The America I was born into is dead
When I was a kid, school prayer was legal and abortion, pornography and gambling weren’t. There weren’t such things as school shootings–ever. Mothers didn’t murder their children. God could be mentioned in public without triggering a lawsuit. Local governments didn’t seize property under eminent domain and then grant it to their developer buddies for “the public good.” Illegal immigration wasn’t heroic; it was illegal. Crooked elections were noteworthy and mostly seen only in Chicago. And the communists trying to bring us down were in the Kremlin, not Congress.
Sometimes I feel as if I’m stuck in some alternate universe like the one in that old Star Trek episode where Spock had a beard and the Federation was evil. I always used to wonder if in that universe the Klingons were the good guys. Now I read about Putin’s Russia standing up for the traditional values of Western Civilization against Islam and militant homosexuality. A ruthless, “ex”-communist dictator seems to be the closest thing we have to heroic in this perverse reality we live in.
There’s a lot of talk about how Conservatives can reverse the rot after the next election by retaking control of the Republican Party and turning out the Progressives. But that won’t bring back the country we used to have. Even if Conservatives did wrest control of the Republican Party from the Neo-Cons, swept the elections, and then enacted every piece of dream legislation: abolishing the IRS, the EPA, the Department of Education, the Federal Reserve, and the NSA, it could all be overturned after the next election.
The problem isn’t an all-powerful government grown out of control, it’s the half of the population that voted for that in the first place.
Half the population likes the freebies they get. Half the population wants a big, powerful government to stick it to the 1%. They want a massive surveillance state to protect them from gun owners and “those crazy religious fanatics on the right that want to establish an American theocracy.” You could wave a magic legislative wand and restore America to what it was and those people would immediately dive right back in to undo everything. You’d only be one election away from having it right back like it is today.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
Now that half the population are no longer a “moral and religious people,” the constitution we used to have can’t hold Progressives back from doing what they want to do. They see it as an obstacle to “doing good”--the same kind of “good” that killed a hundred million people in the old Soviet Union and Mao’s China, and left Venezuela a poverty-stricken wasteland.
Some reformers go to the extreme of working for a constitutional convention to “restore” limited government. But this is a dangerous fantasy. Such a convention would either have to exclude representatives of half the population from participation, or risk them hijacking it. The first day they’d replace freedom of speech with “free” health care and then edit their way through the rest of the Bill of Rights. They’d give us a new constitution more suitable for the amoral and irreligious people we’ve become, something like the old Soviet constitution.
America is the way it is because the people who live in it are no longer the people who lived in it when I was a child. The small minority of leftist redistributionists back then has swollen into a horde estimated by Mitt Romney in the 2008 election as “47%.” His estimate was a little off. The redistributionist candidate in that election actually got 52% of the vote. Over half the people in this country like the way things are. If anything, they wish things were even more in the direction we’ve been going.
No amount of preaching the virtues of limited government will make any difference. They don’t believe it. They believe the very opposite. Those who stand for freedom are seen as uneducated, redneck fools full of racial hatred and homophobia, mere stooges for the evil one-percenters. In a perfect world the redistributionists would put them in mental institutions and reeducate their children into “tolerance.” And they’re working toward that perfect world.
Elections will make no difference. At best all Conservatives can hope for is to obfuscate and delay that future. We certainly can’t roll anything back, even without the obstruction of Progressive Republicans. Half the country is already against us.
As Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” He predicted our first civil war. And another one is coming. Unless one side surrenders and allows itself to be reeducated—and fat chance that’ll be the Social Justice Warriors—war is inevitable—unless our side surrenders, which they’ve made a habit of for the last two generations.
Don’t get me started about Trump and all his promises to drain the swamp he’s been supporting with political donations his entire adult life. Christ taught you could tell false prophets by looking at what they did, not what they say. “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20) Despite his Conservative talking points, Trump hasn’t actually done anything he promised. Obamacare lives, the IRS chief that harassed Conservative organizations remains, his famous wall remains theoretical, and we’re still supporting Iran and facing off against Russia in Syria. Is Obama still president?
Progressives are using their power now to ensure through IRS harassment, selective prosecutions (like Dinesh D’Souza’s) and outright fraud that they never lose an election again. America has been “fundamentally changed” and it cannot be turned back. Not through elections. Once Conservatives understand this, hot heads will be calling for revolution.
