馬克思主義接管美國的策略8—美國遺產概要63　

我們持續談到馬克思主義45個目標的第30個目標，其宣稱要用這些目標把美國帶入他們的綑綁之下。

馬克思主義目標#30: 質疑美國的開國父老，將他們刻劃為不關心「普通人」的自私貴族。

美國開國父老與在他們之前或之後的革命家很不一樣，沒有錯，他們多半是殖民地上最富有、最成功的人。在歷史上，由如此富有和成功的人來帶領革命相當罕見。這也是為何美國獨立革命被視為唯一真正成功的革命，也成為世上維持最長久的共和政體根基。

我們的開國父老不應為此受到質疑，反而要對他們致謝，他們是一群為革命損失最多的人，為著他們同胞的自由和提升冒盡一切危險。有人喪失生命，有人喪盡財產，好讓他們的同胞能自由。就其本身而論，如果他們真的是貴族，可能也是歷史上最值得尊榮的貴族。

美國開國父老像所有人一樣會犯錯，他們對待所有人「生而平等」，卻沒有包括奴隸，這應當受到責備。應當提醒的是，即使是最好的人也可能有巨大盲點並與邪惡同謀，歷史上和現今幾乎所有重要人物都是如此。在聖經或歷史上我們只能找到一個毫無犯錯的人，我們若能做得更好，不是因為我們比較好，而是我們從他人的錯誤學習，才擁有做得比較好的恩典。為自己好過別人而驕傲，無疑是掉入更大邪惡的有效途徑，正如聖經向我們所確定的：「神阻擋驕傲的人，賜恩給謙卑的人」（彼得前書5:5）。

神的恩典也取決於遵從祂所賜下唯一帶著誡命的應許─「當照耶和華─你神所吩咐的孝敬父母，使你得福，並使你的日子在耶和華─你神所賜你的地上得以長久」（申命記5:16）。我們若想要萬事如意和長命百歲，我們必須遵守此誡命。自從我們允許對我們開國父母無情攻擊，美國能事事如意嗎？顯然，我們若不盡快回到此誡命，我們作為共和國的壽命將很快被縮短。

我們也應留意，那些攻擊開國父老容許奴隸的偽君子，正在宣揚馬克思主義，其是世界從所未有最糟糕的奴隸形式。

就算我們的開國父老有缺點，也可以在每個國家創始人身上找到，我們仍可以說，在人類歷史上，從來沒有像美國開國父老擁有如此優秀的團隊，還有無以倫比的知識和智慧。從沒有如此的菁英團體願意這樣挺身而出，冒著如此大的危險為要捍衛他們同胞的自由。從來沒有任何國家創始人如此大膽挑戰世上最強大的帝國，其擁有世上最強大的陸軍和海軍。美國開國父老連軍隊都沒有就革命了，他們當時只有民兵，連一艘軍艦也沒有。然後，跌破全世界的眼鏡，他們竟然獲勝了。

他們一起努力建立一個致力於平民權利和個體自由的憲法和政府，沒有一處優先考慮到可以使多數開國父老受益的富人或強人。

憲法是如此睿智，受到全世界的公認，可能是除了聖經以外對人有益的最睿智文獻。藉著憲法的睿智釋放了如此穩定的政府，也協助釋放幾乎各個知識領域的進步，這是地上未曾見過的。有據可查的是，在憲法批准後的短短200年，人類所成就的大躍進遠超過之前的五千多年。

美國睿智的建國文獻在應用上卻沒有如文獻般出色，但它是朝著最終要求這種應用的正確方向邁出一步。憲法也為著未來需要的改變提供史無前例的英明程序，以致於憲法是朝著異象完全的應用穩定進展。只要我們繼續遵守憲法，這種進展會一直持續下去，唯有我們無視憲法時才會減慢或腐敗。

馬克思主義目標 #31: 貶低各種形式的美國文化，不鼓勵教導美國歷史，理由是那不過是「大圖畫」的微小部分。

在這方面，馬克思主義者瞭解到或許他們最大的成功，就是敗壞並削弱我們國家的年輕人。他們詆毀和摧毀的策略現在已形成所謂的「取消文化」，操縱弱者和無知者成為聖經所說一個國家可能跌落的終極墮落：稱惡為善，稱善為惡，侮辱尊貴的，尊榮卑鄙的。

