"And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"

 GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS’ PRAYER GUIDE

Pray for our government officials by name.

I urge, first, that requests, prayers, intersession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—for kings, and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus…I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing. (1 Timothy 2:1-5; 8)

1. Pray they would know Jesus and walk with Him.

Lord, we lift up to you each one of our elected officials and appointed officials. We ask for the Holy Spirit to move upon the hearts of every person serving in our government who doesn’t have a personal relationship with you, that they would come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. And we also lift up to you all those who know you Lord, and we pray they would walk with you daily as they govern our nation.

“And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy” (Colossians 1:9-11). “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3-4).

2. Pray their families would be strengthened.

Heavenly Father, we lift up to you every government representative and their family. We pray for protection against any division or strife that might seek to divide families as government leaders spend time away from their homes to serve in Washington D.C. We pray for marriages to be strengthened and children to be raised in your truth. We pray for your blessing on their lives.

“But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children - with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts” (Psalm 103:17-18). “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:14-19).

3. Pray they would operate under God’s wisdom.

Almighty God, we pray every leader in Washington D.C. would come to know the true wisdom that comes only from you. Every good and perfect gift we know is from above. We ask for the hearts of government leaders to be humbled,

that they would fear you Lord above all and seek you in prayer and in scripture to know how to handle the important issues of our day. We thank you for the good gift of human government, for those you have sent to punish evildoers and to commend those who do good.

“Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling” (Psalm 2:10-11). “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you” (James 1:5). “For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers” (Proverbs 11:14).

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We Became Socialist When?

Not long ago, New York magazine posed the question: “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”

To say “everyone” is a gross exaggeration. But it’s clear that socialism has made inroads in America, especially among the young.

A recent poll showed that 70% of Millennials are either somewhat likely or extremely likely to vote for candidates with socialist positions. We have seen some of this in recent elections.

Why is this?

For one thing, too many young Americans have not been taught what socialism really means or the dismal history of its failures wherever it has been tried.

For another, too many are no longer being taught about America’s great heritage of liberty and about the importance of the Constitution to freedom.

Many young people under 35 have not touched the "hot pot" and suffered the burns! In other words, they live in a culture where they believe their future will be much like it is today. Regarding Socialism (the lies), they think it will only make things better!

This is because of the “progressive” Left’s increasing success in hijacking American education at both the K-12 and college levels.

The New York Times’ “1619 Project” is a prime example of this. The mainstream media praised this effort to subvert the proper teaching of American history, and its lead essayist even won a Pulitzer Prize.

 The American people rejected radical Socialism on Tuesday

While some House and Senate races are still being decided, it’s already clear there’s no mandate for the policies the far-left dreamed of passing in 2021. 

Democrats were banking on a “blue wave” that would give them a majority in the Senate and a larger majority in the House. It didn’t happen. This takes a lot of policies off the far-left wish list, from packing the Supreme Court, to passing the Green New Deal, to putting identity politics into federal law. While socialism is still rising on the left, it’s no closer to seizing the reins of power.

Still, there was one clear loser in last night’s election: identity politics.

Recall that the summer of 2020 was the summer of wokeness. Everyone was supposedly now consumed with the nation’s systemic racism. Everyone was a rioter. The only cause was anti-colonialism. Nothing else mattered. Right?

No? Most people ignored this narrative about American life.

And, in fact, it turns out that the very voters being targeted most heavily by this scare campaign about pervasive, ubiquitous white supremacism, specifically nonwhite voters, were not persuaded to support Democrats in larger numbers. Instead, those voters increased their support for Trump over 2016 levels. In fact, if he wins, he almost certainly owes his victory to gains among black and Hispanic voters.

This welcome news extended to the state level, too — we’ll see more of that in the coming days. In the meantime, the message from the American people is clear: we don’t want what the far-left is selling, which is why we didn’t buy it on Election Day.

Socialism and Democracy by Woodrow Wilson

Progressivism was a movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Whatever its different iterations, progressivism was rooted in the belief that the natural rights principles of the American founding were fine for an earlier age but no longer relevant in a mass, industrial society.  The modern age, as the Progressives saw it, was characterized by great inequality and concentrations of wealth.  The “interests” controlled the masses for their own self-interest rather than the public good.

In order to remedy social inequality and combat the interests, Progressives envisioned a stronger federal state that would regulate the use of property and wealth in the public interest rather than narrow individual self-interest.  They implemented a series of reforms that created executive agencies that would fundamentally alter the relationship of the government to the people.  These agencies would be part of a greatly expanded bureaucracy that would be administered by scientific experts guided by the ideals of efficiency and order.  The Progressives rejected popular, consensual government of and by the people.

As the Hillsdale College Constitution Reader makes plain, the ideology of progressivism persisted throughout the twentieth century, but it reached its first high tide during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.  The hallmarks of the progressive Wilson administration were the creation of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Sixteenth Amendment that allowed a federal income tax (contrary to the Founders and the express prohibition in Article I, section 9 of the Constitution), among other reforms.  Wilson also persuaded Congress to wage an idealistic, progressive war to “make the world safe for democracy.”  The ideas for these reforms were laid down clearly in Wilson’s writings decades before when he was a graduate student and young professor in search of a permanent position.

