I unsay nothing that I have said against Donald Trump who would make an appallingly bad president. Having said that, John Zmirak makes a compelling case as to what a disaster a Hillary Clinton presidency would be for Christians:
Hillary Clinton, whose actions were more destructive than Edward Snowden’s, might squeak her way into our country’s seat of supreme power, which she has just learned she may abuse without any consequences. If so, she has promised her Planned Parenthood financial backers to pack the nation’s courts with the likes of Mark Tushnet, the Harvard law professor who in May proclaimed that the “culture wars” are over, and that Christians and other conservatives ought to be treated as the Allies did the defeated Nazis and Japanese.
Not since the Soviet dupe Vice President Henry Wallace was a heartbeat (and FDR’s fading heartbeat) away from the presidency in 1945 has the Republic been in such danger. The mainstream left in this country used to be just an opponent — a movement that shared our basic premises about civic order and common decency, but differed on how best to guide the economy, on the wisest foreign policy, on how much to tax and where to spend.
That is no longer even remotely true. Now the left is threatening to tax our churches, close our colleges, force our doctors to sexually mutilate mentally ill patients, and make our pharmacists hand out abortion pills. The people of Massachusetts have just been told that they may not even vote on whether the multiculturalist, dumbed-down Common Core curriculum will be imposed upon their children.
The leaders of our elite universities will not defend the teaching of basic texts of Western civilization, while the unhinged hysterical “snowflakes” whom they diploma-fy after four years of pricey coddling are screaming for their loans to be paid off by the taxpayer. So Walmart workers without college degrees would foot the bill for the next Lena Dunham’s M.A. in Women’s Studies.
Meanwhile our government proposes to spend our tax money providing sex change surgeries for soldiers and importing unvettable Muslim refugees all the way here from their safe havens in Turkey, while leaving local Christians to die.
A Supreme Court that Hillary Clinton has not yet had the chance to pack has tossed out basic safety laws that briefly made Texas abortion clinics less dangerous to women than Kermit Gosnell’s butcher shop, perhaps undoing similar laws in many other states — the fruit of decades of patient, scrupulous incremental work by the pro-life movement through the democratic process. All tossed in the trash. The icy contempt which British elites expressed for that nation’s voters after Brexit is reflected perfectly here, as the Citizens of International Business Class unite to repress the “racist,” “xenophobic” masses.
The left has made itself not our opponent but our enemy. While its partisans are still our fellow citizens and deserve basic Christian charity, they do not deserve our trust. We are long past the time when it was possible to compromise with the left in view of some agreed-upon common good. They have blasted it into No Man’s Land.
We are locked in a Hobbesean conflict for mere civic survival.
Go here to read the rest. I fear that a Trump presidency would reveal him as a liberal Democrat which is why I am not supporting him. However, I have absolutely no doubt that a Clinton presidency would further the efforts of the Left to drive believing Christians from the public square, and foster the cold persecution of Christians in this country that the Obama administration has commenced.
I think open persecution of Christians will occur during a Clinton presidency. It will start with mandatory corporate training at various companies to teach people to embrace gay rights and women’s rights and so on (a friend works at large banking company which is already doing this), and when orthodox authentic Christians default to the timeless teachings of the Gospel, they will be told to comply or be fired. People who advocate for traditional Judaeo-Chrisian values on blog sites, facebook and other social media will be marginalized, ostracized and denied employment. Those who make a nuisance will be dragged into court on hate crime charges and will be imprisoned. And sooner or later what happened under Plutarco Ellias Calles in Mexico in the 1910s and 20s will happen to us here in the United States. I see it now. Any day I expect mandatory corporate training in LGBT rights or some such other nonsense. I expect someone in my profession to identify me (regardless of my pseudonym) and use that to black ball me from the nuclear industry, and since the industry is so closely regulated by the Federal govt which has fostered this idiocy, I will be regarded as a loose canon, an untrustworthy person to be around anything nuclear. Mark my words. This is happening now. There is already a nuclear blog meister who is a rabid liberal progressive and who has the ears of important people in the industry. If you’re conservative and keep your mouth shut and go in the closet with your religion, then no problem. But if you dare say, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,” then God help you!
‘then God help you!”
Oh, He will.
Amen, Donald. Sometimes that is the only consolation there is.
So what are those of us who have spouses and/or disabled adult children who may have to depend on us for the rest of our lives to do? It’s one thing to sacrifice your own career if it comes to that, but how can you make that choice for others who may not agree with it, or may not be capable of assenting to it? That is the biggest worry I have, not that I see anything immediately on the horizon in my case, but one never knows.
Luke 14
25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26 “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
I assume that Christ was likely the sole support of His mother Mary. Doubtless many of the Apostles had families that might have been better off materially if the Apostles had not followed Christ. The militia men at Concord and Lexington, certainly the majority, had families dependent upon them. We never get anywhere in this Vail of Tears except through the efforts and sacrifice of those who embrace the path of truth, which is often also the path of heroism.
