“The Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau penned a chilling warning coupled with a summation that amazingly describes America’s political landscape today:
“Finally, when the state, on the eve of ruin, maintains only a vain, illusory and formal existence, when in every heart the social bond is broken, and the meanest interest brazenly lays hold of the sacred name of ‘public good,’ the general will becomes mute: All men, guided by secret motives, no more give their views as citizens than if the state had never been; and iniquitous decrees directed solely to private interest get passed under the name of laws.”
“The Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau penned a chilling warning coupled with a summation that amazingly describes America’s political landscape today.”
In addition, the late Dr. Francis A. Shaeffer, a great intellectual, wrote A CHRISTIAN MANIFESTO (1981), which also could have been written yesterday because of his accurate predictions for where our nation was going as it became secularized. I have been rereading it and I am shocked at the accuracy of the predictions, especially where he foresaw an authoritative government run by an elite and an “Imperial” Supreme court which would not function according to the Constitution. If you read this book, buck up, because it is scary..However, we must frame our problems if we are to have a prayer of working to make things better.