Cleansing the Inner Vessel
Observing the fascist tactics being employed by lawless tyrants who have stolen their way into power in our federal government - the raid on former and likely future President Donald Trump’s home being the latest and among the most egregious examples - a friend asked the following question:
"How do we cleanse ourselves of these people?"
This may well be an existential question for America. How do we cleanse the inner vessel? Indeed, is it even possible now to purge the intellectual, moral and spiritual rot that permeates and is devouring the critical structures of our government and society? Is there enough intellectual, moral and spiritual backbone left in America to right the ship?
One thing for certain - these demons will not go quietly into the good night, nor, in my view, are they inclined in the least to remedy their treasonous, seditious ways. Ungoverned by any decent intellectual, moral or spiritual standard of behavior, they will, as we have seen, do anything they can to stay in power.
These unregenerate, power-hungry traitors, in their arrogance and self-righteousness, driven by power-lust, consider themselves better and smarter than you and me and well and truly above the law - law being for them, in the face of their grand vision, an inconvenience, an abstract inferior concept they utterly disdain. For them, the Constitution means nothing and the rule of law, if it has any use at all, is no more than a tool, a bludgeon, to be applied only among the riffraff, the Great Unwashed - those benighted souls who must be told by their betters what to do and then made to do it.
These liberal Masters of the Universe are unbounded by any antiquated intellectual, moral or spiritual standards - outdated, plebian concepts like individual human liberty - that might constrain them in the pursuit of their transcendently noble cause - the fullest expression of their grand ambitions - the remaking of the world in the image of their lofty fantasies.
The world in fairly recent history has witnessed others possessed of this sort of egomania -
- and suffered the inexorable, invariable consequences of the kind of intellectual, moral and spiritual rot that drove them -
As Winston Churchill observed, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
If we are of a mind to learn from history, if we hope to escape the horrors invariably wrought by unbounded tyrannical ambition, how indeed do we cleanse ourselves of the intellectual, moral and spiritual rot now rampant among us? Sadly, no easy way out - and likely no way out but through the fire.
Again, in my view, the traitors who are perpetrating this evil among us will never abandon their seditious ambitions, no matter who wins elections to come. An enduring fifth in our society, they will continue their relentless pursuit of absolute power, their lawless, treasonous efforts to undermine the libertarian pillars and constitutional rule of law this nation is built upon, as we have seen them do fanatically since Donald Trump came on the scene. Like the Terminator, they will not stop, and they will never repent.
My guess is, as I have suggested in the past, the nation, if it is to survive at all will have to pass through a blast furnace of affliction and undergo a brutal purging in the refiner's fire. And because we have never before in our history been so corrupt, this purging will be unlike anything this people have ever before experienced, an inferno that will sear away the human dross who embrace, embody and promote the intellectual, moral and spiritual rot that is eating away at the innards of the nation.
Fasten your seatbelts... rough road ahead.
These are the times that try men's souls...
If you can be fooled, you will be.
Torquemada