The Temptation To Use The Ring Against The Enemy

I feel like Sauron’s ring is the Democratic Party and everyone is screaming that it can be used as a force for good against the enemy. And I am left to say “It sounds like wisdom but for the warning in my heart.” The vast majority are crying out for it to be used, and it is only the very wise who point out that it will inevitably corrupt anyone who attempts to use it. Isildur Obama, Gollum Clinton, even the white wizard Bernie Saruman, have succumbed to its power.

Though they call it madness, I feel our only option is to march into the very heart of Mordor in order to destroy the ring. Some say that if the ring is destroyed it will give Sauron unrestrained power. But others believe Sauron requires the ring to retain his strength, that all he has built up has been with the assistance of the ring and that if the ring is destroyed his power will be undone.

I do not know what the end result will be. But I have seen the corrupting influence it has had on anyone who has possessed it or desired it, people like Boromir Biden. They consort with unsavory characters and are involved in secretive dealings with goblin men. I see that in the last twenty years nothing good has been created by it. And I see that in the end it only serves the will of the master. Whatever good intentions held by those who possess it, it never works against Sauron. Quite frankly, I do believe there are some weapons so evil that they should never be used, even in the direst of situations.

I have seen it warp the minds of many good people. I hear them talk about the lesser evil, but there is no lesser evil. Evil is evil. Such reasoning seems to derive from the councils of the Dark Lord himself. Justifying evil as being lesser is merely the slow slide into becoming a full-fledged servant of the Dark Tower. The right way is seldom the easy way. Let us recall the words of Faramir: “I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”