The Labor Union

Listening to Charlie Kirk recently, a sincere young man asked Charlie how he, as a believer, could reach people for Christ? Charlie, in a well meaning way, praised the young man for desiring to do so, and gave him encouragement. He also suggested a few things tactically, which were sound.

I could not help thinking about the young man’s question long after the exchange. The reality is, the young man CAN”T reach people for Christ. We as followers of Christ, in our zeal to share our faith often conflate the idea of “Reaching” people with the good news, with “Reaching Out” with the Gospel. They are two very different things.

Christ never instructed us to “Reach” people. He told us to reach out and share our faith. The reaching part is reserved for God Himself. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:18-20

Those words are called the “Great Commission.”In Matthew chapter 10, The Lord gives a more detailed outline of how, what to expect and how we ought to react, when witnessing. Nevertheless, know this, there is nothing you can say, or do, no fact you can relate, no truth you can reveal that can “Reach” a person’s heart for Christ.

I Corinthians 3:
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Our job is not to convince, but to plant and water seeds. This is a process I can personally witness to—Before I followed Christ, when I was yet a Muslim lost in false religion, people planted and watered seed in my life often. The words spoken by these men into my life nagged at me in the back of my mind literally for years… “Muhammad is dead, Christ is alive!”

It was not until God Himself gave me my measure of grace, as Paul explains in verse 5 above, did my heart soften. We are not capable of believing the truth absent God’s grace, He gives us the desire to respond to His Word. Otherwise, we never would. Christ taught: “For many are called, but few are chosen.” THAT, is what the disciples used to call a hard saying; who can hear it?

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: It is the Holy Spirit who convicts and quickens the Word of God in us, allowing us to hear the Good Shepherd’s voice. Back to I Corinthians: 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Our job as laborers is to plant and water—God does the reaping. Our mindset should not be what can I do to reach, but rather how can I reach out. We should not be discouraged when someone fails to fall to their knees in our sight in repentance, tearfully reciting the Sinner’s prayer after we lay out some brilliant apologetic for Christ.

Instead, our job is to “…sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” I Peter 3:15 Remembering always faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

We are commissioned to share our faith, it is through the Lord’s grace we believe and it is our responsibility to plant and water seeds. It is how we boldly stand for the Lord and lovingly reach out that matters. We should not be timid, love is bold IF you care about others.

It is a lovely thing when someone you shared your faith with, at some future date—someone you did not think heard a word you said, later tells you they are now a follower of Christ. When we are faithful, these occasions do occur and we thank the Lord for His grace and the chance to see a little fruit harvested.

The Apostle teaches: But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. I Corinthians !5:10

And:

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

WE can’t “Reach” anyone, we CAN and should reach out! When we faithfully labor, God Himself gives grace and belief and always gets the increase. That’s my idea of a labor union.

To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me. Colossians 1:29

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The Handmaid's Truth

The left is fond of fear-mongering the idea of the rise of a theocratic America—Conflating the idea of preserving morality, self control, personal responsibility for ones actions, even proficiency in language and mathematics, with the imposition of oppression. Especially the oppression of women based on Biblical principle.

This mania on the left ignores the fact the freest nations in history for women, have existed in nations where the majority is Christian. Observing the rise of socialism on our campuses and amongst our politicians harboring a genuine hatred for our own nation—The parallels between what is happening here and the historical record of places with true oppression are in stark relief.

Anyone who has done a comprehensive, or even a middling but serious study of socialism, realizes the incongruity of an alliance between Marxist/Communist ideology and any Abrahamic religion. The very idea of say a Democratic Socialist Muslim, like the rising New York politician Zohran Mamdani, stretches all credulity. At least it should.

To be a Marxist Christian, Jew, or Muslim, is to give full reign to cognitive dissonance to a fanatical level—One must clearly give more credence to the philosophy of men ahead of the precepts of the God revealed in the Holy Bible and the god of the Qur’an.

However, the Mamdani’s of the world are not without solid precedence. The Iranian revolution deposing the Shah of Iran in 1979, was driven, in large part, by socialist Muslims in concert with Islamic fundamentalist groups. The playbook is identical to what we see playing out amongst our youth on campuses and with so many young Americans, like the ones propelling the New York Assembly-Man today.

