Maybe left doesn't have to defend it, because they have autocratic power.
The post says "Cults always find their way to the kids. Usually, when they do, that’s when the Feds bust in. Only by now, the Feds have been sucked into the cult too."
But if it's the government, it isn't a cult it's a coup. As other repliers point out, such as Bagehot, "How can the Republicans--even if they nominate a formidable candidate--win against a party that has control of the machinery of elections?"
The Deep State and those who control it are in charge and they are unaccountable. They won' give up power because of an election.
Power is a fleeting and fickle thing. Sometimes people have power. And then they don’t.
Remember the silly movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding “. When the Windex man’s wife said that she controlled the neck?
Oh my, who controls the very orbits of every single quark in the universe, simultaneously, right now? It ain’t the freak lobby.
It is now, and always has been the King of the Universe, Jesus Christ. He is very patient now, reaching out still to bring in every possible believer. Until the very last one.
This is exactly right -- they are unaccountable. If the mainstream media or any of our cultural and academic institutions or federal agencies were functioning "normally," the Biden administration wouldn't have dared implement policies that are allowing 1,000 -- or is it 3,000? --illegal immigrants across the border each day. I cannot think of a policy the Biden administration has enacted that would be popular with even half the voters, but Democrats are going full speed ahead. They're not afraid of voters.
He lists the "45 Communist Goals for the Destruction of America, From the Congressional Record, 1963"
Virtually all of them have been achieved, in the years since 1963, mostly by the US government itself, even though since 1963, Republicans won about 50% of the elections. That is just not possible, if we really had a representative form of government.
It doesn’t help that most if not all Democrats running for office lie about what they will do if elected. But I agree- the Democrats—now openly Marxist— have been focused and disciplined for decades in undermining our constitutional republic. It’s always been about power.
There are no Federales in America today. There are only citizens. This is the American way. Mexico has Federales who promte drug trafficking, human trafficking, and fentanyl into the USA. When will the Americans take charge? I guess we will see.
"If the Republicans can’t find a way to rescue this country in 2024, as Ronald Reagan did in 1980, they must be the most inept political party in American history."
How can the Republicans--even if they nominate a formidable candidate--win against a party that has control of the machinery of elections? There will always be enough absentee ballots to put the Democrat over the top in Fulton, Buck, Maricopa, Wayne, and Dane counties. That's all they need. They pulled if off in 2020; they'll do it again. No signature verification, more ballots than registered voters, ballot "curing," ballot harvesting, ballots trucked across state lines --whatever it takes. And don't forget the 24x7 negative coverage of the MSM. Sorry to be so pessimistic. In the long run, I think truth and sanity will prevail, but it will take longer than another election cycle.
You make a good point but Sasha’s point also stands because the GOP appears inept at fixing the election problems you describe. How can they just press on and act like the electoral process is hunky dory? They look extremely inept and will remain so until they get a backbone.
The Neocons fixed the 2000, 2004 and 2020 elections to ensure their preferred candidate got elected. Party is secondary to their desire to start wars. They’ll rig the elections again in 2024 to keep the USA at war in Ukraine.
If Republicans don't take back the senate and Presidency, and retain the house in 2024 you will be correct. I hope you're wrong, but we will know in a little over a year from now.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting video. I like the statement about mass psychosis, "when mental illness becomes the norm in society and not the exception." And yes, we are close to that point now. Like I said if the 2024 elections cycle leaves the Demoncats in power, then I'd agree we have tipped the scale in favor of mental illness as the norm.
"...the GOP appears inept at fixing the election problems you describe."
Now, that's not entirely true. The GOP doesn't APPEAR to be inept (at anything), it IS inept - fixing the election problems described above, but damn near anything and everything else. The GOP is the Washington Generals to the Democrats' Harlem Globe Trotters.
I think the Republicans are like the Washington Generals, the basketball team that plays the Harlem Globe Trotters. Their job is to make it look like a game.
Because the dems have gone so far even lifelong dems are leaving. The hardcore, perverted religious zealots that have remained in the D party, while depressingly many people, will not be able to overcome the tidal wave coming. I was a lifelong independent, only ever voting once for one of the 2 major party candidates, and I've been voting since 1980. The rest of the time I voted for an alternative, yet I changed my party to (R) earlier this year, and I'm going to vote in the 2024 primaries for whichever Republican makes the best case for how he or she will annihilate this cult. Then looking at Congress, I've voted for both parties, but those days are over. There are only a handful of dem politicians who've bucked their party to stand in the way of grinding children into the dirt, and none are in my state.
I agree. Both sides are joined at the hip in that effort to never let Trump win again. They will do what it takes. Our country will continue to be helpless in countering this very evil agenda. I’m afraid of it eventually turning to a civil war.
Not sure about that now. I greatly prefer Ron DeSantis . But the evil gods of communism are trying to manipulate again this election.
What did Forrest Gump say in his movie? Life is a box of chocolates. You never know what you will get. Actual Americans are armed to the teeth and ready for anything. But we are a peaceful and loving people. Until and unless certain lines are crossed. This is precisely the reason for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
Good point but at least republicans used to defend one another/policies, or I thought so anyway. That’s the part that gets me. Not sure what they are thinking when they trash trump.
I do think there is a unified purpose behind this incessant onslaught of perversion and uprooting of all norms and traditions, and it is to destabilize the western societies, ripening them for overthrow by he global overlords. Our government is employing the tactic of color revolution, usually reserved for foreign countries they wish to overthrow to insert someone else into power, now on its very own citizens.
