Daily Broadside | Democrats are Communists Wrapped in the American Name

Daily Verse | Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Friday and another week behind us on the road to either serfdom or civil war, as I see it. I wrote yesterday that patriotic, “Normal” Americans are being forced into a defensive position by the cultural Marxists, who have advanced through our civic institutions and now control nearly all the levers of power. I honestly don’t know how much longer we can claim to be a “free” people.

If you want absolute proof that the current administration, fronted by a moron who has failed upward for more than 50 years, are dyed-in-the-wool socialists communists, you have to look no further than their response to the uprising in the island-nation of Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

For 60 years the Cuban people have suffered poverty and oppression under a Communist regime. They’ve finally had enough and are rising up en masse to challenge the rule of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. They face a military that, so far, is loyal to the president, who declared that combat orders have been given.

Nonetheless, Cubans have been demonstrating, shouting slogans like “Freedom!” and “Down with communism!” and “Freedom for the people of Cuba!” Protesters chanted “Freedom,” “Enough” and “Unite.” News outlets report that more than 100 activists are missing or held by the Cuban government. Others report that police have fired on and beaten demonstrators. Many waved American flags.

The response of our feckless “leaders” has been restrained. The New York Times labeled Cubans’ calls for freedom an “anti-government slogan.” It took Resident Biden 24-hours (with pressure from Republican lawmakers like Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis) to finally issue a statement.

We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime. The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves.

We’ve heard nothing from AOC or Bernie Sanders because — what can they say? They want to the same system here that the Cuban people are rejecting there. Cuba is a real-time example of what happens when you go full commie. You should never go full commie.

Worst of all was US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who said, ““The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear. If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

Then he said, “If you want to come in, sail to Mexico and travel up through our southern border, because we aren’t really watching it that closely.”

Nah. He didn’t say that. He knows Cubans vote for Republicans, and Florida is turning red, and politicians need Florida to win elections and we can’t have that! Better to have illegals come from South America and not even try to stop them.

And, to top it all off, US Press Secretary Jen Psaki refuses to call communism “communism” and instead blames “mismanagement.”

Here’s what Barbara Arthur, who fled Cuba for the U.S. with her father back in 1969, has to say about the Cuban unrest (my emphasis):

After sixty years of oppression, the Cuban people are rallying for freedom. Thousands have taken to the streets in protest of lack of food, medicine, and blackouts. The people are starving; their children are starving. While many United States athletes dishonor our flag, Cuban protestors wave Old Glory in the face of tyranny. While our mainstream news media seeks to silence us with intimidation, the Cuban people cry out, “We are not afraid.” Truly, “give me liberty or give me death” in full display. Think about it: During the protests, the Cuban government has cut its people off from the internet and social media. Sound familiar? It should. Big Tech has done the same to many conservative Americans who do not align with their political views.

As a Cuban-American, our freedom is especially important to me. My family was ravaged by Castro’s communist regime. He took power as a socialist but within no time he exposed his totalitarian claws. Communism is not at our door, it’s in the house—the White House. If we allow our country to go the way of Cuba or Venezuela, where would we flee to? If there is no free America, there is no American Dream. Wake up, America, socialism is just a nice word for communism.

How ironic that while Leftists here in the U.S. demonize our country and burn our flag, people the world over — Hong Kong comes to mind — wave our flag in their countries as a symbol of freedom. Here in the US, however, we’re facing an increasingly hostile ruling class that has branded 75 million of us Americans as the greatest threat “we” face — the threat of white supremacy.

The truth is that the Democrats are now the party of communism — which means I’d rather be an American than a Democrat.

Have a good weekend.

Daily Broadside | Trump is More Than a Former President

Daily Verse | Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Thursday and I’ve been thinking about something I wrote a few days ago:

Waving a “Trump 2020” flag wasn’t stunning or brave. But it was a step of activism and I was able to express my opposition to the fraudulent Biden administration. Not because I want Trump in office (although I do) but because it’s an act of defiance against the ruling junta.

There’s a lot that’s unconventional about Donald J. Trump. He’s got zero verbal discipline, for starters. He just goes with whatever he’s thinking and lets it fly without considering that a leader of the free world might better off be judicious with his words. On the other hand, you know exactly where he stands on the topic he’s discussing.

“Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.”
— Proverbs 17:28

He’s brutal with the personalized pejorative. We all know them: Lyin’ Ted, Sleepy Joe, Low Energy Jeb, Crooked Hillary, Little Marco, Cryin’ Chuck and Shifty Schiff, to name a few. I confess to having enjoyed them applied to those I consider enemies of the republic, like Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff, but it really bugged me that he tagged Ted Cruz as a liar during the primaries without anything to back it up. But even I have to admit — inventing nicknames for those he wanted to beat was an effective tactic, taken right from the pages of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: “#13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize, and polarize it.”

From The Last Refuge (aka The Conservative Treehouse):
“The raw and unfiltered President Trump is the best Trump. President Trump endorses Mo Brooks for the Alabama Senate seat; and smacks Mitch McConnell and his DeceptiCon crony Richard Shelby in the process.”

