Good. How are you going to apply this to the national soul?
If you do not understand the concept - then there is no way I can explain it to you on this forum without breaching board policy. Suffice it to say, that when you read the Foudners, you are going to find a universal commonality that a people who are governed by God and religion, are the only people capable of having liberty and maintaining their politics to safeguard it.
What I'm trying to determine @INVAR is if you're serious about all the posts you make about what it will take to save this country and have a political strategy (since you're on a political forum) to accomplish your goals. Or if you're just flapping your gums for attention.
Politics comes out of the character of a people who use it to either achieve nefarious self-serving ends, or to protect against government intrusion on liberty as the Constitution is constructed. All for the purpose so we can live our own lives in obedience to our consciences and faith without imposition or hindrance from the state.
Only a virtuous people are going to choose virtuous representatives for virtuous intentions. But sadly, we have a population nearly wholly ignorant of our foundations, hostile towards the religious morality that set those foundations and whom want the avarice of various isms to satisfy wants using the state to achieve it. You cannot use politics to impose a cultural virtue and morality to return us to a Constitutional Republic that safeguards liberty. That simply becomes another form of tyranny. A virtuous culture however, will select the politics that establish a morality foundational to liberty and a Constitutional Republic.
In short, we were not a nation forged from the top on down, but from the bottom on up. The Left understood this a long time ago, and they infiltrated set up shop in our schools, universities, our entertainment and communications. They changed the character of the culture using those tools to get to the point their politics could be elected via subterfuge and infiltration until the point they could run open Socialists/Communists to high office and win.
That is a direct indictment of the church in America, who have failed to influence the culture because they have instead let the culture influence them for the sake of wealth and itching ears. Get the church to start influencing the culture with the morality and behaviors that uphold the bulwarks of God, family, country and liberty as intended for us, and your politics will follow. This is why the majority of my posts have a biblical or religious bent to them on this board. Upholding the principles of virtue is the first step towards reclaiming what we've lost.
Abandoning principles for what is politically pragmatic, consigns us to the fate all republics before ours have succumbed to.
For too many who are politically active in this country - politics IS become their religion, and it explains a great deal as to why we have arrived where we have as a declining culture and nation on the verge of an uncivil war.
