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Thoughts At The Crossroads: The World Is Crumbling, A New World Is Being Born
Al Gore Vidal

Posted on 07/25/2016 10:41:23 PM PDT by Al Gore Vidal

It seems as if events are continuing to play right into Trumps hands. These events are only the tips of icebergs, the historical roots of which have been growing for some time. The forces that are shaping this election are almost biblical in nature. Everyday I am amazed how the world is boiling over and how our election is, in a sense, the vehicle through which the world soul is working. I can't remember any period like the one we are in now. Everything seems to be coming to a head at the same time with Hillary playing the villain and Trump, the Black Swan outsider who is riding atop the chaos, steering his campaign through shark infested waters at ramming speed. Assange says Wikileaks has the Clinton Foundation's emails, and like some rogue magma chamber hidden beneath the surface, they're set to explode with scandalous force capable of destroying her campaign outright. I'm excited at the possibility of Trump winning and even more excited by the idea that the Clinton's will finally be going down in a blaze of infamy, and the poison that is Obama, the spiritually and politically toxic evil that has been coursing through the body politic of this country for the last eight years, is about to be vomited up and purged, once and for all. I'm not a religious person, in the sense that I believe events in the human realm are influenced by higher powers, but I can't help but feel that these times are in the thrall of elemental forces of a transformational nature. Forces which align only rarely in the known history of our species.

This awareness both terrifies me and gives me hope. I feel as if a malicious weight, which has chained this country down for the last decade is about to be lifted, thrown off. My own spiritual consciousness has been saddled with a insidious dread since the election of Obama. A dull, sickened feeling. Like an alien has infected my soul and cast an evil pall over my very being. I've been inspired to pray lately. Not because my intellect thinks it will work, but because my inner essence feels the need to. I don't even know what I'm doing, I just focus on idea that the future is, for the first time in a long time, opening up and fresh air is poring in through the cracks in the prison walls, sunlight is tearing at the foundations of the evil edifice which has been constructed upon the shattered, but still living body of my country, my haven, the United States of America.

To others here I would bet that a similar energy has taken root in the most intimate corner of your being. Your souls too have been bled and defiled by a parasitic entity which feeds on human joy, hope and innocence. Life has become bleak, turned sour and menacing while still somehow moving forward in zombie like mindlessness. Corruption, venality, pettiness, superficiality have become the cultural norm. Any pretense of honor is mocked, commonsense ostracized, obvious good labeled as dangerous and retrograde. The lense through which the diverse peoples of this country once viewed themselves and others has been ground down and stained with the dark colors of greed, power lust and the desire to see humanity degraded to a level below that of animals. We have been casually accused of satanic crimes against the Earth by a star chamber of moral vampires, who crave nothing but to drain us of our blood, our prosperity and our sacred nature. Too narcotize our minds and pollute our hard won purity with the obscenities of globalism and cultural Marxism. To make us view ourselves as they view us, as useless eaters and breeders, as a virulent pest that threatens the very survival of the planet and all life forms sheltered by it, amidst the cold, imponderable vastness of the universe. They claim divine authority in their crusade to eradicate us. Their methods reek of violence and arrogance. Their goals to be eternally strived for and set up as the ideal for all of humanity. They will stop only when they have destroyed everything and everyone that stands in their way.

Hillary Clinton is the living embodiment of their longing for eternal tyranny. She has been raised up by the forces of history and her own amoral ambition to the height of political power. She is within reach of her life's goal, to wield political power over the most powerful country in the history of the world. She lusts for this power as an addict lusts for their next fix. If elevated to the position of president who here doubts that her diseased mind and hideously bloated ego will gorge itself in an orgy of graft and thoughtless effort. We know who she is and what she is. We understand her colossal hubris and the destructive, tectonic force of her vicious immorality and the evisceration of our rights that would inevitably follow her electoral victory. So let us take a moment as citizens,to reflect on this, our collective moment of truth. Let's acknowledge the weight and portentous quality of our time at the crossroads. Let us plant a seed of light in the ground of the future and take pains to see to its survival.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: clinton; election; politics; trump
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1 posted on 07/25/2016 10:41:23 PM PDT by Al Gore Vidal
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To: Al Gore Vidal

Yeah that’s pretty much all true.


2 posted on 07/25/2016 10:52:53 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: Al Gore Vidal

Grey Champion bump !!!


3 posted on 07/25/2016 11:08:14 PM PDT by 11th_VA (It's all gonna change once Trump's president)
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To: Al Gore Vidal

2 Chronicles 7:14
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.


4 posted on 07/25/2016 11:08:40 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Al Gore Vidal
I feel as if a malicious weight, which has chained this country down for the last decade is about to be lifted, thrown off.

My time frame would be several decades, but I agree with your main point. It's a new era.

5 posted on 07/25/2016 11:18:45 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Al Gore Vidal

It’s almost as if Donald J. Trump is under the protection of a benevolent supernatural power. Hmmm


6 posted on 07/25/2016 11:20:18 PM PDT by Company Man (T R U M P - P E N C E 2 0 1 6)
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To: Company Man

I believe he is willing to make that bet.


7 posted on 07/25/2016 11:42:57 PM PDT by 80skid
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To: Company Man

I believe he is willing to make that bet.


8 posted on 07/25/2016 11:42:58 PM PDT by 80skid
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To: All

Trump hasn’t won it yet. Keep fighting until you see the witch’s striped cankles shrivel out of her ruby slippers.


9 posted on 07/25/2016 11:46:38 PM PDT by Trod Upon (imo,)
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To: Al Gore Vidal

appreciate your state of mind but better paragraphing by you would be more than acceptable.


