Timothy Birdnow

Thisis a thought-provoking essay and the author makes some good points, but in the end he misses the mark. He fails to understand several key points and it shows.

The upshot of his argument is that politics and media and corporate culture all aim to create a divide between Americans and that this works as Americans put all their anger on "the other". so far so good. But he wants to be even handed to the point where he misses a critical fact; there is no effort - at least by mainstream media or corporate system - to gin up anger on the side of the Right. On the contrary,every effort is taken to anesthetize the Right. We are always hearing about reasonableness or comity or coming together. What did we hear right after the Trump assassination attempt? Calls for Conservatives to tone it down even while the Democrats continue to engage in the overheated rhetoric.

Perhaps the GOP is trying to gin up anger. I see little in the way of that; mostly they air legitimate grievances that should be aired.

Yes, there are a.m. radio shows or podcasters who purposely try to gin up anger on our side for ratings. But their reach is quite small.

You cannot apply this as a general rule. We have faced an asymmetric propaganda war on the traditional America and her values for a century now, and it has metastasized into what we are currently seeing; assaults on our very core values and traditions and history.

We've seen demands (which have been met) for the redefinition of marriage, for instance, in violation of all historical precedent.Once the thread has been pulled out as now (two dudes getting married) the floodgates are open for an endless redefinition of marriage, the most sacred and basic institution. We've seen the rewriting of the definition of male and female and assaults on those who suggest such absurdities as a girl with a penis is actually a man. We've seen government and big tech openly violate our rights to free speech. We've seen the Left call killing babies "reproductive rights" and demand access to sterile death camps to "liquidate" babies up until the kid's head is poking out. We've seen severe restrictions on our religious beliefs, with kids being kicked out of school for wearing crucifixes or reading Bibles while at the same time elevating the Koran or claiming the Temple of Satan should have as prominent a role as the Presbyterians or Catholics. We've seen taxes rise, the value of our money collapse, and regulations strange small, family owned businesses (farms, small merchants, etc.) OUR anger is entirely justified.

And we've seen this before, mmany times. It is the same playbook followed by the Soviets, by Castro, by Mao, Pol Pot, Hugo Chavez, and all the other tyrants and communists This is how they take over nations. We fought a fifty-some-odd year war to stop Communist aggression around the globe and now WE are the very evil we resisted with our treasure, our freedoms, and our young sons and daughters.

So his point is wrong; it is not a two way street.

Liberalism has been the engine of Western Civilization since Rousseau, certainly, and it has waged an asymmetric war against Christendom and democratic republicanism. The Left is always on the attack and usually our side falls back. It's become our standard pattern. Oh, we get occasional outbursts - Trump's election was one - but by and large after a victory or two our side slides back into the pattern of easy defeat and retreat. We think holding the line on one leftist agenda item is a victory.

So we have an aggressor and a victim. Conservatives aren't the aggressor. That is what this author doesn't understand.

He doesn't understand Evil. That is his main problem.

We fight not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities. This is first and foremost a spiritual war.

It used to be called Christendom. Now we call our civilization "the West" because we eschewed Christ, and the God of the Bible, long ago. Sometime in the last century we completely chucked Him, kicked Him out of schools and out of universities and out of public discourse. Now we have a few pale appeals to an amorphous God but just for show, and relic of a different time. Now we are just too cool for God. And God understands that, which is why things are all falling apart.

The attacks on our culture and tradition are everywhere and they are powerful. Statutes torn down, history books revised, fiction suppressed and replaced by new literature. You can get kicked out of school for wearing an American flag t-shirt. But you can wear things calling for death or dismemberment and that is o.k. You can promote Antifa or BLM and you are "exercising your First Amendment rights". Try wearing a MAGA hat and see how far those rights are respected by the Left!

What we have is a new, alien religion that is engulfing America and the whole world. And it is a tool, symbiotic with the Ruling Class and their project to create a New World order, a system that disdains and rejects what has gone before and promotes atheism, revolution, sexual immorality and the destruction of the family, statism, international government, and socialism as the economic system.

So we are not simply fighting "the other" because that is what the GOP seeks, no sir! We are fighting to preserve our culture, our heritage, our religious beliefs, our way of life, a way of life that provided more wealth and blessings than any system in human history.

And we know just how they are doing it. Karl Marx gave a point-by-point policy position that the Left has largely implemented in all Western nations. This isn't about some petty political disagreement, like how much flouride to put in water. It's about the very soul of Western Civilization. It is, in short, about Good versus Evil. The Left is evil, the servants of Satan, and what they seek is the destruction of our culture. NOT it's "reform" but destruction.

