Of all of the commandments, perhaps “thou shalt not covet” is the most ignored one. In America and all over Europe, people want things that do not belong to them, hence the socialist/marxist movement. Perhaps God knowing the future, He knew that those that disobeyed this important commandment will be the undoing of the world economy some day. It is a European idea to take from the wealthy and give it indirectly to the ones Karl Marx called “useful idiots”, but it has trickled here in the United States to a point of prevelance.
Before I delve too deeply in that direction, I will get to another form of covetousness here in America. America has been the greatest violater of a subsidiary of covetousness called materialism. We are the most materialistic country in the world. We want the big house. The coolest car. The hippest set of gadgets. Clothes as far as the eye could see. Result? Debt and the need to be bailed out of trouble. People don’t think they can lose their job and be swamped by their debt, or too selfish to care. It’s one thing if you can afford these things. It’s a different thing entirely if you can’t, even if you think you can. People line up to pay hundreds for the newest iPhone to replace the iPhone they just bought months ago. People buy HDTV’s like they’re collecting sports cards. I’ve read some people having five or more HDTV’s. Why? How is another question. “You didn’t think of the bathroom or kitchen, did you?” Nope, can’t say that I did. Too many people get into such debt that when they do unfortunately lose their jobs, the taxpayer gets the bill. Too many of them don’t care if the taxpayer bails them out because “hey, I pay taxes, too”. This country is in financial trouble at every front, but I guess this is the way it’s supposed to be now.
Karl Marx used the covetousness of people to get behind his movement to rob Peter to supposedly pay Paul. The covetousness of the people blinded them to a point where they didn’t care if only a slight fraction trickled to them, while the rest went to the Marxist elites. A social pyramid scheme if there ever was one. Marxism couldn’t be done in America many years ago because there was a great difference between the people in Europe and America. The immigrants from Europe fled to America to get from under the noose of overbearing regimes and didn’t want to be taken care of. They saw not only freedom in America, but opportunity. Through centuries of kings and paupers in Europe, having the mindset of having an authoritarian to take care of the populace kept most in Europe. Marx knew that all too well as did the socialist elites in Europe. Those that didn’t want that not only went to America, but became America.
The elites in America over the years have done a good job of holding the European mindset in high regard while belittling the American way in nearly every aspect in our culture. Condition the populace to accept or want socialism, then destroy the capitalist system so the people need socialism. Far too many in America forget that this country was the one people found refuge and opportunity in. Not Europe. People fled Europe to come here. People have not fled here to go to Europe. Even now. If it’s so bad here in America, the easy solution for those elitist people is to leave. They won’t because that too was meant to happen.
America will fall, and so will the world. Once that happens, sovereignty and opportunity will be a shadowy history. Out of the ashes of the collapsed world economy will rise the New World Order. A way to have global economic justice at the expense of ideas that made one country superior to the others. America is seen as the great oppressors of the world because its success causes those that don’t have it to covet them. Nevermind it was the adoption of the European philosophy of socialism that kept them in their mire. America had and the rest had not. The sinister idea of bringing America down was a European idea, and adopted by elitist Americans was to get Paul behind the idea of robbing Peter. Using our covetousness against us while again most of the money taken goes to the central authority figure, or government. The question you should all be asking is who will be the new authority figures where most of the money will go to? It hasn’t unfolded completely yet, but you’d have to be blind not to see the path ahead. Hear ye! Hear ye! Here comes the riders of the black horse and the white horse!