Clamoring for a champion – revisiting ancient Israel's mistake

This past year of presidential jockeying is a tableau painted by an electorate feeling so violated that it has cried out for a champion. The desperation encouraged statesmen and women to enter the contest, but was also an invitation to anyone with a penchant for publicity and power. Motivation behind both the call and some who responded to it should be cause for concern, and how we arrived at this point in history is the question that requires hard answers. Years of reversing our educational system from admiring America’s founding to disparaging it, has reaped a harvest of younger voters (those 40 and under) who have been trained to yearn after any governmental organization other than our compound constitutional republic. Oddly, the seeming opposites of self-denigration and self-aggrandizement underlie the transformation. Many educators are groomed to loathe the Founders as elitists, who were actually the oppressed, and elevate themselves as advocates for those they consider oppressed – an elitist attitude. Paradox made simple, and explains the draw to other ‘isms.