It is now impossible to maintain a respectful neutrality in the culture wars. And it seems the left is winning more converts every day, as liberalism is now dominant and has become the default position for those incapable of thinking for themselves. Fear is driving the conversions. The end result will be the complete debasement of the human person, and persecution for those who dare to resist.
My county has long been a reliable home for conservative Republicans in a blue state. Regardless of who won the state-wide offices, the county was well-run, the taxes low and the public schools were not too far gone down the path of liberal indoctrination. But all that is over now. After the last election, the county executive, the county representatives to the state legislature and most of the other important county offices all went to liberal Democrats. The latest topics in the local paper are physician-assisted suicide and a transgender story hour for kids in the public libraries. How did this happen?
Opposition to the Presidency of Donald Trump has forced the liberals to show the far-reaching power they have kept hidden from the masses since 1954, when they successfully stopped their exposure by Joseph McCarthy. The continuous barrage of negative coverage on Trump, the 24-hour news cycle of talking points and fake news designed to thwart his agenda and advance theirs, endorsement of leftist ideology by a liberal pope and entertainment elites, and social pressure to conform have nudged decent people into accepting the liberal movement. “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
And so now people everywhere are being forced to choose. Are you a “reasonable person” like the thought leaders that you hear all around you? Do you acknowledge the need to control people, their movements and reproduction, because of so-called climate change? Don’t you think homosexual behavior is just as natural as, well, that which got you here? Isn’t it ok for cross-dressing men to read stories about their “quirks” to little boys in the library? Shouldn’t people be able to take their lives whenever they want to? Even teenagers. And who says infanticide is so bad after all? If you demur on any of these little action items of the left, you better keep your mouth shut. You could lose your job. You could end up in court. But, wait, there’s more….
The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday that demonstrates how despotic regimes will be able to make full use of artificial intelligence technology to identify, track and destroy their opposition. Frankly, it won’t be hard to find that opposition. I was surprised to see the other day, on some obscure site that “finds” people, that I was correctly identified by name, age, birthdate and address … and that I was opposed to “marriage equality.” Yes, I guess that’s an important item to log in a public database. Coming soon will be a more complete entry with my photo, so that my face can be recognized by government cameras just about everywhere, and other markers of my “social credit,” such as whether I have a handgun (I do) and my “radical” Catholic religion (I attend the traditional Latin Mass). Faced with what is right around the corner, is it any wonder people are asking themselves, “Why not join them? It’s so much easier. If I can just demonstrate that I’ve ‘evolved’ (as the left is so fond of saying), and get my database corrected, maybe they’ll leave me alone. First step, register as a Democrat.”
Think again. The goal of the left is not that you should be left alone. Would they need to destroy their opposition if the goal is freedom? Liberalism is the tool of Satan. And his goal has always been the complete debasement of the human person: abortion, homosexual acts, suicide, gender confusion, same-sex “marriage,” bodily mutilation, pornography, and more. Coming soon to complete the debasement must be beastiality and polygamy. And until you are actually doing something that demonstrates your debasement, you will be suspect and a target.
Since you can’t escape, even with apparent acquiescence, you might as well fight. Speak out, write letters to the editor, picket the worst of the ideologues. Face the artificial intelligence, the drones and the persecution. And keep your eyes open for leadership to coalesce the band of true resistance into a powerful movement. God will provide.