HAS PROFESSIONAL POLITICS BECOME AMERICA’S GOD?

Just a few decades ago when America was the fledgling superpower of the world there were strong-minded but few if any professional politicians. Community and family-minded men would simply drop the plow in the last plowed furrow and go to serve their government for a couple of years-then return and pick up the plow and get on with their lives. Seldom were laws passed that were self-serving and the United States of America was on the way up with a great sense of patriotism and national belonging and traditional family values. Gasoline cost less than one dollar per gallon. Crime was largely under control. Americans did not have an illegal immigration problem. The traditional family unit of a man and woman and children was firmly in tact. Most Americans were thankful for their God-given rights and freedoms and remembered their roots and heritage. America was fulfilling its role as a beacon to the world as a land of freedom.

For the past few decades a culture of professional politicians have been running the nation. Separation of church and state has been overblown to keep God out of our governmental affairs. We have counter-culture’s making a great attempt to create a utopia of peace in the nation without God. Yesterday’s immorality has become today’s morality. The average American has no chance to serve their government. It cost over $200,000,000 million dollars to make a run for president and millions are spent on most-lesser state political offices. Political connections and endorsements are now an absolute must for any political office. Gasoline is sliding between $2 and $3 per gallon at the pump. Crime has increased by 350% during the past 40 years with “homegrown terrorism” becoming our largest national threat. Illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders at estimates of 4000 per day. There are estimates of twelve to twenty million illegal immigrants in our nation and nobody knows the actual number. Admittedly 80,000 of these illegal immigrants are known criminals and we don’t even know where they are. America is the superpower of the world and millions of Americans are asking what happened? The answer to that important question is easy to answer with a simple history lesson. Professional politics has become a year-around, powerful all-consuming marketing force in the nation. Concurrently the nation forsakes the God that made our nation great. While professional politicians engage and focus the nation in partisan politics, counter-cultures, division, hatred, power struggles, self-serving laws and greed, the major problems of the nation have been germinating and now have come into full bloom.

First let’s take the gasoline issue. Since the mid-east discovered it had a lethal weapon to use against western powers in their oil supplies in 1975 this Nation has not created one new oil refinery. After thirty years of do-nothing professional politics, Americans discover there is a serious energy crisis reaching into their pocketbooks. During the past forty years crime in America has increased over 350% with 159,000,000 million crimes committed against Americans in the thirteen -year period ending 2002 (U.S. Justice Dept.). The political party out of power has divided the nation over the war on terrorism in an attempt to regain political power. While the professional politicians focus upon dividing the nation over offshore terrorism and political handling of that war, the nation is being overrun with homegrown terrorism (crime). A decades long lawyer-dominated federal congress refuses to consider serious legal justice reform that has created a monster judicial (injustice) system with a revolving door for criminals putting the entire nation at risk.

For the past two or three decades illegal immigrants by the millions have poured across our borders. When the problem becomes unbelievably complex then and only then do the professional politicians even begin flirting with the issue. If we accept the premise that any society is a reflection of its laws and how those laws are made and administed by politicians and judges-America is in big trouble. With this vision the problem comes into clear view. The partisan politics of professional politicians with a national liberal-leaning media that thrives on conflict has divided a nation on almost every serious issue. That same political scheme has directed a vitriolic hatred toward an American president that is unprecedented in the nations history. With that premise just maybe as we track our history and national heritage, professional politics has become the God of America forsaking the one and only true God that inspired our forefathers and made our nation great. Absent drastic reform in our system of government, laws and term limits in our political system and total legal justice reform the future of our great nation could be anarchy.