When America was founded, it was founded by men and women who believed that God had directed them to this land and they were to advance the Christian faith.
Part of the Mayflower Compact states: Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith, and the honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another; covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.[1] There is no doubt that these people were people of faith and were dedicated to advancing that faith in the new land.As was stated in the Mayflower Compact, they knew that laws were needed in order for the colony to succeed. They had come from a nation that was tyrannical, restricted how they could worship, and even limited the type of Bible they could read. At that time the only authorized version was the King James version. The pilgrims favored the Geneva Bible because it was written in a more understandable manner. From the days of the Jamestown settlement until the signing of the Declaration of Independence the citizens of America were dedicated to their faith and that included the people that they put into places of authority. They didn’t just put anybody in a position of authority like we do today, Joe Biden and John Fetterman as examples of people who are not cognizant enough to dress themselves let alone be responsible Senators or Presidents. They followed the biblical guidelines God set out in Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Notice that He requires godly men in positions of authority. We are far from that today and because we have some ‘Christians’ that won’t vote for the lesser of two evils don’t vote at all and we usually get the worse of two evils because of that.
One of the Founders made an appeal to his fellow men concerning the need for clergy before the start of the Congressional day: Elias Boudinot, President of Congress; signed the peace treaty to end the American Revolution, was the first attorney admitted to the U. S. Supreme Court Bar; was a framer of the Bill of Rights and Director of the U. S. Mint stated before the First Provincial Congress of New Jersey: “[L]et us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned… Let us earnestly call and beseech Him, for Christ’s sake, to preside in our councils. . . . We can only depend on the all-powerful influence of the Spirit of God, Whose Divine aid and assistance it becomes us as a Christian people most devoutly to implore. Therefore, I move that some minister of the Gospel be requested to attend this Congress every morning . . . in order to open the meeting with prayer.”[2] They truly believed, rightfully so, that the need to appeal to God for direction was imperative. George Washington relied on God’s assistance all through the Revolutionary War. He stated: “When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the goodwill of the People of America towards one” And when he finished his service to America he stated: “I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into His Holy keeping.”
There have only been two presidents in my lifetime that have verbally announced their faith in God. Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Neither of them are perfect and neither are you. Reagan stated: If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Trump has stated many times at his rallies that we worship God, not the government. Clinton quoted a verse now and then and Obama referenced scripture without knowing what he was talking about and Jimmy Carter, who taught Sunday school at the Baptist church he attended, never, to my recollection stated his faith. Jesus said of the people that follow Him: Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Jesus loves Israel, but Jimmy Carter does not. Benjamin Netanyahu referred to Donald Trump as the best friend to Israel of any of the presidents.
Our politicians are to follow the will of God in their decision-making. The Democrats with the help of some RINOs passed what they call the Respect for Marriage Act which, as is typical of Democrat legislation, does the exact opposite of its title. Same-sex ‘marriage’ is not marriage as God refers to it. The left is always complaining about conservatives wanting to ‘legislate morality’ but the left is consistently legislating immorality. More proof of their double standard.
The Founders established a nation that required godly men and women to make it successful. John Adams stated: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Today’s politicians have very little regard for what our Founders intended. Thomas Jefferson stated: “The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” We do not see that today. Democrats do what they want as we saw this summer with the illegal protesting at the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices. Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to arrest any of the protesters but commanded that parents showing up at school board meetings to protest the trash schools are teaching our children were to be treated as domestic terrorists. That’s not equal treatment.
Looking back at the actions of Eric Holder he refused to enforce laws he didn’t like, which was illegal, and the fact that he was running guns to the Mexican cartels that were used to kill Americans and refused to supply the documentation to Congress and was held in contempt of Congress but was never prosecuted for it. Steve Bannon was found in contempt of Congress and was prosecuted for it. Double standard? Of course. Democrats seem to be immune from obeying the laws. Our Founders would never have allowed this. We are seeing it happen because Democrats are demanding a one-party rule with Democrats being the party in power. Republicans are not doing anything to stop it either. Both parties are complacent in the matter.
The free society our Founders gave us has become a tool for their attempt at establishing a dictatorship. This is why Benjamin Franklin said, “We have given you a republic if you can keep it.”
Footnotes
The Failure of America’s Politicians
Part 2
Benjamin Franklin, when asked what type of government the Constitutional Convention gave us, he said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Any type of government can be a disaster for the people, as most are, but a republic can be slowly taken away without a lot of fanfare. The freedoms we once had we no longer have. Think about it. At the turn of the 1900s, we didn’t have to ask the government permission to buy property, fish, hunt, buy a gun, build a home, start a business, and a whole slew of other things that we can’t do now without the government’s approval. Most of these rights were taken from us without our approval, they were just taken. We the people did nothing to stop it either. The government saw a way to slowly gain control and has been doing so for the last hundred-twenty five years.
