This is a comment at the Wintry Knight. The context is that David Axelrod has written a book in which he said Obama lied about being pro gay marriage: he said he was anti gay marriage to get elected. In a time when most politicians are venal, the overt admission of massaging the spin so that nothing by lies are seen by the current US government shows a complete lack of moral courage. One can despair. But the elite are not America. Thank God.
Besides, the people are shifting loyalties, to new ideas and old.
I am blessed by God to periodically serve a community (more like a village) of extremely poor people in South Alabama, almost all black. These folks have nothing but a love of God, a Bible, and people who love them. They cannot stand the man. And, they don’t take welfare either. They do the best they can to get by and rely on a love freely given to them by others. Blessed are the poor indeed!
The late and lamented Uncle Remus used to comment that the people of Appalachia did not really notice the Great Depression. They continued to live poor in good times and in bad, and concentrated on what mattered: their faith, their family, and stewardship of their land. The government was despised in good times and feared in the bad. The rural villagers of Georgia have the same attitude. They know not to rely on the praises of the government, not on transfer payments. They would rather be poor and free, than have the shoddy material fruit of serfdom and big box stores.
For if there is a revolution coming, or a reformation, it is those who depend on the state: those in power and their clients, who need to fear. The very poor will survive. For their minds are not distracted, and they concentrate on what matters: most of what is of value has no cost, and cannot be bought.
But for money and power, faith and family can be lost. Do not be the elite, and do not lose your soul in trying to be a client of them.
