Most politicians are gutless wimps. That’s why they are basically useless—no, harmful—to a society. They go whichever way the wind blows, follow the path of least resistance, do the currently expedient thing that will save their backsides and cause them the least strain, and rarely—RARELY—have the intestinal fortitude to do the virtuous, moral, right thing. It is the reason why no dynasty or civilization lasts very long. Politicians destroy it.
Like politicians are destroying America right now.
Mike Johnson is a perfect example of this. He has betrayed the Republican Party and gives every indication that he intends to continue doing so. And the Republican Party, full of gutless wimps like him, aren’t going to do anything about it. He is, basically, handing over power to the utterly evil Democrats in the House because he hasn’t got the courage, and probably the wisdom, to stand firm for America and his party. The wind blows to the left and Johnson lets it push him that way. Because he is a spineless, gutless politician, useless—no harmful—to the Republican Party and the American people.
I am reminded of Pontius Pilate—another gutless, useless politician. When the Jewish leaders wanted to crucify Jesus, Pilate, rather than standing firm and defending an innocent man, caved like the craven coward he was, and symbolically “washed his hands” of the matter. He could have said “NO!” He SHOULD have said “NO!” But he was a politician, and it was easier to give in, to do the immediately expedient thing, and let an innocent man die. He refused to stand and do the right thing against evil people. This kind of story could be told countless times through history.
America’s college campuses are full of administrators like that, aren’t they.
Mike Johnson obviously isn’t the first such politician, and he just as obviously isn’t the only one in the Republican Party, and he won’t be the last. Our Founding Fathers understood the trappings of power, and that it took GREAT men to exercise it wisely, frugally, and to the benefit of humanity. That is why they struggled so mightily to ensure that the federal government’s powers were minimal. The kinds of people needed in positions of power are few, very few, and far between. Can we name even one such person in Washington, D.C. today?
Mike Johnson isn’t one of them.