But violence isn’t going to do anything but destroy the country. Any Conservative who advocates a revolution hasn’t thought it through. That didn’t work in 1860 before drones and smart bombs and I don’t doubt Progressives would resort to nuclear weapons if necessary. Why do you think after forty years of knowing our electrical grid is vulnerable to EMP that nothing’s been done to protect it? That’s their fail-safe.
Even if you win the bloody war and they didn’t just nuke you back to the Stone Age, half the population is still against you. If you restore the old constitution, after the first free election you’ll be right back where we are today. You can’t let Progressives vote their conscience because those consciences want everything you believe in destroyed. We can’t go back.
And you can’t go forward. Establishing a dictatorial “limited” government that outlaws Progressive candidates and eliminates their free speech goes against everything we stand for. We can’t have the old America with the new people who live here now, even before they import millions of Third Worlders to permanently change the voting base. The only solution is to change their hearts. But why are their hearts in the wrong place? How did we get here in the first place?
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
Jesus commanded us to make disciples… and we did nothing. The reason the country is in the fix it is today is because our grandparents, parents and ourselves have not made Christian disciples as we were commanded. We played church and didn’t stand up for what was right. When the Progressives took prayer and the Bible out of public schools, we did nothing. We let them legalize pot, abortion and pornography. We let them debase TV shows and movies. We didn’t do what was right because it wasn’t “popular.” We let the will of the people determine things, not the will of God. And now we’re going to reap the consequences of our disobedience. We have “sown the wind, and now we shall reap the whirlwind.” (Hosea 8:1-14) That’s our nation’s future—fire and judgment. Even if civil war can be avoided, judgment is coming, just as it does for every nation that abandons God and embraces demonic socialism.
But the situation is more serious than it seems. Anyone who keeps up with current events can see we’re rapidly approaching the End of History. Marxist philosophy rules the Great Powers. America, Russia, China, the European Union—even Japan is socialist. The only serious international rivalry left is whether the New World Order will be run from Washington and Berlin or Bejing and Moscow.
We’re on the cusp of finally achieving Marx’s fabled worker’s paradise or more likely, to quote Winston Churchill, “we will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science” under a One World Government that makes the totalitarian surveillance of Big Brother in Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-four appear quaint and ineffectual.
But for those of us who aren’t left-wingers—what should we do? Neither politics nor armed revolt can give us our country back. We can’t return to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That’s plain. What do we do now? The old ways are untenable.
In the 1930s Jews could flee Nazi Germany. During the Cold War dissidents fleeing oppression could defect to the West. But today the Free World is no longer free and there’s nowhere left to go. Marxism has metastasized worldwide. You can’t run. And with the modern surveillance state, you can’t hide. Google knows all about you and the NSA has all your e-mails and phone calls.
You must choose a side. As Christ said in Matthew 12:30, “He that is not with me is against me….” Not to choose is still making a choice. And the Marxist social justice warriors that make up our Ruling Class see silence as consent. All they need to succeed is for good men to do nothing. There are only really two choices.
You can switch out your red “Make America Great Again” hat for a blue “Make Gaia Great Again” cap. Or, if you’re a believer in God in this godless Marxist world—a world that’s anti-Christ in spirit even if the personification of anti-Christ has yet to reveal himself—you need to double down. Progressives intend to erase our faith from history, and us from society. Believers need to become more resolute, tenacious, and zealous. We need to be about our Father’s business—saving others from the fire, making disciples and spreading the Word.
That’s your choice—either to jump on Evil’s coat tail, or to try and save as many as you can from the horrors to come. The End of History is upon us. Christ is either returning within our lifetime or he’s never coming back. You must choose a side.
Back in 1427 B.C. the Israelites faced a similar situation, although theirs was not quite as apocalyptic as ours currently is. As their war leader Joshua lay dying, in his final words he urged them…
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:14-15)
So choose and choose wisely.
* * *
How close are we to the End Times? Read my Jesus is Only Coming Twice. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Has Christianity lost its cultural relevance? Has the Church’s misguided efforts to market itself to non-Christians doomed it to irrelevance? Is it time for a new Reformation? Spiritual Embezzlement Made Easy https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
What does Jesus expect from his followers? How did he train his disciples? Revolutionary Discipleship https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Why do those who disagree with you politically believe the ridiculous things they do? Why don’t they see what’s so obvious? How does the Progressive Mentality differ from the Conservative Mentality? What are their origins? Their motivation? Their goals? What part does religion play in political worldviews – for BOTH sides? What does the Culture War mean for the future of the US? Read Conservatives are from Mars & Progressives are from Venus https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
In a world where sugar, cream and caffeine are illegal can one man give the people back their just desserts? Strike a blow for frosting and freedom! Read The Donuts of Doom, a whimsical steampunk fantasy e-novel Now available in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Donuts-Doom-M-...
