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Just days before the historic November 2016 election that, to the shock and horror of the Washington elite, made Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States and leader of the free world, the brash billionaire outsider spoke the most forbidden truth of all:

“There is nothing the political establishment will not do," he said, "and no lie they will not tell to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense. The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.”

Today, almost eight years later, as America approaches a truly life-or-death-of-the-nation election, it is beset with a raft of huge and almost surreal crises – including a full-scale foreign invasion across America’s southern border, intentionally engineered by the irredeemably malevolent Biden administration. Then there’s the unprecedented and nakedly illegal mass lawfare campaign against Donald Trump in an effort to take him out of the coming election and cast him into prison. And there’s the rampant inflation and rapidly degrading economy. And the skyrocketing violent crime in all our major cities. And the mass-hysteria transgender movement seducing countless kids into being grievously mutilated surgically for life. And most recently, there’s the explosion of anti-Semitism across the country, courtesy of rage-fueled Marxist activists who, while knowing literally nothing about anything, pretend to care about “oppressed” populations around the world.

But wait, there’s still more.

Although it has only recently become clear, another extraordinary secret revolution has been unfolding right under everyone’s noses.

Before we get there, stop and consider the bizarre reality that not only President Donald Trump, but tens of millions of decent, law-abiding, America-loving citizens who intend to vote for him this November, somehow inspire unending dread, fear and loathing throughout the Washington, D.C., ruling class. That would include not only the ever-more-deranged Democratic Party and the entire “mainstream media” (today a virtual clone of the U.S.S.R’s pretend “news” organs Pravda and Izvestia, which published only official government propaganda), but also the “Deep State” itself, the permanent federal government bureaucracy that remains – and grows ever larger, like “The Blob” in the classic horror film – regardless of which party is currently “in power.”

One key component of this gargantuan permanent bureaucracy, operating largely outside of public view, has recently been dragged into the light, exposing its hidden but central role in the censorship and silencing of all who oppose the Deep State and its increasingly totalitarian agenda. That highly influential entity, about which most people know very little, is the federal defense/foreign-policy establishment widely referred to within the Capital Beltway simply as “the Blob.”

Former Trump State Department official Mike Benz, who currently serves as executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, has turned whistleblower and dramatically gone public with exactly how the Western defense and foreign policy establishment has been turned against America, the Bill of Rights and democracy itself. It is a truly mind-blowing story.

This massive bureaucracy headed up by the Central Intelligence Agency, explains Benz, literally funded and developed the amazing technology years ago that enabled internet free speech, then encouraged dissident groups worldwide to use that new free-speech capability to organize and network with other patriots and help them overthrow oppressive regimes. So far, so good.

Yet incredibly, says Benz, the CIA has in more recent times turned against the concept of free speech – at least, when it comes to what it considers dangerous and subversive groups within America. Some of the most “dangerous” populations include conservatives, Republicans, constitutionalists, “MAGA” Trump supporters and politically active Christians.

One of the chief pretexts for this suppression of domestic speech has been the claim that supposedly subversive domestic groups and individuals were spreading “Russian disinformation,” which of course was a key focal point for the years-long near-destruction of Donald Trump’s presidency. As it turned out, of course, the claim that Trump “colluded with the Russians” was not only definitively proven to be entirely false; it was created (and the damning “Trump dossier” actually paid for) by the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, who actually did collude big-time with the Russians. Nevertheless, the claim that Donald Trump somehow had been ushered into the presidency by Russia – and the corollary accusation that virtually anyone defending Trump was a “Putin ally” – not only defamed, but destroyed, good people for years.

Not just ‘Putin allies,’ but ‘domestic terrorists’ too

Normal Americans have long wondered how and why law-abiding citizens – including, for example, parents who would stand up and speak their minds at school board meetings to complain about teachers indoctrinating their children with Marxist propaganda – could possibly be maligned by the Biden administration as “violent extremists” and possible “domestic terrorists.” (Yes, that actually happened.)

A previously hidden dimension to this surreal spectacle of branding regular Americans as “terrorists” has now emerged, and it has to do with “the Blob.”

As previously noted, the vast foreign-policy establishment (Pentagon, CIA, State Department, etc.) seemingly was on the right track when promoting internet free speech to democratic resistance movements in other countries – perhaps the most memorable example being the “Arab Spring” in 2010-2012. Dissident groups were aided in throwing off tyrannical regimes by being enabled to communicate, strategize and organize via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Literally, internet free speech was helping freedom-loving peoples around the world throw off oppressive ruling regimes.

Sounds good, but even that didn’t always work out so well. William J. Burns, the current CIA director since 2021, took the time in 2020, when he was out of government, to write an article for The Atlantic headlined “The Blob Meets the Heartland,” in which he expressed some doubts and misgivings about what the agency had been doing:

For most of my three and a half decades as an American diplomat, the foreign-policy establishment (known unaffectionately in some quarters as “the blob”) took for granted that expansive U.S. leadership abroad would deliver peace and prosperity at home. That assumption was lazy, and often flawed.

Riding the waves of globalization and American geopolitical dominance, we overreached. We deluded ourselves with magical thinking about our capacity to remake other societies, while neglecting the urgent need to remake our own. Unsurprisingly, the disconnect widened between the Washington policy establishment and the citizens it is meant to serve.

Ironically, in light of Burns’ comment about “the citizens” whom the Washington policy establishment “is meant to serve,” it turns out that permanent Washington’s stateside activities took a pretty dark turn shortly before Donald Trump became president.

The Blob, which up until 2014 or 2015 had been targeting ISIS and other actual terror groups in foreign nations by facilitating the free speech and activism of freedom-loving dissident groups, somehow determined that within America itself, certain groups of people and certain ideas and speech – including being considered a conduit for “Russian disinformation” – were dangerous and needed to be suppressed, censored and thereby defeated.

So, when leftist elites today malign and degrade conservatives, Christians, Republicans, pro-lifers and MAGA folks as “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists” or – as Biden called Trump and his supporters in a major speech, “semi-fascists” – this is not simply hyper-partisan election-year name-calling. Somehow, thoroughly decent and law-abiding American citizens, if they oppose the narratives and agendas of the Deep State, are now apparently regarded as the newest ISIS-type threat needing to be suppressed.

How can that possibly be? How can good people ridiculously be likened to “domestic terrorists”? What’s really behind the official government obsession with targeting for censorship large swaths of political and cultural views they label “misinformation,” “disinformation” and an Orwellian term that never before existed – “malinformation,” defined as truth that nevertheless causes harm?

It’s all because, according to the permanent government in Washington, all of this “mis-,” “dis-” and “mal”-information represents a huge threat to … “DEMOCRACY.”

But wait, rational people will respond: Democracy simply means the will of the people. The Oxford Dictionary defines democracy as “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.” In fact, the word democracy itself derives from the Greek words “demos,” meaning people, and “kratos,” meaning power. Democracy is, and always has been, a system wherein the governing power depends on the will of the common people – which is precisely how Americans have always understood the term.

However, in today’s “1984”-style world where, as George Orwell wrote, “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” “Ignorance is strength” and everything means its opposite, “democracy” today has been given an entirely new and precisely opposite definition.

What the Deep State has determined, Benz explained to Tucker Carlson during their epic hour-long February interview on X, is that “preserving democracy” no longer has anything at all to do with enabling and honoring the will of America’s citizens/voters. Rather, it is all about preserving the sanctity of so-called “democratic institutions.”

“And who are the democratic institutions?” Benz asks rhetorically. “Oh, ‘it's us’! It's the military, it's NATO, it's the IMF and the World Bank. It's the mainstream media, it is the NGOs [non-governmental organizations]. And of course, these NGOs are largely State Department-funded or CIA-funded. It's essentially all of the elite establishments” that have felt threatened by “the rise of domestic populism,” Benz explained, and who have “declared their own consensus to be the new definition of democracy.”

So, “democracy,” concludes the State Department whistleblower, now consists of “getting the NGOs to agree with BlackRock, to agree with the Wall Street Journal, to agree with the community and activist groups who are onboarded with respect to a particular initiative. That is the difficult vote-building process.”

In light of this new official (but of course, unspoken) definition of democracy – which has literally nothing to do with the will of the people – it finally becomes clear what politicians from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really mean when they continually warn that Donald Trump and his tens of millions of law-abiding, taxpaying, America-loving supporters somehow “threaten our democracy.”

The key word is “our.”

In reality, of course, they loathe true democracy, the idea that “the rabble” might choose their own king, so to speak. In fact, a shocking new Rasmussen survey shows that when polled, more than two-thirds of America’s wealthiest and most politically engaged elites – 69% of them – admitted they would be willing to win an election by cheating. That kind of attitude and willingness to literally lie, cheat and steal one’s way into gaining and holding power, helps explain not only the entire “Trump-Russia collusion” hoax, which became a Deep State pretext for censoring all of Trump’s supporters, but also the continual and ever-expanding persecution and mass lawfare campaign directed at Donald Trump himself.

The Washington establishment being described here, which as Trump boldly proclaimed shortly before the 2016 election, will do literally anything “to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense,” obviously has nothing but contempt for actual democracy. Rather, these people openly champion political corruption, censorship, oppression, persecution and an utterly undemocratic ruling system – as long as it’s run by them.

The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story in the May 2024 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled “SECRETS OF THE DEEP STATE: Why the U.S. government regards Christian conservatives as enemies.”

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“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” The famous biblical passage from Isaiah offers a chilling but disarmingly accurate characterization of today’s Democratic Party, which has descended to its darkest, most perverse and pathological low point in history – except perhaps for its fierce defense of slavery, until the Civil War put an end to that.

Whether viewed through the prism of power politics, ideology, psychology or religious faith, the Democratic Party of 2024 has become a daily showcase of exactly the kind of remorseless lying, gaslighting and projection – i.e., calling “evil good, and good evil” – that is condemned in the Bible.

In fact, Democrats’ 180-degree moral-inversion modus operandi has become so reliably extreme that it has evolved into something of a crystal ball, allowing one to discern not only what the far-left ruling elites are secretly doing right now, but also what they intend to do next.

How can that be? By careful noting the crimes, conspiracies and corruption which Democrat leaders falsely accuse conservatives of perpetrating, one can gain uncannily accurate insight into the very crimes, conspiracies and corruption they themselves are covertly pursuing right now – and planning for the future.

Consider:

* Democrats accuse Republicans of being lawless, a claim epitomized by their massive lawfare campaign against the GOP’s current leader, President Donald J. Trump, who in a short period of time has been accused of over 100 different crimes in left-wing jurisdictions nationwide – all in an effort to block his reelection and make sure he dies in prison. Yet despite the prevailing Opposite Land narrative, reality turns out to be quite different: Democrats have proven to be the lawless party, abusing America’s best-in-the-world legal system in its wild persecution of Trump. The truth of this assessment was affirmed recently by the Supreme Court’s humiliating unanimous decision annihilating one of the Democrats’ lawfare cases against Trump. Ironically, while Democrats claim the 45th president is a big-time criminal, in reality it is Joe Biden, America’s 46th president, who heads up an actual crime family involving at least a dozen family members, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has revealed.

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., recently put it this way: "I believe that this is the most corrupt family ever in a position of power in this country's history. We’re talking about a level of corruption that is so far beyond what we’ve seen with previous political leaders."

* Far worse than Democrats’ persecution of Donald Trump and simultaneous defense of an epically corrupt man like Joe Biden is their mass criminal prosecutions and imprisonment of hundreds of innocent, patriotic Americans for simply protesting the theft of the 2020 election. In so doing, the Biden administration has embraced the kind of unthinkable political weaponization of the legal system that previously was associated with the most brutal and corrupt Third World dictators.

Ultimately, the hundreds of unjust Jan. 6 prosecutions, convictions and lengthy incarcerations are simply part of Democrats’ appalling campaign to brand not just Trump, but his supporters, as terrorists and “insurrectionists” attempting to overthrow America’s constitutional system of government.

But being Opposite Land, that analysis is not only nonsensical, it is precisely opposite to the truth: Attempting to undermine the American constitutional system, for which the elites have barely disguised contempt, is precisely what today’s Democratic leadership does 24/7, as many of the following examples demonstrate.

* Democrats daily accuse Republicans, as well as essentially the entire American middle class, of being racists, bigots and white supremacists. In reality, of course, it is Democrats who have historically, generation after generation, practiced and championed overt racism: Democrats were the party of slavery, while the Republican Party came into existence in 1854 explicitly as the “anti-slavery party.” Democrats opposed Reconstruction after the Civil War and founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1865, making up most of its membership. They were likewise the main force behind Jim Crow laws for many decades afterward.

Fast-forward to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The great American middle class had largely been persuaded by the noble, nonviolent movement, capped off by Rev. Martin Luther King’s stirring “I have a dream” speech in August of 1963, that they too, like King, desired to “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Yet the following year, it was Senate Democrats who filibustered the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act for an astounding 60 days – the longest filibuster in U.S. history – in a desperate attempt to block the anti-segregation bill’s passage.

Today, 60 years later in 2024 America, it is Democrats, not Republicans, who are utterly obsessed with hiring and firing, promoting and demoting, rewarding and punishing, favoring and rejecting people solely on the basis of their skin color. Long forsaken by the left is the entire Civil Rights Movement and MLK’s cherished “dream” of a color-blind America.

And yet, according to the party that championed slavery, opposed Reconstruction, pushed Jim Crow laws and tried desperately to kill the ’64 Civil Rights Act, the United States of America – hands-down the least racist nation in all of history – is irredeemably racist. And all because of those racist, white-supremacist, Klan-loving Republicans!

That’s what it means to live in Opposite Land.

* Democrats perennially accuse Republicans of “voter suppression” for insisting people identify themselves as U.S. citizens before voting in elections that will largely determine the future of their nation. As Kamala Harris alleged in a 2020 op-ed, Republicans, by supporting Voter ID, are "doing everything in their power to suppress and attack the voting rights of people of color."

Incredibly, Democrats’ opposition to Voter ID persists in an era when the Biden administration has intentionally engineered a massive foreign invasion of non-citizens into America, bringing in well over ten million illegal aliens so far during his term, all for the ultimate and obvious (if unspoken) purpose of creating millions of new Democratic voters.

Democrats’ end game is to transform America into a permanent one-party state – perpetually run by them. So, while Voter ID is obviously more necessary than ever for preserving election integrity and therefore preserving the nation itself, Democrats oppose it. But what sort of reason, one might well ask, could Democrats possibly concoct to justify opposition to such a clearly needed, universally accepted and common-sense measure?

Unfortunately for Democrats, who like Biden and Harris claim Voter ID serves only to suppress black voter turnout, their sole argument is transparently racist, since its unavoidable implication is that “people of color” are somehow too poor, ignorant, incompetent or stupid to obtain a government-issued ID. Yet, no one in America can open a bank account, cash a check, fly in an airplane, rent a car, stay in a hotel, pick up a doctor’s prescription or, in general, navigate this life without a government ID. Nevertheless, Biden has repeatedly called Voter ID laws – which, ironically, polls show blacks overwhelmingly support – the equivalent of “Jim Crow 2.0.”

* Thousands of America’s children are being groomed and seduced into undergoing horrendous transgender amputation surgeries and other unthinkable and irreversible medical “treatments” that literally destroy their lives – leading many to commit suicide. Indeed, Medical News Today in 2022 reported on new research showing transgender teens are more than seven times as likely to commit suicide as other teenagers. Yet President Biden, whose administration enthusiastically supports – and funds with taxpayers’ money – the mass-hysteria transgender craze, recently condemned as “close to sinful” the efforts of good people to stop the mass mutilation of America’s children. Likewise, “gender-affirming” psychologist Dr. Harriette Wimms, clinical director for the Village Family Support Center in Baltimore, Maryland, has announced publicly that parents who oppose cutting the breasts and/or sex organs off their children have a “mental illness.”

Once again, in Opposite Land the people merrily leading children into lifelong misery, disability, conflict and suicide accuse loving, protective parents and other right-thinking people who oppose the demonic transgender craze of being “sinful” and having a “mental illness.”

* Democrats are obsessed with eliminating fossil fuels in order to save the planet and keep it habitable for the human race – or so they claim. But reality is precisely 180 degrees opposite from what left-wing global-warming zealots say, a truth neatly summarized in the title of the 2022 bestseller by energy expert Alex Epstein, “Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less.” Even Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore enthusiastically affirms the truth of “Fossil Future” and condemns the left’s obsession with imposing “Net Zero” greenhouse gas emissions on America (though mysteriously, not on China). Moore characterizes the effect Democrats’ climate-change policies would eventually have on the world’s population in the starkest terms possible: “If we actually achieved Net Zero, at least 50% of the population would die of hunger and disease.”

In Opposite Land, climate-alarmist leftists, globalists and Democrats accuse Republicans, most of whom oppose Biden’s wanton throttling of America’s fossil-fuel industries, of helping make the earth uninhabitable by driving gasoline-powered automobiles and heating their homes with natural gas or oil. But in the real world, it is the left’s radical climate-change policies that will, if pursued to their desired conclusion, result in a level of global starvation, disease and death unprecedented in recorded history.

Then again, it’s no secret that many top globalist billionaires, from George Soros to Bill Gates, have long openly campaigned for drastically reducing the earth’s population … as a means of improving life for all.

* Democrats regularly accuse Republicans of “fascism,” with Joe Biden in a major speech calling tens of millions of Trump-supporting Republicans “semi-fascists.” In reality, however, the specter of classic fascism – in the sense of totalitarian subjugation of a population by means of an unholy partnership between government and corporate power– is today manifesting in a multitude of ways, including the widespread and now-proven collusion between the Deep State and Big Tech to censor and suppress conservatives.

Understand the utterly fascist dynamic of the permanent ruling class in Washington, D.C. The Constitution explicitly prohibits the federal government from crushing the free speech and free press rights of Americans. So the government resorts instead to “outsourcing” – to the “private businesses” comprising Big Tech – the desired censorship, deplatforming and suppression of free speech and free press that are constitutionally protected. They justify this gross violation of America’s cherished First Amendment rights by labeling all expression with which they disagree – i.e., truth – as “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and a brand-new and highly confusing “1984”-type term, “malinformation” (defined as “truth used to inflict harm.”)

This fascist collaboration between government and corporate power constituted a major component in the rigging of the 2020 presidential election. Evidence of massive Biden family criminality revealed in the contents of Hunter Biden’s infamous “laptop from hell” – which included major corruption on the part of “the big guy” Joe Biden himself – were ruthlessly suppressed by Big Tech in the last couple of weeks before the November 2020 election. Post-election polling of Biden voters revealed that had they known about the damning revelations before they voted, Biden would have lost the election and Donald Trump would have been president for the last three years.

Also on the fascism front, there is the violent, fascist domestic-terror group Antifa, which ironically stands for “anti-fascist,” and which in 2020 Joe Biden bizarrely announced was a nonexistent group, calling it “an idea, not an organization.” In reality, of course, as the world saw during the summer of 2020, Antifa, along with Black Lives Matter, engaged in a five-month mega-orgy of violence across America. During this unprecedented rolling riot, they terrorized and ransacked many major U.S. cities, caused over $2 billion in property damage, wounded some 1,200 law enforcement officers and caused the deaths of at least 25 people.

That’s what nonexistent organizations can do in Opposite Land.

In reality, of course, Antifa – the “anti-fascist” group that is just “an idea” according to Biden – is a violent army of genuine fascists who look, talk and act exactly like WWII-era street fascists – masked and dressed in black, carrying out violent criminal attacks on innocent people and businesses. As president, Donald Trump strongly recommended Antifa be officially designated as a terror group.

