Washington's New Color, "SCOTUS YELLOW"

Recently the Supreme Court ruled that the President had no standing regarding fraud in the 2020 election. How completely lame. It is impossible for me to imagine a circumstance where the President of the United States would not “have standing,” on any issue which he chooses to raise - based in the sheer gravity of his office.

So now, sadly, my cynical side now suggests that there are more sinister forces than mere legalities at work within the present high court. And, in that case, I think the court should be reminded of what has ever been a defining American ideal. It’s “courage.”

Nevertheless, at this critical moment in history, the court has chosen to make America’s Lady Justice “blind,” in a new and very ignoble way. To my eye, her blindfold no longer signifies Fairness – but Cowardice.

Our soldiers, our first responders, and the vast majority of our ordinary citizens all regularly face down life’s most fearful intimidations. They choose courage to be the ideal which first defines them. They do not typically even attempt to conveniently invoke some such cowardly approach which suddenly makes them mere spectators to life. Rather, they insist on being people who very purposefully attempt to shape life for the better – every day – come what may. I am, today, so profoundly sorry that this present court is apparently not cut from that same cloth.

In fact, all but the most naïve among us, now know that The American Republic was mortally wounded on November 3rd by seditious political criminals who very methodically corrupted our election process. And, they have now done so with impunity, thus insuring they will repeat their formula in all future elections.

As a result, the failure of our republic is now completely imminent – though it would seem that most, even now, have not comprehended that reality. But, the nullification of its election process is the sure death knell of even the most vibrant democracy. Elections then become merely a way to legitimize unending dictatorial power. And, this is what has been essentially achieved, in this 2020 election by these seditious criminals.

The Weight of This Moment by A. A. Joe

They think that America’s Average Joe, of which I am one, is simply too dumb and/or too ill-informed to know what’s really up in America these days.  But, we’re not really that dumb or that ill-informed.  In fact, we do know what’s really going on.

For example, we know that what we are presently watching unfold in America is an actual coup attempt driven by people who might be very accurately described as “World Class Sociopaths.”  They are, indeed, a people with serious personality disorders which are now expressed every day as extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviors, all while demonstrating an utter lack of conscience.

It is true that these groups and individuals from the Left are not as easily defined and identified today as they once were.  They are not simply holdover Fascists from the 30’s and 40’s or old style Russian and American Communists types of the 50’s and 60’s.  Now, their identifying banners are a jumbled sea of social and political labels, disingenuous front organizations, and activist pet peeves. 

It is also true, however, that all of this jumble of craziness does eventually coalesce along a Marxist / Socialist axis. And, this axial Marxist connection is confirmed by at least three things. 

First, the Marxist connection is confirmed by their educational exposures.  All of the real players on the Left read the same warped thoughts of angry, hateful men who, themselves, were world class sociopaths – Karl Marx, Howard Zin, and Saul Alinsky, to name a few. 

The second Marxist identification is the actual, street-level tactics which these treacherous people employ.  The seditious tactics which they are presently using in this nation have been previously employed by Marxist around the world over the last century to bring down other nations, leaving more than 100,000,000 dead in the process.  Their playbook of divide-and-conquer, rabblerousing, pot-stirring, community infiltration, pretentious front organizations, and the subversion of legitimate organizations, is the typical Marxist take-over template.

And, the third Marxist identifier is their human resource structure – the types of people they employ to carry out their mission.  These useful human operatives are easily classified by the nature of their actual awareness level of, and devotion to the Marxist cause. 

There are always the “Dupes.”  These are typically naïve pawns, usually deceptively drawn into the Marxist ranks under the banner of some righteous sounding purpose like women’s rights, or one type or another of a social justice cause, etc.  These dupes are usually much more aware of their own little cause than the much more sinister intent of the Marxists which they are actually ignorantly serving.  

There are also the “Mercenaries.” These are street level people, sometimes thuggish, sometimes “dupish,” who are actually completely disinterest in any cause but the money they’re being paid to be on the street at the right time and place. 

And, then there are also always those highly aware and deeply “Devoted Ideologues.” These are people who do, indeed, understand and believe in the ideological message and mission of Marxism / Socialism. Though typically, most of these are but useful, mid-level puppets to the real puppeteers of the movement.

The face of this dark conglomerate is, of course, the Democrat Party.  Having fallen prey to Marxist ideology and control, this now long-subverted political party presently affiliates a wide array of seditious groups and individuals.  And, like the party, itself, most all of them presently masquerade as patriots, nevertheless, their true, overarching devotion is to the utter demise of America as a free, democratic, and opportunity based nation. 

The constituents and fellow travelers of the Democrat Party now include American Communists, Socialists and, so called, Progressives.  Also, joining the Democrat parade at the street-level are their agitating community organizers, and their “dupish” activists of the “higher conscience.”  And, not to be overlooked are their very valuable devotees in the media and academia, their deep-state bureaucrats, and their wealthy elitists and Hollywood types.

