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How to avoid treacherous governments?
Peter Kopa, Prague, October 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvybNDcBg8
The underlying issue
Above, Hanson summarizes President Trump’s 55-minute speech, which relates to our topic of how to avoid treacherous governments.
This problem requires getting to the heart of the matter, which is man before good or evil. When a person of low moral character manages to climb to the heights of political power, an intense process of moral choice is triggered in his conscience. If that person does not have firm ethical principles, anchored in faith, he will fall into the temptation to take advantage of his position in a selfish way, turning his back on the electorate that has placed its trust and tax money in him.
This is the origin not only of bad governments, with a tendency toward tyranny, but also of social upheavals and wars, taking millions of lives, destroying families, and sowing all kinds of material and spiritual misery. The vast majority of wars in human history have been the result of the desire for power and domination, causing horrific bloodshed. And the worst thing is when this vice of hunger for power uses ideological pretexts, as was the case with the Russian Revolution and Nazism. And we are currently seeing variations of the same thing in today’s wars and in countries controlled by the gangsterism of drug traffickers.
The Davos 2030 Agenda is yet another variation on the quest for world domination, which has now been made possible by digital technology. Thus, globalists have concocted a whole menu of Marxist-style ideologies in order to justify the corruption of governments and thus achieve the enactment of WOKE laws favorable to the LGBT movement. We saw how this usurpation of power works in the COVID-19 pandemic. https://thinktanklatam.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pexels-tiohugo-16146279-1024×683.jpg
Why without God there can be no good government
The problem of betrayal by those in power cannot be solved by structural and legal measures, such as the tripartite division of power at the legislative, executive, and judicial levels in a state governed by the rule of law: this is only the skeleton that must be brought to life by people, who put muscle and heart into the bones. The fundamental solution, the only consistent and lasting one, is for the country to have a high culture, either Christian or another that defends the same values, and an effective interest in monitoring government management based on the constitution. This would reduce the likelihood of poor choices in government and, at the same time, poor government management.
Neither the state nor the government has the know-how and capacity to educate the people in the faith; this is the task of the Church. And this work requires centuries, such as the five centuries of the resurgence of the Roman Empire, thanks to Christian evangelization: https://thinktanklatam.org/trump-defensor-de-la-fe/. Similarly, the historical process of rationalism, alien and even contrary to the Christian faith, took centuries, giving rise to Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and others. They reconfigured the democracy conceived in Greece, opposing it to monarchy by proclaiming the dogma of active and passive political rights for all, without considering the necessary suitability for the election of rulers.
Rousseau, ignoring Christian teaching on original sin, proclaimed that all men are good, and that only society makes them selfish and evil. This naivety had an important influence on laws and education from the 18th century onwards, which precisely explains why any citizen—even if he is ignorant or even a bandit—can be democratically promoted to the highest levels of political power.
Why the low profile of those in power?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9NAvyJcp1I
Daniel Levin tells us: “Everything is just a big circus or the mistakes of the powerful.” For more than 25 years, this US lawyer has been recognized worldwide as a consultant for political reform. He works for the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance in Liechtenstein and is the author of best-selling books on the subject in the US.
Levin argues that politics is a lamentable show of conceited people, charlatans, narrow-minded and selfish individuals who can pose a serious threat to the well-being of the people. At the same time, the vast majority of people with high moral and professional standards unfortunately do not pursue a political career, perhaps because they do not want to identify with a world they despise as dirty.
Good leaders have always been in the minority, both historically and today. Some good examples from the last century include Adenauer and Helmut Schmidt in Germany, Kennedy and Reagan in the US, Charles De Gaulle in France, etc. For a leader to be good, it is enough that they do not steal and sincerely want to promote the common good.
The big question is how and why so many incompetent people, whose lack of character is obvious, come to assume important political positions without further ado. Levin does not give us a completely satisfactory answer when he tells us that they cling to a group ideology or ride the crest of some political wave capable of catapulting them into positions of power. And for this, we turn to the great lever of the democratic mechanism, which, as we know, is very manageable, both with money and through inter-party strategies and triangulations.
How to select good leaders?
As for how to vote for the best politicians according to their professional competence, shouldn’t we achieve a level of preparation similar to that of an architect, a doctor, etc.? It is interesting to consider that, in all countries, the law regulates those professions whose practice exposes citizens to risk, requiring higher education and officially defined technical and scientific training, which then allows the practice of medicine, architecture, law, etc. In addition, citizens who request such professional services also rely on the recommendation of a trusted third party.
However, access to political office requires only being elected. No prior study or training is required, due to the dogmatic prejudice that every citizen has the ‘sacrosanct’ right to active and passive political participation. Winston Churchill once said that it is best to elect wealthy political leaders, because they would be less inclined to steal from citizens due to the stain it would leave on themselves and their families. In other words, they would have a lot to lose, unlike those who have no wealth, nobility, or honor.
As long as citizens do not have a Christian culture, it would be necessary for the constitution and the law to set conditions that must be met by those who aspire to the highest political offices. Specifically, certain universities could offer this specific preparation, both for their own country and for others. In this sense, an initiative in Spain could be very favorable for Spanish-American countries and, at the same time, could be a unifying factor, contributing to the creation of a fifth pole of power on a par with the four great world powers: the US, Russia, China, and India.