“Why should the Shah be rich and live in a palace while so many Iranians are poor?” Equity, equity, equity. And so it was, going back to the early 20th century, reaching an apex in the late 1970s. You had in Iran (This is not a comprehensive list, there were many more) the Unified Socialist Party (Persia) 1904, Communist Party of Persia 1917.

In the 20s Socialist Party (Iran), Young Communist League of Persia, Revolutionary Republican Party of Iran. The 40s the Comrades Party, the Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists, the United Front of Progressive Parties founded by the communist Tudeh Party and the Iran Party. The Iran Unity Party,

1951 the Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation, 1960s the League of Iranian Socialists, Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries. 1970’s the Maoist Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran), Peykar: Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, the Movement of Militant Muslims, the  Iranian Islamic socialist political group led by Habibollah Payman. The Organization of Working-class Freedom Fighters.

1980s and still in existence we find, the Marxist/Leninist Fedaian Organisation, the Communist Party of Iran. So called Islamic Socialists, Like the “Democratic Socialist Muslim” Zohran Mamdani ushered in the modern regime of Islamic, Sharia law fundamentalist, lead by the Ayatollahs and Mullah’s since 1979.

What Mamdani wants, is freedom as defined by HIS ideology, one ironically alien to the easily manipulated American youth aligning themselves with Hamas and Hezbollah. A youth driven by a mutual hate with terrorist groups for America, fostered by socialist Academics. Everywhere socialism and Islamism take root around the world, they lead to real oppression, not merely “Tales” like the ones penned by Margaret Atwood and hailed by the soft minded across the world.

The American left screams for equity, while sympathizing with peoples and groups who have little regard for personal choice and freedom. Women waving flags in solidarity with Hamas and Palestine, denigrating the action taken in Iran by the current administration—While never dreaming of giving up their inalienable rights to suffer through what women in these places endure and will continue enduring if the status quo is maintained, or if Israel indeed ceases to exist from the “River to the sea” as they are wont to chant.

Where are the Atwoodian Gileads in the world structured on the torturing of Old Testament Scripture? The only such examples extant, are those beginning outside Biblical pretext. It is irrational to fear the fictional red garments of the Handmaid’s Tale, while ignoring the worldwide examples of  the very real garments worn by oppressed women under the socialist/Islamist Handmaid’s Truth.

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society—the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society—this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not “abolished.” It dies out.

Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (1901)

Ludwig Von Mises wrote ” The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn.”

This is still the modest operandi of the American left, open borders and control of enterprise—The only problem is these concepts lead not to universal peace, but rather the murder of 100s of millions throughout the 20th century—Endless war and bloodshed as the revolution continues to impose Marxism on a world rejecting it. An endless cycle of violence, poverty, lack of resources and misery.

The creeds of the left are not reconcilable with the Holy God revealed in the Holy Bible, you cannot be both a socialist and Christian. You cannot pretend to be a Jewish Socialist like Bernie Sanders—The left may tolerate you calling yourself a Christian, or Jew while advancing atheistic materialism, they simply call you a “Useful Idiot” behind your back. Meanwhile, with bated breath they patiently wait for the day they grasp ultimate power so they can crush the faith out of you.

“The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.”

Karl Marx, Das Kapital

The simple reality is, Marxism begins from a pretext of envy, it is plain dealing covetousness—Born of a lack of personal industry, driving malcontents to seize, rather than build. To redistribute rather than contribute. It all comes down to the lazy individuals desire for money, outstripping the drive to earn it for themselves.

Make no mistake, money is the idol of the left, hence the obsession with controlling it. To Paraphrase Orwell—all-are-equal—but-some-are-more-equal-than-others. Certainly the case in the chronicles of history where the intelligentsia overseeing the proletariat live far better than their “Comrades” n'est-ce pas?


On the other hand God in His Holy Text teaches “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24

So it is no wonder we find men like Mamdani echoing the words of their political and philosophical progenitors—When he offhandedly comments on the importance of “Seizing the means of production” In an interview with the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021. 

As a Christian, the idea of supporting socialism of any kind, or the likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or the latest cause célèbre Mamdani, is patently absurd, I believe the Bible, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8

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Unstable Christianity?