And, this present coup which the Dems and the Marxist Left are now attempting is not just about removing Donald Trump from office.  He is but a troublesome, and yet also a very convenient, strawman by which they can generate division and hate within the nation. 

But, the real agenda of the Left is much more basic and far-reaching than merely removing Donald Trump.  The real agenda is to grab and permanently hold power with the intention of turning the American people into another Marxist/ Socialist slave nation.  The ultimate aim is that the American people should finally be made to bow before a completely oppressive Marxist oligarchy, on the order of those in China and Russia, as a part of the new, Socialist world order.

So, Average Joe is not so dumb and/or ill-informed as the sociopaths on the Left think.  And Joe already knows that this coup attempt can only be dealt with in one of three ways.  The first, and no doubt the best, resolution would be for a true Christian revival to sweep across the nation. 

As with other such revivals in the past, this would once again restore a personal devotion to the divine values in large numbers of Americans from every quadrant – the values which built this nation in the first place.  And that faith restoration would, of course, save many souls. 

But, beyond that most important thing, a Christian revival would also restore to that large number of citizens, a world view based in the divine perspective.  And, that would then, in short order, numerically and philosophically defeat the Marxist power base in America.

The second possibility for defeating this on-going coup attempt is to really “burn down” the Marxist Democrats in the upcoming election.  Certainly, the usual 52/48 split among the electorate will simply not do the job.  It has to be a real “burn down” of the Democrat influence in all political quadrants, from the federal level to the city council and school board level. 

If by their present lawless and seditious behavior, these people, who have made “America” a dirty word, do not come to be one themselves in the mind of the electorate, the coup will simply continue in an ever more militant way.  And that will bring us to the third and least desirable possibility for dealing with their take-over attempt.

This third option is simply a widespread blood bath.  You don’t have to be a political or social prophet to know that if you plant the seeds of violence in a population, as has been done by this Marxist Left.  And, if you then continually cultivate the emotions of that violence every day, as happens in the media arm of the Left every day.  Then, barring some intervening circumstance, violence is precisely what you will reap as the end product. 

And, as is typically the case with widespread civil violence, it will almost certainly be horribly unpredictable, touching the innocent and even those who smugly think themselves to be untouchable.  No violence is ever easily contained, even when you are its instigator. 

So, in this case, the Marxist pretenders among us, who hate this nation and all that it stands for, should actually steel themselves for what’s coming.  Average Joe is not as unaware as you believe.  And, he is already prepared for this possibility. 

This is easily confirmed in our stores.  Notice, the ammunition shelves are always all but emptied every week.  And gun sales and concealed carry permits are at an all-time high.

Nevertheless, hopefully, before this bloodletting occurs, we will, indeed, come to our senses, humble ourselves, and once again, in large numbers, begin to truly embrace the Lordship of Christ with His attendant divine values based in love and faith.  This is absolutely the best way to find a very thorough, effective, and far-reaching healing for the nation.

Or, less beneficial, but yet still a peaceful ending to this coup attempt would be that “burn-down” at the ballot box option.  Such a truly decisive electoral statement by the country would restore good order in a bloodless way by simply stripping these sociopathic rebels of their political and social influence.  It would also send a clear message to our determined enemies abroad, who are presently smelling blood in the water.

But, if neither of those first two outcomes occur, the third will.  It is not even in serious doubt. 

This is true because, without that decisive statement from the electorate in these upcoming elections, no matter who actually wins the election with but a narrow margin, the Marxist will then remain emboldened to continue to employ an ever increasing militancy.  And, in response, patriotic Americans who are devoted to a free, fair, and opportunity based nation will eventually be forced to respond forcefully.  

And, it is lunacy to believe that they will do otherwise.  America’s patriots never have, and never will, go quietly into the night in the face of an existential threat to their beloved nation. 

Every few decades, it seems the whole world goes crazy at once; and, humanity then starts to drown in its own blood – typically at the behest of only a handful of sociopaths who stir it all up.  We are now, if we cannot secure a better way foreword using cool heads and common sense, arriving at such a moment and such a needless and insane circumstance. 

So, in this anteroom of the coming elections, we should ask ourselves, “Do we really want to blow up the great goodness that we have in America, such as exists nowhere else in the world.  And, do we really want to do it for a relatively few, but highly manipulative bunch of Marxist sociopaths.

Must we take their every exaggerated accusation against this nation as unchallengeable truth?  As a people, are we now so emotionally blinded and/or mentally unbalanced by their propaganda that we cannot recognize their “frame job” against the fairest, freest, and most widely prosperous nation on Earth?  And, it is that, a frame, constructed from highly skewed exaggerations, half-truths, outright lies, and non-full disclosure of the real historical facts.

