STATE
OF THE NATION
COLLECTION
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE COMMENTARY
By
Samuel
Orrin Sewell
Editor’s Notes
I am in
agreement with all scientists and most philosophers who believe that we live in
a universe, not a dual-verse. Even
though I am a Christian clergyman, I disagree with many religions that an evil
being they call “satan” exists. Evil exists – that’s certain – but I believe
that evil, whenever it occurs, is caused by the absence of that universal
loving spirit in which we live and move and derive our very being. It is
available to all of us human beings, and can become inextricably intermingled in
the midst of us. However, because of free will, we human beings are also able
to deny access to that universal loving spirit, and that act of alienation from
God is what causes evil on our planet. I believe there is a cosmic good that
rules the universe, a cosmic powerful good; but I do not believe that there is
also a cosmic power that causes evil. As the ancient Jews would say, “The Lord
your God is one God.” As the presence of God is diminished, the presence of
evil increases. “The only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good men do nothing” Edmund Burke
It is not
coincidental that communism overtly alienated itself from God. Socialism has also
alienated itself from God, and those two movements have caused almost
unbelievable evil on our planet. Communism brags about their being atheists,
and Democrats actually
boo the mention of God at their conventions.
The leaders
of these evil movements attract huge populations of ordinary people through
deception. They always claim to have noble goals, which cause irrational,
overemotional people to join their evil intentions. Usually these ordinary
people who’ve been deceived had no idea that the movement they’ve joined is evil,
and that it influences and pollutes all of the institutions in our nation. The
evil leaders call these idealistically motivated participants in their movement
“useful idiots.” Often, these “useful
idiots” are not overtly evil, but neither are they connected to that universal loving
spirit in which we live and move and derive our very being. Ordinary people can
be swept up by a tide of godless behavior if they are not protected by the
shield of righteousness.
Here are
some examples of godless movements that have created monstrous, evil calamities
for the people of Earth.
All of these murders
were committed by communist or socialist leaders:
61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag
State
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
2,035,000 Murdered: The
Khmer Rouge Hell State
20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
Even a cursory examination of history will
reveal many more such examples. (What’s not appreciated is that
Nazism is a form of socialism.) Germany’s leaders proved that even religion
can be perverted to uses that further their evil causes. So history, since Karl
Marx, has conclusively proved that his ideas have created a century of evil
influence.
I spent a significant portion of my life
fighting that evil influence.
Now
that we have a brief history, let me share my present-day fear. One of the
greatest dangers to our nation is the rising influence of the Marxist “stinkin’
thinkin’” here in America, in the form of the modern Democratic Party. Please
remember, it is the leaders who are evil; the followers are mostly idealistic,
“useful idiots.” Not all Democrats are evil. “Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn.” So let us explore
the historical influence of the evil inherent in the Democratic Party Leadership,
which has been invaded by Marxist, cognitive pathology.
Chapter
One
Children
of the Beast
THIS IS THE PREMISE THE LIBERALS SUPPORT:
Democratic voters declare that property belonging to
citizen "A" be confiscated by the government, and given to Citizen
"B," or maybe even to a non-citizen. That is fundamentally wrong!
Anyone who cannot see the violation of morality in that scenario has
a hole in their soul.
Also, “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw
Would the Democrats ever win another election if people
on welfare couldn’t vote?
Introduction
"The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants
to be safe." H.L. Mencken.Most people see the conflict
between limited government and big government as a political battle between
conservatives and liberals. This conflict is much more profound than
political theory can encompass.
The battle being fought in America today goes beyond
politics; right vs. left. It is a spiritual battle; good vs. evil.
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over
this present darkness, against the spiritual wickedness in high
places.”
Ephesians 6:12
The People of God are not struggling with other people.
Do not be fooled as to who the enemy is. The enemy is not
a flesh and blood entity but rather a non-breathing "beast that is, and is
not, and yet is." The enemy is not Islamic or Communist. It is
not liberals or conservatives. It is not the people of any
nation. There are cosmic forces of evil that become pseudo-animated in
the collective evil of governments around the world, be they
dictatorships, monarchies or democracies. That is "The
Beast," and the repository of collective evil, with which all the peoples
of the word are struggling.
