America Is in a Cultural Riptide That Defies Logic

America is presently caught in a cultural riptide that is dragging us to a place where most of us really don’t want to go.

To those bothering to look, it is a current that alarmingly is growing in strength, becoming inescapable, and, with increasing speed is taking us further and further away from that shining light on the hill we were raised to love and used to call home. As that light—symbolic of our liberties and freedoms—fades in the distance, we are being swept away against our will toward a dark place ruled by a self-chosen cabal of elitists who have proclaimed themselves to be uniquely endowed with a politically correct humanist form of “enlightenment.”

The society they are crafting is a place where values and traditions we once thought were right are now condemned as wrong. And those social practices which we used to consider wrong are not only being codified as right but are being placed on humanist alters of social justice before which the unenlightened—We the People—are ordered to bend a knee in worship … or else.

Consider we are now being told that all whites are, by definition, racial bigots solely by virtue of their skin color. And, we are also now informed that all whites as a group are to be considered white supremacists who are committed to the perpetuation of an only recently discovered systemic racism that, in turn, was cleverly institutionalized by a Constitution drafted by white slave owners. No longer is it defensible to assert that those men sought to create a unique nation where all men and women should be treated equally under our laws as the God who created us all views them to be. Instead, we are told that if we ever hope to arrive at the utopian society the “enlightened” elites claim to be achievable, whites just need to apologize for the “privileges” they have “usurped,” make reparations for the damages they have inflicted and then just get out of the way … or else.

Of course, there remain some among the unwashed who continue to challenge the logic—or, better yet, the lack thereof—of those who would postulate that the victims of such race-based bigotry are themselves the bigots. But they are quickly dismissed for failing to appreciate that the lack of logic inherent to the policies of the “enlightened” is no longer to be considered relevant within the confines of the public debate as they have defined it.

Consider further the recent election when millions of people witnessed before their very eyes the largest successful criminal conspiracy ever pulled off in the history of mankind—i.e. the fraud that disenfranchised over 75 million voters to illegally replace a president the “enlightened” disdained with another “president” suffering from dementia. And yet, notwithstanding the obviousness of this truth, the same elites who committed this crime now would have us all believe that we must be committed to the silencing of any who would challenge the legitimacy of an illegitimate president due to the threat such dissidents pose to our democracy. It’s the same logic as a murderer telling the police to not question the crime in light of the fact that the corpse is already dead. That is the kind of logic pretzel that enables these same newly re-empowered elites to find that a certain congressman seated on the House Intelligence Committee who is alleged to have been bang-banging a Chinese spy named Fang Fang poses no more of a threat to our democracy—not to mention, our nation’s security—than the declared anti-Semite who remains seated in the House Foreign Relations Committee. While at the same time, we are told by those same “enlightened” elites that the xenophobic bigots who supported President Trump—who, on a sunny day, prefer to refer to themselves as patriots who endorse things like law and order, a strong economy, enforceable borders, domestic jobs and election integrity—are henceforth to be categorized en masse as potential domestic terrorists. And as such, it is they—that is, not the elitist criminals—who are to be identified, censored, boycotted, de-platformed and, whenever possible, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law—as defined and selectively enforced by the elitists, of course … or else.

Meanwhile, this newly re-invented culture we are being forced to inhabit is passing laws that would require schools, businesses, and churches to surrender their constitutional liberties in order to avoid discriminating in any way against people with hairy chests and five-o’clock shadows who may also choose to grow breasts, wear a dress and paint their nails. Nor are we to even think about complaining if some of these same individuals out-compete our daughters on the track or wrestling mat, or even if they choose to share our daughters’ locker room showers. We are told sexual orientation and gender preference is not for anyone other than the individual to decide. Thus, predictably, based on this illogical game plan, it will not be long before civil rights protections will soon be extended as well to pedophiles and polygamists … or else

For many caught in this cultural riptide, the question that begs to be asked is: “How do we get out of this fix?”

As a nation, we have willfully untethered ourselves from the anchor that once guided the morality of this country—i.e. a belief in the God from which emanated the Judeo-Christian ethics upon which this country was founded. To our shame, many of us remained silent as we were told by a few that a culture’s morality is not dependent on the precepts of an imaginary God. Humans, we were told by the politically correct, “enlightened” few, are capable of forming their own morality. And indeed, according to them, only when the moral devotion of humanity is unleashed from the “tyrannical” commandments of such a God and redirected toward wherever our worship of“science” and “humanity” can take us, will we be allowed to reach the utopia of our own creation that we have been assured by the enlightened is attainable.

And therein lies the very lie that has been offered to replace the God-inspired truth and standards we as a people used to share in common.

It is this very same lie of the inherent goodness of a humanist morality that was sold to people by socialist leaders in the past like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong to enable those same people to justify—in their minds—the need to kill tens of millions of their fellow man.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn put it this way when asked how the socialist policies in Russia came to result in the death of over 60 million people:

Logic dictates that is something America might want to seriously consider soon before the cultural rip tide of today takes us beyond the point of no return … or else.