Coming to grips with the lawless left

The bottom line of Opposite Land 2024? Left-wing Democrats controlling the nation’s government and culture accuse traditional-values Republicans of being lawless, fascist extremists who embrace violent insurrection to overturn this nation’s lawfully elected constitutional government.

Yet that turns out to be a perfect mirror image of the accusers – and a clear picture of what they are planning for the United States of America.

Remember that the left is fundamentally lawless. Repeat: The left – not traditional liberals, as Dennis Prager likes to point out, but the radical left that is currently dominating America’s government and culture – is literally lawless in its essence. Lawlessness is its core identity.

Diving just a bit deeper, the real reason for this “lawlessness” phenomenon comes clearly into view: Opposition to God and His laws of life in order to play god, to invent their own reality and force everyone else to accept it – that comprises the mind and substance of the lawless left, and always has since the days of Karl Marx. To justify this lawlessness and maintain their illusion of moral superiority over others, leftists have to portray conservatives – i.e. normal people who hold to society’s traditional values derived largely from the Bible – as evil. Which is why Democrat leaders in the U.S. and their allies in the media continually, year after year, compare Donald Trump to Hitler. It’s transparently insane, of course; Hitler murdered 11 million people, Trump murdered zero. Yet they persist because they desperately need their lying, cheating and lawless ways to somehow be counted as just, noble and good.

Consider that Nazi Germany was the one scenario in modern history regarding which most people would agree that lying, cheating and even attempts at assassination were moral in the quest to rid that nation of a true monster of a leader, to end a terrible war and save millions of innocent lives. Therefore, lying, cheating and breaking all the rules, at least in that time and place, were not only moral, but a moral imperative. This is precisely why Democrats persist in the abominable and dangerous practice of defaming the 45th president as another Hitler. They detest rules, and if Trump is Hitler, they can break free of all the moral and legal rules that hold decent civilizations together.

But to pull off their grand rebellion – the left’s secret revolution against God and His will on earth – they have to posit a total inversion of moral reality. Not only does their evil thus become “good,” but good must, of necessity, be seen and condemned as evil.

Taking the long view, in the end God and His goodness and righteousness will ultimately prevail, and all those who stubbornly cling to evil, corruption and deception will meet their just fate.

But in the meantime, good Americans have a lot of work to do. And that work starts with seeing with crystal clarity exactly how those who would steal not just elections – but innocence, souls and entire nations – are operating.

The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story in the April 2024 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled “OPPOSITE LAND: A stunning tour of the Left’s total inversion of morality, history and reality.”

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Barack Obama

The Biden administration – which insists Donald Trump’s reelection would be very bad for America – enthusiastically supports amputating the breasts and sexual organs of thousands of troubled children, is obsessed with ushering as many millions of illegal aliens (including terrorists, fentanyl smugglers, MS-13 gang members, child sex traffickers and legions of surly, military-age Chinese men) as possible into America, and – just to pick one of many examples of bureaucratic insanity – recently demanded, via its FAA, that U.S. airlines employ more people, including pilots, with “severe intellectual” and “psychiatric” problems.

It’s increasingly clear that many of America’s current leaders are, to put it plainly, stark raving mad.

But stating this is not an exercise in hurling nasty epithets at one’s political opponents, as the left does continually.

Rather, what follows is a brief but serious look at the proposition that America’s current leaders are genuinely insane – in a clinically diagnosable way. This is about rampant Borderline Personality Disorder, Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder and other scary-sounding conditions whose clinical symptom-pictures perfectly match many of today’s leaders.

Of course, many cases of what the secular psychiatric world labels “mental disorders” ultimately boil down to individuals who, one way or another, have fallen into the grip of dark spiritual forces.

Yet it’s illuminating to briefly explore how current research in psychiatry, a field ironically dominated largely by the left, nevertheless has concluded that leftist radicals and leaders are, more often than not, certifiably crazy.

For example, in a groundbreaking study published in March 2023, titled “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment,” authors Dr. Ann Krispenz and Dr. Alexander Bertrams found that left-wing extremism is closely associated with “psychopathic tendencies.”

“Narcissistic individuals and those with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to strongly endorse left-wing antihierarchical aggression,” summarized the widely cited PsyPost website, which reports the latest research on human behavior.

“Individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality,” the authors explain.

Stated simply, left-wing psychopaths pretend to care about “social justice and equality,” but in reality are just feeding their massive “ego-focused” lust for power, glory and revenge, the authors say.

“In particular,” they add, “certain forms of activism might provide them with opportunities for positive self-presentation and displays of moral superiority, to gain social status, to dominate others, and to engage in social conflicts and aggression to satisfy their need for thrill seeking.”

Likewise, retired psychiatrist Brad Lyles, M.D., explains that “one way of understanding the increasingly outlandish beliefs and behaviors of the left is through the lens of Borderline Personality Disorder. The Borderline diagnosis,” he notes, “is among the most infamous diagnoses in psychiatry. It is the diagnosis that keeps therapists up at night, covered in sweat, fearful of every encounter with this sort of patient.” Lyles writes:

Understanding the long-researched processes driving Borderline Personality Disorder provides unique insights into the processes driving the more extreme politics of the left. The Borderline model explains not only the often inexplicable behaviors of the left – but also why the left is so legitimately dangerous.

The most dangerous feature of the Borderline model – and the process most dangerous in our politics – is “psychological” projection, as distinct from the “political” variety.

Psychological projection hardens a patient's mere belief or suspicion that the OTHER (person, organization) is bad into a CONVICTION the other person is bad. In particular the patient KNOWS the other person is bad.

On the contrary, political projection – “accusing the other guy of what you are doing” – is merely a STRATEGY. A prominent – and execrable – example would include the three years Democrats accused President Trump of "colluding with the Russians" while they themselves were in fact colluding with the Russians.

Psychological projection is not a strategy. It is a threat.

With psychological projection there are no gray areas in the belief structure: The other person is ALL BAD. There is no circumstance in which a person (or political party) is understood to possess a combination of both good and bad features.

This “ALL BAD” belief structure is what the late Pulitzer-winning columnist and trained psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer was getting at when he famously wrote, “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”

Of course, it’s this same “conservatives are evil” belief that underlies the left’s continual and epically deranged comparison of President Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler, hands-down the most reviled, genocidal mass murderer in world history. Yet top Democrat politicians including Joe Biden – as well as the “mainstream” media – have continually likened Trump to Hitler since before he was elected president in 2016 and continuing to today, eight years later.

Yet if Trump really is another Hitler, where exactly are all of his Hitler-like policies and actions? After all, the man was president of the United States and leader of the free world for four extremely important years. So, what are all these evil practices that justify such a comparison?

In reality, of course, Trump’s policies were right in line with the values and sensibilities of the vast, center-right American middle class that has long constituted this nation’s moral, economic and spiritual backbone. America’s economy was stable and strong under Trump, unemployment was at historic lows, perverse trade agreements were replaced with fair, pro-American ones, border enforcement was a priority, America’s military was being rebuilt, and the world was free of major wars due to Trump’s personal strength and leadership.

Meanwhile, the current president, Joe Biden, having degraded and just about destroyed America in every conceivable way, has sunk to the level of a third-world dictator by casting hundreds of American patriots into prison, destroying their lives and their families, all for protesting his theft of the 2020 election.

Therefore, seeing as Biden’s has been hands-down the worst administration in American history, the playbook governing leftwing power politics demands that Trump simply must be Hitler – period – or else the Democrats will lose power. And that’s not an option for them.

Expert diagnoses Obama

But hold on. Can all this really be true? Is it actually possible that many of America’s top Democrat leaders are ruthless psychopaths?

Let’s rewind a few years and briefly focus on Barack Obama, since much of today’s societal madness began or accelerated because of him, and a great many people believe Obama is calling the shots in Washington, D.C. today. And of course, Obama’s wife Michelle is increasingly considered a top contender for becoming the Democrats’ presidential candidate later this year.

Many Americans believe, and some widely respected voices have said so publicly, that Barack Obama is a “sociopath” or “psychopath.” (For the record, though numerous psychology articles attempt to differentiate between “sociopathy” and “psychopathy,” in the end the analysis always boils down to the two being essentially the same, with “psychopaths” just being a little worse than “sociopaths.”) In 2016, Dr. Ben Carson referred to Obama on camera as a “psychopath.” The aforementioned columnist-author Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by training, dubbed Obama a “narcissist” who “talks like the emperor, Napoleon.” Pulitzer prize-winning columnist George Will wrote about “Barack Obama's intellectual sociopathy.” And so on.

Closely consider this typical description of sociopathy: "Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments." Remind you of anyone?

During the Obama administration, this writer communicated frequently with veteran forensic psychiatrist Lyle Rossiter, M.D., who suggested a slightly different diagnosis for Obama, but similar to "sociopathy" – namely, "Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder." The modifier "malignant" signified the version of "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" that may cross over into criminality, he explained.

Rossiter, who has since passed away, had been retained as an expert in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases and was a genuine world-class authority in forensic psychiatry, which is the intersection between criminal behavior and mental disorders. He carefully reviewed with me a list of some of the major symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, comparing them with Obama's behavior as president. Here are a few of the key markers: 1) a grandiose view of one's achievements (everything with Obama was "historic"), 2) an utter inability to handle criticism (everyone criticizing Obama or his policies was attacked as an “extremist” or “racist”), and 3) lack of genuine empathy. (For just one example, Obama gave a televised speech on the day of the Fort Hood terror attack in which a Muslim U.S. Army major shot 45 Americans, 13 fatally. With the entire nation reeling in total shock and horror, and yearning for strong, reassuring words from their commander in chief, Obama instead engaged in small talk and an inane "shout-out" for two full minutes before even mentioning that the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 had occurred just hours earlier.)

Now fast-forward to today. From President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to the presidential Cabinet – including in particular Attorney General Merrick Garland, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra – all of these people lie literally all the time. It’s what they do for a living. And to all appearances, they do so easily, reflexively and without conflict or conscience.

Even Karine Jean Pierre, whose daily job is to tell absurd and embarrassingly obvious lies to the nation in order to put a good face on the most destructive, corrupt and mentally incompetent president in U.S. history (not to mention the head of a crime family) has publicly described herself as a “historic figure,” as the first black lesbian ever to serve as White House press secretary.

Democrats twice as likely as Republicans to be mentally ill

Interestingly, it’s not just the left’s leaders who are “mentally ill.” Gallup pollsters conducted an extensive study involving more than 4,000 interviews conducted over the course of four years, which concluded that Republicans had “significantly” better mental health than Democrats. Likewise, a SurveyMonkey survey commissioned a few years ago by the left-wing news site BuzzFeed (which has since shut down) found that Democrats suffered significantly more mental illness than Republicans. In fact, Democrats were found to be twice as likely to have been diagnosed with a mental disorder as Republicans in almost every category, from anxiety, depression and PTSD to bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and narcissistic personality disorder.

Yet, it is the left that is continually accusing Donald Trump and his supporters of being deranged, delusional and engaging in projection – accusing others of the very evil of which they are guilty.

Recently a “gender-affirming” psychologist, Dr. Harriette Wimms, gave an extraordinary demonstration of projection, a favorite tactic of the left: At the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s 27th annual training symposium in Montreal, Canada, Wimms, who is the clinical director for the Village Family Support Center in Baltimore, Maryland, announced that parents who oppose cutting the breasts and/or sex organs off of their precious children – wait for it – have a “mental illness.”

Yes, there is a lot of “mental illness” in America today. And as mentioned earlier, most serious psychiatric diagnoses in the “sociopath,” “psychopath,” “malignant narcissist” arena really amount to very dark and demonic spiritual conditions being described through a secular, non-theistic lens.

Meanwhile, the general population also sadly includes large and growing numbers of genuine casualties of today's deranged, sociopathic leadership, whether in government, education, medicine or culture – especially among the youth, where depression, delusion, anxiety and suicide are rampant.

They are true victims.

But as for the increasingly totalitarian ruling elites themselves – from the “let’s cut off kids’ body parts and engineer a massive foreign invasion of America” Biden administration to the “let’s terrify everyone about global warming and insist they eat insects while we dine on steak” globalist crowd?

They’re just evil.

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Joe Biden delivers remarks in National Statuary Hall on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 violence at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Cameron Smith)

“It seems likely that government officials were involved in planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. three years ago,” Tucker Carlson declared recently, “as part of an effort to keep Donald Trump from running for president again.” The surveillance video demonstrating the pipe bomb charade, narrated by Revolver News’ Darren Beattie during his interview with Carlson, is both damning and jaw-dropping.

At the same time, it now turns out that the famed “House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack,” run entirely by Trump-hating Democrats – and which throughout much of the Biden presidency has labored to advance the narrative that Donald Trump led a revolutionary attempt to violently overthrow the U.S. Government – “deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe in the days before Republicans took over the House majority,” the Daily Mail reported.

Oh. And why would they do that? What exactly was the “House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack” trying to hide?

Answer: EVERYTHING.

For in the secret thinking of America’s ruling elites, absolutely nothing is more precious, indispensable and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6 “armed insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.

It’s completely irrelevant to them that the events didn’t come remotely close to constituting an actual “insurrection” by any legal or historical definition, nor was a single demonstrator inside the Capitol armed with a gun.

Rather, what has become clear over the last three years is that a group of Trump supporters, convinced for very good reason that the recent election – and therefore their beloved country – had just been stolen from them, gathered outside the Capitol to protest. Also in the crowd, it turns out, were a large number of undercover FBI assets, informants and agent provocateurs – at least 200, according to House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, who has seen all the available evidence. Some of these “undercover assets,” reveals Higgins, were dressed up as Trump supporters and positioned within the Capitol building before any demonstrators were allowed in. That is proof, says Higgins, of epic “entrapment” by the Deep State, since the FBI could have just left the Capitol doors shut instead of opening them wide and waving in Trump supporters, hundreds of whom would later be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned.

When the protesters were allowed to enter the Capitol, most proceeded to mill around like tourists, take pictures, some even shaking hands with police and thanking them – all captured on long-suppressed surveillance video. A small minority broke windows, damaged property, clashed with police or trespassed into no-go areas. One protester, an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt, was shot to death at close range and without provocation by a Capitol Hill policeman.

And yet, speaking for the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted with great pomp and faux solemnity that the minor riot that broke out on Jan. 6, 2021 was every bit as cataclysmic for the country as the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed almost 3,000 innocent people, as well as the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that took over 2,400 American lives and thrust the U.S. into World War II.

Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok went even further than Harris, insisting, “9/11 is nothing compared to January 6!”

Obviously, the Jan. 6 “insurrection” is exceedingly precious to the ruling elites. The question is why?

It’s not just because convicting, imprisoning, sometimes torturing and destroying the lives of hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump is meant to terrify and intimidate into submission tens of millions of pro-Trump Americans. Indeed, many of these people did nothing wrong; one young man is just now being prosecuted three years later for having harmlessly ventured inside the Capitol building for a total of six seconds.

It’s also not just because activist judges and bureaucrats in state after state are trying to keep Trump off their state’s election ballots by citing the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against anyone holding elective office “who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” That provision, added to the Constitution one year after the end of the Civil War to bar Confederate rebels from holding federal office, has been absurdly weaponized against Trump in more than 30 states.

Let's hit the pause button and zoom out to briefly consider the larger picture: These same ruling elites that cherish Jan. 6 are destroying the greatest, freest and most successful nation in world history at breakneck speed. They’re intentionally flooding the nation with millions of illegal alien invaders, including mental patients, criminals and terrorists. They’re indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with poisonous Marxist ideologies, from preschool to graduate school. They’re driving violent crime rates to astronomical highs in major cities. They’re decimating the economy, crippling major industries from energy to automotive, and driving millions of families into serious financial hardship. And of course, they’re encouraging the grooming and recruitment of countless children too young to vote or drive, to have their breasts or sexual organs amputated, all in pursuit of a “gender ideology” that is both deranged and demonic.

(Photo by Shot by Cerqueira on Unsplash)

To hold on to power, therefore, they feel compelled to turn their opponents into monsters – or at least convincingly portray them as such. Otherwise, they’ll almost certainly lose when voters who have suffered so grievously under their perverse rule have the opportunity to choose a different course.

However, “turning their opponents into monsters” doesn’t just mean calling Trump supporters, conservatives and Christians “racists,” “white supremacists,” “radical extremists” and “domestic terrorists” as they do day in and day out. Talk is cheap. Much more is needed by America’s maniacally ambitious totalitarian class if they are to retain their precious power and privilege in these pivotal times.

Fortunately, a few of America’s bolder and more astute commentators are starting to talk about what appears to be coming.

‘I think they hate our country’

Tucker Carlson, in his widely viewed Aug. 23 interview with Donald Trump, asked the former president: “I’m looking at the trajectory since 2015, when you got into politics for real, and then won. It started with protests against you – massive protests, organized protests by the left. And then it moved to impeachment – twice. And now indictment. I mean, the next stage is violence. Are you worried that they’re going to try and kill you? Why wouldn’t they try and kill you? Honestly?”

“They’re savage animals,” responded Trump. “They are people that are sick, really sick. … These are people that, I think they hate our country, [if] you want to know the truth. When you see open borders, when you see these policies that they have and so many other things, it’s so sad to see. We have a country that’s very fragile right now.”

Carlson probed further: “Do you think we’re moving towards civil war? … Do you think it’s possible that there’s open conflict? We seem to be moving towards something.”

Tucker Carlson and President Donald Trump (Video screenshot)

“I don’t know,” said Trump, then adding, “I can say this: There’s a level of passion that I’ve never seen. There’s a level of hatred that I’ve never seen, and that’s probably a bad combination.”

In December, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham picked up the theme: “What we are seeing in the courts, at the Department of Justice, and even in state attorneys generals’ offices – and given Democrats’ ‘Trump is Hitler’ rhetoric – is it not logical, even to consider, maybe to assume that some on the left are hoping to spark some type of civil unrest here?

“Which would be followed, of course, by a mass crackdown on civil liberties or the declaration of maybe a nationwide emergency, all as a way … to usher in, I don’t know, nationwide mail-in voting?” speculated Ingraham. “Remember, the left loved the lockdowns. They loved the 2020 riots, and they even loved the weapon that Jan. 6 gave them. And, of course they really, really love the idea of universal mail-in or even internet voting.”

Question: What if, far from being horrified by a half-baked riot they absurdly claim is worse than any domestic conflict since the Civil War, the left actually loves the idea of violence on the right – the worse the better – since it perfectly serves their agenda?

Increasingly, the evidence strongly suggests today’s power-mad leftist elites not only intend to intimidate and discredit their political opponents by calling them terrorists, they mean to provoke actual violence.

Julie Kelly, the most dogged, in-depth national reporter on the Jan. 6 story, recently wrote this with regard to revelations in the long-hidden surveillance video footage: “The public undoubtedly will be shocked to see police officers from Capitol police and D.C. Metropolitan Police Departments viciously attacking crowds of people assembled outside the Capitol. [Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha] Mendoza’s testimony also confirmed that Capitol police officers used nonlethal ‘munitions’ on hundreds of individuals beginning shortly after 1:00 p.m. Weaponry included pepper balls – projectiles containing a chemical irritant shot from a launcher similar to a paintball gun – gas, rubber bullets, and flashbangs, a less-than-lethal grenade that likely caused the fatal heart attacks of two Trump supporters that afternoon.”

