(I began publishing my monthly newsletter The Bob Livingston Letter™ in 1969. The following is an excerpt from the January 1997 issue. At the time, the U.S. was coming off an election that saw Democratic President Bill Clinton be re-elected and the Republican Party hold both houses of Congress. Voters thought then, as voters have thought for years, that one or the other political party held the high ground on preserving life, liberty and property for the people. Now in 2016, Americans are finally awakening to the fact that the two-party system is a fraud, despite warnings from me here and others in alternative media for many years before and since. That awakening is turning into a rout of the political establishment, though it has only so far begun to manifest itself in the Republican primary polling. But the awakening is not yet complete, as evidenced by the leaders of the GOP beauty contest, at least according to polling data.)
“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8.
By definition, double mindedness is the mental state of believing or attempting to believe two opposing thoughts at the same time.
This simple and brief teaching of James 1:8 on the double minded man is one of the most profound in scripture. The teaching is limited to this one sentence. There is no description or revelation as to what exactly a double minded man is, but describes him as unstable. The above definition of double mindedness is our definition.
The scriptural charge of being unstable is of serious importance. The American Heritage Dictionary defines unstable as fickle and lacking control of one’s emotions, characterized by unpredictable behavior.
We believe that double mindedness is a recognizable psychological phenomenon and that it is used to neutralize human thought and action. It is very subtle because it almost defies description. Herein lies its power to deceive and control human emotions.
There is both collective and individual double mindedness. Most all politicians are aware of this phenomenon and use it to deceive the electorate.
An example of collective double mindedness is the national elections just past. Every American who voted would tell you, if asked, that he/she believed in life, liberty and property. Yet they voted for a political cabal that is progressively undermining basic liberty and transferring property to the state without payment. The only reason that people could be seduced into destroying their own liberty is because over time, they have unknowingly adopted the morality of the state. Their double-mindedness has numbed their senses so that they do not know that political oratory is an appeal for sanction of their own plunder. The electorate never knew the issues and none were ever stated.
The individual or group is double minded when clinging to a philosophy that denies and is contradictory to reality, regardless of its name or label. Political parties were never intended to be different in substance, only in name and oratory. Before we third and fourth party devotees agree with smugness, the same applies to all political parties. A rose under any name is a rose.
No, there is no difference. Our hope is based on illusion and illusion on double-mindedness. The great deception goes on.
The double minded man forever seeks liberty under party labels. There are two illusions here. The first is that political parties appear different simply because they have different names. The second great illusion is that political parties lead to political freedom. The opposite is true. Collective plunder does not lead to human liberty, but to human conformity. When Americans had freedom, there were no political parties.
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