And so you think that when more than half the population is Socialists/Marxists, because the Constitution ‘rests’ on “We The People” that the restraints placed on government by that same Constitution are going to continue to exist???
If you do, you are delusional.
Half the population is fine with Socialism. More than half want a king or dictator to impose their agenda.
A Constitution like the one we had, cannot exist among such a people.
If the Constitution’s ‘foundation’ ‘rests’ on the current population - then there IS NO FOUNDATION except the whims of where the wind blows and whomever stokes it.
Only a moral and religious people were capable of maintaining a Constitutional Republic.
We are no longer those people. So we lost it. And no, it’s never coming back. No matter whom you vote for or crown to be your king.
Why do you keep projecting thoughts upon my mind that are utter nonsense, and then calling ME delusional?
Trump’s populist parade is just fine with his proposals, by very definition. You can take the extreme swings that these proposals have incurred on the way to becoming soup as norms, but you are only fooling yourself and other people who want to pre-damn Trump. And yes I say soup. If I dumped that packet of Campbell’s instant soup in your bowl you’d say blech, what a dry soup. But of course, it hasn’t been mixed or cooked yet.
And before you bemoan the state of faith in the USA too deeply, and especially before you declare its demise, you might notice that a weak church and a dead church aren’t
the same thing.
One of the factors that weakened the church in the last century or so (and as bespoken by Prohibition) was an excessive love of the mixture of Caesar and Church affairs. I know what I’m talking about. FDR sold Social Security the same way — through church support he slyly drummed up.
The only way to get the church back was to remove the breast of Caesar from it. Hence our “godless” schools, etc. But they never needed to be godless! The bible way of filling them with godliness would have been through believing kids. And a few intrepid Christian parents are FINALLY getting the idea... and I look at it (mainly on Facebook, which means even that dirtied medium is good for some useful things) and say... where were you many decades ago. Teach the mouths of babes to praise, and God will be wherever they go. It doesn’t have to be “punished in” at all, in the vast majority of cases. Usually kids learn exactly what was lived out before them, and if it’s radical Christ, then that’s what they get. But if it’s diluted world, then that’s what they get too.
As with Mark Twain, the reports of the church’s demise have been highly exaggerated. However, it’s not going to be eating at the king’s table. It never should have. Daniel of the Old Testament knew better. So should we.
So what’s this nonsense. It is not manifest destiny that Jesus can’t be the king of enough of America to make a difference to the radical good.
However it is simple theological truth that America isn’t a divine covenant country, nor was it ever such a thing, and the result of attempting to treat it like that, was like the mix of iron and clay in the feet of the idols described in the book of Daniel. This mix is not strong and it will separate under stress. I think a “candid world” knew that having race based chattel slavery in its constitution was not all that auspicious a start for the USA. But the patina of religiosity will whitewash things exactly like that! Keep your churches pure (purer, at least) and you will find Jesus rubbing off on everybody. God hates this ceremonial religion. His attitude is more like, be pagan or be Christian, but don’t be something synthetic.