No matter how you see it, it is out of sync with reality and showing no signs of improving.  I saw a quote by a Law Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, Glenn Reynolds, that caught my attention. He said, “Looking around at our politics, it’s hard not to feel that there’s an increasingly neurotic strain to them.”  He included COVID and ‘safetyism’ and the developing phenomenon of single women voting in blocs for the Democrats.  It seems he may have a point.

I added the possibility of being monomaniacal because of the obsession with singular pet issues that make the person incapable of considering any ideas other than their own.  They are oblivious to the plethora of issues facing America; their issue is “The Issue,” and they are willing to destroy anyone disagreeing.  That is dangerous, but that is where we seem to be.

I am unwilling to take the bait and, as some have, relegating it to differences in the sexes and how men and women think and react.  I have found that although books like Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, or George Eliot were the eternal worrier, Lisbeth was a chronic worrier.  Men frequently do the same thing, even if they hide and deny it.  It is a modern dilemma. 

Today, many males and females, liberal, progressive, conservative, and even Christian, are showing signs of falling prey to the neurotic or monomaniacal.  It extends far beyond politics, but since politics affects our Republic and our lives dramatically, it is something on which to focus.

During my childhood, PTSD was unheard of by the public, but the term ‘shell shock’ was common.  I have those I knew who had served in WWII and Korea and were diagnosed with ‘shell shock.’  They were neurotic at times and could be dangerous.  Someone offered an interesting observation regarding combat stress reaction. 

“It is said, for instance, that a man cannot endure more than 100 days in combat.  He goes through three stages:  thinking ‘It won’t happen to me,’ then thinking, “It’s bound to happen to me,’ and finally, “Why hasn’t it happened to me?’  After 100 days, the combat soldier goes mad – battle fatigue, shell shock, mental issues, PTSD take over.”  

I don’t know if that is a scientific diagnosis and determination, but the stress of war or life that is non-stop takes catastrophic tolls on people’s psyche.  What we are watching in America today is akin to that condition.  No, I am not saying that politics in any fashion compares to being in combat.  I served in Vietnam and would never diminish my experiences or those who served in much worse conditions than I did.  War is hell, and that hell, when experienced, produces lasting effects that only God can cure.

Not only is the voting public suffering, but the sinister plots of the diabolical politicians and handlers are fanning the flame of the neurotic or monomaniacal.  We are witnessing the demise of our Republic from within.  We are entering a stage of tyrannical government.  I wish I could paint a rosy picture and declare that all is okay, but it is not.  It is a fantasy to believe that man can somehow fix the condition now existing.  Only God can repair and restore us.  ONLY GOD!

A couple of decades ago, most Americans considered Tyranny a bad thing and something to be stopped at all costs.  It was un-American and a direct threat to our freedoms and liberties.  Today, that view has shifted, and we are witnessing a dangerous condition that has become the norm in America.

America was born in opposition to tyranny.  The founding fathers considered resistance to tyranny the hallmark of their labors.  Today, despotism is on the rise with the revisionism of history, the vilification of our founders, and the continual shift to an entitlement mentality.  People willingly subject themselves to tyranny out of a desire for personal gratification (freebies), the insanity of political correctness, and the flawed philosophy that everything must be equal.

Today, we are watching tyranny gain footholds within the institutions, bureaus, and governmental arms established to prevent it.  Let me offer a simple definition of tyranny, and you determine if you believe it applies to today’s America.  “By definition, tyrants are those who, for whatever reason, have been empowered to write, interpret, and enforce any such laws as they alone may feel are even remotely necessary and appropriate for them to protect and retain their power.”

This may agitate some, but the efforts of people like Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Jack Smith, all politically motivated prosecutors who are doing the bidding of their political overlords, scream we are in danger.  I do not care what you think of Donald Trump or anyone associated with him. Still, if you cannot see the political hypocrisy in his indictments and the absence of similar indictments for anyone on the left, you are not being honest.  If that angers you, I am sorry, but it is the truth.

In today’s America, we are witnessing government officials (holding office legitimately or illegitimately) misusing their political power (offices) to unilaterally declare that it is illegal for anyone even to consider questioning publicly whether those officials were elected legitimately or not. 

It is a dangerous condition that opens the door to tyranny when those officials are empowered by ideologically sympathetic judges who charge only their political opponents with crimes while giving the regime a free pass.  Ignoring evidence and probable cause to investigate and indict is symptomatic of the neurotic condition, which I believe exists today in American politics.  The voters are willingly blind or blatantly ignorant.  Either way, we are in deep trouble in America.

The outrage over Oliver Anthony’s song expresses our descent into the dark tyrannical abyss.  The words of his song should resonate: “It’s a d*** shame what the world’s gotten to for people like me and people like you.  Wish I could just wake up and it not be true.  But it is, oh, it is…”

I am reminded of the dire warning of the 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat in “The Law.”  He said, “When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”   Both are catastrophic for a Free Constitutional Republic and an invitation to the tyrannical.

The tyranny that is rising in America is the precursor to Totalitarianism.  I see what is happening from the biblical light and believe we have traversed too far to rectify what is happening at the polls alone.  It will require a concerted effort of unified intercession and restoration of our moral and spiritual moorings.  I believe the directive of 2 Chronicles 7:14 is our hope. 

I ask that you continue doing all you know to do to restore America. If you are not already doing so, please add intercession for America. We must find a way to drop our monomaniacal politics, which leads to further polarization and division. I will always stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom!

God bless you, and God bless America!