The world in which we find ourselves today is slowly being strangled. Everyone is groping, grasping, trying to make sense of what we are experiencing. It seems overly complicated, but it’s in fact very simple. If I was a betting man, I’d be willing to wager much that the bulk of the problems we are enduring is mostly due to a fundamental lack of wisdom in our leaders. That probably sounds like something Captain Obvious would come up with, but if you think about it, if you give it some profound reflection, it’s something from which our country has been suffering for a while now.

Just imagine a gauntlet of former leaders of the US standing in a long row. Honorable and trustworthy men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abe Lincoln and dozens other founding fathers stoically watching on as characters like Shrub Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump saunter through as if they think, or thought, they owned this country. Bush in his ridiculous flight suit and Trump with his silly little dance moves like he thinks he’s a teenager at a prom – and all that with the sober and distinguished founders looking on! Just imagine what they’d be thinking! No doubt they’d be shaking their heads – suffering immense regret to see what their sacrifices have evolved into.

Once there were men who designed and engaged in a government that had a system of checks and balances developed to prevent exactly what our current leaders have been attempting to institute. Is there a provision in the Constitution that allows for “Executive Orders”, or is that a governmental function that according to the Constitution would be delegated to the Congress? Executive Orders have come to be, in fact, regarded to be actual laws enacted by an authoritarian president. He doesn’t have legislative authority, at least it isn’t in the Constitution. Nor does, nor ever did, the Supreme Court have the Constitutional authority to enact judicial legislation disguised as rulings – specifically that one they call “Citizens United” which is the judicial equivalent of one of those yard sale signs you see at traffic intersections – one that says, “For Sale – all Political offices of the United States of America to the highest bidder. Do not have to be American Citizen or American institution – if enough cash is involved, buyer can be foreign.” Because that’s exactly the result of that atrocious “decision”. John Roberts will go down in American history as the primary designer of that cheap sign. Nothing else he has done or will ever do as Chief Justice will compete with that horrid piece of bench legislation – which, by the way is so blatantly unconstitutional as to render the Roberts court to the status of a circus clown side show. How are any decisions handed down by that greasy bunch even considered to be actual Constitutional interpretations anymore after “Citizens United”, in which – get this – the very “Constitutional” foundation of it is that money is the equivalent of free speech? I guess some folks’ freedom of speech is freer than others if they have more money to buy politicians, or so it can be deduced from Roberts’ signature decision. In your mind’s eye, picture him walking down that gauntlet with Holmes, (John) Marshall, Warren, and others looking on.

Everywhere, in every corner of American politics there cowers an unwise, typically seedy, person who is only there for whatever wealth they can glean from our system. Our national symbol, the eagle, has already flown away in disgrace. Then some circus clown comes along who is nothing more than a New York City real estate con artist snake-oil salesman who has the ability to convince millions of otherwise patriotic citizens that he will look out for them and he gets into the White House and sets about devouring everything he can get his greedy hands on – including the honorable building itself. He wants to turn the whole of Washington DC into a grand monument to himself, and he makes no effort to hide his egotistical desires. And – CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? – there are still large numbers of people who are still enthralled by this guy! Farmers who have lost foreign customers because of ill-advised tariff policies and penalties foreign leaders have to face because they might have personally offended him, yes those farmers, some of whom still think he walks on water, even though dark things from his past keep bubbling up.

Then there’s the failings of Congress. They delegated another responsibility, the authority, or duty of declaring war, to Lyndon Johnson with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub. L. 88–408 during the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Later they passed the war powers Act by which they regained that authority (which they had no Constitutional authority to delegate to the Exec in the first place), then (also unconstitutionally) surrendered once again to the president with the Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243). Every bit of this activity from the LBJ debacle to the Bush monstrosity was objectively unconstitutional. Congress was delegated the CONSTITUTIONAL authority to declare war – period! Add LBJ to the gauntlet procession too. Millions upon millions of human beings were killed in those illegal and immoral wars, and in neither case did the “enemy” pose the remotest threat to the US! In both cases, rich men in America stood to (and undoubtedly did) make a lot of money from death and destruction.

Those are examples of how far our modern politicians and Justices have strayed from the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. We are suffering from a catastrophic lack of wisdom in our leadership, and it’s primarily because of the money of wealthy people that has bought our country. So which is it – do we try to fix the lack of wisdom by electing wiser men to be our leaders? Or do we tackle the problem of money in politics? Both issues scream for attention, but I’m pretty sure we cant achieve the former without fixing the latter.

Another approach to resolving America’s (and the world’s) paucity of wisdom might be to look to Providence like our fathers did long ago. Nothing is wrong with this nation that God cannot fix. He guided Washington, Jefferson, and Adams to establish a republic that, if followed, could stand the test of time. Problem is, these guys like Trump and Bush come along with their total lack of historical knowledge and/or principles and test the system. We are in the midst of one of those tests right now, and there’s no guarantee we will emerge with our Constitution even remotely intact. I think those of us who understand that there is a higher power need to pray fervently for the intervention of Jesus Christ – not the Christ who the hypocrites of our political churches purport to consult with, but the real King of mankind who will bring justice upon this world. And to those of you who do not know who He is, I strongly suggest you get to know Him and quickly. Due to the rampant evil and total lack of wisdom of the world’s leaders, this world is about to burn!

May the blessings of Providence find and keep us.

MK

PS: Ok, I don’t normally add to a post after publishing, but I just saw a piece of a deranged Trump speech in which he said that according to someone, if George Washington and Abe Lincoln were president and vice pres, and a poll was taken that he (Trump) would be leading them in the polls by 19% or something. What a coincidence that he’d say something like that as I posted this. How on earth can this poor, deranged man come up with such utter nonsense?!!