The harsh truth is, the leftist elites are delighted with any riot, vandalism or demonstration they can cynically label “terrorism” and “insurrection.” It serves their purposes. That’s why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi perversely refused to approve President Trump’s specific request for a major National Guard presence at the Capitol that day. Tucker Carlson recently called the whole Jan. 6 riot “a set-up.”

Remember, the Jan. 6 riot, like the massive “Stop the Steal” rally earlier that day, occurred precisely because the 2020 election WAS stolen. That is now irrefutably true; not only was there a large amount of documented election tampering, but also, there is now official confirmation that government and Big Tech colluded to suppress highly damaging and entirely true reporting about the Biden crime family shortly before the election. As multiple subsequent polls revealed, Joe Biden would have lost the election had the truth about his corrupt family not been deliberately suppressed.

That’s not just immoral and corrupt. It constitutes straight-up election rigging.

Just like corrupting a nation’s elections, suppressing a formerly free people’s speech and expression can also ultimately lead to violence. Then the government can crack down on those rebelling against their tyranny and treat them like criminals, as totalitarian leaders always do.

Here’s how then-GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy put it during a July event in Iowa, noting his belief that the Jan. 6 riot was the result of “pervasive censorship” of free speech: “Until we reckon with that reality, I worry that [Jan. 6] is the beginning compared to what's to come – unless we step up and speak truth, restore integrity, and actually lead us to who we are as a people, rather than sweeping the truth under the rug.”

In other words, if government censors and punishes truthful expression at every turn, if it cancels and suppresses conservatives and brainwashes their children, if it encourages the rigging of elections in a multiplicity of ways, as it has done, and if it engages in obviously corrupt lawfare to eliminate the most popular candidate in the country – a former president – all of this serves predictably and intentionally to encourage and promote violence on the right.

And on the left. For not only have the elites encouraged and promoted left-wing violence like the Black Lives Matter/Antifa mega-riots that set city after American city ablaze during the summer of 2020, killing at least 25, injuring 1,200 police and costing $2 billion in property damage. (The corrupt establishment media routinely and straight-faced called them “mostly peaceful” protests.) But they also continually liken Trump supporters to white supremacists and fascists – and much worse, compare Donald Trump himself to genocidal mass-murderer Adolf Hitler, likely the most reviled human being in world history.

This writer has previously documented how, throughout Trump’s four years in the White House, Democrats and the media relentlessly likened the 45th U.S. president to Hitler. This reckless defamation continues to this day. In the Dec. 20 edition of The New Republic, an article headlined “Trump Is Going All In on the Hitler Vibes” once again openly compares America’s 45th president to the Nazi mass murderer:

“They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country,” said Trump during a campaign rally in Iowa, echoing language from Hitler’s Nazi manifesto. “They don’t like it when I said that – and I never read Mein Kampf.” …

Trump has been dipping his toe into fascist rhetoric for years, but in a couple of Veteran’s Day speeches and same-day posts on TruthSocial, he described his Democratic rivals as “vermin” – a word Hitler regularly used to dehumanize his political enemies and the Jewish people.

Then on Jan. 6, 2024 – the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot – Biden himself, in a major speech delivered near historic Valley Forge, went there again, likening Trump to Hitler:

“He calls those who oppose him ‘vermin.’ He talks about the blood of America as being poisoned, echoing the same exact language used in Nazi Germany,” said Biden. “He posts the words that describe his 2024 campaign: revenge, power and dictatorship. There's no confusion about who Trump is.”

Unfortunately, repeatedly likening your top political opponent to the genocidal monster Adolf Hitler is not just absurd; it carries great peril. After all, most people agree that the most moral and patriotic response to the actual Hitler was to try to kill him, to end a terrible war and stop the murder of 6 million Jews and countless others. There were 16 known plots to assassinate Hitler, and even though all of them failed, the perpetrators and collaborators, all executed by the Nazis – from Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg to the revered German theologian Deitrich Bonhoeffer – are today universally considered heroes.

Finally, it’s impossible to truly understand why all this is happening – why the left is compelled to relentlessly demonize, oppress and silence normal, decent, traditionally minded Americans – without acknowledging the most fundamental, over-arching spiritual reality of human life. And that is that God the Creator is real, and there actually are objective, immutable, divinely ordained moral laws that human beings are called to follow, indeed that are “written on their hearts and minds,” as Scripture puts it. Because of this core dynamic of life, people who have fallen morally and spiritually to the point that they ignore their conscience, crave power, wealth and advantage, lie effortlessly and have lost any genuine caring for others, feel not only uncomfortable, but somehow mysteriously threatened and condemned in the presence of genuinely decent and moral people.

Put a little differently, there’s a real reason “woke” bureaucrats attack good parents at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists,” just for standing up and objecting to their kids’ being sexualized and brainwashed. Those parents, by taking a stand for common decency, are shaming and exposing evil. And the people who, consciously or unconsciously, have come under the control of very dark forces simply cannot stand the light. It literally makes them want to scream, as sunlight does to the proverbial vampire.

However, being creatures of projection, they always blame the moral, truthful person who makes them so uncomfortable. One recent mega-example: On Dec. 30, Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith, one of Donald Trump’s chief persecutors, argued in an 82-page court filing that Trump’s claim to presidential immunity in the case against him relating to Jan. 6 and the 2020 election would open the door to mass assassinations, directed by Trump.

That’s right – Smith actually said that. “The Nation,” he argued to a D.C. Appeals Court, “would have no recourse to deter a President from inciting his supporters during a State of the Union address to kill opposing lawmakers ... to ensure that he remains in office unlawfully.”

Obviously, that’s wildly insane, but it does illustrate the core dynamic of today’s struggle in America: It is entirely spiritual.

What is cryptically called “the left” has grown so rebellious against God, truth, morality and reality that it feels compelled to put out the light, to silence voices of truth, to “call evil good, and good evil” as the prophet Isaiah put it.

Americans are truly living through a time when the most decent, honest and courageous people are, as the Savior of mankind put it, being “persecuted for righteousness’ sake.”

With 2024 promising to be such an extraordinarily consequential year, there’s never been a better time for good people to let their light brightly shine into the oncoming darkness.

The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story in the January 2024 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled "INCITING VIOLENCE: DEMS’ SECRET STRATEGY FOR STAYING IN POWER."

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It was Dec. 21, 2016, the darkest day of the year.

I was working in my garage, trying to repair something using a hacksaw. It was cold. I was sawing strenuously and at an uncomfortable angle. I was tired, stressed and a little frustrated.

Suddenly I felt a strange and complex pain radiating through my chest, something I had never experienced before. I stopped working and gave the pain my full attention, but it didn't subside. I went into the house and told my wife, Jean, to stay close by, because "I might be having a heart attack."

As we talked, she called my son, Joshua, then 25, who happened to be a licensed paramedic. He told her to call 9-1-1 immediately – and that he would arrange to be the responding medic.

When Joshua and his paramedic partner arrived in the ambulance, he walked into the living room – the same room where he had grown up, played games, watched TV and been homeschooled with his sister, Sarah – and asked me, "Dad, what's going on?"

"I don't know, Joshua," I said, trying to describe my symptoms. He sat me down on the couch, connected his portable 12-lead ECG to my chest, turned it on, took one hard look at the results, looked me in the face and said: "Dad, you're having a heart attack. We're going to Rogue."

I laid down on the gurney and they quickly scooted me into the back of the ambulance before heading for Rogue Regional Medical Center, a top-tier cardiac care hospital in Southern Oregon.

While his partner drove at breakneck speed, siren on, seemingly running every traffic light, Joshua tended to me in the back. Although I was in considerable distress, I was acutely aware of what he was doing and how professional, focused and calm he was – putting IVs in both my arms, giving me nitro, aspirin and morphine, doing more scans to further identify what part of the heart was involved, charting my case and talking to me. I knew taking care of his dad had to be hard for him.

About 30 minutes later, when we pulled into the medical center, they rushed me straight into the cardiac cath lab where a team of doctors quickly installed two stents to open up a nearly 100 percent-blocked coronary artery.

I remember joking with one of the attending cardiologists while he was inserting the stents: "Hey, have you ever done this before?"

"Yeah," he answered good-naturedly, "about seven times today."

After the stent procedure was over, I was taken to my bed in the cardiac care unit, where Joshua stayed with me for most of the evening. After two nights of being connected to various monitoring devices and watched over by the nursing staff there, I was discharged and able to spend a nice quiet Christmas at home. Thanks to terrific medical care from start to finish and the prayers of many, my recovery was smooth and my prognosis very good.

While the storm was over, my adventure had just begun.

'Why did this happen?'

Any halfway introspective person who experiences a heart attack or stroke (which occurs in the U.S. every 21 seconds) will tell you it's a big wake-up call: "Why did this happen?"

And if you're a spiritually minded soul, the question is even more pointed and urgent: "God, what are You trying to tell me?"

Thinking back to the fateful day, it's easy to recall that I was wound up and stressed out. I had worked hard in my office all day, then I had exercised fairly strenuously, then chopped firewood, then gone into my shop to take care of the repair job. As usual, I was trying to accomplish everything I thought needed to get done, but with the energy of – how can I say it? – self, my will, ever pushing forward while ignoring the ever-present warning signs of stress and anxiety.

Indeed, I had experienced warning signs well before that day, but like the proverbial driver who ignores the red warning light on his dashboard instead of stopping and figuring out what it means, I was in too big a hurry to get where I wanted to go – and so I "crashed." In my case, I just about totaled my "vehicle" – except fortunately the medical mechanics were able to repair the wreck that I was.

So, one thing God was telling me was that I could no longer safely continue to operate – especially at my age, in my late 60s – on the energy of stress, ego, ambition, obligation, fear of failure and sheer will power. I needed to live from the alternate fuel of grace – all the time.

Great words, but how do I get there?

Meanwhile, beyond this clear takeaway, even deeper lessons awaited me.

'Count it all joy'

Truth be told, there have been several times in my life when I just needed to be stopped cold by a loving God. During certain critical periods, most of them too personal to write about, God stopped me by obstructing, disabling or otherwise interfering with what at the time were my immediate or even life goals. Naturally, I considered this nothing short of devastating, only later in life looking back and thanking Him from the depths of my soul for stopping me from going in the wrong direction – indeed, for changing the direction of my life for the better.

Having a heart attack is a pretty obvious "stop sign." God stopped me. "OK, Lord, you have my full attention. What is it You want me to understand?"

Consider the natural effect of a close brush with death on a person in his 60s. (The cardiologist told me I probably would've died had I not gotten to the hospital.) That's easy to answer: It makes him contemplate deeply, very possibly for the first time, his own inevitable death.

After all, heart attack or not, I'm at the age when most people are going to die, one way or the other, in the next 20 (or at the outside, 30) years. Putting the question as bluntly as possible, as evangelist Billy Graham liked to do at his many crusades: "Are you ready to die? Do you know where you're going? Are you sure?"

Mind you, I've been a Christian for many years, since I was in my early 20s, when I first asked Christ to come into my life, and I've lived a clean, moral life ever since. But something important was missing.

I believe God has been intending to fill in that missing something in me. By allowing me to suffer a heart attack, He humbled me, softened my heart, helped me to forgive people who had hurt me, clarified my mind and freed me from many deceptions.

I could almost say He gave me a heart transplant, a heart more capable of embracing the truth capsulized in the Apostle Paul's remarkable statement in Romans 8: "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."

Now here's the mystery for me: Even though I've "known all this stuff" for decades – after all, I'm a Christian author-journalist who has written countless essays and three books, right? – yet it's only in the last year or so that it has really penetrated into the deepest regions of my heart and soul that I am an adopted and loved child of God and that He will never leave or abandon me – ever.

Since my heart attack two years ago, many Christian writers, pastors and others have been helpful in my walk – especially the remarkably insightful "Freedom in Christ Ministries" of Dr. Neil T. Anderson. But again, the surreal thing is that most of what all these folks are saying I had heard and agreed with – and in some cases written and spoken about! – for decades. Yet somehow, suffering a heart attack mysteriously tilled my inner ground to make it a little more fertile.

Most of all, a new and much deeper sense of appreciation, awe, wonder and thanksgiving toward the Creator for his love and His gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ has become more real and personal to me.

That brings me to my final point, crystalized in one of my very favorite biblical passages, James 1, in which he writes: "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." This short passage points to an almost otherworldly magical attitude, which springs from deeply realizing that our true home, even now, is indeed another world. After all, Paul said "we are citizens of Heaven" (Philippians 3:20).

That's why James's bold, counterintuitive direction – to "Count it all joy" when bad stuff happens to us – is not simply some pretty Bible truth to affirm like a mantra, or alternatively to appreciate later when the battle is over. But right now, in the moment bad things are occurring, in the very midst of vexing difficulty and conflict and suffering, we are exhorted to reach up "in the spirit" to God and to remember – or more accurately, to realize deeply, even if just for a second or two – that the dazzling Creator of the Universe Who loves us dearly is using these difficult circumstances to bring us closer to Him.

One other Scripture that comes to mind and perhaps rounds out this thought is Philippians 4, which in its own way points to this same extraordinarily blessed attitude expressed by James (to "Count it all joy" when difficult circumstances overtake us). That key, reveals Paul, lies in genuine gratitude to God even when things are tough. "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Anyway, that's the story of my heart attack. In the end, I'd just say that somehow God had compassion on this foolish child and stopped him once again, using his powerful, unsearchable methods to stir up my soul and pull me a little closer to Him. Thank You, God.

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior." – Habakkuk 3:17-18

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Carina Nebula viewed by Hubble Space Telescope

Decades ago as a young person, I liked to visit the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where one exhibit featured a nine-minute film that played continuously in a loop. I would stand there, in awe, watching it over and over again.

It was called "Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe – and the Effect of Adding Another Zero."

Narrated by MIT physics professor Philip Morrison, the short movie takes viewers on a virtual high-speed voyage into outer space, zooming away from earth another order of magnitude (10 times farther) every 10 seconds, thus traversing through our solar system and vastly beyond, eventually past the Milky Way galaxy unto the outer reaches of the known universe – ending up 100 million light years from home. Upon returning to earth, the cosmic roller-coaster pauses temporarily at its initial starting point at the planet's surface, but now continues on "in the other direction" – that is, inward. Microscopically traveling by a new order of magnitude (10 times smaller) every 10 seconds, the same rate as the previous journey, this time the "fantastic voyage" ventures inside a man's hand. We survey skin cells and other structures, then chromosomes and DNA, and, as the magnification increases exponentially, molecules and atoms, until finally we arrive at our destination: a single proton within the nucleus of a carbon atom.

Not only does "Powers of Ten" (as well as a later remake called "Cosmic Voyage" narrated by Morgan Freeman) provide a glimpse of the astonishing complexity and magnificence of creation and the relative size of all things known, it also, intriguingly, shows man to be more-or-less right smack in the middle of two universes, one infinitely larger than us and the other infinitesimally smaller.

Think of it: Zoom out to, say, one light-year of distance from earth (10-to-the-16th-power meters) and our sun is seen as a tiny speck in space. But zoom inward, toward the center of a carbon atom, and you've traveled the same number of orders of magnitude, sixteen (10-to-the-minus-16th-power meters, or 0.000001 angstroms), and the atomic nucleus is likewise seen as a tiny speck in space.

With this mind-blowing relativity in mind, man is obviously not "small," as we're often told, except when compared to the distances, speeds and heavenly bodies inhabiting outer space. But relative to the equally mind-bogglingly small universes of inner space – well, let's just say, you and I are to the tiny particles in the nucleus of an atom as the Milky Way galaxy is to us.

Thus perched between these "parallel universes," we human beings exist on this remarkably beautiful blue-green-and-brown spinning sphere called Earth. And as such, we are faced with a great enigma – a Creator who can conceive universes large and small, both equally incomprehensible in their largeness and smallness (not to mention their infinite complexity and wonder), and yet Who places, right in the middle of it all, human beings, full of all our vexing and even malignant flaws.

For what purpose?

That's a mystery. It is THE mystery.

In our life on this Earth, our first and most tangible reality is the wondrous natural world surrounding us and providing all our material needs. We are likewise blessed with marvelous faculties – two little spherical cameras called eyes with which to see, ears to hear, plus all our other senses and abilities, all topped off with an astonishing super-computer – our brain. All this, that we may perceive, navigate and live our lives successfully within this natural world, like the rest of the animal kingdom.

Alas, we're not just animals, ordained to live in an ecosystem, locate food, procreate and try to steer clear of predators. For co-existing with this natural world is a mysterious moral dimension in which we humans are also immersed. Animals don't share this moral realm, nor do plants, rocks, mountains or oceans, nor for that matter do atoms, molecules, planets, stars or black holes, all of which "act" in accord with their given nature, all without honor or dishonor, reward or punishment. Kittens aren’t good, and man-eating sharks aren't evil. Only man dwells in this peculiar moral realm wherein good and evil not only manifest, but seem to be focused directly on recruiting us! As such, we inevitably assume the role of conduits of good, or of evil – or more often, of both good and evil, since both realms relentlessly strive to claim our minds, hearts, loyalties, and ultimately our souls.

It is this moral dimension that is the matrix from which most of our problems emerge, overshadowing and often overwhelming everything else in our lives.

For despite all that is truly amazing about human beings – the civilizations we've built, literature and art we've created, diseases we've conquered, our dizzying scientific and technological achievements and, most important, our genuine capacity for nobility, generosity and self-sacrifice – we are seriously troubled, problem-ridden creatures. The human race is a giant mess, and from everything we know, always has been. Along with our conscience (a little speck of God's mind that he graciously enfolds within each one of us) and the many virtues with which we are blessed, we're also mightily beset by pride, doubt, anger, selfishness, greed, lust – in fact, by ignoble impulses and destructive proclivities of every imaginable sort, almost as though we had a genetic predisposition toward them. Some of us become full-fledged monsters.

As a result, our world includes entire nations that resemble insane asylums where the most deluded and dangerous people are those in positions of authority. Moreover, each culture, religion and political ideology has a set of core beliefs about which adherents are absolutely certain, yet which are utterly at odds with the core beliefs of all other cultures, religions and political systems. Even worse, in the case of major utopian systems like communism, Nazism and Islamism, millions are brainwashed into not only embracing impossibly irrational, degrading and destructive beliefs, but into believing they are required to force everyone else on Earth to adopt their beliefs – or else be subjugated or slaughtered.

False messiahs
Clearly there is something in our makeup, some mysterious inheritance from ancient times, that beckons us to so easily cross the line of conscience, morality and reason – to violate God's laws, to become spiritual outlaws. In Christian shorthand, we're all "born in sin."

It's one of the great mysteries of life that some people – usually after great suffering and soul-searching – eventually manage somehow to mature into responsible, conscientious, moral adults, while others unfortunately become ever more entangled in dark thoughts and feelings, leading to self-destructive or predatory behaviors.

But here's the rub. Even in those who eventually leave behind their former sinful behavior, the nature that allowed it seems to linger somewhere deep within us like a latent virus. Moreover, even if we were somehow graced to become totally free of our sinful nature, we still cannot undo the sins we committed in the past. In a cosmic legal sense, we're still guilty. We're like offenders who have broken the law and hurt, violated and damaged other people, and though we may now sincerely regret what we did, we're still guilty of having done it! How can our guilt then be taken away? Can the past be magically wiped out? This is where the idea of the Messiah as savior comes in.

