America's Lost Awareness

 

Preamble: 

            Psalm 64: “Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy.  Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:  Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:  That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.  They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?  They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. 

            But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.  So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.  And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.”

 

Introduction:

             ~ If You Had Cancer:  If you had cancer – would you check into a Hospital which employed a passive approach?  “We will teach you how to comfortably co-exist with your cancer until it kills you?”  Or would you opt for a hospital which employed an aggressive approach?  “We will do everything presently in our power and pursue every new thing we can think of to cure you of this horrible disease.” 

            Well, here’s the present troubling reality in America.  The nation has a virulent malignancy growing in its populace.  It is Marxism.  And, it is, daily, eating away at the quality of our national life and that of our individual citizens.

            And no sane people would opt for that passive approach when they had the option to aggressively rid themselves of that growing death sentence within them.  And yet, that is what this nation has done for many decades now.

            Marxism, as a malignant social philosophy, has been carefully designed by the Darkness to quietly establish itself within a nation.  Then it slowly paralyzes that nation's immune system (its system of laws which protect against such seditious internal threats). And then, it voraciously eats away at the remaining national physiology until that nation dies.

            This is the very observable present reality and the accurate prognosis of this now very sick America.  And, if we do not aggressively pursue a complete and decisive cure for this malignant Marxist movement within us, it definitely will, and not too eventually, kill us.

            Granted, we have had a very positive election.  We now have a much more vibrant, capable and enlightened federal administration.  And, obviously our economic life and our governmental life is about to vastly improve.  But those things are really just the skin covering that deeper and truly deadly organic issue beneath.  If all we address during this Trump reprieve are those surface things, we’ve done no more than give a dying nation a brief and hearty breakfast.

             The more critical and pressing reality is this.  The world-strewn Marxist sociopolitical movement is now, has always been, and will incorrigibly ever remain a seditious nation-killing organism – completely lethal wherever it is allowed to take root.  And, that ever active seditious behavior which so efficiently kills nations is completely baked into its DNA. And, the number of international casualties which have already, over time and around the world, fallen prey to that ingrained treachery makes the threat level of the movement completely self-evident.   It is always existential.

            So, the purpose of this brief is to freshly call attention to that now very advance Marxist malignancy which is presently growing within the American populace.  And, additionally, to encourage this nation to choose the sane approach, a truly aggressive approach, to rid ourselves of this terminal threat, once and for all.

 Background:  

      Marxists Are Treacherous, Relentless and Good At What They Do:

             ~ A Treacherous Method to Their Madness:  So, make no mistake.  There is always a method to the Marxists’ madness.  And, there is always a deadly madness to their method.  Even now, after that 2024 national election which decisively delivered a mandate to return America to a more enlightened, common sense governance, the Marxist play is to double down on pushing for those insane, vastly unpopular positions that largely cost them that recent election. 

            And now, on any given political television program, you can see long-experienced conservative political commentators, people who should know better, wagging their head in disbelief at what seems to them to be this huge Marxist Democrat political faux pas. They are joyfully convinced that the Marxist political left is shooting itself right in its own foot.  And, they are just at a loss to explain such badly mistaken behavior. 

            But they would not be so gleefully flabbergasted if they took the time to remember or discover that hidden motive which always informs the seeming madness of a Marxist.  As has now been rightfully noted many times before, for Marxists, “The issue is never the issue - the revolution is always the real issue.”

            So, this is that awareness which those television head-waggers on the right are presently overlooking.  Marxists are never only about winning elections.  These guys are also about something else much bigger and much more hidden – the seditious overthrow of the non-Marxist government.        

            And, what is needed for that is not just votes but also an army of disgruntled and determined henchmen.  So, when the right thinks Marxist are politically out of tune – they just don’t understand what tune they are singing.

            ~ Pot Stirring:   In the Marxist mind, eventually, all controversy and divisiveness is merely an important element of the coming national overthrow. Indeed, the issue is irrelevant.  And, what side of the issue you are on is also irrelevant.   It is the controversy and division that is their real intent. 

            The simple idea is to forever “pot stir” the culture using every possible divisive issue.  And then, recruit new foot-soldiers to the cause from those disgruntled and angry ranks which rise to the top.

            Thus, in this way, Marxists are able not only to divide and weaken a culture, but also to create this growing militant force.  This is a “fifth column,” which is ever poised and ready within the loyal indigenous citizenry to aid in the day-to-day work of the Marxists in their push toward a takeover.

            ~ Double-speak:  And, to help maintain the ranker of their disgruntled ranks Marxists employ double-speak when speaking publicly.  In this way, their people hear their real message and outsiders hear something else entirely.   

            So, within their deceptive double-speak phrases there is encoded seditious messaging, intended for their own ranks only – to stir a fresh awareness of their dissatisfactions, or incite them to some militant activism, or give them some straw man to hate, etc.  Thus, whenever Barack Obama endlessly repeated his campaign slogan of “Hope and Change” – in the ears of his already dissatisfied Marxist followers, he was actually cursing the traditional capitalist America he was standing in and vowing to eventually give it a new – a Marxist face.         

            So, controversy, division, social madness, chaos, political insanity – bring it on.  The more, the better in the Marxist mind.  They can blend it all into the service of their irresistible penchant for the seditious, down and dirty work of social insurrection.  

            ~ Strategic Infiltration:  And, when you connect these ever enlarging Marxist ranks to the idea of “Strategic Infiltration” their threat becomes even more dire to Loyal America.  Especially considering that also within those dissatisfied ranks are many very influential elitists and intellectuals who possess great power to do wide and lasting damage.  

           Willi Munzenberg (1889 - 1940) was an early German communist within the inner circle of Lenin, himself.  Munzenberg said this, “We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western Civilization stink. Only after they have corrupted all its values and made life base, can we impose the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.”