Trump is also one of the biggest narcissists I can think of. He boasts about himself and what he’s accomplished, often polishing his accomplishments with superlatives like “tremendous,” “biggest,” “best,” “amazing” and “terrific.” In 2013 he wrote on Facebook, “Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser — having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!” The flip side is that he has accomplished some incredible things both in private and public life and, when he talks of them, he’s being factual. But he doesn’t demonstrate humility in leadership.

“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
— Proverbs 16:18

Trump is pugnacious and always ready for a fight. I’m not sure I think this is necessarily a drawback. If you believe, as I do, that we are being forced into a defensive posture in the cultural Marxist’s war on the United States, then we need people who are willing to fight. As I’ve written before, Trump reminds me of what Mr. Lincoln said of Ulysses S. Grant: “I can’t spare this man. He fights!”

I say all of this because, while I say I want Trump in office, the truth is that, for me, Trump is a symbol of opposition to the corruptocrats in Washington, D.C. He was everything they aren’t: willing to put the American people’s interests before the interests of the ruling class. Domestically he brought businesses back from overseas, made us energy independent, presided over one of the hottest economies in our history with record employment, including for minorities, and a stock market on fire. Internationally, he pulled us out of the wealth-transfer grift, the Paris Climate Accords, he put Iran on notice, put the screws to China and brokered the Abraham Accords in the Middle East. He did all of this in one term and was still going strong when the not-made-in-a-Chinese-lab (wink wink) WuFlu was unleashed by the CCP.

I’d much rather have Donald J. Trump in the White House than the fraudulent dementia patient who sleeps in the People’s House these days. Trump’s not your typical politician, he gets things done, his heart is (mostly) in the right place, and he genuinely loves this country. I am deeply aggravated by the power the unelected bureaucracy has over us and the astonishing depths of foul play they engaged in (with no one — no one! — paying any price for the illegal things they did).

I support Trump for the simple reason that he symbolizes resistance to the State; that he stands for me and millions of other Normal Americans; that his ongoing presence reminds the Deep State and the Techopolies of their corruption; and that Trump may be one of the only men capable of standing up to the ruling class.

Do I wish that he was more refined? Sure.

But I’ll take the unrefined Trump any day over a man who leads with lies and wants to install a permanent socialist regime in the country that was once (and for many, still is — see Cuba) the greatest symbol of freedom in the world.

Keep America Great, America.

Daily Broadside | Quick Political Hits and One for Biblical Accuracy

Daily Verse | Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, sin is not absent,
but he who holds his tongue is wise.

Welcome to Wednesday and midpoint of the week. I’ve got a few hot takes for you this morning and end with some interesting biblical news.

The DNC junta now wants to censor your personal texts. According to Politico,

“Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.”

Censoring content on social media worked so well that now they want to add your personal text messages to fact-checking. Gee, once that’s implemented, what other kind of information should be fact-checked?

Joe Biden and his allies are returning us to our norms! Isn’t it great that we don’t have the authoritarian Donald J. Trump in office to be worried about?

Dennis Prager offers five things most Americans can do to make America better. I’m sometimes asked what we can “do” in response to the collapse of our country. From Prager’s column yesterday:

Throughout American history until the post-World War II era, had you asked almost any American what constitutes living a good life, he or she would have offered any or all of these five responses:

No. 1: Developing one’s moral character.
No. 2: Getting married and making a good family.
No. 3. Taking care of one’s family, especially one’s parents.
No. 4. Going to church (or synagogue).
No. 5. Taking care of the poor in one’s community, usually by joining a service organization such as a church charity, a Kiwanis, Lions or Rotary Club.

My suspicion is that if one were to ask young people today, and certainly anyone on the left, you would not receive any of those five responses.

He goes on to explain each in detail. Read the whole thing.

Texas Democrats flee the state to avoid voting on a number of changes to Texas’ voting system. According to The Texas Tribune,

More than 50 House Democrats left Monday for Washington, D.C., to deny the chamber a quorum — the minimum number of lawmakers needed to conduct business — as it takes up voting restrictions and other Republican priorities in a special session.

That agenda, set by Gov. Greg Abbott, includes House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 1, the election legislation at hand that would make a number of changes to Texas’ voting system, such as banning drive-thru and 24 hour voting options and further restricting the state’s voting-by-mail rules. Over the weekend, both House and Senate committees advanced the election bills.

These are the same hijinks the Democrats in Wisconsin pulled in 2011. But the most embarrassing moment of this entire escapade is this absolutely awful misuse of the song, “We Shall Overcome.” What a bunch of buffoons.

Clay jar from the time of biblical Gideon found in Israel. One of the reasons people who don’t believe the Christian scriptures is that they think they’re stories not grounded in actual history. That’s not really true, though. While the following story doesn’t prove that the account of Gideon is true, it does prove that his “nickname” was actually known and used in that day.

An inscription dating back some 3,100 years ago bearing the name of a biblical judge Jerubbaal was uncovered in the excavations at Khirbat er-Ra‘i, near Kiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel, the Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday.

The researchers highlighted that while there cannot be any certainty on whether the inscription refers to the figure mentioned in the Book of Judges, this discovery offers important insights on the connection between the biblical text and historical reality.

