Did You Vote for a
Despot?
Part I
Thomas Jefferson warned us of the danger of
"elective
despotism:"
"They should look forward to a time, and that
not a distant one, when a corruption in this, as in the country from which we
derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by
them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the
people, and make them pay the price. Human nature is the same on every side of
the Atlantic, and will be alike influenced by the same causes. The time to
guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of
us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his
teeth and talons after he shall have entered."
Despotism is defined as
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power according to the
Miriam-Webster dictionary. Jefferson
warned the despots would take control of government and then would win people’s
votes by giving them free stuff. Though
the people would not realize it, they would pay in the end: higher taxes, lower quality health care,
controlling where they go, what they do.
Despots are not just at
the federal level. They have permeated
every level of our lives from the school system, to city hall, to state
governments. We now have unelected
people in positions of power and no one to stop. Every month, the EPA, the ATF, the
Educational Dept, the Commerce Dept making thousands of laws with no one to
stop them. In fact, these departments
actually exist in violation of the Constitution.
So who is to blame for
the stranglehold put on Americans and how they grow their food, raise and
educate their children, buy property and build houses, build businesses or the
emptiness of compartments in their cars? (Yes,
a 30-year old man was arrested because a compartment in his car was empty and could be used to carry drugs, even
though no evidence of drugs was found.)
The answer is: WE, the voters, are to blame for the
mess in this country.
Our Founding Fathers
came from 13 colonies, and were individual governments. They were as separate as England is from
France and France is from Saudi Arabia.
The 13 colonies came
together to throw off the control of King George III. Upon completing that task, they realized they
needed to remain together, resulting in the states creating the federal
government, NOT the federal government creating the states. The purpose of the federal government was
ONLY for military protection, interacting diplomatically with other countries
and regulating commerce with foreign nations, dealing with Indians and
interstate commerce. The purpose of
interstate commerce was to ONLY ensure free trade between the states.
However, the federal
government has so perverted interstate commerce to the point it is now being
used to force Americans to buy very expensive government-regulated healthcare.
As I said, Americans
have only themselves to blame for the mess we find ourselves in. For the first almost 150 years, the federal
and state governments encouraged education for all students on the Bible and
the Constitution.
The Northwest Ordinance
of 1787 under the Articles of Confederation mandated all new states set up
systems for public education. The law
states: “Religion, morality, and
knowledge [are] necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind.” Most of the colonial universities were
founded with a requirement of biblical teaching and worship. Some of these were Harvard, Princeton, College
of William & Mary, Columbia University, Yale and Rutgers University. In
fact, Yale was founded to fight liberalism in 1701.
George Washington
believed that religion first, then schooling were necessary components of
virtue. He believed the benevolent
spirit that preserved civil society and good government were grounded in
religion and education. In his Farewell
Address of 1796, he stated “Of all the
dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are indispensable supports.”
Washington recommended Americans constantly promote “institutions for the general diffusion of
knowledge. In proportion as the
structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be
enlightened.” The Founding Fathers
felt an ignorant, immoral people would act and vote on selfish motives alone,
steered by the sensational promises of demagogues.
In Part II, we will
discuss how the loss of a higher power and a lowering of the educational
quality fostered on our children is destroying the freedom of the United States
of America.
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