Op-ed: The Separation of Wealth and State

The Separation of Wealth and State:

“The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil…”

A lot of people have praised the proclaimed re-separation of church and state since the general consensus after the last American administration held that faith should decidedly remain as far outside of the political spectrum as possible. I tend to agree; faith has little to no place in politics, though I adhere to this maxim for a different reason. While most would argue that the two don’t adequately mix, like oil and water per se, I liken their mixture more to that of adding lead to gold. And it’s not the politics I value. Adding politics to faith merely cheapens faith. If you believe something to be true, it’s independent of a majority vote, as former President Bush might tell you. Of course, things have changed since Bush’s consecutive terms. Faith’s reputation has been tarnished by the policies of government despite the fact that nothing of faith has changed. Nevertheless, professing adherents of faith are on the decline, being faced with the imminent ridicule of being labeled zealots, extremists, terrorists, or right-wing extremists as a consequence for confessing a belief in something that extends beyond sensual experiences.
However, in recent light, it has come, or should have come, to the collective attention span of the world populace that there are equal, if not greater, threats to private liberty than those of a strictly religious nature, even if the subject at hand is not too far removed.
It is high time that a discussion concerning the separation of wealth and state be instituted for the betterment of all humanity, hopefully before the economic powers that be send all of civilization into a spiral of destruction that will doubtlessly lead to desolation of far more than the ever-changing world we have known the past hundred years. Of course, such apocalyptic revelations often send people reluctantly clinging to the elements of faith they so quickly disregard when trials deem such profitable, but there’s that idea again, profit, wreaking havoc on my argument.
Even the former disestablishment of theocratic government had its roots in the abolishing of and redistribution of wealth and power out of the greedy vice grip of the few and into the shared responsibility of the laymen, and eventually laywomen, and perhaps one day into the outstretched hands of all humanity, but until then, distributed nonetheless to those who’ve suffered through to obtain the right of suffrage, but to what end?
Without the means to reside peacefully in a nation, free of the constant fear of sudden fiscal failure, or circumstantial material ruin, what matters disenfranchisement?
Conspiracy theories abound concerning the oligarchy of the finance elite, out to rule and enslave all the world through the power of the dwindling dollars and sense of the masses, and whether the theories are true or not, it remains the onus of the individual to rise above their own dependency on currencies and focus instead on what remains of value in society while it yet exists to cherish as more than a memory.
Much of the so-called developed nations of the world have utilized a perceived “right to owe” which has resulted in the impending crises of late with more to come.
You can argue all you want for or against certain policies, on either side of the aisle in congress, plotted wherever you wish on the bipartisan line, or if you are lucky enough to live where an axis exists, place yourself anywhere among the quadrants, it matters not so long as all of the area exists as a game-board for the uber-rich.
That I struggle to place my piece on the cross is my own concern. That I continually look for things more valuable than money in life is my own endeavor, for better or worse, one that I think may prove viable. I invite others to do likewise; to better inform myself, and one another, on the finer aspects of how to live this temporal life free.