Category: Dissident Mama

By Daniel B. Rundquist

By now everyone knows there is a pandemic sweeping across the American landscape. It started rather quietly and at first went nearly unnoticed by most of us. This pandemic soon accelerated and quickly caught the attention of the global media, our federal and state level politicians, and by our local officials.

At this point, every segment of American life and culture has responded to this affliction in one way or another. Businesses have closed; many have been financially or physically destroyed and are never to reopen. Schools are left in “limbo” without anything that passes for leadership to help them navigate the path forward for educating our children. The political class executed a polarizing election season and continues to spend money that we do not have for programs we do not need or want. I’m not talking about the COVID-19 virus that we have heard so much about.

I’m talking about the crippling disease of disunity and its disastrous effects of purposeful division. The one thing that once bound all Americans together civically was a common idea, the acceptance that the rule of law was supreme. Every American citizen has a right to be treated equally under the law, and that the law applies to everyone the same way, without regards to creed, social status, education, position, race, and so on. These values are defined in our Founding documents, supported in our laws, and continually adjudicated in our courts. We were to be a nation ruled by laws, not by the fleeting ideas or preclusions of men, and certainly not by lawless mobs of terrorists largely funded by a foreign entity. 

In the early months of 2020, the world responded to what was sold as a “pandemic” of an outbreak of a flu-like disease called COVID-19 or Coronavirus. By now we know that it is a synthetic virus created in a Chinese laboratory and released by same in an American election year. This virus should properly be called what it is: a biological weapon.

The corrupted World Health Organization quickly declared the outbreak as a pandemic; soon after, the world shut down. In a knee-jerk panic, the governors of the fifty states responded by closing down businesses and placing all residents under “quarantine” by restricting us to our homes for most of March and the entire month of April. While government has claimed the authority to quarantine sick people in the past in order to prevent the spread of a deadly disease, the same governments do not have any such right whatsoever to “quarantine” the well for any reason. That would constitute a house arrest and immediately violate the Fifth Amendment rights of citizens to not “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

Most salient were the unlawful and draconian restrictions by primarily democrat governors making every effort to close churches during Lent and Easter. Most churches willingly complied, moving their services to online video platforms and keeping the physical church locked. These democrat controlled states included California, New York, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, and others. In these states during the month of April, Christians were fined, arrested, charged with misdemeanors, locked out of churches, locked out of parking lots of their churches, dragged out of churches and so on. 

The NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio publicly threatened city churches with permanent closures on March 27:

“Everyone has been instructed that if they see worship services … going on, they will go to the officials of that congregation … They will inform them they need to stop the services and disperse. If that does not happen, they will take additional action, up to the point of fines and potentially closing the building permanently.”

These are all clear violations of the First Amendment and were all executed under the unlawful pretense of “preventing the spread of the coronavirus” and they were not without reactions. Protests against these unlawful restrictions erupted in nearly all fifty states. A petition was started in Michigan to recall the governor. Protests in Raleigh, North Carolina were shut down by police and protestor Monica Faith Ussery, 51, was arrested for violating the governor’s order. Police claimed that protesting was “not an essential activity.”

‘“I have a right to peacefully assemble,” she said as officers led her away, her hands bound with a zip tie. “God bless America.”’

She did have the inalienable right to peacefully assemble, but no more. Permission for violent “protests” are now granted by government officials on a purely partisan basis in America. That much is now clear.

The damage inflicted on America as a nation was sudden, dramatic, and will be irreparable. America was at once turned into a police state where unalienable rights no longer mattered or were protected while despotic governors could shutter businesses on a whim, locking down entire states without notice for any reason they saw fit. At the same time, many mayors and governors unlawfully permitted dozens of major American cities and towns to be looted and burned by organized violent terrorists whom the media continues to refer to as “protestors.” America today is being torn apart right before our eyes as the rule of law completely evaporates. The elected officials in those areas have betrayed their oaths of office in order to support their political ideologies and party above the Constitution and the rule of law they swore to uphold.

Once the entire economy was “closed” in late March, unemployment predictably skyrocketed. In the course of less than three weeks, America went from full employment to over 32.75 million people unemployed, or about 24% unemployment. Congress immediately authorized over $7 trillion in emergency relief spending with a series of bills containing mostly the usual political pork, with a few business grants, and worker aid payments in the month of April – money the nation does not have. 

The Liberal Christ haters achieved their goals quickly. Through unreasonable fear and by unlawful force, they managed to close every church in America for Great Lent, Holy Week, and Easter while most mosques remained open. As a result of all of this, churches too would suffer financially. Hundreds of smaller struggling churches would now be on the brink of permanent closure due to lack of funds. People who are suddenly unemployed and underemployed cannot financially support a church. 

With the emergency funding authorized by Congress, churches could apply for assistance to help cover payrolls similar to small businesses. But the Congressional democrats inserted requirements that required churches that received this aid to comply with federal hiring practices for staff that are incompatible with the Christian faith; again, the Leftist agenda was being broadly institutionalized. 

Beyond the smoldering rubble of our once great cities, we have witnessed the same attempted destruction of our legal system. State lawyers now attempt hostile prosecutions against people for defending themselves and their homes from being burned and looted by the bands of terrorists, as has happened in St. Louis. These activist lawyers are trying to turn the rule of law upside down.

