The Failure of Ordinary Political Means

EXile's starting point is that the United States federal government is illegitimate and that our society has become essentially corrupt. EXile assumes that the ordinary political process will not work until the federal government is restricted to its Constitutional boundaries and our society and culture are re-Christianized.

In this world, garden-variety corruption exists always and everywhere, in varying degrees. Laws and principles are routinely compromised, either for the sake of a "greater good", or more commonly, in order to enrich or empower certain people. But corruption, like any process, is not static. It either accelerates or recedes, at increasing or decreasing rates. When the rate of corruption accelerates, there comes a point when the process will inevitably consume the whole. Analogizing to the physics of "black holes", this point in the process of corruption is like the "Schwartzchild radius". It is the point of no return, the point where nothing - not even light - escapes the black hole's gravitational collapse.

Paul Weyrich was one of the first Christians to become "politically active". Paul Weyrich, starting in the early 1970's, pioneered Christian direct mail fundraising, grass roots organization, lobbying, candidate endorsement, issue analysis and much more. Paul Weyrich stated that Christians had to emulate what other groups were doing to "influence" the political process. This meant assuming that our government officials would not act morally unless they were paid or threatened.

Christians could not make such a strategy work - it required moral people to compete with immoral people in a contest of immorality. But Paul Weyrich and others like him are to be praised for trying to save our country from itself. Before the radical is even attempted, all less extreme alternatives must be pursued and exhausted. Candidates like Patrick J. Buchanan and others worked hard at exhausting those alternatives. They fought hard, and won some significant victories. For a while, during the Reagan administration, it appeared Christians were making progress. Now, though, it seems we merely delayed the progress of atheism, totalitarianism and socialism, which started the twentieth century in Europe and have finished it by conquering North America.

Now, Paul Weyrich says: "I no longer believe that there is a moral majority." [1]  As a consequence, he reasons "it may be time to drop out of this culture [...] Christians may need some sort of quarantine."

In other words, Christians have been unable to save our society, and if they remain a part of it, they may not even be able to save themselves from our society.

Paul Weyrich is right. The majority of American citizens are no longer Christian, or even moral. Because Christians are a minority, we cannot expect, either as a matter of right or practical possibility, that we can influence our government for the better. In fact, our influence wanes as we speak - the Republican Party, once at least a tepid spokesman for Christian principles, is now busy renouncing those principles. We are fighting not to make progress, but to avoid further decline. Our stubborn clinging to these "culture wars" must not be allowed to imperil our identity, our faith, and our very selves.

On the contrary, we must expect that our federal government will continue to lead our once Christian nation into the abyss. That government is now abolishing our constitutional rights - to life, to speech, to prayer, to arms, to property and to freedom. That government has replaced the holy with the satanic - contraception, abortion, homosexuality, feminism, "assisted suicide", divorce, ritalin and prozac. Inversion of the good into evil is Satan's favorite trick.

The federal government has abrogated America's European Christian traditions and imposed pluralism, multiculturalism and tolerance as the only American values. Culturally, America has become an agglomeration of various ethnic and religious groups who for the most part dislike each other and disagree on "the morality that makes law possible." [2]

We must proceed from this starting point - that Christians have become a minority in our own country. If we can no longer hope to save the country, we must at least try to save ourselves from the evil. If this means becoming independent and self-sufficient and depriving the remainder of the country of our assistance and support, so be it. Let the "federal government" rely for its support on the immoral majority of its own making. But we know it will not, and cannot. Like any evil thing, it needs the good to survive. So let us keep ourselves separate, and kill it.

Jesus said we are obliged to love our fellow sinners and help them towards repentance and conversion. Time and circumstances limit that obligation.

As the risen Christ admonished the Church of Thyatira:

Revelation 2:20-21 (emphases added)

"But I have this against you - that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice immorality [...] I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality".

As the Son of God makes clear - TOLERANCE is not always, or even often, a good thing, and the opportunity to REPENT is not unlimited. One must not tolerate immorality to the extent that it allows Christ's servants to become corrupted. Everyone is granted time to REPENT, but the refusal to REPENT must bring an end to tolerance.

[2] Lon Fuller, The Morality of Law, Yale University Press c. 1964 p.5 "The morality of duty lays down the basic rules without which an ordered society is impossible."