This writing is your best work yet. Profound and illuminating. Thank you, Sasha.
When we have YMCA staff asking a young teenage girl if she was sure it was a male penis she saw in the locker room, and not a female penis, our entire culture has jumped the shark ...
It comes from an American TV show, "Happy Days," about a bunch of teenagers in the 1950s at a malt shop. When the show had been on for five years, the writers were clearly running out of ideas - and on one episode, they had the greaser-biker character, Fonzie, jump over a shark while water-skiing. Most fans felt that was the first sign that the show was in decline. So now "jumping the shark" means that something has peaked and is on its inevitable decline.
I remember the 70’s and have always thought it was the ugliest decade to live through...until these past 3 years. As a 20+ in the 70s, I never liked the hippie, free love, drug scene. This decade in just 3 years looks demonic and evil. Biden as president is destroying our country and promoting every aspect to destroy any and all previously considered normal and healthy life. Biden’s pride day at WH was an assault to our country. A pride flag should never adorn the WH and went against our values. Transgender indoctrination is destroying our young and vulnerable. This is all about destroying the family unit, religion, and promoting state control over individual rights. God does not make mistakes and will not be ridiculed. If our country doesn’t seek guidance and salvation, we as a country will not exist. I pray for guidance and strength. I worry about my grandchildren and all children and what type of education will be provided. We all need to pray and stand up against this evil.
The USA particularly has been assaulted on 2 fronts.
1. The chemical via drugs, illegal and legal, i.e. vaccines and most big pharma drugs, chemical waste in air, food and water.
2. The propaganda of the godless communists in church, academia and government.
Both these aspects must be dealt with in prayer and action. I consider that those that fear God neglected to observe the chemical side which sneaked in via vaccines etc in the guise of alleged good health measures.
“Children being divided in elementary school as “oppressed” and “oppressors,” and being taught that the ONLY thing that matters about them is their skin color or their gender identity”
This one probably bothers me the most. Our children are being indoctrinated. So much progress achieved the past few decades is being thrown out the window through this Marxist bullshit. Having grown up in desegregated schools in Berkeley, where we sang “List Every Voice” and “Ebony and Ivory” in choir, and were taught to love one another and focus on our similarities, it’s very painful to me to see all the identity politics and divisiveness occurring now.
I knew someone would say that. I’m actually proud of my upbringing (mostly), it used to be a beautiful place. But my point was this new form of liberalism is an entirely different beast and quite hideous, it used to be about coming together and celebrating our differences, and now it’s just about divisiveness.
Well, thats why it was brought up. Its illiberal now, and it was then. The academic centers have ALWAYS been divisive. Thats the FUNCTION of Leftism. And exactly why its so corrosive. The 60s were necessary, up until the overarching reaches became overextended. Which is the FUNCTION of the Right. Yang, meet Yin...keep an eye on each other. I find it fascinating that now Stanford/Silicon Valley writ large, once the reddest big business center of the BA, now advocates for policing free speech, pushes the 'equity' narrative, and is generally 'left' of what Sproul Plaza stood for not too long ago. NONE of this, NONE OF IT!,, is about acceptance. It is about COMPLIANCE.
Yes, ironically enough one of my childhood classmates is now Director of DEI at Stanford. She formerly worked at ACLU. She was the one in those viral videos recently that led the protest/disruption against the Supreme Court judge visiting Stanford. So glad I’m not caught up in that woke garbage. What was once a good cause has been weaponized against us.
I’m a late baby boomer. After indulging in the new permissiveness from my late teens to early 20s, saw the wisdom, if not total acceptance of, Evangelist Christianity. Not so much today, as life experience has replaced the need for a ready-made belief system. I was desperate for some guiding principle, having been raised in the empty pageantry of the Episcopal church by parents who, though loving, seemed more concerned with money and appearances than spirituality. In fairness, I didn’t realize the deprivation they grew up in during the depression and WWII, which undoubtedly motivated their focus on money and providing abundance and opportunity for their children.
We boys grew up thinking war was the glorious endeavor we saw depicted in TV and movies. It seems strange now that our parents who had lived through the real horror and knew better made no attempt to disabuse us of such nonsense.
When I was a teenager, the Texas legislature somehow decided it was a good idea to lower the drinking age to 18. I recall as an HS senior having to request hall passes in 1st period Spanish (corredor permiso) to go puke because I was hung over or still drunk. Small wonder I was back the next fall.
I fear the Republican Party is indeed the most incompetent political party in history.
After Ronald Reagan showed them a winning message, Newt Gingrich demonstrated how to play hardball & win, they couldn’t wait to get back to their cozy relationship with Democrats, not rocking the boat and making big donors happy through crony capitalism, especially with the military industrial complex by supporting the endless wars they needed once the Cold War ended.
Reagan effectively ended the Cold War and Bush 41 was the last leader from the Greatest Generation (if a misguided one.). On a side not, I believe George H.W. Bush was the last American President who would have qualified for a White House security clearance without being elected.
Finally the parents were gone and the Baby Boomers free to play, leading us to the current Lord Of The Flies society. Or maybe that train had already left the station and Boomer leadership stoked the engine.
Republicans don’t seem to comprehend that the new breed of Democrats no longer want or especially need a loyal opposition. They want total control. The Electoral College, the U.S. Senate and Supreme Court have become the only fire walls protecting our freedom, although the last two can be a bit iffy.