One of the earliest Hallelujah moments for me as I began my walk with Christ some thirty odd years ago came as I studied this passage in the Gospel of Saint Luke first chapter:

39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

It filled me with joy! The revelation of the nascent John the Baptist in Elizabeth’s womb reacted to merely hearing the voice of the mother of the also nascent Christ—How wonderful the workings of God! This likewise marked the end of my heretofore pro-choice position on the  issue of abortion.

You see, as a Spirit filled Christian, I realized like a thunderbolt from heaven, I could not reconcile the incongruity of a person, woman or otherwise having agency in determining the fruit of her womb's worthiness of the God given gift of  life. It pricks at my heart this is not readily understood by all who claim faith in the child growing in Mary’s womb.

The child growing in Elizabeth’s body was no less John the Baptist than the fellow who shouted; “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.’ The Child in Mary’s body was the same Christ who said; “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

Given modern thought, many would have advised Mary it would have been wise, given the circumstance of Christ’s conception, to “choose” ending her pregnancy. The idea the person growing within her has no right to life. Particularly when one considers His mother lived in an age of dire consequences for adultery, and the views in the day on fornication.

It struck home for me personally as I and my then future wife had made the very “choice ourselves when she became pregnant early in our relationship—I paid to abort what would have been our first child. We allowed our lack of faith at the time to rob us of a blessing, though the child’s origin was outside God’s prescribed order. Marriage, then sexual relations.

It was compounded by my having made the same decision earlier in my life with another woman. It was a decision not made due to a lack of resources, but rather motivated purely out of selfishness and the wish to avoid distasteful scrutiny. I did not see the children as people, just an ill timed inconvenience.

Then one reads Psalms 139:

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

This drove me to repentance, Prostrate I asked the Lord’s forgiveness, He being faithful to His Word , through faith in Him who has forgiven me. By faith in His promises, proven not by blind belief, but by evidences of His actions in my past I take solace in the hope I shall know these offspring robbed of an earthly life in the eternal life to come.

Had I not early in life been a faithless unbeliever, I would have reacted like Joseph did as recorded in Matthew the first chapter:

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Indeed, hopefully, I would not have fornicated to begin with. Scripture teaches in James the first chapter: Verse eight; “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” This prompts me to ask those who claim Christ as personal savior committed to Him, who still advocate for “Choice” on behalf of "women's rights,"  are you double minded? If not, how do you reconcile this in light of God so often making statements like:

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5, and:

Isaiah 49:1

Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Galatians 1:15

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

Ephesians 1:4

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

Romans 8:29

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Isaiah 44:2

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

How do you argue a woman, or any man has the right to undo what God has made? How do you reject participating with God in His acts of creation? How is your wisdom greater than the creator of ALL THINGS? I ask these questions sincerely, as we all must answer for what we have done in the body when we stand before Him. I know I am not the first to make these points, or to posit these questions, yet I am driven to do so in this hour—I do pray we examine ourselves and our choices in light of God’s revelation. It is through these revelations we are able to apprehend the character of God.

Second Timothy Chapter 3, verse 16 states, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness". 

We ALL sin and fall short of the glory of God, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”—Yet we are all called to conform to His Word. We are not citizens of this world and should not follow the ways of the world. We are called to take on the Mind of Christ and to seek His kingdom first. So I ask you, on the question of life, have you gone astray? Can you hear the Good Shepherd's voice? Are you an unstable Christian?

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Voting For Bondage

The roots of American Black folks slavishly supporting Democrat/Leftist ungodliness are out there—If you care more about truth and doing what’s right, than being right, rubber stamping policies designed to make you feel good, rather than DO good. Black Christians, as I have pointed out in the past, are the largest Christian group who vote Democratic.

Christians who allow their faith to inform their politics, find it difficult, if not impossible to vote for the Democrat Party—This was the case with me when I came to a saving faith in Christ. As I began studying the living Word of God with all of my might, it occurred to me as a mental side note, I could not vote as I had in 1992 for Bill Clinton in the 1996 election.

Simply put, I could not figure out how I could be both a Christian and a Democrat. The gulf between God’s Word and the left’s political platform was simply too wide. Sadly, the gulf has expanded exponentially in the subsequent 30 years. Yet, the majority of Black Christians compartmentalize their faith when they enter the voting booth.