就像馬克思主義建立的一切謊言，他們現在有許多天真無知的美國人，對自己文化和歷史的相信與事實相反。在列國中，美國擁有最傑出、最光榮的歷史，與修正歷史學家現在為我們學校教科書所制訂的歷史完全相反。真實的「大圖畫」是美國幾乎在每個方面，都協助將全世界帶到更高境界。 

正如俗語說：「任何驢子都可以踢掉穀倉，但需要熟練的木匠才能建造。」馬克思主義只會拆毀和摧毀，在其管轄過的每個國家歷史中早已得到證實。美國對世界所建造的實體與利益，超過在它之前的任何國家。我們離完美還很遠，卻遠比今日修正歷史學家教導我們孩子的好得太多。

馬克思主義目標#32: 支持任何由中央控制文化各層面的社會主義運動，包括教育、社會機構、福利計劃和心理健康診所等。 

馬克思在此目標上也相當成功，正如現在幾乎所有美國文化都由聯邦政府中央控制。這代表美國文化現在基本上是由「深層政府」的官僚所控制，其根基是左派分子和馬克思主義者，我們可以看見為何現在的聯邦政府支持如此多反美傾向和政治了。 

「深層政府」是由聯邦政府裡面大約三百萬個官僚所組成，他們有權透過法規對美國進行微觀管理，而現今的國會卻沒有這樣的權力。深層政府的權力是由我們的最高法院所給予，這與憲法賦予由官僚寫成具有法律權力的法規直接衝突。憲法清楚提到，只有國會才可以制定法律。 

隨著這些違憲法律更多闖入，甚至控制著我們生活上的小事，我們必須瞭解這些法律不僅是由非民選官僚寫成，更沒有任何檢查標準與制衡手段，其為我們憲法限制濫權的基礎。因著我們最高法院此一難以理解的決定，我們幾乎每天都在失去作為一個國家的自由和力量。

邱吉爾預知當政府變成巨大官僚時，會成為我們自由和文明本身的最大威脅，而此預言現在已經應驗了。

～摘錄英國作家─艾倫·狄波頓（Alain de Botton）～

當什麼都沒做的恐懼最終戰勝怕做不好的恐慌，工作就開始了。 

～摘錄英國作家─米恩（A.A. Milne）～

三流思想只有在與眾人一起思考時才會快樂，二流思想只有在與少數一起思考時才會快樂。一流思想只有在思考的時候才會快樂。 

 (摘自喬納Heritage Briefs 63, 2021)

 

The Marxist Strategy for Taking Over America , Part 8— Heritage Brief 63 

  We continue covering the 45 Goals Marxists declared for bringing America under their bondage with Goal #30. 

MARXIST GOAL #30: Discredit the American Founding Fathers as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for “the common man.”

         The American Founding Fathers were unlike any revolutionaries before or after them. It is true that they were composed of the wealthiest and most successful people in the colonies, and for such wealthy and successful men to lead a revolution is unique in history. This is also a reason why the American Revolution is considered the only truly successful one, and the foundation for the world’s longest lasting Republic. 

         Our Founders should not be discredited for this, but instead acknowledged as the ones who had the most to lose by leading a revolution, risking everything for liberty and the elevation of all of their fellow citizens. Some gave their lives and some gave their fortunes so that their fellow citizens could be free. As such they were perhaps the most honorable of any aristocracy in history, if indeed that is what they were. 

         The American Founding Fathers had flaws like all men. Their treating all men as “created equal,” except the slaves, is and should be a reproach. It should be a reminder that even the best can have huge blind spots and collude with evil. This is true with almost all of the important persons in history and the present. We can find only one person in Scripture or history that did not make mistakes, and often terrible ones. We should resolve to learn from their mistakes to do better. If we are able to do better it is not because we are better, but we are given the grace to do better by learning from other’s mistakes. To have the pride that we are better is a sure way to fall to a worse evil, as we are assured in Scripture that “God resists the proud, but gives His grace to the humble” (I Peter 5:5 NKJV).

