What is the real conspiracy...

I've read stories and seen videos of people convinced martial law is eminent in the USA and there are FEMA imprisonment camps just waiting for UN military forces to fill with non-conformists rebelling from the implantation of the upcoming “New World Order”.  As a student of the Bible, I am very aware of the apocalyptic description of the end of the “end times”, and the similarities of the claims of the present day prognosticators of doom.  For the most part, I have assumed the “Infowars” type conspiracy guys were well meaning, but a little nuts, and while history is following the cycle it does, just as it has many times before in strong cultures like ours, I had hoped this cycle would be like Hitler, and have a relatively short shelf life, and in a generation or so get back on track. 

But in recent years of not understanding what has happened to the country I love, with much hand ringing and thought, I have come to believe this country is coming to a point that may make it very unlikely to return to the life style that has been afforded my generation as well as the previous ones.  I will never concede defeat, but being pragmatic, I must admit the likelihood of this present culture that refuses embrace the kind of restraint and economic discipline that would be required to return our nation to a state of operation like we have enjoyed in previous years, leaves a slim hope.  Our leaders of late, both Democrat and Republican have not produced leader that doesn't kick the can a little further down the road.

 I realize there are many like-minded people that feel similarly, and also watch seemingly helplessly, as the country we grew up loving, erodes into a land of apathy, low participation, and low information as each generation progresses, at least in terms of the how’s and why’s our country has become the most desirable place on earth for people to immigrate to.

We sit at home (at least I do…) listening and watching the news media as delivered to us in the main forms and outlets on the radio, TV, print, and on the internet, and form our picture of the world beyond us and how our leaders are running our government and interacting with the rest of the world.  The usual  “news” suspects being the network and cable news services and the newspapers that have mostly all gone to the web.  The word “conspiracy” has become notorious as “kooky” or far-fetched, and is used in conjunction with views not aligned with these news stories associated with the main stream media.  Everybody has their “pet” news source, and is comfortable with the delivery of the information they receive from them, even sympathetic to it.  Most information outlets have become very biased in their delivery of the news stories they share.  The people on the right, say the left leaning news organizations are “biased, and vice versa. 

This is my opinion, but I have come to the idea that we as citizens of this great nation can really know very little in actuality of the accurate events and the goings on outside our areas of travel on our own.  I also can imagine that if there were a great force wanting to change our nation’s position of strength, they most certainly wouldn't want to confront us head on, so how would they do it?  How has it been done before?   Looking at relatively recent (in the last couple of hundred years…) historical evidence, one can point to Nazi Germany, Red China, and the USSR, to name a few that have had such radical change in their countries.  I believe, propaganda, and the control of information dissemination is the foothold tyrannical movements have had in common in creating the climate to transform a country or culture to a completely different way of life.  Unfortunately, the other tell-tale ingredient has been slowed, or absent economic activity in those very same cultures as the change was brought to bear.  I find it very ironic in thinking in those terms to watch as our country has under gone and maintained a stifled, and stagnant economic state, like has never been seen  since the 1930’s, with leaders that do nothing to abate the condition.  In fact, in speaking of those wonderful news sources we have here in the states, our leaders are spending money at a break-neck pace with no sign of slowing.  So much so, our dollar is becoming worthless and our Federal Reserve is printing money and charging 0% interest to our government in order to facilitate the continued spending spree and rest of the world is tiring of American dollars that are becoming less and less valuable.

Meanwhile, we, in our conditioned state, are not only entertaining the idea but, repeating that one political group that has drawn a line in the sand are “extreme” for making a stand to stop the insanity.  I use the word “insanity” heavily as the idea of the amount of debt our country is amassing is rapidly coming to a head, that will not end well, unless…

This is where the conspiracy ideology sometimes makes so much sense to me it is scary.  What if our country has been slated by whomever the evil globalists are to be drastically reduced in economic power, and standing in the world, and the need created to not only be governed by a central world government, but be bank rolled by one too? 

As I have become disillusioned by the political parties of today, I have begun to distrust the Republicans as well as the Democrats.  Being pragmatic, I have of late tried to imagine the motivation in modern politics, as I cannot use the same standard for either party as I did before and have turned to my conspiratorial friends to draw upon now.

I wish I had an epiphany, to share for those of you whom have stayed the course reading this long-winded rant, but all I am going to leave you with is my even stronger conviction that God’s Word is more dependable than I  have the ability to understand, and that the world we live in today is filled with deception, so much so, I am losing my will to argue politics as it seems moot, since it is probably all a production to deceive us into a mental wild goose chase of emotion and division.  So if we don’t have sound information being delivered to us what are we to believe?  I have adopted a quote from a Jewish leader of many, many years ago, giving an ultimatum to his people saying: “if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”  In the case of the United States one might well replace “the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites” with the revisionism of our country’s history taught today, or the idea that a collective government of the future is the answer to man’s dilemma.