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“100 million under Wind Chill alerts as arctic blast reloads for second round,” says Fox News. Numerous utilities warn of brownouts because they cannot keep up. They cannot keep up because they haven’t planned for maintenance or this much cold. People are desperate because they too did not plan for this much cold. They were relying completely on compromised, incompetent, irresponsible, politicized government agencies.
This kind of blind dependence has made Westerners reverential toward the wrong authority. Westerners have become subservient to the wrong God. The state is not God. The God of Creation, with all his weather events and weather decrees, is mightier than any human bureaucracy or fragile electrical sub-station.
Today Americans have finally realized just how far their central planners have let them down. Citizens cannot depend on anything the government has touched. Their lives cannot depend on anything the government has devised. The nation’s food is unhealthy, the ...
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