Could we not simply pause in this obviously weighty historical moment, take a breath, and recover our national sanity long enough to simply ask, “What are we really being enticed to sign on to, here?   If the hate filled rantings and the lawless intimidation tactics of Marxist-cultivated mobs in our streets is to become our new political process – then are we not, indeed, already a banana republic – less the republic? 

Is this the message we would send ahead to future American generations as to how best to govern ourselves?  Because, that is precisely what the political Left is pushing for with their cultivation, glorification, and protection of these lawless methods.

The better message to send to our posterity would be one of just change through the orderly use of our long proven system for doing so.  Our system and our laws have served us exceptionally well across our national growth process.  And, they can certainly deal with our present issues very effectively.  But, only if we do not allow a few sociopaths to cause us to break faith with their brilliant efficacy. 

Even America’s Average Joe knows that what is first being decided in this American moment is not the complexities of our national history or the issues of racism.  Rather, the first issue that we are now deciding is this.  “Will we, going forward, seek to be an ever more just nation by law and good order?  Or, will we choose to govern ourselves and guide our course by a constantly flaring mob militancy which will ever push aside that more noble and beneficial way?” 

There is really but one sane answer to this query.   And, in this present weighty moment, it really has become imperative that we stand against the seditious Left, in unison – black, white, red, yellow, and brown – to decisively make that good choice with both our voice and our vote.

The Foolishness Of Freedom

Consider the voice of oppressive governance. It is the voice of czars, and kings, and emperors, and tribal chiefs, and despots of every kind.

Many of them have died among the previous pages of history. But their voices still echo across those pages to join such voices in the present to question and detract American ideals. And from those voices, one thing is clear. They all failed to understand the grandeur that flows from empowering people instead of oppressing them. So, this is what they all might say of America, "America, you are such a fool!"

"You believe in basic human equality. And because you do, your lowest becomes eligible for your highest offices of power. No one is restrained from intruding across class lines. All may participate in the civil franchise. How, can you run a country in such a way - and still control the outcome?"

"America, you do not suppress speech. And because you do not, your national conversation becomes an unwieldy dialog of immense dimension. Every sort of citizen has input. How can you fail to control the flow of opinion and information - and still control the outcome?"

"America, you allow your citizens to have guns, many guns, all types of guns. And because you do, your citizens are not so easily intimidated. They may even use them to defy the state. How can you allow your citizens to have guns - and still control the outcome?"

"America, you allow your press to intrude upon and challenge public officials. Because you do this, the state is threatened, high officers are exposed, and the agenda of the state remains constantly subject to public scrutiny. This does not allow the state to operate "efficiently." How can you possibly grant such exposure - and still control the outcome?"

"America, you allow your citizens the vote. Do you not understand that this means they ultimately hold the power. Do you not know that the state then becomes subject to the masses, instead of the reverse. How is it that you believe you can invest the citizens with this great power- and still control the outcome?"

"America, you allow your citizens to amass private wealth. In allowing them to do so, they become confident, and influential, and in many ways uncontrollable. Do you not understand this danger. How can you allow the threat of personal wealth - and still control the outcome?"

"America, you allow your citizens unlimited freedom of movement. As a result they are exposed to other cultures, they consort with people of differing viewpoints, they are able to elude state scrutiny. Surely you see the inherent liability. How can you give such freedom of unaccounted movement - and still control the outcome?"

"America, you allow your people to practice religious choice. Do you not understand that this creates diversity among the citizens. It diminishes order and commonness. Such choice may set them against each other, or worse, against the state, or the god of the state. How can you allow such choice - and still control the outcome."

*****

The criticisms of the despots are telling. Their insecurity denotes an ignorance regarding the human destiny, which Americans have  known and embraced from our beginning.  It is this.  Each man owns his own destiny as a gift from God. No one - no king, no prince, no despot of any kind has any title or claim to it.

America did not invent this idea. But, America has certainly given reality to it as no other nation on earth. And, every day she confirms this principal in the best possible way - in the liberties of her every citizen.

And, America has proven herself to be the nation most willing to risk the implications of this idea. Every day, we risk what our citizens will lawfully do, where they will collectively take us as a nation. We risk their whims, what they will say, and what new things they will devise - both good and bad. 

We risk their equal access to power, the influence of wealth or position. In fact, in America, we are not just willing to risk the swift current of our individual, and in turn, our collective destiny. In fact, we embrace that doing with some passion.

This unwieldy risk is the very thing that the despots of history have never been willing to take. But, in America, we do not control the outcome, we do, indeed, risk it - under God. 

Every day, when the sun comes up on this matchless, magical and God blessed land - every lawful thing is in play. It's what we call - Freedom.

