Posted on 10/26/2020 5:26:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Based on our current trajectory, it seems inevitable: there’s going to be a cultural revolution one way or another. We will either continue with our precarious shift to the left, thereby going over the edge, so to speak. Or we will recover our moral bearings and save our country from collapse. We will be woke or we will be awakened. But either way, there will be a revolution. The center can no longer hold.
In his article in the September edition of Commentary Magazine, titled “Yes, This Is a Revolution,” Abe Greenwald wrote, “The battle for the survival of the United States of America is upon us.”
Indeed, he noted, “If it wasn’t clear in late May and early June, it should be well understood by now that we are in the throes of a genuine revolution of the most extravagant sort. Like messianic revolutionaries of the past, the revolutionary mob of the 21st century is out to ‘remake the world.’ ... This is, then, most fundamentally a revolution against the United States of America and all it stands for.”
Unfortunately, he added, “And yet, we seem to be treating the great unraveling as something less than a revolution.”
To do so would be to make a fatal mistake.
Twenty years ago, when the first edition of my book Revolution first came out, I tried to convince the readers that we were at a cultural crossroads, that we were living in revolutionary times. A major shift was coming, I argued, one that would be either heaven-sent or hell-bent. There was a void and discontent that needed to be filled. Which ideology would win the day?
Now, as the second, updated and revised edition of Revolution has just been released, I hardly need to convince my readers that we are living in revolutionary times. Even though Greenwald noted that many see this “unraveling as something less than a revolution,” many others recognize what is at stake.
Using my Revolution book as a case in point, I can illustrate how much clearer things have become. (The first edition was released September 2000, the second October 2020.)
Each chapter begins with striking opening quotes which then set the tone for the rest of the chapter. When rewriting the second chapter of the book, I replaced every single opening quote from the first edition with a set of entirely new quotes. The chapter now starts with this:
“This isn’t a protest—it’s a revolution!” — shouted through a megaphone during a Black Lives Matter protest in Elgin, Illinois, June 5, 2020.
“This revolution won’t be televised—it’s going to be streamed!”— shouted a protester during a Black Lives Matter rally on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, June 2020.
“This movement is about revolution, not reform.” — Alexandra Hart, a student at Tulane University, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2020.
We are in volatile times, analogous to 1861 or 1968, and anything that can happen often has. —Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump, written in August 2019.
Such quotes could have been easily multiplied. We are living in revolutionary times.
One culturally astute Christian editor emailed me privately, stating that we are on the verge of “plunging the nation into a totalitarian future run by rage-fueled Marxist revolutionaries openly at war with God.”
Do you think he was exaggerating?
Writing from the perspective of a liberal American Jew and with specific reference to the rising tide of antisemitism in America, BarriWeiss said this in Tablet Magazine.
“Over the past few decades and with increasing velocity over the last several years, a determined young cohort has captured nearly all of the institutions that produce American cultural and intellectual life. Rather than the institutions shaping them, they have reshaped the institutions. You don’t need the majority inside an institution to espouse these views. You only need them to remain silent, cowed by a fearless and zealous minority who can smear them as racists if they dare disagree.”
She added, “I share with the majority of American Jews’ disgust toward Trump and Trumpism, which has normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society. That truth doesn’t detract from another: There is another danger, this one from the left. And unlike Trump, this one has attained cultural dominance, capturing America's elites and our most powerful institutions. In the event of a Biden victory, it is hard to imagine it meeting resistance. So let me make my purpose perfectly clear: I am here to ring the alarm. I’m here to say: Do not be shocked anymore. Stop saying, can you believe. It’s time to accept reality, if we want to have any hope of fixing it.”
All this, of course, is much larger than Trump vs. Biden, and my focus in this article is not on the elections, as important as they may be. And, without a doubt, as much as I oppose many of the policies of the Democrats, I am not looking to Trump and the Republicans to lead the positive, moral and cultural revolution of which I speak.
Instead, it must be spiritually based, meaning that it must be based in a return to God and the Scriptures, a return to prayer and purity. And it must be a multi-faceted awakening, beginning with an awakening of our conscience and of our spiritual and moral bankruptcy.
It must also be a grass-roots awakening, driven from and by the populace to the government rather than from the top down.
And it must truly be revolutionary, just as the Civil Rights movement was revolutionary in so many good ways. And just as the Counterculture Revolution was negative in so many ways.
Nothing less than radical, dramatic change will turn the tide.
