Watching minds fail.

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Has anyone else had a favored star, politician, or such who starts out in the right step and ends up in the lock-step of the left? That has been on my mind lately. From Supreme Court appointees to congressmen, even up to the president (not current, he has always been a left-bot). It could be a writer, a diplomat, someone in law, or a screen star. It seems as wealth, power, fame, or any mix of that arrives on otherwise seemingly right minded people's doorstep, their grasp upon reality leaves them, or a new one takes hold. I have been pondering this of late. It is not all of them, but the numbers do not favor the good.

I can plainly see that some of them had dirty little secrets that, as they became famous, became exposed. Rather than denouncing these things, they decided to run with them. That might be due to a sort of blackmail as a stick, and allowances by the left as a carrot (say, homosexuality, drug use, even pedophilia). Once these people have been battered (by the left, the right simply drops them), they turn to the very people who abuse them for being conservative and queer who allow them then to be queer and "liberal". Once there, they can never turn away or they will be all alone (unless they give up on their sinfulness, which many will not do once they taste the putrid meat of their ill desires). These are fragile people, held in place by their vices, their weakness, and their new masters.

The other side is those who have a change of mind all on their own. People who become fantastically rich, famous, or powerful become quite selfish. They do not want to share what they have (come on, if you are worth half a billion or more, $10,000 to Haiti does not even cut into your pedicure fund). And more, they do not want more people attaining their status, as it would reduce, ever so slightly, their standing. They learn quickly that promising money from the working class to the poor (populism), enacting laws which preclude others from climbing their ladder (slash and burn corporatism), and other such options helps maintain their status. In part, though, it is a bit of self hate. They know their money has corrupted them, and they do not want more corruption. Like the gun hater who knows he or she should not have a gun because they themselves are too evil and immature to own such items, the rich then transfer their corruptibility onto others.

Like Gollum, they cannot give up the 'ring'. They would struggle, hunt, go through horrendous privations, and kill to keep their 'precious'. And no other, if they can force it, would have access. They know to whom the 'ring' belongs. They know what it has done to them. They know all this and yet wisdom does not live where intelligence does. One is knowing, one is doing, and they cannot "do". Some of them are obvious, either drugs rule their lives and they must have access. Others have an affinity with sex with children. Some of their lusts are better hidden though. The 'ring' that binds, however, is always there. It shows through in their lock-step faux populism (all populism, actually, is a lie... for example, no country can offer good medical care through the "public option", public option is just another word for medical genocide, which in short order will become politically motivated and directed medical genocide).

Actually, these people are the ones, the very people who would despise the notion in their evil fortresses of hate, who need prayers like few others. Not respect, not praise, not glory, but prayer. They hold onto things which they cannot take with them when they die, or often even while they live, which are worthless in the end. They curse those who know, including themselves and their peers, but more their betters. They decry the very systems which could help cure them and bring them back to sanity and true relationships. Like few others, the evil know what is good and eschew it for a shame so deep even they at their peaks can not ignore it.

Yes, it has been on my mind. Writing about it will alleviate the headache it causes. Maybe, somewhere, somehow, this will reach just one of them. It will touch just one in such as manner as to help them begin listening to the call to true righteousness. It does not mean that they have to give up their wealth or fame or power... someone really must be in their shoes, it is a calling, a gift, and a certainty... only that they become the master of it and begin acting as true leaders and citizens rather than as retched spoiled children trying to keep everyone else away from their toys or hang onto their corruption as a right of what might seem to them as their other gains.

Christ did say that for a rich man to get to heaven he would be similar to the camel going through the eye of the needle. He also indicated, on this same topic, that what is impossible for a man is possible through God. So, rather than just point out the flaw, here too I have written the answer. Or, more, remembered the answer and written the truth. If you are in that trap, go find God, or die with less than what you were born with. As with God, I think, it does... and does not... matter to me. But it will matter to you.

Maybe that headache will pass now that I have this knot out of my head! Blessings and good night!