Franklin also described what a politician’s job was and his pay for that job: “They are of the people and return again to mix with the people, having no more durable preeminence than the different grains of sand in an hourglass. Such an assembly cannot easily become dangerous to liberty. They are the servants of the people, sent together to do the people’s business, and promote the public welfare; their powers must be sufficient, or their duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expenses; so that, having no chance for great places, and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no intriguing or bribing for elections.” Notice that their only pay is a daily wage. Today’s politicians get elected and then become millionaires. Both parties are guilty. I knew an aide to Senator Everett Dirksen and he told me that he was in politics from 1933 to 1969 and was worth $250,000 when he began his political carrier and was worth $250,000 when he died in 1969. I don’t believe that there is one politician today that can say that. Trump lost a billion dollars while in office and took no pay either. That is a statesman, not a politician.
What we have today in DC and even in local positions are people that get rich passing laws that benefit corporations instead of the American people. They get insider information and trade stocks and make millions like what Nancy Pelosi has done. Been in Congress for thirty-five years and is worth around $120 million. The first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi has a net worth of $120 million. Pelosi’s drastic growth, from an initial $21.7 million in 2009, is attributed to stock gains and smart investments. Her husband reported raking in $1 million to $5 million in 2010 from a sale of Apple stocks. The couple also has a commercial property in San Francisco and a home in St. Helena, California, each valued between $5 million and $25 million. She also has a stake in some valuable residential real estate in Sacramento.[1] Notice that she’s increased her wealth by $100,000 mostly through stock trades. Her husband also has an exclusive contract to sell any government building that the government wants to be sold. Why is that allowed? Are they the only ones? No. A bipartisan group of legislators violated a federal law aimed at preventing Congressional representatives from using inside information to enrich themselves.
Under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012, members of Congress are required to report financial trades worth more than $1,000 that they, their spouses or their dependent children made within 30 to 45 days of the transactions.
However, 71 members of Congress failed to properly report their trades, in violation of the STOCK Act, Business Insider reported on Monday.
“Congress passed the law a decade ago to combat insider trading and conflicts of interest among their own members and force lawmakers to be more transparent about their personal financial dealings,” according to Business Insider.
“But many members of Congress have not fully complied with the law. They offer excuses including ignorance of the law, clerical errors, and mistakes by an accountant.” [2] There are just as many Republicans as Democrats that have violated this law.
They are doing things our Founders never would have allowed. One of the Founder's biggest objections to Britain was the press could only publish what the Crown allowed. The Founders demanded a free and fair press. We got it in 1776 but we don’t have it anymore. Richard Nixon did some suppression of speech concerning Watergate but the Biden administration is suppressing speech on several fronts. They arrest parents for voicing concerns over the inappropriate material being taught at schools, the oppress the truth about COVID-19, and the remedies available for it. They’ve even threatened to take the licenses away from doctors who expose what they’re doing. Attorney Jenin Younes, whom I interviewed on episode #1947 of the Tom Woods Show, discussed a lawsuit today in which her firm is representing prominent lockdown critics Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), and others who were victims of censorship campaigns at the direction of the federal government.
“Thousands of pages of documents have exposed a censorship campaign both unprecedented and formerly unimagined in scale and in scope,” said Younes.
We also heard today from the attorney general of Missouri; an excerpt follows:
In May, we filed a landmark lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for colluding with social media companies to censor free speech. We have already received documents that show their cozy relationship, and now we’re demanding more.
In July of 2022, MO and LA served discovery requests and third-party subpoenas, demanding documents from top-ranking Biden Administration officials and social media companies over their alleged collusion to suppress freedom of speech.[3]
We are slowly on the path to a dictatorship thanks to the Democrat party's efforts and the Republican party not doing anything about it. The Biden administration is in lockstep with the World Economic Forum which wants capitalism destroyed, single-family homes eliminated, pets to be euthanized, businesses shut down, and 90% of the ‘useless eaters’ eliminated. That’s why we are subjected to the so-called vaccines. Deaths worldwide are up over 30% since the introduction of the vaccine. Remember Bill Gates, who is in with the WEF, wants to use vaccines for population control. That’s why I refused the vaccine and will never take one for anything.
Our politicians should be protecting us against these actions but they are in the middle of forcing them on us. It is long past the time to vet our politicians. We need people who will enforce the Constitution and put America first. If we don’t get those people in the office, we won’t have a nation left. We’ll be no better than a third-world country instead of the greatest nation in the world.
Ronald Reagan stated: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” It is our time to act.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)
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