Elect a community agitator . . . get an agitated community. No surprise to our little group of FRiends. Figures.
Thanks for the BEEP!
Seems that most republicans are just democrats that want to be left alone..
They are no more for “a REPUBLIC” than any democrat..
Democrats being for “democracy”..
Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
Indeed, dear brother in Christ!
Yet speaking as a student of cultural history, the process to which I was referring usually has involved many decades, if not centuries, before it finally culminates in some kind of human catastrophe. [Human history, like global climate, seems to have its shorter-range and longer-range cycles, too.]
What the Left Progressives think they can do is compress the required timescale for the effective inducement of such catastrophe. They think this can be done, principally by believing in three things: (1) That Rhetoric absolutely trumps Reality. That is to say, the way humans think and speak about the world can actually, really change the world of Reality. And (2) That humans can be "educated" not to think critically about anything that affects their direct well-being and the conduct of the their daily lives; the corollary being that everything God leaves up to the individual to decide and act on is best left up to the "expert class" — the State — who know better than "the masses" do. (The Progressive Left has virtually no concept of the human individual as such.) Finally (3): There is no such thing as Truth anyway. The corollary being: The Lie is your friend.
Progressives have to kill off the Christians (at least figuratively, but you never know...), because they know they are misappropriating Christian eschatological symbols, and Christians are the ones most likely strongly to OBJECT to this maneuver.
In so many words, with Christians, the End Times are all about God's Judgment — and salvific Grace — the restoration of His own to Himself, and the renewal of Creation in final consummation with Heaven itself, a sort of merger or marriage of Heaven and Earth giving birth to the New Kingdom under the eternal sovereignty of Jesus Christ Savior, Logos, Son of God....
That Progressives use Christian symbols in the manner they do is absurd, irrational; not to mention proof of their fundamental duplicity, intellectual and moral. But they do, and always seem to get away with it — probably because they have been so very effective in promulgating (2) above.
The immense difference is, with the Progressives, the Eschaton is not Christ; it's the State — to be run by them, the self-selected, power grubbing Expert Elite and their dedicated (brain-washed?) minions....
Obama reduces such insights down to "the level of the Streets." He is the consummate political thug, who seeks to rule "Alone" — with the addition, of course, of the necessary swarms of administrative enforcers he needs to implement his edicts, and punish all non-compliance with his edicts, such ne'er-do-wells instantly earning the public status of criminal offenders.
The success of this bait-and-switch routine goes straight to the heart of the culture. Maybe we could talk about that a little bit later.
We are living in Never-Neverland these days....
Obama seems to be the Red Queen....
On that happy note, must close. Just let me add my thanks for your wonderful insight, dear brother!