            Munzenberg, was wealthy and influential in his time.  And, his influence is still felt today.  His treacherous ideas and tactics are still widely employed, presently in their now much practiced form. 

            Munzenberg saw clearly, perhaps in his own prominent social circles, that elitist and intellectuals were not only reachable, but even especially susceptible to Marxist rhetoric.  And, in fact, over the years, these often already ego inflated individuals have proven to be easy pray for the Marxists’ entirely fabricated vision of their “better new world.”  

            And, in fact, these typically more quixotic recruits have been extremely useful to the cause.  Indeed, they are, even now, very effectively helping to propagate that Munzenberg stench within our American culture. 

          So, those elevated people on the left, the news and commentary media, the late night comics, the storied professors at our ivy league universities, Hollywood's movie stars and movers and shakers, the wealthy and powerful tech crowd, the political figures and their wealthy donors, etc., are not merely those surface vocational things.   In fact, they are those things while being also deeply devoted servants to that dark-hearted Marxist agenda to overthrow the American way of life.  And they are surreptitiously serving that cause – all while many unwary Americans see them merely in terms of those surface vocational things that they are and do.

            So, it seems Willi Munzenberg was right. These intellectual and elitist boys and girls are pretty handy Marxists.  And, of all the Marxist “stinker-uppers,” surely this disloyal American version must be among the cream of the crop.  Willi would be proud.

            ~ Relentless:   This deadly Marxist game of nation-killing has already been long played out on the world stage.  And, just like so many chess pieces, many nations have already now fallen to the treacheries of Marxism since their more recent mid-nineteenth century gambit began to unfold.

            James Simpson masterfully relates that unfolding to open his absolutely brilliant book, Manufactured Crisis -The War To End America. Mr. Simpson opens Chapter 1 this way. 

            “In 1869, a twenty-two-year-old Russian anarchist named Sergey Nechayev penned a short pamphlet titled, The Revolutionary Catechism.  While notorious in his day, few of today’s historians speak about him or apparently even know him.  I call him the most important radical no one has ever heard of, and in my book, Who Was Karl Marx.  I devote an entire chapter to him. 

            “This is because in Catechism he laid out a strategy that became the blueprint for Communist revolutions worldwide, first implemented by the Russian Bolshevik Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who took power in Russia with the birth of the Soviet Union in 1917. 

            “Nechayev’s Catechism states, ‘Our task is terrible, total, universal and merciless destruction.’  Karl Marx and all the revolutionaries of his day agreed. 

            “In one of his writings, Marx proclaimed, ‘There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified, and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.’”

            Mr. Simpson then wrote, “Pol Pot move over.” 

            And then Simpson continued, “In his 1848 Communist Manifesto, co-authored with fellow communist Friedrich Engels, Marx wrote, ‘The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.  They openly declare that their ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.’

             “The anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, one of Nechayev’s colleagues who is sometimes sighted as co-author of the Catechism, stated, ‘In this revolution, we will have to awaken the Devil in people, to stir up the basest passions.  Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.  The Passion of destruction is a creative passion.’

            “Keep that last statement in mind.”  Mr. Simpson wrote, “From these short statements and many other similar ones, we can see that the seeds were planted very early on in the Communist movement to foment crises manufactured by the Communists themselves.  The Catechism states it concisely in the following passage:

 

‘The society [of revolutionary conspirators] has no aim other than the complete liberation and happiness of the masses – i.e., the people who live by manual labor. Convinced that their emancipation and the achievement of their happiness can only come about as a result of an all destroying popular revolt, the Society will use all its resources toward increasing and intensifying the miseries of the people until at last their patience is exhausted and they are driven to a general uprising.’ [Brackets added]

 

            Mr. Simpson then adds, “Reflect on that. Nechayev advocated actions that would literally drive people mad. Today’s Left has taken this idea to heart.  Nechayev laid out the entire plan, summarized below.

 

‘1. Penetrate all segments of society, pretending to fit in while plotting destruction.  2. Attack property rights, traditional society and morality.  3. Create so much chaos and division that society declares war on itself. 4. Create an order of execution to exterminate all people not useful to the Left.’”

 

            Mr. Simpson goes on to add this, “Lenin was obsessed with Nechayev and reprinted and widely distributed Nechayev’s writings.  Nechayev’s strategy for destroying the West became known as “Catastrophism.”  And, while Lenin did not refer to the term specifically, he is alleged to have described it as follows.

 

“Deepen the contradictions [i.e., exaggerate, exacerbate existing crises, problems, social and ethnic differences and disparities, opinion discrepancies, rifts, etc.], and if they don’t exist, create them or, if you can’t create them, convincingly claim that they do exist and then deepen them, and in the process, profit the most from them in any way you can – politically, ideologically [and financially, to bankroll the left] and, in the resulting chaos, blame our enemies for the whole mayhem, and finally come up with solutions that will favor us and be the root of new and future crisis to be exploited in the future, and so on until the targeted capitalist society is destroyed completely, to then build, under Bolshevik supervision and control – a socialist society enroute to Communism.”  [Brackets Added]

 

            So, these were the shaping thoughts of the earliest Marxist insurrectionists.  And now, these militant and seditious tactics have been deeply baked in to the very DNA of the movement for almost two centuries.  And, starting in the early twentieth century, this corrosive and incorrigibly seditious Marxist movement has been very effectively targeting America, using these malicious tactics to good effect –  bringing us now to our very tipping point as a society.

           ~ The Roots:  The far but still very visible roots of this  Marxist assault on America can easily be seen to stretch back across Europe’s deeply scarred philosophical landscape to 1923.  And, they lead again to Willi Munzenberg and a Hungarian communist named Georg Lukacs. 

            These men were instrumental in launching The Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt in Germany.  The faculty of “The Frankfurt School,” as it came to be known, was filled with prominent Marxist professors and agents.

