欧洲历史令人绝望地证明天主教国家也无法长期维持民主（中英文版）

欧洲天主教国家独裁者的上台之路，难道不就是这样的吗？从慢慢破坏选举规则开始，进而操纵选举，最后通过武装人员暴力控制选举，当希特勒的党卫军手拿冲锋枪，五步一哨，十步一岗时，你除了选希特勒，还敢选谁？所以我对美国的未来没有半点的信心，失去了温斯罗普上帝山巅之城的第一要素，美国的立国之本——兄弟之爱，美国同样越来越堕落，越来越走在产生独裁者的老路上。如今的美国社会共和党、民主党之间已经完全没有了兄弟之爱，民主选举已经成为一场战争，一场你死我活的利益之争。从早期的美国总统竞选中我们可以看到，虽然各方也互相攻击，但气氛是平和、文明的。可今天已经完全不一样，代表基督教保守势力的共和党，与代表反宗教信仰、鼓吹无条件平等的民主党之间，泾渭分明、判若鸿沟，社会已经严重撕裂，选战中硝烟弥漫、恶语相向，甚至破口大骂。二年前，希拉里与川普的总统选战中这些现象最为明显，希拉里攻击川普猥亵和侮辱女性，而川普针锋相对，他说，比起自己侮辱女性的言论，希拉里老公比尔•克林顿伤害的女性就太多了，而希拉里则“企图欺骗美国”，连自己老公都满足不了，还想满足整个美国。川普当选总统后，民主党仍然穷追猛打，民主党议员叫嚣鼓动人们暗杀川普，新闻主持人手拿着川普血淋淋的头颅雕像，喜剧明星在集会上公开嘲笑他，而川普总统同样也毫不客气，睚眦必报，他同样什么词都用上了，“垃圾，愚蠢，骗子”等等。当然我不是说生活中人与人之间，必须永远温文尔雅、彬彬有礼，不能说不能互相指责批评，但是至少不应该这样恶毒、赤裸裸、毫无顾忌。而从几天前美国的中期选举来看，情况就更不容乐观了，民主党在这次中期选举中多次造假，使用伪造选票、非选民投票，甚至使用已经死亡选民的身份投票，这样发展下去，必然有一天会发展到赂选、贿选、暴力控制投票等更严重的败坏选举行为。并且由于知识分子天然的反宗教信仰倾向，民主党与美国媒体天然一体，沆瀣一气，这些美国媒体为了自身的利益罔顾事实、良心，完全失去了新闻公平公正原则，更不要说兄弟之爱，一边倒地谴责辱骂川普，他们信奉戈培尔的谎言重复千遍就是真理，非要把敢于与号称无冕之王的媒体对抗的川普，赶下台，这已经完全不是一个有着兄弟之爱传统的社会，应有的现象。而共和党同样有着一般民众胆小怕事、不惹是生非的致命缺陷，得过且过，不敢抗争，如此长此以往必然使整个社会，由造假、坑蒙拐骗、使用暴力、信奉谎言的人所控制，那么在这种环境下产生领导人，这样逆淘汰出来的领导人，品德、素质可想而知，于是社会就逐渐退化为世俗社会，抛弃人人平等，逐渐相信人有高低贵贱之分，相信自己是一位英明、伟大的舵手，因为失去了信仰，失去了上帝，这是很自然的想法，于是整个社会就很自然地走向了独裁。不要以为我这是信口胡说，美国一些社会学家已经在考虑选票的权重，也就是说影响力越大的人，他的选票可以抵上几千甚至几万张选票，这表明美国已经在慢慢抛弃人人平等、逐渐堕落的过程了。所以我个人并不看好美国的前景，美国已经离上帝，兄弟之爱太远了，今天的美国已经无人提及兄弟之爱，甚至大多数政治家可能都不知道，温斯罗普这篇建造山巅之城的布道文，早已将兄弟之爱这个山巅之城的基石，忘得干干净净，可离开了兄弟之爱，离开这个基石，山巅之城总有一天会倒塌，美国也总有一天会分崩离析。

民主选举从来不可能用来解决信仰、价值观之争，也不是世俗社会解决赤裸裸利益之争的方法，它只是相信上帝之下人人平等、充满着兄弟之爱的社会里，兄弟之间协商解决问题的一种方式，离开这个前提，根本就不可能有真正的民主选举。人类历史上从来没有出现过两种宗教信仰各占人口一半，却能够融洽地长期存在的国家，信仰、价值观之争只能通过战争，或者国家分裂为几个独立国家来解决，根本不可能通过民主选举的方式。例如，从来没有出现过一个一半基督教人口，一半伊斯兰教人口的国家。同时就是由于这些原因，印度与巴基斯坦分裂为两个国家，南联盟分裂为几个小国家，南联盟的例子最为明显，因为它分裂出的国家就是以宗教信仰来划分。而在中国古代的世俗社会里，赤裸裸的利益之争，同样不可能通过民主选举来解决，因为谁也不相信对方，谁也不会接受不利于自己的选举结果，唯一解决的方式就是武力、战争，这也是古代中国从来只有通过战争形成大一统，而不可能以和平方式形成联邦的原因。

