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Posted on 07/21/2025 4:25:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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It does seem that the leftists refuse to believe what is true.
Yep.
He’s making the classic mistake of assuming the best intentions of the opposition.
It may just as likely be that they know what they’re doing is harmful.
“Jake, those lights are off ON PURPOSE!”
It is said that the hardest thing to teach man is what is in his best interest to not learn.
What ruined our cities was foolish de industrialization. The Democrat scourge was the secondary infection.
Psychopaths have no self-awareness of their dysfunction. In their minds the world revolves around them.
Whittaker Chambers was, to coin a phrase, there at the beginning. His communism was genuine and at the early stages in America. He certainly had the credentials to answer the question he posed for himself, why?
His answer was essentially that communists were communists because they would be God. God players do not find themselves constrained by the rules, Gods make the rules. So the very seductive siren of socialism offers easily navigable ground for the nimble man become God to rationalize every brain fart for the benefit of society and, equally, to rationalize and trivialize all the misery they cause.
Communism therefore is not essentially a manifestation of a misguided intellect but a spiritual cancer and the cure, therefore, cannot be to persuade the would be God with reason but to offer him an epiphany and a new birth.
A new man, as Whittaker Chambers became, finds himself very much in alignment with reason.
Be like the most high. I’ve read that somewhere.
“And ye shall be as Gods.”
L
Communism depends solely on the premise of “If man is left to his own devices, he will default to doing good” which is simply not true. Workers never controlled the means of production in the Soviet Union. It was controlled by dictators. Communism and Socialism are just a pretty way of saying Dictatorship.
Agreed, but I have a theory that goes deeper. They can not accept that anything they believe to be true, abortion isn’t murder, no difference between men and women….. is not. To do so even on one small “belief “ would open them up to the possibility that other close held beliefs may also not be true. So they don’t and the won’t.
Leftism is sociopathy.
They test their ideas against the standard of ideology rather than the standard of reality. This is why they cannot change, or reform—the ideology is fixed, and they dare not deviate.
Liberals have always accused social conservatives of bringing religion into politics, but liberals have done something far worse, and far more radical: They have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.
The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. Feminism, deconstruction, and gender theory are not just academic abstractions up for discussion among liberal academics: They are articles of their religious creed. Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
You wonder why the left is having a nervous breakdown in the wake of Trump's election? It is because, for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. This means that, to them, political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.
This is why all of the excesses of these demonstrations—death threats, looting, violence—can be excused by CNN and MSNBC: They are the necessary extreme measures, justified in light of the threat to their ideology.
Ironic that feminism doesn’t exist anymore, killed by Islam and Trans
> What ruined our cities was foolish de industrialization. <
Yep. A healthy republic requires a strong middle class. True for the Roman Republic. And true for us today.
Deindustrialization destroyed the middle class in the cities. Now you’ve got a few wealthy folks and many, many more on the dole. Such a situation can’t end well.
Secular humanists ( the Darwin cult ) main weapon is the lie
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When Jesus spoke of the days leading up to His return, He repeatedly warned against deception. In the tribulation, deception will be worse than today, but it’s already bad enough. This is one of those areas where people respond, “But that’s just part of the human condition. People lie because it is their nature to lie. They’ve lied since the beginning.”
This ignores two things — the downturn in human morals we see around us, and the downturn in human morals foretold in Bible prophecy (2 Timothy 3:1-7). Growing godlessness will yield an increase in deception. As people increasingly reject God’s Word, they reject truth. God cannot lie, so to reject Him is to reject the truth. Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am… the truth.” To reject God the Son, Jesus, is to reject truth. Today’s widespread turning away from God means turning elsewhere. There are basically two choices —God’s side or Satan’s. Those who choose Satan choose the father of lies.
But even if people stayed exactly the same, deception today would still be at an all-time high. That’s because we have tools for deception that no generation before us even dreamed of. Starting with the printing press, technology has amplified the human ability to lie. In the 20th century, books became easy, newspapers proliferated, radio came into its own, then television appeared. All this media gave advertisers a way to hawk their products as they always had done, but to audiences of millions rather than dozens.
In the 21st century, newspapers may be dying, but, sadly, they are also still lying. They set the news agenda for broadcast media and for social media. People have gossiped with their neighbors for thousands of years, but now they can share that gossip with the whole world. Religious and political deceptions have exploded in the last few years.
The consequences are catastrophic. Hitler’s propaganda machine deceived the German people of the 1920s and 30s. It resulted in the bloodiest war in human history. In the decades following Russia’s communist revolution, the Bolshevik deception destroyed countless lives around the world.
Today, deception is also having severe consequences. It sends gunmen to schools and congregations. It topples governments, and ruins lives. In 2002, Venezuelans bought the lies of a charismatic communist leader named Hugo Chavez. He nationalized industries in order to fund social programs. The same socialist/communist lie has been destroying nations for over a hundred years. Venezuela was beautiful and prosperous when Chavez took over. His deceptions turned it into a ruin.
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What is the answer when you’re not sure who to trust? 2 Timothy 3:13-17 presents the problem and then the answer. “Evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
You may not have had the privilege of growing up knowing scripture, but you can turn there now. God’s Word is ever true. It gives direction to your life (Psalms 119:105) and a solid foundation (Matthew 7:24-27) for all that you do. These are good days to get into the Bible (or back into the Bible) deeply and joyously.
Hat tip H.L.
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