Posted on 09/08/2021 3:30:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I am of the opinion that we are all a part of one of the great epochal shifts in human history and that what we fight to secure today will reverberate through society for generations. We did not ask for this moment — most of us, in fact, have hoped that by quietly enduring the hardships that come our way, our toleration of what is intolerable would somehow be rewarded with comfort and peace. As with all turning points in human history, however, the desire to ignore obvious trespasses in order to forestall conflict has had the effect of encouraging further harm until conflict is all but certain. Like a garden hose tied into a knot, societal pressure has been steadily building, and everybody senses that it could pop at any time.
As with all revolutionary moments, at the root of this conflict is an idea. In one word, that idea is freedom. Now, governments have been manipulating this word for as long as humans have been demanding it. Lenin seized power in Russia while claiming to "free" the proletariat masses. In FDR's famous Four Freedoms State of the Union address in 1941, the president defended freedom of speech and freedom of religion but also insisted that it is government's responsibility to ensure "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear."
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“Freedom” can only be from Government.
There is a class of people in the government that is afraid of the people they wish to control. That is why they are so adamant about creating the strawman argument that white supremacy and white nationalism is the greatest threat to the country..
They loath truth, and hate God with all their hearts and souls. That’s why they are corrupt as they are.
The author is right…we are reaching one of those defining moments, and we have to fight back or forever lose our freedom. And I mean even our freedom to simply do normal everyday things and live normal everyday lives.
The pressure is growing, and people can feel it. But the problem is that there are no leaders. Trump has been pretty much sidelined by the effective maneuvering of the left, and he wasn’t really very much of a leader in preventing the initial stages of what is becoming a full blown tyranny (the lockdown). I don’t know his opinion on mandatory vaccines, quarantines, and restriction of the lives of citizens as “protection.” He wasn’t very good at the start and I remember when he attacked the Georgia governor for not shutting down. So I don’t think he’s going to be the one, although possibly he’s changed.
Certainly, there’s almost no leadership on the political front. Governors Abbot and DeSantis are good, but they have trouble with the left wing cities in their own states and the courts keep attacking and cutting down anything they attempt to do to free people. As for the Senators and Representatives, I don’t see much action there. And the vast majority of religious leaders have showed themselves to be either cowards or people who value Caesar way above anybody else.
International travel is practically forbidden so going somewhere else isn’t an option, and in any case, almost all the world’s countries are under the thumb of China and the “Chinese response,” which is to use artificially encouraged panic and fear to install a totalitarian society.
Maybe the author is right and leadership will spring up from where we least expect it.
Buy then of course there’s the problem of the media: if leadership emerges and nobody ever hears about it and the story is never covered, did it really happen? Not as far as having an impact, and of course our communications are increasingly spied upon and limited so even the informal means of information-spreading we thought we once had - particularly social media - is cut off.
This brings up an interesting thought process about peoples perception of what freedom really is. For example, some people do good in jail because they enjoy freedom from any responsibility.
...and in government, a religious institution, a corporation, and the military.
“I don’t know his opinion on mandatory vaccines, quarantines, and restriction of the lives of citizens as “protection.” He wasn’t very good at the start and I remember when he attacked the Georgia governor for not shutting down. So I don’t think he’s going to be the one, although possibly he’s changed.”
Trump has stated on numerous occasions that while he personally believes in the vax it should be a free choice each individual can make.
The president can be faulted if you want to look strictly at his words but it is also the case that for a man with not a shred of political experience he has literally accomplished miracles in his 4 yrs.
Every senior or in this case Chief Exec needs seasoned advisors to give him the information he needs so that he can do his job of decision making. When you receive faulty info and advice from these advisors you will invariably make bad decisions.
In Trumps case the swamp infested halls of government mislead him purposefully in many instances with his own Party’s people ( the main culprits are entrenched gov’t service types) back stabbing him.
BS
The progressive movement is counter to history. It will not continue, Rather the strong will prevail and crush the inferior progressives
Natural selection will continue to weed out the weak
Human kind will revert to the norm
Re #5: totally agree.
Our side is bereft of leadership. Tens of millions of people who are just fish in a barrel, no place to go, churning as they are “landed” and destroyed, a little at a time.
I love our real President. He was re-elected overwhelmingly. And what he did with the opposition he had makes him one of the greatest presidents in history.
But he had two problems he never solved.
1) He could not get around the absolute barrier of McConnell, who obstructed him at every step, and forced traitors on him. McConnell led the “Republican” opposition against Trump nationally, greased by buckets of money, prestige and power. McConnel led the bribery and blackmail which assured that Trump was blocked at every step. And in all fairness, it is hard to imagine what Trump could have done except what he is doing now, belatedly, getting politicians on his side.
2) We all knew the election was going to be stolen. We ALL knew. The media announced it every day for a year, and each unfolding step was obvious. Obvious not in hindsight, but as it was happening.
I felt, and many people felt, that Trump had the theft in hand, that the perpetrators would be caught in real time and exposed, and the theft prevented.
It now appears that Trump was relying on his huge victory and did nothing or not enough. He knew he was going to win beyond the margin of fraud, or thought so. Consequently, he did nothing, or not enough, to prevent the theft, or to document the theft conclusively.
