In the absence of the constraining influence of virtue, politicians, characteristically, are little more than personifications of the character frailties of their constituents, lamentably.

They for whom the possessing of power is a monomaniacal pursuit, characteristically do not esteem veracity to be a virtue.

From the perspective of the archetype of all temporal power seekers, Beelzebub himself, the rending of Reality is a device that is unfailingly serviceable for use in the acquisition of power.

As it is written:

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Matthew 6:21

The concept is an alien one to anyone whose perception of Reality is delimited by envy.

The noble William Bradford's perception of Reality was informed by Providential Reason, and tempered by humility.

He and his enlightened fellows, utterly unlike contemporary, bound by ideology, pragmatic collectivists, were motivated to apply, and were capable of applying the lessons of experience.

I too, Mike, am one of his direct descendants.

Objectively, there is no one, there is nothing, that pharisaic ideologues are not prepared to sacrifice on the altars before which they genuflect in worshipful idolization of their psychotically highly idealized self concepts.

Nominally, they intend to do good.
Ultimately, they do do very well for themselves, indeed.

The problem resides, primarily, in the constitutional inability of Fallen Man to graciously possess and to discreetly exercise power.

The Founders nobly endeavored to deliver us from government of, by and for the sociopath.

For a comparatively brief, brilliant moment, they were successful in their efforts.

Lamentably, a reflective of reality statement.

The Fall has had its effects.

A noteworthy insight of Nietzsche's.

Through the fostering of fear, and one of its foremost corollaries, envy.

As Benjamin Franklin expressed it:

"Men who believe in nothing will fall for anything."
Whence the fallacy that government is God.

"For the love of money is the root of all evil."
~ Timothy 6:10


"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
~ George Orwell

Mr. McFadden was martyred for expressing himself forthrightly.

Thus has it ever been, since the time of the Fall.

The road to perdition is paved with the affectedly good intentions of those for whom the acquisition of power is a monomaniacal pursuit.

By his own lights, Beelzebub's intentions, in the Garden, were "good."

They who are animated by a morbid impulse to acquire power, necessarily are not chary of exploiting the ability to tax as a means of destruction.

Lamentably, a little known, particularly prescient figure, among the Founders.

Rightly did he apprehend that the consolidation of power in a federal government is essentially inimical to Liberty.

Beelzebub, the archetype of all less than benignly intentioned temporal "educators",
had "knowledge" to proffer in the Garden.

Well stated by one of his foremost, primarily 20th Century, serpentine disciples.

A mind truly is a terrible thing to waste...

Absolutism is absolutism, odious and pathological in all of its ideological guises.

In practice, Fascism is the reverse of the fanatical coin of which Communism is the reverse.

In a saner, morally sounder nation, the ethically incapacitated, objectively, pragmatic to the point of being sociopathic, Hillary Clinton would be universally understood to be morally, ethically, intellectually, philosophically, temperamentally and experientially utterly unworthy of having access to any lever of power.

The besotted by fragmentary knowledge intellect, uninformed by understanding, unconstrained by humility, is the author of the undoing of the Human Race.

More of Lenin's rooted in resentment boilerplate.

Absolutist ideologies, animated, as they are, by animus, are inherently psychopathological in character.

The redistribution of wealth orchestrated
by cynical powermongers in the name of
"compassion", is an utter burlesque of authentic compassion inspired, actually sacrificial, charitable giving.

Charity, in its most sublime exemplification, ennobles both the giver and the recipient.

Statist's pallid, paltry, pharisaical, rendering of "charity", in practice, is a signal contributory factor in the West's horrific, ongoing, moral and sociocultural declension.

Ultimately, sovereignty is a state of mind.

The sovereignty of a true sovereign is something such as is discrete from
constraints external to him or her.

A true sovereign is not a slave of circumstance.

Human beings exist, for good or for ill, to profoundly influence one another. Objectively, everything has its genesis within the framework of the family, the first order of government in society. As the Puritan Thomas Manton expressed it:

" The home is the seminary of the Church and of the State."

In the absence of the tempering, the ennobling, presence of Virtue, personal sovereignty, in its most sublime exemplification, cannot be experienced.

Since much of that such as is commonly characterized as being education assumes the form, in actuality, of emulation,it is incumbent upon those who exercise authority, foremost among whom, originally, parents, to model Virtue, which is a concomitant of Love.

When fear supplants Love, and devices of coercion patient instruction, the progressive deformation of human character becomes an inevitability.

An unerring measure of the infernal character of any creed is the degree of its denial of the singularity, the centrality, of the dignity of the individuality of the individual.

The inheritors of the unholy ideological mantle of the primordial leveler, the serpentine leveler in the Garden, the original denier of the sanctity of human life, of the dignity of the individuality of each individual, are contemporary collectivists and ideologues, of all philosophical orientations.

The foremost frailty of Utopians is their constitutional inability to perceive themselves in the light of Reality.

Characteristically, they exist in states of full and free flight from Reality, particularly from the reality of their own venality.

Denying, as they do, the actuality of their personal venality, they unfailingly nurture fanciful notions of the possibility of the perfection of human nature, and of societies, by necessary extension, by means of the use of what ineluctably prove to be devices of totalitarian social engineering.

In their pride and ideology suffused ideation, Reality does not reside.