            From its inception, this institution was designed to be a Marxist incubator. It was intended to nurture a Marxist rank and file student body, Marxist teachers, a well-schooled Marxist leadership and the needed blue collar henchmen highly skilled in sedition and espionage etc. 

            It was in this Frankfurt School that its preeminent professors, Hokheimer and Lukacs, began to develop the seditious tactic of “Critical Theory.”  The idea came directly from the mind of Karl Marx as early as 1843 when he exhorted his communist followers this way. 

 

“The proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, when we realize all the more clearly what we have to accomplish is in the present.  I am speaking of the ruthless criticism of everything existing, ruthless in two senses.  The criticism must not be afraid of its own conclusions, nor of the conflict with the powers that be.”

 

            Again, James Simpson, in his book, Manufactured Crisis, went on to include this very clarifying note.  “The goal of Critical Theory was aptly described by William Lend of the Free Congress Foundation in 2004.

 

‘Critical Theory was essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism.’”

              Simpson goes on to say, “Clearly, this is what Munzenberg referred to when he outlined the goal to corrupt Western values to the point where Western civilization would stink.” 

            And certainly, this destructive criticism tactic has now been long used by Marxist to deceptively vilify the noble ideals and institutions of the West.  And still, we suffer these baseless and/ or pointless diatribes of destructive criticism. 

            One has to wonder if the world’s larger philosophical conversation pit will ever learn to simply dismiss some ravings as just the outbursts of the sophomoric – trying to appear to be more than that.  But, now that I think about it, probably the idea of dismissing anyone’s ravings would just be entirely to practical for the tastes of that highly self-absorbed pit. 

            The Frankfurt School eventually moved its darkness on to Switzerland in 1930 to escape the rise of Nazism and then on to Columbia University's Teachers College in 1934. And sadly, it is still here in America.  And, Columbia is now a consummate hot bed of Marxist teaching and proliferation.

            Indeed, this Marxist educational creation is still every bit the Marxist incubator that Willi Munzenberg designed it to be.  And, its treacherous progeny are now broadly fanned out across the US and the world, itself. And the recent revelations regarding Columbia’s campus life is part of the continuing confirmations of the nexus between Marxism and this now toxic pimple on the face of American academia. 

       ~ Good At Evil:  Marxists in general, and certainly American Marxist, are consummate social predators.  And, by this late historical hour in America, they have a truly remarkable chameleon-like quality which affords them a very high degree of stealth and camouflage in the eye of the unwary within our culture.

            For example, the cover provided by their ever multiplying and ever changing and ever deceptive organizational names, labels and acronyms would certainly make those actual chameleon tree lizards turn green with envy.  Even just this one deceptive tactic, this deceptive-name-game, becomes a formidable obstacle when it comes to identifying and accurately assessing the deadly nature of these nation-stalkers. 

            ~ So, Who?  So, when it comes to Marxists, with whom are we really wrestling?  Are they Communists, or Socialist, or Progressives?  Does the Democrat party cover it?   Are they that leftist voting block of disgruntled Marxist dupes?  Or, perhaps, they are those intellectuals and elitists blinded by their own egomania into believing they really are noble world-changers. 

            Or, are they seditious Marxist lawyers, lawmakers and politicians, or the disingenuous media people who give them cover?  Or, maybe they are the high tech social media manipulators.

            Perhaps, they are people like George Soros with his vast wealth, quietly used to buy his way to a Marxist America.  Or, maybe they are people like Barack Obama with his penchant for corrupting government and weaponizing it against the governed.  Or, maybe they’re people like the lawless Clinton and Biden families who more primarily serve Marxism as political mercenaries, mostly just seeking to further their own personal wealth and influence. 

            Or, is the movement composed of those endless deceitful front organizations, or the agents and operatives of the Chinese Communist Party operating within our industries, our laboratories and our universities?  Or, are we talking about those activist judges and politicized prosecutors who pervert and weaponize the law to serve the Marxist cause and obstruct American prosperity at every opportunity?  

            And, it could be that it’s just those disloyal Marxist mayors who defy federal law in an attempt to create their own Marxist city-states and then allow them to be burned down – both figuratively and literally.  Or, is it that sell-out church with its Marxist tinged ministry leadership or that Marxist conscripted teacher’s union?

            The answer to all of these possibilities and more is a resounding – YES!  Marxism, as a practical reality, is a slippery and deceptive Conglomerate of adherents.  It is a vast array of seditious sociopolitical players which have now thoroughly infested the American culture with their strategically threatening presence. So, taken together, yes, all of these deadly entities form that now strong and growing social predator that is American Marxism.

            ~ The Marxist “Tell”:  And, the Marxists’ own awareness of their strategic strength in the American culture is presently being well-confirmed by their change in behavior. And, that behavioral change is actually a kind of “tell” for both the Marxist individual and the movement as a whole. 

            It works like this.  The nature of the Marxists’ seditious nation-killing work demands of both the individual Marxist and the larger movement that they become both psychopathic and sociopathic in the course of that work, depending on conditions.  And, these character flaws actually unfold in an order that is, indeed, telling to alert minds. 

            Early on, both the individual Marxist and the movement have to be Psychopathic to carry out their deceptive work. Nation-stalking is a tedious business.  And, in pursuit of their quarry, Marxists must, at first, be what all psychopaths are:  outwardly disarming but covertly calculating and manipulative – and all without remorse of any kind for any ethical, moral, or social breach they may employ.

            But later, as they become much stronger within a culture, and the actual kill stage of their nation-stalk begins to near, that telltale character/ behavior change then occurs.  As they begin, in earnest, to close in on their prey, they start to shed that more docile veneer of the secretly scheming psychopath.