The Black Christian’s politics supersedes the tenets of God—I have heard Black Christians cite the specious idea of a separation of Church and State as often as I hear it from the most virulent, militant atheistic activist. The Democratic Party is never so hostile and frenzied as when they condemn the slightest homage to Devine Providence in the public square. Going so far at the 2012 DNC convention, as to literally boo God when including references to “God” in the Democrat platform was proposed.

So the Democrat Party works to reverse a state’s right to mandate the Ten Commandments in public school class rooms—While decrying school violence. Incapable of acknowledging a sign saying from an Immutable Source, Thou Shall Not Kill, may just serve to lower school mass shootings.

I understand the left’s dilemma, It’s tough teaching our kids to respect life, while advocating for destroying it in the womb. How do you teach reverence for God while telling children He made a mistake when he made them a boy, or a girl? How do you teach them not to lie, or covet, while telling them it’s perfectly normal to discard healthy parts of their growing bodies, so they can appear like the gender they envy?

No, you can’t have those pesky Commandments around, they get in the way of our anti-life agenda. The Democrats are committed to killing babies in the womb and mutilating children so they themselves, can never experience participating in the greatest collaborative creative act, working with God to bring human life into the world. A true blessing.

Yes, the Democrats boisterously gainsay publicly acknowledging our Creator… Until election time rolls around. Then they affect dialects meant to endear themselves to Church congregants  all across the nation. That is Black congregants. I can’t recall a Democrat candidate ever being filmed at a majority white congregation on the political stump. I’m still waiting for a Democrat to whip out a bottle of Lea & Perrins at a White church the way Hillary broke out the Frank’s in the Black church.

Even though the God they proclaim with their lips to serve declares: “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” Psalms 139:13,14  They still side with the Party arguing what grows in a mother’s womb is not human life, and you are not wonderfully made, remake yourself by cutting the bits off you find offensive.

The Democrat strongman has a hold on the Black man’s soul through decades of conditioning and the cooperation of those Margaret Sanger called, silver tongued Black preachers and leaders when she began implementing her “Negro Project.” Folks like Mary McLeod Bethune, W. E. B. DuBois, and Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Is it any wonder why so many Planned Parenthood abortion mills are found in urban areas? WE will support all of the ungodly things the left peddles, as long as they keep promising largesse to the Black community.

The biggest fish Planned Parenthood landed to convince the Black community it was merciful to kill our own babies, was the Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the first recipient of the Margaret Sanger “Humanitarian” award. The following is an excerpt from his prepared acceptance speech:

“There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess.

There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist — a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her.“

“Obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions.” You somehow “enrich humanity” by destroying it? I am reminded of the Apostle Paul’s words in Romans; “And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.”

The left has convinced so many good is evil and evil is good. They don’t want teachers to pray with students, but they are fine with telling them to hide their gender identity from parents. The American flag triggers, the Pride flag uplifts. Sexually explicit books are welcome in elementary school libraries, while parents objecting to children being sexualized are painted as extremists—Further, legislators fighting for parent’s rights are labeled book banners…

We are so committed to the flesh, we are ignoring the spiritual evil being propagated. The left relentlessly, through the media they control, sell the idea Black folks are under racist attack every waking moment of our lives—They get us to co-sign the most ungodly things with our vote. Is it any wonder they have convinced us not to replace ourselves in society by embracing every anti-life agenda known to man?

But hey, no more mean tweets! We may be paying more for everything, but at least our sons will be able to castrate themselves in the most humane way possible. Orange man and Project 2025 bad—Drag Queen Story Hour good. It’s not about being a “One issue voter,” It’s about demonstrable good and evil.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Ephesians 5:11

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Ain't Enough Red Pills

It is time to pray. I am by nature an optimist, more amenable to the half full side of things than the alternative. However, it has also been my endeavor to add a measure of pragmatism to the glass—Truth beats pie in the sky everyday of the week and twice on Sundays. The United States of America is in trouble.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” John 15:18

If you are a Holy Bible believing Christian, I don’t mean a churchgoer, there’s scads of churchgoers. I mean people who not only believe in God, but actually believe Him. The sort of faith you find compelling enough to speak out when you clearly see things contrary to the teachings of the God revealed in the Holy Bible—You are a walking, talking red pill and know this, the overwhelming majority you find yourself in the midst of daily, prefer blue.

