Daily Broadside | General Michael Flynn (Ret.) Warns Biden Admin. to Declare National Emergency Before Elections

Honestly, I thought Obama was going to declare martial law prior to Trump being inaugurated. But Obama doesn’t want the appearance of getting his hands dirty, so he’ll just pull the strings from behind the scenes.

“We should be prepared for this administration to declare some type of national emergency. I really, really, I feel that, I know some of the things that they’re doing in the White House right now, that they’re contemplating.

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“This is not politics as usual, folks. This is not about big government and little government, less taxes and more taxes. This is now about whether or not our country is going to be the United Socialist States of America, or the United States of America. And I as a former blue collar Kennedy Democrat, right? I’ll, I’ll go at it with anybody today, but we are in a really, we’re in a grave moment in time, and I want people to understand that, I really want people to understand that.”

Makes sense to me. This administration has already disregarded the rule of law and is throwing anything and everything at the opposition, especially their lawfare against Trump and the cheating they did in the 2020 election and the cheating they undoubtably have planned in 2024.

Why not devise some pretext for declaring a national emergency and suspend the presidential election? They’ve got half the country with them and judges and politicians in high places. Democrats can’t win on the issues—they can only win if they cheat. And they can only win when they cheat if the margin of victory is close enough that they can manufacture enough votes to cover the gap.

I personally don’t think we can vote our way out of this mess. Not any more. The best we can do is buy some time, but even that is tenuous. We thought we had time when Trump was president, but the cultural Marxists harassed and prosecuted him throughout his time in office, and they’re still at it because he’s a major threat to their hold on power.

Think about it: he’s not anything close to what they accuse him of being—a dictator, a Russian stooge, a white supremacist, an insurrectionist. Those all describe the current tool in the White House is. It’s all projection.

It’s time to embrace the fact that we’re being overrun by a Marxist virus that was incubated in our universities and has now infected our entire culture. In my view, the only way we will avoid becoming a socialist or communist state is by fighting our way out of it.

I don’t want to say it (again) but a new civil war—a real war, with real shooting and violence and death and destruction—appears to me to be inevitable. It may not happen this year or next, but I don’t see a way out because the Left is well-funded and persists in “flooding the zone”—a constant barrage of agitation and litigation and corruption of everything that normal Americans have held dear.

There isn’t anyone coming to save us from our enemies. It’s going to come down to those who love what America was meant to be and want to see that order restored. Otherwise it will be a hasty collapse into a surveillance state in which your freedoms are choked off, slowly but surely.

It’s already happening.

Daily Broadside | What Leftists Want is Not What They’ll Get

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 5:26
But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money, or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, flocks, herds, or menservants or maidservants?”

Thursday’s Reading: 2 Kings 6-8

Thursday and I don’t know if you’re feeling it, but I am. The latest Issues & Insights editorial is called “America Moving From A Permission Society To A Repressive Regime” and it helps illuminate the slow but perceptible movement toward a society that can only operate as the government sees fit.

The Democrats who for now dominate policy making in Washington believe there is nothing so private that they cannot regulate, nothing so personal that it can’t be intruded upon. The only question is the pace of the arrogation of our freedoms. They have to be taken down in increments, so that the country won’t notice the slippery slope toward tyranny. In many cases, often regarding energy and conservation policies, restrictions are even celebrated by the loudest factions to help numb the public to the constant attacks on liberty.

Timothy Sandefur, author of “​​The Permission Society,” and a vice president of the Goldwater Institute, has said one of the fundamental problems with living in a permission society “is that it violates the principle of equality.”

“Who,” he says, “has to ask permission?”

The answer, of course, is “an inferior has to ask permission of a superior.”

That certainly describes the country we live in. But more and more, our “superiors” are closing our options before we can even ask for approval. What requires a government permit or certificate, or some other consent today will tomorrow by verboten.

They go on to suggest that restrictions on gun ownership, building regulations, and of social media acting as an agent of the state, are all examples of what happens in a “permission” society, then conclude:

There is a reason America’s ruling class, made up primarily of Democrats with a few RINOs on the fringes, is aptly labeled. It has no interest in protecting and promoting a free society – its objective is to control the country in a way that increases and consolidates its power. Small steps such as dishwasher guidelines and pool heater rules don’t do much damage on their own.

But combined with decades of directives, mandates, and restrictions that affect personal choices, manufacturing processes, and even expression, and they become a bulwark of fascism. Small offenses add up. We’ve come to live under a tyranny of regulation that grows without rest, a regime of repressive laws, a bureaucracy that inflates itself while making life harder for the supervised masses. The government has become a blob that ate American liberty.

In a different opinion piece, author J.B. Shurk writes of the Ten Steps to Totalitarianism:

  • Destruction of Religion
  • Gun Confiscation
  • Control Over Energy
  • Control Over Communication
  • Control Over Money
  • Doomsday Fearmongering
  • School Indoctrination
  • Elimination of Family
  • Elimination of Cars
  • Digital Identity Tracking

All noted and agreed. The only one I think is missing is Centralized Health Care. But we’re already on our way there with the creation of Obamacare and the refusal of the RINOs under Paul Ryan’s leadership to repeal that law when they had the chance under Trump.

