Americans are even further from the needful awakening than the rest of the West, because they (unlike Europeans or the Brits) continue to be optimistic about the possibilities of politics in general and elections in particular.
This seems almost incomprehensible, but it does seem to be true - not least as evidenced by the sheer volume of discourse about the current Presidential elections.
Amazing numbers of people including many commenters who regard themselves as sceptical, hostile to totalitarianism, aware, Red-Pilled - seem to have forgotten that a seventy-year-old DT has already been president once.
During which term he failed to fulfil his primary espoused slogan-objectives (build the wall, drain the swamp); but instead led the nation and world into the birdemic-peck totalitarianism and the international chaos of "MLB" antiracism...
Culminating in a blatantly distorted and overturned election, after which he caved-in, failed, forfeited his honour.
Furthermore, since 2020 the world now knows, as a solid fact, that the US President does not run the USA.
Yet all over the internet is expressed the delusional optimism on the self-identified "right" that a 78yr-old DT might - if elected - make a significant positive difference to the US and the world...
Rather than what seems obvious: that if DT is elected, it will be because elements within the global totalitarian leadership class want him elected, and (doubtless due to private deals and pressures) he is regarded as a sufficiently "safe pair of hands" to take forwards their agenda of evil.
Such optimism, such "hope" is mental - but there it is.
It seems that things will need to get even worse; before there is any possibility of genuine understanding of the primacy of the spiritual in the simultaneous suicide/ rabid-dog destructiveness of The West generally and the USA in particular.
Superficial reformative changes "within The System" cannot be positively effective; but "at best" will sustain The System to increase the depth and extent of inflicting its strategic destructive evil.
When things are bad, then things can only get better in the long term via getting worse in the short term - that is a rule of life - and this entails positive and voluntary acceptance: spiritual benefit cannot be imposed.
The System is built for evil, and corrupted throughout - in all social institutions; by international and national laws, regulations, mass/social media, and social mores.
Any genuine hope of positive social change must be led by deep change in individual persons; because there is no other possible source of good motivations.
Thus from where we actually are, pessimism is simple realism.
Things are probably already lost (many times over) and there can no guarantees of turning around generations of willing and celebrated corruption - and anyway, why should a serious Christian desire to save and strengthen the major source of strategic evil in the world today (or perhaps ever) - the engine and enforcer of global value-inversion?
In such a context; to be existentially interested and engaged by politics, to grasp at straws of "not impossible" benefits, to pin any kind of hope on elections; is not just childish - but a profound act of irresponsible subservience to demonic powers.
“...if DF is elected, it will be because elements within the global totalitarian leadership class want him elected, and (doubtless due to private deals and pressures) he is regarded as a sufficiently "safe pair of hands" to take forwards their agenda of evil.“ Bammo. I have resolved not to vote for the first time in 40 years. I am convinced our votes serve no other purpose than to hand the devil a moral blank check. My hands are stained enough with the blood of all the hundreds of thousands of peaceable people slaughtered in defense of “my” “homeland” and whose deaths I ratified by my vote. May God have mercy on us and especially on those next on the satanic perverts kill list.
ReplyDeleteOn the ground here, I can tell you it’s not like last time. You’d hardly know it’s an election year unless you’re in a hyper-political area like Austin.
ReplyDeleteThe pastor at my old church continues to tell congregants they are in sin if they don’t vote, and I know at least two families that have confronted him about it, one because they rightly observe votes are not actually counted, another because they don’t want to support evil even if it’s the lesser of two.
This is a fairly influential fundamentalist/evangelical type pastor locally/regionally, but by no means a national figure, so it’s shocking to me how leadership all the way down to the lowest local level in this country are serving this evil system.
But the sheep are questioning, at least.
@Mia - I'm glad to hear it. That suggests that the supposedly "right wing", supposedly anti-Left, commentariat commentariat are more deluded than the average citizen - which is a further way they are "mental"!
ReplyDeleteMaybe we’re reading different bloggers, but I’m not seeing any real enthusiasm for “DF” this time around. Why are we calling him that, by the way? Don’t tell me it’s meant to stand for a well-known German phrase.
ReplyDelete@WJT - I have changed DF to the more sensible DT.
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ReplyDeleteI also don't see any enthusiasm for a second Trump term, just opposition to the current presidential administration. I will attempt to provide a counter-argument that people should care about the American elections.
First, one thing the last two administrations accomplished was to demonstrate conclusively that the American President actually has little effect on how the American government is run. Some people argue that this has been the case since November 1963. ...
This could also be an excuse to do another ratchet of totalitarian, like in 2020. But in that case its important to pay attention to see what the plan for that is.
Consider the position of the Leave side in the British EU debate. Outcomes could have included the loss of Leave in the referendum, Leave winning the referendum but the outcome being ignored, or a formal British departure from the EU but in name only. The first two came closest to happening and the third outcome was what happened. But with no Leave campaign at all, the result would have the UK remaining in the EU without any fuss. There was no reason not to try it.
@Ed - Don't believe what you read - Britain did Not leave the EU. There is literally zero experiential difference - except in foreign airports.
ReplyDelete*Official* figures for UK immigration last year (i.e. certainly an underestimate) were 3/4 million.
'Nuff said.
I have no illusions about Trump's ability to "turn things around." What he does is drive the bolsheviks and the ideological conservatives insane; that which is falling should be pushed.
ReplyDeleteWe are arriving at a tipping point, as Iraqi Christians did in 2010 and European Christians did in 1683. So the issues become strategy and tactics.
@A-G - From what you write, you fall under the curse of the title!
ReplyDelete@K-C - This is what happens when someone does not *really* believe in the promises of Jesus (resurrected, eternal, Heavenly life) - "my kingdom is not of this world".
ReplyDeleteNaturally and reasonably, the truth about this world makes such an one despair, as it must if that was all there is - so he will refuse to believe it, and lash-out against it.
It's a problem - but the answer is there, for anyone who chooses to accept it.
@Mia
ReplyDelete"The pastor at my old church continues to tell congregants they are in sin if they don’t vote"
How does he respond if you tell him that the anointed one said his kingdom is not of this world?
I don't have much to add but as a yank, I'm painfully aware of this. There are exceptions of course, there always is, but most of my friends that I feel should know better still seem to think they can vote for a better future.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note I uncharacteristically watched a little bit of the Republican National Convention this summer and all I have to say is yikes...
Well, I personally would not bother since our disagreements are much deeper than even that, but I imagine that question would lead to a lecture about the Millennial Kingdom!
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