Posted on 02/09/2021 7:48:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
From the presidential election of 2016 to the presidential election of 2020, from the huge, mostly peaceful protest on Jan. 6 to facing our second presidential impeachment of the same president, it is all too clear that we are becoming two cultures. We are becoming two cultures that occupy one land. The last five years have shown us all that there are two distinct cultures in America. From extremely partisan elections to election fraud to impeachments to possible Deep State criminality, it is hard to see how these two cultures can become one again. It is hard to see how this ends well.
Once in America, about 35% of the population would consider themselves right of center, about 35% of the population would consider themselves left of center, and there would be 30% who would be in the center. As long as the center was big enough and broad enough, the center would hold the ends together. Now the center is not 30%, but probably closer to 10%. A political center of 10% will have a hard time holding everything together. The political center appears not to be broad and deep enough.
There is risk in oversimplifications and overgeneralities with little nuance. However, for the sake of the argument and with trepidation of being too generic and too simply stated, let's call the two opposing cultures the Patriots and the Progressives.
The Patriots are basically made up of conservatives, Evangelicals, and nationalists. The Progressives are mostly made up of the Deep State, socialists, and globalists.
Many Patriots and many Progressives have little in common, are entrenched in their own ideology, and their own cultures are so different that it is evident there must be compromise or there could be confrontation.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“A nation divided cannot stand...........it will be all one or all the other.”
Many of the Prog NaziCommies get guaranteed paychecks from the various institutions that they’ve taken over...
January 6th really didn’t do anyone any good. I hate that this happened. I suppose intentions were good but it turned out to be more trouble then it was worth.
Two cultures the progressives (right) and the regressives (left).
Half the country believes in self reliance, right and wrong and just wants to be left alone by an intrusive government and activists hell bent on enforcing their will on everyone else, the other half can’t figure out which bathroom to use.
I’m not one for predicting another Civil War here in the US. How would anyone define “North v. South” these days?
What we really need to do is brush up on our understanding of Balkanization.
America is close to a hundred disparate conflicting geo-political factions. Largely defined as rural v. urban.
And those of us remaining have been given an ultimatum: assimilate (i.e., become alien, too) or die.
That means that there is no center TO hold.
The truth is that the left has become more and more radical as the people drift further into unbelief.
The left is drifting toward communism. Communism is atheism.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
It’s About 2/3 for trump esp after the truth comes out. And it probably will.
Versus the people who want to destroy the country about 1/3. Look at the comparative sizes of the trump rallies and the Biden flops. Then consider the fraud 2020 is not the only election stolen by Dems.
The 2/3 have a leader to guide them in telling the destroyers that it’s over
The military is on this side of that, the president and his team. the senate (in numbers) and the majority.
The destroyers can keep trying to yell, burn and scream but they’ll fade
Cultural entities- film, tv- will be free to produce good and inspiring stories. The news media will implode -already has. Social media won’t be giant
It’ll hold.
The Second Coming
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
n/a
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)
The Second Coming
FROM AUDIO POEM OF THE DAYJuly 2020
By W.B. Yeats
After 60,000,000 such butcherings, half the voters now elect politicians who support continuing (and expanding) such crimes against humanity.
Now these Demonicrats support Antifa/BLM communist terrorism and want to destroy the Constitution.
There is no way these traitorous Demonicrats can be part of a unified United States, except as tried, convicted, and sentenced to be onetime rope testers.
*Supremely Traitorous Court of the United States
In the most recent episode of the podcast "The Classicist," Victor Davis Hanson was asked by interviewer Troy Senik where this is headed. Mr. Senik started off by saying that CW I had clear lines of geographic separation because slave labor was being used to produce cotton and that we don't have such clear separation today. VDH replied that we are indeed self-separating today -- "look at the growth in Florida, Texas, Tennessee and Idaho."
Understanding Progressive Illiberalism, The Classicist with Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson examines how progressivism has captured American institutions: everything from higher education to high finance, from tech to sports. Along the way, he explains what progressives’ cultural ascendance has revealed about their ideology, predicts what it means for the Right, and analyzes whether a backlash is imminent.
I really do not know what Trump was thinking to call the rally. Even if there had been no violence it would not have accomplished anything. Leading up to it, Trump was saying "we have it all; we caught them all, etc". However, no one was caught, the steal was certified, and now Trump is being persecuted for calling for a peaceful protest.
The only people left in the center are the people too stupid to realize they will have to pick a side.
Patriots simply want to believe what they want and be left alone (as long as they don’t illegally infringe someone else’s rights). Progressives want to redefine rights and crimes and punish anyone who doesn’t mouth and practice “right think.”
“The USA started to seriously crack following the 1974 Roe v. Wade”
I agree that that was a most serious turning point. The hearts of half of the nation became hardened and inured to this evil of the slaughter of innocents. Any evil becomes possible after that. There were some other seminal points not long before R v W that were equally important:
In 1954, endocrinologist Gregory Pincus conducted the first human trials of “The Pill” on 50 women in Massachusetts. It is approved for contraceptive use in 1960 and is an instant hit. After two years, 1.2 million Americans women are on the pill; after three years, the number almost doubles, to 2.3 million.
WW II put many American women into the work force which led to the rise of feminism and the beginning of the destruction of marriage and the family.
The rise of “the ends justify the means” communism in 1917 and its goal of global domination. This caused Democrats to eventually abandon the Constitution and the “rule of law, not men” as our lodestar. Now we have a despot in the White House “governing” by dictat over a neutered legislative branch.
Perhaps all of this was inevitable.
What happened?
A globalist, one-size-fits-all Democrat/Republican coalition which erases and obliterates the underlying principles and ideas which made America a place of individual freedom and opportunity was replaced, over time, by another idea, which embraced socialistic economic mediocrity by calling it "equality," and groupthink by calling it "diversity."
