Posted on 12/13/2020 4:19:37 AM PST by Kaslin
Before I set the stage and lay out the most prominent dimensions of our current crisis, let me answer the question I ask in the title of this article, namely, can America survive this perfect storm? The answer is simple and obvious: without divine intervention, we are in big trouble. Really big trouble. Massively big trouble. We need God, desperately and urgently. Otherwise . . . well, you can fill in the blanks. Things do not look good right now.
To recap the main events of 2020, we entered the year deeply divided in the midst of the impeachment hearings, with very little middle ground between us.
And the divisions between us only grew deeper by the day, as we were fed mutually exclusive narratives in the news and social media echo chambers in which we live.
“You’re being brainwashed!” we shouted at one another, convinced it was them, not us, who were biased and blind (and stupid).
Since then, we have suffered (and continue to suffer) a pandemic, which has only been exacerbated by the mixed signals from leaders and “experts.”
Shutdown or no shutdown? Did we ever level the curve? Mask or no mask? Is the vaccine good or bad? Is Trump trying to kill us? Is China trying to kill us? Are Democratic governors and mayors trying to steal our religious freedoms? Is Dr. Fauci a fine man or a devious political plant? Can we trust the CDC? The WHO?
And all the while, the death count continues to soar.
In the midst of this crisis came the death of George Floyd (among others), followed by massive, national upheaval (yes, I’m using the word “massive” a lot, for good reason). Protests. Riots. Cities aflame.
Is America a good country or a racist country? Should we trace our national history to 1619 or 1776? Can we separate Black Lives Matter from the BLM Movement? And what about Antifa? And the cancel culture. And mobocracy. Are we safe in our own neighborhoods?
It really feels as if our country has lost its way. Nothing seems certain and the ground seems to be quaking under our feet. What will tomorrow bring?
Next came the elections.
Without COVID-19, it is likely that Trump would have defeated any Democratic candidate in a landslide with our economy strong and with Trump’s base steadily growing.
But with COVID, not only did the economy take a nosedive, but a new crisis arose: massive absentee voting, with limited supervision.
Months in advance, Trump was already crying fraud, assuring his followers he could only lose if the election was rigged. (Of course, this has been a Trump mantra for years, quite unrelated to COVID.)
Were the polls wrong again? Could lighting strike twice and Trump beat the odds for two straight elections? Or were the polls further proof that the system really was rigged, that pollsters and the mainstream media and Big Tech were colluding to steal the election from Trump?
Then Big Tech refused to report on some major, election-related stories, and the mainstream media refused to cover them.
The perfect storm of suspicion and mistrust was intensifying by the hour.
Then election night happened, and as we approached midnight, Trump seemed close to victory. He really did do it again. Lightning did strike twice.
But then the counting stopped in those few, key states, and then . . . well, you know the rest of the story.
One half of America knows exactly what happened. The election was stolen. Massive fraud was perpetrated. Trump’s warnings were absolutely right. The proof is there, right before our eyes. We cannot let this happen to our nation!
If the Democrats get in they will pack the Supreme Court, they will open our borders, and America as we know it will be done. Finished. Gone.
The other half of America also knows exactly what happened. Joe Biden won the election fair and square. That’s why the courts have thrown out case after case from Trump’s legal team, right up to the Supreme Court. In fact, the last effort (from Texas) was so flawed that all the justices appointed by Trump refused to hear it. Trump and his supporters are the laughingstock of the nation.
“Face the facts,” that half of America says. “Trump has brainwashed you and is destroying the country. Can’t you see it?”
The other half replies, “How can you be so blind? Don’t you care that one of the greatest crimes in our nation’s history has been committed? And do you think more than 70 million Americans will simply accept a theft of this level? Not a chance.”
Now there is even talk of some states seceding from the union. The situation really is grave.
And I’ve not said a word about the massive spiritual crisis, as it seems that evangelical Christianity has become defined by solidarity with Trump more than by solidarity with Jesus. Then there are the charismatic prophets assuring us that Trump will, in fact, triumph, while others look at us with incredulity and scorn, quite sure that we have totally lost our minds.
Yet without COVID, we would not be here today, for a host of reasons outlined above. Not only so, but because of COVID, we also have a nation on edge. We are tired of the lockdowns. We are emotionally drained. We are angry. We don’t know who to trust. And we are ready to burst.
Yet even with all of this, had there been no apparent irregularities on election night and had not Trump not been warning about fraud for months, we would not be where we are today. November 3 would have come and gone and, like it or not, we would all have known the results of the voting before we went to sleep that night.
