{"id":1640332,"date":"2022-09-13T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640332"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:07:22","slug":"just-the-truth-no-more-fake-politics-by-theodore-roosevelt-malloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-the-truth-no-more-fake-politics-by-theodore-roosevelt-malloch\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Truth: No More Fake Politics \u2013 By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjust-the-truth-no-more-fake-politics-by-theodore-roosevelt-malloch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640332&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2748406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2748406\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2748406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-578546876-e1663102423483-655x437-1.jpg\" alt=\"CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party&#039;s nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-578546876-e1663102423483-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-578546876-e1663102423483-768x513-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-578546876-e1663102423483.jpg 800w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2748406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Theodore R. Malloch, Guest Commentator<\/p>\n<p>1:46 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, September 13, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Every Christmas in churches around the country we read\u00a0<i>Isaiah<\/i>, chapter 53, and prepare for the coming of the savior, the \u201cbabe in a manger.\u201d In case you forgot, that passage contains a vivid prophecy on the atonement. The Hebrew prophets taught that the coming messiah would be despised and rejected, smitten and afflicted; that he would carry our sorrows and would be wounded for our transgressions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Donald J. Trump is definitely\u00a0<i>not<\/i>\u00a0Christ. He is\u00a0<i>not<\/i>\u00a0part of any ancient biblical prophecy, nor is he a god, in any sense of the word. He never said he was. He is a fallible human being and a political leader of some courage and bravery. He may still have a \u201csecond coming\u201d politically, (as did Grover Cleveland, serving two non-consecutive terms), but he certainly has in the last six years suffered the plight that Isaiah foretold.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Because he is a truth-teller.\u00a0 Recently,\u00a0he thanked me\u00a0for an article I penned in this publication about \u201cTrump\u2019s Haters.\u201d Surely there are any number of those types and the term designated for what most of them demonstrably suffer is:\u00a0<i>Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/i>. The Left, RINOs and neocons have the most to fear and lose from Trump. They truly loathe him for a reason and it can often be quite personal.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to put them all in the ash heap of history, to do away with their ideology, and remove them from what they most cherish: political power.<\/p>\n<p>This would end the deep state, curtail the three lettered agencies, limit and reduce government and taxes, use entrepreneurship to rebuild our economy and military prowess, and overall, deconstruct the administrative state. It would put an end to globalist Professor Klaus Schwab\u2019s\u00a0<i>Great Reset<\/i>\u00a0and to dictator Joe Biden\u2019s war on half of all Americans\u2014we deplorables, \u201cultras,\u201d and the people who work for a living and love both America and God.<\/p>\n<p>Trump became famous for calling out the truth and his new social media outlet,\u00a0Truth Social, is about the very same thing.\u00a0Truth Social calls itself \u201cAmerica\u2019s \u2018Big Tent\u2019 social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.\u201d That is threatening to the establishment, and especially to Meta, Google, and Twitter, not to exclude all of the mainstream media and other posers.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the truth is difficult in a culture beset by relativism, moral degradation and the politicization by woke, racialist Marxists, of nearly everything. Historically, the truth revolved around\u00a0four factors that together determine the truthfulness of any theory or explanation:\u00a0<i>congruence, consistency, coherence, and usefulness<\/i>. As logicians regularly explain, a true theory or statement is congruent with our experience\u2014meaning, it fits the objective facts.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump named the prevailing media, science, and universities as fake and indoctrinating, he was onto something and a large part of the public responded. They knew he was seeing reality and correct in his condemnation. They liked his confrontation with these perceived public enemies.<\/p>\n<p>It is now time, and Trump fully realizes this, to call our politics, and especially our present day political parties, fake, as well. They are in fact nothing short of a uniparty, mere election machines, embodying the ruling elite\u2014an oligopoly of self-interested and special interest favoring\u2014dupes. You can\u2019t trust them any further than you can throw a proverbial stone. They all want to get rich, keep their sinecures as incumbents forever, and proudly lord it over us. And sadly, with only a few MAGA exceptions, Democrats and Republicans are precisely the same and feed from the same trough. At the very least we need term limits to curtail the harm they do.