Where to begin!??

So many issues, so many decisions. I feel like the little Dutch boy staring at a dike that is leaking like a sieve and wondering... "Where do I start? Which is the worst leak that needs the most attention now?"

Our government today is a constitutional republic in name only. In reality, we are a classic Greek democracy. And if you don't understand why that's a problem...then you are victim of the next two problems.

As I see it, the best control on government behavior is an educated, informed and civic-virtue minded populace. We have very few people like that today. The majority of American's today are neither well educated nor well informed nor civic minded. They tend to look upon those who are as modern Don Quixote's.

That brings up another major problem: the public education industry in America today is not designed to produce well educated, civic-minded people, let alone people who want to know what their government is up to. Schools today are designed to produce children who are comfortable living under the chains of socialism and content to hold menial hourly-wage type of jobs making someone else rich. (To all you public school teachers out there...I'm not talking about you, but the system you work within. There is a huge difference... more on that in a future post.)

This wouldn't be such a grave problem if it weren't for the fact that so many checks on government misbehavior have also been removed from the Constitution! We have judges legislating from the bench in a direct usurpation of power. We have the president likewise usurping power and legislating by executive fiat. We have the bureaucracy legislating simply because it can. We have a Congress that is so self-absorbed in making enough money to run for office it doesn't care about these ills. And, as mentioned in an earlier post, a major structural check on spending has been removed as a consequence of passage of the 16th and 17th amendments.

And lastly, we have a news industry today that regularly lies to the American people. The guardian of our liberties, the free press, has been co-opted into an entity that now works to undermine those very liberties the Founder's thought it would protect.

Despite this, I am not discouraged nor dismayed. I am convinced that God does have a hand in the affairs of our nation. He wont do our job for us. But those who commit themselves to the work at hand, will receive his help. And for that reason alone, I'm confident that things can be changed for the better.