"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies.”— Thomas Sowell

"What many young people today don’t realize is that socialism is a machine for empowering insiders. Few insiders have ever been rewarded more assiduously than the nomenklatura of the Soviet Union or China, or North Korea, or Cuba, or Cambodia, etc. Few governments have been as dark—in every sense of the word—as the Brezhnev regime. A vast expansion of the American government, as imagined by today’s Democratic Socialists, would create its own privileged elite that would soon turn dictatorial. From its inception, by contrast, Capitalism was designed for outsiders. Its original apostles, such as Adam Smith, argued that entrepreneurs needed freedom from the royal regulations that limited trade and the formation of new enterprises. When the government controls decisions to work or to start a business, political pull becomes a prerequisite for success. The whole point of economic freedom is that all people—not just the connected—can use their talents to help themselves and, potentially, to change the world.”--Edward Glaeser

Naive, ignorant or miscreant believers tend to see democratic socialism as a kind of utopianism, i.e. a future without capitalism but somehow with enough of everything to meet every need. For their part, democratic socialists view democrats as compromised, impure, and not committed to solving the real problem (capitalism). A resurgence of democratic socialism will require that proponents like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez be able to answer some of the practical questions that they have historically failed to address.

What does the democrat socialists’ goal of socialism actually mean? If abolishing capitalism is its goal how are the growth, efficiency and innovation that are the prerequisites for redistribution to be achieved? And if reforms can’t create a better world, then how is socialism to be achieved? Is democracy, even when flawed, a means or an end? Will democratic socialists prioritize democracy if the votes for a “socialist future” do not materialize? Will they eschew the compromises and alliances necessary to protect democracy? The unwillingness and the refusal by some American leftists to support mrs.b.j. clinton, come to mind, as does the willingness of some democratic socialists to consider running outside the democratic Party. And will democratic socialists accept the trade-offs and bridge-building necessary to win elections? Or is compromise, as Salazar put it, antithetical to truly fighting “for the working class and marginalized”?

Thus far democratic socialists have effectively mobilized discontent with their critique of the status quo. But critiques unaccompanied by viable solutions do little more than whip up the already angry and frustrated, with more destabilization the likely upshot. Or, if your goal is democratic socialism and you achieve it, why would you ever agree to allow the regressive forces of capitalism to return? In Cuba and Venezuela(1) and elsewhere the answer has been to prevent ending of the socialist revolution at all costs, including starvation, ending privation, economic collapse, pro-government gang violence, imprisoning political rivals, state control of the media, propaganda about secret plots to undermine the state, etc, etc. democratic socialists may be against violence in theory but in practice, they warm up to it once in power.

democratic socialists never denounce their fellow socialists abroad who are already doing these things. Shouldn’t democratic socialists (or neo-liberals) be ready and willing to distance herself from socialist autocrats like nicolas maduro and daniel ortega? But again, that’s a minimum. It would also be great if they could explain how her socialist utopianism is going to work. If we’re evolving beyond capitalism, what comes next? How do we get there without killing the golden goose that inevitably destroys social democracies? Dem-socs can't answer these questions which is why they are always dodging opportunities to debate and also why the left-wing-biased media won’t ask these questions. Waiting for answers will take even longer than trying to convince millennial socialists that this is a dangerous fantasy. In the mean time we might all have to suffer the results of their ideology, that they alone deserve.
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During the democratic Party convention for BObama’s 2nd term, the democratic Party convention actually voted to remove God from their platform. They initially voted to say, “We don’t want anything to do with God anymore as a democratic Party.” Then, some wise men said, “No, no, no! We cannot do that. We will lose all the Christians.” So they held another vote. In the 2nd vote, the convention again removed God, but then they lied and said God was back, simply to appease Christians who were gullible enough to believe it. Why? Because many were not strong Christians.

They were still hanging on to a party that had long ago abandoned biblical principles. The change in the democratic Party did not happen overnight. It was gradual, like boiling a frog. You put the frog in normal water and slowly raise the heat. The frog relaxes, falls asleep, and eventually dies. This is what has happened to America politically. democrats are now in the space of boiling, while Republicans are waking up, That is why MAGA exists.

The Bible is clear, “A man shall leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” One man, one woman, for life. But over the last 40-50 years, the democratic Party has redefined marriage. Gays, lesbians, LGBTQ+, all these groups now challenge the biblical definition. Marriage is no longer simply between 1 man and 1 woman. 2 men, 2 women, soon 3 men with 2 woman, or like in islam 4 women with 1 man, will all claim the right to marry.

The democratic Party even challenges the concepts of man and woman. But men and women never change, physically, mentally, spiritually, or psychologically. Yet the party demands that society accept this new ideology. This creates a clear conflict between Christianity and democrat’s neo-liberal ideology. Even children are affected. Johnny might not feel like a boy, or Susan might not feel like a girl. Through education and media, democrats are reshaping children’s genders, even surgically, sometimes even secretly against parents’ wishes.

