“...of the people, by the people, for the people.” ... We can do better.
- David Lane
- Mar 17
- 4 min read
What the paganized Left and its lackey press last weekend promoted as a spontaneous ‘No Kings’ demonstration in big cities and small towns across the nation was nothing of the sort.1 The slick production was financed, organized, staffed, amplified, and deployed by the forces occupying the Democratic Party’s far-Left ecosystem: Big Labor, the abortion industry, race hustlers, Marxist turnout specialists, and the so-called ‘civil-liberties’ wheeler-dealers.
Particularly galling was the revelation that Planned Parenthood helped underwrite this charade, especially since its 2023-2024 annual report shows that the high-geared killing machine received roughly $792.2 million in government reimbursements and grants.2
Put even more plainly, over the last decade alone, the blood-soaked sacrament of child sacrifice has consumed at least $6.2 billion in hard-earned American tax dollars. That is not stewardship. It is Congress’s moral abdication draped in the respectable language of appropriations law.
All the while, lawmakers hide behind reimbursement formulas, grant categories, and bureaucratic euphemisms, but such carnal camouflage cannot conceal the truth: America sacrifices her children at the altar of Molech, the ancient Canaanite idol associated in Scripture with children being offered in the fire, as seen in Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 20:2-5, 2 Kings 23:10, and Jeremiah 32:35.
Which brings us to Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865] and his defense of government “of the people, by the people, for the people” - the principle that government must remain accountable to the people, for the farther power drifts from them, the easier it becomes for rulers to evade accountability.
Add to that Winston Churchill’s [1874-1965] sober assessment that “Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time,” and one is led naturally to the conclusion later voiced by former Democratic Senate Majority Leader and President Lyndon B. Johnson [1908-1973], a man renowned for immense political skill and control: “Government is best that is closest to the people.”
Thankfully, Gideons and Rahabs have begun entering America’s public square; men and women schooled at Wisdom’s table and submitted to His authority. For, as Solomon wrote, “The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” Dr. Bruce K. Waltke observed that the wise, those worthy of a place at Wisdom’s table, begin their educability by submitting themselves to the highest Authority, the Lord.
Prominent Jewish Hebrew scholar Michael V. Fox notes that Lady Folly is no recluse. She, too, seeks the public square and appears in many of the same places as those formed by Wisdom, for “they are often in proximity, proposing alternative choices in many circumstances.”
In Proverbs 11:9, Solomon affirms that “through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.” On this point, Dr. Fox explains, “The proverb does not say that God intervenes to deliver the righteous miraculously, but that they are protected by ‘knowledge’ [da‘at], which is to say, their wisdom. The proverb assumes that the righteous, being wise, have the mental resources to get themselves out of trouble.”
But when the fool inquires about the purchase price of Wisdom, Proverbs 17:16 answers with a rebuke. As Fox observes: “That wisdom could be purchased somewhere is the fool’s notion, and it might be just silly. Job 28:15-19 says that wisdom cannot be bought - not because it is so expensive, but because no valuables can be compared to it. Wisdom belongs to a different category of value and hence cannot be acquired in this fashion.”
Which brings us back to Evangelical and Pro-life Catholic Christians - in sum, American Christendom - who will not recover self-government through one election or one man, but through the long, disciplined labor of rebuilding a moral culture, restoring Biblically grounded institutions, forming serious citizens, recruiting better candidates, and showing up where power is actually exercised: school boards, city councils, county commissions, state legislatures, courts, and election administration.
Although national politics gets the cameras, the parade and the noise, it is school boards, district attorneys, county commissions, judgeships, library boards, zoning boards, and statehouse races that often shape daily life more directly. If we Christians do not field candidates of our own, we should not be shocked when others rule over us and impose their godless ‘values’ on society.
One does not recover a republic by cursing the darkness, but by raising up better men, better families, better churches, better candidates, better institutions, and better turnout. The group that most successfully teaches and forms the next generation will shape the future and ultimately rule the culture.
The side that funds its operations, captures local offices, and shows up on election day will rule. The only question is whether Christians still possess the discipline and courage to do what self-government demands.
We must not forget that politics is downstream from culture, and contemporary culture is little more than the public expression of the ruling secular religion now lording over the State and the nation.
While the hour may be late, it is not too late. If America is to be rescued from the rule of paganized elites, bureaucratic masquerade, moral inversion, and a secular religion enthroned in the public square, it will not be by spectacle, slogans, or another passing political celebrity. It will be because a remnant of Gideons and Rahabs fear God more than man, love truth more than comfort, and accept the hard duty of self-government under the authority of Heaven.
The recovery of a republic begins when a people recover the fear of Yahweh, the courage to resist folly, the wisdom to build, and the resolve to act. For in the end, somebody’s values will reign supreme in the public square.
The question for us now is whether American Christendom still possesses the conviction, endurance, and Biblical clarity to declare that it is Christ who alone must reign over this nation, rather than Molech, Caesar, the State, or the priesthood of secular progressivism.
Godspeed, He is for you: |
Gideons and Rahabs have entered the public square.
David Lane American Renewal Project
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