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It is not the government. It is not the Leftist regime. It is not the government-controlled media. It is not public school. It is not Facebook algorithms. It is not "majority opinion."
"Now we have a culture in which most college-age (and just beyond) young people think it is acceptable to cut the unborn babies out of the bellies of their mothers for the sake of a political cause. This is Charles Manson stuff — Manson Family Values — and it has captured the minds of our young.
"Do you see now why the people who lived under Soviet communism see wokeness as essentially totalitarian? Do you? Do you see why Live Not By Lies matters so much? From the book:
"It is difficult for people raised in the free world to grasp the breadth and the depth of lying required simply to exist under communism. All the lies, and lies about lies, that formed the communist order were built on the basis of this foundational lie: the communist state is the sole source of truth. Orwell expressed this truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four:
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
-- Rod Dreher, author, Live Not By Lies
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
Joh 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
-- Jesus, to his Father
"The founding anti-Federalists feared [Presidential power was] precarious in the hands of a centralized, nationalized government, where “swayed by elites” they would devolve into “wars for conquest, not defense”, preferring this power devolve even further to the local and state level, enforced through the prohibition on standing armies, quartering armies in the community, and the power of arms in the hands of the people through the Militia and the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
"They especially worried about the capacity of a single man in the Presidency usurping the powers of the Commander in Chief to make war without even Congressional blessing. The Federalists promised the President could never do that without Congressional pre-approval, with John Jay promising this check effectively muted the fear of abuse of executive power.
"Our founding generation abhorred emperors, despised empire, and feared any crossing of the Rubicon by a small elite or single person to ...
