America Is (Not So) Slowly Turning Communist Red
Perhaps the most contemptible action of the Democrats, and there have been so many, is the desire to completely erase Trump and, by extension, his MAGA movement.
So now “more than 250 authors, editors, agents, professors and others in the American literary community signed an open letter this week opposing any publisher who signs book deals with President Donald Trump or members of his administration.” Such actions can only be described as emulating a dog gone mad. It is rabies of the mind and soul. Clearly, their politics supersede economics, and everything is upside-down in this madness.
That people involved with ideas and books would inveigh against the publishing of important thoughts is mind-boggling! Even more disturbing is the ease with which they lie. For the umpteenth time, Trump did not cage any children; Obama did, but why let the facts get in the way of left-wing censorship?
In addition, Texas Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro announced “that he would be introducing legislation that would prevent any federal buildings or property from ever being named after President Trump.”
In lockstep with tyrants, Castro displays the most hideous of instincts as he states, “President Trump incited an insurrection that damaged some of our nation’s most significant and sacred federal property. Donald Trump should never become a future generation’s confederate symbol.”
How ironic that his last name is Castro, mastermind of communist Cuba and purveyor of the horrors that Cubans have endured for the past 60 years. How stunning that he perverts history. How very 1984.
Then there is Ocasio-Cortez, who has decided that she and her allies will be the arbiters of what Americans will be able to access. “We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation. It’s one thing to have differing opinions, but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false. And so that’s something that we’re looking into.” This from a woman who in 2019 told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that she was less worried about making factual statements and more focused on prioritizing morality.
Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos called for conservative news alternatives OANN and Newsmax to be deplatformed, saying, “We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.”
Katie Couric, a former co-anchor of NBC’s Today show asks, “How are we going to … deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?”
Free speech on campus is long since gone. Thus, “while some campus radicals are avowedly Marxists, most are not[.] The view that prevails among today’s radicalized faculty members and students is not a hard-core Marxist formulation but a tissue of glib rationalizations about ‘privilege’ and ‘power.'” Yet this is standard leftist fare.
Moreover, Harvard students demand that the university revoke the degrees of Trump-supporters. What is lost on these students is the college arms — a shield with the Latin motto “Veritas” or Truth.
Echoes of Communist China, anyone?
Recently, the “Chinese Communist Party CCP) introduced new rules on what members can say in order to ‘boost internal democracy.'” A new revised rule book has been issued by the CCP that mandates that “cadres can make complaints about their superiors but are prohibited from airing them in public.” In addition, “[t]hey are also banned from expressing opinions that are ‘not consistent’ with the decisions of the central leadership.”
However, the new rules also made clear that the party, which has 92 million members, will not tolerate its own ranks expressing dissenting views in public.
‘A member of the party must not publicly express opinions that are inconsistent with decisions made by the central leadership,’ said Article 16 of the revised regulations on safeguarding the rights of party members.
Article 11 of the new rules stipulates that while party members are entitled to report misconduct by other members, including those who hold a higher rank, they must not disseminate such information at will and must not do so on the internet.
In an article published in People’s Daily, the party’s mouthpiece, in 2014, Wang Qishan, then the party’s top corruption buster and now vice-president, argued that joining the Communist Party means voluntarily giving up certain rights and freedoms.
In addition to running the government, party members also fill the top jobs in universities, scientific institutes, hospitals, the military and many private companies.
In 2019, “Joe Biden proclaimed that the Chinese Communists were ‘not bad folks,’ and the Delaware Democrat has never showed any knowledge of the mass atrocities scholars have chronicled” — e.g., genocide of Uighurs, Kazakhs.
In light of Biden’s attitudes and appointments, “Americans might wonder if entire ‘classes’ of people such as deplorables, Christians, and elderly people of pallor might be targeted for violence. For leftist Democrats, these are the equivalent of those mutant social growths that need to be uprooted if society is to progress in a socialist direction.”