Unfortunately, because repentance and facing our own dark, angry, sinful nature can be painful and requires humility, many people are more inclined to skip the introspection and just appoint an earthly savior to rescue them from their misery. The most notorious example of a false messiah in modern times was Adolf Hitler, although both Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were responsible for far more deaths. All demanded obedience and worship in return for a glorious kingdom on Earth, but of course it didn't work out. It never does – but we keep trying.

As former New Left leader David Horowitz explains, progressive true-believers “regard the past, which is real, with contempt, and are focused exclusively on a future which is imaginary.” He explains the strange thinking inherent in this political ideology:

Think of progressives as a species of religious fundamentalists planning a redemption. Like fundamentalists, they look at the world as fallen — a place corrupted by racism, sexism and class division. But the truly religious understand that we are the source of corruption and that redemption is only possible through the work of a Divinity. In contrast, progressives see themselves as the redeemers, which is why they are so dangerous, because they regard those who oppose them as the eternally damned. Progressives are on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth by redistributing income and using the state to enforce politically correct attitudes and practices in everyone’s life.

Of course, the communist/socialist dream has never delivered on its utopian promises, with 100 to 200 million dead bodies resulting from it in the last century. How strange, then, that the stench emanating from those mountains of rotting corpses is somehow overcome by the sweet aroma of an impossible dream, the delusion that we can reform and redeem mankind through the “enlightened” coercion of an all-powerful government. Socialism, the strange religion of the Left, still energizes and excites true believers.

In America, the last time a political figure was worshipped as a messiah, someone in whom millions of people invested all their hopes and dreams for the future, was the elevation to the presidency of Barack Obama in 2008.

“We thought that he was going to be – I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime – but the next messiah,” veteran broadcast journalist Barbara Walters told Piers Morgan on CNN. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas told MSNBC, "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God." And upon Obama's 2012 resurrection – I mean, reelection – Newsweek celebrated the occasion with the front-cover headline, "THE SECOND COMING."

A messiah, at least in the Christian sense, is not only supposed to lead people out of bondage and oppression, but to take away their guilt and past sins. Obama was, in effect, anointed by the majority of American voters to absolve their guilt over our great national sin of slavery (and later, racial segregation). But instead of cleansing us of our national guilt, Obama and his administration, including Joe Biden and Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, cynically magnified and enlarged our guilt, using it as a weapon to confuse, confound and divide us, to neutralize patriots and critics, all for the unholy purpose of amassing ever more power.

Most Americans – some sooner, some later – ultimately realized that not only was Obama not a messiah, he was arguably the worst, most dishonest, incompetent, anti-American president in U.S. history. His radical-left administration caused tremendous harm not just to the nation's constitutional system of government, its economy, security and culture – but to its national soul. That's because, to "fundamentally transform" a uniquely great nation like America into just one more pathetic redistributionist welfare state presided over by an all-powerful nanny government, the American people must be seduced into becoming less independent and less moral than they once were, they mustn't trust in God quite as much as they once did, they must become less rugged and resilient, less logical and competent, less principled and courageous than they once were.

This, alas, is the true legacy of the Obama presidency – the degradation and demoralization of America.

The desire for a messiah – a God-anointed person who will lead us to lasting peace and happiness – is embedded deep in the human soul. The messiah is central not just to Christianity and to Judaism, but also to Islam, which has its own exotic version of a last-days deliverer.

In fact, polls reveal that a large percentage of Muslims currently living in the Middle East believe they will see, in their lifetime, the coming of their messiah – whom they call the Mahdi. But believe it or not, Islam anticipates that the Mahdi will return with a sidekick – Jesus, whom Muslims call “Isa.” The Muslim Jesus is expected to tell the entire world that he is not the son of God, was not crucified and was not resurrected from the dead. Rather, according to Muslim teachings, Jesus' message upon his return will be that he does indeed exist, but that he is – surprise! – a Muslim, and that all the world must convert to Islam.

Since human beings, as is demonstrated again and again, are prone to disastrously appointing false "messiahs" to absolve their sins and lead them to peace and freedom, one question, which has endured for millennia, looms large: Is the messiah a political (group) savior, or a spiritual (individual) one?

Twenty centuries ago at the time Jesus walked the Earth, the Jewish people, citing the biblical prophets, were awaiting a great leader descended from King David who would rescue and lead them into a time of lasting peace on earth. However, Jesus, when urged to lead a rebellion against the Roman oppressors and occupiers, said he had come to lead a different sort of revolution – an inner one, within each person. Why?

True Messiah
If we’re completely honest, at some point during our lives we come to realize we are broken in such a deep way that we cannot fix ourselves. Our problem with sin, with deep roots going back to our childhood and beyond, seems to cling to us all of our lives.

Even in the best of us, the traumas of life have become so much a part of us, the perverse cravings of our hearts so strong, and the hold sin has on us so powerful, that even with our best efforts we remain a shadow of the person we’d like to be. We never seem to be totally healed – not through living a clean, law-abiding, moral life, not with the help of modern medicine and antidepressants, not with church attendance and sermons and hymns and good deeds, not even by diligently trying to obey all of God’s commandments.

We need something we cannot give ourselves.

We need true healing; we need forgiveness; we need a new identity; we need new life.

This mystery of otherworldly redemption is alluded to throughout the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah writing: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

All of which brings us to the coming of the Messiah – the real one.

What more compassionate and needed gift could God possibly give His struggling, wayward children than a perfect, in-the-flesh example of how to live, a great lover of our souls who would suffer greatly for our redemption and dramatically demonstrate real love, and one who would actually do battle with the dark spiritual forces that oppress the human race?

Why, indeed, would a Creator so great as to imagine into existence such an astonishingly magnificent universe not provide for us the example, the teacher, and the savior we so desperately need?

The simplicity and sincerity of Christ’s essential message is conveyed by one of my very favorite scriptures, courtesy of John the apostle: “Here is the message we heard from him [Jesus] and pass on to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to be sharing in his life while we walk in the dark, our words and our lives are a lie; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, then we share together a common life, and we are being cleansed from every sin by the blood of Jesus his Son” (1 John 1:5–7).

John mentions here no complicated dogma, no required religious observances, rituals, pilgrimages, or special diet. Just a sincere appreciation of God’s forgiveness and this glistening instruction: If we “walk in the light, as he himself is in the light” – that is, if we calmly and humbly welcome God’s light of understanding to shine in our minds and souls, by which light we will observe our sinful nature – He will grace us with repentance. And “then,” assures John, “we share together a common life, and we are being cleansed from every sin by the blood of Jesus his Son.”

Again, living “in the light” – not losing ourselves in worry over the past, or anxiety and fear over the future, but staying faithful in the present moment, in the presence of God – involves facing our own vexing imperfections and faults, without condemning ourselves, or covering up the sin, or struggling with it to fix it, but just patiently waiting on God for help. When we do that, we are, in that very moment, being transformed, redeemed, graced to “share together a common life” with God.

These are, of course, simply my reflections on an enormously profound subject. But I believe such deep matters are meant to be pondered by each of us in our hearts, without worry, without pressure, without fear of hellfire hanging over us. If we don’t understand something, it’s okay. If we experience doubt or confusion, it’s okay – just honestly admit it. God sees all, and will help.

Our lives are an adventure playing out in two different worlds simultaneously: We’re meant not only to live our lives on this earth the best we can manage, but also to embrace an inner journey that is ultimately far more important. Sadly, some of us lead unexamined lives, but as Socrates said at his trial, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Still others simply don’t want to face reality no matter what, stubbornly preferring to inhabit their own alternate universe, their mad dreamworld, in which they inevitably hurt many people, and themselves.

That seems to be the great divide in humanity. It’s not a racial, ethnic, cultural, class, or generational one, nor is it even a philosophical, ideological, or religious divide per se. Rather, it is simply that there are people who are willing to honestly face their sinful nature no matter how uncomfortable or humbling, and to truly repent in the light of God and thereby find reconciliation with Him. And then there are people who are not. There are those who, even in the worst of circumstances, find this blessed place, and others who, though benefiting from the best of circumstances, reject it. Our deep-down love of truth – or lack of it – forms the invisible nucleus around which orbit all our beliefs and attitudes. What kind of person we become in this life emanates naturally from our willingness or unwillingness to face the sometimes painful mystery of ourselves with honesty and integrity.

Earlier we considered why God would position the human race betwixt alternate universes – magnificent cosmic clockwork large and small – and immerse us likewise in two opposing spiritual dimensions of good and evil, virtue and wickedness, sanity and madness.

Why are we here? What is God intent on creating in this special realm – the realm of man – that He couldn’t bring into being any other way, or anywhere else in the universe, even 100 million light-years out?

Love, sacrifice, courage, character – in a word, goodness. Manifesting real love and goodness in this world has more to do with patient suffering, endurance, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice than anything else, but how does God create that kind of person with purely natural processes? Can He create love the way He creates stars, with giant explosions of dense clouds of hydrogen gas? Or the way He causes an acorn to follow an invisible blueprint and grow into a towering oak?

God is seeking people who will truly love Him and love one another – and even, as Jesus taught and exemplified, love and pray for their enemies. That means He’s looking for something that simply cannot be brought into being any other way than as an end result of the troubled lives we lead in this difficult world and the hard-won lessons of humility and faith we ultimately embrace. And to help us, to guide us – indeed to make the impossible possible – He sends His Son, the true Messiah, our best friend, to lift the curse and destroy the virus through some wondrous magic from beyond the ends of the universe.

So, the solution to our mystery of why God put such imperfect beings in the midst of colliding galaxies and subatomic constellations may simply be that, in the Creator’s mind, all that dazzling stuff just serves as the ornate setting, and we – we’re the crown jewel of His creation. Not that we’re anything praiseworthy, mind you. Not at all. It’s just that God wanted children – and all the stars, planets, oceans, rocks, trees, and birds just wouldn’t do.

God does not create loving and obedient children the same way He creates the rest of the universe. But in leaving a race of prodigal sons and daughters here, untethered in a moral wilderness with the freedom to follow their own folly for a season and thereby learn precious lessons, God knew many would eventually come to their senses and come back home to Him. May it be so with you.

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Back in 2009, President Barack Obama scandalously claimed that Americans “do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” He was lying, of course. But then, throughout his presidency Obama lied as easily as breathing, just as his puppet “successor” Joe Biden does today.

For in reality, America was founded as an essentially Christian nation, and for many generations remained the freest, most prosperous, powerful, altruistic and Christian country on the face of the earth.

Yet today, America is disintegrating – indeed, it is on the very brink of destruction.

How can this possibly have happened? And more important, can America be saved?

As recently as a generation ago, this nation’s dominant culture was, however imperfect, essentially moral, patriotic and Judeo-Christian. Politically, of course, there was the continual tug-of-war for power between the two major parties: traditional Democrats, who championed liberal policies like “taxing the rich,” a higher minimum wage, more gun control, a larger “social safety net” and legalized abortion – and Republicans, who favored less government intervention, more individual liberty, free-market capitalism and protecting the unborn. But despite the contentious battles and pendulum swings over who controlled the White House and Congress, America was safe, secure and confident, her freedoms intact, and her culture still decent and sane.

Now fast-forward a few decades into today’s steaming inferno of unprecedented madness.

Democrat politicians today overwhelmingly favor late-term abortion up to the very moment of birth – formerly known as “infanticide.” They encourage children too young to drive or vote to have their breasts and/or sex organs amputated in pursuit of a “gender transition” that is both delusional and impossible, and which leads to staggering rates of depression and suicide. This same mass hysteria likewise leads them to promote the de facto destruction of women’s athletics worldwide by allowing men to compete with women, and to permit countless females to be raped in prison by male inmates claiming to be “trans women.”

Meanwhile, the Democrats and their standard bearer, President Joe Biden – an excruciatingly senile, pathologically dishonest and epically corrupt career political hack – are destroying America’s economy, energy sector, military, law enforcement, election integrity, national security, Constitution and overall national wellbeing as rapidly as possible. At the same time, Team Biden demonizes – and increasingly, imprisons – critics as “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists” and “insurrectionists.” Indeed, they are engaged in an obviously corrupt multi-front legal war against Biden’s chief political rival, Donald J. Trump, in an attempt to send the 45th president of the United States to prison for the rest of his life.

None of this constitutes “politics” in any conventional or traditional American sense. Rather, it is all darkly spiritual – which is simply to say, evil. The United States of America is in the throes of a full-blown spiritual war between good and evil.

Indeed, the most contentious issues vexing the nation today are not political nor even ideological. The aforementioned gender hysteria, which reportedly has seduced more than 300,000 American youths aged 13-17 to “identify as transgender,” is neither “liberal” nor “conservative.” It’s evil and insane.

Same with purposely leaving the nation’s southern border wide open and not only inviting, but intentionally engineering a full-scale and massive foreign invasion of America – including masses of young, single men from terrorist-hotbed countries. Same with Marxist ideology (“critical race theory”) disguised as “anti-racism.” And plying America’s school children with hard-core pornography. And establishing “After School Satan Clubs” in public schools throughout the nation. And corrupting innocent toddlers by forcing them to sit at the feet of mentally ill, demonically possessed men dressed as women for “drag queen story hour” events.

All of this and so much more constitutes genuine spiritual warfare – good versus evil, freedom versus slavery, heaven versus hell, God versus Satan.

The new righteousness

Consider the current widespread support among college-aged Americans for baby-torturing terrorists. Why would so many young people side with Hamas, while condemning Israelis as the genocidal aggressors, when they suffered the greatest one-day mass slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust and are now defending their nation and people from further attacks and promised annihilation? Moreover, why have so many young Americans recently praised terrorist monster Osama bin Laden after listening to TikTok “influencers” read and discuss the 9-11 mastermind’s 2002 “Letter to America”?

In large measure, it’s a direct result of American education and “woke” culture. Employing many of the same techniques Chinese communists have long used to shape the minds and loyalties of their youth, America’s colleges and universities are indoctrinating the next generation of Americans to see their lighter-skinned (“white”) countrymen as members of the imperialist oppressor class and darker-skinned “people of color” as part of the righteous oppressed class – a core Marxist teaching.

As noted earlier, America has long been overall a Christian nation. But according to the dark religion of Leftism, righteousness does not involve things like obeying God’s commandments, repenting of one’s sins and believing in and following His son, Jesus Christ. Rather, the new righteousness largely consists of simply being part of a victim/oppressed class, members of which are therefore implicitly held to a different behavioral standard than the wicked colonialist oppressors and their privileged progeny. For example, members of the “oppressed” classes are expected – and conditioned – to be angry and enraged, deserving of reparations and revenge. This of course does not mean that everyone falls for this lie – most do not. Yet, the mind-numbing spectacle of California cities essentially legalizing shoplifting below $950 in value demonstrates both sides of this deranged dynamic: The “oppressor” class makes stealing from an “oppressor” business legal, i.e. atonement and reparations, while the “oppressed/enslaved” class is given permission to appropriate said “reparations” at will.

This madness is currently being inculcated into America’s next generation, the future leaders of American government, business and culture.

In light, then, of what can accurately be characterized as straight-up Marxist brainwashing, multitudes of indoctrinated Americans are now condemning the Israelis as genocidal-colonialist-imperialist-apartheid monsters, and Hamas (who have roasted Israeli babies alive in their parents’ ovens and literally gang-raped Israeli women to death) as victims and noble freedom fighters.

‘Nothing but revenge is left to me’

Since Marxism, however artfully disguised, has become so prevalent in American education, culture and government, it might be useful to pause and consider the source.

Most people believe that Karl Marx, the originator of the ideology bearing his name, was an atheist, who sincerely came up with a system, however egregiously flawed, of reorganizing society and government to make it more equitable and just. But Marxism’s inventor was not an atheist. In reality, Karl Marx HATED God, vowing revenge on the Creator and His Heavenly realm, and said so repeatedly.

That is what Marxism is really about – hatred of God and His laws and ways, and an insane and rebellious attempt to replace the Creator’s perfect plan for mankind with a diabolical one that nevertheless sounds appealing. Kind of like the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

As scholar and author Paul Kengor, author of “The Devil and Karl Marx,” reveals:

Marx’s poems and plays are rife with pacts with the devil, suicide pacts, violence, vengeance, fire, despair, destruction and death. Marx waxed poetic about “Hellish vapors,” about the “Prince of Darkness” selling a “blood-dark sword [that] shall stab unerringly within thy soul,” of “Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well, My soul, once true to God, Is Chosen for Hell.”

Marx summed up his attitude toward God perfectly in his poem, “Invocation of One in Despair”:

So a god has snatched from me my all,
In the curse and rack of destiny.
All his worlds are gone beyond recall.
Nothing but revenge is left to me.

Kengor described Marx and his legacy in an interview with John Zmirak for “The Stream”:

“There were times when Marx seemed to be possessed by demons,” recorded Robert Payne in his chapter “The Demons.” This appeared in his seminal 1968 biography of Marx. “He had the devil’s view of the world, and the devil’s malignity. Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing works of evil.”

What is undeniable is the evil associated with and wrought by Marxist-communist ideology: at least 100 million dead in the 20th century alone.

There is an important message in all of this for decent Americans who realize their great country – from its government to its culture to its educational system to even many of its businesses – has been seriously infected with the spiritual cancer of Marxism. And it is this:

To save their country, in addition to all the obvious concrete steps like electing Donald Trump as president next November, closing the border and initiating mass deportations of illegals, re-opening America’s energy sector, stopping the insane mass mutilation of America’s children, expelling “woke” madness from America’s military, and more – all of which Trump promises to put into motion immediately if re-elected president – something else is required.

For even though America is still full of tens of millions of the most decent and soulful people on earth, their nation as a whole desperately needs a spiritual and cultural rebirth. It needs to re-embrace Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “dream” of a truly color-blind meritocracy, where no one is “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

But even deeper still, America needs to experience a true, deep and heartfelt revival, a rebirth of reverence for God and His ways and His commandments and His Son and His plan of salvation. Of loving one’s neighbor, and even one’s enemies. Of faith and forgiveness and sacrifice and humility and sincere repentance, and all the other Christian virtues.

Including courage. Yes, Americans need to rediscover the courage to speak the truth in love, which encourages and strengthens other good people, driving out fear and confusion and hopelessness. And having done so, to get down on their knees and pray fervently that a great and merciful God would spare their troubled and corrupted land, awaken its sleep-walking citizens, and breathe His redeeming life into their beloved country once again.

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Reporter Nicole Zedek at an Israeli kibbutz where 'depravity' of Hamas left babies beheaded (Video screenshot)

“In every generation they rise up to destroy us …” – from the Passover Haggadah

Like a bizarre and infinitely improbable nightmare, countless American youths are now praising 9/11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and justifying Al-Qaida’s horrendous mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans in 2001.

Why? Because they read bin Laden’s recently publicized 2002 “Letter to America” – or more likely, they watched and listened to countless “influencers” on TikTok praise the letter and attack America.

And what is the bottom line of bin Laden’s argument, disseminated widely to America’s next generation courtesy of America’s most formidable enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, which controls TikTok? Americans deserved mass murder and mayhem on Sept. 11, 2001, because, after all – drum roll – the U.S. “attacked us in Palestine.”

Now rewind to just a few weeks back, to October 7.

Shortly after Hamas terrorists fired over 5,000 rockets from Gaza into Israel that day, and then proceeded to attack the Jewish state by land, sea and air – torturing, burning, beheading and murdering well over a thousand people, including women, children and infants, and wounding and abducting hundreds more – world reaction was, in its own way, almost equally shocking.

