My title is a bit short-sighted and selfish. It presumes that our instant predicament is worse than at times past. As in, "Wow, the American people woke up and actually threw some of the bums out." For that we can be thankful.
Compared to the mass starvation encountered by the Pilgrims that landed at Plymouth Rock, and the astonishing nature of Divine intervention in their lives through Squanto, our politics is piddly. Yet, the fact is that what those early Pilgrims eventually became - a great nation, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal - has truly been in jeopardy for some time now.
When 1980 voters elected Ronald Reagan, Larry Burkett, a teacher of Biblical financial principles said, "We may have bought another four years." By this he meant that the U.S. had staved off financial collapse, at least for time, because a conservative leader would make it so. Reagan did usher in an era of unprecedented growth, from which the world benefited.
The Democrats in the current Congress, and the Obama administration seemed intent on completely reversing our economic good fortune. Worse, our common sense and a fourth grade understanding of how money and incentives work, told us economic darkness had begun to arrive. Whatever Reagan had wrought, Obama was undoing.
Reid, Obama, Pelosi - ROP - did themselves proud, and as the scriptures teach, "Pride goes before a fall..." and "Those who are stiff-necked will suddenly fall, and at that, without recourse." ROP hung themselves. We reaped a harvest.
Squanto visited us again this Thanksgiving, with new reasons to celebrate faith, family, and freedom.
"We have given you a republic, ma'am," Ben Franklin said. The voters have done so, too, in 2010. Now, it is up to us to see if we can maintain it.
Thanks to God, in Jesus Christ, for His abundant blessings.
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