In this essay the metaphor of “The Beast” is used to
represent big government or other human bureaucracies. “Children of The Beast”
symbolically represents the nature of those who support, or are dependent upon,
big government or other human institutions.
My analysis is offered in three sections:
The inherent inefficiency
and inertia of large, complex entities
The inherent evil of large,
complex entities
Why are there so many
“Children of the Beast”
“The Beast” is too big to be responsive to
human will
“This system is like a steamroller with an unresponsive
steering wheel; no matter who is in the driver’s seat it continues to crush the
people.”
At every level of life we recognize that the more
complicated any system becomes the less efficient its function. Complicated systems
overwhelm the people who participate in them.
For example, let’s look at people and their
possessions. Most of us have made the observation that as we accumulate
“things” there comes a time when our things own us, rather than us owning our
things. My wife has created a system that prevents her closet from taking
over our house. She will not put a new piece of clothing into her closet
unless she eliminates something that is already there.
Many business
es have a similar policy. In addition
to not adding a new policy without eliminating an outdated policy, managers do
a periodic analysis of the existing bureaucracy to determine what paperwork and
procedures need to be eliminated.
Governments would do well to implement similar
solutions. Most government programs have a constituency of voters who
object to “their” special interest program being eliminated, resulting in a
system that eventually overwhelms the citizens. Not only are government
agencies inefficient, they often produce “schizophrenic” results, like attempts
to reduce the use of tobacco at the same time that tobacco growers are
receiving government subsidies.
This is not just a modern problem! The same
dynamics were present in large systems thousands of years ago. Bureaucratic
inertia was as much a cause for the fall of the Roman Empire as
barbarians at the gates. The ancient Jews had a solution to the problem
that has escaped the attention of leaders of modern government systems.
"This fiftieth year is sacred—it is a time of
freedom and of celebration, when everyone will receive back their original
property, and slaves will return home to their families. " Leviticus 25:10
Every fifty years all debts were cancelled, all slaves
were freed, and all land was returned to the ancestral owners. There were
several other provisions associated with the Year of Jubilee. This religious
tradition was a way for an entire culture to be reset, or “rebooted,” in order
to wipe out the accumulated bureaucratic inertia. We modern people can
“defrag” our computers, but we have not yet learned how to “defrag” our federal
government.
The problems associated with complex systems are not
unique to the government of the United States. In fact the founding
fathers who created the Constitution built in some safeguards because they were
already aware of the problem. The 10th Amendment is one of those
attempts to curtail the unrelenting tendency of government to grow into a curse
upon free men and women.
“The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
This Constitutional Amendment was intended to restrict
the power and size of the federal government. Over the decades the
federal government has steadily centralized its power, while the
10th amendment has been mostly ignored.
Two small examples; if the 10th amendment were
respected, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency would cease to exist,
and individual state agencies would protect the environment of each
state. Also, the Federal Department of Education would be eliminated, and
local school boards would set the standards and supervise the education in each
individual community.
As you might suspect ““The Beast”” and “The “Children of
The Beast”” are adamantly opposed to such corrections.
It is a fundamental truth that all systems grow to the
point where their internal inertia causes them to fail. So it is clear
that we are struggling with dynamics more profound than modern politics in
the United States. These dynamics are rooted into the very nature of
reality, even showing up in complicated systems of the physical world of engineering
and physics. The more complex the system, the less efficient and more
unwieldy it becomes.
“The Beast” That
Was, and Is Not, and Yet Is (Revelation 17:8)
Now, there is a riddle for you! How could something
have existed, but not really exist at all, and yet still exist. I think a
hint to solve the riddle lies in ersatz entities that are created as human
concepts, and have no tangible existence what so ever.