Inscriptions from that period – the 12th-11th century BCE – are extremely rare. All the dating has been carried out through both pottery typology and radiocarbon of organic samples found in the same archaeological layer.

The writing, inked on a jug, marks the first time that the name Jerubbaal has been found outside the biblical text. It is believed that the owner penned his name on the jug.

Wow — to think it possible that we may have found an artifact with Gideon’s actual handwriting on it. There are a lot of archaeological finds that back up the history recorded in the Bible. Here’s a few more for you to read:

An Important Archaeological Discovery: A Gate-Shrine Dating to the First Temple Period was Exposed In Excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Tel Lachish National Park

A mark of power! Tiny 2,700-year-old royal seal of Judah’s ‘greatest king’ Hezekiah found in ancient rubbish dump in Jerusalem

Handwriting Study Finds Clues on When Biblical Texts Written


Daily Broadside | Papers, Please: A Visit From the Vaccine People

Daily Verse | Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.

Happy Tuesday my friends. The mosh pit that is America continues thrashing to the irrational noise that is our progressive disease. Everywhere you look there is anger, envy, resentment, bitterness, hostility, pride and hopelessness masquerading as righteousness. What little remains of the original American culture that used to bind us together feels isolated in little pockets away from where the music is loudest.

In the latest instance of cultural regression and the invasive creep that has become the rule of the Left, we’ve been told by the current administration that we’re going to receive a personal visit from a government minder representative who will attempt to get us vaccinated if we haven’t been by “sharing information” and dispelling “some of those rumors you’ve heard.”

Starting from the top, Resident Biden announced the campaign last Tuesday, saying that “we need to go community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and often times door-to-door — literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.”

The administration fell short of its goal of having 70% of adults receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot by July 4.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki previewed the Resident’s announcement.

The administration has tried to blunt criticism by telling us that the door-knockers will be local grassroots organizations and that the federal government doesn’t have a list of who is or is not vaccinated and that the vaccine isn’t mandatory. Still, this is authoritarian creep and a significant invasion of privacy.

For starters, it’s nobody’s business whether or not I’ve gotten the vaccine. I make that decision for myself. My medical history is private and no stranger showing up at my door has the right to know about it, much less ask about it.

That didn’t stop far-Left extremist Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra from telling us it is “absolutely” the government’s business to know if you’re vaccinated.

There is so much wrong with that statement, starting with his reason for why the government has the right to know who is or is not vaccinated — because the government “has spent trillions of dollars to keep Americans alive.” The government has spent trillions of dollars on delivering my mail, too, but they don’t have the right to know what’s in it just because they’ve spent trillions of dollars on getting it to me.

The amount of money they spend doesn’t invalidate my natural rights. I am a private citizen and a free man. I have the right to privacy and to be free from government interference. I am free to choose to be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated and it’s none of their business whether I am or not.

Also, since when is the government concerned about spending money on lost causes?

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) gets it:

Interestingly, “As the Biden administration is ‘rethinking’ the coronavirus from China, a July poll indicates 57 percent of Americans believe they have less personal freedom today than before the coronavirus pandemic.” No kidding.

How will the government, or grass roots activists, know if someone is vaccinated or not unless they ask?

The stated goal is “to get people vaccinated” and the gubmint believes it is their business to know whether or not you are vaccinated. This, again, is creeping authoritarianism.

It’s only a short step from this to “Do you haff your papers?”

Daily Broadside | Threat Against Christians: Humorous. Threat Against Gays: Hateful

Daily Verse | Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Monday and it’s hard to know which latest degeneracy to warn about as our culture pushes to find the ever-elusive bottom of the moral gutter. There’s so much to choose from! Today’s five-alarm headline is the scornful and creepy “A Message from the Gay Community,” performed by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

Their message: “We’ll convert your children.”

Their audience is anyone who believes that LGBTQ+ relationships and sexual activity are sinful. It’s right there in the first line: “You think we’re sinful.”

The SFGMC released their confession on YouTube, but after getting blowback, made it private. They immediately went into damage control, trying to salvage what they could of the public relations disaster they had created. The obvious first step was to blame, shame and spin.

They blamed the “alt. right” (they’re saying Bible-believing Christians are far-right extremists) and accused them for “anti-gay hate” and “willful intolerance and aggressive hate.” You see, if you register an objection to sodomizers confessing that they’re coming for your children, you’re now not just hateful, but “aggressively” hateful. You’re not just intolerant, but “willfully” intolerant. These people inflate the degree of felt opposition by using heavy emotional adjectives that are effectively only their opinion.

They also shield their anthem from criticism by claiming that it’s an “obviously tongue and [sic] cheek song” in response to an “epithet used against our community.” The “epithet” is presumably that Christians and other like-minded people believe (and say) that the gay community will corrupt their children. It’s right in the first stanza: “You think that we’ll corrupt your kids.”

Correct: we do. And double-correct: you have.

And again the apologists also use a word that is a matter of opinion: “obviously.” As in, “obviously we’re only kidding, you hateful bigots.” So they’re claiming to be making light of my concerns as a parent, meaning that they don’t take my fears seriously.

Either way, the perverts are giving me the finger.