They also don’t appreciate that the nation didn’t just dodge a bullet, but a nuclear missile with Trump’s election in 2016.
Conservatives held a shaky 5-4 Supreme Court majority. Then Scalia died, who wasn’t just a conservative vote, but the originalist conscience of the court.
Merrick Garland waited in the wings, and was Hillary predicted to be a slam dunk (or more of an easy layup). Although I suspect Hillary would have nominated an openly radical woman in Garlands place.
Imagine Hillary in the Oval Office, Democrats controlling Congress, and the Supreme Court , not only rubber-stamping Democrats most radical initiatives, but actively looking for opportunities to reverse precedents they didn’t like?
Would I want to have dinner with Donald Trump? Absolutely not. But the fact remains that far from destroying democracy, he quite probably saved it with his Supreme Court appointments, and by demonstrating that the elites could be successfully challenged.
Whether that was a reversal or mere slowing of the pendulum remains to be seen.
"Conservatives held a shaky 5-4 Supreme Court majority. Then Scalia died, who wasn’t just a conservative vote, but the originalist conscience of the court.
Merrick Garland waited in the wings"
I would like to point something out. THE reason he s Not sitting on the USSC is because of one man...Sen. Mitch McConnell.
As for Hillary and 2016 1. Probably The Worst Presidential Candidate I have ever seen. I mean she was really bad at this ("If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made." George Burns. She couldn't.) What surprised me is she got as many votes as she did. 2. After he won the nomination I kept telling people ignore the polling numbers. Trump Will Win. Reason being Rarely has a Party held the White House for more than 2 terms.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
"but he did little, if anything to prevent that from being Hillary."
What Exactly Was He Supposed To Do?
"Despite her huge negatives, Trumps victory was an epic upset."
1. It was BECAUSE of her Huge Negatives. I've been following Presidential Races since Nixon v Kennedy. Politics aside, she's Really Bad. i mean she's worse than Michael Dukakis or Bob Dole.
2. It was only a Huge Upset if you believed The Media. It was in May of 2016 Michael Barone wrote a column (I paraphrase) "It is rare for 1 political party to hold the White House for more that 2 terms."
You have to remember Mitch McConnell is probably The Most Conservative Senate Majority Leader in modern history. to quote Yogi Berra. "You can look it up."
"I fear the Republican Party is indeed the most incompetent political party in history. "
If I may
“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. ... I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. ....”
The recent trans craze reminds me of the degeneracy of the Weimar Republic, for example Magnus Hirschfeld's trans clinic in Berlin in the 1930's. I studied in Germany for two years, including Nazi literature.
There was a lot of pent-up anger at perverts like Hirschfeld, and this provided fuel for the Nazis. Now I understand it all a bit better. I hope we managed to escape all this without bloodshed.
Thank you, Sasha. Mental illness, in whatever trendy form it is dressed up as, is still mental illness. What’s needed is courage from those who have a lot to lose, to call for sanity. We all need to step up to this and end this insanity.
Christians are right about gay "marriage," too. Marriage has the purpose of the bearing and raising of children. Gay couples can't do that naturally, and that's just the way it is. "Equality" has nothing to do with it: a gay person can't marry someone of the same sex, and neither can a straight person. Either can marry someone of the opposite sex. Perfectly equal. All of the things gay couples were worried about (having a loved one being considered as family for hospital visitations, for ex.) could have been taken care of through contract law and little tweaks to existing law (which tweaks would benefit not only gay people, but straight people who, for whatever reasons, want a friend rather than a family member to have the legal powers of a family member when it comes to hospital visitations, end of life concerns, etc.). There was absolutely no reason to try to re-define the millenia-old understanding of marriage. All it's done is make more of a joke of marriage (seriously, consider the gay wedding in the "Sex and the City" movie -- the one where Liza "manifests": it was made clear that the gay couple getting married had no intention of maintaining sexual fidelity. Google "gay marriage open marriage" and see what comes up. Seriousy. Gay "marriage" is a bastardization of what marriage and fidelity have always meant. Those gay couples who are faithful and want to build a home life have no good reason to call their endeavor "marriage." None. Besides which, how is gay "marriage" consummated? The matter of consummation has legal implications. Think about it.
I like Dave Rubin. One of our many superb nonWoke fighters against the Woke but I do cringe when I see pictures of him and his “husband” with their two adopted baby boys. I always have the feeling that such things are like an insult to Mother Nature who does not like to be insulted. Gays claimed Gay marriage was a culture war victory for them but it was a Pyrrhic victory since it resulted in huge damage to them. Jordan Peterson says most effeminate boys and tomboy girls who are encouraged to switch genders to align their body with their brain would have simply grown up to be gay men or lesbian women but are ruined for life after hormone therapy and surgery. I’ve often read of gays and lesbians who say Thank God they’re not young now or they might well have gone down that path. Rubin and others are appalled by this and do speak out against it but are simply ignored by our Woke ruling class.
As someone who didn’t want to be different, dated and slept with many men, hoped to be “normal” I can say, at least for me, it wasn’t a choice. I had crushes on girls since 6th grade. It took me 34 years to tell my best friend I think I might be gay. She spit out her drink and said, “Everyone knows you are!” I’m an old lady now, so it doesn’t really matter. But it wasn’t a choice.