For after the biggest one-day mass slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, what followed was an outpouring of celebratory demonstrations, unbridled Jew-hatred, deliriously gleeful support for Hamas and bitter condemnation of the nation of Israel. And not just in the Arab-Muslim world, but throughout the Western world as well, including all across America.

How could this possibly be?

After all, it’s one thing to comprehend the evil motivations and actions of an Islamic death cult – people brainwashed from birth to regard butchering Jews as a glorious religious duty and enthusiastically anticipating their own eventual “martyrdom” in that cause, to be rewarded in Paradise with endless cohabitation with 72 perpetual virgins.

But how does one explain the wildly pro-terrorist, anti-Jewish reaction of Western, non-Muslim people raised in traditionally Judeo-Christian societies like the United States, Great Britain and Western Europe?

Consider that shortly after Hamas’ appalling mass torture-murder spree:

* At New York’s Cornell University, 21-year-old Patrick Dai, posting on social media using the pseudonym "jew jenocide," threatened to "stab" and "slit the throat" of Jewish males on campus, to rape and throw off a cliff Jewish females, and behead Jewish babies in front of their parents, according to court papers. He also threatened to "bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews." Meanwhile, also at Cornell, Professor Russell Rickford praised the mass terror attack at a pro-Hamas rally, insisting “It was exhilarating, it was exhilarating, it was energizing." All while the crowd chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a popular phrase meaning the total annihilation of Israel.

* Jewish students at New York City's Cooper Union, a private college, had to lock themselves inside a library to protect themselves from pro-Hamas protesters beating their fists on the doors, screaming and attempting to enter the library. Just south, at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, police investigated a fire set on a Jewish student’s dorm room door a few days after the Hamas terror orgy. At Florida State University, the local Students for a Democratic Society chapter hosted a protest calling for “Palestinian resistance” and for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

* On the other side of the country, at UC Davis, a "radical transgender professor" of American studies named Jemma Decristo attacked “Zionist journalists” on social media. “[One] group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these Zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation,” the professor wrote. “They have houses w addresses, kids in school. They can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more,” Decristo posted. To make the blatantly threatening – and almost certainly illegal – message even more clear, Decristo added emojis of a knife, axe and blood droplets.

* Similarly, Mika Tosca, an associate professor with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and self-proclaimed "radically optimistic transsexual climate scientist," posted on social media: “Israelis are pigs. Savages. Very very bad people. Irredeemable excrement. May they rot in hell.”

However, it’s not just at the Marxist indoctrination centers known as “colleges and universities” across America that feverish pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish fervor has exploded. How about the United States government?

* Nejwa Ali, a pro-Hamas radical working for the Biden Department of Homeland Security, posted a series of anti-Israel social media posts, including a "paragliding" Free Palestine graphic celebrating Hamas' unthinkably savage surprise terror attack on Israeli young people at an outdoor concert Oct. 7. After DHS put Ali on leave, she posted in response on social media, “F--- Israel.”

And then there’s “the Squad”:

* Rep. Ilhan Omar, D.-Minn., responded to the Hamas mega-massacre by posting an image of many dead children, each wrapped in white, lying on the floor, and captioned: "CHILD GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE" and "614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IDF Forces." Except they weren’t. The image was indeed of children who had been killed, but not by the Israel Defense Forces. They were killed in a 2013 sarin nerve gas attack perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad, the Muslim dictator of Syria.

* Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., posted on Instagram about her determination “to fight for a just future” for the Palestinians, beginning with “lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.” The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Tlaib, who displays a Palestinian flag in front of her congressional office, refused to answer when Fox News correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked her to condemn the Hamas slaughter and beheading of Israeli babies.

* Shortly after Israel started to fight back following Hamas’ mass terror attack, yet another “Squad” member, Rep. Cori Bush, D.-Mo., accused Israel of committing mass murder, claiming "millions of people with nowhere to go" are "being slaughtered" in Gaza. "We can’t be silent about Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign," she wrote on X. "Babies, dead. Pregnant women, dead. Elderly, dead. Generations of families, dead."

* Just like the pro-Hamas Department of Homeland Security staffer, Black Lives Matter’s Chicago affiliate also glorified the terrorists' paraglider-assisted slaughter of Jewish civilians, including more than 240 peace concert attendees in southern Israel. The Oct. 10 "@BLMChicago" X-post showed a graphic of a man paragliding with a Palestinian flag, above the words: "I Stand with Palestine."

* Worse, just days after what many called "Israel's 9-11," a Black Lives Matter-affiliated organization called Black Lives Matter at School published a pro-Palestinian toolkit for schoolkids, to teach American children about the virtues of Hamas terrorists and the evils of Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy.

* Even some media companies – including the BBC and the Associated Press, the world's largest news organization – have instructed their reporters worldwide not to describe Hamas terrorists as "terrorists." In fact, one AP reporter based in Gaza, named Issam Adwan, has a social media history of blasting Israel as an oppressive apartheid regime, insisting it would be a triumph if Israel were "overthrown," and comparing the Jewish state to Nazis.

What is behind the widespread outpouring of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, pro-terror sentiment – even in the United States, where Israel has long been one of America’s closest friends and allies?

Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo sheds some light on this troubling phenomenon. In an article titled “Intersectionality Devolves: Left-wing radicals have long supported the violent ‘decolonization’ of Israel,” Rufo traces the history of Black Lives Matter’s wildly anti-Israel positions, including how the group’s Marxist-lesbian leader says BLM modeled its mission after the Palestinians’ cause. Writes Rufo:

In 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors led a delegation to the Palestinian territories, so that the group’s activists could learn from the “Palestinian struggle.” She condemned Israel as an “apartheid state,” and the running theme of the trip was revolution, “from Ferguson to Palestine.” The same year, Cullors signed a statement drawing parallels between the Palestinian fight against Israel and the black one against America. During a speech at Harvard Law School, Cullors went further, telling the audience: “If we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project called Israel, we’re doomed.”

“Following the carnage in Gaza,” adds Rufo, “both BLM and the DSA [Democratic Socialists for America] confirmed their support for violence”:

In other words, “woke,” confused, left-leaning young people, including countless Americans indoctrinated continually in the undiluted Marxist paradigm of “oppressors versus oppressed” (and thereby programmed to see all white people, even themselves, as oppressors and all “people of color” as oppressed) reflexively defend baby-torturing terrorists who are, at least, the right color. This helps explains the shockingly perverse worldview of many young Americans brainwashed by “public education,” “higher education” and social media weapons-of-war like TikTok.

‘The enemy of your enemy is your friend’

However, for all too many diversity-obsessed, pathologically entitled, irreligious leftwingers, their love affair with murderous jihadists goes much, much deeper. Let’s take a dive down to the bottom-line reasons for today’s “sympathy for the devil.”

First, remember that what occurred in Israel was so singularly evil, grisly, unthinkable and ISIS-like that even young male Hamas terrorists – raised from birth to lust after their own eventual “martyrdom” in the service of murdering Jews – still had to be fortified with an illicit drug that could extinguish whatever small part of their God-given conscience might still remain in them. As the Jerusalem Post reported, "Hamas terrorists who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant” which Hamas members took "to help them slaughter Israelis." Indeed, ISIS members have been known to take the same drug, the report explained, enabling terrorists "to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference."

Yet the “woke” left’s response to all this demonic depravity, both worldwide and specifically in America, is to blame Israel and all Jews, while praising Hamas.

Why, exactly, are Muslim radicals and young leftists marching arm in arm on college campuses all over America?

After all, pretty much everything Islamists believe – such as that homosexuals should be executed by being bound, blindfolded and thrown off a tall building, and that women should be virtual slaves of men, and so on – is diametrically opposed to everything leftists believe.

Well, almost everything.

There’s one area of agreement that is so powerful, deep-seated and all-consuming that the rest of the two populations’ vast differences melt away into Kumbaya harmony.

Both camps – demonically possessed jihadists and angry, deluded and entitled leftwing radicals – HATE the “people of the book,” that is, Christians and Jews. Why? Just beneath that hatred of Jews and Christians, both Islamic and Marxist “true believers” are possessed by an all-consuming spiritual revulsion toward the God of the Bible and His sacred laws of life.

“The enemy of your enemy is your friend,” goes the saying. And thus are radical terroristic Muslims and smug, entitled, narcissistic, perpetually enraged and thoroughly brainwashed leftists, the kind that populate America’s elite university campuses both as students and professors, seemingly of one mind with regard to the current war on Israel and hatred of Jews.

In these two groups’ shared rejection of Judeo-Christian values, of biblical truth and Western culture, there is an unlikely brotherhood. Let’s spell it out:

Radical Islam wants to rule the world and is at war with Christians and Jews.
Leftism wants to rule the world and is at war with Christians and Jews.

Both of these religious cults – Islamism and Leftism – encourage lying and deception. After all, they are at war, and “War is deception,” according to Sun Tzu. The Islamic name for strategic lying is taqiyya, which, according to sharia law in the Quran, is not merely permitted but sometimes mandatory. Meanwhile, leftwing politicians from President Biden on down lie continuously, justifying it by demonizing Republicans and conservatives as enemies, i.e., “white supremacists,” “fascists,” “Nazis” and – ironically – “domestic terrorists.”

As bizarre as it seems on the surface, at the deepest level Islamists and Marxists, though superficially opposites, share a common mindset: Although both were created as potential children of God, with an innate knowing of right and wrong – in other words, a conscience (literally, with knowing) – both exist in a state of war with God and Truth, and therefore are on the same side spiritually. In this state, lies are attractive, while truth is mysteriously repellent, foreign and threatening.

Both groups project wildly, accusing their enemies – the innocent and decent – of the very evils they themselves commit. Islamists (echoed by Western leftist journalists) accused Israel of bombing hospitals when they were responsible for the missile strike. In the same way, the left continually accuses Trump, Republicans, conservatives and Christians of all the evil they themselves commit. It’s the same dark nature. Though the specific programming is completely different – one believes in a false god, the other believes in no God but themselves – both equally deny and, indeed, are at war with the One True God.

“In every generation they rise up to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed be He, delivers us from their hands.” – from the Passover Haggadah

The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story in the current issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "ISRAEL VS. GLOBAL JIHAD: How Jew-hatred, radical Islam and Leftism are pushing us toward World War III."

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Joe Biden exits the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

Despite President Joe Biden’s “wag the dog” campaign (that’s when a political leader creates a diversionary tactic, usually military, to distract everyone from how horribly he’s doing at home) – in this case, traveling to Israel to look heroic while promising $100 million to the people trying to annihilate Israel – the reality back home is that Biden’s administration is fueling a full-bore Marxist revolution that threatens to annihilate America as the greatest nation in history.

As former President Donald Trump recently warned, “Our country is going communist! It's going Marxist, it's going really bad.” Trump hastened to add, “the people of our country aren't that way – but the people running it are.”

Hold on. America “is going communist”? Can the utterly unthinkable actually be true?

Unthinkable because, after all, America sacrificed hundreds of thousands of young lives fighting communism in countries across the globe – from Korea and China to Vietnam and Cambodia and Cuba and many others, and was instrumental in forming NATO to “contain” the spread of communism. Then came the showdown with the nuclear-armed Soviet Union. America’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, leading a militarily and economically stronger superpower, urged Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” – and not only did the hated Berlin Wall come down, but along with it the entire U.S.S.R.

How is it possible, then, just a few decades later, that the 45th president, Donald Trump, can state out loud what so many Americans have suspected but dared not say? That the greatest, freest and most successful nation in world history is in the throes of a full-scale communist revolution.

Here’s how author and commentator Mark Levin describes it in “American Marxism”:

The counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored, for it is devouring our society and culture, swirling around our everyday lives, and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media and entertainment. Once a mostly unrelatable, fringe and subterranean movement, it is here – it is everywhere. You, your children and your grandchildren are now immersed in it, and it threatens to destroy the greatest nation ever established, along with your freedom, family and security.

“In America,” Levin explains, “many Marxists cloak themselves in phrases like ‘progressives,’ ‘Democratic Socialists,’ ‘social activists,’ ‘community activists,’ etc., as most Americans remain openly hostile to the name Marxism.” (Marxism, of course, is the ideology, while communism is the implementation of that ideology.) Adds Levin:

They operate under myriad newly minted organizational or identifying nomenclatures, such as “Black Lives Matter” (BLM), “Antifa” and “The Squad.” And they claim to promote “economic justice,” “environmental justice,” “racial equity,” “gender equity,” etc. They have invented new theories, like Critical Race Theory, and phrases and terminologies, linked to or fit into a Marxist construct. Moreover, they claim “the dominant culture” and capitalist system are unjust and inequitable, racist and sexist, colonialist and imperialist, materialistic and destructive of the environment.

“Of course,” he concludes, the real purpose of this multi-faceted rebellion “is to tear down and tear apart the nation for a thousand reasons and in a thousand ways, thereby dispiriting and demoralizing the public; undermining the citizenry’s confidence in the nation’s institutions, traditions and customs; creating one calamity after another; weakening the nation from within; and ultimately, destroying what we know as American republicanism and capitalism.”

Not your father’s Democratic Party

In 2023 America, the Democratic Party – its agendas, its core values and its audacious and often ruthless methods – are virtually indistinguishable from those of modern-day communists. Compare the Communist Party USA’s website (CPUSA.org) with the Democratic National Committee’s website (Democrats.org) and try to discern any truly substantive difference. Since the Communist Party USA was long funded by the Soviet Union and traditionally very pro-Moscow, one might expect to encounter on its website classic party slogans like “Workers of the world, unite!” alongside photos of Marx, Lenin and other famous communists. Instead, the CPUSA’s No. 1 top-of-the-page issue is, believe it or not – as the site’s screaming headline declares it – “TRANS RIGHTS.”

“The demonization of transgender people in the United States is today a focal point of the far right’s campaign for political and economic domination,” CPUSA’s feature story begins, going on to condemn the “fascist” Republican Party for its “oppression of people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ people.”

In fact, bemoans the article:

The year 2021 saw a record number of anti-trans legislative proposals put forward by Republicans and Evangelical Christian legislators across the country. No fewer than 110 bills in at least 37 states were filed. From Hawaii to Florida, Texas to Maine, Republicans went on a full-court press to target trans people – especially trans female student athletes. …

Rousing his base with his usual recipe of hatred, former White House occupant Donald Trump has eagerly inserted himself into the rush to villainize trans people and their supporters as well, claiming, “Joe Biden and the Democrats are pushing policies that would destroy women’s sports.” Like most Republicans, he never utters the actual word transgender, for that would acknowledge the reality of trans persons.

Big question: How did card-carrying communists – who for generations have been obsessed with the “evil capitalist oppressors” exploiting and abusing the “working class” – mysteriously become preoccupied instead with insane “woke” gender ideology? Why is today’s Communist Party USA obsessed, as are today’s Democrats, with the radical LGBT agenda and the demonization of everyone – especially Christians – who stand in opposition to it? Even more fundamentally, what do seriously mentally ill men who insist they are women and who destroy women’s athletics have to do with communism?

Investigative journalist and researcher Christopher Rufo illuminates the stunning transformation of communism from the Cold War era to today in “The New Face of Marxism.”

Essentially, explains Rufo, while Soviet, Chinese and other 20th century versions of communism were based on the concept of class struggle between the downtrodden working class and capitalist overlords, America’s huge and largely contented middle class, with its unparalleled freedom and economic stability, made the “old face” of Marxism unworkable here. Thus, a new oppression paradigm for Marxism in America had to be established, namely race – the “oppressed” comprising all “people of color,” and the “oppressors” being all white people.

It was natural, then, for homosexuals and transsexuals to jump onto the same “oppressed minority” bandwagon. After all, the powerful and well-financed LGBT movement strategically modeled itself after the successful 1960s civil rights movement, casting its members as part of an aggrieved, long-victimized minority. Plus, by positioning itself as one more unjustly “marginalized community,” like African-Americans, the LGBT movement offered an additional benefit to Marxist revolutionaries: It would serve as a weapon specifically targeting Christianity – atheistic communism’s greatest enemy – since genuine Christians oppose homosexual behavior as biblically forbidden (along with adultery and other sexual sin), and could thus be portrayed as bigots and anti-LGBT “haters.”

It only followed, then, that illegal aliens (recently re-christened “undocumented immigrants”) would become yet another “oppressed minority” for today’s communists – and Democrats – to defend, recruit and weaponize as part of America’s new Marxist coalition.

Since today’s communists are obsessed with embedding their ideology and agenda deeply into the next generation, straight-up brainwashing is occurring daily in public school classrooms across America, as Rufo explains:

They’re implementing critical race theory in K-12 education, for example, dividing children by race to two sides of the room, telling children of European descent: “You should feel guilt. You should feel shame. You should feel responsible for historical crimes committed by people who look like you.” And telling the other side of the room: “You should feel anger. You should feel rage, you should feel a spirit of vengeance for the crimes perpetrated against people who looked like you in the past, by people who looked like your classmates on the other side of the room.”

In this way, many of the essential emotions and attitudes for embracing Marxism/communism – including envy, hatred of society’s “oppressor” class, a sense of personal grievance, a feeling of moral righteousness as a member of a persecuted “victim” class, and an abiding desire for revenge – are being implanted in the next generation of Americans.

‘The gospel of envy’

Rufo’s explanation of the modern-day neo-communist substitution of racial grievance and sexual and gender “minorities” for the traditional “oppressed workers” is accurate, but also raises major questions.

As a direct result of the ‘60s civil rights movement, memorably punctuated by Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, the great American middle class essentially changed its mind about racial segregation, and since the ’64 Civil Rights Act, America has been hands-down the least racist nation in the world. Likewise, illegal aliens – who have broken the law to enter and live in the U.S. illegally – are obviously not a legitimate “oppressed minority.” Nor are homosexuals, who are protected by the law in virtually every way, and who enjoy a higher average income than the general population.

So, the American Marxist narrative is a Big Lie.

But there’s more. If communism’s “oppression” paradigm can change so dramatically – from “workers versus capitalists” to “people of one race versus those of another race” to “people identifying as homosexual or transgender versus everyone holding to traditional biblical moral values” – all wildly different pretexts for rebellion and revolution – the implication is that communism/Marxism never was about any specific grievance or injustice in the first place.

The great Winston Churchill offered a giant clue to this mystery when he referred to socialism as “the gospel of envy.” His insightful description acknowledges Marxism to be the religion it truly is – a religion rooted in hatred and discontent, in envy and rebellion, in coveting what others have and despising them for having it. Small wonder Marxism/communism is atheistic.

Marx himself notoriously referred to religion as “the opium of the people” (often mistranslated “the opiate of the masses”). Yet, in keeping with the far left’s reflexive habit of accusing others of the very evils of which they themselves are guilty, Marx ironically created the ultimate false religion – which has served as the “opium” of hundreds of millions of people ever since.

So, even though in a very real sense, Marxism/communism is a religion, albeit a false and toxic one, the top leaders – the religion’s “high priests” – don’t really believe in it. Though revered as a great leader who believed in the Marxist promise of the brotherhood of man, Vladimir Lenin was a power-obsessed psychopath who loathed God, morality, the nuclear family and everything genuinely good and virtuous. Here’s a revealing quote from Lenin:

Every religious idea, every idea of God, even flirting with the idea of God, is unutterable vileness … of the most dangerous kind, contagion of the most abominable kind. Millions of sins, filthy deeds, acts of violence and physical contagions … are far less dangerous than the subtle, spiritual idea of God.