From Ace of Spades:

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus privated their video after finding out that promising to prey on people’s children wasn’t the cute viral moment they were looking for, but it was copied here, if you want to see the degeneracy.

If that video doesn’t work, well, I guess they got another takedown.|

The group published a non-apology bragging that they’re getting every single copy of their video struck down on fake legal grounds:

The irony of a group that has just published a song claiming that they’re “coming for your children,” like some demented trolls, fretting over “increasingly alarming” comments and wanting to keep everyone involved “safe” isn’t lost on me.

Oh, c’mon. I’ll bet most of that “hate” is just tongue-in-cheek, don’t ya think?

Funny how when you’re the target your perspective changes and it’s not funny anymore.

As a Christian man with children, I have no problem standing against the stated goals of these people, satirical or not. Every commie organization wants the children, as do the sexual extremists who have gotten everything they want — except my approval. And my withholding that approval is deemed “willful intolerance” … as though that’s a bad thing.

If you can stomach it, below are the full lyrics of “A Message From the Gay Community”, along with the introductory comments from the lead singer:

AS WE CELEBRATE PRIDE AND THE PROGRESS WE’VE MADE OVER THESE PAST YEARS, THERE’S STILL WORK TO BE DONE. SO TO THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE WHO ARE STILL WORKING AGAINST EQUAL RIGHTS, WE’VE A MESSAGE FOR YOU:

YOU THINK WE’RE SINFUL,
YOU FIGHT AGAINST OUR RIGHTS,
YOU SAY WE ALL LEAD LIVES YOU CAN’T RESPECT.
BUT YOU’RE JUST FRIGHTENED,
YOU THINK THAT WE’LL CORRUPT YOUR KIDS
IF OUR AGENDA GOES UNCHECKED.
FUNNY, JUST THIS ONCE, YOU’RE CORRECT.

WE’LL CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN,
HAPPENS BIT BY BIT,
QUIETLY AND SUBTLELY
AND YOU WILL BARELY NOTICE IT,
YOU CAN KEEP THEM FROM DISCO,
WARN ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO.
MAKE ‘EM WEAR PLEATED PANTS,
WE DON’T CARE…
WE’LL CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN…
WE’LL MAKE THEM TOLERANT AND FAIR.

JUST LIKE YOU WORRIED,
THEY’LL CHANGE THEIR GROUP OF FRIENDS,
YOU WON’T APPROVE OF WHERE THEY GO AT NIGHT
(TO PROTESTS)
OH, AND YOU’LL BE DISGUSTED
(SO GROSS)
WHEN THEY START FINDING THINGS ONLINE
THAT YOU’VE KEPT FAR FROM THEIR SIGHT
(LIKE INFORMATION…)
GUESS WHAT?
YOU’LL STILL BE ALRIGHT!

WE’LL CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN,
REACHING ONE AND ALL.
THERE’S REALLY NO ESCAPING IT
‘CAUSE EVEN GRANDMA LIKES RUPAUL.
AND THE WORLD’S GETTING KINDER.
GEN Z’S GAYER THAN GRINDR.
LEARN TO LOVE,
LEARN TO VOGUE,
FACE YOUR FATE!
WE’LL CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN,
SOMEONE’S GOTTA TEACH THEM NOT TO HATE.

WE’RE COMING FOR THEM
WE’RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN
WE’RE COMING FOR THEM
WE’RE COMING FOR THEM
WE’RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN
FOR YOUR CHILDREN

YOU’RE CHILDREN WILL CARE ABOUT
FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE FOR OTHERS
YOUR CHILDREN WILL WORK TO CONVERT
ALL THEIR SISTERS AND BROTHERS
THEN, SOON, WE’RE ALMOST CERTAIN,
YOU’RE KIDS WILL START CONVERTIN’ YOU!

THE GAY AGENDA IS COMING HOME
THE GAY AGENDA IS HERE!

BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY
‘CAUSE THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH
STANDING BY OUR SIDE
GET ON BOARD IN A HURRY
BECAUSE THE WORLD ALWAYS NEEDS
A BIT MORE PRIDE

BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY
‘CAUSE THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH
STANDING BY OUR SIDE
(THE GAY AGENDA)
GET ON BOARD IN A HURRY
BECAUSE THE WORLD ALWAYS NEEDS
A BIT MORE PRIDE
COME ON, TRY A LITTLE PRIDE!

WE’LL CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN,
THEN WE’LL TURN TO YOU
GIVING UP THE FEAR INSIDE
IS FREEING LIKE YOU NEVER KNEW!
GO AND SEE SAN FRANCISCO!
GO AND TURN UP THAT DISCO!
YOU’LL FORGET YOU WERE EVER UPSET
WE’LL CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN
AND MAKE AN ALLY OF YOU YET!

WE’LL MAKE AN ALLY OF YOU YET!
WE’LL MAKE AN ALLY OF YOU YET!

Hilarious, isn’t it?

Daily Broadside | Biden’s Cognitive Decline is There for All to See

Daily Verse | Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.

It’s Friday and we bring the first full work week of July to a close. Thanks for joining me again this morning.

If you haven’t noticed, we have a fraud in the White House. Not only is there credible evidence that he didn’t win the election in 2020, we’re watching him cycle through the stages of senility. Did you see this?

