It
seems all too likely that the peoples of the States are being led purposefully
by the Elite into open, physical conflict.
Consider some of the emotionally-charged issues that have come to the
fore recently:
-Border
wall vs no border wall;
-Pro-Israel
vs pro-Palestinian/Assad/Iran;
-Impeach
Donald Trump or protect him;
-Socialist
vs capitalist;
-For
Confederate monuments or against;
-Man-made
climate change ‘believers’ vs climate change ‘deniers’;
-Trans-genderism
vs ‘cis’-genderism;
-Pro-abortion
vs pro-life.
This
last is the most important. Several
States have simultaneously introduced legislation to protect abortion
‘rights’. Recalling Hillary Clinton’s recent
comment about using the States’ powers to protect ‘civil rights’ (https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/progressive-neo-confederates/),
this smacks of serious behind-the-scenes collusion (to use one of the favored
political buzzwords of the day).
Given
that both sides of the abortion issue are extremely zealous for their causes;
that the pro-life side sees this issue as precisely a replay of the fight
between abolitionists and slave-owners (with themselves as the inheritors of
the righteous mantle of the Yankee abolitionists); that the vast majority of
pro-lifers view very favorably Lincoln’s war against the South ‘to exterminate
slavery’ (this is the lie they tell themselves about that war, anyway: https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/the-dark-side-of-abraham-lincoln/);
that many pro-lifers love to sing ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ with its
gory, blood-soaked lines that glory in the slaughtering of Southerners - given
all this, we have in the making another powder keg that could possibly explode
into physical violence.
To
make matters worse, both sides, the left and the right, are insisting more than
ever on pure majority rule to settle the issue.
But King Numbers is a terrible master, as John Randolph of Roanoke was
fond of pointing out. Abortion is a
terrible evil, but the answer isn’t to cram yet another divisive federal law or
ruling down the throats of those who disagree.
A better path forward is a return to what John C. Calhoun advocated and
what the States had under the Articles of Confederation: government by unanimity (or very large
supermajorities at the very least).
Mr
Calhoun, in his studies of history, had seen the divisive effects of simple
majority rule, how it provoked a continual warfare between majority and
minority for control of government. For
the health of the social organism, he rightly perceived, there must be harmony
amongst all its organs, not the pulverization of them and their scattering and scrapping
as little, isolated political atoms (see his Disquisition on Government).
At the federal level, this will mean unanimity of the member countries
(States) in House and Senate. At the
State level, this will mean unanimity of the members that make up the organic
whole of each State: churches, guilds,
clans, towns, counties, parishes, schools, and the like.
It
is well to remember here that kings are also a great boon to harmony in a
country. Not belonging to any of the
classes, institutions, etc., that make up his realm (with the exception of the
Church, to which most usually belong anyway, however), he is able to act as a
peacemaker amongst them all. Such are
the blessings we miss out on here in the South for being too wedded to
republican ideology.
Withal,
unanimity is the goal, but it is not always attainable. But all efforts ought to be made toward that
end. On the pro-life front, Louisiana’s
law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is
a good ensample of prudent lawcraft: It
passed with near unanimous votes in both legislative chambers, 85-6 in the
House, 34-3 in the Senate (https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/supreme-court-halts-louisiana-abortion-law-now).
By
this sort of margin (a near unanimous supermajority, ¾, 4/5, 9/10: the higher the better) all laws ought to be
passed in order to have a peaceful political life here in the States. No matter how important we think a measure,
let it become law only where it can be passed with such numbers, whether it is
a sleepy little town or a whole State.
This will defuse many of the social tensions being experienced here in
the States at present. We ought to be
glad to see proposed laws fail time after time so that we can live in peace
with one another. As the Holy Apostle
Paul says, ‘Be of one mind’ (Phil. 2:2).
But
foolishly, very foolishly, those who call themselves conservatives (Sen Ben
Sasse, Tony Perkins, Pres Trump, etc., etc.) desire to force pro-life measures
on States who don’t want them by federal dictate (and vice versa). Yet such fanaticism (and it needn’t be on the
life issue, either; it could just as easily be immigration, the Mueller investigation,
etc.) is exactly what the demonic Elite want so they can swoop in and put an
end to the non-stop dialectical clashes with a new totalitarian synthesis of
their own devising. Let us be content,
therefore, to do our work, as much as possible, quietly and by small degrees,
keeping in mind the parable of our Lord about the leaven and the measure of
meal (St Matthew 13:33).
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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