I remember a speech I heard by the flamboyant trial
attorney, Gerry Spence. He said, “I had a very successful career working
for corporations and the government. I won every case that went to
trial. Then I became aware that I was working for virtual, non-human
entities that had no actual existence. My clients were artificial,
abstract ‘creatures’ whose only claim on reality was a concept or a contract
defined by the laws of man. I also noticed that when I won a case for a
corporation or the government that real live human beings, with blood pumping
through their veins and breath moving in and out of their lungs, were
victimized by the ‘non-breathers.’ That is when I vowed never to have
another non-breathing client for the rest of my career. If you can’t fog
up a cold mirror with your breath, I will not be your attorney.”
I think Gerry Spence solved the above riddle. If it
doesn’t breathe, it is “The Beast.” If “The Beast” serves human needs it
should be domesticated, cared for, and kept on a tight rein. If “The
Beast” intimidates human beings and expects the humans to serve “IT”, the time
has come to bring out the cattle prods, and force ““The Beast”” back into
submission.
Metaphorically, American citizens are struggling with
“The Beast” that has forgotten who is serving whom. I wonder if the right to
bear arms includes cattle prods. J
Our elected leaders are expected to accept the
responsibility of controlling “The Beast.” Why do you think the
Constitution has all those phrases, “The government shall not …”?
If, instead, our elected leaders begin serving “The
Beast,” it becomes the responsibility of each individual citizen to ensure that
“The Beast” is properly subordinated to ‘We the People.’ Many of our
elected leaders are “Children of The Beast.” Many of our citizens have
become “Children of The Beast.” They worship the glory and the power of
“The Beast.” They accept gifts from “The Beast,” and they become dependent upon
“The Beast.” Evil compounded upon evil is the result of the nature of
“The Beast” and the support of “The Children of The Beast.”
Why
are there so many “Children of the Beast”?
What is the human motivation that allows people to
overlook the dangers of “The Beast,” and choose a politician for his/her
charming personality traits, rather than clothing themselves with a warrior
spirit capable of subduing “The Beast?” A partial answer to that question
was provided by Erich Fromm in his book “Escape from Freedom.”
Freud thought human personality was determined by conditioning
having an effect on biology. Marx saw peoples’ lives as determined by their
society and economic systems. Erich Fromm challenged these two reigning
intellectual systems of his time with the idea of freedom.
Fromm originally wrote “Escape from Freedom” in 1941 to
explore the psychological reasons for the success of Nazism in Germany. If
one were to pair this Fromm classic with Eric Hoffer’s 1951 bestseller “The
True Believer,” a rich understanding of human political behavior would
emerge. Fromm makes ‘freedom of the individual’ a central
characteristic of human nature! Hoffer documents the evil that is endemic
to mass movements.
A little bit of history is required to understand
this. One example of lack of individual freedom is represented by
animals, as well as by humans who have not transcended their animal nature, and
are still controlled by a Freudian biological determinism (the Id.)
Animals and unenlightened humans don't worry about freedom; instincts and
conditioning are the determining factors. Such life forms accept what
life offers, and mostly adjust to whatever reality they inhabit.
An example of political and economic lack of individual
freedom would be the pre-renaissance feudal society of the middle ages.
Personal freedom was not conceivable for most people in those
times. Basically, if your father was a peasant, you would be a peasant.
If your father was a king, you would become a king. So, for most of human
history there was very little individual freedom, and there were very few mass
movements. This simple life began to be transformed when people
started to see individual humans as being important to the universal scheme of
things. First came the Renaissance, and then came the Reformation, which
introduced the idea of each person being individually responsible for his own
soul's salvation behind the rallying cry “Every man his own priest.” Then came
the democratic revolutions and the overthrow of kings.
Now we are expected to govern ourselves. We all have a
hand in determining our destiny and making collective policy! So the idea
of the individual, with individual thoughts, decision-making authority, personal
emotions, moral conscience, freedom, and intimidating responsibility, came into
being. But with individuality came isolation, alienation, and bewilderment.