“… including, uh, Mark, uh, uh, schew me, f-f-f-freck-Ferricks. I wanna pronounce the name correctly; I misspoke.”

No he didn’t. He never said the name and isn’t “correcting” anything. He’s covering for himself and doing a bad job of it. No one is buying what he’s selling.

To be fair, Biden had a stuttering problem as a younger man, so maybe it’s coming back due to the pressures of being the Resident. Nah. He’s having mental blackouts and then starts perseverating while making excuses for his bumbles.

Here’s another one:

He doesn’t have command of the facts. “I’ll tell you what they sent me”? Who’s “they”? And he doesn’t really look at the notes and tell us what “they” said. He tells us what he said, while interrupting himself to ask the server “what else” she needs, taking the pressure off himself for a couple of seconds.

And then we have those weird whisper moments. Seriously?

How about this collection of other gaffes, silences and odd verbal constructions?

One more:

This man, who the junior commies and Never Trumpers promised would bring back decency and normalcy, does not inspire confidence. Give me mean tweets over this any day.

What’s so galling about this is the silence of those on the Left. If this was Trump, they’d be screaming for his head. They’d be demanding that he be 25th’d. I’m old enough to remember when the Left was declaring Trump to be mentally unfit for office, so it’s only a matter of time until they begin circulating petitions to remove Biden.

LOL. No they won’t.

They won’t, and they’ll leave those of us with concerns asking the question that Kurt Schlichter asked today: Who the Hell Is in Charge?

Have a good weekend.

Daily Broadside | Resident Biden Comes to Town and Conservatives Protest—Including Me

Daily Verse | Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
His love endures forever.

Thursday and as I wrote in yesterday’s Broadside, Resident Biden visited my neighborhood yesterday. I didn’t think I’d be able to make time to participate in any demonstrations, but it just so happened that I was between personal appointments and had the day off when the Biden event occurred. So the Missus and I grabbed our “Trump 2020” flag, hopped in the car, and drove over to where the Thief in Chief was making an appearance at McHenry County College (MCC) in Crystal Lake, IL.

According to the Patch:

McHenry County is the only Chicago-area county that picked Donald Trump for president during the November election. Biden received 78,153 votes in McHenry County during the last presidential election and Trump had 82,257 votes.

There were a few dozen Trump supporters holding a protest of sorts outside of MCC, most just waving American flags and Trump flags, making their presence known. There were only one or two Biden supporters, including one woman in a car with a sign taped to the inside of her windshield that read, “Trump lost. Get over it.” The poor, deluded commie.

We never saw the Resident, who flew in from O’Hare on Marine One. I did get to meet Gary Rabine (pronounced rā’bīne), who is running for Governor of Illinois. We had a good seven- or eight-minute chat in which he laid out his vision for Illinois and pitched himself as a builder who can turn the state around. Maybe I can help him unseat Pritzker.

I’ve never been to a protest or a demonstration opposing or supporting a United States president (I suppose I still haven’t, since Biden didn’t win) but I’m so angry at the outright lies, communist sympathies and extremism of the Left that I feel I have no choice but to get involved somehow.

Waving a “Trump 2020” flag wasn’t stunning or brave. But it was a step of activism and I was able to express my opposition to the fraudulent Biden administration. Not because I want Trump in office (although I do) but because it’s an act of defiance against the ruling junta.

To the Left, I’m just a white supremacist for wanting to Keep America Great. But after learning so much about cultural Marxism over the last few weeks and sharing it with you, I’m more convinced than ever that every one of us needs to take action of some kind. We can’t just allow the Left to occupy more and more of this country without putting up any resistance.

At least, I can’t.

Daily Broadside | The Insidious Strategy of the Cultural Marxists Deserves a Response

Daily Verse | Psalm 133:1
How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

It’s Wednesday and we’re back to work after the annual celebration of our independence as a country. It’s unfortunate, but the blathering ninny pretending to be president is visiting near where I live today. If I could, I’d go stand by the road and hold up a sign that reads, “BIDEN IS A FRAUD.” I’d like to say that (and much, much more) to his face and have him tell me I’m a lying dog-faced pony soldier. But, like most responsible Americans, I’ve got work and personal appointments to keep, so I’ll just read about it in the paper tomorrow.

Hopefully you’ve stayed with me for the last week as I’ve traced the development of cultural Marxism in the United States based on Chapter 6 of Andrew Breitbart’s book, Righteous Indignation. Here is the series so far:

  1. DAILY BROADSIDE | CULTURAL MARXISM GOT ITS START IN THE 1700s
  2. DAILY BROADSIDE | MARX FOLLOWED ROUSSEAU WITH A VIOLENT TWIST
  3. DAILY BROADSIDE | TWO U.S. PRESIDENTS EMBRACED MARXIST THEORY—AT THE START OF THE 20TH CENTURY
  4. DAILY BROADSIDE | CULTURAL MARXISTS ARRIVE ON AMERICA’S SHORES
  5. DAILY BROADSIDE | THE APOSTLE SAUL AND HIS RULES FOR RADICALS

According to Breitbart’s pithy summary prior to looking at Saul Alinsky:

“Marx and Hegel had paved the way for the Progressives, who in turn had paved the way for the Frankfurt School, who had then attacked the American way of life by pushing ‘cultural Marxism’ through ‘critical theory'” (RI, p.124).

