A Moral Revolution is Next

The spirit of the American tea parties will not be satiated by the November 2nd election results, no matter how one-sided they may be. Revolution is in the air, and it can’t be contained by the gatekeepers of the ruling class. The moral dimensions of this revolution will be the next to be felt.

We’ve written before that Obama is not the cause but the culmination of decades of godless intellectual fraud imposing itself on the Judeo-Christian core of America. This fraud springs from an arrogant disdain for the God-centered founding principles of America; it disputes and denies the truth of these principles by an orchestrated smearing and disingenuous blaming of America for all the world’s ills; it props up any evidence of human injustice and inequity as proof that the principles are outdated and should be tossed aside.

Every bit of it is a lie, but much of it was hidden or camouflaged by sophistry. Obama was sure his inauguration marked the point at which the lies had become truth, and the masks of deceit could be removed. A new left-wing messiah had been found, and the people’s adulation had been secured. Instead, the lies stood more vividly exposed than they have been in decades, and the tea parties were born.

But liberal lies are not just political. Along with them are the spiritual and moral corollaries—there is no God; there is no such thing as truth; and therefore there are no such things as morals. There are only popular opinions enforceable by power. Every bit of this is a lie, too, and Americans are now onto this as well.

The correctness of abortion-on-demand was one of the entry-level lies, joined by its cousins feminism, sexual liberation, and homosexual activism. Throw in Hollywood’s embrace of these lies, and the societal wreckage is now plain for everyone to see. Marriage and family in tatters—along with the safety and security of home; a coarsening of culture as tens of millions of innocent lives have been extinguished; a proliferation of AIDS and HIV viruses; and upcoming generations taught to treat sex as if it were a Baskin-Robbins, flavor-of-the-month recreational activity.

None of this is good, and we all know it. None of it is sustainable, and we all know it. It is the cultural equivalent of trillion dollar deficits, and in 2010 it has the same effect: a wake up to the fact that we can’t ignore this anymore, and we can’t pretend it can continue without severe consequences to social cohesion and civil society.

There are more than a few observers who think we’re already past the point of no return; that societal collapse is inevitable; that we’re on a gradual descent into anarchy controlled through brute force and totalitarianism.

No, we’re not.

Barely twenty months ago, America was thought to be past the point of political return. The liberal lies and liars thought they had pulled off the con that would lead to 40 years of leftist rule, with the Constitution sold in the shambles. Republican elites like Colin Powell generally agreed, taking in a media picture telling them that the people like big government and all of its services, and are oh-so-eager to pay big taxes to pay for all these wonderful services. Now we’re a week away from witnessing a massive repudiation of these lies.

The moral counterpart to this political revolution may not have an election date to mark its progress, but it will be no less swift and dramatic. What the pessimists and doomsayers don’t understand is that there is only one thing that has to change: thought. This may seem like a huge task if it is believed to require a one-person-by-one-person persuasion exercise. But it doesn’t. There is a hard-wiring in each of us that already tells us what is true, without the need for someone else to do the convincing. This wiring can seem to be forgotten or even worn out from non-use, but it’s always there.

The spirit of the tea parties has activated this wiring, and it won’t stop with corrections to taxing and spending policies. Americans have known something was wrong with this radical leftist agenda without having to restudy sixth grade civics. They also know it is time for a U-turn in morality without having to consult a psychotherapist. And they are fully capable of making this U-turn; it is in the nature of who we are as the equal and noble children of one Creator.

The founders of America knew and proclaimed these truths. They had no delusions about the resistance they would encounter, but they were not pessimistic doomsayers. They laid the foundation for the greatest advance in the human condition in all of history because they were confident that truth exists and matters. They were right. They still are. We just needed to get back to the truth—and we’re well on the way in 2010.

Paul Gable

October 25, 2010