         God’s grace is also dependent on obeying the only commandment He gave with a promise—“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you” (Deuteronomy 5:16). If we want things to go well and have longevity, we must obey this. How well has it been going for America since we allowed this relentless assault on our Founding Fathers and Mothers? What could be more dishonoring to them? It seems obvious that if we do not turn back from this soon our longevity as a Republic will soon be cut short. 

         We should also note the hypocrisy that those who attack the Founders for tolerating slavery are promoting Marxism, the worst form of slavery the world has ever known. 

         Even with the flaws in our Founders, which can be found in every nation’s founders, it could be argued that never in human history has such a remarkable group gathered together with the level of knowledge and wisdom like American Founders had. Never had such an elite group ever stood up to risk so much for freedom and the defense of their fellow citizens. Find any other founders of a nation that so boldly challenged the most powerful empire in the world, with the most powerful army and navy in the world. They did this while not even having an army, but just a militia, and not even a single warship. Then, to the astonishment of the whole world, they prevailed.

         They worked together to establish a Constitution and a government devoted to the rights and individual liberty of the common man, and not in a single place gave preference to the wealthy, or the powerful, which could have benefited most of them. 

         The Constitution is so brilliant that it was acknowledged around the world as perhaps the most brilliant document ever penned for the benefit of man with the exception of Scripture. By its brilliance to release such stability in government, it helped to release advancement in virtually every field of knowledge as had never been seen on the earth before. It has been well documented that in just the two hundred years after the Constitution was ratified that a greater advancement of mankind was accomplished than in the previous five thousand plus years.

         The application of the brilliance of the American founding documents was not as brilliant as their writing, but it was a step in the right direction to ultimately require this application. It also provided an unprecedentedly wise procedure to continue the needed change so that there has been steady progress toward a full application of the vision. This progress has continued as long as we have continued to adhere to the Constitution, and has only slowed or been corrupted as we have ignored the Constitution.

MARXIST GOAL #31: Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.”

         In this the Marxists have realized perhaps even their greatest success in corrupting and weakening the youth of our nation. Their strategy to denigrate and destroy has now matured into what is called “the cancel culture” that has manipulated the weak and ignorant into what Scripture says is an ultimate depravity a nation can fall to: calling the good evil, and the evil good, honoring the dishonorable, while dishonoring the honorable. 

         Like all of the lies that Marxism is built on, what they now have many naïve and ignorant Americans believing about their own culture and history is the opposite of the truth. America has one of the most remarkable and honorable histories of any nation, and very much the opposite of what the revisionist historians have now placed in textbooks for our schools. The true “big picture” is that America has helped to carry the entire world much higher than it has ever been in virtually every way.

         As the saying goes, “Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a skillful carpenter to build one.” Marxism only tears down and destroys, which has been proven by its history in every country that has been subjected to it. Americans have built more of substance and benefit to the world than any nation before it. We have been far from perfect, but it is far better than what is being taught to our children today by the revisionist historians.

MARXIST GOAL #32: Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

         In this, too, the Marxists have been successful. As we now have virtually all of American culture being centrally controlled by the federal government, which means that it is now fundamentally controlled by a “deep state” bureaucracy that is fundamentally leftist and Marxist, we can see why the federal government now supports so many anti-American trends and policies. 

         The “deep state” is composed of an estimated three-million bureaucrats in the federal government who have been given the power to micro-manage America through regulations than it could be argued Congress now has. That was given to the bureaucrats by our Supreme Court, which in direct conflict with the Constitution gave regulations written by bureaucrats the power of law. The Constitution is clear that only Congress can make laws. 

         As these unconstitutional laws have become increasingly intrusive in controlling even small details of our lives, we must understand that they are not only being written by unelected bureaucrats, but with no checks and balances that was a basis in our Constitution for restraining unbridled abuses of power. We are almost daily losing our freedom and our strength as a nation because of this one incomprehensible decision by our Supreme Court. 

         Winston Churchill foresaw governments that became giant bureaucracies as the greatest threat to our liberty and to civilization itself. This prophecy is now being fulfilled.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly. – Alain de Botton

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. – A.A. Milne