Moreover, “[t]he Biden regime is following the familiar pattern of suppressing a conservative populist movement rising against its radical agenda by criminalizing it as a dangerous threat. But no previous Democrat suppression campaign, not even after the murder of a president, ever involved the scope, ruthlessness, and brutality of the one we are witnessing right now.”
Communism manifests “the most intransigent and intolerant moral absolutism.” Its tenets are seeping into America as people are being punished for speaking their minds and “whoever disagrees with the total inversion of good and evil is now relentlessly persecuted” (Madalozzo 179).
The choice is clear. There really is no middle ground, because communism wrapped up in Democrat platitudes takes no prisoners. Communism simply destroys whatever stands in its way.
Eileen can be reached at middlemarch18@gmail.com.
Image: Frank Schulenburg via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped).
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/america_is_not_so_slowly_turning_communist_red.html
Scriptures to help with recent societal changes
2Pe 3:3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Fascism is Back
Fascists are back in a very big way, and they are not who legacy media say they are. They are not who big tech says they are. They are not who the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their minions say they are. The CCP itself is fascist, not communist, and has been fascist since Deng Xiaoping. The distinction is important, and without that distinction, it is vastly more difficult to deal with the most dangerous threats to freedom here and overseas. Fascism is far more resilient than communism. It is the wedding of markets and totalitarian governance, an attractive prospect for many oligarchs in the US and all over the world. It is the “ism” that underlies globalism.
The US at the national level has been moving toward fascism steadily and deliberately. Democrats and Republicans in Washington endorse big state crony capitalism openly in some cases, and tacitly in others. The trend is accelerating right now due to Covid windfalls that hugely benefit many oligarchs. Today’s fascist oligarchs comprise a formidable array: the deep state of unaccountable bureaucrats, academe, the megalomaniacs of Silicon Valley, Davos elites, Hollywood, Wall Street, big banks, many of the largest corporations, legacy media, some state governors, professional sports, New World Order kleptocrats, some functionaries of both parties.
The oligarchs’ front men in legacy media are partisans. In the US, what on the surface appears to be two party governance is in fact one party, the big state party, with two branches: the pedal to the metal fascists and the drive 55 fascists, the latter renowned for their complicity in private but now exposed thanks to an American president. Their allies in academe have been and are doing everything they can to obscure the evidence, cloud the issues with misdirection and propagandize the young against Western liberalism.
Sadly, most of the people who suffered directly under fascism or who fought against fascist militarism in World War II are not with us anymore. Bulwarks against fascism in this country have weakened with the greatest generation now mostly gone. Recognizing this, the fascist oligarchs have accelerated into their end game. Emboldened by four years of vile obstruction against the first American president in thirty years to take them on, and shielded against consequences by their deep state facilitators, fascists in formerly American states are now showing their true colors behind the cover of Covid with threats against small businesses and churches familiar to those who have studied the black shirts. Nationally, the fascists are in full cry, censoring, cancelling, demonizing, de-platforming, and conspiring to ruin perceived threats to their hegemony.
In The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill reflected that World War II was one of the most avoidable catastrophes in world history. Time and time again those entrusted with Western governance decided against making a stand against fascism and in favor of what was hailed “peace in our time” then later described as appeasement. The butcher’s bill was enormous.
In that same volume Mr. Churchill observed,
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Thankfully, Americans are waking up to fascism and its oligarchs. It is late, the threat is right here, and there is a lot to do.
Walk away from the worst of Silicon Valley. Get rid of Gmail, Chrome, and as much of Google as you can, including YouTube. Nobody needs Facebook or Twitter. Ditto Netflix. Avoid investing in wokish behemoths. Avoid buying their products, or when you do, buy second hand and not from them as “refurbished”.
Check out Parler (whoops, too late) and Rumble. Read the Bongino Report, the Epoch Times and watch NTD. Watch American Thought Leaders, catch them on Rumble.
