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Shy Boy's avatar

If you follow Strauss & Howe's historical argument, America has been through several cycles of spiritual crisis and renewal already in the past 400 years or so. (In Generations, their sources go back well before the events of the 1770s.) That doesn't by itself discount the possibility of long-term trends, but I suspect that much of what we're experiencing at present, we can chalk up to the turning of the Saeculum, in their framework.

Organized religion was, historically, the great counterbalance to our libertarian tendencies. That's what the "separation of church and state" was all about: more balance of powers. Our institutions were never supposed to be entirely subject to the formal government. But so much of popular religion has been displaced by entertainment and academia, themselves long since brought under control and weaponized. Or colonized and subverted by crypto-Marxist and "wokeist" fifth columns, or simply destroyed. Still, when I see organized and effective resistance, it's largely coming from religious people. Often, newly religious.

Russia's bucking the trend. They've just recently outlawed "LGBT propaganda". Jeff Childers commented on it in today's Coffee and Covid post, remarking how the Western media has been strangely reticent to unleash the denouncement apparatus this time. Islamic "homophobia" was fair game in Qatar for the World Cup, but Putin seems to not be getting the same treatment.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/stuck-like-glue-thursday-december

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The criminals running the country can't afford to allow another fair national election. If there are not some significant changes made to root out the corruption taking place with ballot distribution and harvesting, we've seen the last 'populist' president. These crooks can't allow the people see what they've done and will continue to do to gain and maintain power. For them it is a continuous non-ending divide and conquer strategy, the most recent with Governor Hair Gel announcing reparations for descendants of former slaves. Prior to that it was the obvious unconstitutional student load bail out carrot for votes. The changing of the order for democrat party primary states. Then there is the great immigration amnesty plan which is one of the biggest pillars in their monument to themselves. It all there for anyone to see and assemble into a bigger picture.

I could go on, but Victor Davis Hanson wrote a great piece on 4 December that summarizes much of what has transpired with the willing assistance of a completely corrupt media. Here's the link if you missed it.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/04/how-corrupt-is-a-corrupt-media/

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