Coastal Common Sense July

I am fearful of the John Wilkes Booth Syndrome that now plagues our culture. The notion that any unlawful act committed in defense of a person's political narrative de jour is somehow justified as a means of "saving democracy".

John Wilkes Booth was a southern Democrat who was convinced that Republican President Abraham Lincoln was an existential threat to the existence of the slavery economy in the South under the leadership of their president Jefferson Davis. The Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln convinced Booth in his twisted mind that getting rid of Lincoln would certainly save the South.

Booth proceeded to hatch a plan whereby he and several co-conspirators would assassinate Lincoln and several other top United States government officials in a perverse plot to overthrow the North and save the South's archaic and now illegal slavery-based economy.

Booth's bullet found its target in Ford's Theatre and President Lincoln died of Booth's gunshot to the head. The damage had been done by this mentally deranged political zealot who was eager to make his mark on American history by saving the South from what he wrongly considered a dictator in the White House.

Even though we have not seen a successful Presidential assassination in many decades, the hateful save democracy rhetoric from the Left has incited two assassination attempts that we know of on Donald Trump and countless other acts of unlawful violence against their political opponents.

Supreme Court justices have been targeted in their homes by looney left wing zealots. Minnesota state representatives have been murdered recently by deranged individuals on the Left. Liberal U.S. Senators have physically attacked presidential cabinet members. From road blockades on Highway 101 in the Los Angeles riots to meaningless traffic clogging protests on the Surf City bridge; from senseless murders of CEOs on the streets of New York to burning TESLAS so leftie protesters can "have fun watching cars burn" - all in the demented, brainwashed, backwards name of saving democracy. It has become a meaningless slogan meant to rationalize unlawful violence and culturally disruptive hateful behavior.

John Adams, our second President, warned that our Republic is only good for a moral people and an amoral citizenry is subject to immediate tyranny if they don't acknowledge the rule of law given by nature's God.

This implies that a virtuous citizenry is essential for the long-term success and stability of our republican form of government. It requires public and private virtue: public virtue from our elected leaders in their civic engagement and private virtue by well-informed, individual character modeled after Christian biblical values in maintaining a free and just society.

Old blue hair leftovers from the 60's who are miserable with themselves have jumped on the hate Trump bandwagon and are taking out their destructive anger on the rest of our law-abiding country. The No Kings no minds Saturday on the Surf City bridge are unfortunately my baby boomer generation. We were handed a country built by people better than us and we've wasted it away on un-American ideology. And by electing feel good woke Democrats at all levels of government we have given tacit approval to liberal lunatics to run wild and raise hell in our cities and towns.

They are trying to fill a God sized hole in their hearts with all kinds of political, material and spiritual nonsense. Only when we put God back in our government, our schools and our kitchen tables will we eliminate what John Wilkes Booth said was his destiny. In reality, his destiny and ours is terminal tyranny without God in charge.