            In this muscle-tensed stage, when all of their accumulated strength is brought to bear, they transition to the more openly aggressive posture of an entirely unmasked sociopath.  And again, they do so with no concern for the brutality of their actions.

            ~ A Stark Example:  An amazingly stark example of this Marxist character/ behavior transition can easily be observed right now in both the Democrat members of the American Congress and in the larger movement.  Especially during the Biden administration, the transition was very noticeable. 

          That deceptive but more docile appearance of the psychopathic nature so characteristic of previous Democrat lawmakers began to dramatically peel away.  And, this tell, this now more outwardly aggressive sociopathic nature of today’s Democrats began to show up across the caucus and even beyond, in the movement as a whole. 

            Nearing the end of Biden’s first term and that coming 2024 election, the Marxist could smell blood in the water following four years of the Biden oligarchy’s savage social lacerations to the nation.  And, the Marxist left was salivating at what very much appeared to be the election that could finally hand them that perpetual Marxist grip on power.  And, in all frankness, they were not wrong – if the election had gone their way.

            Had that happened, the nation simply could not have recovered from that deadly blow.  With that horrendous result, the Marxist would, indeed, have succeed in gaining that intractable grip on power.  And, without a doubt, a deep, dark and lasting Marxist nightfall would have descended upon this nation.

            ~ Contributing Factors:  No doubt, that elevated level of confidence among Marxist during that time was also more than a little stimulated by at least three nefarious elements which, at this writing, still remain mostly in place for them today.  First, there was a keen awareness of the largely Obama/ Biden implanted Marxist bureaucratic deep-state within the government. 

            Then, there is the legal cover and the obstructing power provided by rogue Marxist judges throughout the judiciary.  And finally, there was at least the perception, if not yet the fully fruitful reality, of a vast numerical resource furnished to them by the Biden era border surge of illegal aliens. 

            So, factoring in these illicit resources, American Marxists did begin to sense the real possibility of the take-down of their long-sought American quarry.  Thus, they began to make this psychological transition from that more docile but contriving psychopathic demeanor to the more unleashed and hell-bent sociopathic posture.

            And even now, even after that Trump slap-down election, they continue to ride a kind of residual wave of that sociopathic aggressiveness.  So, we see them rioting over deportation of illegal aliens, and openly defying federal law, and thumbing their nose at legitimate presidential prerogatives, etc.

            Their rhetoric, and the emotions behind that rhetoric, are now much more caustic, angry and militaristic. And, more and more they are advocating and actually employing violence. In short, they have just become more aggressive in general and much less guarded in their seditious behavior.

             ~ A Divine Reprieve:   But, for now, due entirely to the intervening mercy of a compassionate God in the form of the Trump MAGA juggernaut, that American nightfall has at least been forestalled.  To the complete dismay of American Marxist, the nation has been given a divine opportunity, however brief, to recover and regroup. 

            So, while Loyal America can certainly now rejoice in the present vibrancy, courage, and vastly more enlightened nature of the Trump administration.  Nevertheless, this is not a time to rest and let down.  It is a time to recognize that our Marxist stalker is now more driven, still highly advantaged, and closer than ever to making America its next kill.  And that Marxist game plan is unchanged.

            ~ And Unchanging:  And to that last point, the Marxist game plan is actually ever un-changing.  Actually, it cannot change.  This intentional seditious nation-killing, with all of its attendant tactics, is, in effect, “the leopard’s spots.” Marxism’s ingrained and instinctively seditious intent entirely and immutably informs the entire nature of this predatory beast. 

            So, from Karl Marx, himself, to Lenin, to Stalin, to Alinsky, to the Ivy League Marxist professors in our universities today, to the present Democrat Party, the basic game plan of Marxism over time and worldwide doesn’t change.  It is still this.  By any means possible, destroy all existing non-Marxist governments.  And now, American Marxist are convinced – “It’s America’s turn.”

             ~ Good Destructors – Horrible Re-builders:  Marxists justify this horrid destruction of perfectly viable non-Marxist cultures with the promise of a better build-back.  But in reality, Marxist have never been able to build back a single nation into a free, broadly prosperous and spontaneously joyous people.  The evidence of this is also world-strewn and self-evident. 

            Marxist are simply not re-builders.  What they call reconstruction always turns out to be only a different and deeper kind of societal carnage.  Always they simply institute a Mafia style of government yielding only a dark, bloody, sorrow-filled and oppressive environment for the unfortunate populace over which they gain control. 

                Nevertheless, it is undeniable that Marxists are good at this thing they primarily do – destructing nations and the lives of the people who inhabit them.  And, as Karl Marx, himself, indicated, they don't really care who knows it. The idea is that the determination and the great prowess of the Marxists destructors is all that really matters.

            In the Marxist mind, as in the mind of any predator, the key question is not, “Will we be found out?”  Obviously, in any predatory pursuit, that will always happen at some point.  So, for the Marxist, the ultimate question is not “Will we be found out?” but rather, “Will we be found out in time to foil the takedown?”

            In recent world history, sadly, far too often, the anecdotal answer to that question has been a tear-stained “No, not in time to foil the takedown.”  And that, again, is primarily because Marxist have, indeed, become so very good at what they do.  And, for any nation to ignore or disbelieve this reality, is to invite their own eventual downfall.

 The Primary Interpretations:

            The Present American Predicament

            ~ The Constrictor:  If Marxism is a very effective sociological predator, and it definitely is, it is also a completely unique one.  It easily mimics the form of whatever killer-creature might work best in a given moment.   For example, at this present moment in America, Marxism is very much operating like a Boa Constrictor snake. 

            The Marxist Movement often presents in the same way as that dreaded snake. It arrives quietly to a nation, moves about stealthily until it is strategically well-positioned to strike.  And then, like that lethal snake, Marxists embroil and begin to restrain their nation-prey.  And then, they begin to constrict and squeeze ever more tightly until the sustaining physiology of that culture is entirely defeated and it dies an inglorious death.