Gay marriage has been a disaster for gays and lesbians though. The Trans ideology promoted to children in our public schools seems designed to eliminate homosexuality by convincing children if they have such feelings it’s because they have the wrong body for their brain and need to switch genders which basically ruins them for life. Quite astonishing that so many gays could support this.
I disagree, Seva. It is not obvious to me that same sex marriage has been a disaster for gays and lesbians. I think they should have the same rights as straight adults. Who are you or I to tell an adult they can’t marry another adult?
They already had the same rights: anyone -- straight or gay -- could marry someone of the opposite sex, but not of the same sex. It was perfectly equal.
It legally eliminated gender which led to LGBTQIA+ being promoted to children which has had the greatest impact on children who would have grown up to be gay or lesbian. It has undermined tradition and pulverized the social fabric of our society.
Rubin and his husband didn't adopt, they used surrogacy. To make matters worse, he has often spoken out against frivilous abortion yet he admitted that they discarded the 15 un-used embryos from the implantation process. Sounds frivilous to me.
Surrogacy turns poor women into rent-a-wombs; it's viciously cruel and takes from women the very most precious thing they have. It also deprives babies of their natural mothers, which is an evil. The Church is right about IVF, surrogacy, and all that rot, too: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/womb-service-the-moral-dangers-of-surrogacy/ I hope you read the works of Mary Harrington (who isn't Christian, but who can see surrogacy for that it is): https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/
Whether surrogacy is common or not is totally beside the point of what the law should allow, and what should be promoted culturally. Whatever the number of children born by surrogacy, they are still deprived of their natural mothers, and those natural mothers are still acting as rent-a-wombs.
Omg, I am so pleased you included that ending scene from Life of Pi! (one of my favorite movies for sure) I recently referenced that scene while conversing with my mom about the existence (or not) of God, and that I felt having faith in God and a higher power and embracing the grand mystery of it all just makes life way more interesting and magical than being a dogmatic scientist atheist. I’ve only seen that film once but that scene always stuck with me, and I didn’t quite understand the meaning of it at the time but I fully do now. Thank you Sasha.
One of my favorite quotes is from the beautiful book "Life of Pi" where Pi says of his experience of finding himself alone on a boat with a Bengal tiger in the middle of the ocean, "Solitude began. I turned to God. I survived.“
“In the final analysis, just as pi is a mathematical construct that can never be fully comprehended, the Life of Pi is essentially unfathomable; as is the battle between religion, science, and spirituality. However, just as Pi finds peace within—“Solitude began. I turned to god. I survived”—perhaps the final message of the film is one that simply urges us to find peace within as well.”
“Meaning, Faith, and the Life of Pi.”
A conscious choice between hopelessness and faith is the spine of this story.
Excellent piece, Sasha. Your commentary, as usual, is deadly accurate.
"If the Republicans can’t find a way to rescue this country in 2024, as Ronald Reagan did in 1980, they must be the most inept political party in American history."
I fear that some time in December of 2024 when the Democrats declare the season over and themselves the "winners" courtesy of another "fortified" election, you will have no other conclusion to reach – not because conservatives, libertarians, and other non-leftists failed to show up at the polling places on Election Day, but because the Republican Party lacks the spine, intestinal fortitude, and resolve to effectively meet and/or counter and overcome the Democrats' fraud machine.
Sadly, that is only one of the Republican Party's problems. Among some of the others are that its "leadership" doesn't want the one person who can, one last time, win and give America a fighting chance against the deep state. The GOPe would rather lose with "honour" than win ugly. IF the Republicans DO want to win, they want to do so in a particular fashion.
A very powerful piece. How can anyone read this and not see the evil being done to children? I dare you, lefties, defend this.
Preach. I just love this column and the author.
Maybe left doesn't have to defend it, because they have autocratic power.
The post says "Cults always find their way to the kids. Usually, when they do, that’s when the Feds bust in. Only by now, the Feds have been sucked into the cult too."
But if it's the government, it isn't a cult it's a coup. As other repliers point out, such as Bagehot, "How can the Republicans--even if they nominate a formidable candidate--win against a party that has control of the machinery of elections?"
The Deep State and those who control it are in charge and they are unaccountable. They won' give up power because of an election.
Power is a fleeting and fickle thing. Sometimes people have power. And then they don’t.
Remember the silly movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding “. When the Windex man’s wife said that she controlled the neck?
Oh my, who controls the very orbits of every single quark in the universe, simultaneously, right now? It ain’t the freak lobby.
It is now, and always has been the King of the Universe, Jesus Christ. He is very patient now, reaching out still to bring in every possible believer. Until the very last one.
This is exactly right -- they are unaccountable. If the mainstream media or any of our cultural and academic institutions or federal agencies were functioning "normally," the Biden administration wouldn't have dared implement policies that are allowing 1,000 -- or is it 3,000? --illegal immigrants across the border each day. I cannot think of a policy the Biden administration has enacted that would be popular with even half the voters, but Democrats are going full speed ahead. They're not afraid of voters.
Yes. There was a really great post in "David’s Thinking about the World Substack" today. https://drp314.substack.com/p/the-45-communist-goals-for-the-destruction
He lists the "45 Communist Goals for the Destruction of America, From the Congressional Record, 1963"
Virtually all of them have been achieved, in the years since 1963, mostly by the US government itself, even though since 1963, Republicans won about 50% of the elections. That is just not possible, if we really had a representative form of government.
It doesn’t help that most if not all Democrats running for office lie about what they will do if elected. But I agree- the Democrats—now openly Marxist— have been focused and disciplined for decades in undermining our constitutional republic. It’s always been about power.
