Tipping Point
It is difficult to say which is the more degraded, a people who have giddily placed in power men who have neither shame nor honor, or a ruling class whose only demonstrated area of competence is grifting. Really, it dizzies to watch both groups scurry about to and fro. The one bends the knee and salivates at the feet of power. The other revels that its outrages against decency go ignored.
We may describe both of these depraved shreds of humanity as
A race dissolved by every passion, destroyed by uncontrolled self-indulgence, cringing and womanish in its thinking, close to cowardice, wallowing in all swinishness, debased, content with servitude in security, such is the life of those who belong to the present generation.
These words were written 1500 years ago, demonstrating yet again how changeless is the nature of men and how absurd it is to believe that men learn from history.
We have passed into law an 1100 page monstrosity that no man has read, that no man understands and that half the nation rejects. We were told that such a law was absolutely essential, that there was no time for reflection, that the nation would collapse without it. Crisis after crisis, outrage after outrage, lie after lie—and already the words of praise issue forth from a deranged media who bray songs of worship and adoration at the feet of those who ride herd over this dying Republic.
It happened in a twinkling of an eye, with a mere stroke of the pen, without the slightest of struggles. In an instant the entire heritage of a once great people, a people who once dedicated “their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor” to the cause of liberty, has been tossed aside for the promises of comfort and security. A more debased citizenry could scarcely be imagined. Other peoples who have abandoned their liberty at least have had the excuses of war, of rebellion, of a great civil disorder. We have had none of these. We have become a slobbering and cringing Esau who has learned to bow and scrape before the lawless and worthless men who have seized the wealth and traditions of this nation.
History is not kind concerning the fate of such a people as we have become. Its pages are incarnadined with images of Nineveh, of Carthage, of Rome, of Tenochtitlan. We have turned our face away from the true God and now render everything unto Caesar. A Godless people have created a government in its own image, a mindless Golem, a new Moloch straight from Babylon of old. It admits no restrictions, no limits, and no law. Of what use now to trot out the Constitution? That ancient piece of parchment has been ignored for two generations. It was only suited for a religious people, and we are no longer a religious people.
What is to become of us? Is this the end of that marvelous experiment of liberty began in that Philadelphia room so long ago? No, for as yet the great center of this Republic has not spoken. It is that remnant of our race that has not forgotten Jefferson, Adams, Washington and Henry. It has not forgotten what was paid for in blood at Lexington, at Valley Forge, at New Orleans.