In the 1880s, Woodrow Wilson was pursuing a quintessentially Progressive educational path.  Attending graduate school based upon the German model, Wilson earned a Ph.D. in political science and history at Johns Hopkins University in 1886.  Until he found a home at Princeton in 1890, he was a professor at Cornell, Bryn Mawr, and Wesleyan.  Like any aspiring professor, he produced a number of publications.  They unapologetically revealed his embrace of progressivism and a large administrative state.

Written in 1887, few of Wilson’s writings more blatantly spell out his praise of a state with virtually unlimited authority than “Socialism and Democracy.”  As he states, the new question that Progressives were asking was “not whether the community has power to act as it may please in these matters, but how it can act with practical advantage — a question of policy.”  The philosophical argument of limited constitutional government is swept aside by a triumphal progressivism that announces the victory of the federal state and simply decides the best reforms to pursue.

Wilson states that although some thinkers have attempted to turn the public mind against socialism, he is trying to render it not only intelligible but attractive and valid.  He proudly supports the idea of unlimited government and public control.   “It proposes,” Wilson argues, “that all idea of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view, and that the State consider itself bound to stop only at what is unwise or futile in its universal superintendence alike of individual and of public interests.”  Could any statement more clearly illustrate how far the Progressives had come from American founding principles?

If anyone thought that Wilson was merely theoretically praising socialism, he then shockingly equated socialism with democracy on the grounds that both agree that there are no limits on government power.  “It is very clear,” he writes, “that in fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same.  They both rest upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members.  Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.  Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.”  As he states only a bit farther down in the essay: “The germinal conceptions of democracy are as free from all thought of a limitation of the public authority as are the corresponding conceptions of socialism.”

In the founding conception of American constitutional government in the Declaration of Independence, a limited government was created for the express purpose of protecting God-given rights of individuals.  The great fear of the Founders was that the government would violate those rights and become tyrannical.  The sovereign people then had the right of rebellion when the government broke the terms of the social compact.  But, according to Wilson, “The contest is no longer between government and individuals; it is now between government and dangerous combinations.”  In light of the circumstances of the modern industrial age, the government must “lay aside all timid scruple and boldly make itself an agency for social reform as well as for political control.”

If the history of American government in the twentieth century shows anything, it reveals the startling success of Wilson’s progressive view of the federal state.  Only some of the proofs that the Wilsonian vision has became a reality in this century are a massive administrative state free of popular control and yet are ironically controlled by the very interests the Progressives originally sought to control, massive government taxation and spending (and debt), a government that reaches into nearly every aspect of American life, and politicians who routinely consider themselves above the law.

Read Woodrow Wilson’s “Socialism and Democracy” here

The Socialist State Today In America 

This lecture is given by a renowned scholar that teaches the Constitution. Please set aside the time. I promise you will not regret it!

“The modern administrative state transformed American republic into an oligarchy. Today, an elite and insular administrative class rules without the consent of American citizens. Moreover, administrative rule is both anti-constitutional and pre-constitutional, because it replaces the rule of law with unaccountable regulatory agencies.”

 Biden’s Disastrous Plan for American Energy

In Pennsylvania this week, Joe Biden asked: “Do I look like a radical socialist?” The better question is whether the socialists who are gaining power in the Democratic Party are exerting a greater influence on Biden’s platform. The answer is clearly yes.

Since Biden was in Pennsylvania to talk about energy policy, it is worth starting there.

 Fracking. Which Joe Biden should Americans believe on fracking: the one who said he would “make sure it’s eliminated” and agreed with the socialist Bernie Sanders that it should be banned, saying “no more”? Or the Biden who now says the opposite?

It is telling that Kamala Harris, his VP pick, favors the total fracking ban that’s part of the Green New Deal. So do the socialist activists who increasingly dominate the Democratic Party. It is hard to see Joe Biden standing up to them, especially since he’s already caved to their demands to move further left.

Green New Deal. Joe Biden avoids saying he supports the Green New Deal demanded by the Democratic Party’s most radical wing. But activists and journalists have spent months pointing out that Biden’s energy plan is the Green New Deal in all but the name.

It’s true: Biden’s $2 trillion plan would raise electricity prices on families, dole out untold billions of dollars in corporate welfare to politically-favored energy companies, and put America back in the Paris Climate Accord — hurting our economy while strengthening adversaries like China. No matter what he calls it, Biden’s energy plan is a raw deal for Americans.

When Joe Biden was vice president to Barack Obama, they enacted some of the most economically harmful energy policies in American history. Four years later, the Democratic Party is even more extreme on energy, and Biden is set to go with the radical flow. The losers will be the millions of Americans who could soon be paying more, losing jobs, and facing blackouts.