Volume 11, Issue 3
The affair forced American society to confront its most deeply held values, not just on the definition of right and wrong, but on the acceptable tolerance of errant behavior. Expedience and convenience ruled the process. Political interest allowed for the ultimate decision on violation of core values binding the nation to escape without conclusion.
The Clinton-Lewinsky opprobrium is not simply the abuse of power by a man in a position of authority over a 22-year-old intern. It is the historic benchmark of principle and reason being overridden by political interest.
Why did this egregious action generate such a spiritual divide in America? Because Bill Clinton was not only a man, he was the President. The power of who controlled the Presidency was at stake. The Constitutional authority of the three branches of government was threatened. Political mandates rejected all common-sense arguments of right and wrong in deference to ideological agendas.
Political parties became tribal entities.
Democrats supported President Clinton because he was in agreement with their governmental philosophies. It didn’t matter what was right or wrong. In other words, party ideology represented tribal purity. The purpose of the tribe was paramount to moral objective.
One could argue that this has led to the state of tribal politics that America finds itself in today. No matter what former President Trump or President Biden do, it doesn’t matter. Defending the chieftain to protect the tribe’s pursuit of power is all that is important.
1998 marks a point in history wherein America’s bonds of morality were eclipsed by political greed. We are still paying for this breach of principle today.
In terms of societal evolution, tribalism is natural. Before there were city-states, there were tribes governed by chieftains. Internally, chiefs structured protocol to pass authority on to lineal heirs. As tribes encountered other tribes, the purity of bloodlines defining identity of culture became critical. War was imperative to the chiefs to maintain superiority of their ruling family’s hierarchy. The people’s interest of peaceful coexistence was seldom if ever considered. The domain of the tribe offered security to the individual even though war and conflict were concomitant with daily life.
Activists today now pursue identity politics appealing to the base instincts of tribal association. This may be based on race, creed, gender, culture, politics, religion, idealism, greed, intellectualism, racism, power, or perversion. Pursuing tribal superiority results in civil unrest. Tribal debate is not about the advancing of society, but how to secure more power for one tribe at the expense of another.
In America today, leadership sought is for tribal purposes, not unity of a diverse culture.
Historically in society, chieftains and tribes evolved into city-states, kingdoms, and ultimately nation-states. Preservation of national interest and the pursuit of power resulted in regional dominance, geopolitical conflicts, the seizing of lesser states’ natural resources, and colonialism. The authority of bloodlines increased in effect to defend national priorities. The sacrifice of the people to serve the elites in the name of cultural purity became the worship of a national, nihilistic, false god.
The United States of America declared independence in 1776 to deliver future generations unchained from government perversion in purpose. It was not just that one’s state of birth was never again to determine one’s destiny. It was that there was no purity of a bloodline maintaining superior culture. America was a nation of immigrants blended into the commonality of the one bloodline of the collective human race.
Yes, America has struggled with her treatment of Native Americans, African Americans, other minorities, and women. Yet, America still provides the greatest hope for the authority of an individual family to pursue happiness as they see fit.
Why?
Because, the core of the founding axiom of the United States is that God is sovereign over man, and man is sovereign over government. As a nation, America has been bound in its mission by the belief that there is a higher being, pure in truth, that binds humanity. This recognition instills universal humility that no one is greater in purpose or calling than anyone else.
Thomas Jefferson may have been a deist. His religious beliefs are subject to interpretation. What’s important is that, as a leader, he did not believe in the superiority of his own intellect. There was a higher calling of which he was held accountable that governed the affairs of mankind.
George Washington warned his fledgling country against establishing political parties. He feared that such entities would act only in their own interest without consideration for the greater good of the binding mission. Beyond his fear being realized is the reality that political parties have now taken on the identity of tribal purity. The United States is in danger of coming full circle to a new order resembling the times when only tribal political power mattered, regardless of the tribal leaders’ morality.
What occurred in 1988 manifested the lack of national will to condemn President Clinton’s acts endangering the Presidency. These events were preceded by a lack of national conviction to honor God’s sovereignty over desires for temporal political power. Without allegiance to a higher calling, tribal avarice will always conflict with general common ground needs and solutions of society. Only through the recognition of God’s laws, equal in application to all in creation, and universally defended against all initiatives of selfish secularism, can the natural affinity of mankind to align in tribal identity be balanced to achieve peaceful coexistence.
God’s laws are absolute and must be respected without leniency for convenience. Mankind is learning the lesson that laws of morality can be bent. But, such arching never results in circuitous benefit. There are always direct and indirect consequences from disobeying God’s order for nations.
Tribalism thrives on the quest of a mirage dictating moral superiority, rebuking binding moral truth and God’s ordinance. Denying God denies moral truth. In the absence of moral truth, mankind defaults into narcissistic tribalism.
America’s hope for the future relies on staying true to her commission, without exception, that God is sovereign over man, and man is sovereign over government for …
Freedom and morality are God’s providence.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?