Chesterton on Pelosi

Pelosi combines in herself the classic tendency of the Leftist Nanny Statist toward moral chaos and statist hyper-control. She’s all about destroying a sane sexual ethic with her devotion to the sacrament of abortion while simultaneously substituting a gospel of a world dominated by state control over every aspect of life. The Prophet Chesterton wrote about such incoherence back in the 20s:

I remember when Mr. H. G. Wells had an alarming fit of Nominalist philosophy; and poured forth book after book to argue that everything is unique and untypical as that a man is so much an individual that he is not even a man. It is a quaint and almost comic fact, that this chaotic negation especially attracts those who are always complaining of social chaos, and who propose to replace it by the most sweeping social regulations. It is the very men who say that nothing can be classified, who say that everything must be codified. Thus Mr. Bernard Shaw said that the only golden rule is that there is no golden rule. He prefers an iron rule; as in Russia.

It’s no accident that Pelosi feels such empathy for those Chinese masters of the philosophy that “every aspect of our lives must be subjected to inventory.” When you reject, as she has, the gospel of freedom in Christ, you necessarily embrace a law of slavery.

“Once abolish the God, and government becomes the god.” – G.K. Chesterton