HIGH TREASON!
There seem to be plenty of complaints around about what the doddering dement Joe Biden and his illegitimate regime are doing to our country at the border and otherwise, but very few that have the spine to call a spade a spade and name this outrage for what it truly is: HIGH TREASON!
At the border, the treasonous Biden and his co-conspirators have willfully and treasonously trampled under their feet the duly constituted immigration laws of the land - which it is their sacred sworn constitutional duty to enforce - and allowed to flood across our borders unknown numbers of terrorists - hundreds, thousands - who will certainly, when the time comes, take subversive and violent action against our people and nation. As we saw on 9/11, it doesn't take more than a handful...
Where is the backbone to name and confront this treason? It certainly does not exist in our federal government, which has been totally compromised and captured in its judicial, legislative and executive functions by the same treasonous cabal that orchestrated the theft of the 2020 election and deposed the most successful, pro-American president of modern times.
The only source of effective opposition to this treason centers in Donald J. Trump and his supporters. That truth is black and white. You're either on one side of the line or the other.
One contributor in another forum recently declared me "a bitter, angry, nasty person" because I ridiculed the mindless, vicious, ad hominem, anti-Trump calumny shoveled up by one of the forum's rabid Trump-haters.
I responded with, among other things, the observation that no informed, patriotic citizen, observing the deliberate subversive evil currently at work at the highest levels of our society and illegitimate government, can feel anything other than anger. This is so glaringly true, so self-evident in my view, that anyone who does not have a sense of outrage at the gross abuses being perpetrated against our free people deserves to be labeled intellectually, morally and spiritually corrupt, or some combination thereof, and understood to be part of the problem one way or another.
This in the context of Trump, in my view, notwithstanding his foibles, being, along with his supporters, virtually the only real focus of energy in this country that understands the treasonous destruction and sedition being wrought upon our great nation, understands who are the perpetrators of that sedition, how they are doing it, and how and by what means we might put a stop to it.
As I have previously argued, Trump, for all his imperfections (who of us has none?), is the lightning rod splitting the social and political ether of America along intellectual, moral and spiritual lines.
Intellect
Those among us of sound intellect - able to reason systematically from point A to point B - will have concluded that Trump, who has an indisputable presidential record of very successfully serving the country's best interests, is the only conservative candidate who, in our present, dire, tumultuous circumstances, can withstand the rigorous test of reason - and the only conservative who stands a chance of being elected.
Actually, not all that much intellectual rigor is necessary here. No rocket science is required to come to the reasoned conclusion that Trump is far and away the best candidate for president in 2024. He has a track record. Swimming upstream against intense opposition, he has in the past, during his first term, fought and won many critical battles for America - the border, the economy, energy, SCOTUS, NATO, America's standing in the world, especially in the eyes of our adversaries. One need only compare the quality of our lives under Trump with the unmitigated disaster wrought by the traitor Biden and his co-conspirators.
All the other candidates, with nothing approaching Trump's substance, are babbling midgets in comparison, "all sound and fury, signifying nothing". At a time when America is being attacked by a treasonous fifth column - traitors within - and the very continued existence of America as a free and prosperous nation is at greater risk than ever before - a time when our enemies, internal and external, simply will stop at nothing to bring the nation down - America needs, above all else, a patriotic, America-First leader with a backbone of steel. Trump, as a matter of historical record, is that man and has proved it in the past. Collectively, the alternatives, in comparison, are (using Steve Bannon's reference) nothing more than a collection of "Keebler Elves":
Morality
Those possessed of a well-grounded morality (which does not require pretending that Trump is morally perfect) will long ago have recognized the multi-faceted, unjust, immoral and relentless warfare that has been waged against the man virtually from the moment he stepped out on the political stage in 2015. He has been accused of virtually every possible sin and even depicted as, if not the devil himself, the veritable reincarnation of the arch-dictator Hitler - all without a shred of supporting evidence. How many of us could withstand such a vicious assault backed by the wealthiest, most powerful people on earth? Yet for all this virtual avalanche of calumny and the martialing of the political and legal systems against him, Trump continues to weather the storm. His broad support among the people provides a critical measure of the intellectual, moral and spiritual integrity remaining among the people.
All that is necessary here is some rudimentary sense of fairness - some sense of what it means to do unto others as you would have them do unto you - or, as Confucius put it on the flipside, don't do to others what you would not want them to do to you - and an ability to recognize the styles and substance of the arguments that have been brought against the man:
The credibility of WHAT you see argued is directly a function of HOW it is argued.
Find the truth in the methodology of argument. The truth cuts its own way and can be argued for in an honest, open manner that does not insult the intelligence of those it seeks to persuade.
Deceit cannot be so argued.
Beyond the man's personal imperfections and sins (again, let him who has none cast the first stone), I believe none of the charges, invective, calumny, legal actions, impeachments, etc., has been honest. It is all deceitful and immoral, intended to overwhelm and destroy by any means necessary the man his enemies see as the greatest threat to their entrenched and concentrated power and wealth - which power and wealth is inimical to the liberty, prosperity and survivability of America and her free people.
Spirituality
As I have long argued, an active, dynamic spiritual connection with the Divine is a necessary precursor to both a sound intellect and clear moral perception. In the absence of such an overarching, guiding connection and counterbalance, both intellect and morality will be left undefended and will inexorably be distorted and corrupted to varying degrees by what the Bible refers to as "the sin nature" and what the Book of Mormon calls "the natural man". The Book of Mormon's rendering is powerful, so I will quote it here:
"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Mosiah 3:19
Donald Trump may not be your traditional sectarian Christian, but he is not Godless. Neither is it by random chance that the intellectually rigorous and morally clear-eyed among us - believers, various varieties of Christians - are on Trump's side, while those on the left - his enemies - are overwhelmingly Godless and hostile to religion and religious belief, especially any intrusions of such belief into the political sphere where their Godless power and prerogatives might thereby be constrained.
Accordingly, blowing away all the smoke, what this boils down to is the bedrock truth that America's fate will be determined by how the people choose to orient themselves to God. Here is how an ancient Book of Mormon prophet put the proposition to the American people of our day:
"For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off.
"And this cometh unto you... that ye may know the decrees of God—that ye may repent, and not continue in your iniquities until the fulness come, that ye may not bring down the fulness of the wrath of God upon you as the inhabitants of the land have hitherto done (referring to the earlier utter destruction of the Jaredite nation - 600-300 BC - and the Nephite nation - 400 AD).
"Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written.”
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Ether 2:10-12
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless...
Time to take your pick. You will, one way or another...
If you can be fooled, you will be...
These are the times that try men's souls...
Torquemada