DeSantis looks like a genuine leader. There is nobody else that I can tell. That is a dangerous situation. Taking out one man is child’s play, and that is what will happen. Who else can step up?
But more significant is that our side has no one outside of politics to lead. We get a lot of phonies and empty suits, and a lot of our time is wasted on people who have done nothing except get us excited to no end. I am going to cite one person in that category, and expect a lot of hysterical response, but he is the perfect example.
Whatever else he may actually be, and to my mind it is dubious, Mike Flynn throws out stuff to great cheers and admiration, but what has he done? Besides siphoning off energy and attention?
There are many other Flynns out there. We can cheer, but get nothing, let alone leadership.
Add to the lack of leadership the abject cluelessness on our side, where people think we need Socratic dialogues and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, refusing to recognize that our government has been overtaken, the coup is complete, and the kulaks are in the process of elimination.
Once the guns are gone its over Johnny
Indeed. It starts right there.
The current ‘reset’ movement is Godless. It is Godless totalitarian, one-world-government socialism built on a new-age Marxism/communism foundation. Well communism for the masses, the Proles. But not for the actual 1%.
Dostoevsky (via translation) said “In [Godless] Marxism everything is permissible, except dissent from the Party line.”
In this model, power defines “morality”, and without God there is no real morality, simply power. We are seeing that in action right now. What ‘we’ would define as depravity is now permissible, even encouraged, as it flies in the face of Righteous morals, Godly rights and wrongs. The classic God-given moral code will soon be illegal to express and manifest.
The early church lived and thrived in the 1st and 2nd centuries when this was ‘the Way.’ We need to follow their example.
Queue “the Basics of Life” by 4 Him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSTSWnDtoE
We know it, and they know it.
But it seems an impossibility to pull off for them.
They think they can, we know they cannot.
I definitely know that. I think he did an incredible job, especially with the opposition. But turning over the “virus response” to Pence (I think Trump did this because he believed it would depoliticize the response), who then turned it over to Fauci, essentially making him the President and decision maker, was a serious mistake. Unfortunately he didn’t put a stop to it while he had the chance. I’m sure he was as intimidated by Fauci as everybody else, and when the 2 weeks shutdown continued to grow and became even more severe, he actually encouraged people to put up with it, and devoted all resources towards a vaccine, although he did suggest treatment options which were promptly shot down.
And twice publicly attacking Kemp of Georgia for keeping his state open was a big mistake, and I think it led to the refusal of Georgia to support him in the election. Not to mention all of the other electoral hijinks that went on all over the country under the cover of “covid”. The fraud permitted by those definitely cost him the election.
Everybody makes mistakes, and Trump is no exception. I just wish he’d come out now and speak more strongly against the crushing of our freedoms and the installation of a Chinese communist style state and economy. He could still lead.
“Maybe the author is right and leadership will spring up from where we least expect it.”
Yes, a ‘man of the people’ will emerge and his name is tyrant. At first he will serve the people but as power corrupts his name comes to have the meaning most associate with ‘being a tyrant’.
Like the markets turning we can never predict what sets off great changes in motion. But I sense one is coming in this great land of our. . . the great silent majority is slowly awakening. Just my 2¢.
“The fraud permitted by those definitely cost him the election.”
The fraud would have happened regardless of what said about Kemp or anything else.
That is very true. McConnell was a disaster, and unfortunately he was joined by so many others (Barr, for example) that it’s really a wonder that Trump got anything done. He was under attack from all sides from the moment he started - not only the press and the Dems, expressing their contempt in the most juvenile ways (Nancy Pelosi ripping up the SOTU address comes to mind), but Republicans and even supposedly professionally neutral people. Remember Milley’s refusal to support him? That was pretty scandalous and Milley should have been removed right then, even though it was at the end of Trump’s term. But Trump got no support from the very people who should have supported him.
I have always been surprised that he didn’t try to resist the blatant attempts at “legal” election cheating through these special covid provisions. But then, that would have required the support of the AG, Congress, the courts, etc….and he had none of these. By all rights he should have won, so maybe he was complacent, but he campaigned really hard (against somebody who never emerged from the basement because he knew he didn’t need to).
Maybe Trump underestimated the evil and the plotting of the left, not being able to conceive of anybody being so dishonorable and so filled with hatred of their own country and their fellow Americans.
As for supporters, such as Flynn, yes, you’re right, they’re not leaders and sometimes have been just noise and distraction. Of course, the Dem-controlled media and legal establishment, not to mention the FBI, were very effective at destroying any Trump supporters who might go public.
The forces arrayed against freedom just seem overwhelming. Dialogue works only if the other party actually cares what you say, and obviously in this case, the left doesn’t give a darn. And as you say, the kulaks are being eliminated.
Here is another one to make your day better. It’ll give you a small victory in Jesus today.
This is actually my favorite rendition of In Christ Alone.
I have asked my family to play this when God calls me home.
I especially like the words and how it it sung with passion after the 2:17 mark.
Also keep this in mind today ;-) Matthew 5:10
I wish I’d written every word of this article. So much absolute truth, there is nothing I would change. It is beautifully written and direct. Bravo to J.B. Shurk.
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