a diary of america's descent into dictatorship

A DIARY OF AMERICA’S DESCENT INTO DICTATORSHIP
SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025
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While we know more about the character and personal life of Jeremiah than any other Hebrew prophet whose words are recorded in the Hebrew Bible, we cannot always be sure of the chronology of his words and actions as found in the Book that bears his name. So, we cannot be sure when exactly he decided to become mute and stop preaching.
 
“Then I said, ‘I will not make mention of him,
nor speak any more in his name.’”
 
We do not know how long his mutism lasted. But we do know that it came to an end.
 
“But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire
shut up in my bones
and I was weary with forbearing,
and I could not stay.”
 
I do not pretend to be a Jeremiah, but I can relate to his frustration with God and his passionate disgust at the behavior of his fellow citizens. I do not pretend to be a prophet, but am pained and angered by the stupefied and cowardly silence of those who claim to be prophets. As I have repeatedly written of them, in the face of the harms that the wealthy and powerful--including the beast that currently defiles America’s White House-- inflict today upon individuals and society, these modern prophets, like those of Jeremiah’s day, “heal my people’s brokenness inadequately.”
 
In the immediate aftermath of the horrific American election of 2024 when a wicked electorate coronated an irredeemably wicked sociopath as dictator, I announced that I would, like Jeremiah, go mute. I would stick my head in the sand, remain silent, and wait four years for the madness to pass--not out of fear of the beast before whose madness the whole world trembles (the same beast whose vile name I refuse to utter or write), but out of concern for my own physical and mental health. The demon sickens my stomach, frays my nerves and raises my blood pressure among other ills. It is physically exhausting and mentally taxing work to track and fight a dragon.
 
But, fight the dragon we must. Try as I might, I can’t quench the fire in my bones any more than could Jeremiah so many millennia ago.
 
I apologize to the present and future generations for my four-month silence. I can only remind them that I had for the previous eight years been passionately warning through the “foolishness of preaching” about the irredeemable wickedness of the man whose name I refuse to utter or write, and the danger he posed to all that is good and right and holy. As I have written, there are innumerable and irrefutable proofs that he is guilty of having broken nearly every single one of the Ten commandments (and, perhaps, every single one of them), that he does not possess a single virtue extolled by Paul and recommended in the LDS 13th Article of Faith, or possess a single fruit of God’s Holy Spirit. 
 
The misanthropic sociopath and liar extraordinaire possesses not one single virtue or even the tiniest piece of any single virtue. He is utterly devoid of goodness. He is, as I have called him before, a black whole. He possesses no light, no truth, no goodness, no virtue in himself and sucks light and truth and goodness and virtue out of everyone and everything that comes within his orbit.
 
So count me as back in the game, tracking and reporting on the rapacious beast that pollutes America with his bottomless wickedness, defiles all that is good and right with his irredeemable wickedness, and blasphemes all that is godly with his blasphemous lies.
 
Every day brings some new transgression of decency, some new breach of established norms. Nay, not “some new,” but many new transgressions and breaches. One hundred days has seen a deluge of many, many hundreds of them. Each one deserves the illumination of a huge spot light. We will see what we can do in the deluge. But, one indecent transgression over arches the rest and deserves special attention.
 
American Presidents don’t “rule.” They may govern, but they do not “rule.” They do not “rule” America, and they most certainly do not “rule” the world.  Indeed, not only does America reject one man “rule,” it rejects the idea of “ruling” entirely. Not only do individuals not “rule” in America, collections of individuals do not “rule” in America. “Ruling” is not the language of America, its constitution, or its institutions.
 
Yet, reflective of his Satan-like lust for power, this is precisely what the vile man who currently sits in the American White House, polluting it with his very presence, recently declared: “I rule America and I rule the world.”
 
This is not semantics: rule or govern, govern or rule. However ignorant and mad the most wicked man to ever hold public office in America might be, he doesn’t joke around. His choice of words is purposeful and reflective of his nature and intentions. He means what he says. He intends to be a ruler. He intends to be a dictator. He is certainly acting like one. And, unfortunately, like the ancient Roman Senate at the end of the republic and like Germany’s Reichstag of the 1930s, America’s House of Representatives and Senate are too cowardly or corrupt to fulfill the role assigned to them by the constitution to act as a check and balance against the antichrist’s maniacal power grab. And, as I have complained over and over again, those who want to be prophets are delinquently, unforgivably, and accountably mute in the face of his bottomless wickedness.
 
But each day the sociopath defiling America looks and acts more and more like that proverbial “iniquitous king” who “has his friends in iniquity, and keepeth his guards about him; and he teareth up the laws of those who have reigned… before him; and he trampleth under his feet the commandments of God; and he enacteth laws, and sendeth them forth among his people, yea, laws after the manner of his own wickedness; and whosoever doth not obey his laws he causeth to be destroyed.” 
 
He must not be allow to “rule.” Not here. Not anywhere. The budding dictatorship that he expands by the day must be stopped. Crushed. Destroyed. We have already witnessed enough of his wickedness to be sickened. We have witnessed “how much iniquity… one wicked king cause[s] to be committed.” Hopefully we will not, like those before us, have to find out how very, very difficult, often violent, it is to “dethrone an iniquitous king.”
 
Wake up, America, from your slumber; from the sleep of hell. Its time for its senators, its congressmen, and those who be be prophets to stand up and do their duty, a duty they owe to America, a duty they owe to the world, a duty they owe of God.
 
And to God, we say,
 
“LORD! How Long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked triumph?
 
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!