Militancy

These days, it would seem that angry militancy is imposing itself on the American culture at very high levels on all fronts.  So, gays, Progressives, Socialists, Democrats, and Communist are all now raging activists.  

The gun haters and the Never Trumper's are all salivating with anger.  African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims and university students are all at a take-it-to-the-streets level of militancy.  And on it goes until it seems everybody has gone militantly mad.

But, in fact, they have not.  In truth, the preceding paragraph is a blatant exaggeration on all fronts.  It is merely a “head shot” of the caricature which the liberal media, a cadre of hate filled activists, and a bunch of arrogant elitists are constantly attempting to sell to the American people as a tactic to aid their seditious intentions. 

In reality, however, in all of those people groups mentioned above, the great majority remains peaceful, reasoned and concerned about, not just results, but about the justness of how we achieve those results.  And how do we know these good people are out there?  Well, by the math for one thing.  The population of the United States is 325 million people.  So those subversive “pot stirrers,” even with the few off-the-rails extremists and ne’er-do-wells which they may actually represent, don’t compose even a drop in the bucket of that number. 

And, there is another way that we know that the vast majority of Americans are still strongly bound together by real sanity.  It is the anecdotal evidence of our daily lives.  Indeed, in our common values, we continue to widely cherish the nobility of our humanity, and thus, the nobility of our behavior.  We share a deep love of country which allows us to beam with pride even while we work together to remove her warts.  And, we continue to believe the long proven idea that mutual respect is the precious norm which truly yields peace, brotherhood, and quality of life; whereas, hate is never anything more than a disabling character flaw.  

So, fortunately for America, the vast majority of Americans still embrace sanity over subversion.  Praise God! 

The Puppeteers

Where there is an earthquake, there is an epicenter.  And, that epicenter is where the real force of the outflow movements are concentrated.  And, to be sure, the same is true of the sociopolitical movements which are occurring in America, right now.  They are being caused by a very well developed and well organized central force. 

I am an ordinary, born and bred, U.S. citizen of 70 years.  I am a person of no great reputation.  And, I fully expect to die in anonymity.  But, what I am not, is stupid. 

When I look at what is presently going on in America, it is very obvious that there are very real “puppeteers” pulling the strings of our more naive population in these herky-jerky times.  And certainly, there have always been manipulative movers and shakers who have attempted to do the same.  But, in prior times, they were not so well armed with degenerate media and public school systems, Facebook, X, and a national “propaganda news” platform etc.  And now, they are. 

And obviously, these “string pullers” know very well how to employ these new advantages at this very strategic time – a time when we have several character-deficient generations in play.  And, even this strategic timing is no accident. 

These burgeoning “puppet generations” have actually been carefully fashioned by the very puppeteers who now manipulate their every move.  For decade upon decade, American children have been unwittingly bombarded from every direction with the hypocritical values of these who have now become their psychological overlords.  From the cartoons they watched as children, to godless public schools, to even more devilish universities, our younger population has been taught, “Reject all previous values and establish your own, based solely in your own nobility of thought.”

And sadly, the puppeteers have been so effective in their subtlety that these puppet generations actually believe they are doing that.  But, in fact, they are really just mindlessly responding to the long implanted values of the string pullers.  

And so, every day the puppets join their peer puppet group on Facebook, or X, or in the propaganda news newsroom to obediently embrace whatever party line they are to be fed before they move on in service to the puppeteers for that day.  And, every day, when this sad process is finished, they adjudge it to have been, indeed, “noble.”

Thus, we are left with these burgeoning generations which can no longer tell the difference between true good and evil, true right and wrong because their minds and hearts have been so co-opted in this way.   And, what they don’t know, and sadly, may never know, is that true nobility of thought and action only ever flow out of a personal and abiding connection to the larger moral reality – not the absence of that connection. 

But then, we must remember – they are puppets.  And, puppets don’t really think, do they?  They just jump when their string is pulled.

Divided: Then and Now

In 1958, J. Edgar Hoover, famed director of the FBI, released a book entitled, Masters of Deceit.  In that book, he exposes the American Communist Party.  In chapter 14, Mr. Hoover lists the seditious tactics used by that party in its subversive bid to over through the American way of life.  Among others, he lists, Mass Agitation using all exploitable issues, Infiltration into all types of organizations, including educational and political, and the Subversion and Exploitation of Minorities.

Using these tactics, Marxist based Communism has now devastated many whole societies, leaving behind ruined economies and tens of millions dead, all along its bloody historical pathway.  And yet, this Marxist insanity continues to survive in the minds of delusional ideologues.  These arrogant social experimenters simply refuse to see the abject failure of the Marxist Utopian idea: a classless, “worker bee” based society of absolute equality which rigidly follows this very simplistic axiom - "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." 

But, in fact, this exaggerated tenet actually prescribes Marxism’s failure.  This terminal end is decreed by “social physics,” which define an important reality.  And that immutable reality is this:  Marxism and human nature simply cannot be “peacefully” reconciled.  