The words I wrote to followers of Jesus in 2000 are all the more relevant today: “Fellow-soldiers, holy servants of the risen Lord, blood-bought disciples of the Master, heed the call. It’s now or never, time to put up or shut up. Either we take a stand once and for all or forever we hang our heads in shame. History is awaiting our move. So ... on with it! Let’s start a revolution.”
In the new edition of Revolution, I simply changed the last sentence. It now reads, “Let’s give ourselves wholeheartedly to a Jesus revolution.”
Do we really have a choice?
No, there will be a secession of states. Don’t skip over that part.
Let’s see...which states were rioting and burning themselves to the ground with the SANCTION of their Democrat Overlords?
Oh, that’s right...NOT the Red States!
President Trump has done us a HUGE favor; you can’t fight the Enemy until you identify it. He’s great at identifying problems and solving them.
Oh, it’s going to take more than President Trump, but at least we now have a starting point to slow our march off the cliff of Communism.
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If our state tries to secede, Richmond will burn.
“I share with the majority of American Jews’ disgust toward Trump and Trumpism, which has normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society.”
What are they even talking about here?
That would assume that a) government can control the Marxists and b) they would be satisfied with a piece of the pie.
Been in the making for a long time.
Globalist liberal politicians have had their way, worldwide, for more than fifty years, and plenty of people saw this and sounded the alarm.
We are called “kooks.”
And the problem with that?
The lies of Progressive (dominant old) Media.
lessee here...fascism, socialism, communism, Nazi-ism....all 19th century social and thought disorders. Requires scads of OPM-other peoples money-to even get off the ground-much less successfully remain airborn for decades-centuries. None ever has.
Monarchies and Republic’s are the ONLY natural, organic and successful forms of human government for thousands of years.
Something a bunch of white males in the 18th century understood.
Idiot left still trying to jam square blocks into round holes.
7 days to SAVE OUR REPUBLIC..
Please Christian brother and sister...PRAY RIGHT NOW...STOP what you are doing..kneel down and ask God in the name of Jesus to ‘restore America’ and protect President Trump.
Please, please....Do It NOW...
... prayer IS the most powerful HOPE for our Republic...
Please ...... PRAY RIGHT NOW...
“humble yourself’
You must overcome your flesh to pray saints....do it now. STOP whatever you are doing and PRAY....the longest trip you take is the one to your knees before God eternal.
May God Bless America.
I will repost this MOST critical post ‘repeatedly’ from now until the election. Pray that we all truly begin to pray.
Your brother, in the love of Jesus, RevelationDavid
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2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
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 I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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2 Cor 10:3-6
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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Ephesians 6:12 KJV
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
I agree. This country is going to break up into three or four USA-istans. We should kick california, oregon, and washington out. No reason to wait for them to leave. Eventually NE will probably go too
The other side is doing revolution.
Our side is doing politics, and is unwilling to move to counterrevolution.
If this keeps up we are going to lose.
“No, there will be a secession of states. Don’t skip over that part.”
No, there won’t; that is so 19th century. This time around there will be a REAL civil war, with all its attendant carnage and barbarism and savagery.
“This country is going to break up into three or four USA-istans. We should kick california, oregon, and washington out. No reason to wait for them to leave. Eventually NE will probably go too.”
That would be national suicide because we’d be giving up the entire west coast (with the operative word being COAST).
Better to break up the west coast, with our side taking all the ports and harbors.
It could start out that way, specifically on the coasts, at the very beginning. Then the Red states will unhook from the USA crazy train.
The pro secession types seem to live in red sates. Funny that.
“This time around there will be a REAL civil war, with all its attendant carnage and barbarism and savagery.”
You are most likely quite correct. Those wishing for a CW do not realize what you just said. Those having been in a real war (vets) most likely know the extreme sacrifices of both life and living standards we will have to endure on both sides.
But, it’s either enuring sacrifices fighting for freedom, or just sit back and let the left take over and the same hardships will come anyway.
All this talk of secession is either harmless venting or complete insanity. Splitting the strongest nation on Earth into a bunch of countries each the size of weak European states is the road to ruin. There’s good a reason why divide and conquer is a time tested and effective strategy. I have to wonder if the Byzantines told themselves “We didn’t need Egypt anyway. Nor the Holy Land, nor Syria, nor Carthage, nor the rest of Anatolia. We still have Constantinople. What else do we need?”
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