Sometimes I feel as if I’m stuck in some alternate universe like the one in that old Star Trek episode where Spock had a beard and the Federation was evil. I always used to wonder if in that universe the Klingons were the good guys. Now I read about Putin’s Russia standing up for the traditional values of Western Civilization against Islam and militant homosexuality. A ruthless, “ex”-communist dictator seems to be the closest thing we have to heroic in this perverse reality we live in.
There’s a lot of talk about how Conservatives can reverse the rot after the next election by retaking control of the Republican Party and turning out the Progressives. But that won’t bring back the country we used to have. Even if Conservatives did wrest control of the Republican Party from the Neo-Cons, swept the elections, and then enacted every piece of dream legislation: abolishing the IRS, the EPA, the Department of Education, the Federal Reserve, and the NSA, it could all be overturned after the next election.
The problem isn’t an all-powerful government grown out of control, it’s the half of the population that voted for that in the first place.
Half the population likes the freebies they get. Half the population wants a big, powerful government to stick it to the 1%. They want a massive surveillance state to protect them from gun owners and “those crazy religious fanatics on the right that want to establish an American theocracy.” You could wave a magic legislative wand and restore America to what it was and those people would immediately dive right back in to undo everything. You’d only be one election away from having it right back like it is today.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
Now that half the population are no longer a “moral and religious people,” the constitution we used to have can’t hold Progressives back from doing what they want to do. They see it as an obstacle to “doing good”--the same kind of “good” that killed a hundred million people in the old Soviet Union and Mao’s China, and left Venezuela a poverty-stricken wasteland.
Some reformers go to the extreme of working for a constitutional convention to “restore” limited government. But this is a dangerous fantasy. Such a convention would either have to exclude representatives of half the population from participation, or risk them hijacking it. The first day they’d replace freedom of speech with “free” health care and then edit their way through the rest of the Bill of Rights. They’d give us a new constitution more suitable for the amoral and irreligious people we’ve become, something like the old Soviet constitution.
America is the way it is because the people who live in it are no longer the people who lived in it when I was a child. The small minority of leftist redistributionists back then has swollen into a horde estimated by Mitt Romney in the 2008 election as “47%.” His estimate was a little off. The redistributionist candidate in that election actually got 52% of the vote. Over half the people in this country like the way things are. If anything, they wish things were even more in the direction we’ve been going.
No amount of preaching the virtues of limited government will make any difference. They don’t believe it. They believe the very opposite. Those who stand for freedom are seen as uneducated, redneck fools full of racial hatred and homophobia, mere stooges for the evil one-percenters. In a perfect world the redistributionists would put them in mental institutions and reeducate their children into “tolerance.” And they’re working toward that perfect world.
Elections will make no difference. At best all Conservatives can hope for is to obfuscate and delay that future. We certainly can’t roll anything back, even without the obstruction of Progressive Republicans. Half the country is already against us.
As Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” He predicted our first civil war. And another one is coming. Unless one side surrenders and allows itself to be reeducated—and fat chance that’ll be the Social Justice Warriors—war is inevitable—unless our side surrenders, which they’ve made a habit of for the last two generations.
Don’t get me started about Trump and all his promises to drain the swamp he’s been supporting with political donations his entire adult life. Christ taught you could tell false prophets by looking at what they did, not what they say. “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20) Despite his Conservative talking points, Trump hasn’t actually done anything he promised. Obamacare lives, the IRS chief that harassed Conservative organizations remains, his famous wall remains theoretical, and we’re still supporting Iran and facing off against Russia in Syria. Is Obama still president?
Progressives are using their power now to ensure through IRS harassment, selective prosecutions (like Dinesh D’Souza’s) and outright fraud that they never lose an election again. America has been “fundamentally changed” and it cannot be turned back. Not through elections. Once Conservatives understand this, hot heads will be calling for revolution.
But violence isn’t going to do anything but destroy the country. Any Conservative who advocates a revolution hasn’t thought it through. That didn’t work in 1860 before drones and smart bombs and I don’t doubt Progressives would resort to nuclear weapons if necessary. Why do you think after forty years of knowing our electrical grid is vulnerable to EMP that nothing’s been done to protect it? That’s their fail-safe.