At the same time, we have witnessed the Supreme Court effectively end any First Amendment protections against state interference in religion once with their 5-4 decision in July, 2020 which ruled to allow Nevada businesses to be open and churches to be forcibly closed. Justice Gorsuch stated in his minority dissent, “… with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges … But there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel …”

Effectively any agent of government can today dictate how your Christian faith is to be practiced – or not practiced – by individuals and churches in the United States. Sorry Christians, it has been declared that there is no higher authority than the state now. The rights that were once inalienable have entirely evaporated. Attempts at restoring them now will prove to be a long, uphill battle – power gives up nothing without a demand.

On the heels of the Supreme Court decision, the media doubled down in its attack on “white Christians.” In an article published on July 27 by NBC News online, Robert P. Jones concludes that, “While most white Christians think of themselves as people who hold warm feelings toward African Americans, holding racist views is nonetheless positively and independently associated with white Christian identity.” This of course is totally unprovable if not patently false altogether.

But let’s not let the facts get in the way of the truth – the Leftist media is continuing to build a “paper case” that supports some future action against the group they have singled out and targeted, in this case, “white Christians.” No amount of honest debate or discussion on this issue would satisfy Mr. Jones to prove otherwise. He has conveniently crafted his own absurd “racism index” by which he measures the “degree of racism” present in his targeted group of “white Christians” based upon how they answered fifteen questions on his survey. How in the world did we get to this place where the practice of the Christian Faith is nearly eradicated in America in less than twelve months, and as American citizens, we simply accept it?

Let’s back up a few decades, shall we? Today it’s the virus that we are told is the grave threat. Whatever happened to “global warming” being the greatest threat to mankind? I find it quite telling that the same otherwise godless liberals who have a difficult time accepting the God of Creation, the Bible, Noah, Moses and Jesus Christ Himself, could somehow willingly thrust themselves into the false belief system of “global warming.” The origin of this transformation goes back to the 1960’s. An example of the liberal mindset is discovered in a 1967 essay written by Lynn White, Jr., then a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles: 

“What did Christianity tell people about their relations with the environment? … Christianity, in absolute contrast to ancient paganism and Asia’s religions … insisted that it is God’s will that man exploit nature for his proper ends. At the level of the common people this worked out in an interesting way. In Antiquity every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit … Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or dammed a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation, and to keep it placated. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.”

Mr. White concludes his essay with this chilling statement:

“Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny. The profoundly religious, but heretical, sense of the primitive Franciscans for the spiritual autonomy of all parts of nature may point a direction. I propose Francis as a patron saint for ecologists.”

And so it was that Liberals received their marching orders: Christianity must be radically altered in order to serve their purpose.

Why now? Because there is money and power to be had. The “fight against global warming” or “climate change” is never clearly defined, can never be affected no matter how much effort or money is spent, and can never end. This is because at its base, the movement today is not about saving trees, but rather it is politically motivated. With such a structure in place, they can and will exact untold wealth from the people for all time to come, and claim forever that they need more.

We are allowing the media, our schools, the government, and our churches to indoctrinate an entire generation of people with a newly packaged ancient paganism. They become people who will voluntarily sacrifice money, time and other resources to tax themselves and others into poverty in order to fight an imaginary sinister spook of “global warming” and who, out of their ignorance, will easily surrender the rule of law and our nation’s sovereignty to any President or party who asks – all in the deception of “saving the planet.”

Why are public school students not taught to apply the scientific method when it comes to global warming and “environmentalism?” The answer is that the modern strain of “environmentalism” is simply cleverly re-bundled socialism, as the former National Columnist the late Dr. Charles Krauthammer explained in 2009:

“Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment.”

Dr. Krauthammer was right, of course. But while these socialist malcontents refuse to have a sincere debate regarding the environment based upon science instead of consensus, they now move forward to not only silence, but to punish anyone who disagrees with their new environmentalist religion. Ladies and gentlemen, the Unholy Altar of the Environment is now open for business.

Of course, both the object and result of all of this misguided political fantasy is a distracted and derailed church. A church that never was is now focused on “the environment” instead of Christ. A church that wastes valuable resources and time to engage in political agendas instead of doing the actual work of teaching the Gospels and New Testament. Every second spent indoctrinating people and their children with this false religion is time taken away from learning God’s truth. 

In 2019, the course of this climate religion began to be galvanized with the disturbing introduction of actual climate change religious rituals. NBC opened a new website allowing people to post their anonymous “Climate Confessions,” directing their followers this way:

“Even those who care deeply about the planet’s future can slip up now and then. Tell us: Where do you fall short in preventing climate change? Do you blast the A/C? Throw out half your lunch? Grill a steak every week? Share your anonymous confession with NBC News.”

This sick and twisted religion of the Left sets its own standards of what constitutes “falling short in preventing climate change.” The depths of this depravity is difficult even for me to comprehend. If that were not enough, in September 2019, the liberal “Union Theological Seminary” in NY held a service where congregants were encouraged to “confess” environmental sins to house plants in a church setting.