There are no Federales in America today. There are only citizens. This is the American way. Mexico has Federales who promte drug trafficking, human trafficking, and fentanyl into the USA. When will the Americans take charge? I guess we will see.
How long will they be able to rape children with impunity? Me thinks, not much longer.
Sasha, I cannot believe you wrote this:
"If the Republicans can’t find a way to rescue this country in 2024, as Ronald Reagan did in 1980, they must be the most inept political party in American history."
How can the Republicans--even if they nominate a formidable candidate--win against a party that has control of the machinery of elections? There will always be enough absentee ballots to put the Democrat over the top in Fulton, Buck, Maricopa, Wayne, and Dane counties. That's all they need. They pulled if off in 2020; they'll do it again. No signature verification, more ballots than registered voters, ballot "curing," ballot harvesting, ballots trucked across state lines --whatever it takes. And don't forget the 24x7 negative coverage of the MSM. Sorry to be so pessimistic. In the long run, I think truth and sanity will prevail, but it will take longer than another election cycle.
You make a good point but Sasha’s point also stands because the GOP appears inept at fixing the election problems you describe. How can they just press on and act like the electoral process is hunky dory? They look extremely inept and will remain so until they get a backbone.
The Neocons fixed the 2000, 2004 and 2020 elections to ensure their preferred candidate got elected. Party is secondary to their desire to start wars. They’ll rig the elections again in 2024 to keep the USA at war in Ukraine.
It is my humble opinion; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and will never stand again.
If Republicans don't take back the senate and Presidency, and retain the house in 2024 you will be correct. I hope you're wrong, but we will know in a little over a year from now.
Please take your valuable time and see this link. It will explain why our Constitutional Republic has fallen: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/behavioral-economics/mass-psychosis-and-totalitarianism/
Thanks for the link. Very interesting video. I like the statement about mass psychosis, "when mental illness becomes the norm in society and not the exception." And yes, we are close to that point now. Like I said if the 2024 elections cycle leaves the Demoncats in power, then I'd agree we have tipped the scale in favor of mental illness as the norm.
"...the GOP appears inept at fixing the election problems you describe."
Now, that's not entirely true. The GOP doesn't APPEAR to be inept (at anything), it IS inept - fixing the election problems described above, but damn near anything and everything else. The GOP is the Washington Generals to the Democrats' Harlem Globe Trotters.
Sometimes you have to accept that all of this was by design. None of the big power brokers (other than Trump) lost their elections.
But? Who is who, and what is what? It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.
Look T those who enabled Bidenomics.
I think the Republicans are like the Washington Generals, the basketball team that plays the Harlem Globe Trotters. Their job is to make it look like a game.
Marxists called that team, 'The Controlled Opposition'.
Heather MacDonald had a very good piece in City Journal.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-battle-for-cultural-survival/
Because the dems have gone so far even lifelong dems are leaving. The hardcore, perverted religious zealots that have remained in the D party, while depressingly many people, will not be able to overcome the tidal wave coming. I was a lifelong independent, only ever voting once for one of the 2 major party candidates, and I've been voting since 1980. The rest of the time I voted for an alternative, yet I changed my party to (R) earlier this year, and I'm going to vote in the 2024 primaries for whichever Republican makes the best case for how he or she will annihilate this cult. Then looking at Congress, I've voted for both parties, but those days are over. There are only a handful of dem politicians who've bucked their party to stand in the way of grinding children into the dirt, and none are in my state.
Thank you. Eventually, common sense will prevail. Americans are usually common sense people.
I agree. Both sides are joined at the hip in that effort to never let Trump win again. They will do what it takes. Our country will continue to be helpless in countering this very evil agenda. I’m afraid of it eventually turning to a civil war.
Not sure about that now. I greatly prefer Ron DeSantis . But the evil gods of communism are trying to manipulate again this election.
What did Forrest Gump say in his movie? Life is a box of chocolates. You never know what you will get. Actual Americans are armed to the teeth and ready for anything. But we are a peaceful and loving people. Until and unless certain lines are crossed. This is precisely the reason for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
I wrote a short substack essay for Independence day with some links.
https://drp314.substack.com/p/some-2a-links-for-independence-day
I also wrote this short piece on 2A
https://drp314.substack.com/p/some-second-amendment-thoughts
They will do this to anyone. What did they call Trump that they haven’t called every Republican since Goldwater?
Good point but at least republicans used to defend one another/policies, or I thought so anyway. That’s the part that gets me. Not sure what they are thinking when they trash trump.
He was not invited to their black panther party (to borrow from Forrest Gump).
I am in the UK and say the USA is already in a civil war, only it is as most wars really are, a war for the control of minds.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/timeline-anticipated-events-in-world-war-3/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/01/06/2022-a-review/
Take control of the election system in your area. It starts there. We have done it in our area.
I do think there is a unified purpose behind this incessant onslaught of perversion and uprooting of all norms and traditions, and it is to destabilize the western societies, ripening them for overthrow by he global overlords. Our government is employing the tactic of color revolution, usually reserved for foreign countries they wish to overthrow to insert someone else into power, now on its very own citizens.
This writing is your best work yet. Profound and illuminating. Thank you, Sasha.
When we have YMCA staff asking a young teenage girl if she was sure it was a male penis she saw in the locker room, and not a female penis, our entire culture has jumped the shark ...
