Loren Lippincott
The general election of 2024 is now over. At this juncture it’s a good time for us all to step back and look at the choices our country is now facing. Perhaps wisdom from the past can serve as an encouragement (or warning) as to our path ahead.
President James Garfield in 1876 made this challenge: “Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature… If the next centennial does not find us a great nation… it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813), a Scottish World Historian, after studying all nations in recorded history wrote, “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.” These are sobering words considering our current trajectory as a nation. Tytler found that the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. Those nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage.
What we see at work today is the political philosophy of Saul Alinsky. He died in 1972, but his writings influence those in the political control of our nation today. Alinsky wrote “Rules for Radicals” and “Reveille for Radicals.” Hillary Clinton did her college thesis on his writings, Barack Obama writes positively about him in his books and all eight rules are currently in play in the U.S. Alinsky said there are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist state, with the first being most important: 1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible as poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt - Increase debt to an unsustainable level. Then you’re able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability for citizens to defend themselves from the government. Then you’re able to create a police state.
5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, Healthcare, Income) 6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove belief in God from the government and schools.
8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor (or by race, as we see today). This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take from (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor. Alinsky essentially simplified Vladimir Lenin’s original scheme for world conquest by communism under Russian rule, and the Liberal Progressives (Democrats and RINOs) are moving the U.S. in this direction at an alarming rate.
The attacks on religion, and in particular Christianity, are all a part of the plan. Belief in God must be eradicated for the plan to work because as George Washington said, “Of all the habits and dispositions, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
Loren Lippincott represents Legislative District 34 in the Nebraska State Senate. Read his column in the Nance County Journal.