America has always had evil people.  Every society in human history has.  Civilized societies, however, are able to marginalize them and keep them in a position where they can only do a modicum of damage.  Civilization will cease to exist in a country overrun by uncivilized, evil barbarians.   Historian Will Durant’s words are accurate:  “Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.”  The jungle is growing rapidly in America now, and civilization is being swamped by it.

The major problem in the United States now is that evil dominates in many sectors of our society.  The Democratic Party is wholly given over to evil, and half the country votes for that party.  The Democrats’ total program is evil.  Licentiousness, promiscuity, government dependence (slavery), criminality and law breaking—civilization can’t exist when half the people vote for this stuff.  The Democratic Party has succumbed to evil and savagery.

The party of Jefferson didn’t used to be that way.   But it is now.  And while the Republican Party is not as decadent as the Democratic Party is, there is still much, much evil among Republicans as well.  Or, perhaps the big problem with the Republicans is weakness, gutlessness.  Republicans don't have the strength of character to stand up against evil.  As Edmund Burke well said, “Evil prevails when good men fail to act.”  He also said, “The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.”  Unfortunately, that describes too many Republicans in Washington, D.C.

When I say that the Democratic Party is given over to evil, I don't mean that everything every Democratic........

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