Amazon is not the only game in town. Almost everyone does online these days. You will discover that Amazon’s price is not always the lowest and their merchandise not always the best or even very good. Nobody needs Prime. If you order from Amazon, keep your orders as close to $25 as you can without going under. Wait for your orders to ship before ordering again. Think about it.
Patronize small business in your area and online.
Have you noticed that the oligarchs are for the most part insulated from the effects of their diktats, especially in this age of Covid hysteria? Do as I say, not as I do. Tucker Carlson nailed it during a recent Turning Point USA program; it is all about power for the oligarchs to control the rest of us.
Almost fifty years ago this notion inspired the publication of E F Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. It is time to dust that one off and take another look. There is good news. The oligarchs, especially those in academe, in governance, and even in technology, do not make anything we really need. They thrive at the top of Maslow’s pyramid. We can walk away from more than they think. Check this out
Insist that your representatives defend your rights and your freedom. If they do not, hold them accountable. Work to replace them. Apply this at all levels of government.
Nobody outside of professional sports needs professional sports.
Excepting the hard sciences, colleges are a waste of money. Look for cost effective alternatives that do not bury you in debt. Make the ghouls of wokish faculties and administrations get real jobs. That will be fun to watch.
Do not put up with dubious electoral integrity: likewise, Russiagate. Unaddressed they are the death of the republic and of the union.
Sadly, the list of formerly American states is growing. The usual suspects, California, Illinois, and New York have been joined by quite a few others, notably Oregon and Washington. Why notably? Those states and California have our only ports to the Pacific Ocean. That is a very big problem. By the way, do you suppose CCP fascists perceive the West Coast’s strategic significance? Check this out.
The big banks are a tough one. The banks are entrenched behind “too big to fail” and own increasingly large shares of American corporations. Deal with regional banks where you can. Check out block-chain based currencies, and block-chain based services in general. Look for ways to hold assets in forms that cannot be seized by fiat, overnight, electronically, “for the greater good.”
Support organizations who fight for your rights in the courts, such as The Institute for Justice.
Support organizations who fight against human trafficking and slavery, such as Operation Underground.
Support organizations who work to expose the hypocrisy and criminality of the oligarchs, such as Project Veritas and Judicial Watch.
Support organizations that work to inform and to educate everyone about American history and Western liberalism, such as Prager University, The Freedom Center, Classical Conversations, The Mises Institute, The Library of America, Hillsdale College, The Atlas Society.
Support organizations that find leaders within troubled communities and help them identify and develop potential in others within those communities, such as The Woodson Center and Liberty Hill Foundation.
Above all, fight. This is a fight Americans cannot afford to lose.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/fascism_is_back.html
What’s Next? Great Awakening or Great Reset?
January 18, 2021 By Brian C. Joondeph
Pick your favorite sports analogy. President Trump is at bat, bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, full count, bases loaded, down by three runs. Or he is at the poker table, across from the entire Washington DC ruling class, all the chips now on the table. Is he holding a royal flush or a pair of threes?
We will know in a few days how the game ends, as either the “great awakening” or the “great reset”. It’s a binary choice with one winner and one loser, no ties or extra innings. This will be one of the most consequential weeks in human history.
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Far more than a presidential election is at stake. The future direction of America is on the line, either continuing as a beacon of freedom and liberty, an inspiration and bulwark of stability for the entire world, or a real life “Hunger Games” with a small vindictive ruling class creating utopia for themselves and punishing or destroying all those who stand in their way.
In a week we will have our answer. While most of the country happily checks their social media feeds and watches TikTok videos, an epic battle is playing out in the nation’s capital, one that future historians, if they are allowed to discuss it, will describe as the turning point of western civilization.
On the one hand, we have been promised a great awakening, showing the people the crimes and corruption of the ruling class, as described by Trump before he was elected in 2016 in a little known but epic speech. Those claiming to be in the know or able to read the stitches on the fast ball, promised “The Storm” and “The Kraken”. Yet so far, it’s only a light breeze.
On the other hand, Washington, DC is locked down tighter than post 9/11, with checkpoints in and out of the city, almost like under martial law, all for a mostly virtual Biden inauguration. That doesn’t make sense.