            The Biden years very clearly demonstrated to America, not only what that excruciating political and social constriction feels like, but also how quickly it can occur and how devastating it can be.  Those agonizing years were God’s providential warning designed to get America’s attention.  And, it seems to have worked as far as elections go.  But the politics of a nation are by no means the whole dimension of its existence.

            It is true that we have had an election with a very positive outcome. And, already there have been many beneficial outflows which have, for the moment, returned America from the brink.  And, in this God-provided Trump Moment, Loyal America is on top again - for now.

       But the larger reality is that, from the standpoint of sociopolitical demographics, we are not on top by much.  And again, this reprieve might very well be as short-lived as only one presidential term.  

           And, if that is the case, when this very unique Trump Moment expires, we might again be at that very real tipping point in the nation.  And, that will be the case if we have done too little in this time to address that lethal Marxist snake which still remains a very dire threat to the nation’s entire underlying physiology. 

            Even now, there are, and have been for some time, near stalemate numbers in the Congress.  And certainly, it is old news to say we are a house, divided. But that normalcy bias begins to diminish significantly when we also take note of the fact that, not only are we deeply divided, but the battle lines are also now dangerously convoluted. 

            We are, now completely entangled with our Marxist enemies. They presently have a threatening strategic presence everywhere in our society. And, this entangled reality works only to their great advantage and to the great disadvantage of Loyal America.

             ~ Escaping the Snake:   So, the question becomes, “Can America escape the death throes of this Marxist snake?”  Certainly there are reasons to be hopeful as we observe the extraordinary momentum and bright prowess of the Trump administration, thus far. 

            But the complexities created by that strategic Marxist influence throughout this culture remains a daunting problem. Even factoring in the MAGA movement and the great rectification going on in the government right now, the larger battle for the soul of this nation still remains a complicated and uphill slog.

            Marxists never just give up and go away.  And obviously, this now sociopathic American Marxist movement has no intention of doing that – Trump mandate or no.  And, this movement is darker than ever, still highly motivated, well-skilled in their treacheries, and completely ruthless.

            And, they have long ago pulled out all the stops – as we are now learning from the recent revelations coming out of the Department of National Intelligence. The American Marxist conglomerate is now obviously very willing to use any and all means to achieve an ultimate victory in America. 

            ~The Most Telling Indicator:  And by now, it is anecdotally well-proven that we have become hugely disadvantaged in one way which is more critical than any other, save one (which we will explore later).  But of great significance for now is this.  We have not, especially in recent years, been able to successfully prosecute Marxist even for their sedition and other crimes.  Perhaps, more than any other, this is the most telling indicator of just how weak and toothless Loyal America has become and how strong the Marxist conglomerate has become.

       ~ A Critical Defense: When it comes to an internal philosophical threat such as Marxism, the real defense of a republic largely rests in the quality and effectiveness of its laws. But we must be clear. 

            In the final analysis, the real protection of the republic lies not merely in having excellent laws on the books.  It lies in the actual fair and accurate interpretation and the consistent prosecutorial application of those laws.  When twisted interpretations and non-prosecution for wrong doing become common place, in reality, there is no law and the republic becomes truly defenseless and very exposed before internal aggressors like Marxists. 

             And, all of this is now widely happening in present-day America.  The infiltration of Marxists into our judgeships and prosecutorial positions, from the Supreme Court and the Department  of Justice on down, has now scattered their corrupting and obstructing influence throughout our judiciary. 

            ~ In the Simplified View:  In the simplified commonsense view, things become clearer.  In America, sedition and treason have been severely punishable, felonious crimes from our inception as a nation.  And the reality is that Marxism is immutably and incorrigibly a philosophy and a resulting movement of seditious and treasonous activism. 

            Indeed, the Marxist movement retains no essence at all absent its seditious activism which it constantly advocates and practices.  Truly, the movement’s elemental purpose is to undermine, overthrow and take the place of existing non-Marxist governments.  And, all that the movement does only seditiously serves that treasonous agenda. 

            ~ A Nation Within a Nation:  Thus, Marxism as a unifying philosophy (a constitution), the resulting movement it generates (a distinct and separate sovereignty), and all of its individual adherents (citizens), in effect, become a treasonous nation within a nation.  Indeed, a Marxist conglomerate in any non-Marxist culture is unavoidably treasonous, based merely in the incorrigible reality of its nefarious nature and purpose. 

            That Marxist conglomerate is, in essence, a deep-state which, for all intents and purposes, is seditiously serving another nation, the Marxist conglomerate, itself, which has, in effect, assumed a separate sovereignty from that non-Marxist state in which it geographically exists.  

            So, due to Marxists’ immutable devotion to a seditious overthrow of the non-Marxist government in order to establish a clearly envisioned Marxist replacement government born up of the conglomerate, then, the threshold for treason is fully met for all adherents within that Marxist conglomerate.  They are, in fact, seditious traitors in service to another nation.   

            And, this is precisely the illegal reality that has been both occurring and accruing in America for more than a hundred years now.  Nevertheless, our Marxist infected judiciary has now seemingly become completely feckless, unable to even articulate this actual reality, much less prosecute its criminality.     

            Long ago, Marxism, as a philosophical discussion, as an embraceable life choice or as an advocatable cause should have been aggressively prosecuted in America, since all those things are illegal under our laws due to that essential nature of Marxism.  And, for that same reason, they should also be vigorously prosecuted as illegal today.  But obviously, that is a much taller order today due to that strategic Marxist influence throughout the judiciary and the culture.

            So, for now at least, America’s critical internal national defense, our justice system, has been dangerously compromised.  And, it remains to be seen if this critical national bulwark can be faithfully and durably restored.  But truly, no civil institution is more essential to our escape from the grip of the Marxist snake and the healthful continuance of this republic.

