Meditation On Our Times (With Thanks to 1 Corinthians 13)

This I know

that in the times we are living
love will triumph over hate
love does not provoke or take into account wrongs suffered
it is gentle, patient and slow to anger
love does not yell, scream, nag or demand

it bears all things, believes all things

hopes all things, endures all things

it is not jealous or arrogant

it encourages and looks for the best

and does not magnify one by putting down another
love unites and does not divide
it is honest while at the same time respectful

it does not rejoice in unrighteousness

but rejoices with the truth
This I know

that in the times we are living

love will triumph over hate

and change will only come through love

it is faith that will heal the great divide

and from faith, hope will spring forth to refresh our land

but of the three, faith, hope and love

the greatest of these - is love

Black Lives Do Matter, But The Organization's Goals Are Marxist

Let me start with 2 broad statements. (1) Everything is political. (2) Everything is spiritual. In other words, very few things happen by chance. Also, everything we see, read or hear comes through some type of lens and the people providing that information do so through their own political and spiritual bias. We are in a unique place in history because there are now so many sources of information. This has been both bad and good.

The bad is that a small group of powerful people and corporations, all far Left in their politics and spiritual beliefs, control most of the major sources of information. These include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Associated Press, Reuters, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Apple, Snoops, Drudge Report and so on. They control both the discussion and where news is positioned on search engines.

They do not provide honest and balanced news coverage. They control MOST of the information the average American receives. They decide what gets talked about and what doesn't, what is important and what is not, what is true and what is false. They do this by how they construct headlines or edit a story and they will even lie if need be. And they do this by what views they allow on social media, who gets monitized, and who gets blocked or censored. The news feed you get on your phones or devices is not balanced. Most of it tilts Left at best.

The good news is that there are a lot of very intelligent and articulate Conservative commentators out there. From the group on the Daily Wire including Ben Sharipo, Michael Knowles and Andrew Klavan, to Victor David Hansen, Prager U, Candice Owens, Charlie Kirk and Jordan Peterson, plus dozens more, the Conservative view point is well presented and well laid out. You just have to look for it.

Take for example what President Trump has had to go through since the very hour he got elected. President Trump was seen rightly by the people controlling the media as an existential threat to their goals. He was not one of them, he knew how they operated and he threatened to expose them. His pro life, pro Israel and America First agenda went against their globalist Marists agenda.

There was a decision made by this group that from day one they would frame President Trump as not legitimate, to declare him a habitual liar, unqualified for the job, a racist, a Russian stooge and they were instructed never to give him "a win" or picture him in a positive light. This was all about having lost what they thought was the key to advancing their long range plans and to try to get it back as soon as they could. Failing impeachment the goal is now the November election.

They also had at their beck and call an army of social justice warriors who (and I saw this beginning the day that President Trump won) flooded social media with their views and harrased, threatened and bullied any one who expressed a positive view of President Trump or his policies.

Well, it mostly started as get rid of Trump but it has now morphed into an all out advancement toward Marxism, which has as it's agenda the destroying of society and the social order in order to rebuilt it into the Marxist utopia. This specifically means the destruction of the nuclear family, the silencing and then elimination of Christianity, the reviling and then rewriting of all American history, the transfer of all rights and means of production from the individual to the State.

Which leads me to discuss what is currently happening under the cover of Black Lives Matter. As I wrote in my last blog post - Cancel Culture - by itself the phrase Black Lives Matter is positive and expresses these truths; Blacks do get discriminated against in our society, for certain reasons not merely based on race they will get stopped and questioned far more than whites and there have been plenty of times where police act with excessive force or violence toward blacks. There is a lot of room for improvement on all counts and I believe most people agree with me on those statements. We can and need to learn and grow and to both see and treat all others as we would like to be treated ourselves.

There are factors that must be understood in that context. First. racism is not just a white problem. It's ugly head exists within every racial group toward those of other races. It is part of the human condition.