Christianity teaches that God commanded Adam and Eve to “fill the earth”. But the democratic Party promotes abortion, sometimes even at full term, contradicting God’s command. Medicine allows a woman to take a pill that can abort a baby at home even, even remove a baby in the 9th month. This is what the democratic Party stands for. Christians are forced to choose: follow the Bible and refill the earth, or follow the democratic Party and participate in mass abortion.

America was built on legal immigration. But the democratic Party promotes illegal immigration. People enter without paperwork, sometimes criminals or jihadis seeking to harm Americans. Yet democrats present them as people seeking freedom and a better life. Meanwhile, legal immigrants wait for years to enter America, while illegal immigrants are welcomed immediately with housing, food, medical care, and even free education. During BObama’s presidency, and continuing today, democrats prioritize illegal immigrants for political power.

When my American-born wife was sick, she could not access programs that illegal immigrants received immediately, not relying on their own efforts work nor voluntary charity instead. Republicans, by contrast, want immigrants to come through proper channels, vetted and integrated, so they contribute to the country rather than take from it.

Many people ask, “How do I know if my church is conservative or liberal?” It’s simple. Speak at your church about Islam butchering Christians in Africa and across the Levant, not their antisemitism in Europe & America; or ask your leaders to read this article from the pulpit. If they refuse, your church is not conservative. It is a liberal church.

Some preachers say, “We don’t mix politics in church.” But many biblical prophets and Christian leaders were political. They spoke against kings living in sin. That is the role of the Church. If your preacher is afraid or refuses to teach truth, is he really Christian. Is he who you want to lead the flock? The Church is the body of believers, not a building. Do not support fallen Churches, but stay and work to reform them.

In the coming elections, you cannot say, “I vote for the individual, not the party.” Democrats stick together. pelosi passed laws with not 1 democrat opposing. There are no DINO democrats, but there are plenty of RINO Republicans.

Do not vote for democrats. They have left biblical principles long ago. There is no such thing as a good Christian democrat. Voting for them helps fulfill a non-Christian, non-biblical agenda. Only vote for true Christians who uphold timeless Christian values.

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Unless 1 believes that the New Testament is a work of fiction or that Jesus was just joshing us in the 24th chapter of Matthew about the days to come, it strains credulity to be incredulous about what is going on around us. When the Pharisees seemingly failed to understand him, Jesus knew the reason why and wasn’t afraid to say so out loud: “Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.” --John 8:43–44

We are in a spiritual war between good and evil, between the forces of order and the agents of chaos. So let’s say so, clearly, without apology or embarrassment. Tell people we're in that war, and a great many of them will show up to fight it. Tell them to just be quiet and pray and most of them will hit the snooze button and sleep in. The forces of evil do not fail to understand the latter. They know they’re in a war for power, and they intend to win it, which is why they fight so passionately. Abortion isn’t an issue for them. It’s a sacrament. Climate change isn’t a scientific debate. It is a religious world-view that gives their lives meaning and purpose. Politics for the neo-liberal isn’t an intellectual sport to be conducted within the polite parameters of free speech. It’s an unholy crusade to be won by any means necessary, including censorship, lawfare, defamation, perjury, conspiracy, insurrection and assassination.

IN this world, in which we must live, the contrast between our 2 political parties hardly needs better clarification. It is clearer now than ever before. No sentient human being, certainly not in the wake of the disastrous biden years, could honestly believe that any left-wing/democratic candidate is going to deliver lower inflation, higher wages, less dependence on hand-outs (whether from government of private charity), a thriving manufacturing sector, a more secure border, fewer narcotic drug deaths, fewer gang murders, lower healthcare costs, greater affordability, lower violent crime, safer and cleaner cities, better education, or less red tape. Not only have left-wing/democrats failed consistently and spectacularly at all those things, their ideology produces more and forever.

There might have been a day when the spiritual battle lines in the West were difficult to discern, but no more. Focus your attention. We live in an age when every leading state and national candidate of the left-wing/democrat Party openly supports the genital mutilation of healthy children and the obvious lie that a child can change genders. That, my friends, is the tell. Leave everything else aside if you must, because when a murderer is coming for our children, you do not pause to inquire whether he might also lower our electric bill, you sound the alarm and oppose him with every fiber of your being. When we hear this, we should think of the millstone and shudder.

The appropriation of sacramental language and sacramental thinking to justify the enactment of a wholly secular neo-liberal political program with evident hostility to the ideas of moral discernment and individual human dignity be made any clearer? Isn’t it about time that we caught on to the reality of this dangerous and grubby game of sacramental bait-and-switch?

The neo-liberal (left-wing/democrats) are fighting for their faith, while we are told to just get along and pray. And one degree at a time we are turned until one day we stand 180 degrees in the opposite direction, and it is too late. And those who believed 180 degrees ago to just get along and pray will now feel they are still true to the Faith.

