Corruption and perversion seems endemic of our Federal Triune Dictatorship bringing to mind Hector St. John Crevecoeur's comments concerning the inevitability of evil, and as one scandal after another threatens to incapacitate and paralyze the functions of government it reminds me of an early experiment in politics by the Israelites.

The tribes of Israel demanded a king and despite the warnings of the prophet Samuel that they were rejecting God’s rule in exchange for that of men, that human rulers were invariably given to all the evils of government the people were insistent in their demand for a king.

We will never know how things might have turned out had the Israelites continued under the rule of judges and prophets, and given the frequent abuses by the priests of Israel as a theocracy the people wanting a king was understandable, but we do know things did not go well for them under the various kings and in the end Israel ceased to exist as a nation.

Our Founding Fathers were men of great vision and insight, and the noblest experiment in democracy the world had ever seen enjoyed great success for quite a long time. But now America is threatened from within and without, our enemies multiplying on a near daily basis.

But as the Preacher in Ecclesiastes said “of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” And we are drowning in a sea of books none of which have solved the problems those Israelites faced, the same problems of the lust for power, the problems of greed and avarice, of perversion that continue to haunt all attempts at good government.

Henry Thoreau recognized the need of some government evil as it was, but even he was balked by the recognition of such a need. What Henry could not countenance was the very system of evil that attracts only the worst of humankind wanting authority over others. As much to the point as On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry did not have the intellect of his friend and mentor Emerson who had remarked none would choose to be a politician had they the traits of virtue leading to the choice of some noble profession. Recognizing the fact that none of virtue seek power and authority over others Emerson summed the evil of government and the evils of society insisting on “kings” succinctly reflecting the plight of those early Israelites and all governments thereafter:

See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class. If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have, and he finds himself uncomfortable, and glad to get away. But if an adventurer go through all the forms, procure himself to be elected to a post of trust, as of senator, or president, - though by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief, - the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue, will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one: and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him ovations, complimentary dinners, opening their own houses to him, and priding themselves on his acquaintance. We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer, - the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons; but we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of his sincerity. It must be that they who pay this homage have said to themselves, On the whole, we don’t know about this that you call honesty; a bird in the hand is better.

It is an evil system that promotes the worst to positions of power and authority, an evil endemic to humankind that fawns over those who rise to power on the basis of doing evil. Our Founding Fathers made the noblest attempt to thwart this human weakness known to history, but their good work has been usurped by scoundrels unworthy to even mention the name of Washington.

While our Federal Triune Dictatorship is so corrupt and perverted as to be an abomination in the sight of God and the whole world and while the airwaves, columns and books proliferate without end as per the Preacher’s indictment of such, evil circumstances seem to be spiraling so out of control We the People are left not only angry, but fearful of not having a leadership capable of handling affairs in the face of mounting threats to America. And our greatest fear, all too well founded, is the lack of any of genuine virtue to come to our rescue. And lacking any of virtue to lead America, this leaves only the horrors of circumstances like that of nuclear terrorism to make the decisions for us.

The Bible has it “Fools make a mock at sin,” but there is the further admonition “Be sure your sins will find you out.” A leadership that is willing to accommodate perversion of every description just to gain and hold power is only inviting calamity for America.