E Michael Jones on Morality and Democracy

Two issues, morality and democracy, are intimately related because, as John Adams, one of America's founding fathers said, "We have no Constitution that functions in the absence of immoral people." In order to destroy the American form of government, the cultural revolutionaries had to first undermine America's understanding of morality, because only morality guarantees the freedom necessary for self-government. Unlike Aristotle who argued that men were slaves by nature. St. Agustine took a radically moral view of the issue: Man was free as long as he was moral, which is to say, "acting according to the dictates of practical reason." It is clear, he wrote in "The City of God", that sin is the primary cause of servitude. That means, he continued in another passage from the same book, that a good man though a slave is free, but a wicked man though a king is a slave; for he serves not one man alone but is what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.

This, I said in another context, is the foundation of the regime that we now live under, which is the opposite of the Christian culture, those groups created during the Thousand Year Reign after the fall of Rome. The Christian says, "If you want to be free, be moral." The anti-Christian government of Antichrist that begins with the French Revolution (but we have various categories), it takes that and turns it upside down: "If you want to maintain political control, promote vice." And that's the story of our culture right now.

America rules the way Satan rules. That's why the Iranians call it the Great Satan. It rules by moral corruption, and it spreads this moral corruption throughout the entire world under the pretext of spreading our concern about human rights. So when Obama goes to Kenya, what does he talk about? He lectures those people on human rights, which means the right to sodomy or the right to abortion. Man is a rational creature, which means he has to follow the dictates of practical reason. So there can be no right to something that is morally wrong. That's impossible! And this is the sleight of hand that is now being used to deprive us of our representative government, and I say this because I watched it happen first-hand in the state of Indiana.

I don't know, those of you who are not as fortunate that I am living in the state of Indiana may not have noticed that during March of this year our state was vilified by the entire nation because it had passed something called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The legislature had passed this law that stated simply that people should not be coerced into participating in gay weddings if it violated their conscience. This outraged a particularly influential group of people in the United States. The governor of Indiana, by the name of Mike Pence, is a Republican. He was totally befuddled. He did not understand the way warfare is conducted in our age. As I said before, it's not guys in red uniforms firing cannons at guys in blue uniforms anymore. It's going to be about human rights, or homosexual discrimination, and so when Mike Pence went on Meet the Press he looked like a deer caught in the headlights. He's a Republican and the reason he was so befuddled is because the revolutionaries in this instance were a cabal of three different groups of people: the CEO's (Republicans are supposed to be representing them, why are they doing this?), the homosexuals and the Jews. What do these three groups have in common? They're all minorities. The 1% on wall street became famous, homosexual are estimated at between 1 and 2%, and Jews are always a minority in any culture where they live. What do they have in common? They have enormous political and media and financial power. So what is their main problem? How do you get to impose your views on everyone else when the official explanation is that we live in a democracy? How do you do this? Well, you do this by talking about human rights, and by talking about the morality of human rights. The net result is tyranny.

In an article which appeared in "First Things", a Notre Dame professor, Patrick J Dineen, wrote, "What we saw in Indiana was not just a 'miscalculation' by Republicans. We saw fully unmasked just who runs America, and the kind of America that they are bringing more fully into reality every passing day. It will be an America where the powerful will govern completely over the powerless, where the rich dictate terms to the poor, where the strong are unleashed from the old restraints of culture and place, where libertarian indifference—whether in respect to economic inequality or morals—is inscribed into the national fabric, and where the unburdened, hedonic human will reign ascendant." That's the world we're facing now.

We're talking about successful revolutions where the Communists failed. If the Communists that showed up in Indiana and said, "We're gonna rewrite your laws", well, who would have gone along with it? The Republican governor? No! No, but when this CEO parachutes in from San Francisco and they welcomed him with open arms. Who gave this guy the right to rewrite the laws of the state of Indiana? Nobody can answer that question! I've asked one politician after another. They can't answer that question. He doesn't live in Indiana. Nobody elected him. We elected a certain group of people and they were completely ignored by this revolutionary cabal that is now the ruling coalition in the United States.