“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” Matthew 10:22

If you are a churchgoer, and you find yourself in ready agreement with what you see in the media, abortion is about women’s rights, Billy Porter looks good in a dress, some races are more virtuous than others, you feel you must apologize for your ethnicity, Lil Nas X can be a “Birthing Person… If you find yourself nodding your head in agreement with 99% of modern American news… You are right where the enemy of all mankind wants you.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” II Timothy 4:3,4

In an article I wrote several years ago I posited: “In a society as powerful and throughout most of our history, incredibly prosperous like the United States, socialism cannot rely on the old ways. The old ways work well in underdeveloped nations, but in the West, a softer revolution was in order.”

I was partially right—We have in fact undergone a softer revolution, it just wasn’t socialist in nature—it was fascist. Consider the words of Giovanni Gentile, the philosophical father of fascism—As Adam Smith to capitalism, Marx and Engels are to socialism/communism, Gentile is likewise to fascism.

“The Fascist, on the other hand, conceives philosophy as a philosophy of practice (”praxis”). That concept was the product of certain Marxist and Sorellian inspirations (many Fascists and the Duce, himself, received their first intellectual education in the school of Marx and Sorel)—as well as the influence of contemporary Italian idealistic doctrines from which Fascist mentality drew substance and achieved maturity.“ *

The founders of fascism were all committed socialists who were bitterly disappointed when the workers failed to unite against capitalist oppressors during the First World War but instead fought with their individual nations against each other—putting their national identity ahead of their economic philosophy. German socialists fought with Germany, Italian with Italian, British with British… So nationalism was introduced to the wider socialist theory and fascism was born. Hence for example, National Socialist German Workers,’ or NAZI Party. In fact, if you find “Workers” in the title, it’s a safe bet there’s socialism somewhere in the mix.

“The authority of the State was not a product, but a presupposition. It could not depend on the people, in fact, the people depended on the State… The Fascist state, on the other hand, is a popular state, and, in that sense, a democratic State par excellence… Every citizen shares a relationship with the State and is so intimate that the State exists only in so far as it is made to exist by the citizen.“ — Giovanni Gentile **

“How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.” Jude 1:18

The United States Preamble begins with “We the People…” Not we the State and this was our strength for much of our national history. It is the reason we have been so indomitable as a people—It was therefore the most important thing for the fascist left to undermine. It is the reason the Democrat Party strives to control every aspect of American life.

The media, academia, technology, entertainment and now all three branches of government work tirelessly to make government the center of our society. Never in our history has individual liberty been under so constant an attack—The Pandemic is the greatest tool to ever enter the left’s kit box to meet their Hegelian dreams.

Add to the Pandemic, a heaping helping of anti-American sentiment, carefully cultivated now for generations in our schools and media and the United States is just about finished. I’m a fan of Longfellow—In works like his novel “Kavanagh,” you find words describing the feeling America used to inspire:

“We want a national literature commensurate with our mountains and rivers ... We want a national epic that shall correspond to the size of the country ... We want a national drama in which scope shall be given to our gigantic ideas and to the unparalleled activity of our people ... In a word, we want a national literature altogether shaggy and unshorn, that shall shake the earth, like a herd of buffaloes thundering over the prairies”

We seem now more interested in emphasizing the depraved in our works of art. There is much more cache in hating America than praising it nowadays. The fascists of old played up nationalism—Today in America they mock it—The fascists of old kickstarted the Hegelian dialectic by unleashing the Brownshirts in Germany and the Black Shirts in Italy—Thugs controlled invisibly by agents of the state to sow chaos so the benevolent state can then step in and restore order—Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

In modern America these thugs are called Anti-Fascist, or AntiFa and from a more political perspective, BLM. AntiFa is fitting when one apprehends the anti part is in fact anti national American pride. In every other way it is classical fascism. The Brownshirts had their “Kristallnacht,” AntiFa had their “Summer of Love.” The contemporary fascists have discovered supplanting nationalism with statism eliminates the middle man. 

The Democrat Party for example cares nothing about our nation—This is made manifest by their disinterest in maintaining our sovereign borders. Not to mention the wanton abandonment of our citizens and allies to the tender care of the Taliban. What could more perfectly Illustrate their disdain for you and me? Beyond our devotion to them, we have no further value.

