From Possible Elegy to Resurgence

 

There is a way to effectively stem the ugly slide of the US into some kind of authoritarian state, away from the time-honored democratic processes envied by others.  And the time is opportune.  At this juncture, the country is in the midst of huge legal challenges filed against the presidential electoral results, serious claims of massive voter fraud perpetrated against the system.  Already we are reading of early changes in vote counts being made, due to “glitches”.

It is the right time to harness the colossal number of about 72 million freedom-loving people who earnestly voted for Trump.  And one can surmise that this number has to be right and truly represents legitimate voters and citizens.  Not manufactured ones alleged to have been brought in to stymie the freedoms of citizens to freely select their leaders.  This group is understandably angered and desires immediate redress.

This group may not have the tremendous financial clout and influence as the fearsome array of coastal elites who are alleged to have been party to this.  But it does have the number and muscle.  And the power of righteousness on its side. Thus, it is not just coincidental that most Christian religious groups are on the same side.  Even the Catholics, though visibly its highest hierarchy appears lost and confused, voted in great numbers for this side.   By some accounts, as much as 62%.

This alleged fraud is not the first, but only the latest among many inflicted on the democratic processes that the country had laboriously installed and revered all these years. Upon reflection, it may have seriously started or popped into the open with Obama harnessing and weaponizing IRS against conservative groups and nothing much was done by way of redress and responsibility.  Whatever happened to Lois Lerner?

Then they brought in groundless and unfair legal and political challenges, including the attempted coup with members of the Deep State in alliance to depose of candidate Trump and then president Trump.  Think Operation Crossfire Hurricane.  Steele dossier.  FISA warrants.  Mueller special counsel. Etc. The Democratic Party and its muscled allies in media had relentlessly but unsuccessfully made Trump go through those unsubstantiated hoops during his 4 years in office, and even prior to it, putting the serious business of running the country aside and in jeopardy.    

So it appears to be about time to let this come to a boil.  And confront the dark forces that have been wreaking havoc to the system with impunity.

Time to confront overwhelming force with formidable force. To defend and preserve a country born from blood and fire anyway.

“An army of youth flying the standards of Truth,

We're fighting for Christ the Lord.

Heads lifted high, …..”

An Elegy to the US of A?

 

Regardless how the US Presidential election will eventually be resolved, this much many will have to agree.

From henceforward, the country now knows and has to contend with an official and unofficial Democratic Party that has over the 4 years mushroomed beyond the political sphere and even extending past the country’s boundaries.  Its reach, financial power, and influence have now become so extensive and commanding that one could say that there is no force, for good or evil, on earth like it.  Practically all the consequential forces in the country are now aligned with it, from all sectors of media, academia, Wall Street, big tech, the oversized government bureaucracy and its administrative state, down to stealthy but destructive fringe groups with criminal intent on their agenda.   Now it is hinted that even the top brass in the military may also be aligned with them. The succeeding months may disclose more.

Overall, will this unholy coalition hold?  Or do we wait for the next earth-shaking fissure?

This has of course been exacerbated by a Republican party that is not only weak, but dis-united, and only tepidly committed to its supposedly noble purposes.

I see only certain Christian church groups who have shown cohesiveness amidst intense challenges and are ardently committed to supporting those that promote their pious altruistic purposes.  Exclude the Catholic Church since it appears in its hierarchy to be ambivalent in pursuing its unchanging teachings and doctrines, and would rather compromise and befriend anybody and everybody else all in the name of world peace. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!  – from very extreme late-term abortion rights regulations, to fetus parts harvesting and sale, to more curtailment of religious liberties (the Poor Sisters will definitely be made poorer, again), to continued persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in a country the Church cozies up to, while essentially pushing aside its own moral depravity issues.  

This group’s ardor and fervor notwithstanding, this support is still essentially devoid of ample temporal powers to throw around issues and causes.

Lest we forget, excepted from the initial listing above are the countless men and women who dared personal peril and ridicule to give support to Trump in his many enthused meetings and rallies.  The “forgotten” people in fly-over states and from quaint old places tucked in many underserved nooks and crannies of the huge country, who had earnestly thought that they had finally their own man in the WH.  Did they attain the critical mass to bring their man to the finish line?  We will soon have at least an inkling if indeed dark forces tried to thwart and stifle their voices collected in the drab ballot boxes of their places.

In a very real way, Trump was responsible for all this coming together because he threatened the status quo for all those dominant potentates.

