further collectivization in America, which is the real intent of Obamacare, from beginning to end. So, the movement goes on to divide and conquer, to confuse and confound the masses.
The low-information voters, part of the classic lumpenpoletariat, are inherently ignorant, inert, and, thus, basically indifferent for the most part; the main majority of other people are either generally afraid, confused, perplexed, or simply despairing from a lack of needed hope. Tea Party folks and hard-core conservatives and others on the traditionalist right, in terms of most of them, are not militarily capable of sustained and viable armed revolt against the omnipresent welfare-warfare State.
A much needed rightist revolution set firmly against what is occurring is, at present, just implausible, meaning given the present unpropitious circumstances and the foreseeable immediate future.
An entitlement state (aka a fully-established welfare state) exists today. The infantile receivers of (these now demanded and expected) entitlements, the entitlement class, exists as a privileged kakistocracy that simply assumes that they do, in fact, have an imbedded political right to the money of the taxpayers qua government; these obvious social parasites, however, can never really be ever satiated with any things and services wanted, not simply thought to be needed.
The writing is on the wall. One so easily notes that demagoguery, of course, aides this awful mindset that, on the surface, appears genuinely to be and is, in fact, insane. Such an absurd, utopian condition is an unsustainable and unreal cornucopia, which makes the idea of fairness into an earthly god.
In addition, their necessarily further degenerate descendants will rapaciously demand, more and more, that such major and continuing wealth transfers qua distributions be done on a larger and larger scale, which can only result in destroying the main bulk of the once remaining middle class in America. As Margaret Thatcher had wisely said, eventually, with Socialism, you run out of other people’s money. The economic pie shrinks into becoming an absurdity; the affected society then, in effect, goes on to cannibalize itself toward oblivion; but, the Weimarization of Germany had led to Nazism, not Utopia.
The (Leninist) defined useful idiots at the Republican Party supinely assume that what they are facing is just a another variety of Democratic Party politics-as-usual, not actual revolutionary cadres so dedicated to a radical takeover of the entire nation, through use of deliberate infiltration, ongoing subversion, and mandated manipulation. His imperial presidency is, therefore, highly successful; in comparison, Richard Nixon’s attempt was a very petty and poor thing indeed. Watergate, in light of the too gross Obama scandals, pales into a deserved insignificance.
Mr. Obama and his numerous loyal minions qua empowered revolutionaries are, thus, quite obviously dedicated, profoundly serious, and tremendously well-organized for rather much vigorous action, not debate and discussion, (though the author of this article, as always, hopes that he is completely wrong about future events and realities – but, frighteningly, he has never been so far).
What the Left really seeks to atavistically recreate is what was, basically, the past reality of premodern societies; the modern society of artificial contract relationships is to be, thus, replaced by a politicized society of “normal” status relationships, which is as actually reactionary as one can get.
Progressives are so revealed as being, therefore, the true, hardened, and committed reactionaries of history; they do look ever backwards with a kind of odd nostalgia for despotism, authoritarianism, not the workings of a free society. Few notice how the ideal Leftist Utopia resembles most a well-regulated prison; no wonder so many of them, over the scores of years, have praised Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba, Chávez’s Venezuela, etc.
They really are, in truth, the quintessential establishmentarians who do side with autocratic power structures, as Obama’s supporters have easily proven, time and again, as to their revealed ideological and political attitudes and preferences, which must end, eventually, in nihilism.4 The best cure for such a belief has and will always be Christianity, for the sign of the cross was deliberately meant as a bold contradiction. People will, normally, seek out gods of convenience to suit their needs, lusts, hates, desires, etc., inclusive of Islam, of course, with its palpable hate of the infidels worthy to be slaughtered.
It takes, therefore, either a sensitive mind of profound intellect or one thoroughly sympathetic for and devoted to genuine humility to realize the importance of yet another pivotal contradiction; this is in how the Eucharistic Sacrifice of the Mass relates entirely to a Christian politics or not at all. The Catholic dogma of transubstantiation is as political as it is social, economic, cultural, etc., or it becomes as if nothing.
Negation, for millions and millions, has been and will be a sure road to Hell. Christianity either is, thus, to encompass everything or nothing. Only a truly Catholic society, culture, and civilization can achieve, therefore, the proper requirements of the nature of what was referred to, in its proclaimed universality, as Christendom, the Kingdom of Christ, meaning as to those nations genuinely seeking to do His will, not their own. Practice would need to heavily match theory in this matter, though absolute conformity is simply not possible for fallen creatures in a fallen world.
Conclusion
Nonetheless, what can be only now waited for, over several generations at most, is the quite expected collapse of the Leftist regime, which, historically speaking, is just inevitable. The ever inexorable and irresistible factor of time works mightily against the arrogant and vile presumptuousness of tyranny.
It can be logically remarked that the very seeds of its destruction are being planted, by the regime right now and in the future; this is fundamentally because human reality, subject always to sin, simply has an unconcealed contempt for any ideological revolutionism, which cannot be sustained forever, as has been many times easily so proven, by mere fallen creatures in a fallen world.
As no regime can realistically prevent the ongoing existence of sin, neither can its political disintegration be then prevented, though, admittedly, many tens of millions will greatly suffer, of course, and at least many thousands are to die before the final rotten end comes. Perfectionism, as can be perceived, is then not really meant for this fallen world, no matter how many times the Left tries to ideologically, politically, culturally, etc. impose it upon human beings. As the faithful know, Christ is King, not Obama with his police-state morality and nihilistic regard for truth.
