“What is truth, if we no longer live in an age of reason? A discomfort exists amongst all. What is true has been abandoned, for what advances the interest of my tribe, or the will of my masters? It is seemingly no longer possible to reason a way forward, but to exert a force of will, to advance one’s particular worldview. In this, we Conservatives are at a disadvantage, and in my opinion, will represent our eventual demise.”
“Images shone on a wall (television screens, cell-phone, laptops) portraying what our captors wish for us to believe (is reality). “
All paid for by marketeers.
Who profit from consumption; a culture of consumption.
So that is what this ‘piper who calls the tune’ (our “captors”) presents as “good”.
The mob loves that message and the government loves to please the mob.
The Obama regime set the stage for the ultimate suppression of dissent but, I think, was not confident of its ability to do so. Hillary was going to take that extra step. I saw more than one Hillary bot post on a forum that they were looking forward to marching all conservatives into "camps," and I have no doubt that we were heading in that direction.
President Trump's election was a direct response to that threat. Now, I can only hope that he can bring down the foundations of that American totalitarian dictatorship, rather than just being a stumbling block in its inexorable advance.
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From the comments: “Tocqueville, after the debacle of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, quipped that the French peasants “neither understood freedom nor wanted it.” The release from Serfdom was not to embrace the free markets of the petty bourgeoisie but to demand equality in privilege and to take revenge on those who previously enjoyed privilege.”
Tocqueville put it much more succinctly...
“There is a passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level [Class Warfare], and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
It doesn't get more Machiavellian than the above - totalitarian at it's more evil...
The ever increasing noise of fake news currently plaguing us is both a sign and a milemarker of where we are in our story and in the war swirling around us and for us.
The closer we get to the end of these times, of this epoch, the more God sends us His signs and His prophets to warn us and prepare us for His return.
And on the other side, Satan, as usual, apes God and does similar things to counter God’s efforts, sending us his false prophets to sow his weed seeds of confusion and dissention.
Taking a measure of we, the harvest to be, it’s hard to imagine our becoming much more confused and divided about truth and reality than we are now, but we’re not there, yet.
We have been given over to our grand delusions of how things are and how they ought to be and it’s best to not underestimate to power of motivated mass delusion.
Instead, just keep Him as your focus at all times and the false prophets of these times won’t be able to deceive you with their fake news, nor will they steal your peace.
No worries. He’s got this. Have faith.
The men who wrote the Constitution were aware of totalitarian tactics... if we can keep the country running under the Constitution and NOT under 'fashion ideas of the moment by twisted power hungry elites' we can win. And yes, liberal elites are using every totalitarian tactic they can get away with... which (thank God) is not that many in a free country running under a Bill of Rights...
"When lying, tell the Big Lie. The Big Lie will always work because people have a limited capacity to comprehend deception on a grand scale."
As we can see, our government -- and large parts of our culture -- are little more than deceptions on a grand scale. We're being ruled by the Big Lie:
Antifa -- We oppose fascism.
BLM -- It's about Black Lives.
LBTQMFEIEIO -- Homosexuality is the same as heterosexuality.
Climate change -- no science but an endless apocalyptic drumbeat
Feminazism -- Men and women are the same
Russia, Russia, Russia ...
Islime is just another religion.
Diversity is strength.
Hollywood is a moral exemplar.
Democrats are the party of the working man.
Communism works.
