As we peer into our lives and the desires we wrestle to satisfy, what people want most remains relatively consistent throughout time.
First, we want to create a good life for ourselves. What does that mean?
All people need a sense of love and belonging, that is true of everyone everywhere. After that, most of us want to get to the place in life where we don’t have to worry about not having enough and where we don’t have to worry about failing or losing. We share a common goal of developing skills and competence at building and maintaining good and lasting relationships with others. Lastly, we want to become capable of creating value for others, we share a longing to be wanted and needed.
This is why the formation of governments and institutions became so important to people in history. They help to mitigate the uncertainty, risks, and conflict associated with life together with others who are pursuing the same goals as everyone else. People don’t find individual freedom in governments and institutions; they find security, usually at the expense of freedom. Given the choice between freedom and security, history tells us most people will choose security. Those motives are precisely what made God’s promise to King David and the people of Israel so compelling:
2 Samuel 7:10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, 11 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house. 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’” 17 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
Notice what is promised: a place of love and belonging, and a government that both provides security for its citizens and is itself secure. That promise remains, but humans (and other beings) have other ideas. Human autonomy from God was an itch that needed scratching before God’s plan could completely come to fruition. People insist on trying to do things their own way for their own benefit. We love to eat from the forbidden tree and try to become like God.
Initially, humans formed tribes to provide those things for one another. And while tribes functioned to provide a place of love and belonging, they proved too vulnerable to other predatory tribes. They lacked security.
Then came kingdoms and empires with people seeking a strongman to rule over them. If the king was both good and strong, then all was well. But this was rarely the case, and even if it was, the king eventually grew weak and/or corrupt and died. Rarely did his ancestral successor fill his shoes. The old mantra rings true, “hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. And weak men make hard times.”
As human faith in monarchies waned, modern democratic/republican forms of government emerged. If strongmen weren’t born through heredity, upon which monarchial nobilities were established, then the best candidates for leadership could compete on the public stage to be identified and elected by the will of the people.
Democratic forms of government are based on the premise that “all men are created equal” and the best leaders aren’t born to a particular family, they are made in the crucible of life. This idea sounds good in theory, but in reality all men become unequal almost immediately at birth, rising to the top based mostly on familial nurture and networks, then upon unearned inherited traits, and lastly through life choices and effort. Very rarely does one rise to the top merely through virtue, hard work, and effort.
The priority of individual freedom, intended to be provided for by democratically elected governments and free market economies, gave rise to the hope that everyone ought to be free to chase their own version of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness according to their own ability on a level playing field. Again, in reality, this just sets the stage for tremendous conflict, power struggles, and competition between various interest groups, eventually resulting in a rule by group majority, not true individual liberty.
As democratically elected governments and free markets matured, as predicted in the 18th century by the great French philosopher Alexis De Tocqueville, they would produce a form of shadowy tyranny even more sinister than those produced by monarchies. Instead of inherited titles like in an aristocratic hierarchy, economic freedom gave rise to inherited wealth and the formation of mega corporations, which can be argued created greater inequalities than that seen under the pharaohs in Egypt.1
According to author Daniel Castellano in his book “Against Democracy”:
“While it is credible that those who work hard, are more resourceful, and take greater risks should achieve greater reward, the cumulative power of capital enabled the rich to get richer at a geometric rate, and once a dominant position was established, it could be maintained with minimal effort. Unbridled capitalism created its own oligarchy, based on avarice rather than birth.”2
Castellano goes on to point out that the history of Western democracies has been one of oscillation between “Left” and “Right”. When the Left overreaches by promising too much the Right takes power. The Right then tends to go too far in its drive for efficiency (and military strength) and leaves the masses with crumbs and vice versa. This seesaw system might provide one form of security at the expense of another, instability.
Government institutions, businesses and foreign entities never know what laws, taxes and regulations they will have to account for every election cycle. What foreign policy is the elected government going to adopt? Will they be friendly or hostile to my interests?
Also, it takes time and experience for anyone to gain competence at anything, but especially something so complicated as governing. Are two, four, or eight years really enough time to become competent at governing? Especially when more than half of their time is spent exclusively on fundraising for re-election. That explains why the longer a candidate is successful at getting re-elected, the more indulgent and corrupt they tend to become.
Then there is the other side of the democratic equation, selecting leaders by voting. Lets be honest, do any of us really have any idea what we are voting for on the ballots we fill out? 90% of the time we don’t even know who we are voting for much less what.