10 posted on 07/25/2016 11:46:49 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (THREE BLIND MICE- Bill, Hitlery , Loretta...)
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To: Company Man
While darkness, ineptitude, horrendous policies have led us to despair we do indeed welcome Trump so that he will “set things straight”.

We must however not think of Trump or his upcoming policies as Messiah like in the same way that the Left saw Obama.

Trump is no Caesar, no king, no G-d so let's keep him in perspective too.

The best we can hope for is a gradual rebuilding of this nation, a rebuilding of her infrastructure, logic and common sense so that America can go back to doing what she does best - build harmony a love of country at home while ensuring stability in the world.

Restoring American Exceptionalism and BELIEVING IN IT must be a top priority.

America MUST return to being a respected Superpower again.

In Obama's words but in OUR meaning, we must say to ourselves: "THAT'S WHO WE ARE". Even Putin wishes it.

11 posted on 07/26/2016 12:19:44 AM PDT by Netz
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Think where we would be today - where the world would be, right now...if Barry Sotero had loved his country.
12 posted on 07/26/2016 12:28:23 AM PDT by Company Man (T R U M P - P E N C E 2 0 1 6)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns; Al Gore Vidal

If better paragraphing would be more than acceptable then the poster’s paragraphing is acceptable as is. Thanks for the commentary.


13 posted on 07/26/2016 12:38:10 AM PDT by Go No
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To: Al Gore Vidal

Very well said and let’s hope and pray this continues. If not for us, but for our children, grandchildren and all future Americans.

CGato


15 posted on 07/26/2016 12:48:12 AM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: Al Gore Vidal

Great post. BTTT!


16 posted on 07/26/2016 1:03:19 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: doxteve2old2operate
I agree that a thorough grounding in American history is absolutely vital for our survival.
My luck was growing up in a patriotic household where we learned our history from our father, a WWII USAAF vet.

When I attended school we had American history and “Civics” or Civic Studies and this education was augmented by our education at home.

When the derogatory expression about our Founding Fathers was termed, “white, dead men”, I knew we were in serious trouble because that meant that the population's ignorance about the entire Enlightenment period is dominant.

After analyzing where we were and where we are today I think we need to be careful not to fall into the “conspiracy” mind set.
To look for a quick-fix scape goat such as the Bankers, the Fed or even the Illuminati. It is an evolutionary process that brought the USA to the preeminent superpower status is shared until 2009. It was bad policy, wrong ideology and “JV” management that led us down the hole.

Don't forget that the more ignorant the society, the easier it is to put a loser in the White House...

17 posted on 07/26/2016 1:41:26 AM PDT by Netz
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To: doxteve2old2operate

So, does your Grand Alliance Conspiracy theory have to boil down to Jews? Is that the bottom line?


19 posted on 07/26/2016 2:05:40 AM PDT by Netz
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To: Al Gore Vidal

I realize it’s a bit over dramatic, but hey, why should the Left get to monopolize political passion. Appealing to emotions has worked for them in a big way. I’ve been pondering lately why the Left’s narrative is so easy to adopt. I often find myself adopting their position and then trying to immitate the way by which they seem to so easily spin dialogue in their favor. It’s incredibly easy to do. So I’ve been thinking about what it is about the way they argue that is so effective. I’m convinced it’s their style or technique and obviously not the content of their positions that are effective.

But what exactly is their trick? Appealing to simplistic emotions shared by most normal humans is definitely part of it. But these appeals have their limits as even those of modest intelligence can seperate the feeling of wanting people to not suffer from the project of actually eradicating suffering all together, which is really what the rank and file of the Left want to believe is possible. It’s a that space in between the acknowledgement of the empathetic emotion and the exit ramp to a possible solution where the sleight of hand happens. Somehow they are able to blunt the onset of critical thinking enough that the average joe just glides right onto Solution Ave. while maintaining that raw, but somewhat naive emotional state of basic human empathy.

By the time the fog clears Joe Average is far from the highway and deep into ideology, group think and the push and pull of street level political gang warfare. It’s too late for the individual to begin to question the ideology they find themselves embedded into. They go along to get along because it’s easy and feels good. It helps the group operate smoothly with a minimum of conflict. They adopt the solutions without questioning and thus gain some personal power by their ability to bludgeon others with them in conversation. It feels good to speak truth to power and put that nasty right wing puke in his place. They get a kind of high off of this type of mindless intellectual bullying. It makes them feel superior, it assuages the secret self doubt that most people carry around in their head to one degree or another.

Instead of doing the hard work of self examination and the pain that comes with it they choose to use the power gained from ideology as a way to mask or distract themselves from the fact that they are not doing the grunt work of internal self improvement. Once the average shlub gets suckered into this psychological sleight of hand it becomes very hard to abandon it and the false sense of moral superiority it creates within them. So they go further and further down the rabbit hole of progressive political allegiance, hungrily lapping up the crumbs of hand me down self-esteem that they find along the way. They live in shadowy realm of cartoon boogey men and easy as pie, feel good validation that comes from like minded friends and fellow travelers.

They inhabit a political circle jerk wherein questioning the root assumptions of their ideology becomes an internal, intellectual and emotional no-go-zone to be avoided as a matter of course. But these mental ghettos where the freedom fighters of their conscience are hold up don’t go away. They remain and persist and continue be an eyesore in an otherwise clean and tidy domain. When confronted with the mortal threat of those who inquire as to what exactly is going on in the no-go-zones they quickly try to enforce uniformity and obedience by casting the offender beyond the city gates. In this fashion they have built up their palaces and castles and villages and created a kind of alternate mental space within which to dwell.


20 posted on 07/26/2016 2:09:23 AM PDT by Al Gore Vidal
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