             ~ A Multi-Dimensional Warfare: 

 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” ~ St. Paul

             ~ First Things First:  At this late hour in this struggle, as previously noted, there are also many more Marxist defensive mechanisms besides just that deeply compromised judiciary.  And, all of them doggedly work against Loyal America and a decisive victory over Marxism in this nation.   And, those defenses will have to be carefully and meticulously taken down using the correct means - in the correct order – first in the judiciary and then in our government and educational systems.

            But, before that process can begin in earnest, the present widely myopic view of the actual battlefield of this conflict must be corrected.  It is essential that Loyal America begins to see the whole tactical picture involved in this struggle against the darkness of Marxism – and not just the part that is easily visible.

            The actual theater of this American Existential War is, in fact, a two dimensional one.  There is, of course, the Physical life-dimension.  But there is also the hugely impactful Metaphysical (or Spiritual) life -dimension.  

            However, especially lately, Americans have been widely conditioned to see the metaphysical dimension as largely irrelevant.  And, this is especially true regarding what they understand to be simply the practical issues of this physical reality - issues such as this struggle with Marxism. 

            But, in fact, it is a huge mistake to see this conflict as merely a physical phenomenon requiring only material actions. To take that one-dimensional view actually undermines a decisive victory over Marxism.

              ~ The Bi-dimensional Reality, Briefly Explained:

 Two Dimensions, Two Primary Influences, Two Opposing Economies

             ~ Two Life-Dimensions:  The physical life-dimension, in all of its issues, is always intimately interconnected to and informed by the larger metaphysical life-dimension.  And, for now, operating across both the physical and metaphysical dimensions of life are two primary influences. 

            ~ Two Primary Influences:  The first primary influence, of course, is the Governing Creator, God – the completely enlightened and omnipotent divine Benefactor and authoritative Truth Giver for all of Creation.   And, the second primary influence, also operating across both life-dimensions (until he is judged at the end of time), is Satan, the arch-demon – himself, once a powerful angel who irredeemably fell from God’s grace and now constantly and seriously troubles humanity. 

            ~ Two Opposing Economies:  And then, in turn, flowing out of these two primary influences, there are also, for now (until God’s Christ-based redemptive work is completed), two diametrically opposed economies.  These economies prolifically impact both dimensions of reality every day. 

            First, there is the Economy of Light.  This is a philosophically enlightened economy which is well and lovingly governed by God’s truth (His correct and authoritative interpretation of reality).  

            And, in complete opposition to the Light, there is the Economy of the Darkness.  This philosophical economy is clearly marked by a willful rejection of divine truth.  And, in that absence, the economy of the Darkness is chaotically guided and governed by the prime principle of Individual Self-determination as it applies to both man and demon.

            ~ Satan’s Real Impact:   So, the truly accurate concept of reality and the human experience is this larger, bi-dimensional concept.  It is a view of both Good and Evil players vibrantly operating across both the physical and metaphysical dimensions of life every day in every circumstance. 

            And in this larger, two dimensional reality, indeed, Satan and his destructive activities are as real as is God’s benevolence. And, in fact, it is that Satan led economy of the Darkness which has actually intellectually authored the dark philosophy of Marxism. And, it is that economy of evil which then sold it to an unenlightened humanity for the purpose of undermining all things good in this physical life-dimension.  

            And now, every day, humanity is brutally assaulted, in very real and bloody terms, by this product of the Darkness.  And, the Marxist movement, its thoughts, its words, its behavior and its treacherous tactics have now become Satan’s pinnacle weapons in this bi-dimensional assault on humanity.

            ~ Significance:  So, in fact, to believe that the metaphysical dimension plays no significant role in this struggle to extricate America from the grip of the Marxist snake is actually a truly unenlightened conclusion. To believe such a thing is to vastly underestimate the difficulty and complexities of that task. And similarly, it is to vastly overestimate Loyal America’s ability to go it alone without divine help. 

            ~ The Ultimate Counter Attack:  As noted earlier, as Marxists have methodically marched toward their final overthrow of the American way of life, they have, indeed, been able to established rear guard defensive mechanisms such as we have already discussed at some length.  And now, Loyal America will, indeed, have to dismantle those formidable obstructing defenses in order to decisively defeat Marxism in this nation – again, necessarily starting with the American justice system. 

            And, of course, there is one irresistible force which can easily enable the success of that endeavor.  That force is the active helpful intervention of Almighty God.

             ~ The Necessary Prerequisite:  But before that active divine help can possibly become a reality, Loyal America will have to come to grips with another critically important and connected issue.  That issue is the importance of our “National Relationship” with God.  This is that "save one" issue mentioned earlier.  It is the most critical issue.

            Usually, when we speak of a relationship with God, it is in terms of an individual relationship through Christ – one that is based in an individual’s humble devotion to Christ’s Lordship.  But there is this larger scale relationship with God, this “National Relationship,” involving the entire populace of the nation, both religious and secular. 

            Such a relationship is easily observed in the historical pages of the Bible which record the annals of the nation of Israel.  And, this type of relationship is absolutely now in play in America.  And, the quality of life in this nation, from its inception, has always been directly correlated to the quality of this composite national relationship with God.

            ~ It Works Like This:  Again, not unlike Israel, America is also a nation chosen to fulfill a divine purpose.  And that divine assignment is to serve as a winsome example to the modern world.  America was always, and even now is, intended to exhibit to the world that quality of life which accrues to a nation who maintains, at the very least, a respectful relationship with God. 

            And, the blessings which flow from that respect have, indeed, traditionally been exemplified by America.  They are such blessings as a strong and well defended sovereignty, a stable and fulfilling social order, a strong and positive influence in the larger world, a conscientious nobility of character, and the joy of material and spiritual prosperity, to name but a few.

