Democrats and the GOP: Identical visions

It's easy to be overwhelmed and subsequently become discouraged these days by the problems facing America. The complete list is too long, so go ahead and make up your own list and highlight your favorites.

It's not quite so easy coming up with a list of solutions though, is it? You see, most "solutions" clogging up the Internet ether, media newsrooms and cannabis-filled political back rooms aren't solutions at all. They are just fragments from the most recent collision between politics and the law of unintended consequences.

When we boil America's pot of "toil and trouble" political soup down to where we can separate out its individual ingredients, there are only two left in the bottom of that crusty old kettle. They are, in alphabetic order: Democrats and Republicans. (If we had enough Independents, we could add them, too.)

If you set aside – at least for the moment – the massive corruption that has become Washington, D.C. – the payoffs for the next election cycle, the personal aggrandizement, the failed programs that never should have been because they hurt more than they helped … you are left with Democrats and Republicans.

Democrats want to spread the wealth around. Republicans want to spread the wealth around. But they each want to butter their own bread and pass some onto their friends first. What's left after that can be spread around according to their political ideology.

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Problem is: There's no longer any crumbs left to fall from the kings' and queens' table after the nation's tax revenues are divvied up among "close friends and supporters." So we get phony unemployment numbers and the bill portion of the "stimulus" to pass onto our children.

Democrats and Republicans say they have vastly different visions of how America should operate. But the fact is, their visions – as far as they go today – are exactly identical. Me, me, me!

In the past, America kept these problems under control. Yes, there was greed, graft and corruption. But whether we like it or not, it was kept under control by item No. 8 of a well-thought-out list that nobody wants to talk about today: The Ten Commandments. "You shalt not steal." Oh, rats.

Up until degeneracy in all its myriad forms became an essential part of American culture, purveyed and worshiped by movies and television, reinforced by the educational system and enshrined in the law, most of us agreed that these commandments were a reasonable way to live our lives. This was largely true even if we secretly believed the religious part was nonsense. It worked well for us as a nation since the days of our founding. It worked well for us as individuals. It gave us very limited government, which in turn left most decisions to the individual. That's called freedom.

During the early '70s, popular culture and the newly "educated" boomer generation took a different view. As Janis Joplin opined in the Kris Kristofferson song about two drifters: "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose …" ("Me and Bobby McGee").

The things that decaying culture believed gave rise to today's Democrats and Republicans. Coincidentally, those folks in D.C. bear a certain resemblance to you and me. Why? Because we elect them into office. "Like" me at the next election. Like flocks to like. It was Heraclitus in ancient Greece who observed, "Character is destiny." America is now engaged in a frantic effort to verify the truth of that ancient observation.

Between the '70s and today, we've pretty well worked our way down to the bottom of God's top 10 list. We now live in a culture that doesn't know the difference between God and Satan. But those of us who remain – very soon will. We will learn all about the nuances of the last great kingdom that mankind will produce upon this earth, entirely free from God. The wreckage of that great kingdom will be complete and absolute, paid for with the price of human souls, just as human history demonstrates time and again, and just as God has foretold.

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