HATE VS. TRUTH
In another forum, commenting on the rabid hatred of Donald J. Trump that has long characterized those on the left, one contributor made the following observation:
"Sadly, people can’t separate their feelings of hatred from what is right."
Why not?
As I've often argued, the underlying driver of events in our society is the collective intellectual, moral and spiritual character of the people. If people, individually and collectively, can't separate their irrational "feelings" from "what is right" - that would be right from wrong, truth from lies, reality from fantasy - what is that but the corruption of intellect, morality and spirituality? Leftist Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) - a psychotic, suicidal disconnect from the real world - has its roots in that same kind of corruption in the liberal character.
I was watching recently on Fox’s "Mornings with Maria" a discussion of why the Democrats are struggling to understand the recent ass-whooping the American people gave them in the 2024 election, delivering Donald Trump both landslide electoral and popular victories.
But how could that be? Right up to election day, Trump is the man the Democrats were characterizing thusly:
“Hitler! Dictator! King! Russian stooge! Threat to democracy! Criminal! Rapist! Felon!”
As any fair-minded, informed observer knew - as the electoral and popular majorities of Americans knew - there was never any real-world basis for any of this vicious calumny (see my previous Substack post “THE LEFT’S DECEITFUL WAR OF WORDS”. How could there have been in the liberal psyche - indeed, since the left is still hurling these same vacuous epithets at Trump - how can there still be - such a powerful disconnect from the real world around them?
In the wake of their colossal defeat, the Democrats have concluded their failure is consequent to a "messaging problem". They just haven't managed to package their transcendently superior message in the right wrapping paper and ribbons. To that end, comically, pathetically, the Dems are currently in the process of spending $20 million dollars to learn "how to talk to men" - the critical demographic that continues to abandon the Democrat Party in droves.
As I have argued previously, in my assessment, the wellspring of the liberal psyche is an unbounded Godless arrogance - the implacable certitude that they are morally superior to, better and smarter than the rest of us, smarter than all of history (which they are largely if not totally ignorant of), smarter even than God himself (whose existence they deny), and, by virtue of their immeasurably brighter lights, are naturally entitled to absolute power - however lawless the means necessary to obtain it - and the right to tell all the rest of us what to do and how to live, whether we like it or not - all for our own good, of course. Any view that differs from or takes issue with their glorious vision - or any differing approach to political power, such as an overarching reverence for and compliance with the Constitution - is by definition absolutely wrong and needs to be crushed - again, by any means necessary, no matter how lawless - not excluding murder.
This arrogant mindset is chiseled in granite in the liberal psyche. It is their self-image. It is who and what they are.
Accordingly, the one thing the Democrats would have to do to reclaim any degree of credibility in the eyes of decent, reasonable, fair-minded people is the one thing they are utterly incapable of doing and will never do - acknowledge the problem they have is not one of messaging but the corruption, evil and lack of broad appeal of the liberal message itself.
Such an acknowledgement is beyond liberals’ reach because they are the message. The liberal message, in all its Godless, hellish facets, is an expression of what liberals love and are.
Accordingly, given this identity, to acknowledge the intellectual, moral and spiritual rot in the liberal message - a message that is essentially a comprehensive repudiation of God-based Judeo/Christan values and the constitutional rule-of-law foundation our nation was built upon - is to acknowledge the intellectual, moral and spiritual rot in the liberal messengers themselves. Such an acknowledgement would thus result in a death blow to the fundamental psychological premise liberalism is built upon - that liberals are in every way superior to everyone else and have the natural right to perpetual power, to impose their will - the Constitution and the will of the people be damned.
This liberal sense of identity, individually and collectively, springs from their arrogant, Godless view of the world. One need only go down a list of their priorities and objective - open borders - a policy that trashes the whole idea of the American nation state and the constitutional rule of law; the wholesale rejection of belief in God and the attendant Judeo/Christian value system that has undergirded America from the beginning; hatred toward Jews and Christians; rejection of traditional sexual morality, marriage and family values; the ludicrous denial of biological gender and attendant abominations like men in women’s sports and “gender reassignment surgery” performed on minor children; the glorification of homosexuality and same-sex marriage; divisive race theory; victimization theory - everyone is either a victim or an oppressor; no restraints on the growth, power and spending of government; globalist international policies that have gutted American industry, sucked away our resources, weakened our national security and made us a laughing stock in the world.