Freedom is a difficult thing to have. Fromm believed that when possible, the
unenlightened man tends to flee from it. Escaping from freedom is now an
important motivating factor of our species. Since the need to escape from
individual freedom has emerged in human consciousness, mass movements have
begun appearing in human society. Fromm sheds light on the dynamics with
these two quotes:
"The person who gives up his individual self and
becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him,
need not feel alone and anxious any more. The price he pays, however, is high;
it is the loss of his self."
"This loss of identity then makes it still more
imperative to conform. It means that one can be sure of oneself only if one
lives up to the expectations of others. If we do not live up to this picture,
we not only risk disapproval and increased isolation, but we risk losing the
identity of our personality, which means jeopardizing sanity."
So when today’s humans lose parents and family as a
resource to feeling belongingness and having identity, they begin to attach
themselves to “The Beast” rather than to their Heavenly Father.
Erich Fromm can tell us a lot about what is behind how
most people vote. He makes the point that most people are terrified of being an
on-their-own, take-care-of-themselves, free, adult human being. So, we
attach ourselves to surrogate family units and surrogate parents to escape from
our freedom. That translates into belonging to and becoming psychologically and
physically dependent upon organizations as diverse as: the company for whom we
work and our boss, to the church we attend and our pastor, and the political
party to which we belong and the parent figure who gets our vote. Identifying
with the group becomes our new collective identity, and we surrender our
individual identity and freedom.
Ask any pastor, teacher, psychotherapist, supervisor, boss or elected official and they will be happy to confirm that the people they deal with are all trying to work out their childhood agendas on any available authority figure.
Some want a ‘sugar daddy’ and a ‘sugar family’ to take care of them, so they cede their personal power and freedom to this Democratic Parent and Party, which promises to provide life’s necessities and define reality for them. The details of politics and policy positions pale into insignificance, when compared to the need to escape from personal freedom and responsibility.
Ask any pastor, teacher, psychotherapist, supervisor, boss or elected official and they will be happy to confirm that the people they deal with are all trying to work out their childhood agendas on any available authority figure.
Some want a ‘sugar daddy’ and a ‘sugar family’ to take care of them, so they cede their personal power and freedom to this Democratic Parent and Party, which promises to provide life’s necessities and define reality for them. The details of politics and policy positions pale into insignificance, when compared to the need to escape from personal freedom and responsibility.
Some want a ‘strong daddy’ who will
protect them from danger and who expects them to be strong as well.
So they vote for a Republican Parent and Party. They need to belong to a
strong family with a strong leader, so they will feel safe. And once
again, the details don’t really matter that much.
No matter for whom we are voting, we are choosing our kind of family, and our kind of parent. Most folks choose the candidate for the qualities that will fill their psychological needs. The issues aren’t nearly as important as the personal evaluation of the person’s character. If they like the person and trust that candidate to be “their kind of parent,” they will make that selection. Most people are not aware of the dangers of “The Beast,” and our collective duty to subdue “The Beast,” so they elect a leader who meets their personal needs.
No matter their party persuasion, those involved in politics are mostly “Children of The Beast.”
No matter for whom we are voting, we are choosing our kind of family, and our kind of parent. Most folks choose the candidate for the qualities that will fill their psychological needs. The issues aren’t nearly as important as the personal evaluation of the person’s character. If they like the person and trust that candidate to be “their kind of parent,” they will make that selection. Most people are not aware of the dangers of “The Beast,” and our collective duty to subdue “The Beast,” so they elect a leader who meets their personal needs.
No matter their party persuasion, those involved in politics are mostly “Children of The Beast.”
Conclusion: Some voters still embrace their personal
freedom, and the responsibility that comes along with it. They study the
issues, and they vote on the issues. They know the nature of “The Beast”
and they live up to their duty to tame “The Beast.” But sadly, they are
a distinct minority. Don’t expect people to vote on issues. They
seldom do. My guess is that more people will vote on how the candidate looks
than on what the candidate believes. They vote for whoever meets their
personal, psychological needs. And “The Beast” will continue to rule
until the citizens are all armed with spiritual cattle prods.
No comments:
Post a Comment