Quo Vadis?

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” – Benito Mussolini

The Democrats ran a very revealing video clip at their convention earlier this month. In it the narrator says, “…. government’s the only thing we all belong to …” He was of course trying to stress the importance of national unity amid a tremendous diversity of cultures, ethnic backgrounds, religions and political commitments.  It’s a revealing sentiment by the Democrats, a moment when the curtain was pulled pack and we could see their beliefs for what they are. They believe that the government is what binds us together. It binds us together all right … in chains.  The Democratic party’s belief that government is the basis of our unity flies in the face of America’s founding principles that says “We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights …..”   Although American’s have held different creeds as to specific religious beliefs and what church they belonged to, or not, the overwhelming consensus was that we were “one nation under God.”

A government that regards itself as supreme over all is a dangerous government.  I can easily understand how an atheist can believe in totalitarianism, which the Democratic party apparently supports.  But how a person of faith can do so boggles the  mind. To do so is to violate the First Commandment. To believe that we are “one nation under the government” is idolatry, pure and simple.

It seems the golden calf is still an beguiling object of worship, captivating people by its magic, enticing them into revelry (Exodus 32).

Every empire where Pharaoh, Caesar, Czar or Fuhrer was the object of people’s ultimate loyalty collapsed eventually “and was completely ruined” (Matthew 7: 27).

We are at that point as a nation. Our nation was founded on the idea of limited government which protected God-given rights.  If at the next election we decide to go down the road where the state is absolute and subscribe to the Democratic belief  that we are “one nation under the government” the freedoms we’ve taken for granted as a people: the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of religion, the freedom to peaceably assemble and petition the government will be over.  We’ll no longer be citizens, but subjects. And it won’t be pretty.

With the presidential election less than two months away, most people agree that it’s one of the most important elections in decades. Whether you’re on the left or the right, almost everyone agrees that the choice before us is clear. How to articulate the difference, however, is another matter. I should say up front that I fall on the conservative side of the line and so I see it as a choice between a country in which basic liberties are respected and the federal government lives within its means, or a country that’s bankrupt, morally and literally; a country in which the Constitution is nothing more than a historic artifact, citizens are subjects and the president rules by decree.  Amassing trillions of dollars in debt that will be passed on generations yet unborn is positively immoral.  I am not so naive as to expect that a Romney presidency will solve our financial problems. I’m not sure they are solvable. But I think he’ll certainly try.  But I’m pretty sure that going down the road we’ve been on these last four years will finish us as a nation. If D’Sousa is right, and I think he is, that’s the end game of this administration.  Since the ’60′s the goal has been, in the word of Crosby, Stills and Nash to “change the world; rearrange the world”.  What it was supposed to be changed into, they didn’t say. If Obama is re-elected, we’ll find out.