On the other hand, behind the thin veneer that the public has a say in how the government is run, we find the actual reality that voting in America has statistically 0% impact on both US domestic and foreign policy. It is clear that financial elites control both political parties and run the country from behind the scenes. These elites make sure laws are passed, acceptable (to their interests) candidates for election are selected, and political agendas are put in place to secure their competitive advantage in their respective marketplaces. They remain unconcerned and aloof to the “left/right” paradigm that the masses bicker about. They only concern themselves with being in control of whoever is elected and expanding their own wealth and power.3
“Have you ever felt like the government doesn’t really care what you think? Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people? This video gives a quick rundown of their findings.”
You know that our nation is pushing $30 trillion dollars in national debt. But did you know,
“a Michigan State University economist, working with graduate students and a former government official, found $21 trillion in unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015?” 4
That is, funds that were spent that went that our government indicated were undocumented and unexplained.
Castellano again points out that almost all the other major institutions in Western democracies function not in an egalitarian (everyone is equal) way, but as old-fashioned hierarchies. It is a common joke that doing something “by committee” is a recipe for mediocrity. And despite our professed love for equality and the sacred tones with which we utter the word “democracy”, in practice we gladly immerse ourselves in hierarchies of inequality, clearly a necessary condition of productivity.
Indeed, a radical idea of equality can be traced to a luciferian motive, for to say that “all men are created equal”, is another way of saying, “No one is better than me”.5
Western democracies and free market economies as a dominant model of governance are in the process of coming unraveled, or better yet dismantled, before our very eyes. The excessive division, inherited privilege, ignorant voting base, election fraud, and ease of manipulation they have enabled makes them such that they are no longer continuing to function to create a life that is good for the majority. The coming generations know this painfully well. They are the first generation in our history not expected to outlive their parents and not expected to out earn their parents.6 Just like monarchies of years gone by, humanity is awakening to the reality that Western democracies need to be replaced with another better idea. Unfortunately for the world, it is a satanically controlled technocracy that is waiting in the wings to replace it.
The book of Revelation is a religious and political critique of the antichrist Roman Empire through 300AD. That transnational superpower was replaced by some iteration of Christendom (a political model supported in some part by Christian thinking and conviction) as the dominant model on the global stage for the next 2000 some odd years until now. Included in that are Western democracies, which have been largely rooted in Judeo Christian thought.
The book of 2 Thessalonians speaks of a “restrainer” in chapter 2:
6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed.
It may well be that Christendom has functioned to be that restraining influence against satanic evil, providing the world with the rule of law founded in Biblical principles, holding back the constantly lurking tide of lawless tyranny. For the past 100 years Western democracies have been restraining the threat of various satanic Marxist ideologies. First in the World Wars, then through what is known as the Cold War.
What is becoming clear, is that restraining influence is in its midnight hour, and ancient tyrannical Rome is lurking. With all of its violent hatred towards the one true God and His people.
Expect it to be a new centrally planned and controlled global government and economy, based upon the communist Chinese model. It will be ruled by an elite intelligentsia promising radical equality for all who are willing to submit their free will to its tyranny. It will come with great promises of prosperity and technological marvels for those who pledge allegiance to their dictatorial governance; conversely it will brutally punish those loyal to anyone or anything but their newly created utopian state and its satanic agenda.
Please stop looking to these people (people at the highest levels of power in any government, media outlet, or corporation) for any solutions or real information. Deception is the number one characteristic of this government described in scripture. It is the number one thing believers are warned about in the coming time frame. The leaders of this coming movement are mostly promoted to their positions precisely because they are willing to do, or say, or be whatever it takes to acquire and retain power. Their minds and hearts are under the control of the father of lies.
2 Thessalonians 2: 1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion (falling away from the faith) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way (then the events will happen all of the sudden, rapidly). 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming (and so will the end happen even more rapidly). 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false (the use of social intimidation, gaslighting, and government propaganda via control of all forms of “fact checked” information outlets), 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The pages of scripture predicted long ago that all of this would transpire, but God has a better idea that many believe is soon coming . . . .
News anchors showing they are reading the exact same script all across the USA.
Income disparities are so pronounced that America’s top 10 percent now average more than nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent, https://inequality.org/
Castellano, Daniel J. “Against Democracy”, p. 4
Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics, cited at https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
Castellano, Daniel, “Against Democracy”, p. 5-7
A majority of young adults in the U.S. (52%) live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-live-with-their-parents-for-the-first-time-since-the-great-depression/