“There’s been much discussion online about a Union chapel this week, in which the Union community was asked to engage with the plants, soil, rocks, birds, trees in our lives: confessing harm, hope, love, gratitude. The chapel was held as part of Professor Claudio Carvalhaes’ class:

‘Extractivism: A Ritual/Liturgical Response,’ in which he and students develop liturgical responses to our climate crisis. It was a beautiful, moving ritual … This is just one expression of worship here at Union. Union Theological Seminary is grounded in the Christian tradition, and at the same time deeply committed to inter-religious engagement.”

A “Christian Tradition?” That’s impossibly false. Exactly what traditions are they referring to? Their twitter post was even more disturbing:

“We’ve had many questions about yesterday’s chapel, conducted as part of @ccarvalhaes’ class, ‘Extractivism: A Ritual/Liturgical Response.’ In worship, our community confessed the harm we’ve done to plants, speaking directly in repentance. This is a beautiful ritual.”

Not to be outdone by these efforts and perhaps in coordination with them, Pope Francis publicly supported this agenda in late 2019, throwing the weight of the Roman Catholic Church behind it with this statement on 15 November: 

“We must introduce – we are thinking about it – in the Catechism of the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, the ecological sin against the common home, because it is a duty …”

In summary, in an extremely short span of time, this paganism of climate change has:

1. Established its own authority above both men and God.
2. Established standards for determining what “sin” is as defined by the religion (political elites).
3. Created a default expectation that believers are guilty of said sin.
4. Developed a means for confession and judgement of said sins.
5. Provided a new false “Christian-style” ritual as a means for “repentance” of these newly established, imaginary sins.

I am left only to ponder what happens to someone who is an “unrepentant climate sinner?” My guess is that they are banished to the Republican National Convention during a Presidential election year or something. What exactly is the climate religion’s version of “hell?” We may soon find out and I will guarantee that we will not like it.

A main goal of this whole crowd is to attract, deceive, and control the gullible while silencing any detractors; not to listen to opposition or negotiate in any way. At its core, it is a dangerous totalitarian regime. Merely calling personal climate violations “sins” isn’t hardly enough. In a letter addressed to Barack Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren dated September 1, 2015, twenty academics and “climate operatives” (I won’t call them scientists) asked the Obama Administration to commence with federal investigations for organizations and other private groups of Americans that disagree with their position on man-made global warming. It was an attempt to punish and silence opposition outside the legal bounds of the rule of law.

“We appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress. One additional tool – recently proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change …”

“We strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse’s call for a RICO investigation … If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth’s climate, before even more lasting damage is done.”

The modern socialist now wishes to use American laws designed to prosecute mafia gangsters to persecute any who hold opposing views and would stand in the way of their ultimate goals of consolidating their power and levying higher taxation of the people – and this is really all of it is about. 

It is ironic that while socialists view so-called “climate deniers” (their new fabricated label for anyone who disagrees with them) as either uneducated morons or, in this case, gangsters who seek to conceal the “truth” about climate change to the public, it is in fact the socialists themselves who are in denial regarding the now obvious scientific facts regarding climate change. They seek only to put their “heretics” away in the tower. 

While humans as a species have no place in the ultimate Liberal Utopian world, it’s important for us to remember that humans are not some kind of invasive aliens. We are as much a part of the natural world as any other plant or creature that populates it. Whether one is a Christian or not, keeping in mind our own limited role in nature forces us to recognize that our Creator is infinitely greater than us. Nature and its processes serve to recall for us of our commonality with the natural world and makes clear our own mortality – something about which Christianity constantly reminds us.

In contrast, modern liberalism teaches that the only connection we have with nature is to believe in a false paganism, a doctrine that Americans alone are committing sins against the planet, and that we are solely responsible for “destroying” it. We can absolve ourselves and atone for our environmental sins by confessing them, repenting, and paying carbon taxes, buying a Prius, and using mercury-laced lightbulbs, and LED’s that end up in the landfill.

In the liberal’s world, humankind is some sort of otherworldly alien invader, not intelligent beings created in the image of God and formed with a purpose as taught by Christianity and other faiths. We must not be permitted to possess rights that may interfere with their belief system. In the end, all they really want is our money and our Liberty, and for this reason, they will only become more aggressive and violent as did their 20th Century political ancestors.

A New Leftist Denomination

The church of the Leftists even has denominations of its own. If you are one who is not interested in worshipping the plants and confessing your environmental sins, their god of science offers you another path to follow.

The Church of Corona 

Out of all this was born a new Leftist church denomination of their father god, Science, who begat the Virus. We might call this new denomination The Church of Corona. As with the global warming crowd of plant worshippers, the basis of the Corona Denomination is the same god, Science and scientific studies. Their followers share the same basic ideology and are instructed to repeat their creed, “trust the science” or to confess, “I believe science.” 

Followers in the Corona Denomination, however, are commanded to bow before their lord, the Virus, for the Virus is also a god, who is omnipresent, omnipotent, invisible, and mysterious. Their god, Virus, demands that specific rituals be publicly and universally followed. These practices include constant hand-washing, wearing of useless masks, face coverings, and other obstructive gear while staying 6′ apart. Adherents to the faith must avoid Christian churches and the small businesses often run by people with more independent mindsets.

