In truth, the major problem in our world today is government. Governments don’t actually solve problems, but create most of them.
The prophet Samuel told the tribes of Israel what would happen when they insisted on having an earthly king. The Bible is a history of the tribes of Israel. They had good kings every so often, but more bad than good. The bad kings led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Israelites being taken into captivity and scattered into the world.
Rome was a republic with all of the inherent conflicts that a republic has. Eventually, the democrats, no, the Caesars, took control over the republic and it died.
Our Democrat-controlled cities, states and national government are fighting against laws and customs of American heritage. COVID mandates brought us to the breaking point of American society and culture. We were warned of mass deaths unless GovCo had its way, so we gave in to:
• Churches forced to close.
• Hairdressers closed, except for the elites.
• Restaurants closed by mask mandates, except for elite parties.
• Government control of social media.
• Weaponized, unelected government agencies working for the party in power against their political party opponents.
• The FBI investigating parents who disagreed with local school boards.
• Citizens criminally charged for questioning election results. When did it become against the law to be wrong? Only Republicans got indicted for questioning election results, while Democrats have been doing it for years.
• Cities and states giving sanctuary to illegal invaders, who mostly do not want to assimilate into American culture. Those same cities and states try to restrict our rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights; but we allow a sitting president to violate Article II, Section 3 (the take-care clause) of the Constitution, which is an impeachable offense.
Sorry, this is only a short list.
Leftist progressive Democrats have gotten America into the passing lane on the highway to perdition with their destructive ideology. That ideology includes destruction of our constitutional republic, so that we become a straight democracy, where 50% plus 1 of the votes rule. Then just five or six states will rule America. That is simple tyranny and loss of our freedom.
The truly sad part is our GovCo was voted in by uninformed and misinformed citizens. When freedom dies, it will never return.
How many more mandates, executive orders and two-tiered criminal cases can we stand before the Bill of Rights is just a dead letter and the Constitution is a forbidden document? We are very close to finding out.
Rudy Schmidt is a Lancaster resident.