A Storm Over the American Republic

 "But Dennis!  This could never happen in America!  This is America!, not some 3rd world dump!  Nothing serious will ever happen to this nation!  We are too smart and too powerful and the world needs us for a variety of reasons."

Yes, we have heard that argument many, many times in the past 15 years.  Of course it has never made sense.  Certainly, God is no respecter of nations.  He sets up any and tears down any that He chooses to accomplish His purposes.  And to falsely believe that America will always be around is to ignore the Word of God.  America is nowhere to be found in Last Days prophecy.  Something is going to happen to cause her to vanish.  Remember, something happened to Babylon, Rome, Greece, England, Spain, France and all the other "once rulers" of civilization.

Are we witnessing America in her final stages of moral, spiritual(God fearing) and financial collapse?

The atmosphere in the United States remains poisonous. Critics claim that stoking in the public is being done on purpose -- to create a false narrative that not only is Trump supposedly a "threat to democracy," but that his more than 74 million supporters are, too. Others, however, claim that the real threat to democracy is actually these serial liars, violators of the Constitution and falsifiers of information.

The right to challenge and criticize, which is an integral part of the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, appears seriously threatened. The right to defend oneself against charges also appears threatened, and the legal profession dangerous to practice.

Expressing doubts about the November 3 election is now a liability. Substantiated reports show that it was far from perfect. The American economist Peter Navarro, in his private capacity, drew up three meticulous analyses: "The Immaculate Deception," "The Art of the Steal" and "The Navarro Report". They have been zealously disparaged -- many think unjustly.

Some authors describe what is happening as a slide towards authoritarianism. They note that many Americans and corporations, while behaving in an increasingly authoritarian manner, accuse their opponents of being authoritarian -- in other words, blaming their opponents for what they themselves are doing.

For more than three years Trump was accused, without any evidence apart from a fake "dossier", of being a Russian agent. The accusations eventually proved baseless, but not before $32 million of taxpayers' money were spent in what the prosecutors knew from the start was a fraud. They also tried to frame, incriminate and send innocent people to prison. The exercise was, at bottom, nothing more than an attempted coup d'état.

Throughout his entire term, Trump was faced with threats, abuse of power and unremitting attacks. Even though Trump is no longer president, the war against him continues.

If H.R.1 becomes the law of the land, it will entrench those "very things that made the election of 2020 such a mess". These include, among other things, the flooding of states with millions of unsolicited mail-in ballots, failure to verify signatures, no chain of custody of ballots, same-day voter registration, and ballot-harvesting -- many of which are invitations to commit fraud. As a bipartisan report in 2005 from the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III, concluded: mail-in ballots "remain the largest source of potential voter fraud." If H.R.1 is passed in the Senate, countless ways of demolishing election integrity will be set in cement.

What happened on January 6 was unanimously condemned, including by Trump himself. There was no equivalence between those who had come to listen to him and those who marauded. The former had exercised their constitutional rights of free assembly; the latter had committed criminal acts.

Police could have made arrests and justice been served. The page would have been turned. That is not what happened.

Protesters had "stormed" the Capitol several times before: on March 1, 1954, by Puerto Rican Americans who fired guns and injured five congressmen; on March 1, 1971, by members of the radical Weather Underground who placed a bomb in the building; on November 7, 1983, by a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit, who also placed a bomb in the building; and on October 6, 2018, by people protesting the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Overlooking that, however, on January 7, President Joe Biden described the incident of the day before as a major and unprecedented "attack":

"What we witnessed yesterday was not dissent. It was not disorder. It was not protest. It was chaos. They weren't protesters. Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic, it's that simple."

The mainstream media spoke of an assault on the "citadel of democracy" and a sign that a "will to overthrow the republic" had taken shape. Trump's supporters -- as a whole -- were described as dangerous people. Trump's constitutional challenge to the result of the November 3 election had already been presented for weeks as an attempt to "overturn" the result of a perfectly irrefutable election and as a "Big Lie". The mayhem, though vicious, was now being presented "as if the U.S. has become a war zone."

Here;  A Storm Over the American Republic :: Gatestone Institute

Proverbs 29  When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

We have a feeling we might be repeating that Proverb a lot in the coming months and years.  The wicked party who applauds abortion, pushes the LGBTQIA godless agenda, worships nature instead of the Creator, scoffs at the God of Israel, Isaac and Jacob and explodes at Jesus' claim that He is the "only way", is now driving the boat.  For the most part we are just passengers along for the ride.  

Our blessed hope (and joy of the Lord) is that Jesus is coming soon!  Maybe in the next weeks, months or few years!  We can't know this but we shouldn't stop praying for "thy kingdom to come".  We can see where this whole story is going and we need to be busy doing our part to save people from the fire that has been kindled and get them into the escape pod called Jesus the Christ.