Marx and most other socialists believed ultimately reformers in times past failed because they could not control all aspects of life. It wasn't enough to extol and encourage; it requires the systematic destruction of all basis of power and authority. It has been a war waged in the American mind (and the minds of other Western nations.) It is, as the exorcist says in the movie of the same title "psychological and powerful" and the demon "mixes lies with the Truth".

Anyone who watched the attempted destruction of Donald Trump over the last four years sees this clearly. Trump's every word was mischaracterized, misquoted, taken out of context. When speaking about Charlottsvile and the riot there (caused in no small part by BLM and Antifa radicals attacking the people who actually hosted the rally to protect statutes) Trump said specifically he was not talking about racists or the Klan but about the people who showed up "good people on both sides" to protest peaceably. The media removed the caveat and said Trump was calling Klansmen and neo-Nazis "good people". They knew better but it fooled many of the low information types. Trump recently warned the auto industry would suffer a "bloodbath" if Joe Biden is re-elected and able to implement his scheme of eliminating gas powered vehicles. The media and Democrats immediately twisted that to "Trump calls for a bloodbath if he isn't re-elected", suggesting there would be violence. Trump called for peaceful protests on January Six and in fact wanted to send the national guard in (Nancy Pelosi refused). But we are told it was TRUMP who caused "the worst civil violence in American history" in which only one person died of violence - a protester, shot in the head at point blank range while climbing in a window (and nothing was done to the cop who shot her; on the contrary he was promoted.) Joe Biden repeats this lie while talking to Lester Holt and claims two cops were KILLED. No they were not. It was a lie.

So how is this a matter of anger at "the other"? It has nothing to do with who and everything to do with what - the lies told by the leader of the other party. Those lies are designed to gin up hatred for Republicans in general and Trump in particular, but even they are for concrete purposes - winning an election. Advancing the leftist agenda, Making America into a Communist or Fascist country.

Satan is a liar and the Father of Lies. Now, these people take what Donald Trump says out of context, or they take jokes, or they take innocuous misstatements and accuse HIM of lying in the classic Leftist tactic of accusing the enemy of that which you are yourself guilty. But the real comes come from them, from the mainstream media, from academia, from the Democratic Party, from the Labor Unions, and the silicon valley corporations and their stranglehold on social media.

I am mindful of the Book of Revelations where the dragon is pursuing the woman and opens it's mouth and a flood of water pours forth to drown the woman and her child. What does that mean? Prophetic imagery usually means more than one thing, but in this case I believe it refers to the media and the lies it tells to drown the woman (the Church) and her baby (Christ). The dragon is Satan, but it also is the world order that seeks to destroy Christendom and replace it with a form of withcraft, with the Mystery Babylon religion. That takes many forms, from the technological nightrmares of "transhumanism" and population control and "the singularity" to the more basic paganism we see now with the promotion of "natural religion" and pantheism to the good old favorite of Marx - pure atheism. But in the end it is the establishment of a state religion.

(BTW many will mock me and sneer at me for using so openly religious an argument yet doesn't that prove the point? Just fifty years ago Christian beliefs were accepted - now they are not.)

Rousseau understood this. In The Social Contract he suggested substituting the Collective Will for God and the government for the Church, so as to use religious fervor but chucking God out of the mix. It was this idea that led to the development of both Marxism and Fascism. Mussolini understood what Rousseau was talking about perfectly and tried to implement a "spirituality" in Fascism, something not found in Marxism or traditional socialism. But in fact we know the Communists used the same techniques in the Soviet Union and all her allies, and do so to this day in the Peoples Republic of China.

See it doesn't matter what false religion is observed as so much as that it rejects the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That has always been Satan's purpose, and he is now succeeding in the political movement of the Left.

In short this is a battle of Good versus Evil. The Left is solidly on the side of Evil, even if they don't understand they are. That is why they are so energized and animated; the Devil has come down in great wrath because he knows his time is short. or in a purely secular view the Left is desperate to change the world because they know they will die and be gone forever in their estimation, so any lasting impact they will have, any hope at all, lies with political action and compulsion to "fix" the world, a world they and the god they serve broke in the first place.

Sadly the author of this essay doesn't seem to understand this. He makes the mistake of assuming this is a disagreement. It is far, far more than that.

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