LOL!! True!!
I laugh to keep from crying...
I had not heard that phrase jump the shark. I am in the UK. I would say it meant stark raving bonkers myself.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/
It comes from an American TV show, "Happy Days," about a bunch of teenagers in the 1950s at a malt shop. When the show had been on for five years, the writers were clearly running out of ideas - and on one episode, they had the greaser-biker character, Fonzie, jump over a shark while water-skiing. Most fans felt that was the first sign that the show was in decline. So now "jumping the shark" means that something has peaked and is on its inevitable decline.
Thank you JIm. I did sometimes watch Happy Days, and the tune can still resonate in my head when I recall the name.
I remember the 70’s and have always thought it was the ugliest decade to live through...until these past 3 years. As a 20+ in the 70s, I never liked the hippie, free love, drug scene. This decade in just 3 years looks demonic and evil. Biden as president is destroying our country and promoting every aspect to destroy any and all previously considered normal and healthy life. Biden’s pride day at WH was an assault to our country. A pride flag should never adorn the WH and went against our values. Transgender indoctrination is destroying our young and vulnerable. This is all about destroying the family unit, religion, and promoting state control over individual rights. God does not make mistakes and will not be ridiculed. If our country doesn’t seek guidance and salvation, we as a country will not exist. I pray for guidance and strength. I worry about my grandchildren and all children and what type of education will be provided. We all need to pray and stand up against this evil.
Yes, we are truly “back to the 70s”, but worse. I’m with Sasha on Ronald Reagan – – we would be blessed to have another one of his kind at this point.
"...it was the ugliest decade to live through..."
Due to disco, alone...
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The USA particularly has been assaulted on 2 fronts.
1. The chemical via drugs, illegal and legal, i.e. vaccines and most big pharma drugs, chemical waste in air, food and water.
2. The propaganda of the godless communists in church, academia and government.
Both these aspects must be dealt with in prayer and action. I consider that those that fear God neglected to observe the chemical side which sneaked in via vaccines etc in the guise of alleged good health measures.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/covid-19-summary/
As someone formerly on the progressive left, the pendulum can’t swing soon enough.
“Children being divided in elementary school as “oppressed” and “oppressors,” and being taught that the ONLY thing that matters about them is their skin color or their gender identity”
This one probably bothers me the most. Our children are being indoctrinated. So much progress achieved the past few decades is being thrown out the window through this Marxist bullshit. Having grown up in desegregated schools in Berkeley, where we sang “List Every Voice” and “Ebony and Ivory” in choir, and were taught to love one another and focus on our similarities, it’s very painful to me to see all the identity politics and divisiveness occurring now.
Funny. Its those in Berkeley that got us here. And now, weirdly, Palo Alto. The J Butler's (et al) of the world are the High Priests..
I knew someone would say that. I’m actually proud of my upbringing (mostly), it used to be a beautiful place. But my point was this new form of liberalism is an entirely different beast and quite hideous, it used to be about coming together and celebrating our differences, and now it’s just about divisiveness.
Well, thats why it was brought up. Its illiberal now, and it was then. The academic centers have ALWAYS been divisive. Thats the FUNCTION of Leftism. And exactly why its so corrosive. The 60s were necessary, up until the overarching reaches became overextended. Which is the FUNCTION of the Right. Yang, meet Yin...keep an eye on each other. I find it fascinating that now Stanford/Silicon Valley writ large, once the reddest big business center of the BA, now advocates for policing free speech, pushes the 'equity' narrative, and is generally 'left' of what Sproul Plaza stood for not too long ago. NONE of this, NONE OF IT!,, is about acceptance. It is about COMPLIANCE.
Yes, ironically enough one of my childhood classmates is now Director of DEI at Stanford. She formerly worked at ACLU. She was the one in those viral videos recently that led the protest/disruption against the Supreme Court judge visiting Stanford. So glad I’m not caught up in that woke garbage. What was once a good cause has been weaponized against us.
I'd like to think she, and others, learned something from that 'incident'. Sadly, prob not a damn thing
Excellent!
I’m a late baby boomer. After indulging in the new permissiveness from my late teens to early 20s, saw the wisdom, if not total acceptance of, Evangelist Christianity. Not so much today, as life experience has replaced the need for a ready-made belief system. I was desperate for some guiding principle, having been raised in the empty pageantry of the Episcopal church by parents who, though loving, seemed more concerned with money and appearances than spirituality. In fairness, I didn’t realize the deprivation they grew up in during the depression and WWII, which undoubtedly motivated their focus on money and providing abundance and opportunity for their children.
We boys grew up thinking war was the glorious endeavor we saw depicted in TV and movies. It seems strange now that our parents who had lived through the real horror and knew better made no attempt to disabuse us of such nonsense.
When I was a teenager, the Texas legislature somehow decided it was a good idea to lower the drinking age to 18. I recall as an HS senior having to request hall passes in 1st period Spanish (corredor permiso) to go puke because I was hung over or still drunk. Small wonder I was back the next fall.
I fear the Republican Party is indeed the most incompetent political party in history.
After Ronald Reagan showed them a winning message, Newt Gingrich demonstrated how to play hardball & win, they couldn’t wait to get back to their cozy relationship with Democrats, not rocking the boat and making big donors happy through crony capitalism, especially with the military industrial complex by supporting the endless wars they needed once the Cold War ended.
