Civil War in the US?

I just watched a video speculating as to the outcome of a civil war between the right and the left in the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ep-u1_0T8  (copy and paste in address bar)

I was going to post the below in the comments section, then thought better of it.  But I didn't want to waste my effort, so here it is:



The Dems would never enter into a civil war with things as they stand now. They aren't stupid, just crazy. As Inspector Dreyfus said, "Insanity does not preclude genius."

Not that the left wouldn't hop at the chance to destroy the right if they thought they could win. So here's what needs to happen before the left would consider joining battle with the forces of evil:

--They need to disarm the citizenry (they're working on it)

--They need to get rid of all the loyal officer corps and replace them with yes-men loyal to a leftist government. Obama started this process, which is now stalled since Trump took office. Maybe the next occupant of the Oval Office?

--They need to win the presidency and both houses--This is a near-certainty within a decade or so because of the next item:

--They need an overwhelming majority Democrat constituency. Immigration plus high birth rates for minorities, coupled with low birth rates for people on the right is making this almost a certainty in 10-15 years.

--They need to neutralize by whatever means possible all the trained war vets living among the general population. Perhaps list them as unstable, PTSD, threats to national security, etc? They tried this in the last administration. They'll try it again.

--They need to institute an invasive bureaucracy so controlling that opponents aren't able to communicate, coordinate, or resist. The idea would be to isolate individuals. Current surveillance technology, assisted by drones, will be a big help. The IRS and the NSA working together can keep the populace in a constant state of fear.

--They need to allow the current indoctrination process of the youngest generation, which has been going on for 50 years in public schools as well as in media and entertainment, time to bear the fruit of a near-total leftist world view among those of military age. They're close now, but need to wait a while longer.

IMHO, it'll take 10-15 years for all these to be in place. When this all comes together, I'd give them, oh, around 1.6 seconds or so to issue an ultimatum to the right.

Whose Will?

The President and the Republicans are trying to make the case, to justify their opposition to letting the caravan come across our border, that among the 7000 or so there may be ISIS, there may be drug dealers, there may be criminals of all stripes whom we don't want to let into our country.  This may be true, but it totally misses the point.  Perhaps the reason it misses the point is because they don't think Americans can, or will, either get or appreciate the real point.

The real point is this:  This caravan can't be allowed to just barge across our border because of the precedent it will set and because of the example it will become.  If we are a nation-state, with citizenship, laws, and territory over which we are sovereign, we can't allow non-citizens to just enter at will.  There must be some gate-keeping.  Otherwise, the above three, citizenship, laws, and territory, not to mention sovereignty, are completely moot.

Now is not the time or place to discuss the validity of the concept of nation-state as opposed to nation (ethne in Greek), which is an ethnic group, a nation of blood and soil.  Ours is a nation founded on an idea.  This was a very new thing in the late 18th century. 

Lincoln's question in the Gettysburg Address, "whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure" is becoming more and more relevant.  If we lose the idea, does the nation really exist any longer?  France, for example, is composed of Frenchmen, at least until very recently.  (We'll see whether it can survive the influx of non-Frenchmen currently imposing its will on the native population.  I wouldn't bet on it.)  But the fact remains that France, as long as it is composed of Frenchmen, will remain France even if the government and its founding principles are radically altered.  The French Revolution demonstrated this.

However, the United States of America is not like France.  If the original idea is lost or repudiated, and the form of government altered, can it be said that the United States still exists? 

If the United States is to remain a sovereign entity, it must control its borders, that is, the territory within its jurisdiction.  It must reserve to itself the power and prerogative of choosing who may enter and who may not.  This is the issue at stake.  A mob of 7000 people must not be allowed to impose its will on the nation.  If it succeeds, we have lost our sovereignty and our real existence. 

There are those on the political left who probably think that is a good thing.  In fact, this is precisely what they've been working toward for decades, and it's nearly become a reality.  The question is, will they prevail?  Whose vision of our country will prevail?  Nearly 50% of the electorate is of the opinion that the United States should become a very different entity from what it has historically been since its founding.  Will they succeed in transforming it into their image, or will they be thwarted in their attempt?  This upcoming election will, in large measure, provide the answer.

More Honest Reportage by the MSM

My dad and I were watching TV coverage of this "event". The people were well-dressed, clean (not "ragged"), well-fed, and obviously in very good shape after already coming 300-400 miles. Q: Where are they getting all the food? How are they staying clean? What about shelter? Where are they sleeping? What about water and toilet facilities? This is a massive logistical undertaking. If you've been in the army you know what I'm talking about. Another thing--among the "hikers", mostly young men, were some women and children. including a very overweight woman. This is some hundreds of miles out from the start. And the next question is.....

Back to my point: Someone, or "someones", provided massive funding, organization, and logistical support. Further in the news clip they showed a number of large cargo vans. I assume the people are being transported by truck, only to be let out for a mile or two for the cameras. Nowhere in the MSM reportage do I hear anything about the logistics. No one's even asking the question, it seems. This is so obviously a setup. This isn't Lord of the Rings or some fantasy adventure. Large groups of people don't just trek across several countries. I checked the distance from Teguicigalpa, Honduras, to El Paso, TX. It's over 2300 miles. That's farther than the distance from Mexico to Canada by a fair margin. How'd you like to walk that? And the "press" is keeping a straight face while reporting this fairy tale.

Yes, the Lord is doing this to us. But the deed has mostly been done inside our country. If it weren't the refugees, the treacherous quislings would find something else.

You know, in order to run for political office in one of our parties, you just about have to sign your name in blood to a statement saying you'll support the murder of unborn children. That's their most important issue.

Woe to us.