Second, throughout history the majority group or tribe with economic power will discriminate toward the minority group or tribe. Tribalism is still with us. It is not just a "white" problem.

Third, the great problem in our country today is not racism but a system that creates a poverty class that is hard to break out of and which often leaves those in that system without realistic hopes and dreams. People caught in that system are by a huge factor more likely to be poorly educated, unemployed, on drugs or in prison.

Fourth, the greatest cause of poverty by far is having children young and out of wedlock. In almost all cases, if a person is married before they have children and has a steady job their chances of being in poverty are very low. Men, to be able to learn how to be responsible men, need to have a strong father figure in their home. I have been told by many guys on my road tests that the biggest problem inner city teens have today is that they have no respect for their elders. That is a father problem.

This is the elephant in the room that cannot be discussed. You will get called racist if you try. And the main reason is because it is the result of Democrat led policies and a media that is controlled by Democrats. Before the Great Society programs of LBJ in the mid 1960's there was a very large black middle class. At that time only 15% of black families were single parent homes. Today 70 % of blacks are brought up in single parent homes. Single parent white households are now at 30%. I am told that a large factor to the rebellion occuring in the young white college educated world today are with males who had a father at home but that father was in many ways absent in the life of the boy.

Fifth, a man's sense of worth is tied into having a steady job or jobs that can provide for his family.

Sixth, statistically last year 10 unarmed blacks were killed (for whatever reason) by white policemen. During the same year 20 unarmed whites were (for whatever reason) killed by white policemen. Bad as that is there is not actually a plague of unarmed blacks getting shot by white policemen.

Seventh, (remember this is a poverty issue and not a race issue) in cities like New York, a person of color is 400 times more likely to commit a violent crime than a white person.

Eight, many police risk their lives everyday and everyday they are dealing with people in the bottom 10th of society. Day after day they get cursed at and abused and they see the worse of what man can do to man. A policeman always tries to be in a position of control but when they feel threatened it usually leads to a show of force. This is not a race issue. It is the fear aspect of human nature. It does not excuse bad actions but we need to be aware what the dynamics are.

Ninth, police unions (and unions usually donate to Democrats) make it very hard to get rid of bad police. Such was the case with the guy who killed George Floyd.

Tenth, there is nothing more racist than identity politics, but that is the game plan of the current Democrat Party. The attack on white this and white that, an evil white past and a present white guilt that cannot be released or even purged because of a person's race is an attack straight from the pit of hell. To me the term "white privilege" is full of political and racial meaning. Again, most large ethnic groups have stories that are different than the smaller ones. But in today's politics the demand is not just for awareness, it extends to things like reparations.  

So I can say yes to the idea that black lives matter but I cannot say yes to the organization that is Black Lives Matter.  If I do I am associating myself, not with an idea of healing racism but rather with a group that has a totally different agenda and which hides it's agenda under a mantra that cannot be criticized. 

The organization was founded by 3 community organizers. I saw one of the current leaders in an interview conducted a few years ago saying that they were all Marxist and well versed in how to obtain their goals. At least one of the woman is an LGBT activists as well. One of the original founding statements of the organization was that in American there is state sponsored violence toward blacks and the solution to that is to defund police departments. That has been one of their goals from the beginning.  Like all Marxists they want to deconstruct the family, the church, the government, our history and then rebuild it to the Marxist dream.

But there is another aspect to Black Lives Matter. Apart from being Marxist it is also tribal. The leaders are not looking to create a better melting pot. They ultimately want to separate the races and create steps toward segregation. Look for example at the attempt in Seattle to create a garden at the park in CHOP. It is for blacks only. At many colleges and universities there are now black only dorms. 

Shaun King, on of the current leaders of Black Lives Matter, just tweeted that not only should we be tearing down and removing statues of famous white leaders and renaming tens of thousands of buildings and schools but we also need to remove any depictions in statues or stain glass windows of a white Jesus and his white mother because that is considered "offensive" to blacks.

Now remember, there is a vital time event looming, the November elections. Remember, this has both political and spiritual ramifications. There were several Marxist groups, emboldened by how far Left the Democrat Party and the Main Stream Media have swung in the last 4 years, waiting for something to spark a Leftist revolt. And there was a large jobless base of angry people at the beginning of Summer, many hurting or ready to blow off steam because of the Covid 19 lockdowns, Presented to them was a visual of a heartless murder of a black man by a white policeman that perfectly fit into the white police hate black men narrative.

The radical groups, waiting for a trigger event, jumped into action and at the lead (because no one dares to criticize them) was the group called Black Lives Matter. But what was to happen was never really about the need for white police to treat black men better or for the need for whites to realize that they are actually more prejudiced toward blacks than they believe. There was released into this country a spirit of rebellion and anarchy, a spirit of fear, a spirit of hate, murder and greed. And at the head of those spirits is the spirit of antichrist. This does not mean that there were not a lot of people of good will who want to see an end to racism in America. But it must be realized what the actual goals of the leadership are and how this has all been working out in the present.

The main stream media has done everything in their power to limit showing what has been happening but the statistics of carnage to property, lives and now institutions has been staggering. And what has been the upshot? Gun sales have skyrocketed, even by people who never in their lives believed people should even own guns. Violence by blacks toward other blacks in many of the major cities in our country has doubled because police presence has pulled back. Every white person who works in a corporation suspects that they will have to endure even more racial and gender sensitivity training. 

And the average white person, who doesn't understand the politics and the spiritual dynamics, is asking this question. What do they want to get out of all this? And that's because not one has articulated the goals of the protests, or the marches, or the burnings, or the lootings, or the violence. The goal posts keep moving and the goals are not articulated because this is of course all about creating a new, utopian society.

The Left got a little, they got some more, and now they think they can get it all.

Can God still make all things work for good, so that out of this chaos there can come actual racial healing and forgiveness? Yes, He can and I believe He will. But the change in racial relations has to come through hearts being healed and transformed by the love of God through the power of the Holy Spirit, Remember, we are dealing with human nature, and human nature always resists what is being forced upon it.

I believe God has allowed the enemy to show his cards and to play his hand and although the chaos has not ended yet the spirit of the antichrist will soon be restrained for a time. Hearts throughout our nation that have been hurting, confused and fearful will pour out their cares upon the Lord and He in turn will radically fill, heal and change those hearts, and that healing will pour out like waves upon our society.

  

Cancel Culture

Cancel culture is the logical result of what happens when Marxist gain a foothold. Like true brown shirt revolutionaries everywhere they want to define thought, shut down and shout down any speech that opposes them, and then punish everyone who gets in the way of their quest for power. 

Their goal, as has been the goal of all Marxist, is to dismantle society and then rebuilt it to their vision of Utopia, This ultimately means getting rid of God, redefining morality and the family, controlling the press, the education system, the means of production and moving all power and transferring all money to the State. From there a small group of enlightened managers directed by a smaller group of enlightened leaders will distribute rights, wages, healthcare, services, security and unbridled happiness to an adoring population, so thankful to have such wise and righteous leaders and ruling class. What could go wrong?

Well for one, that's not American and everything that made and makes America great. It does not reflect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, or how the legal system and courts work. It does not reflect freedom of speech, freedom of religion or freedom to bear arms. It does not reflect the freedom we have in this country to innovate, to build, to start a business, to become wealthy or to fail in the effort to do so. It does not reflect either our generous spirit or our dogged determinism. And it does not reflect what every Founder was keenly aware of. All people are by nature selfish and weak and when small groups or individuals gain great power they have the potential to be despots.

It has been said that when you don't believe in God then your belief is not in nothing. Instead it means that you will believe anything. Marxism gets rid of God and replaces Him with a morality that has no foundation and which changes according to the times. What is dogma for a Marxist today can be replaced tomorrow without a blink of an eye or a hint of logical introspection. Because it is really a dogmatic religious belief it allows for no debate and has no respect for the past. In order to evolve into a glorious and just moral future American history and American society must not only be retold but destroyed as well. Think of giant rallys where books are burned.

This my friends is what our colleges and universities, with their heavy percentage of Marxist professors, have been churning out for the last couple of decades. They teach that America has been racist and sexist from the start and nothing that exists today is legitimate. Not everyone exits the education system that way of course but there does exist today a large population of social justice warriors (SJW's) who have become the brown shirts of social media.

One of their tactics is to declare that racism in America is systemic. This apparently is not the evil of normal racism, of which every person of every race is somewhat guilty of and which has existed in every society where there is a dominant tribe or people. No, this is specifically something that whites in America are guilty of, having inherited it from our white ancestors. And there is no cure for it. Reparations would be just, public humiliations should be expected, and when that's done perhaps whites should think of moving to some place that will have us.

And logical reasons for economic differences cannot be discussed. Statistical evidence shows quite clearly that across all races, the greatest indicator of poverty is having babies early and out of wedlock and not having a father figure in the home. This greatly decreases the odds for educational advancement and greatly increases the odds for being unemployed, having substance abuse and being imprisoned. Sadly, since the 1960's, government policies have helped create this very situation. And as a result males in particular are deprived of learning how and what it means to be a man and being able to achieve the basic human dignity afforded by having work that can provide for one's family. 

However, now all economic disparities are described as due to "white privilege".  I'm not disputing that for various reasons people get treated different in our country. Do majority populations or the majority tribe have advantages in every society? Yes. Should we be aware of that and strive to do better? Yes. Is it right to make racist statements and judge people as a group because of their skin color, including whites? No. 

Also in order to tear apart society and insert their own moral code SJW's want to redefine what it means to be a man, a woman and a family. To do this they need to control the language we use and frame how the debate is conducted and then shame and boycott anyone who does not go along. They identify dozens of micro groups, all like blacks oppressed by the dominate group that they intend to tear down and replace. This has been an active policy of the Left in the Democrat Party for a long time but it has now gone full bore over social media through the intimidation and mass shamming by the hordes of Social Justice Warriors.

There are different layers of Marxist influence in America and there are at least of couple of anarchist groups that somebody is organizing, directing and financing. Most SWJ's are just unwitting pawns, although they do have leaders that organize, direct and announce what their group's current moral outrage is. So how does Black Lives Matter fit into all of this? What I am going to say next might make some of you mad but I think it needs to at least be discussed.

In my view the phrase, Black Lives Matter, is really a positive statement. By itself it is not racist, it promotes the idea that blacks have been both discriminated against as well as victims of violence and have been victims of violence specifically by police. I think almost everyone agrees with those statements. We all want to see improvement and actual healing in the way police respond to situations and they way we ourselves treat and view those of another race. However there are two things we have to be aware of if we want to associate ourselves with the organization called Black Lives Matter.

The first is to be aware of what actual statistics show regarding: the extent of police violence, the extent of police violence towards blacks and towards whites, the percentage of people of different races who commit violent crimes, the reasons why crime exists in certain areas, the personal risks that a police officer takes every day on the job, how difficult police unions make it to get rid of bad eggs and so on. When you start seeing that twice as many unarmed whites get killed than blacks by police, that blacks because of reasons economic and social commit 50 per cent of all violent crimes in our country and that most blacks murdered overall are murdered by other blacks, it starts to eat away at the narrative that not only are all cops bad but that white cops hate black people.

The second is to realize that Black Lives Matter was founded by 3 (female) community organizers who put into the groups founding, statements such as - blacks are victims of state sponsored violence and, as we are seeing today, the solution to state sponsored violence is to defund police departments. They are quite radical in many other social ways and violence seems to follow them where ever they go. I don't know if they would be strictly considered a Marxist group but they seem to have many of the same goals and are supported and financed by the same people in the background. 

There are people with a far reaching and hate filled toward whites agenda who have no problem using people of good faith to achieve that agenda. The times we are in have exposed how radical the people in the background really are and what total hypocrates the people on the Left in power really are. There are some people on the Left who are not Marxist but stay quiet thinking they can control the crazies. They lust for power and don't care if the country burns so that they will end up with more power in the end. There are also people in power on the Right who lust for that same power just as much and have no problem making promises but then screwing us. Both groups should be cleaned out.

This is a spiritual war. It is a war of ideas and principles. For many years the enemy has been playing the long game, infiltrating the education system, eliminating objectivity in the media, attacking Christian beliefs, bit by bit, piece by piece, principle by principle. Now, all of a sudden, the darkness has started coming fully out of the closet. And there is more to come. Cancel culture does not reason or debate. It screams at us and thinks it makes intelligent points by the number of vulgar words yelled, typed or spray painted.

Here is a secret though. Although they will continue to get louder for a time, know for certain - We have won and they have lost. We have won and they have lost. We have won and they have lost.

Our task now is to think through what our principles are, what they are based on and how they fit with the things that are happening today. Always stand for truth and justice but be aware that there are out there wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. Then teach your children well. 

 

 

Trump To Win In November By Twenty Points

The Democrat Party is dying. They just don't know it yet.

There is a revolution coming, but much different than you think. We may even be looking at a new civil war, sparked by the results of the November elections. People are going to vote Republican in record numbers, the Democrat Party is going to split, the major news media, now the propaganda arm of the Left, will be momentarly stunned and may not recover, and some high profile people who were active in the attempted coup against President Trump will be put on trial.

Because all of this may come as a bit of of shock to my never Trump friends and family, some of whom, even as I write, may actually believe that Joe Biden is really leading in the polls and has a good chance to take the prize, I will present the reasons I believe why a landslide Trump win is coming.

My first reason is the most important one and it undergirds everything else, but it is also one that never Trumpers either cannot or are most unwilling to understand. They may shout and scream and even tear their hair out even at the mention of it. But here goes. God has chosen Donald J. Trump for such a time as this. It would take me many pages to expand on that and if asked (yeah right) I would love to lay out step by step my reasons. Instead, for now, speaking as a Christian sensitive to the how the Holy Spirit is moving in these times and seasons, trust me when I say - this is a God thing.

Because of that everything that has been hurled at President Trump over the last 3 1/2 years has or will come back at the accusers.

The major news media (controlled by a small group of Left leaning individuals) who since his election have been well over 90 per cent negative in their coverage of President Trump, who have twisted and taken out of context everything he has said or done to match their narratives of racism, incompetence, being a Russian pawn, orange man bad in all it's forms, etc, in order to get him out of power, are no longer trusted as accurate news sources by the vast majority of the population. New Conservative internet platforms with far greater audiences (despite being censored and demontinized by their Left leaning platform hosts) have sprung up as alternatives and are flourishing. Meanwhile, someone like Rachel Maddow, a MSNBC host who had an average of 6 million viewers during the Russia debacle, is now down to 600,000 and still dropping like a stone.

There are major trends working against the Democrat Party. First, at the same time as it has shifted far to the Left, the world at large has been shifting more to the Right, toward National Capitialism. While education systems both here and in Europe are still controlled by professors that favor Socialist and Communist viewpoints, and while those views are then still heavily ingrained in the hearts and minds of younger college and university educated populations, people eventually get older and more experienced and confront the real world. In doing so most become more Conservative. In Europe, because of low birthrates and heavy restrictions imposed on their countries by the EU, they are encountering both the limitations of the inherent flaws of Socialism and the desire for greater Nationalism.

This is currently happening in many European countries, but look no further than Great Britain. Several years ago, against the opposition of most party leaders and their own Main Stream Media, the Brits voted by 66 per cent to leave the EU (Brexit). This was a shock to the ruling class who kept promising to get it done but could never in their hearts go far enough to actually do it. Finally last year the people had enough. The ruling Labour party (Left) was demolished in new elections by huge margins, many replaced by people who had never run for office before.

We don't have a Brexit movement in the United States but there is a Blexit (Black exit from the Democrat Party) movement alive and well and growing fast in the Black community. Throughout the last couple of years polls have been showing increasing support for President Trump among people of color. There are a half a dozen major reasons for this. (1) Black owed business have grown by 400 per cent under President Trump, (2), Prison reform under President Trump, (3), Media voices like Candace Owens, Charles Paine and Larry Elder, (4) The work Ben Carson has done through HUD, (5) The idea that Blacks have been on the Democrat "plantation", i.e., "They woo us every 4 years for our votes and then forget us, so what do we have to lose?", (6) The growing realization that the current Democrat Party is actually opposed to religion and other conservative views held by the majority of the Black community.

In 2016 President Trump received about 9 per cent of the Black vote, which is average for a Republican. He was helped because fewer Blacks showed up to vote for Clinton than they did for President Obama. A Rasmussen poll taken a few days ago among active voters showed President Trump with a 40 per cent approval rating among Blacks. Let that sink in for a moment. If Trump receives 12 per cent of the Black vote he will win easily. If he receives 15 per cent of the Black vote the Democrat Party itself is in serious trouble. Those numbers in 2020 are not only likely but could even be greater.

President Trump;s support with Hispanics is also in the 40 per cent range. Strange isn't it? And yet it reflects the faces you will find in a typical Trump rally. The Democrat Party has left the working middle class and, despite what the media wants you to believe, there are an awful lot of Blacks and Hispanics who do not view President Trump as a racist.

Just as what happened with Blexit, there is a huge backlash welling up in America against far Left policies and the actions of certain Democrat Governors during the Corona Virus lock downs and the recent rioting and lootings, I'm telling you, when gun sales increased by 80 per cent even before the riots, people are going to express themselves by more than just buying guns. While defunding police departments may seem like Left nirvana, it will end up being suicide in the next election. And people are not going to blame Trump either for lives lost or for jobs lost or for freedoms being taken away from them. But they are going to blame somebody.

The economy took a hit during the shutdowns but should recover at a good pace before the elections. And as every politician knows, "It's the economy stupid". President Trump will get credit for that.

Finally, Trump's approval from his base is over 90 per cent. He has collected record vote totals in the primaries for an unopposed canidate. Special elections have been swinging heavy Republican. There were a lot of Evangelical voters who sat out the last election but who will cast their ballots red this election because Trump has proven to be a champion for pro-life, pro-religious freedom,, pro-gun, pro-free speech and pro Israel causes. He has also appointed and had approved over 200 Conservative Federal Judges and there is a high likely hood that the next President will select at least one more Conservative Supreme Court Justice.

And then we come to who the Democrats will run against Trump. Vice President Biden has just secured enough delegates to officially be his party's nominee. If they stay with Biden he will be crushed six ways to Sunday. Apart from scandals involving Hunter (among other things he went over to CHINA with his dad on Air Force 2 and came back with a 1.5 BILLION dollar deal), his public grouping, shoulder squeezing and hair sniffing of females both young and younger, the sexual accusations against him and a political past that does not match the demands of the new Leftists in his party, it is obvious that Old Joe is in serious cognitive decline. I think "word salad" is how many pundents describe many of his off the prompter remarks during the last 6 months.

If Biden resigns at some point or is replaced at the convention there will be a battle royal between the Democrat factions for power. I believe the far Left faction, thinking this is actually their time, will demand to have one of theirs run. If they don't get their way, many will riot and then sit out the election. Either way, not only is President Trump heading for a landslide election but both the House and the Senate will be solidly in Republican hands. And it could remain so for a long, long time.

That is my prediction for today. As of now God's hand is still on President Trump. Hopefully he will learn to humble himself because, as we all know - Pride comes before the fall.