Yet here we are, six weeks later, and polls indicate that a large majority of Republicans, a substantial number of Independents, and even a small minority of Democrats believe the election was rigged. The rest cannot believe that anyone with a working brain is still believing this myth. Trump, they say, has deceived the masses. His followers have swallowed the big lie. Dear Leader is leading us off a cliff.
This is why we so desperately need God. This is why we must pray and cry out as if there was no tomorrow. This is why we need to find a new place of urgency in our hearts. This is why we need to repent of our own sins, of our own blindness, of our own hatred, of our own carnality. Let us not be so smug and self-righteous. There is more junk in our own backyards then we would care to admit.
And we need to do this now, before it is too late.
There is no happy, middle ground between the two sides of the current conflict, with both sides firmly convinced of the other side’s shameful guilt.
And so my appeal, no, my plea, is that all of us fall on our faces and come to God’s side, fervently praying for divine intervention.
It is either that or... I would rather not say.
When will Tories like you learn the status quo is dead.
Wow how stupid are you? States are semi autonomous political entities right now, they just secede from the USA and from a new compact and new federal govt. Not hard. Takes about a week to do it.
problem with secession is that “Chinese boots on the ground thingy” as previously mentioned.
Secession will provide that opportunity for the CCP-unless you’re willing to Nuke former states?
In the 1940s a nation of 120 million had a Navy with 20 CVBG. A nation of 200,000,000 could support at least 7 or 8 CVBG's combined with the USNs reduced capability of 6 or 7 CVBGs ( down form 12 ).
Post secession the combined North American fleet would/could be even bigger and better then ever. The new free country would spend MORE on defense per capita and less on welfare.
The situation is DYNAMIC and not STATIC.
Who is talking about a war? We are talking about a secession. Different things.
and that Navy works how when California, Oregon and Washington are part of the American CCP? They berthed in Alaska-with enemy around all sides?
Under that logic the Chinese are so strong they should have annexed all of S.A. and Mexico by now!! LOL Ask the day nurse to up your meds.
How stupid are you?
You think most states will agree which side to choose?
Are you/they going to let cities secede?
What in the world does that mean? I am sick of try to explain simple basic political concepts to tories.
The big thing that worries me about secession is that once it really begins (irrevocably), China or Russia will pounce militarily.
For example, let’s say China waits until everything is official and we have two countries on this continent. Would we come to the defense of Boston if 5 Chinese subs popped up and leveled the city?
Would the bi-costal count we just broke away from help us if the same thing happened to Houston?
I’m all for freedom over tyranny, but I don’t want China or somebody rolling tanks down my street because our two new country couldn’t get along.
(Am I making sense?)
Kamala, excuse us, Kamala, excuse us, we’re speaking. (Are you listening?)
The New Republic of American Free States would have a Gideon armed forces. 1 of our fierce and determined patriots could whip 10 from the PC Army of the Corrupt Democracy of RAT States, just like a small Israeli army beat 20X the number of invading Arab countries several times.
“And all the while, the death count continues to soar.”
The author lost me there. The death rate pre-covid and post-covid is about the same across all age groups per Johns Hopkins.
The more I read Michael Brown, the less I want to. The Democrat machines in all of the usual places went into overdrive in the election. Apparent voting system based fraud was applied in Republican areas. Election law was judicially altered to enable easier fraud.
He cites thw wiflu, but neglects to identify the unbalanced nature of which political party applied the most draconian measures, guaranteed to eviscerate the economy to harm their political rival.
He fails to recognize the one-sided source of the insurrection across America’s cities.
Instead he says we should all “fall on our faces before God”, rather than putting on God’s armor and joining the righteous battle. To a godless and God hating enemy who rejected God 3 times at their convention, unilaterally falling on one’s face before God is merely easy access to stomp on or cut your opponent’s neck.
There is another option..
Convention of the states.
the constitution is dead. We’ve got nothing to lose.
I haven’t heard much about the convention lately.
...and months to form new constitutions and guaranteeing bills of rights with a bunch of “go back to Egypt” style traitors trying to sabotage the thing from the get go!. My choice would be freedoms of association being guaranteed but all secret masonic groups and elitist illuminati stuff be banned under threat of executions! I’m tired of dealing with the termites, the little foxes that spoil the grapevines.
You are assuming the democrat party would stop the CCP. They installed their very own president (God forbid) and every democrat is either owned by China or shares the same commie ideology. Add to that the idiot voters who would say what a great thing it is because they would bring free healthcare for all and electric cars to save the planet.
Oh but by my previous posting ,don’t think I’m not agreeing with you...just stating the obvious teething issues a government of a new nation would have to face.
Yeah. No more social experiments, spending defense dollars on tranny conversions, etc.
Thank you.
And it is really important to grasp that with a stolen or rigged election...
WE are the majority party in the nation.
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