“Coming together” in America is a nice thought, but without it resulting in “intelligent” actions, it will be little more than holding hands on the deck of the Titanic … which is better than dying in bloodshed. So what is “intelligence” generally and what is it now for us?

Will Rogers said intelligence BEGINS with this: “When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” In other words, STOP the dumb things we have been doing. As I see it, too many Americans are in a hole … and, for starters, that hole is economic. Even if we are lucky enough to have a job or two or even a business, our wages and earnings fail to make ends meet … especially if the kids are home due to lockdowns. Mortgage, rent, tax and other debt moratoriums plus repeated stimulus payments promise to delay collapse and seem like the ONLY intelligent thing to do.

 But, as harsh as it sounds, MORE HELP that makes us MORE DEPENDENT on WASHINGTON will only produce MORE SUFFERING. WASHINGTON is the hole we dug … and it is now a swamp full of the disease and destruction that is killing us. It is never too late to stop digging … even if doing so will not save us. We must BEGIN to act intelligently as Will Rogers reminded us … even though it hurts.

Those who openly speak out against WASHINGTON will be branded by the elites and their mouthpieces as traitors and seditionists. It is doublespeak deception as BIG BROTHER culls those who oppose its grasp on power. So how do you fight an enemy that is depositing stolen and laundered money in your bank account? Guns and violence are of no use against such cruel wickedness. What can we do?

Reject their money … do it for your kids and grandkids … for the working poor of the world who wonder about America. Don’t spend it on more stuff like they want you to do. Don’t give them the hyper-inflation they want to lighten the burden of their monstrous and perverted debts while increasing the burden on your neighbors. Give it to a charity or an organization that honestly supports those who are nearer the bottom of the pit than you are. Let it find its way into empty stomachs and broken hearts rather than further filling the already overflowing accounts of the corporations and banks who exploit us through their pimps masquerading as our representatives in WASHINGTON.

Help save the republics of Wichita, Kansas, America and the world which are made up of us all working and living together … keeping our promises to each other … locally and globally … across town and across borders … caring for one another … and ridding ourselves of those parasites. Break their power over us which is based on our willingness to be deceived by pleasure . . . to receive stolen goods and laundered money from them in return for our consent and promise to keep digging.

Granted, this action may not seem intelligent, but we must BEGIN somewhere. And we may just be surprised at how good it makes us feel … and at how powerful an antidote it will quickly become to the poison WASHINGTON would have us continue to swallow in ever larger doses.

For two-thirds of my 68 years I have believed that in some fantastic manner unknown to us, God created the heavens and earth – and, most importantly, man (male and female).  He made them “in His image,” that is, he made them to rule, to have dominion (cf. His first chapter; the interpretation is clear).  From this foundational principle, I can deduce that man (male and female) -- as a function of their very being/ “makeup”/essence/created-ness – can enter easily into competition, ownership disputes, and multiple factious behaviors, which explains so much of what I see and have seen all around me – and certainly within!

The unfolding of this grand competition (many vying for dominion), that God has, in part, DNA’d from the beginning, has been as beautiful as it has been ugly: the wondrous creativity, inventiveness, and systems building juxtaposed with destruction, loss and carnage; the love and kindness, but also the hate and meanness.  The resolution?  The God of mysteries provisions His Spirit (“wind” or “breath” in the Hebrew and Greek; i.e., Something not easily brought into our dominion, nor possible for us to rule over). That Spirit brings us the character and virtue necessary to rule for the good of others.  We will always seek dominion; otherwise, we would not be human beings. But, who couldn’t use a greater measure of gentleness and self-control – two of the fruits that God seeks to grow in those whom He rules?