Isn’t it the way the dictator of European Catholic countries came to power? At first, they slowly destroyed the election rules, then manipulated the election, and finally controlled the election by armed forces. When Hitler’s SS held the charge gun, five steps, one whistle, ten steps, one post, who dared to elect anyone else except Hitler? Therefore I have no bit of confidence in the future of the United States because today, America has lost the love of brothers, the foundation of America, the first stone of God’s city on the hill founded by Winthrop. The United States is more and more depravity and more and more on the old road to dictatorship. Now, there is no brotherly love between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The democratic election has become a war and a life-and-death struggle for each other. From the early presidential election, we can see that although all parties also attacked each other, the mood of the election was peaceful and civilized. But today, it is totally different. The Republicans represented the Christian and Conservative; the Democrats represented anti-Christians advocating unconditional equality. There is an apparent and giant chasm between them; society has been torn apart. The election campaign was permeated with the blowing smoke of gunpowder, suffused with acrimony, vicious words, and even curses. Two years ago, the election war between Hilary and Trump was filled with hatred and malice. Hilary attacked Trump for his harassing and insulting women. Trump struck back that compared to what Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, had done to many women, he had done nothing with women at all. Trump also hit back that Hilary tried to deceive the United States all the time; she was even dissatisfied with her husband; how could she satisfy the entire United States? Moreover, after Trump was elected president, the Democrats still went on the fight. Democratic lawmakers incited people to assassinate Trump; News anchors held Trump’s bloody head statue, and Comedians publicly mocked him at the rally. Trump was vindictive and vengeful too. He took revenge with such words to democrats, “garbage, stupid, cheater,” etc.

Of course, I don’t mean that people must always remain gentle and polite in all life and people cannot criticize each other, but at least they should not be so malicious, naked, and reckless. But from the mid-term elections in the United States a few days ago, the environment had been even worse. The Democratic Party had committed many election frauds, using fake votes, votes of non-voters, and even the dead’s identity. If this continues, it will inevitably develop into more severe election fraud such as election bribery, election violence, and so on. The Democratic Party also evilly colludes with the main media; due to the natural anti-religious tendency of intellectuals, the Democrats and the main media are naturally integrated; they are tarred with the same brush. The main media lost fair and just principles for their own interests, not to mention they had lost the brotherly love long ago. They condemned Trump overwhelmingly and believed Goebbels’s “A lie repeated a thousand times is true.” They wish to oust Trump, who dared to confront the “king without a crown.” It is a society without brotherly love. The Republican also has the fatal defects of ordinary people, who are timid and overcautious, muddle along, and dare not to fight. And if things go on like this, the whole society will be controlled by the people who do false, cheat, use violence, and believe in lies. We can imagine the morality and quality of those leaders sinking in this environment. Society gradually degenerated into a secular society, abandoned equality for all, and slowly believed that people have high and low. Those leaders believed they were wise and great helmspersons, the steerer of a new society. Because of the loss of faith, god, this is very natural thinking. Therefore, the whole society naturally went into a dictatorship. Don’t think I’m just talking nonsense. Some sociologists in the United States are already considering the weight of votes. That is, of the more influential people, one vote can weigh thousands of others’. It shows that the United States has slowly abandoned equality for all and gradually degenerated. So I personally don’t take an optimistic view about the future of America. America is far away from God and brotherly love. No one in America today mentions brotherly love. Even most politicians may not know that Winthrop’s sermon “building a city on a hill.” All Americans have long forgotten brotherly love, the country’s ground, the cornerstone of the city on the hill. All that has been forgotten totally, wholly. But leaving away the love of brothers, Without this cornerstone, God’s city on a hill will break down one day; the United States must fall apart one day.

Democratic elections can never be used to resolve the conflict of faith and values, nor is it a way for secular society to solve the dispute of vital interests. Democratic elections only solve the problem by consultation and negotiation among brothers in a society full of brotherly love; everyone in this society is like a brother and believes in equality for all under God. Without this premise, there can be no real democratic election. There has never been a country in human history where two religions account for half of the population and can remain in harmony for a long time. The conflict between faiths and values can only be resolved through war or be divided into several independent countries. It is impossible to resolve this conflict through democratic elections at all. For example, there has never been a country with half Christian and half Muslim. It is why India split into two countries(India and Pakistan), and the South Union was divided into several small countries. The most obvious example is the South Union divided into several countries by various religions. In a secular society like ancient China, the dispute of huge interests could not be solved through democratic elections because no one trusted the others, and no one would accept an election result unfavorable to him. The only way to solve this problem was through force and war. This is also the reason why ancient China could only shape a country through wars, and it was impossible to form a union peacefully.