The left-wing/democrats know they’re in a spiritual war, not a civics debate. It’s high time to wake up, yes and pray but, preach the truth about what’s at stake, and summon to the fight, now, for our spiritual cause—our very survival as Christians.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."--Matthew 10:34-36

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Since Trump the border is now tightly closed. Prior to his administration, it was common for 10,000 people to cross illegally in a single day. In just 9 months, 2 million problem illegal aliens have been deported or self-deported. The rate of border crossings is now the lowest it’s ever been since 1970.

For Trump’s 1st 9 months, gas prices have averaged $3.19 versus corrupt biden’s 2024 average of $3.30 a gallon. Over biden’s 4 years, gas averaged $3.46 a gallon. During the biden regime, oil production averaged 12.3 million barrels per day, compared to 13.5 million barrels during Trump’s 1st 9 months. corrupt biden removed 200 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, leaving office with only 394 million barrels in the reserve. The reserve has already inched upward under Trump’s initial months to 406 million barrels. Releases have been canceled. Purchases of replacement oil have been scheduled.

Corrupt biden’s GDP averaged 2.9% per annum. Trump’s GDP rose 3.8% in the Q2, with final estimates for 2025 ranging around 3%. Inflation under Trump so far averages about 3%. Under the biden regime, inflation increased by 21.4% over 4 years, or on average about 5.3% a year. When Trump announced sweeping tariffs , economists predicted surging inflation and raised the odds of a recession. Those worries now seem overblown. Inflation, while too high, is lower than forecasts, and the economy continues to grow despite the steepest tariffs in almost a century. At the same time, the promised benefits of tariffs also largely haven’t come to pass: Revenues from Trump’s levies have been far lower than the Treasury Dept predicted. The stock market has reached all-time highs. Trillions of dollars in promised foreign investments in the US have set a record. And China, for the 1st time in 50 years, is facing an American-led global pushback against its exploitative, mercantilist trade policies.

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“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”-- Viktor Frankl

“A society cannot survive which is so fragmented that it contains few individuals with intellectual integrity, while the rest go about their profane routines. There has to be a unifying social ethic---and an overarching higher conscience.”---John Carroll

“Conscience compromises its dignity, when man shows little concern for what is true and good and becomes almost blind from being accustomed to sin.”---Veritatis Splendor 54-63

"The most important question any society must answer is: How will we make good people. One cannot make a good society if one does not begin with the arduous task of making good individuals. Both Judaism and Christianity begin with the premise that man is not basically good and therefore regard man's nature as the root of cause of evil. America is really the 1 civilization that developed an amalgamation of Jewish and Christian values -- the emphasis has been on individual character.... When society blames evil on forces outside the individual rather than on the individuals who perpetrate evil, society will work to change those forces [which inescapably requires ever bigger government which means less freedom] rather than work to improve the character of individuals. That is a key to understanding why neo-liberals constantly attempt to radically change society ... The reality however is that there is no federal program or budget, no legislation, no social policy, no government fix that can do as much good as a society that is filled with decent people." --Dennis Prager

To find one’s way around one’s deeds and the consequences of them one has to bring to bear concepts grounded in a morality based on something other than logic alone. On logic alone we’ve experienced that the descent into terminal chaos, resulting from the human tendency for an ever increasing fleeing from responsibility, effort and sacrifice in a futile pursuit of greater and greater personal autonomy and self-satisfaction through unlimited freedom, is inevitable. So then, as David Walsh has said: “The moral life is the nexus for our involvement in the drama of good and evil that is greater than ourselves.”

The antidote to such descent is what’s termed the "conscience." Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby a person recognizes the moral quality, good or bad, of a concrete act that he is going to, or has performed. It enjoins a person at the appropriate moment to do good and to avoid evil. It judges particular choices, approving those that are right or good and denouncing those that are wrong or evil.

“The process of developing moral consciousness is a gradual process of making connections...of putting together.”---Edmund B. Miller
But the mere existence of a conscience is not the end point, since one individual conscience is not always as good as another. If that were true, then each conscience becomes its own self-sufficient moral authority. Then the essence of moral-decision making no longer depends on how well we have understood and applied a body of principles that exists outside ourselves, but how well we have perceived our own reactions, in other words how we feel or what we merely desire without moral justification, which negates the whole point of conscience. Neither, if our conscience is an alarm, is the absence of a warning not the same as an “all clear.” If our conscience is completely silent then it should likewise be obvious that it isn’t working very well.

On a group level (2 or more people), a just politic, necessary for any group to function properly, depends on good conscience, which is a tradition of individuals acting honestly for a good higher than that of their own egos---be that the family, group, community, or nation. It also depends on good civic instincts, healthy/sound prejudices (against the bad and for the good in concrete terms) and a respect for what previous generations have built. Without such the politics of human interaction beyond the intimate level degenerates into a chaos of competing pressure groups, deals, buyings-off, corruption and greed.

A healthy functioning conscience then needs the "I" to act if it is to set its bearings. For conscience is more than ideological, it is existential. We experience it deep within our lived experience of reality, before we have had a chance to reflect on it, and in such a way that any attempt to disengage from it is an attempt to escape reality itself.
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