Crimes against humanity were to be revealed so hideous that the guilty would not be able to walk down the street unmolested. Except they can and are. Those who should be held accountable instead conjured up another bogus impeachment, easily passed, kicking a good man and his entire movement in the ribs on the way out the door, all for their perverse vindictive pleasure.
The promised indictments and a reckoning for Spygate, Benghazi, Uranium One, Hillary Clinton’s emails, Biden Family grifting, election fraud, and a host of other banana republic type activity has been swept under the rug. These scandals have been buried by the media, not investigated by those charged with enforcing the law, ignoring “fidelity, bravery, integrity”, the oxymoronic motto of the FBI.
Rumored sealed indictments may next week head to the shredder along with those unfolded mail-in ballots, the circle for Joe Biden filled out perfectly absent any downstream votes. Every scandal will be buried and those who dare speak of them will be labeled as a conspiracy kook and banned from social media and perhaps life in general.
Republicans happily gave up their power. In Trump’s first two years they controlled both houses of Congress and accomplished little. Soon they will control nothing and be as irrelevant as the California GOP.
Senators like Ted Cruz can wag their silver tongues at social media oligarchs during virtual hearings, getting a few evening news sound bites but nothing more. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was so unintimidated by recent Congressional hearings that he is doubling down saying,
“We know we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration.”
Yes, it will. Depending on how this week plays out, the purge will only ramp up. Want to comment on this article? You can’t. At least you can read it, for now. How soon until conservative web sites like American Thinker go the way of Parler?
Welcome to one way this week may play out, the “Great Reset.” Is this some conspiracy theory or fact? Ask the World Economic Forum, which describes the Great Reset, “The future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons.” You can bet that under such a reset, the views of anyone to the right of AOC or Bernie will not be “the priorities of societies.”
In practical terms, this means eliminating the Electoral College, as House Democrats promise to do with their new Congressional majorities. Then New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles can pick the next president, making the hassle of late-night ballot dumps and fraudulent vote counts unnecessary. Biden also promises citizenship to 11 million illegals on day one, more Democrat voters, shifting Texas from red to blue.
The Green New Deal and Medicare-For-All are ready to be passed as quickly as impeachment and signed into law. A few new states and a stacked liberal Supreme Court will give the ruling class carte blanche with the First and Second Amendments, and anything else they desire. COVID lockdowns and restrictions are suddenly deemed unnecessary with a new president, having served their purpose of getting rid of the Orange Man.
Retribution is next. Aside from the social media purge, expect Trump supporters to be ostracized and ultimately cancelled, as Harvard petitioners want to do by revoking Trump supporters’ diplomas. Are reeducation camps and gulags next for those who dared support President Trump, as a suddenly-former PBS lawyer recently suggested?
This is more than a simple fork in the road, it’s truly “biblical,” as some have promised these days would be. The fork is between heaven and hell, not just for America but for the world. Dark days of tyranny or the light of freedom and liberty. Good versus evil.
Trump knows the stakes as he talked about this before and during his presidency. He knows what’s in store for his family, supporters, and all the good he did in four years, cancelled, and erased, relegated to media revision to the point that woke history books will place Trump in the same category as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
If he strikes out this week, that’s on him. After four years as commander in chief, the fact that none of the promised swamp draining happened is his fault. He knows how to be the boss. Was he compromised or was this all big but empty talk? Did he endure four years of constant ridicule and attack just to slink away at the end after a stolen election? We’ll see.
Declassifications are finally happening, but too little and too late to make any difference. Perhaps a year or two ago they would have been relevant, but now so what? The media won’t report it, and no one will investigate or punish the wrong doers. Forget the FBI, DOJ, or Congress, who see nothing wrong and want to move along. If a declassification falls in the forest but no one cares to investigate it, does it make a sound?
