An Essay - Will Our Democratic Republic Survive

This will interrupt the regular sequence for a message of great importance.

Of late I have been participating in the opinion portions of Fox News and Op-Ed Pages seeking to gain a better understanding of the forces at play in what has become a great debate of what is and what isn’t constitutional in the minds of many and of the frustration they experience when their elected officials refuse to listen to the electorate who chose them as delegates to represent them. There is, indeed, an alarming trend of late on the part of the current administration and of the Congress itself to subjugate the wishes and desires of their constituents by forging ahead with a bill that it is quite plain the majority do not wish to be enacted. They, in their hubris, are blinded with the majority they now experience and are determined to do exactly what they complained about when the opposition had the upper hand. So the cycle continues holding the people themselves hostage to their machinations.

I have found, thus, that there is a shadow on the land –a dark and insidious specter whose sinewy fingers seek to insinuate its way into our collective consciousness and becloud it so that we may not see the tyranny that is plainly in front of us - a cloud whose epicenter is Washington City. A false cloud of hope that has been decades in the making and one that feeds on our own winters of discontent and seeks to cultivate us so that it can eventually marshal us like pawns in a great chess game. It will not hesitate to sacrifice any of those pawns when the occasion calls for it, like a great chess master. As the historian, Barbara Tuchman stated, “every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.” We have arrived, mes amis, to that transition point.

Many seek to hitch their wagons to the yoke of this new ‘savior’ in the hopes that he will lead them to the land of milk and honey, the Utopia of legend, the fabled Garden of Eden or the Elysian Fields. These converts parrot the tag lines and credos of ‘hope’ insisting it is their ‘god-given’ right and they are indeed ‘entitled’ to it. Obama is their Messiah and Pelosi, Reid and others are his prophets, spreading his theology throughout the land and forging proposed canons that require conformity from the flock or else stipulate punishment for the heretic, the non-believer and those who will not conform, and penance for the parishioners who have committed a mortal sin. This is tyranny be it religion or politics. Little force is needed to control anyone once they are hoodwinked.

They use the fertile ground of rebellion against the policies of the previous administration that engaged this nation in multiple armed conflicts which lead, inevitably, to the deaths of many in a unique guerilla warfare that is extremely difficult to combat, for there is no sharply defined front or battlefield. We are in truth not fighting a nation but an ideology that has no artificial boundaries – a religious philosophy whose adherents embrace death. We, in the west, embrace life, so there is very little common ground for the diplomacy others give credence to.

Then there are those whose minds are not clouded with the darkness, who seek to influence those who have fallen into the shadow and are often frustrated in their attempts. They seek a savior of their own, one who will march into the temple and cleanse it of the defilers who reside there. It is difficult to combat those who have a yearning for a life free of labor and worry and a world free of conflict and unnecessary death and destruction and the slave masters who are eager to give them the illusion of such. Spiritual religions rely on mystery, magic and miracle. Political religions rely on the promise of Eden and Utopia and there are many who will accept those promises and would sell their very souls for such a place. They seek not to labor in the field but to savor the luxury they so envy in others who have worked and sacrificed to achieve. They have yet to discover that there are still those who seek to control the minds of others and insist that their own beliefs be adhered to – feelings of inferiority run rampant in such and it can lead to a pandemic neurosis in others like them. Those who pretend to lead thusly invariably come from a socialist academia filled with theories of how humanity is supposed to live and coexist with one another, many of which have long since been disproved. We shall always have among us the ‘haves” and the “have-nots”.

The Democrats say “My Way”. The Republicans say, “My Way”. It’s akin to an epic battle of the Titans or the forces of darkness and light vying for supremacy. I say there is a third alternative – Neither Way. Why should any of us have to choose between two untenable positions? There are those who seek a New World Order – a single unifying government. It may indeed come one day, but only when the people themselves embrace it, on their own terms and not on the terms of those seeking to reign over the minds of others. A day that a world peace will be at hand and society will have learned to deal with those who threaten the survival of humanity with a solution of the most stringent measures necessary.

I present this for what it is, a brief essay, one that is but part of a much larger work now in progress. And to those detractors who say this is long winded and of no logical veracity I can only say, “There are more things in this universe than are contemplated in the limited plenum of your philosophies.”