In the meanwhile, the moral and spiritual choice, the key universal religion, supremely best suited and qualified to successfully help rescue this nation out of its now noted and terrible moral quagmire is only (orthodox) Roman Catholicism, nothing else ought to be found acceptable, as to the proper need for and defense of the Truth.
The sound Gelasian doctrine of the two swords, the legitimacy of both Church and State, must firmly be asserted, besides a proper concern for classical Natural Law teachings and the perennial philosophy of political order; this precious knowledge can be instructively gained by reading Frederick D. Wilhelmsen’s Christianity and Political Philosophy, Being and Knowing, and, also, his good volume entitled: Man's Knowledge of Reality.
Dating itself back to the first Vicar of Christ on earth in Rome, St. Peter, the Roman Catholic Church has, moreover, withstood eras of persecution for over two thousand years and, one can guess, will then do so in the future. Its many enemies, as history has shown, cannot ever prevail, especially over extended periods of time.
Athanasius contra mundum!
Notes
1. Although it is partly true that the IRS tactics against the Tea Party Movement (TPM) had the effect of voter suppression, in 2012, by denying the ability to raise money through tax-exempt organizations, e. g., for Tea party-backed candidates, however, the main truth is otherwise. Yes, Obama, in 2010, saw the evident power of the TPM in giving control to a Republican Party majority in the US House of Representatives; he, of course, corruptly did something about it through the IRS and other agencies.
But, no, the real explanation for Mitt Romney’s well-deserved defeat were the truly genuine feelings of profound anger, political betrayal, widespread outrage, the experience of figuratively being spat upon and ignored by the Republican Party hierarchy, etc. by the insulting nomination of a RINO Republican candidate for president. So, about 4,000,000 White voters did not then vote for the extremely unwanted RINO nominee, which should not, in fact, have been any real surprise at all.
This now makes no less than five RINOs, since 1976, in a row, who all lost because of their deliberate frustration of the aspirations of hard-core conservatives/rightists: Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, George H. W. Bush (2nd time, meaning when he did not run as a Reaganite), John McCain, and Mitt Romney. If, as is likely, the GOP absurdly puts up another RINO (e. g., Chris Christie), in 2016, then that nominee will also definitely lose. No doubt about it. [Hint: Romney received even less votes than McCain.]
But, there are many political commentators/pundits (e. g., Rush Limbaugh) who, stubbornly, do refuse to accept that rather clear explanation for why, basically speaking, Romney lost.
2. Checks and balances in government, as with all paper constitutions, look good on paper. Here is exposed how conservatism is a form of liberalism, as is properly noted by Fr. C. N. R. McCoy’s The Structure of Political Thought: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. The traditionalist right, in opposition to conservatism, knows that political power, as to its essence, is necessarily of a unitary nature; it, ultimately, cannot and will not be (illogically or absurdly) divided against itself. Sovereignty is absolute, especially in terms of modernity, as, e. g., with its totalitarianism.
The liberal regime, meaning as to a divided government, thought up by the Founding Fathers was first crushed by Abraham Lincoln who, in terms of might making right, had decimated the South in its effort to achieve independence from the Union; he proved, though it really does not need proving, that power is of a consolidating force and nature. It so logically favors centralization; a consolidated nation-state had resulted in this country whereby the national government, later to be simply called the Federal government, vanquished forever the genuine notion of states sovereignty, states rights.
Later, came FDR and, later still, LBJ who further eviscerated states rights and added, more and more, toward the modern centralization of State power; Obama, as with many before him, both Republicans and Democrats, has demonstrated that political power is, empirically speaking, of a unitary nature. But, what is being noted is not done in terms of any, e. g., Machiavellian, Hobbesian, or Marxian analysis.
St. Thomas Aquinas, among many classical and medieval writers, would have observed that there is a natural monarchical tendency simply inherent to the amassment and exercise of State power, as is readily seen, of course, in the Executive Branch of the Constitution itself. The political term “imperial presidency” is well known, of course. Andrew Jackson was, upon historical reflection, the first imperial president; Lincoln was, of course, the second.
The supposed tripartite regime, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches, gets revealed as a clever legal fiction thought up by Montesquieu and other classical liberals. Reality ever indicates otherwise. If the traditionalist right’s point of view were to be even mainly in error, then Lincoln would have been totally unable to ever do what he, in fact, successfully did, the same for FDR, the same for LBJ, etc.
The Obama scandals, in context, are revealed as totally meaningless in the sense that, e. g., dozens of people who ought to have been charged and arrested were—guess what?—not. Power (and its obvious exercise) excuses many things. And so, the modern, centralizing nation-state, thus, continues its fairly expected progress undaunted. Q. E. D.
3. As is historically known, The American people, e. g., back in the 1990s, did not then rise up in righteous wrath en masse to completely make sure that Bill Clinton, with all of his many outrageous felonies and felonious scandals galore, could not ever possibly be reelected. Both he and Obama were, in fact, reelected easily. Q. E. D.
4. Nihilism, by definition, can only exist as perpetual negation. These supposed revolutionaries are good at destroying traditional civilization and society, for they are, in truth, the new barbarians. They are not the glorious harbingers of any great new sociopolitical order for the celebrated future ages of man on earth. Therefore, every immanentist attempt to ideologically create Heaven (aka Utopia), on this planet, has necessarily formed into a version of Hell.
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