SpecterAndBride

The midterm results are the predictable cost of a core betrayal. Continued economic strain, institutional failure, cultural fragmentation, and foreign commitments have brought many people to the point of exhaustion. Evidently things still have to get worse before they can get better. That’s not a word of despair but a description of how corrective movements have formed historically. Only when things worsen does space open for an alternative that’s more than just reactive. What’s required is the recovery of the ordered liberty, civic virtue, and cultural continuity that once defined the Anglo-Protestant inheritance of the American founding. That inheritance assumed that liberty is sustainable only where a people possess the shared internal restraints of faith, family, and custom. The current exhaustion reveals that the system has failed to deliver the stability and cohesion it promised. What follows will depend on whether enough people reconstitute the habits, associations, and moral order that once made our government workable, or whether the cycle of strain simply continues under the revolving door of new management. In the absence of that moral change, I suspect the cycle will continue until we reach the point of eventual revolution—as our nation’s history has proven. The former remains the overwhelming preferred course for me. I pray that God will show mercy to the US and restore this once-great country.