And, that reality is based in an even more basic one:  the universal “wiring” of the human brain.  If one exposes the brain to any type or level of gratification, it always wants to seek more.  And, therein lies the Marxist problem.

By its very rigid nature, this philosophy absolutely forbids to humanity, the liberty to satisfy this basic human desire to pursue personal gratification.  The American forefathers had it precisely right.  All human beings share an ingrained appetite for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  And, it is this simple but powerful human appetite for which Marxism always and entirely fails to account - and refuses to tolerate. 

Thus, the Marxist belief system is necessarily forced to a dark position.  To enforce its inflexible requirement of absolute social and economic equality, Marxism must necessarily police every human being’s every activity – from what we can and cannot say, to the size of one’s soft drink, to absolute control over one’s health care. Indeed, this oppressive militancy is always the unavoidable end game of Marxism.

And, this need for control then demands a centralized control mechanism.  So, as has always actually been the historical case with this devilish philosophy, the state, in the form of a repressive central government, insistently becomes that controlling overlord of the individual’s daily life, as well as the society’s corporate national life.

Thus, when placed in a fair and objective scale, a Marxist system of government and economics will always be found completely atrocious, when compared to a capitalistic democracy.  There really is no contest when one puts the “live and let live” and “go for it” ethos of democratic capitalism up against the hateful and joy-strangling effects of Marxism.

And, it is true.  The element of competitiveness is intrinsic to a capitalist society.  But, competition is a vital part of, not just capitalism, but of freedom, itself.  And, this motive is moderated easily, and much better, at the personal level, by the balancing effects of ethics, compassion, generosity, and personal restraint – not to mention, the rule of just laws. 

And these incorporations are, and have historically always been, every day realities in capitalistic societies.  And, if there are some individuals, within those societies, who fall short of these ideals, at least their failures don’t inflict the more universal damage which occurs when an all-powerful government becomes virtue deficient - as has always been the case with all Marxist governments. 

So, why do we do it?  Why, in America, do our children, who live in the freest, most accomplished, most compassionate nation on earth, keep falling for the same old subversive lies, propaganda, and empty promises of Marxism? 

Why do so many Americans continue to be very willing to endanger our wonderful personal liberty (and, for that matter, our security and prosperity) by electing undercover Marxists - now newly evolved into “Global Socialists” etc. and masquerading as our fathers’ Democrats.  Why do so many continue to prefer deceitful political reprobates over enlightened leaders who embrace the supremacy of personal liberty, personal aspirations, and personal initiative? 

Surely, such widespread and trans-generational folly can only be explained by these divinely given prophetic words which truly speak to our time…

            “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [the Holy Spirit] will do so until He is taken out of the way.  And then the lawless one [the antichrist] will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

            “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

            “And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, so that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”  [Brackets added]  2Thessalonians 2:7-12 (NKJV)

Certainly, many in this world are not now prepared to embrace this truth.  But, ultimately and unavoidably, Jesus wins.  Thus, the smart and enlightened play is to embrace the true Christ, not these empty, end-game delusions of the coming, flash-in-the-pan antichrist. 

Intrusions Of The Darkness

 

A Brief Study in the Tactics of 

         Our Unseen Enemy

 

 1.0 ~ The Background Realities of Human Suffering

 The larger human picture, (background and foreground) is not that hard to grasp.  And yet, most of us really never do. Perhaps it’s that generational thing. Every time a generation kinda’ figures it out, before you know it, they’re all dead. Then we have to start all over in the next generation, trying to make ourselves, once again, broadly and accurately aware of that experiential picture which we typically just call - "life."

Or, maybe our struggle to understand life accurately simply lies in our willing ignorance. It seems that many of us share the feeling that if we know something, then we come under some obligation to act on what we know. 

 So, if we don’t want to be bothered, then we just don’t bother to know. Thus, we often merely bury our head in the sands of life’s blinding tedium as a means of escaping the responsibility of that "knowing."

But be all of that as it may, for those who are courageous enough to take in the larger human landscape, there is a more truthful perspective to be had. And, that larger view does allow us to see far beyond the more simplistic life interpretations.  As a prime example, it allows us to quickly move past the assumption that our competing social and political philosophies are just a ho-hum part of our world. 

Rather, the more sophisticated view of our reality accurately places these competing philosophical approaches into the context where they truly belong. It understands them to be a very real extension of that ever raging war between God and Satan, between the Light and the Darkness.   

 Indeed, that cosmic conflict has been an ingrained part of the human experience from our very beginning.  And, that sophisticated view of life calls us to understand the background dynamics of all of our human confrontations.  And, for those who want to understand those dynamics, the jumping off point is at a very simple and very basic question.  And, that question is this: "What is Truth?" 

