Category: Perspectives On The Federalist Papers

Our nation is at risk. Our history and traditions, our values, our songs and stories, even our holidays have come under sustained attacks from arrogant elites and a propaganda press. They desperately aim to destroy the pillars of our national character and replace the Republic with vile coercions of totalitarianism.

Red state governors led the fight to keep their states open, their children whole, and their businesses solvent when the federal government used every trick in the book – deception, fear-mongering, prison, job loss, etc. – to keep America perpetually locked down under COVID regulations. In so doing, red states scored a historic win for freedom as they successfully reestablished the original role of states by defending the rights and liberty of their citizens.

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties. –John Jay, Founding Father and author of Federalist No. 2

With deepening polarization between “Red and Blue” crushing the fabric of our great nation, is there any wonder that a social media post about a “national divorce” in America rose to the top of the news cycle earlier this week? Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene stirred the controversy when she wrote on her social media platforms that it may be time for the two Americas, Red and Blue, to part ways. A look back at American history tells us that she is not the first to call for a national divorce, a phrase that goes down a little easier than secession.

We hear a lot of bad things about the rising generation — many spend too much time gazing at their phones, too many think communism is good, some promote hysterical claims of climate catastrophe, etc. Here’s the good news — the most thoughtful and patriotic university students among us are devoted readers of the Federalist Papers. And they’re risking a lot by doing so.

Over the last year, the Supreme Court has delivered several important decisions regarding issues directly affecting our families, communities, and country. These landmark decisions concerned areas of great public interest – abortion, Second Amendment rights, and the federal bureaucracy’s attempts to circumvent congressional authority substituting agency regulations in place of laws passed by the men and women we elect to represent us.

The electoral college has become one of the most controversial features of our political system. Because it is a mechanism for sharing power between large, typically liberal urban areas and sparsely populated parts of America that tend to be more conservative, coastal elites want to eliminate the electoral college in order to dominate our country.

Our Founding Fathers were revolutionaries, not idealistic dreamers. They knew that to introduce and maintain a system of government that had never been tried before, its principles would have to be grounded in an unsparing assessment of human nature derived from careful study of political history and scripture.

Whether it is signs of our two-tiered system of governance, vaccine and mask mandates, or the insults heaped by one half of the country on the other, we see evidence of the growing fissure dividing America. We are divided not by race, nor even strictly speaking by class.

Propaganda media, pundits, and political officials’ drumbeat of complaints about the threats to what they call “our democracy” are loathsome. It’s as if America belongs to that faction alone. In reality, those most publicly concerned about “democracy” are among the most anti-democratic people in our midst.