A Short History Lesson

The vast majority of societies that have ever existed have been composed of a small, rich elite, and a large number of subsistence farmers with virtually no one in the middle. The agriculturalists faced punishing taxation and the threats of war, disease and famine. If at any point they decided to revolt they were usually defeated by a combination of superior discipline, weaponry and troops skilled in their use. They had no electricity, or modern medicine or technology. In the words of Winston Churchill, their lives were "nasty, brutish and short."
     In 1787 fifty-five men gathered in a sweltering Philadelphia summer and hammered out a document known as the Constitution. Their purpose was to provide a central government for the then thirteen independent states which would preserve many rights for those states and for their inhabitants. While certainly not perfect the document produced was designed to have a system of checks and balances that would prevent any one individual or small group from attaining superior power over the rest of society. Coming from a Biblically oriented world view, the Founders understood the innate selfishness of man and his lust for power. Their aim was that no one could be above the law as was the case in every other society.
     In the last fifty years this purpose has been systematically thwarted and is now being shredded. The Constitution is decried as a piece of paper written by dead white men, some of whom owned slaves. It is said to have no relevance to a modern world. The inevitable result is that the US is descending into the same morass as every other society where those who have the gold; i.e. the politically connected, makes the rules. Increasingly political leaders are above the law. Those who work for them take the same attitude.
     "The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refuse to believe the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness" ( 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV)