Even when they get it they don't get it. Even some on the "liberal" side who reject the most extreme leftist positions suffer from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and utterly lack the ability to assess the man correctly. "Narcissist?" No more than many political figures. "Craves adulation:" That sort of thing. they don't get it. I can't say he had no personal stake in how he was perceived, that couldn't be, but I can and will say that he was far more motivated by his understanding of what the country needs than by any personal needs, and I think his supporters share that view of him. They didn't go to his rallies to see him strut and preen they went because he spolke for them and for the true American Republic.
When he fought the election results it wasn't his own personal inability to tolerate losing the election AT ALL, it was his awareness of how devastating the loss would be to those who support him and the loss to the nation itself, which I among a few million others are feeling acutely right now. He didn't want the office for himself at all, and this is what the idiotic Left will never get, having zero ability to understand people or the American political situation. In a sense it's not about Trump himself at all, it's about the complete anti_americanism the Left has embraced over the last few decades without a clue.
I wonder what's going to come first now, totalitariahn rule in America or the complete absorption of the nation into the world system.
It's been clear for years that America is under Gods judgment. I say that from time to time. But I keep hoping that nevertheless God will have mercy and will again bless us. I've noticed that time and time again protracted prayer has accomplished nothing. Prayer for revival over the last few decades has brought no revival. Prayer for the nation, oftten quite fervent, even in great prayer meetings such as the one last summer in Washington D.C. hardly made a dent in the forces of darkness, that went on to "win" the eleo Michelle Bachmann who was interviewed last week on Jan Markell's Understanding the Times radio, she saw many prayer groups at Trump's rally and in the Caqpitol building before the brection. According takin. Hard to avoid noticing that God is not hearing our prayers, not for revival, not for the nation. Sermon Audio hosted a year long prayer for revival that ended in December. No revival. Wistfully I remember the many accounts of great revivals that started from a very small number of people and grew into great revivals in short order. There was a great revival in New York that started from one man's prayer and grew to millions. The Great Awakening that began with the preaching of Whitefield powerfully revived the nation just before the revolutionary war. But God is no longer listening. The nation has gone too far and He's abandoned us.
John MacArthur just preached on this subject. God has abandoned us. The nation just voted for Satan he said. Well, why not? Satan is the prince of this world for now. Over the last few decades every kind of violation of God's Laws has become just about characteristic of the nation itself. the reformation that would be needed for revival to be deserved is impossible. There is no remedy for it but punishment, and just the proliferation of sin is punishment. Adultery, divorce, homosexuality, gender confusion, lies. greed, deceit, fraud, theft, unrestrained violence, murder. Gode won't give revival to such a nation, or most likely any kind of blessing at this point. He gave us Trump though, and he did a lot of good in spite of the incessant attacks on him. But that's probably the very last blessing God willl give us.
So what's next? More anarchy and murder? The absorption of the nation by our enemies and ultimately submission to global powers that hate what America was oridinally meant to be. Then maybe the Rapture of the Church leaving the world with nothing but unbelievers, even people who think they are Christians but aren't, following by the Day of the LORD when He pours out His wrath on this errant globe.
But then Jesus will return at the end of it.
It MUST be coming soon.
A liberal complains that "Make America Great Again" is some kind of provocation, that last word "Again" in particular. The thinking goes that America hasn't been great for blacks or for Native Americans so it's phony to claim it was ever great at some time in the past and then something happened to make it less great and now we're getting back to it.
This is so wrongheaded where do I start? I have to say that it is at least interesting to find out how a liberal thinks about this, if "interesting" is the right word. It would never have occurred to me that someone could take offense at that slogan if I hadn't heard it explained. All of Trump's supporters knew exactly what he meant, and he certainly meant no offense to anyone, certainly not along the lines mentioned above. I get it now, but it's sad. I would have thought any American would have intuitively grasped Trump's meaning but clearly that was naive of me. It's amazing anyone could take offense at it it, but their taking it that way does illuminate the different assumptions on the left versus the right.
He, (or they)_ also thinks that a determination to stick with the MAGA idea is mere "partisanship" that makes unifying the country impossible, and not patriotism. Sigh. I should be glad, I AM getting more of an inside look into the lliberal mindset here, that's got to be worth something. But it's also depressing.
One more confusion before I comment. He also thinks he's love to be a conservative, but he can't be given the current inequities that need to be redressed.
Yes this is all very illuminating, explains quite a bit really. I don't remember where I heard something similar recently from someone else but now having two liberals say it gives it legitimacy.as an acurate reflection of liberal thinking. That other source said that the right thinks in terms of individuals and the left in terms of people groups.
OK. This being a fair analysis of liberal/leftist thinking, here's what's wrong with it. I more or less said it in the previous post. This political divide we have been experiencing, that has grown to a yawning chasm in recent years, is NOT a normal split between different political agendas that can take turns being in power without danger to the nation. This divide is a real danger to the nation. Absurdly the Left thinks so too and that really IS absurd because they represent the kind of thinking that directly undermines the original philosophy of the American founding.
They really don't understand this. They've been educated by the Hate-America Marxist Left at least since the sixties, and the true principles of America have never been taught as they should have been at least since then. For one thing the sixties radicals succeeded in getting the universities to drop their requiired courses in American History and Institutions and Western Civilixation. Thanks to them we aren't allowed to think in terms of American Exceptionalism, which used to be a matter of pride: America is a beacon of liberty to the world, a beacon of goodness and kindness. Not only are Americans privileged to enjoy such freedoms but we have also aimed to help other neations rebuild after war and develop democracy and do on. It doesn't always work, there are some countries that prefer their religiopolitical totalitarianism and we've been naive to think we could offer them something they'd consider to be better. But the point is we are not and never have been "imperialist," but completely the opposite, and it's the Marxist left that laid that insane epithet on us, along with all the other evils they've indoctrinated generations of young Americans into. Multiculturalism, for instance, is a direct attack on the American system. America was always a Melting Pot, a place where immigrants learned how to live and defend the American principles of the founders while maintaining their cultural heritage in all other arenas. Multiclturalism however, creates a nation of warring POLITICAL agendas that undermine the American foundations. The idea that we could have a population of Muslims who want Sharia Law and that is not understood to be utterly and completely inimical to America itself is frightening.
And now we've got this Political Correctness that is all about human foibles being made the tyrannical rule of the nation, from Racism to Xenophobia to Homophobia to all that rot and it's ruininjg the culture. Whites have had no better time of it in the world than any other people group but the Left has decided to target whites. Life is a struggle for a lot of us. That's not America's fault. And they are lying, either lying or misguided, maybe both. The whole foundation of BLM is false. There is no systemiic racism any more. There are many successful blacks who will tell you so if you will listen. And the incidents that provoked BLM are equally experienced by white. I've heard that from many sources including black souruces, but you won't hear it from the leftist news outlets.
So the Left's thinking in terms of people groups is another attack on the foundations of America, but we're all so ignorant of the abiding principels that guided America from its founding we don't readily recognize such a threat to them. And besides those of us who would defend them if we did recognize such a threat, there are now whole generations of people who have been brainwwashed into rejecting the American foundations themselves. Some of those people are now in Congress and other political offices throughout the land.
America's poltical foundations are unique in the world. There were certainly many precursors in Europe that the founders adopted, others they rejected. othersv they refined, and alhough I say this with some confidence I am very aware how little I know of all these things. I get bits and pieces of it from conservative sources and I wish we all knew more than we do. We were also origially a strongly Refornation Protestant nation and that had far more influence on the liberty and prosperty and general happiness of this nation than you'll find acknowledged almost anywhere these days, but certainlyl not on the Left.
Anyone who thinks that people groups or tribes, races or cltural entities. should have any particular standing in America is missing the whole point. Tribalism has no place in America. Also missing it if they think conservativism isn't really possible as long as there is inequity for any such people groups. They confuse the system with fallen human nature. If the system functions as it was meant to it is the best method of controlling the inequities fallen humanity is prone to. If you attack the system for such inequities you are attacking the best remedy ever invented for dealing with such inequties. As John Adams said, however, our form of government is designed for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate for any other. And he had to have meant by "religious" biblical Protestant because other religions do NOT favor our kind of government. In those days, however, Protestant Christianity is what people in America meant when they talked about "religion" Unfortunately they didn't know enough about other religions to know that they are fundamentally different from Protestantism in ways that threaten the Republic. They should have but they didn't.
The sixties were not only the great cauldron that brewed up the Marxist flavor of the Left for following generations, it was also where the greaest assault on the religious and moral identity of Americans took its greatest hit. Anyone who lived through that era can identify the sea change that took place then.
Those who think in terms of tribalism, people groups, don't know that they are expressing one form of Anti-Americanism. As of the biden Presidency we are going to have eseentially One Party Rule from now on. It's been engineered by fraud and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. they've systematically silenced all conservatives, starting with accusing us of the most ridiculous offenses from racism to insurrection, all lying excuses to silence us. They are shuttig down the platforms that allow us to speak. We've always thought it would come from government but now it's coming from Big Tech and big corporations.
What we have right now is not two more or less equal political parties, we have one party that supports the principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and one party that trashes them both and America in g3enerla. You cannot have "unity" betwen two such factions. It isn't possible. Patriotism means supporting the founding principles. Conservatism means supporting the founding principels. Unlike the Left the right has no utopian vision, just the practical vision of preserving the system that governs best in a fallen world. The Left has no clue to that. When 5they do get a clue we may see some pretty dramatic conversions. The film About Clarence Thomas shows his great convsrsion from a radical activist to a staunch defender of the American vision when he and a few helpers set about discovering just what this nation was meant to be. It made him the Constitutional originalist we know him to be today. And the young woman Georgia H who did the walkaway video "I Was Wrong about the Democratic Party" which I hope can still be found at You Tube, had a similar eyeopening experience when she finally learned what coservativism is after years of being brainwashed by the left. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. More education in the real basis of America. People think they get it and they don't. Maybe it's too late but God is in charge and time will tell.
They want someone who could "unite the nation" and Trump doesn't seem to be that man. I'm talking about an opinion I just heard about what we should do from here and the recommendation was to go ahead with impeachment. Trump supposedly "indirectly" encouraged the assault on the Capitol. Not that I can see. Not in his speech for sure, but also from the fact that the attack was planned a long time before the speech. It's not possible to compromise with Communism. That's a lamb agreeing with the wolf on what to have for lunch.
I don't think there is anybody on the conservative side who coudl unite the nation just because the Left is determined to oppose everything a conservative does. Possibly a different personality than Trump's would go farther than Trump did but I think it's naive to think any of this was Trump's fault. It's naive not to know that the Left is determined to take over the country and has been for decades and it doesn't matter who is on the other side.
I think we're doomed and that is the end of it. The Left has won. They've already destroyed much of the Constitution and in the next few months they'll destroy the rest of it. Hello Venezuela North.
WHO WAS THERE?:
New York Times and Washington Post both published a story a couple weeks ago about plans to attack the Capitol on January 6. The Sergeants of Arms of the house and the Senate were warned to call in the National Guard and they warned the Speaker of the House and McConnell but nothing was done about it.
Upshot: Another reason the attack had nothing to do with Trump's speech.
The attack was well underway before Trump finished his speech.
Upshot: Another reason the attack had nothing to do with his speech.
And of course he said absolutely nothing in that speech to incite anything but a peaceful protest march.
Listened to an interview of a journalist by Bret Weinstein, Jeremy Lee Quinn: DarkHorse Podcast w/ Jeremy Lee Quinn & Bret Weinstein: The Capitol Insurrection, A View from Inside - YouTube,
I'm kind of fascinated with Weinstein because he and most of his friends are liberals who reject most of the insane liberal stuff I also reject, while nevertheless remaining liberals, which is sometimes alienating to me nevertheles. Or maybe just "alien" is what I really mean. That is, I have trouble getting into their frame of reference at times. I actively object to some things they say too but not anywhere near as much as I normally do with liberals. I don't think I will ever understand the Left's hatred of Trump, even the milder suspiciousness of him by these less virulent liberals. Just giving Trump "part" of the blame for the assault on the Capitol has no foundation that I can see, seems to spring from some deep well of anti-conservativism in the liberal breast. But then there have also been "Republicans' who have said the same thing recently, even Tucker Calrson. I don't get it. It makes my stomach hurt. Oh and Weinstein is proud of his participation in Occupy Wall Street. That actually turns my stomach.
Anyway, Quinn was in the Capitol building for part of the time it was being attacked. He interviewed one person who coulde be called a "neo Nazi," and said he encountered only that one. The guy in the Viking garb was another original, some kind of Pagan he supposed. He also talked to three "MAGA grandmothers" who had no activist leanings or motivations. He saw the crowd as "eclectic."
He also said more than once that Antifa wouldn't have been there because after all they aren't on the right. Which of course hits me as naive in the extreme. The whole idea was that they'd be there as a False Flag, pretending to be MAGA people to discredit the MAGA people with their violence. So far all I've heard about that was the report by Larry Elder, echoed by someone else later, that an FBI source said a busload of Antifa were there.
Weinstein kept mentioning "Q Anon" on the Right but nothing much got said about it beyond that.
Mark Levin tonight, the 14th, reported that a BLM activist known for violent participation in other protests, was just arrested, and that he filmed much of the event. And there is footage of him as well yelling about burning down the building.
That's about all I've heard so far about Who Was There, and of course I still want to know. I hope they find every one who was there and prosecute them all for whatever crimes they can be shown to have committed. It does sound like it was indeed an eclectic crowd. I hope we get to know just who was there and why.
THE IMPEACHMENT
Dinesh d'Souza says we shouldn't get upset at the insane impeachment but adopt the Anthropological Persepctive which will give us a critical distance from it and the ability to laugh at it.
You Might Be Surprised to Hear Me Say This About Impeachment... - YouTube
Nevertheless the fact that such insanity rules in our government is immensely sad. I don't get the optimism of those who think the country can recover from what the Left has been doing for years now, but most recently their support of the violent destructive and murderous lawlessness by BLM and Antifa in our cities. That was provoked by a false understanding of what happened to George Floyd, which was just one more false understanding of all the incidents that spawned BLM in the first place. And then their aggressive attack on those who wanted to have an investigation into the obvious, witnessed, documented, instances of election fraud. They changed laws and with Biden in office want to change more laws that derive from the Constitution, destroying the whole foundation of our Republic. How do we recover fromt that?
THE ONGOING COVID NIGHTMARE
It would be good to know what part of this debacle was in some sense intentionally designed to disrupt American life -- and yes I think there is reason to suspect some of it was -- and how much is due to confusion, stupidity and propaganda-driven irrational fears.
Golly gosh, did you know there have been extremely few flu deaths throughout this Flu Season? Golly Gosh I wonder what that means? COVID scared off the flu? Naa, they are just confusing flu cases with COVID, or maybe intentionally confusing them because there is money available for COVID deaths. Along with that we have what some report is an epidemic of false reporting of COVID deaths due to the presence of the virus in people otherwise severely ill who died of, say, a stroke, or heart attack. It's called a COVID death no matter what. So just how many of those three hundred thousand COVID deaths were really COVID deaths?
Which is not to triviliaze the virus, because there are definitely populations who are very vulnerable to it. So why aren't those populations protected and otherwise let the virus be treated the way we ordinarly treat the flu? After all the younger healthy people have a nearly hundred percent recovery rate and even the oldest groups' recovery rate is over 95%
But of course I'm still reacting with outrage when I hear the statistics every day, that they seem to be determined to drum into us for some reason, maybe to annoy us to death or scare us to death. I'm reacting with outrage because I KNOW that the vast majority of all these deaths could ahve been prevented if there had been a program of giving hydroxychloroquine with an antibiotic, either Azithromycin or Doxycycline, and Zinc at the first symptoms, before people wree sick enough to be hospitalized. That would have spared the hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID patients, which would also no doubt have prevented many other deaths by other ililnesses that have been pushed off the schedule because of COVID. Now there is this other drug Ivermectin which I haven't read as much about but which seems to work in the early stage as HCQ does. And then there is this Zinc-Quercetin combo I've been taking because quercetin also acts as an ionophore as does the HCQ, to open the cells so that the zinc can destroy the virus. But oh my, no, we can't have such a rational solution to the problem. Politics, greed, other more malevolent motivations? Probably all of the above. It would be easy to think that there is a conspiracy to kill us all. Or maybe just keeping us all locked up and adding that to the other ways the country is being destroyed.
Hey. Have a cheery New Year.
I don't want to keep writing about the political situation. A bunch of crazy or at least misguided people wreacked havoc in the Capitol building, for which they should be fully prosecuted, and the hypocritical Left thta all summer supported and defended rioters and murderers on their side of the political divide, is blaming it on all Trump supporters. Shows how crazy and misguided the Left is as usual, and how dangerous to everything American, but I need a break. Since there's nothing much I can do about it and it's such a gigantic headache, I need a rest from it,
So I stopped thinking about the political mess and have been watching the film "Darwin's Dilemma" rentable at Amazon for $2. I'm not attracted to Intelligent Design which is where this film leads in the end, but it's got a lot of interesting information about the Cambrian Explosion and nice animations of many of the bizarre creatures found in the Cambrian rocks. .
Intelligent Design accepts the basic time frame of evolutionary theory and I don't. I start out from a biblical framework thinking about evolution so I'm not looking to prove that there is an Intelligent Designer, rather I'm thinking about how biological systems actually work to defy the Darwinian idea of the evolution of all life from an ancient origin. The biblical account describes the separate creation of particular animals, after which they reproduce their own kind with variations within that kind but never anything other than that kind. So the objective is to discover the biological facts that demonstrate that.
The film does go to great lengths to show that each creature stands alone without transitional forms leading to 8it or from it to somethihng else, which is of coruse in line with my arguments. . The Cambrian Explosion is their evidence, billions of creatures found in rocks at the very bottom of the geological column with its fossil record that climbs up from there through all the named "time periods" from Cambrian through Devonian through Permian through Jurassic etc etc etc., to Recent time. The existence of those billions of complex creatures which are mostly insects and sea creatures is a problem for evolution because they seem to appear out of nowhere with no evolutionary precursors. Th3e absence of such precursors in the lower Precambrian rocks is astonishing given the assumptions of the theory of evolution. In that frame of reerence they appear in time, as all the fossils up the geololgical column appear in time, millions of years per sedimentary layer or "time period." The creationist idea is that it's not about time at all, the strata with their fossil contents are the result of the great Flood of Noah, all laid down within months. This is not the framework of the film, however, which seems to accept the time periods of evolutionary theory and Old Earth geology.
It's rather fun watching the computer animations of these odd creatures, and the scientific issues discussed are also interetsing. Of course since this is a film out to prove Intelligent Design there are plenty of debunkers in the Amazon comments though my cursory look through them didn't yield any very substantive arguments, mostly a lot of complaining that the film violates science without showing that it does. But then as I say my look-through was cursory and maybe I missed it.
The film answsered a question I've had for some time: where in the DNA is the genetic material that determines the structure of the animal itself. This question comes up because I got into trying to define the Kind apart from my argument about the reducton of genetic diversity. I looked at the Linnaean classification of animals and eventually concluded that the Kind must be definable by its morphology of basic physial structure but that the Linnaean system used some other criteria than I would.
I had to take a look at the skeletons of all kinds of birds in order to decide that "Bird" itself has to be a Kind or Species. The particular kinds of birds are then Subspecies. I don't see the point of the groupings such as Order, Genera etc. But then Linnaeus wasn't trying to deal with evolution. It has some aesthetic and lobical appeal to class things as Vertegrates and the like though so I guess I shouldn't object to that, it just has nothing to do with the question of evolution or descent.
If my eyesight were better I'd like to take a look at many more animal groupings to try to identify the structure I think must define the Kind or Species. Dog, Cat, Bird, and I think Rodent are all I've really thought about. I also figure that the genome of each Kind or Species should show itself to be specific to that Kind or Species in some identifiable way but of course I can't do that kind of research, it would take a geneticist for that. Oh Trilobite, I think Trilobite is a Kind or Species. Biology breaks up all these categories into separate species. But they they are using the term in a different way.
I'm not going to get to sort all this out in this life but the film answered that question I've had for some time: where is the genetic material located in the genome that codes for the body plan? Well, it's not located in the DNA at all according to the scientists in this film. It's located somewhere else in the cell. In the fertilized original cell it contains instructions for the differentiation of all the cells. No particular location was identified, nothing in particular about how this agency within the cell functions, just the statement that it's not in the DNA (though one participant added "as far as we know") and they agree that it is part of the cell itself.
Body Plan is their term but it's a good one and I'll use it. Locating the instructions for the body plan within the cell but not in the DNA means that you could never get from one species to another as the theory of evolut8ion has it. That was argued in a paper by Stephen Meyer that became controversial because in his conclusion he attributed the formation of the body plan to Design by a Designer.
That's all very interesting but there's a way he talks about it that makes me think it doesn't fit the biblical description of a one-time Creattion from which all the different Kinds reproduced in great variety, but something more like individual creative acts as new forms develop out of earlier populations. I'm not sure but that's what it sounds like.
In any case it answered my question. The body plan isn't in the DNA, it's a separate set of instructions built into the organism from its original fertilized cell. ( By the way I had prayed fairly recently for an answer to this question, and I have to say that I hardly ever fail to get answers to that kind of question. It doesn't particularly help me with the project of identifying the original Kinds but at least it seems to establish that there is definitely something immutable about the structure of each creature, which is how it appears. Cats are cats, they have an immutable catness to their form which exists in every kind of cat you'll ever see. That's the idea. When they try to tell me that we have the same body structure as the ape family, I'm very certain that no we don't. The proportions are entirely different. yes if I had another life I'd love to spend time trying to demonstrate all this.
Anyway that's another trend I pursue in arguments against evolution and for biblical creation. the main one remains the argument that evolutionary processes themselves inevitably rduce genetic diversity which defeats the whole idea of evolution beyond the boundary of the species, for which my evidence is pretty much limited to the known genetic reductiont o fixed loci in purebreds and in bottlenecked creatures such as the cheetah. But the fact that a whole new population can evolve very rapidly, over a matter of years, is also important evidence against evolution, examples being the Poe Mrcaru lizards and the Jutland cattle.
Then I just look around the world and everywhere I see evidence of the Flood. A wrecked planet, a tumble-down planet, the result of a great upheaval that destroyed the original perfect Creation. the strata for sure but just the tossed and tumbled look in general.
Now I like the implications of this immutable Body Plan. Just another reason you could never get from a reptile to a mammal, though the mathematics of incremental change defeat that one anyway.
Drat. I hope I'm not doomed to go back to politics now that I've come to an ending with this one.
