Politics, Policy and Principle
—by Robert Arvay

The United States is founded on a principle, which is the sanctity of the individual. According to that principle, all of us are created equal. Our rights come from God. Those rights can be violated, but never forfeit. We govern ourselves, lending
temporary power to representatives, whose powers we the people can revoke at any time, for any reason, and without permission. These rights are absolute.

There are is an opposing principle, known variously as collectivism, socialism and communism, all of which have in common that they are invariably associated with brutal tyrannies wherever they are practiced. In those tyrannies, there is no sanctity of
the individual. He exists solely as an instrument of the state, and only so long as he is needed by those in power.

His rights are recognized only as crumbs from the government, revocable by it at any moment, including the rights to life and liberty. No deviation from government policy is tolerated; the slightest hint of disloyalty brings punishment, including the
most horrific ever devised by the minds of evil men.

Which of those two principles is ascendant in the policies of the United States government?

Clearly, we are increasingly being governed by the adage, “You did not build that,” the implication being that the fruit of your labor is not your own; it belongs to the state. There is a man in the Oval Office who is telling us that our rights are
not absolute, the implication being that the government decides what our rights are, and can limit or revoke them as it sees fit.

If one asks, where did we go wrong, the answer can be found in the abrogation of the most essential fact, which is that our rights come from God. If a society forgets that, then it is denying God, and therefore, cutting off the Tree of Liberty at its
very root.

Are we doomed? “Moral truth is vindicated by the ruin that follows, when it has been repudiated.” -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, (1895 – 1979)

Some more quotes from him:

“[The] Brotherhood of man, without the Fatherhood of God [must fail].” "Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world."

I am not a Catholic, but I find this message is for all of us. If America falls, it will not be due to bad politics, or failed policies, for these would not occur were the basic principle applied, that of the inherent sanctity of the individual. It is
not a man’s race that makes him sacred, nor his religion, nor his ancestors, but rather, his immortal soul, created by, and redeemed by, God.

I expect that America will indeed fall, and will do so in the lifetime of people now living.

However, I hold hope that from its ashes will rise a new America, one in which the ideals which gave rise to it, and the false gods which destroyed it, will never again be forgotten.

If the tree of Liberty must be nourished with the blood of patriots and tyrants, may it savor mine as that of a patriot.
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