Same story with Stalin, who deliberately starved to death millions of men, women and children by blockading Ukraine’s borders and preventing any food from entering the starving region. Likewise, the “great communist leader” of China, Mao Zedong, whom top Biden adviser Anita Dunn once said on camera she reveres as one of her “favorite political philosophers,” has the distinction of having caused far more human deaths – between 40 and 80 million – than any other person in world history, far more than Hitler.

Needless to say, these were not people who believed in “equality” and “the brotherhood of man.”

In the end, the truth emerges: Marxism (and its implementation, communism) constitutes a malevolent religion. And although it has captivated untold millions, and murdered millions more, its leaders don’t believe in it and never have. It’s all a giant pretense, so they can attain and increase their own personal power, glory, wealth and privilege.

George Orwell arrived at this conclusion in his classic novel “Animal Farm,” when at the end of the story, the pigs emerge as the new oppressors of all the other farm animals, replacing the original farmer “oppressor.” When confronted with the religious mantra – “All animals are equal” – which they had long espoused while pretending to side with the rabble, now the ruling pigs with a straight face offered a slightly reworded version: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Finally, here’s how respected historian Victor Davis Hanson recently sized up America’s communist revolution: “The left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.”

Likewise, Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, aptly captured the current dynamic while campaigning recently in Michigan. Allowing that the current chaos isn’t really all Biden’s fault – because “he doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing” – Trump added that “crooked Joe” is “surrounded by radical-left Marxists and crazy people.”

The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story in the current issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "AMERICA'S COMMUNIST REVOLUTION: How the freest nation in history is rapidly becoming a Marxist police state."

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For decades, claims that human-caused climate change is rapidly destroying the earth have been preached with the authority of sacred Scripture by true believers, a vast group that includes virtually the entire “mainstream media,” Big Tech, Democrats, some scientists, and academia from preschool through grad school.

And of course, all globalists. Al Gore, at a recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, preached a fire-and-brimstone sermon, assuring the faithful that climate change is indeed decimating planet earth. “That’s what’s boiling the oceans,” he railed, his voice rising to a fever pitch, “creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees!”

Although Gore and other global-warming prophets have amassed a spectacular record of making dramatic, time-specific predictions that have utterly failed to materialize, nevertheless, so-called “climate change deniers” are increasingly likened to “Holocaust deniers.” Psychological organizations now pathologize “climate change denialism” as virtually some sort of mental illness. And Democrat politicians – including of course Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who publicly predicted “the world will end” by 2032 – have nothing but contempt and disgust for the unconverted. Even Joe Biden recently attacked skeptics of catastrophic climate change as “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers.”

Yet ironically, today’s high priests of climate-change apocalypse are actually correct in predicting that in just a few short years, the earth may well become miserable, wretched and almost uninhabitable by human beings.

But such a grim future will not come about because of “catastrophic climate change,” as global-warming zealots claim. Rather, the earth will rapidly degenerate into the pitiful and desolate habitat for mankind they predict, with massive suffering and death – if their genuinely catastrophic agenda is actually implemented.

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Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace, recently weighed in on the elites’ insistence on cutting greenhouse gases to “Net Zero,” saying: “If they actually achieve Net Zero, at least 50% of the population would die of hunger and disease.” Citing just one of many factors – the dependence by over half the world’s population on nitrogen-based fertilizer, which many climate-change activists want to ban, including in the Netherlands and Sri Lanka which have already done so – Moore adds: “So it is truly a death wish in disguise. And the disguise is to save the earth.”

Likewise, energy expert Alex Epstein, in his critically acclaimed book, “Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less,” writes:

“Today’s proposed policies to rapidly eliminate fossil fuel use would, if fully implemented, have truly apocalyptic consequences – making the world an impoverished, dangerous, and miserable place for most people. And even if fossil fuel elimination policies aren’t fully implemented,” adds Epstein, “– which they won’t be, given the expressed intent of China, Russia, and India to increase their fossil fuel use – even widespread restrictions on fossil fuel use that fall far short of elimination will shorten and inflict misery on billions of lives, especially in the poorest parts of the world.”

Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, doesn’t claim fossil fuels and CO2 emissions don’t impact climate in any way. “I totally acknowledge,” he writes, “that they have contributed to the 1-degree Celsius warming we’ve experienced over the last one-hundred-plus years.”

Question: When the scientific case for catastrophic global warming and its resulting worldwide apocalypse consists largely of a 1-degree Celsius rise in temperature over more than a century, why are all the governments of the Western world obsessed with imminent climate-change apocalypse as their unifying principle of governing, public policy, international relations and virtually everything else?

Before addressing the astonishing truth underlying what has become, in reality, a full-fledged religion created and exploited by global elites obsessed with ruling the world, let’s first consider those segments of society most captivated by this apocalyptic cult.

Ironically, while claiming to follow “the science,” global warming cult followers tend to comprise the very population demonstrating the least regard for actual science in other areas of life and public policy:

* Many believe a baby inside its mother’s womb is not a human being – at least, not until the very moment he or she is born, when that child instantaneously morphs into a person of great value, with all the natural, constitutional and God-given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. One minute earlier, the child was just a glob of worthless tissue, equivalent to a tumor that could be ripped into pieces, extracted and disposed of as medical waste. This is an entirely accurate, if graphic, representation of the prevailing belief of today’s Democratic Party, with 46 Senate Democrats having voted just last year in favor of legalizing abortion up until the very moment of birth.

* This same cult population segment tends to believe mentally ill men who claim they are women actually are women – and vice versa. Worse, they defend, or at least acquiesce to, the practice of grooming mentally fragile teenagers into undergoing horrendous amputations and other harmful, irreversible “treatments” in pursuit of “gender transitions” that are not only scientifically impossible, but insane.

* What about the news media’s obsession with climate apocalypse? Starting well over a century ago, way back in 1895 – when Grover Cleveland was president, "America the Beautiful" was first published and volleyball had just been invented – the New York Times scared its readers to death with warnings of a coming “new ice age.” This media-driven hysteria lasted into the late 1920s, when the Times suddenly switched gears and warned “the earth is steadily growing warmer.” That lasted until 1954, when Fortune magazine led the way with a warning that another ice age was coming. Although the New York Times stoked “global warming” fears into the late 1950s, by 1975 it was back to “new ice age” hysteria. A few years later, the Times reverted back to panicking its readers over global warming of an “almost unprecedented magnitude.”

(Image by Simon Berger from Pixabay)

“In all,” reveal R. Warren Anderson and Dan Gainor in their in-depth report titled “Fire and Ice,” “the print news media have warned of four separate climate changes in slightly more than 100 years – global cooling, warming, cooling again, and, perhaps not so finally, warming.” No wonder the priests of climate doom switched their label, over the last couple decades, from “global warming” to the omnidirectional phrase “climate change.”

* And what about all the scientists who have joined the cult of the climate apocalypse? Why would they go along with an overblown, politically driven hoax? The answer, sadly, became clear during the COVID era, when many scientists, doctors and hospitals took their lead from, and adopted the questionable views and medical practices of, highly politicized (and therefore dishonest) federal agencies like the FDA and the CDC. Rather than “following the science” themselves – as a few very principled doctors did, who often were seriously persecuted for their integrity – most doctors lacked the requisite courage to take a stand and risk losing their positions or even their careers. After all, the saying goes, “I have a family to support.”

* Finally, there are the millions of young people indoctrinated and traumatized continually in today’s government (“public”) school system about near-term, human-caused catastrophic climate change. Brainwashing a child into fearing the future and loathing the adults supposedly responsible for destroying their planet is egregious child abuse. Case in point: When a very troubled 16-year-old Swedish girl named Greta Thunberg, burdened with autism, OCD and eating disorders, somehow was presented to the world as the voice of the younger generation and an expert on climate science, she scolded the entire adult population in her celebrated and very angry U.N. speech: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. HOW DARE YOU? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!” she thundered. Multiply Greta Thunberg by millions, and one gets a glimpse of the trauma government education and the news media have inflicted on the next generation.

Greta Thunberg (Video screenshot)

‘Some kind of god’

But what about the real villains, the people who know the global warming religion is just a means to a greater end that has nothing whatsoever to do with the weather?

The global elites – the super-wealthy climate-change high priests like Al Gore who fly into Davos in their mega-gas-guzzling-and-polluting private jets while scolding everyone else for driving cars, and who dine on steak and lobster while admonishing the rest of the world to eat insects – these are the high priests of the global apocalyptic climate cult.

Al Gore in Paris, France

To understand them, it’s first essential to dispense with the old paradigms of “liberal,” “progressive,” “democratic” and other feelgood but meaningless ideological labels. The true leaders of this movement are people whose only ideology and value system is personal wealth, power, privilege, honor and glory for themselves, and who are completely obsessed with ruling planet earth. They want to be gods. So far, only billionaire leftist George Soros has had the nerve to actually describe himself, to the news media, as “some kind of god.”

Unfortunately, these sociopaths benefit from a de facto camouflage, rooted in the innate decency of normal people who simply do not comprehend what it is to be a sociopath. After all, moral people with an intact conscience, which probably still includes most Americans, readily understand the normal flaws that beset normal people – like becoming upset, angry, envious, double-minded, anxious, depressed, perhaps even enraged. They do not, however, readily recognize nor comprehend the desire to control the world, the willingness to let massive numbers of people suffer and die, the ability to look directly into a television camera – which is to say, to look right into the eyes of millions of people – and lie without any inner conflict. Sociopaths comprise a breed of people animated by feelings, desires and ambitions totally foreign to regular folks who are thus blind to this elite community that includes some of the top climate-change global high priests.

‘The climate change agenda is a hoax’

Is there any hope? America’s future direction, and by extension much of the world’s future, rides heavily on the outcome of the November 2024 election, and this is especially true with regard to climate change.

Whereas Biden has publicly promised to completely eliminate fossil fuels from America, a statement that is not only entirely insane, but catastrophically destructive to the nation, the GOP presidential candidates tend to be far more reality-based. Vivek Ramaswamy, on-stage at the first GOP presidential debate in August, said: “The climate change agenda is a hoax. ... And so the reality is, more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”

For his part, Donald Trump, far and away the top GOP contender for the presidency next year, has a clear record of boldly and sensibly dealing with climate hysteria. During his presidency, he withdrew from Obama’s job-destroying and obviously unfair Paris Climate Accords, rolled back destructive and perverse regulations, and made America energy independent and a net oil exporter. Recently, Trump called for an end to the “madness” of Joe Biden’s big push for electric vehicles in the U.S., adding that this would send all auto manufacturing jobs to China and effectively destroy America’s automobile industry.

President Donald J. Trump on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

How about blocking the sun?

Finally, consider that a slew of multi-billionaire leftists, including George Soros and Bill Gates, are enthusiastically pushing for “solar geoengineering,” a nice scientific-sounding phrase for blocking sunlight from reaching the earth.

In fact, reports Forbes, Gates “is financially backing the development of sun-dimming technology that would potentially reflect sunlight out of Earth’s atmosphere, triggering a global cooling effect. The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), launched by Harvard University scientists, aims to examine this solution by spraying non-toxic calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dust into the atmosphere – a sun-reflecting aerosol that may offset the effects of global warming.”

Blocking the sun has become something of an obsession with leftist billionaires bent on ruling the planet. As Time magazine reported earlier this year, “Among the world’s ultra-rich, plans to swat back the sun’s rays like they’re capital gains taxes … have seemingly been all the rage.”

(Image by WikiImages from Pixabay)

For example, Time revealed, “Jeff Bezos put Amazon’s supercomputer capabilities to work modeling the effects of plans to inject huge amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere.” Likewise, “Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire Facebook cofounder, plowed $900,000 into funding for scientists in Mali, Brazil, Thailand, and other countries to study the potential effects of solar geoengineering.”

Blocking the sun’s rays from reaching the earth. What could possibly go wrong?

“Such proposals to essentially hack the atmosphere,” Time adds, belatedly, “have long been controversial in the climate science world due to potential side effects on global weather.”

It’s always those pesky “side effects” that cause all the problems.

Predictably, in June the Biden White House announced it is now studying congressional proposals to block sunlight to reduce global warming.

According to the White House’s official report on the project: “A program of research into the scientific and societal implications of solar radiation modification (SRM) would enable better-informed decisions about the potential risks and benefits of SRM as a component of climate policy, alongside the foundational elements of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and adaptation. Such a research program would also help to prepare the United States for possible deployment of SRM by other public or private actors.”

All of this because of a 1-degree rise in temperature over the course of more than 140 years.

But then, it never was about a minuscule rise in global temperature. It's all about creating and sustaining the ultimate “emergency” – the most perfect “manufactured crisis” imaginable since it affects every person on earth. And since the entire existence of life on earth hangs in the balance, it’s necessary, under cover of this new global “climate” religion, to suspend the rule of law, trash the Constitution, crush free speech, terrify all the children, destroy entire industries, prosecute dissenters, impoverish billions, and establish a total global dictatorship.

But all for the public’s good, of course.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story to the September 2023 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, an issue titled “CULT OF THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE: The elites’ breathtaking strategy for ruling the world.”

The heart and soul of today’s bizarre, pagan climate-change religion, and the global elites’ strategies for using it to rule all of mankind, is powerfully exposed and illuminated in this issue. WHISTLEBLOWER is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.

(Official White House photo by Erin Scott)

The Biden administration policy of intentionally engineering a full-scale foreign invasion of America across her southern border – which in turn has facilitated what a key federal whistleblower calls a “large-scale, multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation” with “the U.S. government" as "the middleman” – is evil, most normal people would agree.

This mega-crisis resulted in the passage of Republican-led legislation last month to slow down the endless waves of exploited humans illegally entering the U.S. by extending Donald Trump's border wall. But as everyone now knows, to sabotage the legislation Biden has been essentially throwing away $300 million worth of taxpayer-funded border-wall components by auctioning them off for next to nothing, just to make sure the wall is never built, and that the alien invasion – including the cartel-financed sex trafficking of countless young children – continues.

Again, all this is evil. There's really no other way to describe it.

But it’s much the same with every other issue today: Americans are living through a time of total spiritual warfare, wherein virtually all of the most contentious, consequential issues facing them are neither political, ideological nor psychological at core. They're spiritual – good versus evil, truth versus deception, freedom versus slavery, life versus death.

Think about it: There’s the early sexualization of innocent children in the nation’s public schools. That's just evil. Same with the mass-hysteria transgender craze that seduces mentally fragile teenagers into undergoing mutilating and irreversible surgeries. And the ongoing love affair with killing human babies in their mother’s womb. And the ever-growing persecution of law-abiding, God-fearing Americans branded as “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists” for daring to stand up at school board meetings to protest their kids’ brainwashing, or for standing peacefully outside an abortion clinic. Everywhere you look, good is portrayed as evil and evil as good.

Today’s ruling elites champion policies that all previous generations of Americans, going back to the nation’s founding, would have regarded as immoral, destructive, insane ... and yes, evil. And of course, these same sociopathic “leaders” are in turn – knowingly or unknowingly – laboring in the service of exceedingly dark spiritual “powers and principalities in high places,” as the Bible puts it.

Honest, insightful journalist-pundits from Tucker Carlson to Jason Whitlock to James O’Keefe are all openly affirming this reality: In today’s excruciatingly conflicted America, virtually everything is spiritual. In fact, as Tucker Carlson recently put it: “It's clearly a pivot point in history. There are unseen forces acting on people. People, while they have freewill, are not really in charge of the arc of history at all. A lot of these issues are symbols of a larger battle.”

And that brings back to center stage the supremely radioactive issue – illuminated by the hit summer film “Sound of Freedom” – of the widespread trafficking and sexual slavery of children, as well as the shocking prevalence of pedophiles in the United States of America. Indeed, the U.S. is the largest market for child sexual abuse in the world.

Although much can and should be said about the who, what, when, where and how of such a loathsome, unspeakable criminal enterprise, the first and most important question is why? Obviously, there’s big money in the sexual trafficking of children, just as there is in the trafficking of illicit drugs, but what explains the huge market for child sex in the first place? To put a fine point on the question: What is it about little children that is in any way sexually attractive to some people? Innocent prepubescent children are the opposite of sexually appealing, as they represent pure, unspoiled, uncorrupted spiritual sweetness and innocence.

And that’s exactly the point. Actor Jim Caviezel, who portrays child-rescuer Tim Ballard in “Sound of Freedom,” zoomed in on the answer in a recent interview.

Jim Caviezel starring in 'Sound of Freedom' (Trailer video screenshot)

Question: “When you talk about the evil in the human trafficking, the slavery of children, it’s the kind of thing that beggars the imagination – you know, you can barely understand how people could do something like that …”

Caviezel: “No, I understand it. … I had guys who helped me to understand the psychology: [The perpetrators are] starting older, with pornography, and you just keep going younger and younger and younger. And I said, ‘Well, why would a man be interested in an unformed woman?’ And he said, ‘The innocence, [it’s] the demonic thing that [wants] this innocent child,’ and it becomes more attractive to them.”

In other words, to an extremely corrupt person at war with God, a child’s innocence and purity causes great discomfort – agony, in fact – just as sunlight does to the proverbial vampire. It burns. The child’s innocence constitutes a deep and unwelcome reminder of everything the perpetrator has lost, and some incorrigibly corrupt souls simply cannot stand it – and thus feel compelled to put out the light. That is why they experience a perverse, demonic pleasure, far beyond the sexual release, when they invade that child’s unspoiled, precious innocence by sexually violating and “initiating” him or her into their dark realm.

In light of this, it’s doubly shocking to realize – as Tim Ballard, who has led many missions rescuing sex-trafficked children around the world, points out – that the Biden administration is actually enabling and promoting the trafficking and sexual slavery of children.

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To illustrate his point, Ballard describes what he found during a recent rescue mission in Ukraine, in which his team saved many sex-trafficked children in that war-torn nation.

“We locked into this pedophile ring,” he told one interviewer. “Now, it’s a frightening ring, because it’s a political party that was out of Holland, called the PNVD … They’re trying to legalize sex with children – they thought a 3-year-old could consent to sex. … I had to study their literature, this was a political platform …

“I called [their agenda] the ‘Pedophile Network Doctrines,’ and they include things like: Separate children from parents because parents are a bad influence – the state knows best; two, sexualize kids, let them see pornography; three, take God out of education, because that just gets in their way; and kids – consent, consent, consent – children can consent to anything. At 12 years old they should be able to vote, they should be able to do anything.”

Ballard continues, incredulously: “Now, what am I seeing here? My stomach is getting sick as I’m reading this. I read this every day – it’s the woke left’s agenda! I’m not saying they’re colluding or talking; it doesn’t matter. It’s the same dark source. Pedophiles are sitting back right now and going, ‘We’ve been pushing this agenda for decades, and now we don’t have to push any more, because the left is taking care of it for us’ – in America. In America!”

One unmistakable clue that sympathy for pedophilia is more prevalent in the U.S. than one might have thought possible is the tremendous campaign against “Sound of Freedom” by Hollywood, many media organizations and other parts of the “elite class.”

Indeed, as Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the respected founder of the Ruth Institute, an interfaith international coalition to defend the family, has said: “There's no other way to describe it: The global elite likes pedophilia.”