Their god, Virus. demands blind obedience to follow every new and various dictate of whatever their master god Science commands; shutdowns of certain places that anger the god of Science, and likely a universal commandment for all to be vaccinated with or without their consent with some manner of synthetic poison soon.

While Christ is unquestionably the God of Love, their god, Virus, operates entirely by instilling fear with the constant threat of sickness and death, and he does demand sacrifices. Even though 99.96% of the population survives the infection inflicted by Virus, people who are “exposed” must submit to a testing of their faith, I mean testing of the Virus. Their lives, movements, and associations will thereafter be tracked. Their freedom of movement may be restricted, and they may be separated from their means of sustenance (employment) as a service of self-sacrifice to the god.

If one is found to have the antibodies present it means that Virus has chosen them and, they are required to follow a careful regimen of monastic isolation for a ritual of fourteen days. Any believer, who is ultimately sacrificed to the Virus and dies, instantly becomes a martyr of the faith. If an unbeliever is killed by Virus, it is clearly a punishment for his sins against Science.

Of course the god Virus can never be completely appeased, even with the required sacrifices. He is always mysterious and can never be completely understood, even by his creators in the lab. Our knowledge of this god will continue to evolve as their prophets and priests tap into the “new secret knowledge” of research to reveal “the sacred mysteries”. Tomorrow’s understanding will change based on “new revelations.” 

The Organization of the Corona Denomination

This new denomination has its own holy fathers, saints, and monks who are in fact the scientists and researchers who both created the god Virus in the lab and are working on creating the vaccine. They also bring us the words of instruction on how to behave. 

The three church Sees of this denomination are located at the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control. The Coronites’ bishopric and priesthood include such figures as Dr. Anthony Fauci as their Pope, Bill Gates as one of their bishops, joined by many others. The Coronites have their evangelists which are the media, researchers, politicians, and many of the health care workers.

Followers are required to learn their teachings and follow their words closely. The holy scriptures of the Corona Denomination are the words of Doctor Fauci himself, the ever-expanding CDC guidelines and all the government health mandates. Anyone who dares to question these scriptures is a heretic who is to be publicly shamed, have his or her life “canceled” by various illicit means, or violently attacked on the street by roving mobs of lawless Marxist enforcers, who are not necessarily part of the Corona faith, but are willing to execute enforcement for the denomination none the less.

In all truth, the Church of Corona described here is actually a combination of gnostic, scientism, iconoclast, and barlaamite. Its features are being embraced by many formerly Christian denominations across the globe in substitution for their prior faith in Christ.

We are left to ponder: what is to become of the future of the Christian faith that is now being attacked by the cultural Leftists? It turns out that the enemies of the Christian faith have a few new ideas of their own in mind to replace it.

Source: Dissident Mama – The American pandemic

“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself,
though it may be at another time and in another form.”
— Jefferson Davis
1st Lt. Col. US Army, US Congressman, US Secretary of War, US Senator, President of the Confederate States of America

A week ago today, the US Senate passed the National Defense Appropriations Act for 2021, which contained a provision that will automatically strip Confederate names from military bases. There are 10 such Army and National Guard installations spread across six states of the Southland.

Out of 23 Southern senators who voted (Lindsay Graham was conspicuously absent), 18 voted for the legislation, including my two scalawag US senators, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr. Only 5 senators representing the South voted “nay,” although for most of them that had nothing to do with a principled defense of Dixie.

Rand Paul was one “resistor,” who many within the Southern-without-apology movement are lauding. But let us not forget what the senator “from Kentucky” said in 2015 when defending Republican governor of SC Nimrata “Nikki” Haley‘s removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from Capitol grounds:

“It’s a symbolism of slavery. And now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man, and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum,” the Pennsylvania-born Paul declared, referencing Dylann Roof.

Canadian-born senator Ted Cruz was another part of this “rebel” quintet. Let us not forget what the senator “from Texas” tweeted in 2019 when slamming TN governor for supporting a day to honor Nathan Bedford Forrest:

“This is WRONG … Forrest was a Confederate general & a delegate to the 1868 Democratic Convention. He was also a slave trader & the 1st Grand Wizard of the KKK.”

By feeding into the uneducated anti-Dixie hate, even Southern Republicans are no friend to my people. Hell, it was 6 Texas Republican congressmen who broke ranks to vote with Democrats to remove statues of Confederates from the US Capitol. We should honor “Americans who worked to … preserve the Republic,” said Texas rep Michael Burgess, a Minnesota native.

And it was a GOP-dominated legislature in Mississippi that changed the state’s flag, which featured an “offensive” Battle Flag. “We’re not moving further away from our Founding Fathers’ visions. We’re moving closer to them. We’re not destroying our heritage; we’re fulfilling it,” said the Mississippi House Speaker, who sounds not a bit different than Nancy Pelosi.

“There’s no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of men of the Confederacy in any place of honor across our country,” said San Fran Nan in her recent floor speech cheering on the NDAA. “The men for whom these [military] bases were named are not heroes.”