Insanity

I'm reading in Acts chapter 4 today about the Jewish rulers examining Peter and John regarding their healing the lame man in the temple.  Peter nails them between the eyes with his pointed remarks:

"...let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone."

So what's their response?  They discuss the matter and decide that even though Peter and John have performed a tremendous miracle in the name of Jesus, they still need to suppress talk of Him being the Messiah or any silly thing like that.  Like the miracle in no way validates Peter and John's testimony.  Or even has anything to do with the matter.  Right.

Q:  How could they possibly be so blind and unthinking?  How could they possibly NOT be filled with fear and awe at the possibility that they just killed the long-awaited Messiah?  How could they not have been stopped in their tracks by the stupendous implications of this?   I'm reading this, amazed at the depravity of human nature, and at the same time, convinced at the accuracy of the account by the sheer perversity of this bunch.  In what work of fiction would you find such a reaction to an utterly convincing event?  Only in real life would such a thing happen.  It's stuff like this that convinces me even further that the Bible is a true account of history and of the reality of evil.

This reminds me of the reaction of the religious leaders to the story of the guards they placed at Jesus' tomb to keep the body from being stolen.  The guards witnessed a supernatural being rolling away the stone from the door of the tomb:

^"And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men."

These rough, tough men were utterly terrified.  There were four of them (at least), and they could have overpowered just about any natural being who tried such a thing.  Their testimony to the Jewish leaders had to be shocking.  So what was the Jewish leaders' reaction?  

...they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”

This is insanity.  The testimony of these guards (four of them!) HAD to be amazing.  Shocking.  Ominous.  TERRIFYING, to those responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.  I mean, what were they thinking?  You'd think that at least some of them would immediately fall on their faces and ask God for forgiveness.  But there's no record of that.  Instead, they bribed the guards to spread what they knew was a lie, and promised to bribe the governor also to keep him from executing the guards (death was the penalty for falling asleep on a watch).

But this is so true-to-life.  People hardened to the truth seldom are convinced by any evidence.  And they will go on telling lies that they know to be lies if the alternative is acknowledgement, repentance, humble acceptance, and a change of direction.

May God deliver us from ourselves. 

Power Games

I'm amazed at the seeming naivete of so many journalists and bloggers covering the current developments regarding corruption in the high places of DC.  So many of them act so amazed, so dumbfounded, so...shocked, just shocked!! at what's come out.  I'm amazed and dumbfounded too (but not shocked).  My amazement is for a different reason, though.  I'm amazed that all this is actually coming out in public view!  If it hadn't been for the election of Donald Trump which, politically, was a black swan event, NONE of this would have surfaced.  It was that political miracle which enabled this one.  Before the election I had resigned myself--for several years, actually--to the election of Hillary Clinton as our next POTUS and to business as usual in DC.  But the election of Donald was truly earth-shattering, and made so many previously unthinkable things thinkable.  Donald Trump is like a chlorine molecule inserted into an oxygen slot in an organism--fits right in and totally disrupts the chemistry.

NOW--what we see playing out in DC and around the nation is a raw game of power.  To be sure, there's still subterfuge involved, but so much more of the raw power is exposed for those who observe.  The left is in full-attack mode.  They seem to be operating on the assumption that rhetoric, not truth, will ultimately carry the day, and they have a nuclear arsenal of rhetoric at their disposal.  The right seems to have some very powerful evidence of official wrongdoing, but they don't have the left's powers of persuasion.  Who will win?  It remains to be seen.

But here's the deal: This battle is being fought strictly along partisan lines.  This greatly favors the Democrats.  They have the luxury of being intensely partisan while accusing the Republicans of being partisan.  It's a double standard which they've enjoyed for decades.  This also weakens the arguments of the Republicans.  After all, if they really had truth on their side, you'd think that at least SOME democrats would join them in their battle, wouldn't they?  But the Dems' not breaking ranks focuses attention not on THEIR partisanship, but on the Republicans'.  It's a weird phenomenon.  And the Republicans aren't helping matters by being so overtly joyful, gleeful even, at having discovered such incriminating evidence on the part of Clinton supporters.  They really make this look like a partisan battle, don't they?  And the sad part is, in light of their recent vote to give the government even greater surveillance powers, it may very well be for many in the GOP.

So--let's see how this plays out.  Like I said, this is a power game now.  The sides have been drawn up, the battle lines are formed.  There are only a few neutrals out there.  Most Americans are in one camp or the other.  Whose will shall prevail?  Most commenters, left and right, speak of "the will of the American people" as though it were a monolithic thing aligned, naturally, with the party the speaker endorses.  But it seems to me that the electorate is pretty much divided 50/50.  People in one camp are very, very unlikely to even listen to any argument put forth by the other.

The LORD God help us, especially His chosen ones.

DC Revelations

I'm watching this Wash. DC show utterly dumbfounded.  Not so much at the revelations.  Knowing human nature (my own heart), the depth of the evil doesn't surprise me.  What is amazing is that it's all coming out.  I'm driven to prayer (a good thing!) by the knowledge that this can mean that our nation is in very great peril.  I'm also driven to searching my own heart and confessing the stuff in dark corners.  I don't want His wrath myself, I'd MUCH rather have His protection. I very much hope that the awfulness of the revealed evil causes many to reflect on the nature of man and their own status with the Creator, and drives them to Him in prayer.  I don't have any great expectation that'll happen, but it would be wonderful.  Here's what amazes me:  Hillary is now 70.  Many of those who control her are older, some much older.  How long do they expect to live?  The pre-diluvians might have had a little reason to think they were independent of God, living as they did for 900+ years, some of them, but us??  What are we thinking?  I'm 68.  I know my time is short.  I realize it's time for a proper humility.  What are the power-brokers thinking?  Just wondering.