            ~ Two Relational Facets:  And, this respectful national relationship which brings this multitude of blessings has two relational facets.  First, as one would assume, this respectful relationship occurs as a Christ-centered, deeply Faith-based Respect for God within the Church.  And second, it occurs as simply a Secular Reverence before God, merely based in the willingness of that segment of the populace to be so.

            ~ The Problem:  But there is a problem. It is the great decline of this national relationship.  For some time now, this nation has been widely failing in both of these relational facets – the religious and the secular. 

            The grassroots American Church has now become broadly disrespectful. It has become so by its present widespread pretentiousness and its declining levels of serious intellectual and emotional investment in the pursuit of a truly intimate and mutually fulfilling individualized walk with God. 

            And, this degeneration has now accrued as a pervasive shallowness in the American Church which has far too little to do with that intimate personal walk and far too much to do with merely religious fads and Church busy work. And similarly, the secular culture in America is now, in greater and greater numbers, choosing irreverence, and even antagonism, toward God.

            ~ A Cascading Decline:  Two simple axioms entirely encapsulate these present difficulties in America’s national relationship with God.  The first, drawn from the Bible, is this. “Like people - like priest.”  And the second, drawn from that example, is very similar, “Like nation - like Church.” 

            Indeed, this accrued relational waywardness which now deeply darkens America's national relationship with God has its origins in this present widespread relational waywardness within the American Church.  And that waywardness within the American Church has its origins in its now widespread poor ministry leadership.  It is a leadership which is now far too widely focused, at all levels, on feathering its own vocational nest – at the great expense of accurate redemptive truth and God’s true pleasure and agenda.

            In The Book of the Revelation in the Bible, Christ left a prophetic note to the whole of this twenty-first century Church, which would certainly include this present American segment.  He actually posted seven of these notes at the same time with John, His beloved Apostle.

            They were to be delivered to seven very real churches of that day in Asia Minor.  But, those notes have now long been understood to also actually be prophetically addressed, not just to those now far gone local churches of that day, but to the seven Church Ages which were to follow the time of the posting of these notes.    

            The seventh and final letter was written to that local church which was located in the ancient city of Laodicea.  But, again, it was also prophetically addressed to this final, “Laodicean” Church Age, the age through which we are now living.  The idea is that the Church of today, the Church of this final Church Age, bears the same characteristics as are mentioned in that note concerning that local Laodicean church.   

            That  note is actually a compassionate warning to us as a beloved but now widely Christ-disapproved Church.  The letter basically offers two choices to the Church of this present time – Correct your behavior, or be, at the last, widely rejected.

            ~ Revelation 3:15-22:  Jesus begins the note this way. “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.  So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”

 

            Obviously, Jesus has no intention of recognizing a “lukewarm” devotion as sufficient for good-standing before God.  And, so much so, that a dire threat is here issued by the Lord of the Church, Himself.  It is the threat of a final, widespread rejection due to the absence of that deeply devoted personal relationship which He seeks to have with believers.  And, Christ goes on in this memorandum to also address the widespread cluelessness regarding this deficiency in today’s Church.

 

            He says, “Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’ – and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

 

            So, Christ’s angst with today’s Church is further inflamed by this serious contributing reality.  It is not just that we are widely under-invested in our relationship with Him, but also that we have completely deluded ourselves in that regard.  It would seem we are so drastically out of touch with the Lord’s true view of our real standing before Him, that the dire magnitude of our shallowness and His displeasure completely escapes us.

            But as harsh as this reality may be to hear in the ears of today’s Church, yet, never was a truer picture painted of the broad condition which now exists within this present American Church as a whole. But, compassionately, our loving Savior offers a way back, a graceful correction for these failings.

 

            He says “I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire [a purified and supreme devotion of heart], that you may be rich; and white garments [a Living Christ empowered, reality-based righteousness], that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, [legitimate divine truth] that you may see . As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.” [Brackets added]

             ~ Message Received:  So, Christ’s concern for today’s Church, under all of its present banners, actually caused Him to send this note of loving admonishment forward, across two millennia to warn us of our needed corrective actions. And again, this loving admonition certainly includes this American segment of the present Church – likely, even preeminently so.

            ~ The Unveneered Truth:  The unveneered truth regarding this present American Church as a whole is that it has become a house of distorted mirrors.  It now presents a whole array of grotesquely contorted images of what a viable redemptive relationship with God looks like.  And the obvious indication of this chaos is that we have broadly lost our theological way and that we are simply too self-absorbed to even realize it – much less actually admit it to ourselves. 

          ~ An Accurate Redemptive Message:  Nevertheless, all accurate and truly redemptive Christian theology begins and ends with this uncomplicated reality.  God is simply about the business of building back better, in Christ, that mutually fulfilling friendship that was lost in Eden all those eons ago.  

            There, Satan deeply and chronically implanted in the psyche of humanity that treacherous subconscious sin essence. It was the idea that a self-determined life is far superior to a God-guided life.  

            From that time to this, God has been working His graceful plan, on an individual basis, thorough both the Dying and the Living Christ, to expose the fallacy of that self-determined life approach. The redemptive intent is to demonstrate the better and truly mutually fulfilling nature of a Living Christ-sustained God/ man friendship. 

            So, through the sacrifice of the Dying Christ on the Cross, God has brought to pass the possibility of forgiveness for the willing individual who would again enter into a devoted friendship with Him.  And, beyond that, and flowing out of Christ’s Resurrection, God has, in these New Testament times, put His final, unique and completely magnificent redemptive element into place.

            He has gracefully designed a symbiotic spiritual merger between the character essence of the truly devoted believer and that of the now Living Christ.  And through this symbiotic character integration, the sufficiency of the Living Christ, now operating within that believer, enables a consistent faith-expressiveness in the believer’s character essence and, in turn, his or her lifestyle realities.