Even if you win the bloody war and they didn’t just nuke you back to the Stone Age, half the population is still against you. If you restore the old constitution, after the first free election you’ll be right back where we are today. You can’t let Progressives vote their conscience because those consciences want everything you believe in destroyed. We can’t go back.
And you can’t go forward. Establishing a dictatorial “limited” government that outlaws Progressive candidates and eliminates their free speech goes against everything we stand for. We can’t have the old America with the new people who live here now, even before they import millions of Third Worlders to permanently change the voting base. The only solution is to change their hearts. But why are their hearts in the wrong place? How did we get here in the first place?
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
Jesus commanded us to make disciples… and we did nothing. The reason the country is in the fix it is today is because our grandparents, parents and ourselves have not made Christian disciples as we were commanded. We played church and didn’t stand up for what was right. When the Progressives took prayer and the Bible out of public schools, we did nothing. We let them legalize pot, abortion and pornography. We let them debase TV shows and movies. We didn’t do what was right because it wasn’t “popular.” We let the will of the people determine things, not the will of God. And now we’re going to reap the consequences of our disobedience. We have “sown the wind, and now we shall reap the whirlwind.” (Hosea 8:1-14) That’s our nation’s future—fire and judgment. Even if civil war can be avoided, judgment is coming, just as it does for every nation that abandons God and embraces demonic socialism.
But the situation is more serious than it seems. Anyone who keeps up with current events can see we’re rapidly approaching the End of History. Marxist philosophy rules the Great Powers. America, Russia, China, the European Union—even Japan is socialist. The only serious international rivalry left is whether the New World Order will be run from Washington and Berlin or Bejing and Moscow.
We’re on the cusp of finally achieving Marx’s fabled worker’s paradise or more likely, to quote Winston Churchill, “we will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science” under a One World Government that makes the totalitarian surveillance of Big Brother in Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-four appear quaint and ineffectual.
But for those of us who aren’t left-wingers—what should we do? Neither politics nor armed revolt can give us our country back. We can’t return to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That’s plain. What do we do now? The old ways are untenable.
In the 1930s Jews could flee Nazi Germany. During the Cold War dissidents fleeing oppression could defect to the West. But today the Free World is no longer free and there’s nowhere left to go. Marxism has metastasized worldwide. You can’t run. And with the modern surveillance state, you can’t hide. Google knows all about you and the NSA has all your e-mails and phone calls.
You must choose a side. As Christ said in Matthew 12:30, “He that is not with me is against me….” Not to choose is still making a choice. And the Marxist social justice warriors that make up our Ruling Class see silence as consent. All they need to succeed is for good men to do nothing. There are only really two choices.
You can switch out your red “Make America Great Again” hat for a blue “Make Gaia Great Again” cap. Or, if you’re a believer in God in this godless Marxist world—a world that’s anti-Christ in spirit even if the personification of anti-Christ has yet to reveal himself—you need to double down. Progressives intend to erase our faith from history, and us from society. Believers need to become more resolute, tenacious, and zealous. We need to be about our Father’s business—saving others from the fire, making disciples and spreading the Word.
That’s your choice—either to jump on Evil’s coat tail, or to try and save as many as you can from the horrors to come. The End of History is upon us. Christ is either returning within our lifetime or he’s never coming back. You must choose a side.
Back in 1427 B.C. the Israelites faced a similar situation, although theirs was not quite as apocalyptic as ours currently is. As their war leader Joshua lay dying, in his final words he urged them…
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:14-15)
So choose and choose wisely.
* * *
How close are we to the End Times? Read my Jesus is Only Coming Twice. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Has Christianity lost its cultural relevance? Has the Church’s misguided efforts to market itself to non-Christians doomed it to irrelevance? Is it time for a new Reformation? Spiritual Embezzlement Made Easy https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
What does Jesus expect from his followers? How did he train his disciples? Revolutionary Discipleship https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Why do those who disagree with you politically believe the ridiculous things they do? Why don’t they see what’s so obvious? How does the Progressive Mentality differ from the Conservative Mentality? What are their origins? Their motivation? Their goals? What part does religion play in political worldviews – for BOTH sides? What does the Culture War mean for the future of the US? Read Conservatives are from Mars & Progressives are from Venus https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
In a world where sugar, cream and caffeine are illegal can one man give the people back their just desserts? Strike a blow for frosting and freedom! Read The Donuts of Doom, a whimsical steampunk fantasy e-novel Now available in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Donuts-Doom-M-...
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