The problem is the Democrats/Leftists know who their true spiritual and philosophical fathers are and most of us don’t—they study and implement their ideas; While providing academic cover, teaching only hatred for America, capitalism and Western Civilization—They have literally made generations believe Fascism is a right wing ideology even though NAZI has socialism right in the name and its origins are as left as you can get. The earliest enthusiasts for the theory in the United States where themselves “Progressives like F.D.R. and W.E.B. DuBois… More from Gentile:

„Of which liberalism does one wish to speak? I distinguish two principal forms of liberalism. For one…liberty is a right; for the other a duty. For one it is a gift; for the other a conquest… One liberalism conceives liberty rooted in the individual, and therefore opposes the individual to the State, a State understood as possessing no intrinsic value—but exclusively serving the well being and the improvement of the individual. The State is seen as a means, not an end. It limits itself to the maintenance of public order, excluding itself from the entirety of spiritual life—which, therefore, remains exclusively a sphere restricted to the individual conscience. That liberalism, historically, is classical liberalism—of English manufacture.

Classical Liberalism is conservative, it is right wing, Gentile and the fascist reject conservatism out of hand while perfectly defining it. He continues:

 It is, we must recognize, a false liberalism, containing only half the truth. It was opposed among us by Mazzini with a criticism, that I maintain, is immortal. But there is another liberalism, that matured in Italian and German thought, that holds entirely absurd this view of the antagonism between the State and the individual.“ ***

I don’t know a single conservative who would agree with that. It does nevertheless describe the transformation of the term liberal. More over, I don’t see how a Christian could align themselves with such ideas—Yet when you elect men like Joe Biden and find yourself more often than not, agreeing with CNN and MSNBC you already bow to the State.

“And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.” I John 5:19

“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” John 15:19

The modern day American fascist assures you daily through the likes of Don Lemon, Howard Stern, Joy Reid, Anthony Fauci, Jen Psaki… opposing the collective will of the State via vaccine mandates, travel restrictions, or straying from any of the left’s brand of orthodoxy, be it Pro Choice, open boarders, or an infinite regress of gender possibilities, you are to be shunned, vilified, demeaned… 

This is what the State demands, this is what the world demands. Unquestioned compliance or you are the problem. Are you thinking for yourself, or is the world thinking for you. Are you among the many? 

It’s time to pray! Not for a nation I fear too far gone, but for each other to see the truth and come out from among them. Be in the world, but not of the world—We do not want to share in the condemnation so surely to come.

“For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14

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* “The Philosophy of Fascism,” first published in English in the Spectator, November 1928, pp. 36-37. 

** Orgini e dottrina del fascismo, Rome: Libreria del Littorio, (1929). Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 28

*** Che cosa è il fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche (“What is Fascism?”), Florence: Vallecchi, (1925) pp. 42-45, 47-48, 49-51, 56,Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers, 2003, p. 63

The Tragically Stupid

No group is more reactionary towards President Trump than American black folks—The media has fought like tigers to make it so. They are particularly adept at twisting Mr. Trump’s ham-fisted way of communicating to remove all context, painting him a bigot. American black folks have been carefully weaned on a diet of rejecting conservatism and Republicans in general—None more so than Mr. Trump. This is so despite the fact Black folks are by nature very conservative.

The narrative advanced by the left and the leftwing dominated mainstream media, really anyone in opposition to President Trump, is he is easily influenced—The last person who speaks to him on a subject, is a predictor of the way he will go on an issue. This in fact may be true. If so and you have an agenda you want advanced, wouldn’t it make good sense to desire being in a position to bend his ear?

Progressivism as it has grown in the United States is a disease first infecting the idle and moneyed within society—the so-called “Parlor Pinks.” Folks sold on the idea of their native superiority, bent on controlling the masses. They spread their virulent philosophies, exposing any they can manipulate by stoking the red hot coals of “Social Injustice” and victimhood.

Once infected, the new carriers become immune to reason—feelings take primacy over rationale and nothing ever really changes—which is precisely what their enlightened handlers want, a constituency of victims with whom to offer ethereal largesse in exchange for power...forever.