Should the Hildebeast assume power and attempt to do the things many think she may try, then it will be time (I think it is past time) for a revolt. The Democrat Party is organized crime. Texas needs to go ahead and enforce the laws the Supreme Court has thrown out, daring little pissants like Ginsburg and Breyer to go there and enforce those decisions themselves.
Before the Cacophany of Errors known as Vatican II, the Church did not back down from a fight when necessary. The American Left talks tough, but I consider them to be a bunch of wimps if they are really challenged.
To hell with being a martyr to this bunch. Forgive ’em after you kick their asses. John Sobieski cared not about how many soldiers his enemies had. He said he would count ’em after they were beaten.
What is going on in Iowa is very serious. Churches will be singled out for bankruptcy under these guidelines & for suing churches for their large liability policies.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/conservative-silence-on-religious-liberty/
Right now Christians cannot teach in various states and or various school districts around the country that require direct involvement with these evil transgender theories.
For sure, a most convincing argument for voting for Trump. If Hillary is elected I’m in favor of a military coup.
“If Hillary is elected I’m in favor of a military coup.”
If this country ever has another civil war, Michael, horrific beyond belief, that is precisely the type of idiotic talk that will help fuel the beginning of it.
Donald, we are already in a kind of civil war: liberal vs conservative, black vs. white, Islam vs Christianity, Democrats vs Republicans. The killings have already begun. My idea of a military coup was to bring law and order, not civil war. As things now stand we are heading for another American revolution. What is the plan to bring the country peace again? God help us all.
No we are not in a civil war Michael, and people who speak about military coups will be banned at this blog. I will not tolerate comments that blithely talk about destroying this nation under the guise of saving it. First and last warning.
Please seek out Holy League gathering’s.
Men. This is a powerful three hours of fellowship, presentations, dinner and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Topics are chosen by the group and guest speakers are happily available to provide a lively discussion on current events and disturbing trends. Priests… priests are present and during the Holy Hour confession is available. We meet once a month.
It is refreshing to surround yourself with concerned Catholic men who are aware and ready to advocate Truth in the middle of this liberal storm.
Cardinal Burke started this version of a practice that surfaced centuries ago, The Holy League, to combat the evil that threatened Christianity. At that time St. Pope Pius the V called the League’s together, 1571. On October 7th the victory was ours at the battle of Lepanto. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Queen of Victory lead us in our day.
Prepare our hearts and guide our steps so victory over evil empires will materialize only after victory over ourselves is accomplished.
We are not enemies of the State.
We are defenders of Truth.
Preparing to give witness when and wherever required or demanded. Rosaries and courage to counter any assault. Let us defend ourselves and our family members by prayer and preparation. Come what may we will be ready. Fear God and no man.
Donald. This organization is responsible and respectful. Never has it mentioned offensive actions or directives. It is solely for defensive preparations and preservation.
Michael Dowd wrote, “If Hillary is elected I’m in favor of a military coup.”
There will never be a military coup in the United States; there is no American embassy in the United States.”
On the Left, everything is politicized and all the answers are to be derived from more and more government, less and less personal freedom and the personal responsibility that goes with it. The Left comes out of its confused closet with crazy anti-marriage nonsense, while the illegitimacy rate soars. The Left perpetuates generational dependency on welfare, ignores the crime ridden streets of our inner cities, save to use the criminal statistics generated within them to disarm the peaceful law-abiding and productive population. The Left celebrates an evil bloody sacrifice of abortion reminiscent of the Moloch-worshipping Ammonites. One can see in the Left of today a continuum of rebellion against the will of God stretching back to the first Non Serviam of Satan.
But there is one in Scotland MPS, or rather will be when you Scots go crawling back to Brussels, so mind your manners!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iusUq4-f5U
William P Walsh.
You speak the truth.
Your last sentence is extraordinary.
This is a return to the battle waged in heaven.
This is Satan’s last chance and his minions are showing up proudly and without shame.
We are witnessing and participating in the formation of the two camps. In the end, Her Immaculate Heart will Triumph. The other camp is doomed to repeat the failure it suffered in heaven, so many years ago.
I am very much in agreement with Elaine Krewer–those of us with dependent family members are forced to think carefully before we act, because we put them at risk, too.
But the coming situation, which we have to prepare for, at least as a possibility, given the utterly divided opposition to Hillary, calls to mind for me the situation in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Blanche de la Force seeks to escape into the Carmelite monastery, but the world inexorably comes hunting for her and for each one of them—despite their compliance with the insane revolutionary regime edicts. It may be the same for us, nonetheless despite our best efforts, though we try so hard to avoid the slouching beast, ambling slowly toward Gomorrah.
Steve Phoenix, thanks for the reference to the opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” “Blanche de la Force seeks to escape into the Carmelite monastery, but the world inexorably comes hunting for her.” To my memory comes a petition in Anima Christi,
“Intra tua vulnera absconde me/Within Thy wounds, hide me.”
Elaine Krewer, comfort yourself with the words of Joshua, “But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15, Douay-Rheims Bible – emphasis added)