There is no doubt also that whatever power and influence the Republican party has retained and/or acquired in this election, the credit goes to Trump.  So in a very real way his sojourn to the WH if it ends abruptly had been one big success.  But only to those who see the world, the same way he does.

All this will be added to a lot more “fundamental changes” as the new overlords reap more power and influence, and consolidate all gains for the ushering in of a new vision. Their calibrated version of a new America.

An America quite different and estranged from the old one envisioned and promulgated by its now- irrelevant founding fathers.  An America that many wide-eyed immigrants treasured in their minds when they started their longed-for sojourn in the New World.  Maybe in a superficial manner, they are reminded of hardy pioneer families toiling in the verdant forests and coddling fastnesses of a new world, of rowdy cowboys and loud Indians cavorting and playing with real lives and bullets in the almost limitless plains.  Or in a serious mien, they reflected on hopeful dreams of unfettered lives enjoying religious liberties and freedom, of freely exercising traits of exceptionalism, ingenuity, and inventiveness.  Of overall progress and development, as to become the pride and envy of the entire world.  In fine, of producing the noblest and greatest social experiment the world has known!

The new cabal will try with all its new-found might to bring in the new morning of a new dawning.  A country drifting toward a very secular and godless state, governed and controlled by more centralized entities with tremendous powers.  Paying homage to politics devoid of moral conscience and boundaries, made more easily possible by the slow obsolescence of dissent.  Big Media truly becoming the embodiment of Big Brother, slyly and relentlessly beating on people to toe the line, in both mind and action.

These likely to ensue changes limited only by the naked greed and avarice of the new ruling classes, fueled by new wealth concentrated on fewer and fewer individuals.

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A funny last twist before ending, on the way to the forum.  In elections past, there was never any instance I can recall when the other political however fringe parties were not given some however condescending or inconsequential, attention by media.  What happened to the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, Socialist, Reform, etc.?  

This time around, complete radio silence from our quite occupied media.  What happened to woke inclusivity?

Still On A Crescendo: Anti-Trump Sentiments – October 26. 2020 - Monday

 

 

 

I always quiver in wonderment, though also saddened at times, when I open media in the Internet where almost daily I get all my information about the world.  There is still the increasing crescendo of anti-Trump criticism that has seen no abatement this late in the game, but has instead intensified and toughened each new day.  And this emanating from all sources, both from supposedly friendly and clearly hostile, from friends and even relatives to committed partisans, from most of the elite establishments in the US and in most of the globe to bored or maybe tepid-minded social media consumers who cannot help themselves trying to get some kind of mileage with a brusque kind of talk.

But the exception I believe has come from religious, particularly Christian, communities that have expressed kind words to him, not for his person or personality, but for what he has done for Christianity.  And they have responded not just with typical platitudes, but by collective prayers and contemplation.  Two of any faith’s greatest tools for support and strength.  Notably and sadly missing from this has been pronouncements from the Catholic hierarchy, save for a splintered few who have been unequivocal for their support.  Some Catholic quasi-religious groups have even articulated in labored rhetoric why it would be okay to not vote for Trump, and vote instead for one who is Catholic in name but clearly anti-Catholic in rhetoric and stance, and whose party would limit even further the already constricted religious liberties.

It was no surprise then that when I opened to read one of my sources for daily devotionals, these terse passages below jumped to my attention.

Excerpted from the book, Jesus Christ The Son of God, Rev. Alban Goodier, SJ, who served as Archbishop of Hierapolis (Turkey).  Written in the 1920’s.

By way of introduction, the author writes about all the people who participated in the conspiracy to finally put Jesus to his crucifixion.  From the crowd of ordinary and meek people, to the high priests who sat in judgment, to the temporal and secular rulers both domestic and foreign.  This as a matter of explanation for the alignment and coming together of very disparate groups, bent only on one thing.  Dispose of Jesus Christ!

“And it is easily understood.  For what is any crowd but a mass of ignorance, wandering in the dark and in confusion, made weaker by its very strength, since the greater its number the greater must be the babel of tongues to which it is compelled to listen?”

“What is it but a huge dependent force, unable to act for itself by the very independence of its units, dependent on any power that can master it, and by it led one way or another, little enough by any choice of its own entirely, or almost entirely, under the sway of him that dominates it?” 

The collective crowd made weaker by its very strength!

Which crowd has become a dependent force by the very independence of the various units.  The independence of supposedly enlightened groups made dependent on an outside force.