A prime example of this is the modern professional athlete. One fellow makes an empty gesture, kneeling on the field before a football game during the national anthem—What the NFL has to do with perceived heightened police violence against blacks is elusive. Nevertheless and without regard for a clearly stated agenda behind the action, the media anoints him a conscious and brave hero and others soon follow suit.

The progressives promote such actions because they are hollow and it keeps the very rich and influential athletes from the truly screwy idea of putting their resources to actual good use on the ground. The sort of work true heroes like Hall of Fame Football star Jim Brown has been engaged in for decades. Literally yanking young men out of gang life in California and other areas.

In 2016, Jim Brown along with fellow gridiron legend Ray Lewis, Rapper Kanye West and Pastor Darrell Scott met with President Elect Trump at his election headquarters to discuss ways his impending administration could address issues important to the black community. Mr. Brown said regarding the meeting:

“We couldn’t have had a better meeting.” He continued: “The graciousness, the intelligence, the reception we got was fantastic. He’s amenable to listening to people who didn’t vote for him.”

Mr. Lewis stated: “black or white is irrelevant” when trying to help people out of poverty and improve people’s lot. “Urban development and job creation are everything,” Lewis said. “What we believe with the Trump administration is if we can combine these two powers of coming together – forget black or white. Black or white is irrelevant. The bottom line is job creation and economic development in these urban areas to change the whole scheme of what our kids see.”

Mr. Brown went on: “I can’t speak for the pastor [Scott], but I fell in love with him, because he really talks about helping African-American, black people and, uh, that’s why I’m here.”

“You fell in love with Donald Trump?” asked CNN’s Brooke Baldwin.

“It isn’t really about Donald Trump,” Brown replied. “It’s about him and the position he occupies. When he goes through what he went through to become the president, he got my admiration. They called him names … he reached back and brought them along with him. He held no grudges.”

The Trump administration, In just over 500 days, has orchestrated record highs in black employment and record lows in overall unemployment. It’s being reported, reluctantly by the mainstream media, we actually have more available jobs than people to fill them.

Mr. Trump met with 100 of the Historical Black Colleges and University Presidents last year—Most black folks have no idea. The HBCUs had a very contentious relationship with the previous  Obama administration—Whether President Trump’s continuing support for the HBCUs is merely political oneupmanship or not, the net effect is positive for the black community.

Sylvester Stallone, along with ex-heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis, met with President Trump to advocate pardoning the first black Heavyweight Champion, Jack Johnson who was unjustly convicted under the Mann Act in 1913–a vindictive action motivated solely by bigotry. A bill passed in the House requesting a pardon for Johnson from President George W. Bush, but died in the senate controlled by 35 Democrat seats.

A bi-partisan group in 2016 lead by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former senator Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), along with Congressmen Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) and Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), requested a pardon for Jack Johnson from President Obama, he and Atty. Gen., Holder rejected the idea. Despite these previous ineffective efforts, a talk with Mr. Trump secured the pardon in short order.

Most recently, reality TV star, Kim Kardashian West met with President Trump in the Oval Office  to argue for the release of 63 year old Great Grandmother, Alice Johnson, convicted 22 years ago for her role in a cocaine distribution ring, a nonviolent drug offense—Mr. Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence and she is now free. 

I have seen black folks irrationally down play the move, arguing the President didn’t pardon Ms. Johnson, “...like he did for his boys.”

Alice Johnson, unlike Jack Johnson before her, was not the victim of an unjust conviction —She was guilty of her crime, the life sentence plus 25 years she received, the result of mandatory sentencing installed during the President Bill Clinton administration for a non-violent crime, was unjust, so the sentence was commuted.

Whatever Mr. Trump’s motivations, if you are a cynic and believe it all to be just political pandering, or opportunism—If you have a cause worth fighting for and meaningful goals can be met, why would you squander your opportunities. The Philadelphia Eagles players, LeBron James, Steph Curry... all these mushy headed, privileged and entitled rich, pseudo activist athletes, refusing to visit the White House with Mr. Trump in residence, get your collective heads out of your butts.

You have the chance to meet and perhaps chat with arguably the most powerful man in the world. A man with the resources and authority to actually make things happen. It would be tragically stupid to squander it—If you have a worthy cause, or a grievance with the man, take whatever opportunities presented you to lay them out before him... Or you can stick to your high-minded, but shallow, empty gestures.

‘Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.“ James 4:2

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