The American Thinker yesterday had a post by Joseph Ford Cotto entitled They want to destroy normal people: The Left's war on the Right. The "Right" here are people who just want to be left alone; to raise their families, live in peace with their neighbors, live good lives and be good citizens. They don't care about or subscribe to the multiplying causes of the Left. But the Left is determined to make them care, or to punish them for not caring.
There are moments when politics ceases to be about policy and becomes something deeper. The public reaction to Charlie Kirk’s assassination was one of those moments. Some Americans mourned; others reveled in cruelty. What emerged was not simply outrage, but a portrait of a society whose fractures now define its moral compass.
Cotto describes a recent conversation he had with his friend Paul Gottfried, editor of Chronicles magazine. Because Cotto is quoting Gottfried in many cases, the man sounds not quite sure of himself, but I think this is just him hunting for the right words to convey his thoughts.
“The dominant class comes out of the left in our dominant class in our society,” Gottfried noted. “So, so the, the right, I think is in a desperate position. I do not buy any of this nonsense to the Democratic Party.” His skepticism toward the idea of a collapsing Democratic Party underscores his larger belief: institutional control matters more than temporary polling shifts.
“I think what, it’s more important than that is hate, hatred” of “normal people who the, the left would like to destroy, take away their power,” Gottfried said. “If you have to kill them, that’s fine. We want to, we want to rid the world of them. And there’s a, there’s a hatred particularly for Western civilization and more particularly for white male Christians and, you know, are seen sort of seen as the ultimate enemies.”
That hatred, he argued, is the emotional engine of what he calls the new political religion of “wokeness.”
“I think this is the way I see wokeness. I think it’s extremely dangerous because, because of its pervasiveness and because it is able to appeal to, to a number of people throughout the western world in a way that no other movement could,” Gottfried told.
His view is stark: “The other side is winning, winning decisively. And we have to come up with a, with a strategy. The strategy is not going to be dialogue that’s long over…the question is, can you meet leftist violence with force on your side?”
Gentle readers, I urge you to read the entire article. The emphasis above is mine, as it gets to the crux of the matter. I could go on quoting, but fair use prevents it, and in any case, Cotto does a better job than I could of explaining exactly what we are up against. You, me, all of us who lay claim to normalcy, to being just another Bozo on the bus, have a target on our backs. It might be easier to go along to get along, but God does not allow a middle ground. We are either with Him unconditionally, or we are against Him.
Gottfried is correct that the Democrat party is not done, not by a long shot. As the Democrat party has moved further and further to the Left, and the mask is coming off, we can see that what the members of the party want is totalitarian control of the population. Better to rule in hell than be a servant of God. Now, the guy down the street who votes Democrat may seem like a perfectly nice guy. He goes to the Baptist church and holds great tailgate parties when his team is in town. But he votes Dem, and the politicians he votes for want totalitarian control, and he sadly is just a useful idiot.
I keep telling people to buy guns and ammunition, and to train with those weapons. If your church does not have a security plan, perhaps it is time to put one in place. I can't see the future, and I am no prophet, but the writing on the wall says that the day is coming soon when we will have to defend ourselves, while at the same time maintaining duty to be proper images of God on earth. God help us.
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