Where are we going, and who's hand basket is this?

I have been listening to book-on-disk The Road To Serfdom, written by Friedrich Hayek, and am concerned by the similarities between what he writes about the socialist thinkers and the ultimately totalitarian regimes of Russia, Germany, and Italy in pre-World War II, and what I see and hear going on today.
The people in charge of the US Government and economy, and European governments and economies, concern me. As does the extreme left-of-center thinking, and radical thinking in general, left or right. What I comprehend about the thinking of the extremes and radicals today is that it is similar to identical to what Hayek catalogs about the thinkers and governments of those then.

The scriptures document that people first are tempted by Pride, Lusts (for any gratification, not just sexual), Power, and Possession;

then they choose these and are disobedient to The Truth and Gospel and the Commandments of God;

they move into unbelief of the Truth and Gospel and Commandments to the point of rejection of the same, setting up other beliefs in their place;

they set up and engage in false traditions based on the replacement beliefs;

they turn to idolatry and other abominable practices, building up secret combinations that promote their pride, lusts, power, and possessions;

this leads to the destruction of their degraded civilization.


Today, the extremes and radicals are seeking for the 4-combo as ends, and cloak this under the shroud of 'social justice' and 'collective salvation'.

They reject the established '-ism's' that had previously done their best to teach the people the truth, gospel and commandments of God, and base this rejection on among other things, the idea that these '-ism's' are corrupted, incomplete, and stifling to the human spirit.

They teach this rejection to their children, and teach as many other people's children as they can, understanding the ideas about knowledge and perceptions and reality. Control the information a person receives, you control their perception of reality.

They set their own power structures up and work to bind all men to their structures, and to stamp out all competitors. Especially the competitor of other churches. For those who have not had the experience of the existence and love of God in their lives, this binding is comparatively easy and even embraced; for those who have, this binding is actively fought against, choosing the liberty of God over the bonds of men.

The power structure becomes a religion unto itself, in competition with the truth and church of God, and engages in a war against its competitor, to the destruction of society.

So who wants to destroy things and people, and who wants to build them up in righteousness?