They are “white supremacists … [and] traitors who took up arms against America and killed American soldiers in defense of slavery.” This narrative is the same as Elizabeth Warren, the legacy-less poser who proposed the Confederate cleanse.

“For the Trump White House to threaten vetoing a pay raise for our troops over this is downright despicable,” screeched Democrat Tammy Duckworth regarding the NDAA. Fortunately for her and the members of the US Armed Services Committee, she’ll get her cash and her forever-wars since “the Republican-controlled Senate backed the bill by 84 to 13, more than the two-thirds majority needed in the 100-member chamber to override a veto.”

I mean, this puritanical-progressive madness wouldn’t have even gotten out of this GOP-controlled committee if “conservatives” had struck down the measure from the get-go. In typical Benedict Arnold fashion, all but two Republicans supported the sinister stipulation.

To give credit where credit is due, Trump did try to resist the onslaught and the increasing GOP capitulation, promising for months to veto the $741 billion defense bill if it included removing Confederate base names. “These monumental and very powerful bases have become part of a great American heritage, and a history of winning, victory, and freedom,” the president tweeted.

“We won two world wars … that were vicious and horrible, and we won them out of Fort Bragg, we won out of all of these forts that now they want to throw those names away.” Trump is right.

But the name purge that has most raised my ire is Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill, named after my highest-ranking Confederate ancestor. In the summer of 1941, the Army training facility was established “pursuant to War Department General Order No. 5,” and by the following year, it served as “the staging area for the headquarters and corps troops of Major General George S. Patton’s Task Force A” which was instrumental in Operation Torch.

And let us not forget that “Ol’ Blood and Guts” was greatly influenced by Confederate Col. John S. Mosby, who was a friend of the Patton family. “The Gray Ghost,” as Mosby was known for expertly besieging the Yankees in guerrilla attacks and then fading into the countryside, would often play war games with the future WWII icon.

In WWII, “the first flag Marines raised upon taking the [Okinawa] headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army was the Confederate one. It had been carried into battle in the helmet of a captain from South Carolina.”

Another WWII hero, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, created a Dixie Division of the Army, which proudly displayed the Battle Flag as part of its heritage. In fact, it was Ike who, as part of the Civil War Centennial Commission, played such a vital role in memorializing the valor of the Southern soldier, especially Robert E. Lee.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all,” opined Dishonest Abe in his second inaugural address. America did have a short-lived reconciliation era in part of the 20th century, but that was a blip in history.

“This is not a political moment to me but a solemn occasion to lead our Mississippi family to come together, to be reconciled and to move on,” prevaricated Republican Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi, a native of the Magnolia State and a supposed Trump ally, at a ceremony celebrating his state’s succumbing to the social-justice struggle session. Sickening.

After invasion, total war, nearly one million lives lost, theft (both economic and spiritual), purposeful widows and fatherless children, the misery that was Reconstruction, and the current cultural genocide, the nation-statists now want more? As Andrew Lytle surmised, “This is like the thief who robs a house the second time and complains that the owners do not eat with silver.”

My ancestor A.P. Hill was murdered by federal troops. You know that libertarian catchphrase, “Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff”? Well, that happened to my kith and kin back then, and it sure is happening right now. Where are my apologies?

Even with the Armed Forces’ push to diversify, including their fast track to citizenship for immigrants (read: demographic replacement), “today’s Army is disproportionately dependent upon the South for volunteers,” with 44% of the military still hailing from Dixie.

“We have been soldiers for 2,000 years,” explained former US senator and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb of his Southern, Scotch-Irish heritage. “The military virtues have been passed down at the dinner table.”

The social engineers at the Pentagon claim their mission is to unify a rainbow of peoples through the singular goal of “preserving freedom,” but we wide-awake Southerners know that the effeminized military is only satiated when it tears down real men. Southerners, it’s time to stop bearing the burden and getting nothing in return. It’s not like the military even protects our own borders. If only (read: satire).

US Army Gen. Mark Milley called the Confederacy an “act of treason.” Both the Navy and Marines have banned “all depictions” of the Battle flag on its military bases. This includes “bumper stickers, clothing and posters.”

David Petraeus, former U.S. Army general and CIA director, wrote an article urging for anti-Confederate conformity with such zeal that he called for renaming Fort Jackson, which he mistakenly thought honors Stonewall, not Andrew Jackson. Historical genius he is not.

Thankfully, some military brass have a clue. “The myth of Johnny Reb as the greatest infantryman happens to be true,” stated Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters. “Not only the courage and combat skill, but the sheer endurance of the Confederate foot soldier may have been equaled in a few other armies over the millennia … the physical toughness, fighting ability and raw determination of those men remains astonishing. The Confederate battle flag is a symbol of bravery, not slavery.”

If you think anti-Southern bigotry isn’t a big deal, just stop and consider US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Why would this career deep-stater resign and make it his main mission in life to expunge Confederate history from the military? Hint: it has absolutely nothing to do with Southern chattel slavery, but everything to do with your slavery, right here, right now.

Malign the the archetype as “oppressor,” and every “oppression” can be made whole through his eradication. Since it is white male Christian society that cultural Marxism aims to destroy, and since most white Christian males live in the South, and since they happen to be on average the most conservative voting demographic in the US, it’s a synergistic scheme of a sinister magnitude.

