It’s their evolutionary thinking that on one hand allows for the dehumanization of the majority of Americans to the level of grunting hominids while on the other allows them to imagine their own superiority and elite right to power—to rule, dominate, and possess. In this light, when socially conservative ‘hominids’ voted Trump into office, in the bulging eyes of elitists we had committed a coup that in effect, ‘stole’ the Ring of Power away from them. Now like the maddened, soul-dead Gollum they accuse us day in and day out of being “thieves! thieves! miserable thieves!” and conspire and salivate over the vengeance they seek.
Psalms and Proverbs has much to teach us with respect to the obvious madness possessing Leftist and rabid anti-Trump ‘Gollums’ and its underlying cause: idolatry of self.
As a whole, Scripture combines pride with covetousness, greed, malice, hatred, and jealousy into a single concept – envy (ressentiment) – that is a manifestation of idolatry of self issuing in hatred of and rage against the Holy God and one's brother, which means that there can be no charity whatsoever where there is envy and hatred in one's heart.
Ressentiment or malignant envy is the passion that causes evil. It is the father of death,
"... the first entrance for sin, the root of wickedness, the birth of sorrow, the mother of misfortune, the basis of disobedience, the beginning of shame. Envy banishes us from paradise...Envy made Joseph a slave. Envy is the death-dealing sting, the hidden weapon, the sickness of nature, the bitter poison, the self-willed emaciation, the bitter dart, the nail of the soul, the fire in the heart, the flame burning on the inside..." (Life of Moses, Gregory of Nyssa, quoted in Death by Envy, Fr. George R.A. Aquaro, p. 74)
In his first edition dictionary, "The American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828" Noah Webster defines envy as,
"...pain, uneasiness, mortification or discontent excited by the sight of another's superiority (often spiritual) or success, accompanied by some degree of hatred or malignity, often or usually with a desire or an effort to depreciate the person, and with pleasure at seeing him depressed; malice, malignity, invidiousness, ill will.”
According to Webster, malice is,"...extreme enmity of heart; malevolence; a disposition to injure others...from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge.”
Malice is inseparable from the following:
1. Malevolence: having an evil disposition towards another or others; wishing evil to others...a malevolent heart rejoices in the misfortune of others
2. Malign: to regard with envy or malice; to treat with extreme enmity; to injure maliciously
3. Malignant: malicious; having extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice
We’re not dealing with a purely political problem but rather a problem of evil coming to fullness.
I agree! They are not just insane.. they are driven by Evil.
Sometime later I spoke with George W. Bush’s Director of Central Intelligence, General Michael Hayden. “We were sorry that [Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed] Morsi was overthrown” in July 2013, Hayden explained. “We wanted to see what would happen when the Muslim Brotherhood had to take responsibility for picking up the garbage.”
“General,” I remonstrated, “when Morsi was overthrown, Egypt had three weeks of wheat supplies on hand. The country was on the brink of starvation!” “I guess that experiment would have been tough on the ordinary Egyptian,” Hayden replied.
He wasn’t joking. The ideological commitment of the Establishment to a new global order made facts irrelevant. If things weren’t that way, they should have been that way.
http://www.atimes.com/article/a-funeral-for-a-world-that-never-was//
Last year I arrived early for a lunch address by Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran the National Security Agency and later the Central Intelligence Agency in the George W. Bush administration. Hayden was already there, and glad to chat. The conversation turned to Egypt, and I asked Hayden why the Republican mainstream had embraced the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the military government of President al-Sisi, an American-trained soldier who espoused a reformed Islam that would repudiate terrorism. “We were sorry that [Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed] Morsi was overthrown” in July 2013, Hayden explained. “We wanted to see what would happen when the Muslim Brotherhood had to take responsibility for picking up the garbage.”
“General,” I remonstrated, “when Morsi was overthrown, Egypt had three weeks of wheat supplies on hand. The country was on the brink of starvation!”
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“I guess that experiment would have been tough on the ordinary Egyptian,” Hayden replied, without a hint of irony. As Tommy Lee Jones said in “Men in Black,” Gen. Hayden has no sense of humor that he’s aware of. He repeated the same point verbatim a few minutes later in his speech: It was a shame that the Muslim Brotherhood government of Egypt was overthrown, by acclaim of the majority of Egypt’s adult population, which had taken to the streets as the country careened towards ruin. Hayden, like Sen. John McCain, the Weekly Standard, and the majority of the Republican foreign policy establishment, believes that America should try to foster a democratic version of political Islam. It lionized Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in Washington, nurtured Turkey’s dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and armed “moderate Islamists” in Syria as a supposed democratic alternative to the Assad regime. Hayden’s specialty was signal intelligence, and by all accounts he was good at his job. He is clueless about foreign policy.
Gen. Hayden was perhaps the most prominent signator of a letter from fifty former national security officials who served in Republican administrations, declaring that Donald Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” required of a president and, if elected, “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
Trump responded, “The names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous place.” That is exactly correct. He might have added that they are incapable of learning from their mistakes and doomed to repeat them if given the opportunity.
http://www.atimes.com/trump-lacks-experience-but-his-detractors-lack-common-sense/
“We’re not dealing with a purely political problem but rather a problem of evil coming to fullness.”
Well said. It is what Romans 1 describes—the descent of societies into moral depravity. At its root is a rejection of God as the primary focus of our affection, devotion, and worship. The only solution that can bring healing is a return to the God-centered life as a society.