Who will be left to stop any of this? Certainly not elected Republicans who sat by while this all happened, pretending not to see it or else encouraging it. Is Trump holding a royal flush ready to play this week? Many think so but the game is almost over. I’m losing optimism but also hope Trump proves me wrong.
This week is it, the last pitch of the game, a home run or strike three. America and the world are either awakened or reset. Time to buckle up and pray as there will be no do over.
Brian C Joondeph, MD, is a physician and freelance writer. He is on sabbatical from social media.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/whats_next_great_awakening_or_great_reset.html
Coping with Crisis: Dealing with Hurt
https://youtu.be/UvI6uc6bpXE
SUMMARY OF FAIRLY RECENT EVENTS IN AMERICA PART II
ANY DAY NOW
America began to turn away from God in the 1960’s when any mention of God was taken out of the schools.
Schools and colleges were started by Christians, but were successful, then being taken over by the government.
According to Stephen McDowell at https://www.forerunner.com/mandate/X0056_Americas_Schools.html
The founders of the United States were very much aware of the relation of education and liberty. They knew that a people cannot be ignorant and free. Jefferson said it this way:
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Benjamin Franklin said that ignorance results in bondage:
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.
The founders of the United States believed that useful education — that which produced liberty – must have its foundation in Christianity.
According to https://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2016/05/curriculum-changes-of-sex-education-through-the-years/
The topic of sex education in school has always brought up heated debates since the early 1900’s. There has been much controversy over time on what to teach, who should teach, the morality of sex education in the classroom and the religions aspects and beliefs of the families that attend the school.
Throughout time we have seen a change in the way sex education is taught in pubic schools. The focus of the following is to shed light on the content shift in sex education classes to determine why the change occurred. How have the views of sex education in schools created a shift in the learning content from teaching about marriage and family life to pregnancy and STD prevention?
Around the 1950s and 1960s the focus of sex education was towards the marriage and family life style, the anatomy of the human bodies and the roles of family members. As we progress over time towards the 1990’s and today we can see that the focus of sex education has taken a shift in a different direction. In today’s public school system sex education classes now focus more on the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and contracting sexually transmitted diseases. (Finkel, M. L., & Finkel, S. 1985) We see the shift from marriage and family focus to a focus on the individual and their personal preventive health. Prior to the education curriculum of the 1980’s there was a deeper religious impact on the sex education curriculum in school systems in the United States. (Lamb, S. 2013)
Since all the laws of America are based on the Ten Commandments, there was great disagreement throughout the land when a government decision to remove them was made. In June of 2005, the following site: https://answersingenesis.org/culture/america/us-supreme-court-rules-on-ten-commandments-displays/ states:
“The Supreme Court justices ruled that each exhibit of the Ten Commandments demands scrutiny to determine whether it goes too far in promoting religion.
Today (June 27), the US Supreme Court ruled that the framed copies of the Ten Commandments hanging in two Kentucky courthouses violate the separation of church and state established in the First Amendment. (It also ruled that the 6-foot granite monument of the Ten Commandments could remain standing on the grounds of the Texas capitol, but not inside the building.)
Sending mixed signals in these highly anticipated cases, the Court said displays of the Ten Commandments-ironically like ones found in its own courtroom 1-are not “inherently unconstitutional.” But the justices ruled that each exhibit demands scrutiny to determine whether it goes too far in promoting religion 2 According to the high court, some displays inside courthouses are permissible if they are portrayed neutrally to honor the nation’s legal history.
However, practically the same day, they were completely banned as noted at this site: https://www.foxnews.com/story/supreme-court-bars-commandments-from-courthouses
“Supreme Court Bars Commandments From Courthouses” – June 28, 2005.
School prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance which contains the name “God”, have been extremely controversial issues for many years as this scripture seems to strongly proclaim: Eph 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
From a Christian perspective these principalities and powers are very evident in this tearing away from America the Godly principles upon which it was established. God creates and Satan destroys, just at 911 was example of God allowing Satan to remind America of whom is really in control.