“Our Citadel, our inheritance and culture, our very identity and being as a people representing 2,000 years of Western Christian heritage,” as Boyd Cathey describes it, already puts us in the cross hairs of globalists. Then couple that with the Confederacy’s resistance to “the Leviathan and managerial ‘big government’” and the Southern man’s “othering,” and there you have the perfect linchpin.

His castigation or even extinction becomes leverage for every leftist cause, from BLM to the welfare-warfare state. And it’s all based on “the war was about slavery” mythos. It’s all a dirty damn lie.

“White supremacy … [and] ideological-driven racism” are immersed in the military, claimed a military survey. “Overall, troops who responded to the poll cited white nationalists as a greater national security threat than both domestic terrorism with a connection to Islam, as well as immigration.”

And this retarded revelation (as in retarding reality) was reported in The Military Times in February, months before the Floyd flimflam. Of course, the article’s feature photo is an image from Charlottesville, giving legs to what I call “archetype derangement syndrome.” Mission accomplished!

“Manifested ignorance and ideological falsehoods” are the tools used in the information war against the Southern tradition. And the agitprop are supported by Lincoln cultists like Victor Davis Hanson, Glenn Beck, Brian Kilmeade, Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, and even Tucker Carlson. It’s about “demonizing the South to purify the nation,” allege these conservative cowards.

Perhaps these Republican reprobates think virtue signals will give them a pass with the cultural Marxists, or maybe they’re loyal opposition. Or it might just be party politics.

“Republicans won the civil war. That’s our history,” tweeted former Navy SEAL and GOP congressman Dan Crenshaw, who is supposed to represent Texas’ 2nd district and whose traitorous ways I’ve written about before. “Democrats have a long list of segregationists & KKK members. That’s their history. I’m glad to help them confront that racist past.”

“Conservative” Mark Levin and the motley malcontents over at PragerU also push the tedious “Dems the real racists!” narrative. Whatever are their reasons, it’s a big con that undergirds the therapeutic state and the caste system under which Southern folks live.

Raze Southern symbols? Well, that’s just fine. But burn a BLM sign? Lawd, that’s a hate crime! This lunacy is not only a cultural genocide built upon reeducation, but this attack against Southern heritage has been and still is a literal genocide. This isn’t a culture war; it’s an existential war!

This isn’t politics. It’s personal. To me, this isn’t really about the bases themselves. Honestly, I’m no fan of the U.S. military and its war-mongering ways.

Let’s face it, those installations are in no way representative of the Confederate principles of decentralization, human-scale governance, and self-determination, not self-loathing. Rather, they embody the “Yankee empire” which is “aggressive abroad and despotic at home,” as Gen. Lee so aptly prophesied. (The Republicans who didn’t support the NDAA due to its Big Tech “unconditional immunity” scheme and the halting of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Germany should take note.)

A smug Military.com writer joked about Sherman’s total-war annihilation of the South, insulted my ancestor’s ailing health, and called honoring Confederate veterans a type of “participation trophy” in an article offering up “10 much better names.” His snarky-to-serious suggestions for base rebranding ranged from NFL wide receivers and unknown abolitionists, to pirates and a bevy of predictable black “firsts.”

Truly, the empire doesn’t deserve Southern heroes. Replace ’em with “humanitarian” warriors, such as Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, or Madeline “500,000 dead Iraqi children was worth it” Albright, or what about Base Black Panther or Camp Cardi B, or Camp Netflix or Fort OnlyFans? I’ve got it: Fort Floyd. I mean, nothing would be more fitting than commemorating for the ages Murica’s fentanyl-addicted, amateur-porn saint.

Let’s make bashing the South a losing GOP strategy. Like my advice to cops, let’s “walk away.” Let’s personally secede, from the military-industrial complex and from the GOP at the federal level, and take over the party at local and state levels, or both parties. Let’s take down Old Glory, and raise up our Battle Flags because the fight is the same as it ever was. And if you Republicans don’t want us, we sure as hell don’t want or need you.

Be sure to keep an eye out my forthcoming part-personal/part-history essay about A.P. Hill.

Source: Dissident Mama – You don’t want us? We don’t want you!

So here I go again, debating Orthodox monks. Nuts, right? You’d think I’d learn after the exhausting undertaking of challenging Hieromonk Gabriel of Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia.

Actually, that turned out to be quite the fruitful rhetorical effort. The essay garnered some much-needed dialog, got me a shout-out and a share from “verbal swordplay” veteran Ilana Mercer, and might even be translated into Russian per the inspiration of a friend.

But honestly, there’s really nothing more important than resisting the fashions of globalism, especially when it comes to Church matters. So in that vein, I am once again taking on a priest, and this time, and an even more beloved and influential one, Abbot Tryphon of All-Merciful Savior Monastery in Vashon Island, Washington.

The West coast monk first triggered my anti-leftist senses in early October when he wrote “The Homosexual Person.” Here was my comment to his social-justice essay which basically lays the responsibility of LBGT at the feet of a “judgmental” society that “fosters hatred and rejection,” not at the feet of individual sinners.