The most familiar albeit infamous elite example, of course, would be Jeffrey Epstein and his so-called “Pedophile Island” in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which served as the hub of an international sex trafficking ring exploiting girls as young as 11. It was frequently visited by world celebrities, from Prince Andrew to – according to multiple sources – Bill Clinton. In 2019, Epstein died suspiciously in a New York detention center while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Officials insisted he had committed suicide, although numerous forensic experts claimed suicide was virtually impossible based on Epstein’s injuries, and there was enormous motivation for famous participants to want him silenced. After all, Epstein’s private Boeing 727, the “Lolita Express,” often took famous guests to his private island. And according to flight logs, Bill Clinton traveled to various locations on Epstein’s plane a total of 26 times, at least five times without his Secret Service detail.

‘Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms’

Then there’s Hollywood, long known for its outsized share of wild sexual immorality, including the abuse, sexual and otherwise, of children. But perhaps the best evidence of Hollywood’s sympathy for underage sex and, therefore, its aversion to “Sound of Freedom” is that, although the filming was completed in 2018 and the filmmakers had a distribution contract with 20th Century Fox, the movie was mysteriously put on ice after the Walt Disney Company acquired 20th Century Fox in early 2019. Eventually, Angel Studios, the small media company that also produces “The Chosen” TV series about the life of Christ, acquired the rights and “Sound of Freedom” was finally released on July 4 of this year.

Likewise, many left-leaning media outlets have taken to attacking “Sound of Freedom,” some claiming the anti-child trafficking blockbuster is a "QAnon fantasy." For example, Rolling Stone’s review – headlined ''Sound Of Freedom' Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms' – claims “The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer." The Guardian newspaper similarly describes “Sound of Freedom” as “the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America.”

What’s going on? What is so threatening about a film forthrightly documenting the horrors of child sex slavery – and showing a genuine way out?

Caviezel offered as good an analysis of this strange phenomenon as anyone.

“At one point,” he said, recalling a conversation shortly before “Sound of Freedom’s” public release, “I remember telling Tim [Ballard], ‘I think we’ve got lightning in a bottle.’ And he said, ‘That’s good, right?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but it’s gonna be hard.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because when it’s this good, darkness gets very, very upset – because it’s not a little light, it’s a mega-light, and it’s gonna draw a lot of attention.”

The bizarre, almost surreal defensiveness of America’s elite institutions in response to the film becomes somewhat more understandable when Ballard focuses his attention on the Biden administration – particularly its border policy. Before breaking away from the federal government to pursue rescuing children privately, Ballard spent over a decade as an undercover special agent for the Department of Homeland Security, spending much time at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a 2019 op-ed titled “I’ve fought sex trafficking at the border. This is why we need a wall,” Ballard explained the importance of Donald Trump’s intended wall along America’s southern border, citing several real-life illustrations, including one about a trafficking victim named Liliana:

Liliana was kidnapped at age 11 from her village in Central America. After two years of grooming her for commercial sex, she was taken by her captors across the southern border at a location where no wall existed (approximately 70 percent of the border is wall-less). Her traffickers easily transported her to New York City, where she was raped for money up to 30-40 times a day for five years. She eventually escaped and my foundation is now caring for her as she prepares to testify in federal court against her captors. In accordance with U.S. laws, as a survivor of sex trafficking in America, Liliana has been granted legal status and will soon be a U.S. citizen. …

Having reflected on her tragic plight, Liliana has recently weighed in on the current national debate. “Had there been a wall for me,” she declared, “my captors would have been forced to take me to a port of entry. A U.S. officer might have seen my distress. I might have yelled out to them. I am currently working with Homeland Security agents on my case. I love them. I think they would have rescued me at the port of entry.”

Ballard’s concerns were confirmed by Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Services whistleblower, who testified in April before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. Because of the Biden administration's border policies, she said, a “staggering 85,000” migrant children “are missing” in America.

“Today,” the whistleblower testified, “children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report they are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.”

Under Biden, she pleaded, “the U.S. government has become the middleman in a large-scale, multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation.”

And as Ballard told a Daily Signal interviewer just last month, “The bottom line is this, guys: Children are being trafficked into the United States. And when they get into the United States, it's very scary because we're the No. 1 country for consuming child exploitation material. So, you don't want to be a lost child in this country. And the last hope they have if they're being smuggled or trafficked through the southern border is at that port of entry – the walls FORCE the traffickers to take the kids there, where trained women and men in uniform can identify and rescue them. I've seen it, I've been part of that. And that's basically what I said to [President Trump] when he asked about human trafficking on the southern border.”

The preceding is the introductory article to the groundbreaking August issue of WND’s monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled “THE NEW AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE: How the Biden regime enables and promotes child sex trafficking in the U.S.A.”

The entire issue focuses a bright journalistic light on the secret criminal mega-enterprise of child sex trafficking and the global elites’ affinity for pedophilia. Whistleblower is available both in the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.

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President Donald J. Trump waves and gestures to the crowd upon his arrival to Midland International Air and Space Port in Midland, Texas, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

A little over a year from now, Americans will have the opportunity to choose not only their next president, but their national destiny. It’s that serious.

As things currently stand, their choice will be between two men: One has already proven, as president, that he has contempt for America and her people and fully intends to dismantle the greatest nation in history. The other has likewise proven, as president, that he loves America and Americans, and fully intends to restore their nation to its former greatness.

Yet the outcome of this essentially good-versus-evil contest is currently very much in doubt. How can that be?

Let’s set the stage by briefly widening our focus and honestly considering the era in which we now live:

Two and a half centuries after being founded by visionary, God-fearing patriots, the United States of America is currently being seduced, betrayed, robbed and ruined by an elite ruling class consisting largely of power-addicted sociopaths.

The current U.S. president, Joe Biden, is a criminal – in fact, he's the patriarch (“big guy”) of an entire crime family. Their influence-peddling operations, through which many family members have raked in millions of dollars selling access to Biden to foreign actors – including major adversaries China and Russia – are now well-documented and indisputable, leading members of Congress to introduce articles of impeachment, and some congressmen and veteran analysts even to accuse Biden of the high crime of treason.

Moreover, Biden’s perverse policies in every area – from intentionally destroying America’s energy sector to intentionally engineering a massive foreign invasion of America – are degrading the nation at breathtaking speed.

And of course, the election process by which the obviously incompetent and mentally impaired Biden became leader of the free world in 2020 was egregiously compromised – which is to say, rigged – a fact every politically aware American now knows to be true, thanks to recent revelations confirming epic collusion between the FBI and Big Tech in suppressing extremely negative news about Biden shortly before the election.

The Democrats’ previous presidential contender in 2016, Hillary Clinton, is likewise epically corrupt and criminal. "No one has even come close in recent years to enriching themselves on the scale of the Clintons while they or a spouse continued to serve in public office," reveals respected author-journalist Peter Schweitzer in "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Business Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich."

Before Biden and Clinton, America had to endure eight years of Barack Obama, a quintessentially amoral, “end-justifies-the means” Marxist radical who employed all the far left’s revolutionary warfare tactics espoused by his mentor, “Rules for Radicals” author Saul Alinsky. Propelled to the White House on promises that “America’s first black president” would heal any remaining racial tensions in America, Obama did precisely the opposite, continually fomenting, exacerbating and flat-out manufacturing racial hatreds where few or none existed.

Barack Obama inflicted more genuine, lasting harm on America than any president in the history of the republic. At least, until Joe Biden became the puppet head of what many call “Obama’s third term.”

Down the escalator

So, into this boiling cauldron of revolutionary, elitist, globalist, criminal and demonic forces dared to step billionaire businessman and television celebrity Donald J. Trump.

On June 16, 2015, following his famous ride down the Trump Tower escalator with wife Melania at his side, Trump announced he was entering the race for the presidency. From that day until now, eight years later, Trump has been public enemy number one of “the ruling class,” “the elites,” the “Deep State,” or as many call it, the Washington, D.C. “Swamp,” which Trump promised to “drain.”

It didn’t matter that virtually every policy Trump proposed – from making America energy independent, to rebuilding her military, to negotiating more favorable trade agreements with other nations, to securing America’s borders to halt the increasingly out-of-control invasion – was eminently sensible and in-sync with the values of the great center-right American middle class, traditionally the nation’s moral and economic backbone. The elites of government, media, culture and academia immediately began their nonstop attacks on Donald Trump as the new Hitler.

An example from Day One: When Trump commented on the rampant sexual abuse of women and girls making the trek northward through Mexico to America’s southern border, he used the term “rapists” to describe some of the men involved. Fact: The sexual abuse rate for women and girls heading through Mexico to America, according to Amnesty International, is a horrendous 60%, although some organizations peg it as low as 30% and others as high as 80%. That's a lot of "rapists." Indeed, being sexually abused has long been essentially the price of admission for women and girls trying to enter America illegally from the south.

Yet, after Trump called attention to this scandalously under-reported sexual predation on women and girls, he was idiotically accused for months, and in some cases even for years, of having accused Mexicans in general of being rapists. “He calls Mexicans rapists!” whined virtually every leftwing news network and cable channel host. Indeed, some major media voices even inserted the word “all” so they could fraudulently quote Trump as having said, “All Mexicans are rapists.”

Nevertheless, to the everlasting shock and horror of the elites, Trump prevailed in the 2016 presidential election.

It’s essential to understand that Trump was not supposed to win. That eventuality was not anywhere in the elites’ playbook. It could not happen. Virtually every major establishment polling firm confidently predicted Hillary Clinton would become the 45th president.

Since his surprise election, the same pattern of hysterical and breathtakingly dishonest attacks on Trump has continued and enlarged, year after year, into the present.

Why? Very simply – unlike so many Republicans who, despite their occasional strong rhetoric, are just too comfortable with the privileges, prestige, wealth and power of the D.C. Swamp – Trump represents a genuine threat to the Deep State, which considers it utterly irrelevant that the former president’s agenda and ideas resonate powerfully with the American public. It doesn't matter that he is a smart, experienced, savvy negotiator who can deftly manage foreign leaders, even the most psychopathic, like North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It doesn't t matter that Trump has demonstrated abundant common sense, energy, capacity for hard work, and genuine courage. Or that he possesses an authentic love and respect for America, its people, its military, its key institutions. Trump truly believes America was the greatest nation on earth, and pledges to help make it great again.

None of that matters to the ruling elites. In fact, that's the problem. So, from their perspective, Trump has to be destroyed.

Thus, having failed to knock Trump out during his four years as president via the fabricated Trump-Russia collusion scandal – conceived and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign, as the Durham report conclusively proves – or through two circus-like impeachment trials, the D.C. elites have gone into overdrive to stop Trump from winning the 2024 presidential election.

First, there was “January 6.” An early 2021 demonstration-turned-riot by Trump supporters who passionately believed, with good reason, that the recent election – and therefore their country – had just been stolen from them, was converted by deceitfully opportunistic Democrats and their media propagandists into an “armed insurrection,” even though none of the protesters arrested for walking around in the Capitol building were armed. Biden called it “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” while Vice President Kamala Harris somberly compared the riot with Imperial Japan’s surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor and Al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, mass terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Each of those attacks resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans. But the only person killed on Jan. 6 was an unarmed female Trump supporter, Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead at close range and without provocation by a Capitol Hill policeman.

Today, with approximately a thousand pro-Trump Americans already arrested, many on absurd charges like trespassing, some are still cruelly imprisoned in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has promised – two years later – to arrest yet another thousand pro-Trump demonstrators for something-or-other they supposedly did on Jan. 6, 2021.

Then in March of this year, Trump was indicted in New York on 34 counts of supposedly "falsifying business records in the first degree," the trial conveniently scheduled to begin on March 25, 2024 – right in the middle of the 2024 election cycle. In June, still more indictments were filed against Trump, this time on 37 federal criminal charges related to his handling of classified government documents.

And most recently, Trump has been notified by Biden's Department of Justice that he is now a "target of the January 6th Grand Jury"! Indeed, the Democrats’ end-game appears to be a perverse attempt to constitutionally bar Trump from ever again seeking public office on the grounds that he violated the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which forbids any person from holding any elected office who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States of America.

Honest and knowledgeable legal analysts not in league with the Biden administration openly classify the indictments against Trump as somewhere between frivolous and obviously politically motivated – and the ultimate proof of a two-tiered justice system.

And yet, Trump is already facing – during the white heat schedule of a history-changing election year when presidential candidates are campaigning around the clock – being embroiled in never-ending, back-to-back trials. Specifically, his “New York civil fraud trial” starts in just a few weeks, on Oct. 2, 2023. Then the “second E. Jean Carroll civil defamation trial” starts three months later on Jan. 15, 2024. Then the “Manhattan hush-money trial” starts just two months after that, on March 25, 2024. And then two months later, starting May 20, 2024, begins Trump’s “federal classified documents trial” in Florida! In other words, Trump’s opponents intend to keep him tied up in shameful, bogus, politically motivated trial after trial after trial after trial throughout the entire election season.

Oh, and what happens if these grotesque trials deliver guilty verdicts? Legal experts calculate that the 77-year-old former president could be facing over 400 years in prison.

2 radically different standards of justice

Of course, in keeping with the left’s reflexive defense mechanism of projection – that is, accusing others of the very evils of which they themselves are guilty – the compulsion to treat Donald Trump like a criminal has everything to do with the fact that his accusers and persecutors themselves are criminals.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich fleshes out this point in a recent article headlined “The Wrong Indictments,” when we writes: “The left has been desperately trying to stop Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015 (recall the made-up Trump Tower-Moscow scandal, the phony Russia-Trump collusion scandal, the made-for-TV impeachment efforts, etc.).”

Dismissing the indictments against Trump as entirely political, Gingrich goes on to say, “There are several other indictments that should have been announced to reestablish the integrity of the rule of law.”

First, corrupt FBI agents such as those identified in the Durham Report should have already been indicted for extraordinary violations of their oaths of office. They lied to FISA court judges. They deliberately pursued a case they knew was based on a lie. They leaked knowingly phony information to the left-wing media to further undermine Trump – first as a candidate and then as the President of the United States. They should all face legal consequences.

Other FBI officials should be indicted for colluding to protect Hillary Clinton when she clearly broke the law repeatedly. How many classified documents were saved on then-Secretary of State Clinton’s illegal home server? How did her emails end up on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? How does someone erase more than 32,000 potentially evidentiary emails and get off scot-free? How does a government official order her staff to destroy evidentiary hard drives with a hammer and face no consequences? Further, why did the then-director of the FBI arrogate to himself a decision that belongs to prosecutors and hold a press conference exonerating Clinton during a presidential campaign?

After exposing still other Deep State malefactors and recommending various additional prosecutions, Gingrich concludes, sensationally:

President Biden, Hunter Biden, and other members of the Biden family should be under indictment for influence peddling and accepting bribes.

Does anyone seriously believe the widow of the mayor of Moscow sent Hunter Biden $3.5 million out of the goodness of her heart? Did the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma pay Hunter Biden millions because of his expertise? Does anyone really think a Chinese billionaire sent Hunter Biden an exquisite diamond just because they are just good friends?

Chairman James Comer and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability have produced evidence that the depth of deliberate corruption in the Biden family operation is worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. The Bidens have created layers of phony companies as pass-throughs to hide a trail of foreign money they’ve been getting.

President Biden claims to know nothing of his son’s business dealings, but the records show then-Vice President Biden was routinely meeting with Hunter Biden’s business associates. The evidence is clear that Biden’s brother was also deeply involved in the influence-peddling scheme.

Much of this was initially reported as Hunter Biden’s laptop began to be investigated. Biden government officials immediately falsely claimed the story was Russian disinformation. Whistleblowers and potential eyewitnesses have been surfacing. Yet, after three years, there has been no action. In fact, FBI leadership insisted that the IRS disband a team that was looking into Hunter Biden and corruption.

These are the indictments that should have been announced this week. Instead, the FBI has protected the Bidens just as it protected the Clintons.

The contrast with the ruthless, dishonest, and illegal efforts to ruin President Trump is stunning.

Prime rib for me, insects for thee

Finally, just to drill down to the very heart and soul of the matter, it’s necessary to try to understand the non-understandable – that is, to comprehend the mindset of people so compromised, corrupt and without conscience that regular, decent people cannot easily comprehend how such people think, reason and justify their egregious crimes.

In fact, it may be easier to glimpse this aberrant mindset by briefly focusing on the larger “swamp” – the globalist elites, the George Soros and Bill Gates types, the World Economic Forum bigwigs like Klaus Schwab and Biden envoy John Kerry and even China’s Xi Jinping, who sometimes headlines WEF events.

These are people who literally want to rule the world.

Consider, just as one example, that these elite globalists passionately proselytize for the elimination of gasoline-powered vehicles and encourage the world’s populations to give up eating meat – all, of course, rooted in their fervent concerns over “catastrophic climate change.” Yet these very same people fly into these catered Davos shindigs in their private jets and dine on lobster tail and prime rib, while simultaneously urging the rest of the world (i.e., “the rabble”) to eat insects.

Such staggering hypocrisy, ego and arrogance – masked by a messianic religious zeal and feigned devotion to a higher good for all mankind – is precisely the mentality of American elites like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and others.

So, this is the nation – and world – the next president will have to deal with. Right now, there is only one person who has demonstrated, in the great arena, the almost superhuman strength to make a positive difference in an extraordinarily dangerous world and, at home, a society populated with so many pathologically corrupt players and institutions. That person is Donald J. Trump.

And don’t forget the profound truth Trump often cites, and which he repeated at a Georgia rally a few weeks ago, when he reminded the audience: “In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you – and I'm just standing in their way.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is the introductory story in the July issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian. The entire issue explores in-depth the Deep State’s nonstop persecution of Donald Trump since 2015 – over eight years – as well as the astonishing back story of the totalitarian agenda Trump’s persecutors are attempting to implement in America and how Trump represents a mortal threat to their nefarious designs.

The issue is titled “THE PERSECUTION OF DONALD TRUMP: Why the ruling elites loathe – and fear – the 45th president,” and is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either as single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.

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Americans – at least those who are neither hypnotized nor overly intimidated by insane “woke” religious ideology – know their beloved country is in serious trouble. They watch in horror and sadness as it rapidly morphs into a pagan playground for sexual revolutionaries masquerading as freedom fighters.

Thus, today all things corrupt and unholy are celebrated, with the entire month of June officially set aside as “Pride Month” to honor and publicly flaunt immoral, perverted sexual behaviors widely practiced in the ancient biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

At the same time, everything good, decent, wholesome and moral is, for some strange reason, now demonized. This is the reality Americans have been living with throughout the third term of Barack Obama, half-seriously masquerading as “the Biden administration.”

Quick review: Today, “straight white men” holding to conservative Christian values are routinely condemned by powerful leftist political leaders – utterly without evidence – as “white supremacists,” “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.” This is not entirely new, as “the patriarchy” has been vilified by large parts of the leftwing feminist movement for decades, an attack on men that continues into the present day.

Incredibly, even America’s children have become front-and-center targets of the revolutionary left’s transformational agenda. Early sexualization – considered a heinous crime in previous eras – is widespread in the increasingly toxic “public” (government) school system. Young people are also indoctrinated daily with toxic Marxist ideologies like “critical race theory” and taught to hate their own country – all while being scared to death about the imminent end of the world due to out-of-control “climate change.”

So much for the men and the children.

But what about America’s women?

Few are talking about what is, in truth, the ascendant radical left’s complete and total war against women.

Fortunately, at least one aspect of this war is receiving some publicity, providing a glimpse of the pagan left’s larger hidden agenda with regard to women. That would be the bizarre phenomenon of male athletes pretending to be female – and then dominating women’s athletic competitions. Without question, if the current trend is allowed to continue, eventually mentally ill (or simply deceitful and opportunistic) men will destroy women’s competitive sports worldwide.