And, here is the short and simple answer.   Truth is merely the correct interpretation of reality.

The nature of the truth is really that simple. Truth is only ever just the discovery of reality as it actually is.  So, all we have to do to arrive at truth is correctly interpret reality - right?

But wait! Therein lies the human dilemma. The real difficulty lies not in knowing the definition of truth, but in actually achieving what that definition specifies. It is in the fog of our varied interpretations of reality where we typically lose our way in our truth quest.

 And, that is understandable since you and I were never meant to be the authoritative interpreters of reality.  Rather, God has always reserved that role for Himself – and rightly so.

Even the brightest human beings are pitifully under-qualified to define true morality, true right or wrong, true good or evil. We simply do not have the capacity to make those calls authoritatively.  Our view of reality is simply too limited both in its perspective and its breadth

Thus, God requires that we trust Him and embrace, through Christ, His values and the interpretations of life (truth) which are distilled by those divine values. The Bible refers to our awareness of those divine values and their resulting interpretations as "Light."  And, it refers to the absence of an awareness of those things as "Darkness."

Obviously, it also follows then, that in man's God-given capacity to make autonomous decisions and choices there does exist space for us to make alternative interpretations of reality which differ from God's - bogus though they may be.  And, it's these alternative interpretations which then begin to compete with God’s view of things.  And this, in turn, gives rise to a relational rift with God.  And that conflict is all about one very central question.  "Who actually gets to be the authoritative truth-giver?"

The roots of this conflict can be traced all the way back to the mind of Satan.  This idea that there can be legitimate alternatives to God's view of good and evil originated there. And, Satan then passed it on to mankind through his treacherous temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. 

 His false promise to the first couple was this, "You shall be like God, knowing good and evil."  Essentially, he was telling them you can become your own truth-giver, your own interpreter of reality.  

 What he did not tell the first couple was that their “knowledge of good and evil” was not a knowledge based in a broad and accurate awareness of reality, as is God's. Rather, theirs was a subjective determination of good and evil - entirely based only in their very limited and ever changing personal perspectives. In other words, Satan offered a view of reality no longer based in God's omniscient understanding of life. 

Instead, "Good" became, "What seems good to me in this moment." And, "Evil" became, "What seems evil to me in this moment."

When Adam and Eve chose to embraced this competing truth-giver status and interpret reality for themselves, their relationship with their benevolent Creator was immediately poisoned by the inclusion of this chronic and out-of-bounds disagreement of hearts. And, so was also their relationship to each other by the same poison. For now, they no longer shared, even among themselves, a common world view based in God's singularly trustworthy divine truth.

Through the first couple, the whole of mankind was then infected with this dark inclination which was essentially, self-determination.  And this was exactly what Satan intended to achieve.  In effect, the arch-demon created a complete equilibrium of truth, where, in man's mind, the supremacy of God's interpretations of reality was entirely lost.  Thus, not only was a trusting and peaceful relationship with God broken, but simultaneously chaos, confusion, and an interpersonal hyper-competitiveness also began to darken the landscape of the human experience.

So, through Satan's treacherous temptation, mankind became completely infected with this prime inner motive, the motive of self-determination, in his desire to be his own truth-giver.  And, it is now this inner heart motive which still clearly marks and identifies the children of the Darkness - Satan's converts. 

And, indeed, it is this rebellious motive which, in essence, is a declaration of self-sovereignty, which is the essential sin essence within the heart of the yet un-redeemed.  And it is from the influence of this powerful inner drive for self-determination that all actual acts of sin then spring.  

Thus, it is this heart motive which will unavoidably become the first issue on the last day.  Long before our actual works will be weighed in God's judgement balances - the presence of this motive in our heart (the precise opposite of the faith motive) will already have sealed our eternal fate.

Thus, it is this dark motive of self-determination which the redemptive work of Christ first and most urgently targets.  Obviously, the omniscient mind of God easily understands, "Solve this self-determination problem, and all else all but solves itself under the empowering touch of the Living Savior."

Nevertheless, even at this late hour in redemptive history, much of humanity remains lost in the dark delusions of what might be very accurately called, the satanic encouragement to embrace their own "designer truth."  Indeed, anecdotal evidence clearly indicates that the larger populace of the world, even now, uses only their own interpretations of life's circumstances to self-determine their philosophical issues, life choices, and personal directions, etc. 

But, aware or not, they do so at devastating expense to their relationship to God.  The Self-determined Life Approach (my will be done in my life) is the exact opposite of the more humble, Faith Life Approach (God's will be done in my life.)  So, that former approach incurs real spiritual peril for it's victim.

 2.0 ~ The Foreground Outflows of These Background Realities

 And, because most in the world simply choose to trust in their own interpretive sufficiency as opposed to God's, they become easy pray for Satan's treacherous employment and victimization.  Thus, they become his dupes - the unwitting servants of his chaos, confusion, hyper-competition and interpersonal disagreement.  

