Tom’s Big Picture

A Congressman, Mark Foley, who co-chairs the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus is known to have sexually propositioned teenage boys. Majority Leader Dennis Hastert knows about it, but does nothing.

The leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, Ted Haggard, quits his pastorship over (apparently somewhat true) allegations of drug use and meetings with a male prostitute.

Another male prostitute, Jeff Guckert, with no press credentials, is given an all-access pass to White House press briefings, under a fake name, Jeff Gannon, to throw softball questions to the President’s press secretary. Only someone at the very top could authorize the issuing of ID by the Secret Service under a fake name and without a background check.

And this week we get confirmation of the open secret that Ken Mehlman, the outgoing chair of the Republican Party, is a homosexual.

I recently read a very well-written political thriller called The Hunt for Confederate Gold. It’s a great novel, very entertaining, written in parallel across two time periods. One of the characters in the book is a Christian FBI agent who has a healthy family life, a successful career and who plays by the rules and does his job. However, he finds that his career is limited to essentially a middle-management position in the FBI despite his being better-qualified than his peers for further promotion. The reason, according to the character: he lacks a “control file”. The character then explains how high positions in the federal government can only be obtained by people who have a “control file”, which is essentially a file of evidence that enables the government to control the person, usually through threatened revelation of sexual indiscretions. The character also explained that in the current cultural environment, mere adultery or homosexuality isn’t enough to always control a person, so the preferred method is for the government to promote a known pedophile to positions of power (according to the character, there is a large pedophile ring in the federal government and Congress), ensuring control over the person to prevent whistleblowing on the government’s various illegal and unconstitutional activities.

When I first read this passage in the book, I thought it great fodder for a conspiratorial political thriller. After the last year of events, it sounds more plausible.

Open homosexuality is indicative of the last stages of a civilization’s decline, when the artificial world created by the surplus economy finally collapses upon itself and chokes off the ultimate source of all wealth- human life- by disconnecting sexual pleasure from procreation. And when the “conservative” party is itself eaten up with sexual perversion, we can really begin to smell the stench of gangrene in our dying nation.

Yet, there is hope. We basically have two problems: we Texans, Southerners and other people living in the heartland of the country between the two coasts are joined at the hip in a political system with California and New York. Second, our political system is designed to promote sociopaths like the individuals above, providing a leadership more morally degenerate than the people at large (whether Congressmen or mega-church preachers like Haggard, those most successful in the two fields tend to be those individuals who have the least hesitance and most efficiency in asking other people to part with their hard-earned money, or bargaining intangibles like access for money, thus sociopaths by definition).

While I have a lot of criticism for the national Republican Party, I have a lot of respect for the Republicans I know in the area, the people actively involved in the party at the local level. The platform of the Texas Republican Party is an excellent statement of conservatism, and reflects the views of the grassroots of the party.

However, the conservative views of Texas Republicans can never be implemented nationwide- they are too conservative for much of the country, especially in swing states needed to build a national majority. This effectively limits what can be done nationally to save the country to those policies that are supported by soccer moms in Ohio. That’s why we get stupid feel-good policies like tax cuts with no spending constraints and bans on sucking the brains out of half-born babies while still allowing babies in the womb to get torn up limb by limb with a vacuum pump.

This is why I have little hope for the country as a whole, but great hope for our region. The people of our region have retained more of their virtue and conservatism- traits that enable them to support political systems that reflect a healthier society. Long-term-oriented leaders of Texas, the South, and the Heartland should be looking for ways to divorce the populace’s political loyalties to the nation as a whole (tactically, a good starting point would be legislative nullification of unconstitutional acts of federal judges), and prepare them for the opportunity to abandon the sinking ship of state that will inevitably come to visit our evil national government. That’s why I will focus most of my political effort in the future at the state and local level, where there is more hope.

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