by John Bernard, ©2025
(Jul. 11 2025) — Politicians are either the fruit of the plant or the boil, tumor or cold sore indicating an underlying disease. Nothing occurs without a corelative relationship to something else.
To continue the analogy, certain constructs in society are the sugar and contaminants feeding the disease or the healthy habits guarding against it. Nothing festers or thrives without feeding, nurturing, encouragement, training, teaching.
Mamdani, Omar, AOC, Tlaib, Waters, Schumer, et al are at best manifestations of an underlying problem within the body (society) and like the body, as societies age, their ability to ward off destructive influences and ideologies weaken when lacking the proper feeding/teaching and intervention.
A main ingredient having fed the ultimate destruction of every single society is the eventual rise of an Intelligentsia characterized by a mindless, zealous following of the Philosophe rather than the Philosophy; the Professor vs the Subject; the Pastor/Religion vs Scripture; Personally held Presupposition vs Objective Truth. In this way, the foundation crumbles as focus changes from original intent to an ever-diluted and even putrefaction of the philosophy until it no longer resembles the original.
The US Constitution is a double-edged sword which safeguards the individual’s Right to self-determination which, ironically, eventually invites and tolerates ideological thought antithetical to that same Constitution coupled with man’s natural inclination toward covetousness and laziness leading to the acceptance and inevitable demand for self-destructive ideologies, i.e., Socialism, Communism, Centralized/Unitarian control.
Again, at the risk of belaboring the analogy, when the body ignores the reproduction of normal (oligoclonal) protein-types in lieu of a specific cell of a type (monoclonal), that protein/purveyor of philosophy/philosophe/professor/pastor/teacher risks turning on that which it/they were created to defend (body/philosophy/scripture/society), weakening and eventually killing it.
In truth, we began building the society-ending sluice from the very beginning, evidenced by Thomas Jefferson’s frustration in 1785, just two years after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, 3 September 1783, and four years before the Constitution was ratified:
“Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them… They [the assembly] 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.”
What we are witnessing is something the Founders relentlessly warned us of and provided us with the tools to help ward against the inevitability of a total meltdown and slide back into slavery, a list of historically established, naturally occurring Rights to Free Speech, the Free Expression of Worship of God via choice of Religion, Protection from Government overreach and the lack of Representation, access to the same tools of war (Arms) they used to separate from a government that denied them representation, private property ownership rights and self-determination. And while the degradation of society we are witnessing was always inevitable, it does not relieve us of the responsibility to defend against it or to try to correct the rogue teaching and personal voting decisions it influences that threaten to end our unique American society.
The worst thing we can do is to follow the lead of the talking heads populating the flat screen and point the finger at the politician without tracing back to the source of the problem, i.e., voter – ignorance – teacher – lack of parental guidance.
…which all of man’s ills can ultimately be traced back to.
SF
John Bernard
Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama was the harbinger. Ignorant/naïve Americans are the problem.
Mamdani is the product of the United State’s government desire to introduce Sharia Law, starting with exclusion zones.
As soon as Mamdani becomes the mayor of New York City, the Ground Zero Mosque will become a reality.
Jew bashing and synagogue burnings will continue from the enemy of Western Civilization. We should deport all Muslims but lack the willpower, or the brains. Take your pick.
Is there hope? There is always hope but hope diminishes as Muslim influences increases.
We have a weak Dept. of State, an inept Dept. of Homeland Security, and a Attorney General who is not saving us from the enemies of the Constitution.
Is the problem too big to handle? Not in your life: make them an offer they can’t refuse.
Having grown-up in the Bible Belt and seen many a missionary family in our church and home, including a relative who was in Beirut when the barracks were bombed, I had a strong belief that the Word should be spread. In light of more recent developments and what I perceive to be a more enlightened understanding of the last hundred or so years of US history, and the Muslim religion, my perception is that partitioning western society from Muslims would be prudent, if for no other reason than they want us die. That is not to say we would remove them out of fear. Non-Christians might agree that Muslims should want many of our leaders to be dead and our God along with us.
As for our current banal bureaucracy, they’ve done some good things. The $5T deficit increase looks to be a loser, a signal that our economic train is out-of-control with no brakes on the downhill side of Mount McKinley, but elections have consequences. The POTUS, via his third overwhelming election victory and the plethora of trials he has endured, both literal and figurative, has earned the right to ply his art of the deal. May God be with us.