<\/p>\n<p>After this November we can hope there will be more truth seeking members of the House of Representatives and Senate but will there be enough to defeat the fakers, the uniparty?<\/p>\n<p>Will Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) step up to his role as speaker of the House? Doubtful. Will Mitch McConnell be replaced? Perhaps but it is urgently necessary. We need, and Trump needs to endorse, Senator Rick Scott now, and loudly, for that post. With McConnell in power, we are all doomed. His Chinese payments alone should disqualify him. And how do we limit or remove the 20-odd RINO senators in a party that is now run for and by Trump? How do we transform the RNC itself, which is no better? We need to figure that out. Electing Blake Masters, Adam Laxalt, Herschel Walker, Ted Budd, Dr. Oz, Joe O\u2019Dea, and J. D. Vance will help some, as will a\u00a0Commitment to America\u00a0platform that\u00a0<i>both<\/i>\u00a0chambers endorse. But again, McConnell hesitates.<\/p>\n<p>Until we tell the truth and change course, face it, not all that much will change. Until we defend our Constitution and the institutions it spawned\u2014laws, family, economy and foreign policy will not change. Until we excise the fake dubious Republicans we will be stuck in place.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think there is much hope for the now radically socialist Democratic Party but perhaps there could on occasion be a whiff of bipartisanship and a uniting around the American dream and our record over centuries of past success. Am I altogether wrong and deluded? Likely.<\/p>\n<p>In the Gospel of\u00a0<i>John<\/i>,\u00a0we read these words: \u201cSo Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him,\u00a0if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,\u00a0and you will\u00a0know the truth, and the truth\u00a0will set you free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the present American state of affairs, we need to refocus our attention on the\u00a0<i>truth.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here are six indisputable truths, based in fact about where we are at the moment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">We have no borders, and therefore no security. We are admitting 2 million illegal immigrants a year, thanks to Biden\u2019s policies.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Drugs are killing us with more than 100,000 fentanyl deaths this year alone, with no Biden response.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">We are in a recession with a 40-year-high inflation rate and Biden denies it, printing yet more money.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Violent crime has dramatically increased in our cities to an all-time, dangerousness with Biden supporting criminals not their victims.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">America has lost its status in the world after the debacle and withdrawal in Afghanistan, constant weakness to our enemy, the Communist Chinese, and the total failure of the Biden team.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">We have lost energy independence to our peril, thanks to Biden\u2019s bad choices and Green New Deal idiocy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden has succeeded in uniting the country\u2014in dissatisfaction. It is a season of profound discontent. According to recent polls,\u00a0it is no wonder that the electorate has reached a staggering level of dissatisfaction, not only with this president and his party, but with the government as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>We sorely need an end to fake politics and the uniparty and demand more truth telling if we are to witness the return of greatness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ted Roosevelt Malloch is CEO of Roosevelt Global Fiduciary LLC. He served as Research Professor for the Spiritual Capital Initiative at Yale University, Senior Fellow Said Business School, Oxford University and Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business School where he co-led the Director\u2019s Forum.\u00a0\u00a0His most recent books\u00a0concern the nature of virtuous enterprise, the practices of practical wisdom and \u201cvirtuous business,\u201d\u00a0the pursuit of happiness, the virtue of generosity and the virtue of thrift.\u00a0 His latest book is Common Sense Business, co-authored with Whitney MacMillan, former Chairman and CEO of Cargill, the world\u2019s largest privately held company. He has served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum (DAVOS); has held\u00a0an ambassadorial level position at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland; worked in the US State Department and Senate; did capital markets at Salomon Brothers on Wall Street, and has sat on a number of corporate, mutual fund, and not-for-profit boards. He was very active in the Trump campaign of 2016. Ted earned his Ph.D. in international political economy from the University of Toronto and\u00a0took his B.A. from Gordon College and an M.Litt. from the University of Aberdeen on a St. Andrews Fellowship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>(Views expressed by guest commentators may not reflect the views of OAN or its affiliates.)<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) Theodore R. 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