But it wasn’t until the monk’s recent essay about the perils of “global warming” that I decided to put forth my own Dissident Mama commentary. I mean, why on earth is a person who purports to be against globalism actively calling for globalist interventions to largely government-created problems?

So, I shared his post on my blogger Facebook page and wrote, “The only religion Abbot Tryphon is pushing here with his ‘climate change’ nonsense is anti-human globalism. All hail the solar panel and the carbon tax! Uh, no thanks, Father.”

The ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) monk actually replied to my post via his secular name, and then he and I then had a small, but telling exchange.

You can see that the priest sometimes operates by using straw-man fallacies. Just like he casually undergirds the “systemic racism” myth by implying that “inequality” is ultimately the fault of those on the political right (thus, we cannot really blame the the covetous, greedy, power-hungry BLM terrorists and their occult ideology), or when he sets forth the narrative that it’s conservatives who cause LGBT to needlessly suffer, Abbot Tryphon misses the mark pinpointing both the cause and cure of our mass consumerism and gluttony problems.

Although he gives a hat tip to their spiritual aspects, Abbot Tryphon either doesn’t get or doesn’t want to admit that our purposefully materialist society is the creation of centralized government. It’s the therapeutic-managerial state, along with their apparatchiks in the borg (legacy media, academia, banking, Silicon Valley, and corporate Murica), that is enriched and empowered by elevating trash and tearing down tradition.

Therefore, the abbot’s remedy to double-down on the cabal that spawned our disposable, dead culture in the first place is lunacy and must be called out. This is why he and his eco-followers claim that people who don’t agree with their obvious political statements are Christians whose faith is “problematic.” This pretense to silence dissent is not free-thinking nor is it nice. It’s dishonest.

Abbot Tryphon, who was physically attacked by a crazed lefty back in April 2019 and at a gas station of all places, says the “evidence is clear” and that the “vast majority of scientists” believe anthropogenic global warming is fact and is caused specifically by “overuse of fossil fuels.” Any intellectually honest person knows that there absolutely is a scientific debate to be had since there is no consensus. Just check out Harris-Mann Climatology and Real Climate Science, or listen to Dr. Judith Curry‘s story and review her and her colleagues’ work for yourself.

I also find it odd that the monk’s bold pronouncements are transmitted via a computer, which is made of heavy metals and minerals usually mined in Third World countries. Its manufacturing process requires toxic chemicals and fossil fuels, emits hazardous gases, and consumes large amounts of water. Green might be deemed “sustainable,” but that doesn’t mean it actually is, nor is it reliable. Scientism doesn’t trump reality.

And that brings me to the ethical implications of Abbot Tryphon’s statement. I touched on this in some of my above response to him, that advocating for governments to “act NOW” against the “‘abundance and prosperity’ theologies” will have long-lasting and deadly implications for the masses, hitting especially hard the poor. Alex Epstein lays out the human exploitation and horrifying “unseen hopes” innate in a global green movement, so I do urge everyone to read “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.”

Enacting Abbot Tryphon’s environmental prescriptions without considering the catastrophic consequences of such radical regulatory changes would require the embrace of immediacy – a hallmark of the very drive-through consumerism he critiques. Instant gratification too is an “addiction” that feeds into the materialist mindset. Think Willy Wonka’s Veruca Salt: “Don’t care how, I want it now!” High-time preference is truly one of America’s falsest of gods.

Pragmatically, we lay people live out here in the secular world and drive to work. Who do you think builds your churches and supports your cloistered monasteries? We do. Who do you think is being fruitful and multiplying and bringing up children in the faith to sustain and grow the Church? We do, and we have to drive to the store for food and clothing, and sometimes to the woods for nature’s solitude. We must also drive to church, which for many of us includes long-distance trips several times a week or more, depending on the Liturgical calendar.

The ROCOR mission I attend is an hour from my home. Even before Wu-flu mania, my family and I had to trek 40 minutes to get to the only English-speaking parish in our area. If you limit my access to fossil fuels, you not only control things like my thermostat and my travel, you control if and when we receive the Eucharist. If you limit carbon, you limit my ability to provide for and feed my family, both food-wise and spiritually. You limit life and fellowship.

If you limit my children’s animal-based protein, you endanger their physical health, increase the likelihood of the further emasculation of straight men, embolden Big Ag and normalize the genetically modified garbage they push, threaten the livelihood of the small livestock farmer, and even increase the likelihood of cattle extinction … all of which fosters globalism.

This is why “Bureaucrats hate the quintessential American culture of family farms,” notes agrarian entrepreneur Josiah Cantrall. “Simply put, people who think for themselves, work hard, and don’t live off the government. Farming is part of our identity. It is our way of life, our heritage, our patriotism, and the foundation of our generational values. Farming is the essence of our loyalty to our families and our God – and there is nothing more sacred than that. That’s why unelected liberal elites don’t want farm kids working on farms.”

Big government delights in the dependent, unhealthy, identity-less “global citizen” who unquestionably obeys the collective. This is why we don’t need more reliance on the environment-wrecking, family-smashing, soul-crushing Leviathan, but waaaaaaay less.