That ideology was, itself, the "god" to be worshipped--a demanding and all-encompassing god which, while claiming "diversity," meant that "diversity" to exclude any public square acknowledgement of religious foundations or morality standards.
Dr. Russell Kirk's writings on "The Conservative Mind," are familiar to most who call themselves "conservative." The following, however, comes from another of his writings, and it seems to be worth reviewing here:
"Before I began to think much on the spiritual diseases of our century, I revolted against the disgusting smugness of modern America—particularly the complacency of professors and clergymen, the flabby clerisy of a sensate time. Once I found myself in a circle of scholars who were discussing solemnly the conditions necessary for arriving at scientific truth. Chiefly from a perverse impulse to shock the Academy of Lagado, perhaps, I muttered, “We have to begin with the dogma that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” I succeeded in scandalizing. Some gentlemen and scholars took this for indecent levity; others, unable to convince themselves that anyone could mean this literally, groped for the presumptive allegorical or symbolical meaning behind my words. But two or three churchgoers in the gathering were not displeased. These were given to passing the collection plate and to looking upon the church as a means to social reform; incense, vestments, and the liturgy have their aesthetic charms, even among doctors of philosophy. Faintly pleased, yes, these latter professors, to hear the echo of fife and drum ecclesiastic; but also embarrassed at such radicalism. “Oh no, “ they murmured, “not the fear of God. You mean the love of God, don’t you?” For them the word of Scriptures was no warrant, their Anglo-Catholicism notwithstanding. With Henry Ward Beecher, they were eager to declare that God is Love—though hardly a love which passes all understanding. Theirs was a thoroughly permissive God the Father, properly instructed by Freud. Looking upon their mild and diffident faces, I wondered how much trust I might put in such love as they knew. Their meekness was not that of Moses. Meek before Jehovah, Moses had no fear of Pharaoh; but these doctors of the schools, much at ease in Zion, were timid in the presence of a traffic policeman. Although convinced that God is too indulgent to punish much of anything, they were given to trembling before Caesar. Christian love is the willingness to sacrifice oneself; yet I would not have counted upon these gentlemen to adventure anything of consequence for my sake, nor even for those with greater claims upon them. I doubted whether the Lord would adventure much on their behalf. . . . The great grim Love which makes Hell a part of the nature of things, my colleagues could not apprehend. And, lacking knowledge of that Love, at once compassionate and retributive, their sort may bring us presently to a terrestrial hell, which is the absence of God from the affairs of men. . . . Every age portrays God in the image of its poetry and politics. In one century, God is an absolute monarch, exacting his due; in another century still an absolute sovereign, but a benevolent despot; again, perhaps a grand gentleman among aristocrats; at a different time, a democratic president, with an eye to the ballot box. It has been said that to many of our generation, God is a Republican and works in a bank; but this image is giving way, I think, to God as Chum—at worst, God as a playground supervisor. So much for the images. But in reality God does not alter. . . . What raises up heroes and martyrs is the fear of God. Beside the terror of God’s judgment, the atrocities of the totalist tyrant are pinpricks. A God-intoxicated man, knowing that divine love and divine wrath are but different aspects of a unity, is sustained against the worst this world can do to him; while the goodnatured unambitious man, lacking religion, fearing no ultimate judgment, denying that he is made for eternity, has in him no iron to maintain order and justice and freedom. Mere enlightened self-interest will submit to any strong evil. In one aspect or another, fear insists upon forcing itself into our lives. If the fear of God is obscured, then obsessive fear of suffering, poverty, and sickness will come to the front; or if a well-cushioned state keeps most of these worries at bay, then the tormenting neuroses of modern man, under the labels of “insecurity” and “anxiety” and “constitutional inferiority,” will be the dominant mode of fear. And these latter forms of fear are the more dismaying, for there are disciplines by which one may diminish one’s fear of God. But to remedy the causes of fear from the troubles of our time is beyond the power of the ordinary individual; and to put the neuroses to sleep, supposing any belief in a transcendent order to be absent, there is only the chilly comfort of the analyst’s couch or the tranquilizing drug. By fashionable philodoxies (opinions) of our modern era, by our dominant system of education, by the tone of the serious and the popular press, by the assumptions of the politicians, by most of the sermons to the churchgoers, post-Christian man has been persuaded to do what man always has longed to do—that is, to forget the fear of the Lord. And with that fear have also departed his wisdom and his courage. Only a ferocious drunken farmer is unenlightened enough to affirm a primary tenet of religion in great red letters, and he does not know its meaning. Freedom from fear, if I read St. John aright, is one of the planks in the platform of the Antichrist. But that freedom is delusory and evanescent, and is purchased only at the cost of spiritual and political enslavement. In ends at Armageddon. So in our time, as Yeats saw, Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Lacking conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, the captains and the kings yield to the fierce ideologues, the merciless adventurers, the charlatans and the metaphysically mad. And then, truly, when the stern and righteous God of fear and love has been denied, the Savage God lays down his new commandments. Sincere God-fearing men, I believe, are now a scattered remnant. Yet as it was with Isaiah, so it may yet be with us, that disaster brings consciousness of that stubborn remnant and brings, too, a renewed knowledge of the source of wisdom. Truth and hardihood may find a lodging in some modern hearts when the new schoolmen and the parsons, or some of them, are brought to confess that it is a terrible thing to be delivered into the hands of the living God. . . ." - "The Rarity of the God-Fearing Man" - Russell Kirk.
“The Progressives are mostly made up of the Deep State, socialists, and globalists.”.....AND feel-good Gullible simpletons, generational welfare leeches, teachers and other academia, gov employees, single issue abortion idiots, and a bunch more i don’t feel like typing..
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