Reagan effectively ended the Cold War and Bush 41 was the last leader from the Greatest Generation (if a misguided one.). On a side not, I believe George H.W. Bush was the last American President who would have qualified for a White House security clearance without being elected.
Finally the parents were gone and the Baby Boomers free to play, leading us to the current Lord Of The Flies society. Or maybe that train had already left the station and Boomer leadership stoked the engine.
Republicans don’t seem to comprehend that the new breed of Democrats no longer want or especially need a loyal opposition. They want total control. The Electoral College, the U.S. Senate and Supreme Court have become the only fire walls protecting our freedom, although the last two can be a bit iffy.
They also don’t appreciate that the nation didn’t just dodge a bullet, but a nuclear missile with Trump’s election in 2016.
Conservatives held a shaky 5-4 Supreme Court majority. Then Scalia died, who wasn’t just a conservative vote, but the originalist conscience of the court.
Merrick Garland waited in the wings, and was Hillary predicted to be a slam dunk (or more of an easy layup). Although I suspect Hillary would have nominated an openly radical woman in Garlands place.
Imagine Hillary in the Oval Office, Democrats controlling Congress, and the Supreme Court , not only rubber-stamping Democrats most radical initiatives, but actively looking for opportunities to reverse precedents they didn’t like?
Would I want to have dinner with Donald Trump? Absolutely not. But the fact remains that far from destroying democracy, he quite probably saved it with his Supreme Court appointments, and by demonstrating that the elites could be successfully challenged.
Whether that was a reversal or mere slowing of the pendulum remains to be seen.
"Conservatives held a shaky 5-4 Supreme Court majority. Then Scalia died, who wasn’t just a conservative vote, but the originalist conscience of the court.
Merrick Garland waited in the wings"
I would like to point something out. THE reason he s Not sitting on the USSC is because of one man...Sen. Mitch McConnell.
As for Hillary and 2016 1. Probably The Worst Presidential Candidate I have ever seen. I mean she was really bad at this ("If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made." George Burns. She couldn't.) What surprised me is she got as many votes as she did. 2. After he won the nomination I kept telling people ignore the polling numbers. Trump Will Win. Reason being Rarely has a Party held the White House for more than 2 terms.
She constantly used the most chilling phrase in the English language: "For the greater good." You can justify anything with that.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
Yes, and Trump’s election was no thanks to Republican leadership.
The Turtle may have kept Garland off the court until a new president took office, but he did little, if anything to prevent that from being Hillary.
Despite her huge negatives, Trumps victory was an epic upset.
may have kept Garland off the court...MAY?
"but he did little, if anything to prevent that from being Hillary."
What Exactly Was He Supposed To Do?
"Despite her huge negatives, Trumps victory was an epic upset."
1. It was BECAUSE of her Huge Negatives. I've been following Presidential Races since Nixon v Kennedy. Politics aside, she's Really Bad. i mean she's worse than Michael Dukakis or Bob Dole.
2. It was only a Huge Upset if you believed The Media. It was in May of 2016 Michael Barone wrote a column (I paraphrase) "It is rare for 1 political party to hold the White House for more that 2 terms."
You have to remember Mitch McConnell is probably The Most Conservative Senate Majority Leader in modern history. to quote Yogi Berra. "You can look it up."
"I fear the Republican Party is indeed the most incompetent political party in history. "
If I may
“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. ... I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. ....”
― M. Stanton Evans
The recent trans craze reminds me of the degeneracy of the Weimar Republic, for example Magnus Hirschfeld's trans clinic in Berlin in the 1930's. I studied in Germany for two years, including Nazi literature.
There was a lot of pent-up anger at perverts like Hirschfeld, and this provided fuel for the Nazis. Now I understand it all a bit better. I hope we managed to escape all this without bloodshed.
Speaking of Germany... https://youtu.be/YNYeEDpOEM8
Thank you, Sasha. Mental illness, in whatever trendy form it is dressed up as, is still mental illness. What’s needed is courage from those who have a lot to lose, to call for sanity. We all need to step up to this and end this insanity.
The sooner the better.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/
This is your best post yet! A lot of work went into this and it’s so good!
Fun fact:Reagan and Trump are the only US Presidents who were members of a union.
Christians are right about gay "marriage," too. Marriage has the purpose of the bearing and raising of children. Gay couples can't do that naturally, and that's just the way it is. "Equality" has nothing to do with it: a gay person can't marry someone of the same sex, and neither can a straight person. Either can marry someone of the opposite sex. Perfectly equal. All of the things gay couples were worried about (having a loved one being considered as family for hospital visitations, for ex.) could have been taken care of through contract law and little tweaks to existing law (which tweaks would benefit not only gay people, but straight people who, for whatever reasons, want a friend rather than a family member to have the legal powers of a family member when it comes to hospital visitations, end of life concerns, etc.). There was absolutely no reason to try to re-define the millenia-old understanding of marriage. All it's done is make more of a joke of marriage (seriously, consider the gay wedding in the "Sex and the City" movie -- the one where Liza "manifests": it was made clear that the gay couple getting married had no intention of maintaining sexual fidelity. Google "gay marriage open marriage" and see what comes up. Seriousy. Gay "marriage" is a bastardization of what marriage and fidelity have always meant. Those gay couples who are faithful and want to build a home life have no good reason to call their endeavor "marriage." None. Besides which, how is gay "marriage" consummated? The matter of consummation has legal implications. Think about it.