And then Saul David Alinsky took Marcuse’s vision of dismantling American society through diversity and multiculturalism and developed the playbook which he executed via “community organizing.” It was Alinsky more than anyone else who figured out how to successfully agitate for Marxist change.

So, here we are, 50 years later (Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals, was published in 1971) and we’re in the midst of a creeping anarchy. We have sitting Congress members openly savaging America on July 4, advocating for socialism, and agreeing that the greatest threat to our nation is “white supremacy.” Critical Race Theory, which demonizes white people for “systemic racism,” is being taught in our schools. The “1619 Project” seeks to replace our historic founding with an outright lie. Criminal penalties in many large cities have been so eviscerated by activist district attorneys that groups of young men and women now brazenly steal in broad daylight. We now have a “Black National Anthem” competing on equal footing with “The Star Spangled Banner,” our true, historic, national anthem. BLM, Inc., and Antifa spent most of last year burning, looting and murdering, not to mention pulling down statues of everyone from Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass. (Frederick Douglass!)

If those current circumstances didn’t grow out of the critical theory, multiculturalism and Marxist ideology, how do you explain this young woman who is advocating for the abolition of “the United States as we know it”?

Here’s how Tyler O’Neil explains it in the article about Sinclair (with my emphasis):

Sinclair believes that white “oppression” is so ingrained in the minds and attitudes of supposedly oppressed people that they have to “unlearn” the “colonized thought” of Christianity and the “gender binary” — which is rooted in the scientific binary of biological sex. She seems to believe that certain “cultural expectations” rooted in the “genocide” upon which America was founded have brainwashed her and she needs to unlearn basic truths like the fact that people are male or female.

This comes from Marxist critical theory, which analyzes the world in terms of power and oppression. The evils perpetrated against both black slaves and Native Americans supposedly sully the entire American project, which must be uprooted in order for people to be truly free.

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Yet Sinclair believes this because so many powerful institutions teach it. Just last month, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) released a horrifying Marxist lesson on whiteness that “deconstructed” various aspects of American and Western culture, including capitalism, science, the nuclear family, and Christianity, as nefarious relics of white supremacy. The lesson also claims that a work ethic, delayed gratification, being polite, and getting to meetings on time are aspects of the “whiteness” culture that must be deconstructed and rejected.

The philosophical infrastructure of Marxism evolved over 200 years but was operationalized in the United States through academia and then community organizing during the last 70. Cultural Marxism is so obviously embedded in our society that there can be no easy fix.

So what can we do about it? Breitbart had 13 rules (mimicking Alinsky’s) in Chapter 7 of his book, called “Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Revolutionaries.” I’ll list them and quote a sentence summing up the idea.

  1. Don’t be afraid to go into enemy territory. “Groupthink happens, and we have to take it head-on. We can’t win the political war until we win the cultural war.”
  2. Expose the left for who they are—in their own words. “Today, we all have the power to be citizen journalists via the Internet.”
  3. Be open about your secrets. “If you’re going to go out in public, be absolutely open about what you’ve done in the past … we have to out ourselves before the left does it for us.”
  4. Don’t let the [Media] Complex use its PC lexicon to characterize you and shape the narrative. “The fact is this: if you refuse to buy into their lexicon, if you refuse to back down in the face of those intimidation tactics, they can’t harm you.”
  5. Control your own story—don’t let the [Media] Complex do it. “Serialization is good … Keep your story alive by planning its release down to the minutest detail.”
  6. Ubiquity is key. “When playing for political or cultural keeps, impact matters most … That means developing relationships with like-minded allies or even enemies and news junkies and allowing them to share in the good fortune of a good scoop.”
  7. Engage in the social arena. “A well-socially-networked person can soon carry more weight than a household-name columnist at your local news daily.”
  8. Don’t pretend to know more than you do. “Don’t be the guy with a knife at the gunfight. It rarely ends well.”
  9. Don’t let them pretend to know more than they do. Ask them “to provide evidence for their assertions is always fun, and it’s even more fun asking them to provide the sources for that evidence.”
  10. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. “It’s the truest of Alinsky’s statements, and it’s the most effective.”
  11. Don’t let them get away with ignoring their own rules. “At the very least, we need to force these hypocrites to stand up against their own PC regime in order to defend themselves.”
  12. Truth isn’t mean. It’s truth. “We have to falsify their [Marxist] theory by presenting unvarnished truth after unvarnished truth until the light dawns on everyone just how right we are.”
  13. Believe in the audacity of hope. “We have the power to unravel the Complex and destroy the Institutional Left. It won’t be easy. It will take time and effort … but we’ll do it, because we have to do it.”

Breitbart was concerned with the liberal media’s monopoly on the press, so some of these seem a bit irrelevant for your average patriot or like-minded conservative. But there’s a few of them we can all do:

“Don’t be afraid to go into enemy territory.” That might mean engaging in debates with others online (“the social arena”) or in person. It might be joining a counter-demonstration at a local event. Show up where the enemy is and don’t be afraid to give your opinion. Doing so inspires like-minded others, gives them material to work with, and adds to the growing chorus of those of us who refuse to cave to the extremists.

