"How Did We Get Here?"

It doesn't take a genius to look at our country and notice that we are in a real mess. It's not all one party's fault. It's not one person's fault. There is not one single cause. But there are reasons why America is facing trillions of dollars of debt, is about to enslave future generations in a government run health care scam, and is afraid to label Islamic terrorists what they are (just to name a few enormous problems facing our country right now).

We surrendered truth in bits and pieces over a period of several generations. We have largely seen the expanse of federal government-controlled welfare state, the marginalization of Christianity in our country, and a moral paralysis because people who knew truth, wanted to essentially take a vacation from their responsibilities and let others take care of running the country for them.

For many in churches across the land, "piety" meant that God is concerned only with our private lives, and not with the world around us. Certainly God is not concerned with good government, so we let the professional party bosses take care of that for us. Absolute truth like "Thou shalt not covet, or steal, or bear false witness" just doesn't have a place in politics. That's not God's bag, you know.

We punted the ball of our children's spiritual formation to the Sunday School teacher or the clergy. "It's their job," you know. One hour of religious instruction a week ought to vaccinate them against the sewage they encounter in school or in the media. Unless of course, the one hour of worship/religion conflicts with the sports program. Then, of course, we go to the sports program. God will understand, you know. We teach our children values by our example.

We punted the ball of education to professionals who were more interested in indoctrination than true classical education that actually taught people real history, math, English, literature, and science. Our children are daily being brainwashed in their duties to "save the planet" but they know nothing about our Constitution, how our government is supposed to function, or that free markets provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

We have become more concerned with our vacations, portfolios, entertainment, and trinkets. Does this sound a bit too harsh? How then do we who supposedly explain the triumph of the "progessive" marxist/communist/leftists in our country? In the last presidential election 50 million Americans who could have voted stayed home. In the 2009 election in Ohio, 800,000 Ohioans who could have voted against casinos stayed home. If only a fraction of these people who had voted against casinos in 2006 had come out to vote in 2009, Ohio would not have lost to the casino industry.

But the sad fact for right now is this: The left and their stooges in this country are more dedicated and more sacrificial than we are. We have a long, long road back. Are we more concerned about retirement and living on a beach in Florida, or more concerned about preserving freedom and the rule of law? If the latter, then what are we DOING about it?