I like Dave Rubin. One of our many superb nonWoke fighters against the Woke but I do cringe when I see pictures of him and his “husband” with their two adopted baby boys. I always have the feeling that such things are like an insult to Mother Nature who does not like to be insulted. Gays claimed Gay marriage was a culture war victory for them but it was a Pyrrhic victory since it resulted in huge damage to them. Jordan Peterson says most effeminate boys and tomboy girls who are encouraged to switch genders to align their body with their brain would have simply grown up to be gay men or lesbian women but are ruined for life after hormone therapy and surgery. I’ve often read of gays and lesbians who say Thank God they’re not young now or they might well have gone down that path. Rubin and others are appalled by this and do speak out against it but are simply ignored by our Woke ruling class.
As someone who didn’t want to be different, dated and slept with many men, hoped to be “normal” I can say, at least for me, it wasn’t a choice. I had crushes on girls since 6th grade. It took me 34 years to tell my best friend I think I might be gay. She spit out her drink and said, “Everyone knows you are!” I’m an old lady now, so it doesn’t really matter. But it wasn’t a choice.
Gay marriage has been a disaster for gays and lesbians though. The Trans ideology promoted to children in our public schools seems designed to eliminate homosexuality by convincing children if they have such feelings it’s because they have the wrong body for their brain and need to switch genders which basically ruins them for life. Quite astonishing that so many gays could support this.
I disagree, Seva. It is not obvious to me that same sex marriage has been a disaster for gays and lesbians. I think they should have the same rights as straight adults. Who are you or I to tell an adult they can’t marry another adult?
They already had the same rights: anyone -- straight or gay -- could marry someone of the opposite sex, but not of the same sex. It was perfectly equal.
It legally eliminated gender which led to LGBTQIA+ being promoted to children which has had the greatest impact on children who would have grown up to be gay or lesbian. It has undermined tradition and pulverized the social fabric of our society.
Don’t feel bad, I had crushes since 5th grade, including the nuns. Anyway, we’re old now and can laugh at what we used to cry about. <3
Rubin and his husband didn't adopt, they used surrogacy. To make matters worse, he has often spoken out against frivilous abortion yet he admitted that they discarded the 15 un-used embryos from the implantation process. Sounds frivilous to me.
And about getting employee benefits such as health care.
Surrogacy turns poor women into rent-a-wombs; it's viciously cruel and takes from women the very most precious thing they have. It also deprives babies of their natural mothers, which is an evil. The Church is right about IVF, surrogacy, and all that rot, too: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/womb-service-the-moral-dangers-of-surrogacy/ I hope you read the works of Mary Harrington (who isn't Christian, but who can see surrogacy for that it is): https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/
Whether surrogacy is common or not is totally beside the point of what the law should allow, and what should be promoted culturally. Whatever the number of children born by surrogacy, they are still deprived of their natural mothers, and those natural mothers are still acting as rent-a-wombs.
Awesome, Sasha, as usual. Very perceptive. Yes, the backlash is coming.
Omg, I am so pleased you included that ending scene from Life of Pi! (one of my favorite movies for sure) I recently referenced that scene while conversing with my mom about the existence (or not) of God, and that I felt having faith in God and a higher power and embracing the grand mystery of it all just makes life way more interesting and magical than being a dogmatic scientist atheist. I’ve only seen that film once but that scene always stuck with me, and I didn’t quite understand the meaning of it at the time but I fully do now. Thank you Sasha.
One of my favorite quotes is from the beautiful book "Life of Pi" where Pi says of his experience of finding himself alone on a boat with a Bengal tiger in the middle of the ocean, "Solitude began. I turned to God. I survived.“
“In the final analysis, just as pi is a mathematical construct that can never be fully comprehended, the Life of Pi is essentially unfathomable; as is the battle between religion, science, and spirituality. However, just as Pi finds peace within—“Solitude began. I turned to god. I survived”—perhaps the final message of the film is one that simply urges us to find peace within as well.”
“Meaning, Faith, and the Life of Pi.”
A conscious choice between hopelessness and faith is the spine of this story.
Psychology Today. Nov 26, 2012
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-tao-innovation/201211/meaning-faith-and-the-life-pi
Wonderful. Thanks for the link. I need to read the book, heard it’s a classic, and revisit the film as it’s quite beautiful.
Film is very good but the book is even better. Beautiful book. You’ll be impressed.
Excellent piece, Sasha. Your commentary, as usual, is deadly accurate.
"If the Republicans can’t find a way to rescue this country in 2024, as Ronald Reagan did in 1980, they must be the most inept political party in American history."
I fear that some time in December of 2024 when the Democrats declare the season over and themselves the "winners" courtesy of another "fortified" election, you will have no other conclusion to reach – not because conservatives, libertarians, and other non-leftists failed to show up at the polling places on Election Day, but because the Republican Party lacks the spine, intestinal fortitude, and resolve to effectively meet and/or counter and overcome the Democrats' fraud machine.
Sadly, that is only one of the Republican Party's problems. Among some of the others are that its "leadership" doesn't want the one person who can, one last time, win and give America a fighting chance against the deep state. The GOPe would rather lose with "honour" than win ugly. IF the Republicans DO want to win, they want to do so in a particular fashion.
Conspiracy theorist these days simply means someone who figures out highly inconvenient truths.
That’s also what Elon Musk said recently about “conspiracy theories.”
Lillia has a way of being succinct and on point. I think you would like her essays also.
I will take a look.
Thanks Seva. Your comments add value wherever you post them.