“Expose the Left for who they are—in their own words.” Don’t let Joe Biden get away with saying racist things such as, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Yes, others called it out, but don’t be afraid to do the same. Fear of reprisal and intimidation allows Marxist thought to proceed unchecked. Remember, truth is truth and we should never shy away from telling the truth.

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” It’s okay to point out the absurd and to do so by over-exaggerating or being absurd yourself to make a point. Leftists are seriously unserious, so why shouldn’t we point that out? Joe Biden has a penchant for nuzzling and putting his hands on women and children, and has been credibly accused of “penetrating” a female intern when he was a Senator. But the MSM ignored it, unlike how they piled on Trump’s one comment that “when you’re a star” women let you “grab ’em by the p***y.” So why not draw attention to the double-standard by calling Biden “Gropey Joe”?

This is a light touch on responding to the situation we find ourselves in. I’ve got more thoughts about what we can do, but I’ll save those for another post.

Chapter 6 of Breitbart’s book was massively helpful to my understanding of how we’ve gotten to where we are today. I hope that this series has been helpful to you, too, and that you’ll be able to make sense of why it’s showing up in our culture and recognize it when it does.

Daily Broadside | The Apostle Saul and His Rules for Radicals

Daily Verse | Psalm 122:1
I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Tuesday and with today’s “Daily Verse,” we start the second half of the year. If you’ve been keeping up with reading through the Bible in a year, congratulations! You’re half way there. Again, for those of you who are joining us late, you can download the reading plan we’re using here:

We’re also in the home stretch as we trace the beginnings of what eventually became cultural Marxism, with its most virulent form, Critical Race Theory, or CRT. Before we get there, though, there was one more piece of the puzzle that Andrew Breitbart identified in Righteous Indignation as key to the destructive behaviors and thinking that currently plague us.

“Marx and Hegel had paved the way for the Progressives, who in turn had paved the way for the Frankfurt School, who had then attacked the American way of life by pushing ‘cultural Marxism’ through ‘critical theory.’ The Frankfurt School thinkers had come up with the rationale for radical environmentalism, artistic communism, psychological deconstruction of their opponents, and multiculturalism. Most of all, they had come up with the concept of ‘repressive tolerance,’ aka political correctness” (RI, p.124).

Breitbart then makes an interesting observation:

“Frankfurt School philosophy was all about criticizing from the outside. It was about tearing down society by taking it apart, piece by piece, razing it to the ground … how did this outsiders’ philosophy penetrate our hearts and minds?” (p.125).

That, as they say, is the million-dollar question. I’ve asked it like this: “How in the world did we let some European malcontents—foreigners!—subvert our national culture, including our traditions, values and moral fortitude?”

And that’s where the final piece of the puzzle comes in. Breitbart writes,

“Then I read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: if Marcuse was the Jesus of the New Left, then Alinsky was his Saint Paul, proselytizing and dumbing down Marcuse’s message, making it practical, and convincing leaders to make it the official religion of the United States, even if that meant discarding the old secular religion of the United States, the Constitution.

Rules for Radicals might just as well be entitled How to Take Over America from the Inside. It’s theory made flesh. Alinsky laid it out step-by-step, but we were too busy fighting the results to read his game plan” (RI, p.125).

Alinsky was born in 1909 in Chicago and became “an avowed communist dedicated to communism in America from the inside, using the most clever tactical means he could devise” (RI, p.125).

“One of the crucial lessons he learned was that he had to work from the inside. Whereas New Left leaders like Marcuse preferred to bash the system from the outside and alienate all those who were part of it, Alinsky knew that it was more important to pose as an insider to achieve his aims” (emphasis mine; RI, p.125).

So Alinsky disguised himself as a patriotic American conservative, knowing that our openness and freedom provided a perfect opportunity for exploitation.

He was a pragmatist and rejected the passive methods for creating change in place at the time. In 1971 he wrote Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. In it, he summarized his strategy for implementing Marxist change in America.

He explained what he looked for in a “community organizer” (e.g. his warriors): 1) flexibility (do what you have to in order to win); 2) confidence (being unafraid of conflict, a la Hegel); 3) experience (trying new things and ignoring the wisdom of the past); and 4) certain personal qualities such as sincerity, curiosity and irreverence, and humor.

Once he had identified his foot soldiers, Alinsky laid out 13 tactics for warfare. I can’t go into detail on any of them, but I’ll list them for you here:

  1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
  2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
  3. Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
  4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
  5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
  6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
  7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
  8. Keep the pressure on.
  9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
  10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure on the opposition.
  11. If you push a negative had and deep enough it will break through to its counterside.
  12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
  13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize, and polarize it.

The best known of these are #5 (remember Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin on SNL?) and #13, which is also known as the politics of personal destruction (think Brett Kavanaugh).