The Second Coming
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)

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The Second Coming
FROM AUDIO POEM OF THE DAYJuly 2020
By W.B. Yeats

The Communist Takeover of the United States- Part II –And so called liberals, being ignorant took pride helping to cheat in the voting process where ever they could, in the end destroying the goose which laid the golden eggs, then they moan and groan when prices as well as taxes go out of sight.

Wayne Allyn Root

This is Part Deux of my series on the Communist Takeover of the United States. Part I centered on the new President who oversees it all- Barack Obama. I do believe the new president is in fact, the old president. This is the third term of Obama.

The first time around, Obama tried his best to destroy America, American exceptionalism, our Judeo Christian values, our capitalist economic system, our healthcare system (17.7% of the US economy), and the great American middle class.

Obama gave it his best shot. He crippled America, but he couldn’t quite finish the job. He needed Hillary to be elected to finish the job, but we all know how that turned out. Trump managed to beat a rigged election by bringing out the biggest turnout of white middle class voters in history. Obama vowed to never let that happen again.

Hence the election of old, weak, feeble, brain-dead Basement Biden- hopelessly lost and confused with dementia. He’s fallen and he can’t get up. Obama likes it that way. Biden is Obama’s puppet and front guy. Obama can now finish the job and do it under the cover of darkness.

Biden gives him “cover.” Now Obama can carry out his plan ruthlessly than he ever could when he was the first black president, and wanted to convince American voters he wasn’t “radical” or “extreme.” Back then, Obama had to move with caution. He had to “boil the frog slowly”- as I warned in my #1 national bestseller in 2013 “The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide.”

All that is history. No more moving with caution. See Biden’s record-setting Executive Orders. They are as radical and Marxist as anything ever seen in America’s history. Obama is running the show. He is back to finish the job he started in 2008. Here in Part II, I will explain the actual plan. I learned it at Columbia University from 1979 to 1983. I was Obama’s college classmate at the Ivy League college where Marxism and the destruction of America was taught in every classroom. The plan was called Cloward-Piven, named after a husband-wife team of Columbia professors.

Cloward and Piven created the perfect Marxist plan: get every American possible on welfare and other government handout programs, in order to overwhelm the system, bring the national debt to levels never imagined, bankrupt America, and bring business owners to their knees when the economy collapses. Then you’ve got a socialist country. I recognize exactly what’s happening today in America with Biden as PINO (president in name only). Obama is running the show and he’s using a modified version of the Cloward and Piven plan from our Columbia days.

Democrats (aka socialists and Marxists) tried to get everyone on welfare for the past 38 years since Obama and I graduated Columbia. They came close, but they never could never quite overwhelm and collapse the system. The success of capitalism, Reagan and Trump got in the way.

But now Obama has the modified the plan. He is going to use the next four years to open the borders and MAFA (Make America Foreign Again). This is a modified version of Cloward-Piven. If you can’t get every American on welfare, then change the composition of America.

Open the borders and recruit millions, eventually tens of millions, of foreigners who don’t speak English; who know nothing about American history, or the US Constitution; who have no education, talent or skills; who require cradle to grave welfare; who will vote Democrat forever more, in order to keep the welfare checks coming.

Soon, America is so filled with foreigners, America becomes foreign to Americans. And those foreigners tip the scale and overwhelm the system with all their welfare, food stamps, free healthcare, free education, and a thousand other needs. Have you seen Biden’s Executive Actions? Have you closely watched Biden’s first six weeks in office? It’s all dedicated to open borders. It’s an obsession. It’s all about illegal aliens. It’s about giving them every form of welfare imaginable. It’s about giving them rights, privileges and advantages American-born citizens don’t have.

This is the Cloward-Piven plan Obama and I learned at Columbia, modified by Obama. He’s overwhelming the system and collapsing the US economy by flooding our nation with illegals. This is the Cloward-Piven plan Obama and I learned at Columbia, modified by Obama. He’s overwhelming the system and collapsing the US economy by flooding our nation with illegal aliens. The floodgates are open. The disaster has begun. In Part III next week, I’ll identify every detail of this plan.

Amazing at how well Yeats sums up the cultural and political trends we are witnessing develop at a rapidly accelerating pace.

Interestingly, Yeat’s gyre analogy is remarkably similar to the riptide analogy used by the author of this commentary. (A gyre is, of course, a circular , whirlpool like current with much in common to a riptide)

Yeat’s verse that really hits home to me is -

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

It sums up, in a nut shell, the situation we find ourselves in these days.

Even now, a majority of American's see what is going on around them and realize that something is very wrong but we simply cannot muster the courage and summon the will to to put a foot down and say enough is enough to the passionate zealots who work tirelessly and will stop at nothing to ram their wicked agenda down our throats.

Their motto and battle cry is -”by any means necessary” and they are deadly serious about the “by any means” approach to what they feel is “necessary” .

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