 Just as Satan always intended, these are just the natural results of an existence where all truth, everyone's interpretation of every circumstance of reality, carries equal weight and value with their counterparts' - and even with God's.  Thus, the self-determined ever serve Satan's ends in this broken world.  And, through these deluded human pawns, Satan's Dark Demonic Economy finds an easy means to repeatedly and brutally insert itself into the human philosophical and political landscape with always the same horrible results.  

 And sadly, humanity, now being widely devoid of the more accurate awareness provided by the divine interpretations, repeatedly and broadly fails to recognize the onslaught of Satan's violent treachery for what it truly is. Nevertheless, these times of widespread upheaval and bloodletting are not complicated occurrences.  They are simply demonic incursions of completely vile spiritual evil into the physical dimension, operating in and through their human henchmen and dupes.  

And, indeed, these human instruments are of the sadist sort. Believing themselves to be serving their own self-determined agenda, they have no idea, in most cases at least, that they are actually serving the brutal ends of their cruel demonic masters.  And that, always at the huge expense of their own species.

Thus, in generation after generation, the Darkness is able to recreate times of extreme violence and devastation in the human experience.  And, this remains true, even though the Darkness never really bothers to change its essential process or individual tactics.

For example, always, the mind of the Darkness comes with a prospectus for some delusional noble cause, the worth of which supposedly justifies the hateful and often bloody means which are required to achieve it. Then, using this cause of twisted and/ or exaggerated worth, the Darkness tempts those deluded human instruments, who fancy themselves somehow entitled, and even obligated, to do the treacherous bidding of this demon inspired cause.

And, eventually, the Darkness always points to some straw demon at which their hateful energies must be directed. And so, the satanic encouragements come. "Hate the black man, or the white man, or the rich man, or the capitalist, or the Jew, or the Christian, etc., etc., etc., “for they threaten our noble agenda.”

And, when the Darkness has gained strategic positioning and has enticed enough gullible, or disgruntled, or ner-do-well foot soldiers  to its delusional cause, it always turns militant.  And predictably, it begins to demand submission from non-subscribers on pain of severe reprisals. 

 3.0 ~ The Mature Intrusion

In this stage of its offensive, the Darkness becomes the open oppressor. The cloak of pretense is cast away. And those human soldiers who have given themselves to the Darkness are now forced to abandon, altogether, any lingering shred of questioning conscience. Now, they are forced to follow even the cruelest extremes of the Darkness.  And so, they do. They consummate the final sale of their soul by this final level of mindless obedience - more, at this point, to protect themselves than to achieve any "noble" purpose. 

 So, by the time these consuming fires of pure evil are finished, even those who initially fanned their flames are being destroyed by them. And, one more time, the Darkness celebrates the success of its bloody intrusion into the human experience, while standing on the new graves of freshly slaughtered humanity.

 4.0 ~ A Tragic Drama of Treachery and Gullibility

In the 1930’s, Adolf Hitler, took his place in a long line of dark-hearted human apostles who have served the Darkness in this way over the course of history.  And, he obediently followed this exact pattern. His "noble cause" was to bring into being a German supremacy – an Aryan Race who "deserved" to rule over the Earth.

And, to that cause, he drew his dupes of the Darkness – the Nazi rank and file. And, he directed their manufactured hatred toward his straw demons, especially the Jewish people, among others.

Eventually, the ranks of Hitler’s Nazi Party, devout and ready to unknowingly serve the concealed mind of Satan through Hitler became sufficiently powerful to capture the German government. And predictably, as always, with sufficient positioning and numbers came that militant phase. So, they began reprisals, including outright murder, against all who opposed their “noble agenda."

In the course of this offensive from Hell, millions died.  And six million defenseless Jews, from little innocent boys and girls, to their mothers and fathers, to feeble old men and women were callously butchered by these deluded, servants of the Darkness. And, it was all in the name of their “righteous cause” - essentially Hitler's deluded perspective on good and evil - the Nazi version of "truth."

And then, roughly contemporary with the Nazi madness, Satan's evil economy of darkness opened another offensive - this time, alighting on Russian soil in the form of Marxist Communism.  First, Vladimir Lenin became the new apostle of the Darkness, spouting the new cause authored by Karl Marx:  "Power to the workers!" and pointing to the new straw man to hate and destroy.

Lenin targeted the scourge of the capitalist "Bourgeoisie" ruling class.  His twisted delusion was a world of matured "social justice" ever enforced by the "dictatorship of the proletariat," or working class. 

Again, by means of political intrigues and murderous force, when the ranks of his deluded followers became strong enough, Lenin made his militant move.  He then violently and mercilessly put down all opposition to his Marxist "truth," his interpretations of reality - his version of good and evil. And once more, from Lenin, to Stalin, even to our present-day Putin, the bloodletting has continued wearing a human face but moved by a satanic mind.

