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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20,21
Billionaire Oprah Winfrey succeeded in teaching a new generation of graduates how to think "woke" and speak the correct "woke" language during a commencement speech at a Tennessee State University graduation ceremony.
She covered a dozen terms from the woke lexicon, mis-defining climate change, systemic racism, police brutality, gun violence, voting rights, women's rights, The Cold War, womens’ rights and banned books. She slammed the Supreme Court for "being corrupted" by a conservative majority and accused Republicans of holding the debt ceiling hostage. She claimed that the LGBT+ community is "under attack."
"Children are being gunned down by military-grade assault rifles," she said.
She called the Jan 6 patriot rally the "death of civility,” but then lionized as heroes the two Tennessee reps who disgraced themselves and disrupted the House by endorsing violent rioting at the Capitol.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
