“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” observed Founding Father President John Adams. “Remember,” he warned, “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
So here we are hundreds of years later—just enough time to figure out how to maneuver and subvert and find wiggle room. Keep some moral and religious people for appearances. The minds of the rest, the voting populace, can be easily controlled simply by hijacking the leadership of key institutions.
Look at what’s already happened with education, from top to bottom. Capturing the media was an even greater coup since it combined mindless entertainment with leftist political and moral propaganda, including political correctness. People don’t even know they’ve been had. Easy peasy.
Churchgoers, what are left of them, largely seek the social aspects of going to church. Hymns offer an emotional thrill. Forget about listening too closely to the sermon. Save that for fanatics and extremists. Adams, of course, knew about this tendency to get lost in a meaningless middle road. For him, moral and religious people occupied a wholesome extreme. Even “In politics the middle way is none at all.”
Adams knew that back then, many political elites had only a universal or Enlightenment sense of God, not wanting to mention the J-word, Jesus: “The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Today the socialistic governments of Europe hark back to their Marxist roots during the French Revolution, with Christianity even further reduced. Too bad.
Adams was even more prescient than anyone could have imagined. “There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.”
Adam’s darker vision was very appropriate at the beginning. After all, he wanted his words to serve as a warning and shield so that the Constitution would succeed. Alas, it was a sermon unheeded.
Constitutional governments across the West have suffered an inevitable entropy, a gradual decline into socialistic disorder. Perhaps all constitutions are inherently weak and will eventually fail, unless we can continue to produce a dynasty of Trump-like presidents.
