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The great sorting that’s taking place in America
American Thinker ^ | 25 Apr, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/25/2023 5:39:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Something very fundamental is happening, and we’re all in the middle of it.

During busy news cycles, it’s hard to write posts. Each story screams for attention, creating analysis paralysis. What struck me today, though, was that many of the stories we’re seeing are part of something much larger, which is what I call the “Great Sorting.” All the old patterns are broken, and people are rethinking their allegiances.

Before the 21st century, the world’s patterns were predictable. You could divide history into the era before the Soviet Union collapsed and after the collapse.

Before, the world was neatly split into totalitarian and free, with Europe trying to straddle the middle with its “soft” socialism. America was about freedom, and it bent its energies and wealth to maintain its hegemony in the “free” world. As part of this freedom, it had a free-market system that wrought extraordinary changes in the standard of living for those lucky enough to live in free (or free-ish) nations.

The Soviet Union stood for totalitarianism. Only brute force will work to force people to live up to Marx’s utopian demand of an economy that sees labor divvied up “from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs.”

The rest of the globe served as a series of proxy battlefields for this epic struggle between the free and enslaved worlds.

And then, literally overnight, the Soviet Union collapsed. Americans blithely assumed that the free world had won, and the hard work was over. They also assumed that American leftists, seeing the Soviet Union’s collapse, would slink away and never be heard from again.

Except that’s not what happened. In fact, when liberty lovers let their guard down, the American left came back with a new strategy. It had already spent decades denigrating

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; culture; deathofthewest; society; theblueguard

1 posted on 04/25/2023 5:39:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Now the communists are using DEI, CRT, Climate Change, gender disphoria, illegal immigration, voting fraud....all at the same time.


2 posted on 04/25/2023 5:39:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

From Wikipedia:

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. The Revolution marked the effective commanding return of Mao—who was still the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—to the centre of power, after a period of self-abstention and ceding to less radical leadership in the aftermath of the Mao-led Great Leap Forward debacle and the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961).

tens of millions of people were persecuted: senior officials, most notably Chinese president Liu Shaoqi, along with Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, and He Long, were purged or exiled; millions were accused of being members of the Five Black Categories, suffering public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, seizure of property, and sometimes execution or harassment into suicide; intellectuals were considered the “Stinking Old Ninth” and were widely persecuted—notable scholars and scientists such as Lao She, Fu Lei, Yao Tongbin, and Zhao Jiuzhang were killed or committed suicide.

During the Red August 1966, in Beijing alone 1,772 people were murdered, many of the victims were teachers who were attacked and even killed by their own students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution


3 posted on 04/25/2023 5:46:21 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Well Posted, and Well Said. Thank You.


4 posted on 04/25/2023 5:47:36 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: MtnClimber

“COVID” was certainly an effective “sorter”. It exposed the imbeciles and the tyrants (and there are plenty who are both).


5 posted on 04/25/2023 5:55:14 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: MtnClimber
Are they using the Great Sorting Hat?
6 posted on 04/25/2023 5:59:18 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MtnClimber
Our collapse is the direct result of our expelling Jesus Christ from virtually every aspect of our culture. It created a vacuum, and "nature abhors a vacuum."

But this was a spiritual vacuum and was eagerly filled by Satan.

Matt 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Everything we're seeing, (fags, trannies, addicts living in tents, invasion by crimigrants, et al)

And this is just the beginning. America needs a revival, otherwise we're finished.

7 posted on 04/25/2023 6:23:31 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: MtnClimber

The most effective thing the American left has always used against America at least for the last 180 years or so, is immigration, and in 1965 they delivered the death blow.

The core Americans remain the most conservative, the most traditional voters, although they are also growing up in this leftism.
The core Americans are also the people who could have prevented this and who are open to reversing it, unfortunately, the Americans are a minority voting group that while still having some fading influence, are not enough to change the future or decide it and their little influence is disappearing.

Immigration replaced the Americans.


8 posted on 04/25/2023 6:29:27 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: MtnClimber

Most of the stories screaming for attention are distractions from the real issues, though.


9 posted on 04/25/2023 6:31:29 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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“..what left him (Trump) incapable of making lasting changes and denied him the momentum he needed to win in 2020 (with or without Democrat cheating) was that the Republican party refused to support him.“

THIS - is what we all need to learn.

Our fight is not just with democrat voters; it’s really with our POLITICIANS - BOTH parties. They despise us; they despise YOU and are all corrupt as the day is long.


10 posted on 04/25/2023 6:49:12 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: LouAvul

The correct answer.


11 posted on 04/25/2023 7:10:20 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MtnClimber
Now the communists are using DEI, CRT, Climate Change, gender disphoria, illegal immigration, voting fraud....all at the same time.

The beliefs could be anything, they're using social media for power.
12 posted on 04/25/2023 7:16:23 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: MtnClimber

I get her point, but the Leftist project has been active and insidiously effective at tearing this country apart since at least Reconstruction. As such, it’s more a matter of balance than a “sorting.”


13 posted on 04/25/2023 7:46:27 AM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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Why the progs love the new illegal immigration invasion and screaming so loud when republican governors send them to democrat states. That’s not what is suppose to happen. The illegals are suppose to be sent to republican conservative areas and utterly destroy the, with violence, crime, and welfare to wipe out the tax base. And once there they will outbreed the white American citizens with a new crop of third world commies. Sadly, this strategy wins. Prepare accordingly.


14 posted on 04/25/2023 8:33:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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MtnClimber (title) : The great sorting that’s taking place in America

The great sorting is taking place worldwide, not just in America :
Our enemies no longer fear us
Our friends no longer trust us
.. and then our "friends" went elsewhere

15 posted on 04/25/2023 2:16:48 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Vision

It's disgusting and inhumane for Republicans to do nothing about the January 6 political prisoners?

When will your @Weaponization committee hold investigations?

When will you push to defund the J6 political prosecutions?

When will the J6 footage be released?

Do something Tom!— 🇺🇸 (@FreeStateWill) April 25, 2023


16 posted on 04/25/2023 2:22:00 PM PDT by combat_boots
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As always, I can only wonder which will come first: America’s collapse, thanks to Biden’s policies, or its resurgence, thanks to the Great Sorting.
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This is the question that’s on my mind a lot. Are we doomed or are we in the midst of a “healing crisis” that breaks the fever and leads to recovery.

It’s a real nail biter, that’s for sure.


17 posted on 04/25/2023 2:39:57 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

I am with you on that!


18 posted on 04/25/2023 2:49:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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