As long as people assume the only solution to fixing and restoring our foundations is limited to just politics to the object of government, then it can never be restored.
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it". - John Adams, Letter to Abigail July 7, 1775
He wrote that because history and human nature bear that truth out and there is no exception to it. An immoral, ignorant and indifferent people are incapable of maintaining a Constitution and will reject liberty in favor of slavery every single time. I get nothing but silence, ridicule or aversion to the mere question about how to address that.
Actually, I have publicly endorsed your position. I just haven't elaborated on your position beyond saying that a COS might buy us time (as I believe
you have
also admitted, even though you tend to believe that America's time is already fatally short, for the reasons you have repeatedly cited).
Your boldness concerning a looming final disaster for our Republic reminds me of the Old Testament prophet Jonah. Unfortunately, that means that you will piss off a lot of people--mainly, in my opinion, because you are clearly correct about the utter seriousness of our national mess.
Your citations of our Founders and Framers are evidently unanswerable. (I think TBR members, of all people, should take better note of that.)
You seem to be saying "Yet 40 days--or weeks, or whatever brief interval--and the proud but now depraved American Republic will be
finally destroyed." (Compare this with Jonah 3:4.)
It is important to notice that Jonah did not offer any hope at all to Nineveh; in that regard, the overall style of your blunt warning is not without precedent. The most important difference between you and Jonah (to your credit, in my opinion) is that you are not claiming to be a prophet in the full Biblical sense thereof. Instead of saying
The Lord told me to warn America about this, you are essentially saying
America's Christian and other God-conscious Founders and Framers have "told" me to warn America about a looming final disaster consistent with what the Bible also teaches more generally about the disaster of spurning our Creator. In short, I think you are on very solid ground even if a lot of TBR members don't like your blunt style.
That brings me to a New Testament warning pivoting on Jonah's message: "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here" (Matthew 12:41). Under the circumstances of that warning, I cannot help but worry that most Americans do not want to hear a message of their helplessness in spiritual depravity--even though their distaste for that truth is the lynchpin of that very depravity. I frankly think we TBR members need to receive your awful message even as we push for a COS.
Your message is a hard message, but that is why it is important. I think widespread lamentation would actually avert the disaster of which you speak (see Jonah 3:5). Unfortunately, I see no national movement of sackcloth and ashes, as it were. (Religious "extremists" like you can't get a lot of attention in America beyond scoffing, even if your position is correct.)
I do see some of us trying to put a time-sensitive patch of one sort or another on our dangerous national dilemma. I am one of those people, as you surely know through my own public advocacy for a COS, but I will not scoff or even complain about your warnings. I will not call you a lunatic or a buffoon (even if you are, let's say, rhetorically flamboyant ^-^). I am frankly hoping that our nation's Creator will give us more time to heed your message--which message is that America is in
much more serious trouble than most Americans realize.
Oddly enough, the real desperation of our situation largely consists in the fact that most people don't realize that our
political situation is
spiritually desperate. Our Founders and Framers would surely tell us that having repeatedly elected to high office
quite a few of the most evil men and women on the entire planet, our nation as a whole deserves whatever final doom God might very well have in store for us.
Electing a few "less evil" men and women will not fix the problem. We just keep electing pretty rotten folks who promise to fix our nation's sundry problems and then fail to follow through against the root problems of America. Dealing with the root problems requires the spiritually special leadership that stems from moral courage--not the leadership of political pep rally stuff for the groundlings of politics. Sadly, most Americans are still wallowing in an ungodly sort of optimism to the effect that we can
surely make America great again. (It is
ungodly optimism when it is stubborn presumption masquerading as faith in God--as it so often does. I blame modern churchianity for this sort of mess. Today's "easy-believism" pseudo-gospel essentially defines faith as simply
bypassing any meaningful fear of God. That's one of the biggest mistakes in the universe. And it is as common as dirt in most modern churches.)
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One of the most shocking texts that the Word of God has ever clearly applied to America in particular is actually in Isaiah Chapter 9, verses 8 and following. I have often urged TBR members to get and read
The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn, and I still do so. The parallels between America and reprobate Israel are astonishingly detailed when you know where to look, as Cahn certainly does. It is a scholarly and thoughtful but downright eerie warning to America in particular.
The truth is, we might not even have time to avert disaster for America. Potential scenarios include nuclear war; an EMP attack; massive jihadist uprisings on our soil; a ruinous civil war facilitated by "community organizers"; and an economic collapse of the sort telegraphed by Allen Greenspan and possibly to be triggered by the cabal that you have mentioned (and also mentioned by many others on TBR). Then, too, perhaps we should wonder about some of the over-the-top weird stuff that has reportedly caused a lot of billionaires to build underground bunkers designed to withstand cosmic cataclysms (or even an ET [?] invasion!).
Some of this sounds completely crazy to most of us, perhaps, but that's beside the point. The point is that we need to be sober enough to realize that we are defenseless if we do not really have God Himself defending us. Our POTUS seems to be addressing most if not all of these disaster scenarios as fast as he can, but one or two failures could destroy us. (Actually, a well-executed EMP attack alone could kill 200 million or more Americans, according to some studies.)
I am not flatfootedly declaring that any of these worst-case scenarios will occur. But no one on TBR can flatfootedly tell us that none of them will occur. The wrath of God can take any number of forms. And no one has ever refuted Cahn's exegetically profound warnings. In this regard, Cahn is not like the prophecy dingbats that plague modern churchianity.
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That brings me to my own comments as to what Trump needs to be doing in
parallel to everything he is currently doing. He needs to keep his promise to drain the swamp.
Trump needs to prosecute HRC. He needs to let that prosecution expand to prosecute every last lying, government crook who has had any part in the larger global-Socialist conspiracy against the United States. If and when the Clinton investigation turns up the child-sex-slavery ring that a number of credible sources have supposedly discovered, Trump should prosecute its members wherever they are found--whether in Congress or the Executive Branch or the Judiciary or the DNC or the RNC or the Pentagon or the CIA or the FBI.
He should also investigate Obama and prosecute him wherever the investigation leads.
Trump has already indicated that he is not going to do any of these things. That is an enormous mistake. America needs to fully discover how evil our government has become. My goodness, there are apparently a sizeable number of full-blown, practicing Satanists (both the Aleister Crowley kind and the Albert Pike kind) at very high levels of our government.
We need to shake today's monumentally foolish electorate--including churchgoing but unregenerate fools. At the same time, genuine Christians need to pray for another Jonathan Edwards to rise up with the message that built America in the first place--a message of
sinners in the hands of an angry God. Maybe, just maybe, America would finally repent under
that warning.
