Graham Platner, Democrat candidate for
U.S. Senator from Maine, wears a Nazi tattoo, is an avowed communist and
socialist and has been accused by various women of sexual and physical abuse.
He slandered a purple heart recipient with the f___ word, saying that he did
not deserve to live. His language is crude and abusive and a former girlfriend
said he talked of raping women to dominate them.
What is even more troubling than Platner’s words and actions is that the Democrat Party has embraced him. Instead of distancing themselves from his Nazi tattoo and hateful and bigoted rhetoric, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer and other Democrats have given him their full support.
Senator Elizabeth
Warren even called Platner, “My kind of man.” Although she claimed she made the assertion in regards to a statement he made about the economy being rigged because no bankers went to jail after the 2008 crash, she was well aware of the Nazi tattoo and other troubling revelations concerning him.
America’s founders
must be turning in their graves for they believed “virtue” to be a
necessary characteristic of a free people. Virtue may be defined as “moral
excellence” and America’s founders agreed that only a virtuous people could
maintain political and civil freedom. Without virtue, liberty will be turned
into licentiousness and freedom into anarchy.
For example, John
Dickinson, founding father and chairman of the committee that produced the
Articles of Confederation, warned that “when states lose their liberty, this
calamity is generally owing to a decay of virtue.” Two weeks before signing the Declaration of Independence, John
Adams made the same point in a letter to his cousin, Zabdiel Adams. Adams
exhorted him,
Statesmen,
my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and
Morality alone, which can establish the
principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free
Constitution is pure Virtue (Hyatt, America’s Reawakening, 213).
James Madison was
in complete agreement and wrote, “To suppose that any form of government will
secure liberty or happiness without any virtue is a chimerical idea.” A “chimerical
idea” is a “pipedream” or “fantasy” with little or no chance of ever occurring.
In other words, without virtue no political party or ideology can bring happiness
and stability to a nation.
In his Farewell
Address after serving two terms as the nation’s first president, George
Washington exhorted Americans to cling to “religion and morality,” which he
called “indispensable supports” for a stable and happy nation. Washington went
on to warn against the supposition that morality or virtue could ever prevail
apart from Christian principle (Hyatt, America’s Reawakening, 183).
Although the
widespread support for Platner is disheartening and reflective of the deep
moral rot in our culture, there are encouraging signs all around. President
Donald Trump recently said, “Religion is coming back to America and I am glad.”
Indeed, in recent months Bible sales have surged, and church attendance has
increased, especially among the youth and younger adults. According to the
pollster and sociologist, George Barna,
Millennials
and Gen Z are driving a resurgence in church attendance. As reports emerge of
spiritual interest, rising faith, signs of revival—including [our] analysis of
the recent rise in commitments to Jesus—churchgoing frequency is another
improving trend among Millennials and Gen Z in the U.S.
These reports of
spiritual awakening are encouraging and offer hope of a national return to the
moral principles on which our nation was founded. Such spiritual and moral
awakenings are necessary if our Constitutional freedoms are to be preserved for
the next generation. President John Adams made this clear in a 1798 speech in
which he said,
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other (Hyatt, America’s Reawakening, 49).
As it presently stands, that leaves out Graham Platner, much of the Democrat Party and some Republicans as well.
This
article was derived from Dr. Eddie Hyatt’s latest book, America’s Reawakening,
available from Amazon and his website at http://eddiehyatt.com.
