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In our form of government, God has raised up all of us to freely govern ourselves. From the Declaration of Independence, we learn that it is

[S]elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…

Applying Romans 13:1 to America, then…

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. (NIV translation)

Our country was established by our Founding Fathers as a constitutional republic (and not a “democracy” controlled by elites of an unconstitutional Deep State). This means that “We the People” the “governing authorities.”

Therefore, each one of us needs to take our role seriously. And as followers of this amazing God, we must become involved in what He is doing. We “make our plans” and “God will direct our steps.” (Proverbs 16:9)

Things certainly could have gone differently for Esther. After all, we are also told in Scripture that “the battle belongs to the Lord.” The Lord could have chosen to let the Jewish people suffer a terrible fate. But, the prayers and actions of this one righteous woman turned out to be “powerful and effective.”

Surely, there are no guarantees. However, perhaps with even just a remnant of faithful Christians and Jews praying—and voting and campaigning and speaking out—we might witness the outcome of a nation Lincoln envisioned:

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”

For our part, we should be sensitive to the Spirit’s guidance and make the most of this one life that God has given us, because we realize at this critical juncture in our nation’s history, “we were born for such a time as this.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/each_and_every_one_of_us_was_born_for_such_a_time_as_this.html

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5.Professional politicos, including conservative ones, develop a vested interest in perpetuating the problems they claim to be combating. Like everyone in Washington (and in state capitals, European capitals…). What they complain about regarding their favorite villains — federal bureaucrats — is equally true of themselves: they are paid to address problems, and so they have no intention of allowing those problems to go away. If your livelihood depends on solving problems, you will not be in any hurry to solve them. On the contrary, you will do anything to make sure those problems never go away, and you may look for opportunities to make them worse.

6.Many conservative professionals are lawyers who love to sue.Lawsuits depend on injuries. Rather than preventing the injuries in the first place, it is better to wait until people are injured and then select a few cases for sensational, high-profile, lucrative litigation. Cases take months or years to resolve, and even if they win, it takes more years for a decision to trickle down through the courts, if it ever does. Thus, they provide no immediate protection or relief for anyone. But they provide lots of money for lawyers.

7.Conservative groups imitate leftist ones and collude with them.This is especially true when the left is winning (like now), because conservatives envy the left’s success and power and want to share it. Their latest ploy involves bringing less extreme leftists (invariably female ones in distress) on stage to fight their battles for them, thus allowing the left to control the terms of debate.

8.Conservatives are contemptuous of ordinary Americans.Hardships inflicted by America’s crooked Judiciary, social welfare machinery, and regulatory labyrinth go unchallenged because they are under the media radar screen and often because they are perpetrated by conservatives’ own friends in the bar associations, government bureaucracies, and giant corporations.

In short, professional conservatism simply does not work. It can never work, and it can never end in anything other than defeat, because paying people to perform your civic responsibilities for you amounts to farming out your citizenship to a different group of overlords. It is like hiring mercenaries to fight your battles. Eventually, they start obeying whoever pays them more. Citizenship is like anything else: if you want it done right…

Political professionalism (“politics as a vocation,” in the words of sociologist Max Weber) was invented by the left, and it serves leftists’ interests well. It does not work for the rest of us, whose aim is to control those zealots whom Lenin exalted as “professional revolutionaries” and professional radicals. Creating a class of professional counter-revolutionaries and conservatives does not check or counteract the left; it merely expands the political class and provides the left with collaborators and infiltrators.

This is the central conundrum of democracy: we say that We the People govern, but in practice we quickly delegate our authority to paid government officials. When those officials inevitably abuse that power in flagrant ways, we then hire paid activists, who abuse their power in more subtle ways, but the result is the same. They pretend to hold the officials to account but readily collude with them.[2]

If we want a permanent political class to run our public affairs, it is better to have a monarchy-aristocracy, whose livelihood does not depend on being justified by numerous social ills and political catastrophes that they can manufacture to make themselves indispensable.[3]

Figures like Donald Trump; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; Elon Musk; and Vivek Ramaswamy can take independent positionsand address real needs because they have independent means.

But if the rest of us depend on billionaires to rescue us from the railroad tracks and our own lethargy, then the “conspiracies” will continue, and the left will continue to consolidate control.

Stephen Baskerville is professor of politics at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His most recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went "Communist” and What to Do about It, has just been published by Arktos. His other books and articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/8_reasons_why_conservatives_lose.html