If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan
Ya know, 20 years ago, I used to be a Republican.I was a Christian, a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement...and I was still a person who believed in equality and freedom.
And I've written on this blog how I was chased out of both Christianity and Conservatism over the decade of the early 2000's by ravening fanatics who seemed to believe in nothing more than ravening fanaticism for the sake of ravening fanaticism.
People who, if offered this kind of power, would take it:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13:16:18
In all that, I don't recall anybody who ever said that Evangelicals would not only vote for but politically support the Antichrist on the specific basis that he would cause the world to be destroyed. But if anything, what's more galling about this stupid bullshit is that These Fucking People seem to think they can manipulate God.
Hell, it sort of offends something in my brain that these people want the Antichrist to be an American. According to the End Times narrative I learned back in the 1990's that was supposed to be the purpose of the European Union.
You know, I've only been reading and studying this stuff to one degree or another since I started learning how to read. Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that if you say you're a Believer and you don't start from the premise that the Creator of the Infinite Universe is smarter than you are and unlikely to fall for your petty manipulations, you're probably in the wrong business.
And more to the point, the people who believe this ridiculous garbage are proud of the fact that they believe it, they won't shut up about it. Hell, Evangelicals talk about Trump with a fervor that Jesus only wishes they directed towards Him.
It seems like there's something very wrong here.
Just today, I've seen Fox News complain about how we don't need the Anti-lynching bill that President Biden signed today, and I've heard endless bullshit about Hunter Biden's laptop...which, so far as I can tell, probably isn't even a real thing. But in over a month now, I've not heard one damned word out of Fox News or Republicans about how the Russian Army is flying the Soviet Flag or about how Vladimir Putin seems to be hellbent on turning Russia back into the Soviet Union.
You'd think, for Republicans anyway, that this would be a bigger news item.
But the truth is that all too many Americans...especially most "Conservatives" and Republicans...are all too happy to outsource fighting for freedom to the Ukrainians and those who fight with them, and to conveniently ignore all the European and US soldiers who are prepared to do so should things escalate further...while they're trying to take away everybody else's freedom and rights.Слава Україна!
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