I make that assertion with a broken heart because I love America!  I love the America I have known for most of my seventy-plus years.  I remember asking my grandfather about some of the changes he had seen.  He was born in 1878 and died in 1979, just days short of reaching the age of 101.  He had a unique ability to adapt and embrace change, but he had little tolerance for corruption or laziness.  Now, I am in my seventies and reflecting on the changes I have seen.

I am not referring to technological changes but people’s attitudes and the openness of corruption in politics.  I have discussed some of like ideological views and some with diametrically opposing views about this issue.  We do not all agree, but we all agreed that the founding fathers would not recognize America.

They repeatedly warned us and had the foresight and wisdom to know that the government they were establishing was viable, only so long as corruption was kept to a minimum.  They believed in citizen representation, and although some became career politicians, they believed those making the laws should live under those laws.

Thomas Jefferson quoted Montesquieu’s declaration in Spirit of the Laws, “When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”  Jefferson, as were most of our founders, was highly suspicious of government.   They had lived under the heavy hand of a monarch whose methods revealed the dangers of tyranny in government.

The America that was borne from the valiant efforts of those in that era has had close calls with tyranny.  Some would argue that the most prolific example was the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his internment of thousands of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans during World War II.  Others cite Woodrow Wilson and the Palmer raids in the World War I era, where over 4,000 people were seized in a single night, arrested without warrants, and sent to prison for their views.  Wilson deemed the people affected as those who were hostile to “American values.”  Does that sound eerily like a philosophy advanced today? 

Thomas Jefferson warned, “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”  George Washington echoed that sentiment, “Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty and abused to licentiousness.”  They warned us, and we slumbered while the fox raided the henhouse of liberty and transformed our government into something our founders would not recognize. 

FDR and Wilson were not the only abusers; there have many others, even the more recent actions of Clinton, Bush, and Obama in pushing the limits of government beyond the Constitutional allowances.  I will not try to deal with each violation, only say that corruption and the thirst for power, and the graft that flows to the powerful is a temptation many are unable to resist. 

Corrupt politicians have polluted our American political system, and today, we are seen as the bumper crop or fruit from our allowing it to become the norm.  We are supposed to be governed by our consent.  That ship sailed many moons ago, and those in power in Washington and the world power brokers believe they do not need our consent.  They do not if we are unwilling to rise up in the Spirit of 1776 and become a united and consistent voice and force. 

The corruption of the Biden family, the current administration, is off the charts, and almost daily, there are new revelations of the extent and depth of that corruption.  The House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed evidence that the Biden family opened over 20 shell companies to hide payments and launder money.  How is that not front-page news and a grand jury immediately empaneled and seated?  That is the tip of the iceberg and evidence of pollution through corruption.

Much is being said about Justices Thomas and Alito and the conservatives on the court’s purported ethics violations, but what about the “wise Latina” Sotomayor’s surge of wealth?  Some of it is legitimate, but if we want to demand some of them to be squeaky clean, we must demand that all of them are.

We are facing what George Washington called one of our greatest dangers.  He said, “If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”  Jefferson observed, “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”  They do not fear us but have given us reason to fear them.

When the FBI has been exposed as a weaponized arm of the Leftists and globalist agenda, we know we have a polluted government that links back to corrupt politicians and greed.  Representative Troy Nehls (R-TX), a former sheriff, questioned Director Wray; he asked about reassigning agents from child sex-trafficking investigations to investigate the January 6^th incident; Wray said none were reassigned.  That was not the truth.

Representative Nehls challenged him and revealed that the previous month, Steve Friend, a domestic terrorist investigator for the FBI, testified that he had been told by one of his supervisors that January 6 was a higher priority than pursuing child pornography cases.  Wow! 

Some revelations from FBI Director Chris Wray’s testimony is that foreign intelligence agencies worked with Big Tech to silence speech.  The Director’s claim of ignorance on many things suggests that either he is the wrong man for the job, or he is involved in a cover-up of monumental proportions.

My concern is that we have reached the point where the warnings of Benjamin Franklin are applicable today.  His warning was that no people can remain free if they become wicked and immoral. When a sound society decays to the place where people begin to fear for their lives and property, the demand for a police state is inevitable.  We are dangerously on the cusp of such a state, and many are willing to trade freedom and liberty for presumed safety.  

The warnings of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others spoke to our time when the nation’s moral fiber has declined significantly.   The Bible speaks of rampant and prolific moral depravity, corruption, violence, hatred, and evil as a condition of the Last Days.  But, not to deal with Bible prophecy, I restrain myself and say that for America to survive as the Free Constitutional Republic, we must deal with political corruption, or we will allow the pollution to destroy our republic.

America needs her patriots to stand up and be counted.  We need to fall on our faces before God and become involved, informed, and active in the needed government clean-up.  It begins with each of us and then extends to Washington. 

God bless you, and God bless America!