I’m no materialist. In fact, I see industrial-capitalism as an evil imposition of Yankee domination, but I’m also no socialist. I’m a proponent of getting back to a more localist, distributist, agrarian way of living, but without all the starvation and poverty that environmental emotivism would produce. I think if Abbot Tryphon truly opened his mind, he would see that we share many views of what Christian stewardship means in practice on a personal level. I think he’d also benefit immensely from reading “I’ll Take My Stand.”

What we need to break the consumerist, rationalist chains inherent in globalism is more subsidiarity, more regional sovereignty, more political autonomy, more personal responsibility, and yes, a lot more repentance. Centralized mass democracy is our sickness, not fossil fuels.

Fr. Seraphim Rose forewarns us of the manipulation of globalism veiled as “feel good” spirituality in his 1975 book “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.” You can see hints of it today when Kamala Harris blathers on about “equity” or Tom Hanks addresses college grads as the “chosen ones.”

In modern puritanical-progressive parlance, it’s known as the Great Reset, which is being called a “conspiracy theory” by the New York Times, even though the Gray Lady featured an article about the devilish design in April. More recently, Time Magazine dedicated an issue to it. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, excitedly announced her participation in the “Great Reset Dialogue.” And Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau touted covid as an opportunity to “accelerate” the “reset.”

Check out the aptly named book “COVID-19: The Great Reset” by Klaus Schwab, who is World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and executive chairman. Or just listen to Schwab in his own sinister words.

Or watch WEF’s dystopian video on how not “great” the reset will actually be.

And what is the prime vehicle for moving globalism down the wide path? Why, protecting the environment, of course. Sustainable development. Smart growth. Smashing both food sovereignty and national sovereignty. And ironfisted control of both population and movement. How can one flee the tyranny if his car is a relic, gasoline is “history,” and the entire planet is participating in what UN assistant secretary general Robert Muller predicted in 1995 would become the “first global, cosmic, and universal civilization”? Eco-hysteria is part of the package deal.

“World leaders’ ‘Great Reset’ plan for global economy is the Green New Deal on steroids,” explains Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute. This type of centralized domination by the “Davos Man” (as Ben Sixsmith of The Spectator calls these new-age leaders) will establish what I call neo-Marxism.

They call it “stakeholder capitalism,” but it’s really universal socialism – an earth-swallowing corporate feudalism with banking elites and technocratic social engineers at the top, and the rest of us “happy,” atomized underlings below. But what exactly is supposed to fulfill the statist serfs in this novel, yet anciently evil paradigm?

Is it God? Nope, Christianity is a superstition of backwoods yahoos. Is it family? Nope, that’s for rubes; we’ve got the global village. Is it pride in your work? Nope, you’ve got your UBI, instead of thata antiquated notions o f work ethic. Is it your home? Nope, better get cozy in your government-mandated coffin apartment since private property has been abolished.

Is it living off the land? Nope, enjoy your pre-packaged Impossible Burger. Is it culture? Nope, “Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete,” as US Deputy Secretary of State and a chief architect of the American-led Balkans invasion Strobe Talbott candidly admitted in 1992. Turns out, all this erasing of history is by design. Who da thunk?

Is it simple human interaction? Nope, because “driving to a distant family gathering for the weekend’” will become less acceptable since “the WhatsApp family group is not as fun but … it’s safer, cheaper and greener,” Schwab wrote in his terrifying tome. Upright global citizens gotta build up their carbon credits to get social credits, right?

“Buying a sex doll would be safer, cheaper, and greener than getting married,” notes Sixsmith. “That doesn’t mean it is a good idea.” None of this is a good idea for flourishing – human, environmental, or otherwise.

The dirty little secret is that reset success will be gauged specifically by an increase in goods and services. This mass materialism will distract us from our fake “unity in blankness,” as Fr. Seraphim Rose described the new-age deception. Thus, the very consumerism that Abbot Tryphon bemoans will become the your communion, sustainability and safety directives will be your liturgy, and the Davos Man will be your high priest. In CEOs we trust.

It’ll be “scientific world humanism, global in extent” as evolutionary biologist and eugenicist Julian Huxley (and brother to “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley) called the goals in UNESCO’s 1946 reset statement. In other words, totalitarian nihilism wrapped in recycled packaging. It’ll be “environmentally friendly” and it’s been the plan for a long time.

And it’s been tried before. Just ask the New Soviet Man, who was “completely transformed, free of all Russia’s supposed backwardness and shaped and directed by the state’s leaders at the top.” The idea was to engineer a norm-breaking, pliable populace working toward the “selfless collective … irrespective of the country’s cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single Soviet people.” All other hierarchies, especially the one with our Lord and Savior on high, is to become a thing of the past.

Just as the Georgian monk Elder Gabriel Urgebadze, who doused a portrait of Vladimir Lenin with kerosene and set it ablaze in the Tbilisi center square, we Christians must too resist this spirit of the age and combat the rallying cries of the comrades in green, even when they happen to be our fellow Christians or clergy.

Abbot Tryphon says, “We don’t have time to sit around and debate this,” but I say there’s no better time to challenge du jour virtue-signaling before it becomes defacto dystopia. Veritas vincit.

Source: Dissident Mama – Resisting the spirit of the age