            Thus, through both the Dying and the Living Christ, the God/ man friendship has now been built back vastly better through that shared sufficiency of the Living Christ.  And, this new Living Christ-sustained friendship with its consistent faith-expressiveness, now naturally and easily embraces God’s values, His truth, and His daily personal guidance. 

        Thus, this friendship daily renews, in real terms, our character and our lifestyle realities. So, it is, indeed, mutually fulfilling, pleasing both to God and to man. And, this renewal truly is made completely durable in the sufficiency of the Living Christ.

            ~ It’s Just Not That Complicated:  This has always been the simple redemptive vision in the divine heart and mind. “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart…” But obviously, the modern Church has now widely diverged from this authentic divine intention to widely embrace relational shallowness.  

            So now, at this very late hour in redemptive history, we are left widely standing in a puddle of our own conceited pretense - just deluding ourselves.   And all of this, while the larger world already sees this broadly compromised contemporary Church for what it truly is – largely lost in the morass of its own shallowness and confusion. 

            Nevertheless, obviously, there is still truly a God-pleasing way back which is left to us according to that Laodicean note.  And, as we again begin to embrace that more deeply devoted walk with God, the real beauty and efficacy of the God/ man friendship will return. 

            So the solution is just not that complicated, really.  James sums it up beautifully in his New Testament writings.  He says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”

             ~ And What of the Secular Populace:   Now, consider the role that the secular populace plays in our national relationship with God.  Obviously the bar is not going to be nearly so high.  

            Their decision is simply one of respect as shown in a general reverence for who God is as the Governing Creator and what He brings to the table when it comes to the quality of our day to day lives. 

           Obviously, this is not a saving reverence regarding their souls, but it is an important part of that national relationship. And God does weigh this secular reverence in the balances of that relationship. 

            But ahead of this wide change of heart in the secular populace, must be that dramatic recovery within the heart of the Church.  As the Church begins to experience that recovery and its character takes on a much greater gravity within the culture, then that previous axiom, "Like nation - like Church" can begin to work in a positive direction instead of that previous negative one. 

               ~ So First and Finally, There is This:  If there is to be a decisive defeat of this Satan-spawned Marxist movement in America, Loyal America will absolutely have to employ the correct means – in the correct order.   And in line with that necessity, we should first take steady aim at rectifying our National Relationship with God.  The plain truth is that those things which we must do to prevail against Marxism and recover ourselves – we simply cannot do without the Almighty's intervening help.  

           The obvious reality is that the complexities of that endeavor are just too great if merely left to our own devices.  We are just already too far disadvantaged.

           So, for example, if we are to restore teeth to our laws, become more articulate in their use and widely and bravely prosecute the sedition and treason of Marxism out of existence in America, something else will also have to happen.  God will have to guide, bless, and powerfully intervene in that effort.

            If we are to purge this devilish darkness from our educational systems (the incubating source) and our government (the empowering source), surely, The Almighty will have to do the early heavy lifting.  If we would see healed, the resentment charged social rifts which Marxists have created within our populace, can there really be any doubt that this will have to be a divine healing?   

            Facts are facts and reality is reality.  A great restorative effort is required of Loyal America to restore and secure a bright American experience going forward.  But all bravado aside, truly those good things can  and will only happen under the shadow of The Almighty’s wing. 

              ~ A Divine Olive Branch:  And, in fact, God has, even now, placed that great hope before us in the Trump Administration.  Already, by that 2024 landslide election, the foiled assassination attempts, His obvious anointing on the Trump Presidential Team and the prowess of the President, himself, God has dramatically demonstrated how easily and effectively He can intervene against this Marxist existential threat.

            Unmistakably, in these days, our redemptive God is offering an olive branch to the nation, if we will only see it for what it is.  It is an absolutely magnificent opportunity for a true healing and thorough renewal of our national relationship with Him and, in turn, the renewal of our nation.  But certainly, it is equally unmistakable that the American destiny now clearly pivots, for good or evil, on how, in the final analysis, we treat this merciful opportunity.

 Conclusion:        

          Marxism – The Weapon of an Ageless War:

                 ~ The Larger Struggle:   Any alert mind easily understands that America is now deeply involved in a truly existential struggle with Marxism.  But what is not always or even often apparent, even to alert minds, is the larger scope of this struggle.  America’s war with Marxism is really just a part of that now long-running metaphysical war between the Light and the Darkness, between Good and Evil, between God and Satan. 

            And, this American struggle absolutely has that metaphysical facet inextricably involved in its nature. And, to exclude from consideration, the more sophisticated requirements place upon us by that metaphysical dimension of the conflict is to fight with our eyes closed. Such an approach actually guarantees defeat.  

            But the reverse is also true.  To simply open our eyes and actually embrace that larger and more sophisticated reality hugely enables us.  

            Such a decision enables us to see the full dimensions of the enemy we are fighting.  It also allows us to see and utilize the powerful metaphysical weapons and assistance which are available to us:  prayer, a faith-based courage, a benevolent divine providence, the God-ordained might of right, and the intervention of the Almighty, Himself. 

            Marxism was conceived by the Darkness. It has been introduce into this physical reality by the willing human dupes of the Darkness.  And, it is now being sustained by the power of the Darkness.  The only path to victory for America against this Darkness-empowered enemy is to marshal the Light to our side.

            And, God has, indeed, already clearly signaled his willingness.  But, be assured, He is also waiting.  In fact, the next critical step is our own to make – or not.  It is that National Step that will again bring us near to Him. 

            And surely, this is the best possible step.  And, if taken by a people humble in heart, yet resolute and honest in that gesture, that step will absolutely yield its immense divine blessings to us.

 “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has laid up for those who love Him” ~ St. Paul