Nov 12
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It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I want mine): Tom Bartlett
By Tom Barlettt
I need to make a confession. I regret to tell you that I misjudged the American voting public. I should have recalled that truism attributed to H.L. Mencken that, “no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” In this instance, the U.S. is about to go broke because a party has accurately discerned the greed of the majority of its citizenry.
The problem was that I was listening to those who were accurately depicting where the country was headed and who related the facts about the corruption and character of Obama and the power players in the Democrat Party. They sagely highlighted the urgency of the situation and promoted solutions that would bring a halt to the glaringly obvious disaster to come as a result of large out-of-control government spending, eradication of rights, and repellent foreign policies that made allies into persona non grata and embraced the most treacherous ideologies on the globe.
While I misjudged how misinformed, uninformed, and selfish most of the country is and over-estimated how passionate the defenders of truth were, I won’t make that mistake again. I plan to make unequivocal predictions about the fate that awaits, not only the U.S., but also the remaining global dominoes who have sold their souls for a ruinous, anti-Christian value and belief system that has not only captivated, but ensnared much of the secularists and victims of false ideologies.
I am reminded of the movie, “Runaway Train,” with Jon Voight playing a brutally dangerous prison inmate who manages a breakout with the help of an adoring fellow prisoner played by Eric Roberts. Once outside, the Roberts character is surprised to learn his idol is only interested in himself. The twosome escape onto a train which, unbeknownst to them, no longer has working brakes. The warden is airdropped onto the ill-fated train to recapture the criminals, but is himself captured and forced to endure their fate. Those working the trains exhaust their options and concede they must sacrifice those on the train, setting the train on a dead end course. The movie closes with the Voight character joyfully pronouncing his freedom as the train rapidly speeds to its date with destiny.
This article is for those who don’t recognise the relevance of this analogy. Now, on to my prognostication:
- The economy will collapse, but only after the U.S. is beaten down with massive inflation, food shortages, and widespread panic. Unemployment rates will skyrocket even more while government promises even more spending to fend off an economic Armageddon that is already in its death throes.
- With the scarcity of food and money, riots and theft will reach epic proportions and become the new norm. Neighbours and families in many regions will turn on one another as the government sends out the well trained and well funded civilian military Obama promised in his run up to the 2008 election to “restore order.”
- Religious persecution of Christians and Jews within the U.S. and globally will continue to climb. Free speech and religious expression will be closely monitored and prosecuted. They will be blamed for the state of the country with blistering threats and accusations from the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremists who already have a strong foothold in the U.S. government and throughout the Middle East. Iran will complete its nuclear weapons program and the stalemate and gamesmanship will proceed with the military of countries that formerly served as moral compasses for the rest of the world relegated to appeasement-minded irrelevance.
I am not arguing that all these dire predictions are destined to happen under the current Obama administration. I do however maintain that by the time they have brought their secular ideologies to bear, it will be too late to turn back. The scenario that played out on November 6th is that the majority chose the bullet over the slow bleed.
Since the election results were announced, many began openly speaking about divvying up the country and allowing the Democrats and their supporters to carry on government their way while those who support genuine small government conservatism carve out their own part of the country; recapturing the Judeo-Christian principles that the country was founded on. They have a compelling case since they recognise the imminent showdown as oppressive Democrat initiatives wrest from them the last vestiges of freedom. Tempting as it may be, I think this is wrong-headed.
The problem is that Libertarians still believe that small government alone will save the country. In reality, they –like the secular left and “liberal Christians” – fail to recognise that the root problem is not the size of government, but the ideology. Many Libertarians decry the influence of social conservatism (aka – Christianity); even while staring into the disastrous abyss that such thinking already led us to. They hold the belief that people are innately good and constraints on our personal choices are harmful.
Now is the time to choose whether to fall on our knees and humbly repent before a loving God or in obeisance to an oppressive government.