Sometimes I think the Left really lacks self-awareness of how the news they control presents to people who don’t support them. The headlines in the last ten days have been dominated by two things: Cypriot capital controls, and homosexual marriage before the Supreme Court. The Media Directorate might actually think these things are about, respectively, orderly stabilization of the Eurozone and the heroic advance of Freedom. That’s not what they look like to Rhodies.
The big-picture narrative of Cypriot capital controls the Media Directorate isn’t telling you very clearly is this:
- The Euro as a common currency is the idée fixe of the European left’s supranational socialist dream.
- If a nation leaves the Euro, the Dream Will Die (notwithstanding Edward Kennedy’s 1980 Democratic National Convention Speech).
- If a nation’s banking sector implodes, it will have to leave the Euro.
- The only way to prevent total banking sector implosion in Cyprus is a combination of bailouts, capital controls, and asset confiscation.
- If shutting down the free flow of goods, services, and capital and taking private property is required to prop up the Big Government Dream, Europe’s Big Government says: so be it, we’ll do what we have to do.
The big-picture narrative of homosexual marriage before the Supreme Court this Holy Week that the Media Directorate isn’t telling you at all is this:
- People with thoughts and actions outside God’s preferred design for their lives (whether heterosexual or homosexual, whether one’s sexual activity or a different area of life) generally feel guilty.
- People don’t like feeling guilty.
- Faced with guilt, there are two options: (a) admitting one is a sinner, repenting, asking for God’s grace, and receiving forgiveness of sins and reconciliation as an adopted child of God through faith and Christ’s death on the cross and belief in His Resurrection; or (b) define what you are doing that makes you feel guilty as really not that bad after all.
- Option Two is superficially more attractive, and that’s what the homosexual marriage advocates are doing. But Option Two begins to ring hollow after a while, because people still are troubled by guilt.
Hence, one’s defense of one’s actions grows more strident, and it becomes very important that others affirm what you are doing – perhaps if other people are compelled to say that what you are doing is worthy and good, then you will feel better.
It doesn’t work, and it won’t work, but like so many other paradoxes, the less it works, the harder the Left is going to keep trying: last isolated pockets of non-affirmers of homosexual marriage must be identified, isolated, targeted, and crushed.
Another way to defend against feeling guilty without having to accept one’s need for Christ is to expand the scope of what is okay: not only is what you do that you don’t feel good about okay, but a range of stuff that’s even further “out there” is actually super-okay too. This provides defense in depth against guilt.
So the Left won’t stop at homosexual marriage. No sir. They’ll move on to the next heroic struggle against bigotry: probably multi-gender things, or multi-person things, or multi-species things, or activities traditionally regarded as transgressive because of age or power disparities. These extensions of the frontier of what is deemed super-okay (and which failure to affirm, endorse, and advocate will be seen as bigoted) will be wrapped in a lot of heroic language of civil rights and fairness.
Of course, the Left is pretty misguided to demand that the government affirm what homosexuals do, because the Government isn’t a source of legitimacy. But the Left thinks it is, so they busy themselves in this area.
The Left is taking off the brakes, Rhodies, and they clearly don’t feel shame about what they are doing. They know what is best for you, and they demand that you participate in and affirm and enthusiastically support their Collective. Their ideas don’t sell well without compulsion, but the ideas must be sold, and if they don’t sell, if compulsion is what it takes, then fine, so be it.
This week is a clear case study of a trend that is frightening in its acceleration. While it has power, the Left intends to make the most of it, and they are fighting for keeps.
They want your assets.
They want your mind and your heart.
They will take tax exempt status away from our “bigoted” churches that won’t marry homosexuals. They will use their tax and spending power to destroy businesses that don’t get with the gleichschaltung. They will do everything they can to turn our children’s hearts, and maybe even take our children away, because we’re “bigots” who won’t affirm with quite enough enthusiasm homosexual marriage and whatever else makes the Regime and its loyal helpers secretly guilty.
The agenda is clear, and some of what we must do in response is likewise clear.
We cannot use government schools. To pay direct or opportunity costs of making alternate education arrangements, we need to cut costs to free up cash flow.
We must radically lower our cost structures so we and our institutions are less vulnerable to Regime economic leverage.
We must deeply, profoundly teach and shape and influence our children and other Rhodie children now, while the Regime hasn’t taken them away yet.
We must get right with the Lord now, and write His Scripture on our hearts. Christians who mean it have always been persecuted, and it seems very much as if our time may be right about now.
We have good company throughout history, and this illegitimate Regime will fall, eventually, like all the others because over this Easter Weekend, remember that the Tomb is empty, He Is Risen, and God wins.
Between now and then, though, it’s rough and it’s going to get rougher, so make this your finest hour. A Blessed Triduum and Easter to all the Rhodies out there. May God richly bless you and your families and the American Resistance, to the extent that preserving some remnant redoubt of Ordered Liberty on the North American continent is in keeping with His purposes.