Alinsky’s final piece of advice: the real action is in the enemy’s reaction. You want to provoke your target into reacting because that’s when they may make a mistake—one that you can exploit for your benefit.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were deeply influenced by Alinsky. Clinton knew Alinsky personally and corresponded with him while in law school. Obama was a community organizer in Chicago from 1985-1988, hired by Jerry Kellman who had been trained in Alinsky’s organizing school.

We are now 50 years downstream from Alinsky’s published strategy. Did it work? And if it did, how do we counteract it and reverse the damage that has been done?

Daily Broadside | Herbert Marcuse Infected the U.S. with “Diversity” and “Political Correctness”

Daily Verse | Psalm 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Monday and July 5. I don’t blog on the weekends (yet!) so I missed being able to contribute something to the Independence Day celebrations. May I suggest this as an after-event chaser:

Beautiful, isn’t it? Love her range and enthusiasm! I also note that she’s not a little white girl, showing that people of all races can sing our national anthem with passion if they love their country. Perhaps you remember non-white singer Whitney Houston’s rendition that still brings a tear to my eye: Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem — Star Spangled Banner.

I want to continue tracing the development of cultural Marxism here in the United States. I believe we need to understand what has led us to this point in our history and how it happened so that we can carefully think about how we unwind it (if we can). Here are all the previous posts:

  1. DAILY BROADSIDE | CULTURAL MARXISM GOT ITS START IN THE 1700S
  2. DAILY BROADSIDE | MARX FOLLOWED ROUSSEAU WITH A VIOLENT TWIST
  3. DAILY BROADSIDE | TWO U.S. PRESIDENTS EMBRACED MARXIST THEORY—AT THE START OF THE 20TH CENTURY
  4. DAILY BROADSIDE | CULTURAL MARXISTS ARRIVE ON AMERICA’S SHORES

I ended the last post with Max Horkheimer who coined the term “critical theory,” which Andrew Breitbart explains is, “an infinite and unending criticism of the status quo.” Yet as badly influential as Horkheimer was, it was Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), who founded the “New Left,” who was truly revolutionary in his attacks on America.

Marcuse was a former student of the Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger, the father of “deconstruction”—a process that examined the past with a critical eye in order to tear it down. Marcuse became a U.S. citizen, taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis and the University of California in San Diego. He also wrote Eros and Civilization, “making the case that sexual liberation was the best counter to the psychological ills of society. Marcuse preferred a society of “polymorphous perversity,” which is just what it sounds like—people having sex every which way, with whatever” (RI, pp.119-120).

We’ll find that at the core of almost all the attempts to undermine American values, tradition and culture is a sexual perversity aimed at “escaping” the Judeo-Christian value system. Breitbart writes:

“Marcuse excused sexual promiscuity as the fulfillment of the need for people to rise up against Western civilization and to free themselves from the sexual repression it created” (RI, p.120).

This was “critical theory” in action: criticizing the time-tested sexual standards established in American culture and enticing the next generations to abandon them as repressive. The slogan, “Make love, not war” was attributed to Marcuse, and “[w]hile Marcuse may not have been the most important intellectual force behind the Frankfurt School, he was its most devious and effective marketer. The advertising adage “Sex sells” was applied to selling a generation on the idea that their parents’ values and ideals were repressive and evil” (emphasis mine; RI, p.120).

But where Marcuse left a deep and terrible scar on the American landscape was in shifting focus from “workers of the world unite” to finding a different set of victim groups. Again, here’s what Breitbart says:

[Marcuse] recognized that in the United States there would be no such uprising by the working class. He therefore needed a different set of interest groups to tear down capitalism using his critical theory. And he found those groups in the racial, ethnic, and sexual groups that hated the old order. These victimized interest groups rightly opposed all the beauties of Western civilization ‘with all the defiance, and the hatred, and the joy of rebellious victims, defining their own humanity against the definitions of the masters.’

“Marcuse’s mission was to dismantle American society by using diversity and ‘multiculturalism’ as crowbars with which to pry the structure apart, piece by piece. He wanted to set blacks in opposition to whites, set all ‘victim groups’ in opposition to the society at large” (RI, p.121).

And now we begin to see the direct ties to what we are experiencing today. The devious and seductive planning of Marcuse has been largely successful in breaking apart our society.

But he had one other destructive seed he planted and that was the concept of “repressive tolerance.” According to Marcuse, “tolerance was good only if nondominating ideas were allowed to flourish—and that nondominating ideas could flourish only if dominating ideas were shut down.” Here’s how twisted his idea was:

“‘[T]he realization of the objective of tolerance,’ he wrote, ‘would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.’ America was experiencing a ‘repressive tolerance’ under which dissenting viewpoints were stifled; what it needed was ‘partisan tolerance'” (RI, p.122).

In other words, defy the current order. All of it.

That takes some brass, no?

There’s another word for what he called partisan tolerance: political correctness. Political correctness was a term used by Chinese communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, in a 1963 essay in which “he argued that the Marxist society determines correct ideas, and all incorrect ideas must be put out of their misery.”

It was now that the foundations for the Marxist takeover had been laid. Critical theory and political correctness had infected a generation of students and we were quickly approaching the 1970s. It was then that Saul Alinsky published his book, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals and the New Left had a playbook that took theory and made it practical.

We’ll look at that important development in tomorrow’s post.