In total, it is estimated that 100,000,000 graves have been dug around the world to mark the blood path that this offensive of the Darkness has taken over its decades.  And still, that total continues to rise every day in Ukraine, in Russia, itself, and far beyond

And, even as Russia has waned under the weight of its own infection by Satan's Marxism offensive, yet, the arch-demon has still managed to sell that philosophical snake oil to other parts of the planet. And, indeed, He found many gullible converts to this hapless delusion in America.  And, in that completely counter intuitive success, perhaps never before in history has human gullibility been more starkly underscored. 

And so, this Devil Process began again in America.  And, sporting new names like Neo-socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism, and Globalism the tentacles of the Darkness began again to radiate outward.

And today, the Darkness has now begun to very forcefully deploy this aggregated alignment of delusional Marxist groups and their media, academic, and money-men allies under the more amalgamated banner of simply, The American Political Left.  

Its primary face is now the fully Marxist conscripted Democrat Party. And, its muscles are those bureaucratic Marxist and Islamic  operatives (seen and unseen) now entrenched in the seats of power within the present American government - and to include the important nexus players such as Barack Obama, and big money-men, like as George Soros and Jeff Zuckerberg. 

Thus, one more time, we see a deluded, devilish group who believe themselves to be the entitled ones of the higher conscience in whom all wisdom resides.  And, true to form, at the behest of their demon handlers, they have now gone through the typical developmental stages of this American intrusion of the Darkness.  

 And now, as part of their final push for permanently ensconced power in America, they are employing those standard, final stage tactics of sedition like constant crisis creation, divide and conquer, character assassination, outright lies, pot-stirring, class bashing, overtly breaking and weaponizing our laws, vastly exaggerating social negatives, openly encouraging the disintegration of our primary institutions (like police and the Constitution), and using deceptive personal and organizational fronts - to name but a few.

And, they continue to loudly tout their "noble cause" of "social justice throughout the global community" to cover their true motive - which is still the same as it has always been.  Indeed, this is just one more thinly veneered attempt at a joint, man/demon power-grab. 

 And, as have been all the others before it, this effort is merely intended to establish yet another platform, an American platform, for the cruel domination of the human species.  And, it's aimed toward the eventuality of the whole human species being made to universally serve the whims of the demonic Darkness and their treasonous, and thus, satanically well-favored human henchmen.  

 So, in truth, this is just one more in a long string of now typical satanic con jobs designed to diminish, bleed, and kowtow humanity.  And, save its occupation of this present moment, this dark intrusion is not, in essence, one whit different from those which have preceded it.  

 Always, when the Darkness has violently inserted itself into this dimension, conditions become less socially just, not more.  Always, prosperity of both soul and treasure is vastly diminished, never increased.  And, stability, peace, human life, and valued human gains are broadly lost.  And, if we do not defeat this present incursion, those outcomes will simply be replicated one more time.

 But it is true.  Many still just don't recognize this man/demon coalition of evil - largely due to the absence of the divine truth in their heart.  Thus, they remain incapable of seeing this two dimensional picture with its duality of evil. 

And, in their blindness, each day, spiritually sightless people move ever closer to the complete loss of their moral sanity, their hopefulness, their personal decency, and their truly noble aspirations.   And sometimes, by the weight of their numbers, their blindness draws the rest of us into those devastating losses also.  And now, may be such a time in America.

Indeed, if the present gravitation toward the empty promises of Marxism is not quickly arrested, there can be little doubt that all will be soon lost.  And more graves, our graves, and the graves of our children, and the ash heap of America's national greatness will forever memorialize that widespread spiritual blindness and the fumbling failure to actually do the right thing on the part of those who could see.  

 5.0 ~ The Good Way Forward

But there is yet an opportunity, however brief, to do the right thing in America.  We can again choose, to re-embrace God and the supremacy of His truth by embracing the Lordship of the Living Jesus, including His values, the truth those values distill, and His guiding daily companionship.  And, in the power and blessing of that truly devoted relational walk, we will be set free from the domination of the Darkness - in our hearts and in our nation.   

 Jesus said of His followers, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."  Indeed, we can be set free from the chaos of that devilish, self-determined life approach to walk amiably again with our Creator / Redeemer God who truly loves us.  

 And, in that thorough personal newness that He not only offers, but actually empowers through the Living Christ, we can confidently combat and conquer these violent intrusions of the Darkness - both as an individual and as a nation.  

And, unlike those of America's Marxist subversives, God's promises are never empty.  He can and will bring personal and national renewal if we freshly humble ourselves and respectfully reach out to Him in these troubled days.

"Call on Me and I will show you great and mighty things." - God