Everyone can name something for each of the categories on that list. Religion? See the infestation of woke thinking and social justice practice under the guise of “church.” Guns? The never-ending assault on our Second Amendment rights with new restrictions imposed every time some lunatic shoots up a subway. Energy? Look at the instant destruction of our self-sustaining energy position as soon as the fool in the White House took office. Doomsday Fearmongering? What do you think the climate change alarmism is about? Indoctrination in schools? That’s the anti-American Howard Zinn agenda in our schools along with the sexualization and moral corruption of our kids.

And we’ve all recently heard about the government’s plans to digitize money. If that happens, which is likely, our self-determination and ability to make choices will be severely curtailed. We’ll be living in a social credit society.

The worst of it is that large segments of our society don’t, can’t and won’t see what’s happening. In 1984 an ex-KGB agent named Yuri Bezmenov talked openly about how the Soviets were undermining the patriotism of Americans. Listen to it and see whether what he said then still holds true today.

“What [psychological warfare] basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American, to such an extent, that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country. It’s a great brainwashing process that goes very slow and is divided in four basic stages.”

The KGB spent 85 percent of their time on psychological warfare against the U.S. And as he says, there’s no way to undo what has already been done. The most chilling irony is when he says that those who were brainwashed into a Marxist way of thinking and seeing and welcoming that ideology would be some of the first to be eliminated under such a regime. Why?

“Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in future what the beautiful society of equality and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy, frustrated people. And the Marxist/Leninist regime does not tolerate this people … In future, this people will be simply fffp.”

They get the bullet, too.

That interview was in 1984—almost 40 years ago. Just think of how many more generations have been brainwashed and now occupy stations of influence in all of our major institutions. It would take another 40 years to replace them all if we started right now, as you read this. And starting right now is not going to happen.

I know you think I’m crazy for saying this, but … pay attention, pray, buy a gun if you haven’t, and make sure you have lots of ammo. You’re going to need it.

Daily Broadside | The Latest Victim of Cultural Marxism: Human Dignity

Daily Verse | Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Tuesday and the beat goes on, especially the crazed society previously known as “America.” Earlier this month I wrote a series of posts on the roots of Critical Theory, which is a philosophy dedicated to tearing down a capitalist society to make way for communism.

The latest target of woke criticism is Anthropocentrism, the view that human beings are the centerpiece of creation. According to Ellie Gardey in The American Spectator,

The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, held its annual meeting last week, and suffice it to say that the measures the delegates passed were radical.

One measure passed by the delegates warrants special attention.

The measure called on the union to issue a study criticizing “empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”

This is the group of busybodies who, instead of teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, are preoccupied with undermining our society by first, studying these nonsense issues, then incorporating them into the classroom. If you haven’t pulled your kids out of the public schools yet, you still have about about six weeks.

The inclusion of “anthropocentrism” on their list is a direct attack on the the biblical teaching that mankind was God’s crowning achievement during creation.

The National Education Association’s inclusion of anthropocentrism as an oppressive ideology to be done away with marks a turning point in the success of radical animal rights activists. The movement to disrupt the fundamental Western principle that humans should be treated with dignity because we are made in the image and likeness of God is going mainstream.

The principle of the Imago Dei is the foundation of our society. It’s inherent in the Declaration of Independence’s statement that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

What the author calls “the fundamental Western principle” is grounded in Judeo-Christian values and teaching. Ultimately, that’s what the progressive Left is after. They are undermining our society, but our society was built on Judeo-Christian principles, which means they have to destroy the roots, i.e. Christianity.

Thus, to dismantle anthropocentrism would be to dismantle the basis for our rights. The focus of government and society would no longer be the dignity of man — that would be replaced with a plan to prioritize leftists’ views of what’s best for nature at all costs. To achieve that vision, climate policy will trump human flourishing and efforts to decrease the human population, whether by euthanasia or abortion, will be central.

It’s ludicrous, but where is it all coming from? To understand the basis for Critical Theory is to understand the system that we’re facing, which wants to replace everything distinctive about America with something diametrically opposed to it.

Why does it matter? A nation is to a large extent defined by its symbols and associations, the holidays, rituals, heroes, and history — the mystic chords of memory — that constitute its collective self-understanding. This is how a nation tells itself what it is and what its priorities should be.

As the 20th-century liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger explained with regard to accounts of the past in particular, “as the means of defining national identity, history becomes a means of shaping history.”

“We need to know who our enemy is,” says Mark Levin, and his new book, “American Marxism,” is the first resource I recommend. Below I’ve embedded a couple of discussions of his book. He calls attention to the danger we’re in by educating us on Marxism in the U.S. Watch them both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGxnRpXqns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ER_sm9gcI

If you’re interested in hearing about Christianity and Wokeness, listen to this podcast of “In the Marketplace with Janet Parshall,” in which theologian Owen Strachan discusses his book of the same title.

I strongly encourage you to educate yourself so we can better stand against the enemies of freedom we face.