“Evil always wins through the strength of its
splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between
abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.” – G. K. Chesterton
We on the right have used the term "Useful Idiots" in describing the overwhelming majority of liberals for a very long time—The irony that so many liberals take offense to this term is highlighted by the fact it was allegedly coined to describe them by the very socialists whose programs they work so feverishly to ape in their own country. Personally, I prefer Chesterton's splendid dupes, it's so much more poetic.
We on the right have used the term "Useful Idiots" in describing the overwhelming majority of liberals for a very long time—The irony that so many liberals take offense to this term is highlighted by the fact it was allegedly coined to describe them by the very socialists whose programs they work so feverishly to ape in their own country. Personally, I prefer Chesterton's splendid dupes, it's so much more poetic.
The reality of what these splendid dues
have truly wrought is only now becoming crystal clear to me in a more than
simply academic sense! There is no escape from the leftist mindset for the liberal/useful
idiot apart from coming to a saving knowledge of Christ! This nation is in serious trouble because so much of
our citizenry has been so successfully and unwittingly subverted.
Nowhere is this brought
into full relief in so pronounced a fashion than the so-called "Black
Church." Once bastions of morality and spiritual growth, our churches have
renounced objective Biblical revelation in favor of a social and racial
identity gospel obsessed with "Breakthroughs" as opposed to
discipling and teaching the moral tenets of a sovereign God. More occupied with
spreading self help than the gospel of Christ!
You can attend some black or
liberal churches for years and never hear a sermon denouncing abortion or the gay
agenda one time--hard to speak against these things from the Holy Bible while
you are standing in the pulpit encouraging support for the party most actively engaged in furthering
those causes.
Many pastors are not
recognizing the gospel they preach is another gospel, reducing God to a genie
in a bottle granting wishes if believers have enough "Faith," praying
their own will be done instead of His will! Ignoring Scriptures like "He
is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words,
whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of
men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great
gain." 1 Timothy 6:4-6
Socialism is one of the
most pernicious forms of mammon and much of our nation has made their choice as
to whom they serve whether they are aware of it or not--The election of Barack
Obama, twice, bears witness to that
fact. Most of these splendid dupes have no idea they are socialists, I have said
before, American socialism is a newer mutation of the
same bacillus, just renamed "Progressivism."
Socialism by it's very
nature is ungodly, not only because it is needful to undermine belief in a Creator God,
(The state becomes your god in socialist societies) but because it cannot exist
apart from force! The God of the Holy Bible teaches personal responsibility and
free will concerning charity, or the decision to follow Him. Nowhere does it
teach dependence upon the largesse of men and man's constructs. When God is
your source, you make for a poor "Progressive" because you have
chosen to serve the Creator and not the creation.
The establishment leadership of the Republican Party is largely on the left side of the political divide as well in modern America. This is "We the People's" fault, we have been less than vigilant and poor stewards of what God has given us, squandering what the founders of this once proud nation established! We've exchanged faith and freedom for “Hope”, “Change” and “Progress” without understanding you can’t have the high-minded ideals of the latter three without the virtue that is the product of the former.
The establishment leadership of the Republican Party is largely on the left side of the political divide as well in modern America. This is "We the People's" fault, we have been less than vigilant and poor stewards of what God has given us, squandering what the founders of this once proud nation established! We've exchanged faith and freedom for “Hope”, “Change” and “Progress” without understanding you can’t have the high-minded ideals of the latter three without the virtue that is the product of the former.
We are seeing the utter lack of virtue derived from hope, change and progress becoming detached
from faith and freedom. In fact, virtue itself is seldom celebrated today. How can your ideas be thought progressive when they
have lead only to more dependence upon government?
The only hope the left’s ideas encourage in people is that the state’s coffers don’t run dry before they get their entitlements. Surely not a hope in a brighter tomorrow—How can your tomorrow be brighter if you do not control your own affairs, without the self-respect that comes from independence?
That isn’t the “Change” I want, not for me and certainly not for my children. What I hear from today’s youth is the parabolic opposite of hope. When you see students interviewed at leftist protests, you see despair, they have no confidence in what can be accomplished by them in the future.
All they want to do is tear down without regard to replacing what they have razed to the ground. What will fill the void of the system they find so revolting even as they rush to consume the iPhones, lattes and computers that system makes possible? Who will innovate in the future when there is no capital to fuel ideas? What motivates those dependent upon government to innovate at all apart from force? How good is forced innovation apart from natural inspiration flowing from the possibility of self-advancement?
The only hope the left’s ideas encourage in people is that the state’s coffers don’t run dry before they get their entitlements. Surely not a hope in a brighter tomorrow—How can your tomorrow be brighter if you do not control your own affairs, without the self-respect that comes from independence?
That isn’t the “Change” I want, not for me and certainly not for my children. What I hear from today’s youth is the parabolic opposite of hope. When you see students interviewed at leftist protests, you see despair, they have no confidence in what can be accomplished by them in the future.
All they want to do is tear down without regard to replacing what they have razed to the ground. What will fill the void of the system they find so revolting even as they rush to consume the iPhones, lattes and computers that system makes possible? Who will innovate in the future when there is no capital to fuel ideas? What motivates those dependent upon government to innovate at all apart from force? How good is forced innovation apart from natural inspiration flowing from the possibility of self-advancement?
As the establishment
Republican leadership breaks their collective backs bending over to compromise
with an unyielding and determined left, here is food for thought, followed by a
question: The socialist’s splendid dupe/useful idiot so prevalent on TV, in Hollywood, academia and right
next-door could not have been an effective tool without the passive somnambulance
characterizing the right. The right passively
sleepwalks past the socialist teaching his kids to subtly and often overtly
hate America. Which is more catastrophic for our future?
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” I Thessalonians 5:3
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” I Thessalonians 5:3
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