The final question to ask is who or what is the force that holds the sway and dominates this frenzied crowd?

What Would Christ Do? - October 21, 2020 Wednesday

 

 

A question I repeatedly have to ask myself each day as I rise from slumber, upon being assailed by many unrelenting challenges that test one’s person and nature.

Though man intends well as a species, as a’  Kempis affirms, his flawed nature and his concupiscence have need to constantly be examined and reminded.

A most apt and most often confronted issue has been how we address those that do not agree with us or who we just loathe or hate for what they stand for.

We know how we treat and entreat our loved ones, with the most diligent attention and most glowing words of praise and kindness.  As much and even beyond what and where our God-given natural affections could lead us.  And no doubt it is one relatively easy task, not only because it comes naturally but also because the object of our praises reflect our very persons and perceived virtues.  And how many of us do not love our own selves?  And thus all the superlatives rush out from our innermost core.

But what of those who though not necessarily at direct enmity, but simply those we disagree with whether personally, socially, or politically?

One looks around and sees the following.  The harshest and unkindest pejoratives of words and sentences are uttered and heaped upon others without much reservations or circumspection.  Likened to addressing the vilest, the most abominable of creatures.  Like one is the evil incarnate. Though even Christ would say, no man is.  After all, Christ showed us how.  With the admirable ways he addressed and treated the very people who defamed him, those who conspired against his very person, and even those revered magistrates who unjustly sentenced him to a most horrible end.

And mind you, this is coming not just from the ordinary man on the street, the coarse and uncouth creatures congregating in ghettoes or hovels of the world.  This coming also from those most educated, most accomplished in the many noble and commendable fields of endeavor chosen by upright and right-thinking persons.  People in polite society would call friends, acquaintances, or their loved ones.

But why?  Why, in this respect otherwise sainted men could suddenly turn to such an extreme?

What Would Christ Do?

Man In His Fateful Journey

 

Anointed man regally bearing the likeness and nature of a god both physically and mystically, is designed in due course and in the fullness of time to perfect himself to be worthy to lodge in his rightful place beside his Creator.  This truth is not just his fate but is immersed in his very DNA.

And this is not one lazy or presumptuous man’s idle declaration.  God himself promised this ultimate sharing in his Godhead.  If man has earned it.  Remember, man, thou are made to the image and likeness of your God!

And because of this, man abundantly blessed ought with dogged determination and resolve to perfectly tailor his life toward this end.  Marshall all his efforts and resources to guarantee that in the fullness of time, he gets to his place of destiny.

Well and good.  But is man on the rightful path toward his anointed end?

As a species?  No earnest observer of humanity collectively adjudicating his temporal journey could consider the human condition in a positive light.  Many could say that man has instead retrogressed, to a time beyond the coarse and crude milieu of an Abel and Cain.

Consider the hate, the chaos, the anarchy, the willfulness, waywardness, etc., man has flagrantly exhibited toward his own kind and to Nature.

Nations willfully try to destroy other nations whether in actual war or in stealth subterfuges.  In their politics the order of the day is hate and loathsomeness, and falsehood and cheating as the weapons of choice to bring down opposing ideologies.  Even in the realm of religion we are witness to the debauchery and willful negligence of high-echelon members of the clergy toward their appointed tasks as shepherds of their flock.  Friends and families loudly alienate themselves from each other because of detestable and unruly rhetoric, using such caustic and harsh language to express their anger, intolerance and hate.   It appears there is no segment and sector of society or civilization that has not been tainted with the cupidity and mendacity of man.

Is there any deliverance from this, here on earth?  Or do we need to sojourn first to the land of mist and mystery before we can attain the reward for whatever goodness and righteousness we may each individually have gathered and attained?

It appears that culling from the ample history of man, these same worrisome periods in man’s journey just keep on revisiting, from unbridled cycles of ups and downs, and back again, each time not only not learning lessons from the previous, but the willful acts of banality and malevolence ramping up in degrees.

So what is the endgame for man?

Extinction?  With a new and better species to take his place.

Why not possible?  Natures seems to favor this kind of a resolution, in the lower species. 

But born with a nature both hardy and stubborn, I for one refuse the see the inevitability of this doom and gloom.  Somehow, that inscrutable Mind up there will think of a way.  He just needs our attention and cooperation.

So, empty your minds and soften your hearts, deliverance is always nigh.

Claim the promise of a foretaste of eternity right here on earth.