Criticize any aspect of the liberal message and you are launching an existential attack on the supremely arrogant, self-righteous, virtue-signally liberal psyche itself. This is the liberals’ inner sanctum, their arrogant fortress, the last dug-in, implacable, non-negotiable bastion they will defend at all costs. The threat truth poses to them is existential. They will resort to any necessary measures, no matter how desperate, to avoid having the light of truth cast into this dark center of the Godless liberal soul. They would rather die than face the truth about themselves. Thus, as long as these people remain in control of their own fate, it will never happen. They will never choose to look honestly into the cesspool of their Godless souls and repent of their evil.
But there will come a day when they are no longer in control of their own fate. There is a judgment day, and on that day a righteous, offended God will grab them by the scruff of their necks and push their noses down into the stinking reality of who and what they are - what they have freely chosen to make of themselves.
None of this is really new. Scripture speaks of a great contest that unfolded in the premortal world before the world was - “And there was war in heaven”. Lucifer, later Satan, and his angels rose up in rebellion against God the Father, his Son, Jesus Christ, and their followers.
Just like today, the fundamental issue in this great premortal conflict was free agency. It was the will of God that mankind should be free to choose for themselves between right and wrong in the mortal world, which exercise of free agency would place the ultimate responsibility for a man's eternal fate on the man himself, not on God. This approach would produce only a small number who would qualify to return to the presence of God and there share with him a fullness of his glory. As Jesus said, "Strait is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it".
Lucifer, on the other hand, caught up in the great fireball of his arrogance and lust for power and glory, promised that, if he were chosen and sent as the savior of mankind, not one soul would be lost because he would compel everyone to do what was right. Fully a third of those present opted and fought for Satan’s plan and were ejected.
Thus, in defiance of the will of God, Satan, the primordial liar, the first aspiring dictator, sought to deny the free agency of man. Satan’s mindset, and those of the many who have followed in his footsteps, sprang from arrogance - an arrogance he threw in the face of God himself. Modern scripture depicts the conflict thusly:
And I, the Lord God ... spake saying: That Satan ... is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.
But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me - Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.
Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down...
And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pearl of Great Price, Moses 4:1-4
The biblical accounts are similar:
"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
Revelations 12:7-9
And:
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High'. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
During his earthly ministry, Jesus spoke of the followers of Satan who were then among the people. These people, having been deceived by Satan were unaware of their true satanic loyalties. As do Satan’s moder-day followers, they rejected Jesus's condemnation of their evil and, murders in their hearts, sought his death. Through all this - and notwithstanding their monumental evil - they thought themselves righteous, chosen of God. Winning no friends among this satanic lot, Jesus said to them:
"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
As they did in Jesus’s day - as they always have in all ages of the earth - I believe the children of Satan walk among us today, defined and recognized as such by what they manifestly love and how they act - the latter - action - being an inexorable expression of the former - what they love.
Like Satan their father, the primeval father of lies, these people love and make lies to suit their own evil ends. Unbounded by any higher standard of morality - especially any standard that has its origins with God - they will ignore, distort or trample on the truth whenever it suits their arrogant purposes. Worshipping at the altar of their supreme hubris and unbounded lust for power, they, like their primeval spiritual father, Satan, will resort to any means necessary to achieve their ends - even, as we have seen, murder. They are no different than those hellish satanic minions who 2,000 years ago sought the death of the one perfect man who ever lived.
But who is who?
As per the guidance Jesus gave, we can distinguish evil men from good by looking at the fruits they produce. No matter what self-serving, self-righteous, self-congratulatory outward educational, religious or other superficial garb these monsters attempt to clothe themselves in, they are always revealed for the demons they are by the evil they produce.
These are they who call good evil and evil good. Wherever they manage to obtain political power, whether nationwide, as in the recent catastrophe of the illegitimate, lawless, treasonous Biden regime, or locally, as in the turmoil and disintegration of our major cities - Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York - they are immediately recognizable by the havoc they bring upon the people who have fallen under their control.
Under which political banner do these demonic followers of Satan predominantly group themselves today in America?
You tell me…
It all boils down to this:
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, patriotism vs. treason, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, misery vs. happiness, God vs. the Godless...
Take your pick...
Torquemada