Talking plain like Thomas Paine!

Paine once asserted, “It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.”, and “The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” With that in mind this morning my wife had the following thoughts on the utter corruption of our current self-serving political class, “How did we get here? The explanation is multi-faceted but our path to ruin has gone something like this:
1. The abandonment of God
2. Replace of faith in Divine order with a belief in total State control
3. Accepting immigration from cultures with whom we have little to nothing in common thereby undermining our shared cultural social contract
4. Which results in the collectivist mindset of socialism replacing the glue of a shared heritage
5. Hatred of competence, individualism, and an entrepreneurial mindset
Anne-Siri asserted that all five facets are connected, with each a declension leading to the undermining of the next virtue listed. The common denominator is the rejection of our own moral responsibility to God first, then to our fellows, since only then can we properly care for the natural world around us. It is only when our communities are anchored in a moral, just, and prosperous society with each individual voluntarily assuming their responsibility to God and their fellows that we will not constantly be fighting to keep the wolves at bay. Our elite class doesn’t care for the planet, if they did, they would permit us to prosper sufficiently such that we all will be stewards of the planet without worrying about how to keep warm, fed, and have a roof over our heads. Because that is what the ruling class is doing, impoverishing humanity so that they can live in unentitled wealth. This winter Europe is facing abysmal energy and food shortages due to the unworkable green energy policies of globalist minded governments who obviously have torn a page out of the same playbook. I have a gut feeling that Paine’s words are even more appropriate today. 250 years ago, they were delivered at a time when society was being tyrannised by an elite class who were about to be overthrown by force, and I suspect people will soon once again say no to tyranny!