The Liberal's Fiddle

Nero's 14 year reign as emperor of Rome is considered by many historians to be a period of tyrannical and extravagant rule by the unfavorable leader. So absorbed with wealth and fame, Nero sought to reconstruct Rome with huge palaces and temples along with a 120 foot golden statue of himself rather than rule in favor of the people and their individual liberties. His lofty visions of an empire turned stylish devalued the dollar to the point of economic ruin. As well did he find displeasure with the Christians whom he placed blame for the Great Fire that overtook the city in 64, choosing to illuminate his palace garden at night with their captured torched bodies. Further accounts also make the claim that Nero played the fiddle while the city burned, himself dressed in full theatrical costume as if he were on stage. In short, torture, murder, and excess define the reign of this tyrant, a man enslaved by his own passions and the lust for public adulation. In the end, he did what all tyrants and dictators seem to do when faced with a just insurrection of the citizenry - commit suicide. Perhaps Cato said it best when he declared, "Whoever will pretend to govern a People without regarding them, will soon repent it." Regrettably, we are once again living in the time of Nero, only this time it is our own nation that is on fire - a conflagration set by the dirty hands of king-men who rejoice in the sufferings of the people and the demise of the Constitution. And in the distance, through all the smoke and haze, the rightly tuned ear can distinguish the riotous sound of the same fiddle being played without pause to the depressing tune of modern liberalism.

I have often wondered what the x-ray film of a liberal's skeleton would look like. In fact, I wonder more if there exists any firmness at all within their slouched, bendy forms. Careless and soft, emotional and vacuous of any sound reasoning, the liberal mind is truly 'matter unorganized.' To put it more simply, "Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright." Indeed, the inner cobwebby chambers of the liberal brain are just that - unused and wasted - as a well whose deeper watery abundance sits untapped and unexploited, waiting to rise on the saving light of Reason. Like the Pharisees and Sadducees of old, the elitists sense of piety and knowledge for what they feel is right in the moment is as non-producing as a dog whistle - an inaudible sound distinguished only by the flapping tongues of liberal dogs after the attention of misleading masters. The ancient Samurai elaborated on this concept further:

"Reason is four-cornered and will not move even in an extreme situation. Woman [Liberal] is round. One can say that she does not distinguish between good or evil or right and wrong and tumbles into any place at all."

While I do not at all agree with the above notion that women are mindless and without direction, I do acknowledge the same 'tumbling' nature of the liberal wicked and their 'nest mentality' to swallow anything and everything in one gulp without assessing the complete contents first. "Government is not reason," said George Washington, "it is not eloquence - it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Indeed, the Founders looked upon government as a volatile and wild instrument of explosive power which must be harnessed within the confines of a strictly interpreted Constitution, or else it would destroy the very freedoms for which it was designed to preserve.

Without the reigning in of government power, the people quickly lose their own and in the process their individual sovereignty, hard-earned fortunes, and sacred honor. Therefore, it is up to us to resist the pull of government increase and to ignore public sentiment and its cradling of immoral and gross conduct in order to reestablish a Republic built upon the foundation of Christ, "which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." (Helaman 5:12) Tragically, we have suffered fools far too long and voted for worse. Now past feeling, do many march in step to the destructive anthem of government control, played on a fiddle whose originating source echoes from the gallery floor of the Capitol Building. Like Nero, modern liberalism sits perched upon its own ivory tower, savoring the view of a nation on fire with the same gladness as a bird watching worms emerge after a rainstorm. Careful though they are not to acknowledge the direction from whence the life-sustaining moisture comes! Such is the case of the damned. They care not for the freedom and welfare of their countrymen but for their abject poverty and oppression. So wroth with the Ten Commandments and of a Power greater than themselves that they fail to experience any real joy in life, instead turning inward like a dead star through which light can no longer enter. But the truth is our weapon. To oppose it is folly - like an ant attempting to resist the heavy foot stepping upon it.

In this climate of political correctness, calling evil evil and good good is as revolutionary a statement as burning the flag. Ironically, this is exactly how the liberal mind demonstrates its defiance to God's rule -the desecration of heaven's banner. Like the king-men in the Book of Mormon, "who were in favor of kings...those of high birth...and they were supported by those who sought power and authority over the people," (Alma 51:13) today's liberal bee thrives on discontent and promotes division among the masses to deceive and to manipulate. Seething with contempt for the principles of liberty, these traitors would likewise refuse to take up arms to defend them and their country in a time of war. In response to such deliberate stubbornness and conscientious stupidity, Captain Moroni would surely deal with the king-men of today in the exact same way he did with the traitors of liberty during his time:

"14. And it came to pass that when Moroni saw this, and also saw that the Lamanites were coming into the borders of the land, he was exceedingly wroth because of the stubbornness of those people whom he had labored with so much diligence to preserve; yea, he was exceedingly wroth; his soul was filled with anger against them.
 18. And it came to pass that the armies did march against them; and they did pull down their pride and their nobility, insomuch that as they did lift their weapons of war to fight against the men of Moroni they were hewn down and leveled to the earth.
 20. And the remainder of those dissenters, rather than be smitten down to the earth by the sword, yielded to the standard of liberty, and were compelled to hoist the title of liberty upon their towers, and in their cities, and to take up arms in defence of their country.

George Washington has also said, "In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness [religion and morality]." Furthermore, and more frightening as well as prophetic did Joseph Stalin declare, "America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: it's patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."

As we fortify and defend these pillars of truth in both speech and action, the Lord will reward us for our integrity and courage with a portion of His Spirit, empowering us to stand ever the more firm and steadfast in defeat of the miserable, as an approaching person sends a frightened squirrel up a tree. By eternal truth, sin runs while Righteousness stands. And when confronted with the facts, the Great Puppeteer himself takes flight, leaving his subjects to stumble and collapse in consequence of their empty interiors until they are lying prone upon the earth, being compelled to humility before an all-merciful and powerful God.

Robert J. Matthews, former dean of religious education at BYU, described the liberal mind in this way, in context of Lucifer's plan proposed in the pre-earth Council:

"It seems strange to me that a third of all the spirits that had the potential to be born into this world would have favored a plan based on forced obedience. Most of us do not like to be forced. As I see it, the real issue was not so much one of force as it was that Lucifer said he would guarantee salvation for his spirit brothers and sisters. He promised salvation without excellence, without effort, without hard work, without individual responsibility. That is the lie he promulgated in the preearth councils. That so-called shortcut to salvation captivated many gullible and lazy spirits. They wanted something for nothing."

Relatedly, the radical Saul Alinsky, in his book on radicalism and social control made this traitorous statement toward both nation and God:

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history...the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." - Lucifer

This, my friends, is proof of their insanity. Know your enemy. As Goethe once said, "Our friends show us what we can do, our enemies teach us what we must do." May we not pull in our horizons as they do but expand them further through the cause of Christ. May we extinguish the flames of evil with the living water of the Savior, looking to Him as the only true and real source of lasting peace and strength. Finally, may the solid, steadying sound from our own united march lead us to victory as the armies of Joshua echoed at the walls of Jericho; and that through the dust and smoke created by wicked's flight from Virtue's Arm the Liberal's fiddle may be forever deprived just as Shakespeare wrote in his Coriolanus,

"When some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran
From the noise of our own drums."

Long live the fighters