This type of action was reinforced with the election of “back to law and order” Donald Trump, the only President of the United States who has fulfilled all his campaign promises. Amazing!!!!
The Pledge of Allegiance is one of the nation’s most honored secular symbols, viewed by many in the same light as the National Anthem. Written in 1892, it was later modified by Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 to include a reference to God. Many public schools featured the pledge as part of the school day throughout the mid-twentieth century.
Controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance has continued to this year of 2020 with additional incidences of use or non-use making headlines in newspapers or comments on television and cable networks of the Internet, all of which are governed by the “Prince of this World” as per biblical note. In addition wealthy sports figures are now bowing or “taking a knee” to protest their feelings of “racism” even though their fortunes are being made in the country they protest, dismissing many deaths and disability misery caused by others dying for their protection. It’s like “if I can’t see it, then it don’t exist”.
SUMMARY OF FAIRLY RECENT EVENTS IN AMERICA
ANY DAY NOW
On the date of September 11, 2001, America received a warning, referred to as a “harbinger” by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic Rabbi/Pastor of a large church just outside New York City, in Wayne, New Jersey
Jonathan Cahn caused a worldwide stir with the release of his explosive first book The Harbinger which became an instant New York Times best seller. He then wrote The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, The Paradigm, and The Oracle. He was named, along with Billy Graham and Keith Greene, as one of the top forty spiritual leaders of the last forty years.
Rabbi/Pastor Cahn has spoken on Capitol Hill, at the United Nations, and to millions of people around the world and has now just released his book, Harbinger II, which, of course, again became an instant best seller.
In his first book, Harbinger or let’s call it Harbinger I, Cahn details the amazing similarities between the Ahab and Jezebel of 1st Kings (Chapter 18 for Baal’s defeat by Elijah), and “slick Willie”, AKA President Clinton (“I never had sex with that woman”), plus being the first impeached president in the history of America) and his wife Hillary who stated “deep seated religious beliefs must be changed” speaking of the murder of the unborn, (called “Abortion”). (Note: Baal worship included the sacrifice of babies and children so the parents would have more “choices”, such as more money, more fun, easier life, and so on.)
The Clinton/Hillary leadership of baby killing, pedophilia, other murders, corruption, stealing, the “breaking” of all of the Ten Commandments, and further AntiGod actions occurring with the approval of the majority of Americans, resulted in 911 as a warning to America.
Historically this is further reinforced by the attack on Israel by terrorists on September 11 in Isaiah 9:11, however, the verses before and after are also true of America today – just substitute America for Israel/Jacob: Isa 9:8 The Lord has sent a message against Jacob; it will fall on Israel. 9 All the people will know it– Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria– who say with pride and arrogance of heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
11 But the LORD has strengthened Rezin’s foes against them and has spurred their enemies on. (Note: Rezin was a King of Syria used by God as discipline on Israel).
12 Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
13 But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the LORD Almighty.
14 So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day;
15 the elders and prominent men are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
16 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks vileness. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
(Note: Verse 10 about “rebuilding” was, of course, a statement of pride by the Jews, who felt they would rebuild with stronger stone and trees of cedar rather than fig trees”, more or less stating they could do it without God.
After 9/11, the next day, it was September 12th . . .the government of America issued its first response that morning. Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle said “as it was done 3,000 years ago in Israel “‘The bricks have fallen down but we will rebuild. The sycamore have been felled but we will replace them with cedars.’ This is what we will do.
We see the American Government was absolutely clueless in regard to the scripture being read. These words were not of encouragement by any means. Daschle and all the other members of government did not realize what 911 meant. America‘s government did not realize 911 was the sign to America that it had left the path of it’s founders. It is now a nation at the dawn of its judgment. And in a horrible statement, the American government says “We are not going to return to our God.” The statement read by Daschle was repeated by John Edwards, who was running for Vice President, and eventually by three other members of government, none knowing they were pronouncing judgment on America.
2Ch 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Christian and Jewish Persecution Begins in Greater Amounts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdhoduKV1Ds