But ruining women’s athletics, from high-school track to the Olympics, is just the tip of the “woke” radical left’s woman-annihilating iceberg.

Droves of male criminals are now, once convicted, suddenly “identifying as” women so they can be incarcerated with female inmates, resulting predictably in multiple reports of women being raped and sexually assaulted in prison while serving their sentences.

Even though this policy is obviously cruel, criminal and insane, the penal system blithely facilitates it. Why? To do otherwise would be to violate the sacred laws of modern life handed down from on high by the ever-expanding, shape-shifting, cultural god known as “LGBTQIA+.”

After all, as author and talk-host Dennis Prager has correctly observed, “The dominant force in America and many other Western countries today is fear of the left.”

It’s not just sports teams and prisons where sick men are ravaging women – all with the approval of governing authorities. Men masquerading as women are likewise invading the rest of women’s spaces – from their locker rooms and bathrooms, to girls’ schools, dormitories and sororities, to women’s shelters, spas and social organizations and much more. In the process they are stealing women’s scholarships, advancement, honors and myriad other opportunities. Worse, they are placing women in mortal danger, since – as recent headlines prove – objecting to any of this predatory madness often results in extreme anger, and sometimes violence, on the part of the male pretending to be female.

Even more troubling is the virtual epidemic of LGBT activists grooming middle-school and high-school girls into transgenderism. Yes, young boys are caught up in the transgender craze as well, which is equally tragic. But a uniquely widespread “mass hysteria” is manifesting among teenaged girls. As documented by Abigail Shrier, author of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," one recent study demonstrating today's widespread "peer contagion among adolescent females" reveals how "anxiety-ridden, middle-class girls who once engaged in cutting or anorexia [are] now wearing 'binders' (breast-compressing undergarments), taking testosterone and undergoing voluntary double mastectomies."

So it’s no surprise, as NBC News reported in February, that the “CDC says teen girls are caught in an extreme wave of sadness and violence.” Revealing that a “new report finds an ‘overwhelming wave of violence and trauma’ and never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among high school students in the U.S.,” the story cites the CDC’s own shocking statistics: “Nearly 3 in 5 teen girls (57%) said they felt ‘persistently sad or hopeless.’ That's the highest rate in a decade. And 30% said they have seriously considered dying by suicide.”

Repeat: Almost one in three American teenage girls today have “seriously considered” committing suicide.

The cruelest trick

These are just some of the recent manifestations of the left’s ongoing war on women and womanhood. Before the current era, perhaps the most pervasive, consequential way women have long been attacked by the left has been the promotion and legalization of abortion. But this was the inevitable result of the radical left's relentless push for sexual promiscuity among women, perversely labeled "sexual freedom."

Thus, despite the Supreme Court’s dramatic decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year, thanks entirely to Donald Trump's having installed three pro-life justices onto the high court during his four years as president, abortion is nevertheless still legal in many states and promoted more zealously than ever. Increasingly radical groups like Jane’s Revenge regularly commit violence and arson – and threaten much worse – against pro-life clinics and personnel.

In reality, one of the cruelest tricks one can play on a woman is to convince her to kill her own child. For decades the abortion industry – staffed and promoted largely by liberal-leftists – has lied to women, telling them their unborn baby is equivalent to a clump of cells, a piece of worthless, disposable tissue like a tumor. If the client realizes it really is a baby – her baby – but cannot raise the child, the obvious solution is adoption. Yet adoption, one of the noblest acts a couple can embrace, is virtually never mentioned in abortion clinics, which are, after all, in the business of selling abortions.

In every previous epoch of Western Civilization, the crowning glory and happiness of a woman – or at least the biblical ideal embraced by most women – has centered around entering into a lifelong marriage partnership with an honorable man, becoming a mother, bringing children into the world, raising a good family and living a righteous, faithful and happy life. If the husband/father is the leader of the family, she is, as wife and mother, in many respects the center of the family.

Yet, her honored and central role in the traditional family, with its strong internal loyalties, religious ties, stability and independence, is hated by the revolutionary left. Even a century ago, when the first communist revolution unfolded in Russia, the Marxist goal of wrecking the family took center stage.

Here’s how Soviet historian Mikhail Heller explained it in his insightful book, “Cogs in the Wheel”:

One of the first things V. I. Lenin did when he came to power in the Soviet Union, after the revolution in 1917, was to have passed what amounts to our no-fault divorce statutes. Lenin, and later Stalin, determined that in order to maintain control of the people it would be necessary to completely destroy the family and restructure it.

Thus, on September 16, 1918, a law was passed whereby one could obtain a divorce by simply mailing or delivering a postcard to the local resister without the necessity of even notifying the spouse being divorced. This statute, along with the communist encouragement of sexual immorality during marriage, approval of abortion, and forcing women out of the home into the workforce, accomplished its purpose of destroying the Russian family.

Do those words describing a communist revolution long ago and far away somehow sound strangely familiar to us today? The “encouragement of sexual immorality,” along with widespread “approval of abortion” and the powerful cultural and economic factors “forcing women out of the home into the workforce” are, in today’s revolutionary America just as in the early revolutionary days of Russia, the playing out of Marx’s godless utopian fantasy.

As the late Phyllis Schlafly explained in her book, “Who Killed the American Family?”: “The American family was destroyed by a combination of political activists, judges, economic theorists, self-proclaimed experts, and left-wing politicians.”

“The goal of the progressives,” Schlafly reveals, “is to break down the American family, destroy parental authority, deny right and wrong, reduce family autonomy, and get as many people as possible dependent on government programs. That’s why liberals, especially feminists, wage a persistent attack on the institution of marriage and the traditional family structure.”

In other words, a significant part of the left’s hostility toward a happy, intact marriage and family is cravenly political: Single, divorced and unmarried women overwhelmingly vote Democrat – about 70% – and this is entirely intentional on the part of the left, which is forever promising to protect and support those in need. However, the truth is, today’s Democratic Party needs there to be ever more dependent, unhappy, dysfunctional, needy people because they comprise a major part of Democrats’ electoral base.

The left thrives on brokenness, which always seems to invite their authoritarian control.

Today, top government officials champion every aspect of this war on women and the intact family. School children, as Americans are continually told throughout the Biden presidency, don’t really belong to their parents, but to the state. “They're all our children,” Biden told teachers gathered at the 2022 National and State Teachers of the Year event. “They're not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom.” Likewise, abortion is great for the economy, insists Treasury Secretary Janet Yellon, who told a congressional committee: “I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades.”

As the left strives relentlessly to eliminate the most essential and God-blessed aspects of womanhood, its chief leaders and thinkers can no longer even agree on what a woman actually is. Sen. Marsha Blackburn memorably asked Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her March 2022 confirmation hearing, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”

To which Jackson replied: “I can't. … I am not a biologist.”

So the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court, who will serve there for life – and a woman herself – does not know what a woman is. Or if she does know, she’s not saying. This eye-bulging confusion apparently has no end-point, as even the world-renowned Johns Hopkins University recently issued a new LGBT-compliant glossary of terms that somehow manages to eliminate “women” entirely from existence! That’s right, for although the word “lesbian” has always meant “women sexually attracted to other women,” today Johns Hopkins has re-defined “lesbian” to mean – believe it or not – “a non-man attracted to non-men.”

Women are now “non-men,” mothers are now “birthing people,” and breastfeeding has been re-named “chest-feeding” – to accommodate all those menstruating, pregnant and birthing men out there.

In the final analysis, everything described here clearly falls under what the Apostle Paul famously warned about in Romans 1: When people stubbornly rebel against God and wallow in their pride, hatred, ever-growing madness and sexual immorality long enough, and show no interest in repenting, God eventually says OK, and “gives them over” to their own dark desires and delusions, as they “invent new ways of doing evil.” And their society ends up looking a lot like today’s pagan American culture.

If there is any positive side to all of this, it is that America still – miraculously – is also filled with millions of good people who, though horrified by what they see happening all around them, and to them, manage to hang onto their sanity, dignity, morals and love of God and neighbor. They know they’re called to walk with God in all things. And they strive in whatever ways are open to them to fight back, to stand tall, to speak out in hopes of one day restoring the nation they love.

But they also remember that historically – long before today’s mass hysteria, wild paganism, growing satanism, government high corruption and rampant “mental illness” – there has always been cruelty, barbarism and madness of one sort or another in this world. They likewise realize, just as their forbears who lived through previous eras of persecution came to realize, that these tribulations, terrible as they are, can be – indeed, are intended by the Creator to serve as – the grist, the catalyst, the “refiner’s fire” that mysteriously serves to help noble souls grow, thrive and walk even closer with their God.

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Joe Biden walks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as he arrives to deliver remarks in National Statuary Hall on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

Truth be told, the Democratic Party has long smiled on election fraud and abuse.

Democrats’ indefensible opposition to Voter ID laws, their expansion of Election Day into “Election Month,” their flat-out unconstitutional alteration of state election laws such as occurred in 2020, their promotion of universal vote-by-mail with the simultaneous abandonment of traditional safeguards, their advocacy of the fraud-plagued practice of “ballot harvesting,” their perverse opposition to cleaning voter rolls, their insistence that ballots mailed late be counted, and a multitude of other strategies all testify to their love affair with election fraud.

Meanwhile, conservatives who support the most basic, commonsense, universally accepted standards like Voter ID are gaslighted as racists and white supremacists, and, as Joe Biden repeatedly told the nation, rabid promoters of “Jim Crow 2.0.” This despite the fact that a large majority of black and Hispanic voters in the U.S. insist they favor Voter ID laws!

The key to understanding how Democrats can feel morally superior about encouraging and abetting election fraud – which is both a crime and a mortal assault on the most essential foundation of a civilized society – is recognizing that they tend to regard their opponents not just as wrong, but as evil. As legendary columnist Charles Krauthammer put it, “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”

Or perhaps worse than evil, if such is possible: Indeed, for many decades, Democrats have likened Republican presidents to Adolf Hitler, arguably the most reviled human being in world history.

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Columnist and talk host Larry Elder recounts a few highlights of this practice, leading off with Minnesota attorney general and former congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat and a Muslim, “compar[ing] then-President George W. Bush and 9/11 to Adolf Hitler and the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament building: ‘9/11 is the juggernaut in American history and it allows ... it’s almost like, you know, the Reichstag fire,’ Ellison said. ‘After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader of that country (Hitler) in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.’”

Sound insane? Just wait. “Comparing Republicans to Nazis has long been a national pastime of the Democratic Party,” explains Elder:

About Ronald Reagan, Steven F. Hayward, author of “The Age Of Reagan” wrote: “Liberals hated Reagan in the 1980s. Pure and simple. They used language that would make the most fervid anti-Obama rhetoric of the Tea Party seem like, well, a tea party. Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was ‘trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.’”

After Republicans took control of the House in the mid-’90s, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-controlled House to “the Duma and the Reichstag,” referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.

About President George W. Bush, billionaire Democratic contributor George Soros said, “(He displays the) supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany,” and that his administration used rhetoric that echoes his childhood in occupied Hungary. “When I hear Bush say, ‘You’re either with us or against us,’” Soros said, “it reminds me of the Germans.” He also said: “The (George W.) Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. ... Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and communist propaganda machines.”

Former Vice President Al Gore said: “(George W. Bush’s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. ... And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brown shirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President.” …

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond played the Nazi card several times. Speaking at historically black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina in 2006, Bond said, “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.” …

After the 2012 Republican National Convention, California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton said, “(Republicans) lie, and they don’t care if people think they lie. As long as you lie, (Nazi propaganda minister) Joseph Goebbels – the big lie – you keep repeating it.”

Notwithstanding the Democratic Party’s long history of concocting outrageous Hitler parallels with Republicans, the U.S. president eliciting the most extreme and widespread Hitler comparisons – by far – has been Donald J. Trump.

Joe Biden endlessly repeated “the Charlottesville lie,” which falsely held that Trump had praised “very fine” neo-Nazis at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then, when a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, was being attacked night after night by violent radicals attempting to burn it down, and Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to secure the building, as was his right and duty, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way.”

House Majority Whip James Clyburn echoed the Hitler comparison, telling CNN, “This president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities in local communities.” CNN’s Don Lemon compared Trump to Hitler on-air, as did Democratic presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke. The truth is, throughout Trump’s presidency, Democrats and media personalities continually likened the 45th U.S. president to Hitler, demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as Nazi guards, and border detention facilities as “concentration camps.”

Since the only moral response to the real Hitler was to try to assassinate him (there were 16 known plots to end Hitler’s life), merely lying, deceiving and cheating in elections would seem to be not just morally acceptable – but a moral imperative, according to this worldview.

Gaslighters accusing others of gaslighting

In every area of life and policy, the ruling elite has tried to confuse, distract, project, accuse and intimidate the American public into believing that normal, patriotic, Bible-believing folks, such as have loved and protected this uniquely blessed nation generation after generation, are somehow would-be terrorists.

Indeed, in keeping with a trademark practice of the Left – accusing others of the very evils they themselves commit – today’s elite class routinely condemns conservatives for “gaslighting” America. A story by CNN Editor-at-large Chris Cillizza, headlined “Kayleigh McEnany is gaslighting America,” is entertainingly illustrative of how real gaslighting works. The article starts:

On Tuesday night … former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said these words:

“When President Trump was president, you didn’t see crisis after crisis. You just didn’t see it.”

Yes. She really said that. With a straight face. (And yes, of course, she was on Fox News with Jesse Watters.)

The crisis-free administration that McEnany is envisioning included (among other things):

• Donald Trump being impeached by the House for an attempted quid pro quo with Ukraine

• Donald Trump being impeached by the House for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot …

• The Covid-19 pandemic ravaging across the United States

• 37 people and entities being charged with crimes as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Seven people were sentenced to prison.

… What McEnany is doing here is classic gaslighting. She is trying to make you believe that the way you remember the last four years is wrong.

In reality, of course, the various crises CNN enumerates – with the exception of COVID, a genuine crisis though not of Trump’s making – were all dramas created by gaslighting Democrats! Impeaching Trump for a routine phone call with the Ukrainian president, impeaching him again for “inciting an insurrection” that wasn’t an insurrection and that he didn’t incite, the grotesque Mueller investigation that totally failed to demonstrate that Trump “colluded with the Russians” – these were indeed “crises,” but they weren’t created by Trump. They were the intentional result of epic Democratic lying, spying, lawbreaking, election fraud, corruption and gaslighting.

‘Most diabolical administration’

To understand what’s truly occurring on the deepest level in today’s America requires a shift away from the conventional political terminology of “left-right,” “liberal-conservative,” “Democrat-Republican.”

Indeed, everything being explored here ultimately boils down to matters of good and evil.

As mega-bestselling author of “American Marxism” and talk-host Mark Levin observed, Joe Biden has led the “most diabolical presidency and most diabolical Democratic Party, probably since slavery.”

“Diabolical,” of course, means “characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil.” And in light of the Bible’s memorable characterization of the Devil as “the accuser of the brethren” (Revelation 12:10), it’s chilling to consider that good and decent Americans, the vast majority self-identifying as Christians, have never ever been falsely accused of so much evil by their own diabolical leader class as they are in the current era.

Just as the villain in the classic 1944 film “Gaslight” was superficially charming, intelligent, apparently thoughtful and caring, knowledgeable and supposedly looking out for the interests of his wife, in today’s America the power elite pretend to care about the people they rule. They likewise pretend to care about justice and equality, and condemn racism and bigotry. But it’s all an act. Their true motivations are entirely selfish and narcissistic, revolving around their desperate addiction to power, glory, privilege and worship.

To perpetuate this massive pretense, they must confuse, seduce and intimidate normal, conscience-driven people into questioning their own sanity, their perceptions of right and wrong, of moral and immoral, good and evil. Which is to say, they must gaslight.

Otherwise, the light would shine brightly on all of their darkness, their grandiose schemes and pretensions would be exposed, they would be seen for what they truly are – and their time would finally be over.

Editor's note: The preceding was excerpted from the revised and expanded edition of “The Snapping of the American Mind” by David Kupelian.

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Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House Conservation in Action Summit, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." – First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Forty-five years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union took a controversial yet principled stand for the First Amendment right to free speech when it defended a group of neo-Nazis intent on marching through Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb where many survivors of the Holocaust resided. Mind you, these would-be marchers were not boisterous conservatives such as today’s Democrats routinely label “neo-Nazis” and “white supremacists,” but actual neo-Nazis – the kind that wear swastika armbands and think Hitler was a great leader.

Although the electrifying case induced many ACLU members to resign, it ultimately came to exemplify the legal group’s unwavering commitment to the quintessential American principle of nonviolent free speech. For everyone.

Yet today, in every area of American life, free speech is routinely suppressed, often violently and sometimes with the force of law. Moreover, in keeping with the total moral inversion of the Obama-Biden era, whereas in 1978 actual neo-Nazis with their vile ideology and speech could speak and demonstrate peacefully, today’s most “controversial,” “offensive” and censored speech is almost always the most truthful, rational and moral speech, spoken by decent, law-abiding Americans – whom the ruling elites delight in labeling “Nazis,” “fascists,” “white supremacists,” “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.”

Such super-charged vilification of America’s tens of millions of conservatives, Christians and Trump supporters is matched by a newly created Orwellian lexicon of attack-phrases deployed to ridicule, discredit – and if possible, censor entirely – speech that doesn’t support the elites’ dark and deranged agenda.

These malevolent yet essentially meaningless expressions, such as “election denier,” “science denier,” “climate-change denier” and “conspiracy theorist,” are accompanied by open attacks on everything conservative and Christian as “hate speech,” “disinformation” and “misinformation.” There’s even a newly manufactured subvariant no one ever heard of before: “malinformation.”

And of course, there’s the favorite, back-of-the-hand catchall insult of the elites: “fake news.”

For example, Wikipedia lists WND as a "far-right fake news website ... known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories." That's from a website that daily publishes actual “fake news,” “falsehoods” and “conspiracy theories” on every major political and cultural topic affecting America’s future. In fact, Wikipedia’s massive 29,000-word article on Joe Biden includes only two sentences on Hunter Biden and the massive and overwhelmingly documented level of Biden family corruption and criminality. Here they are: “During the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump and his allies falsely alleged Biden had engaged in corrupt activities in Ukraine related to his son, Hunter. A joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees released in September 2020 found no wrongdoing, nor did a Republican House Oversight committee investigation by May 2023.”

So, no corruption in the Biden family, according to Wikipedia. None at all. It’s all just conspiracy theories, fake news and Russian disinformation spread by white supremacists and Nazis.

How could this happen in America?
Whatever other factors may be at play, there’s one overwhelming reason at the very heart of today’s radical, unprecedented compulsion to crush free speech: The elites – from the permanent “ruling class” in Washington D.C. (aka “the Deep State”) to their propaganda ministry called the “mainstream media” to the Big Tech oligarchs controlling the internet to Big Pharma and other corporate giants, all obsessed with ever-increasing power and wealth – are lying to Americans continually.

It follows, then, that truthful speech, which serves to expose, undermine and annihilate their self-serving agendas, constitutes the greatest threat to their reign, which in turn compels them to crush dissent at all costs. That is the very essence of totalitarianism.

Whether the forbidden speech comes from a courageous public official, a genuine journalist, a principled doctor, a concerned parent at a school board meeting, a conservative speaker booked to address a university audience, or a Christian praying outside an abortion clinic, the response of the ruling class is the same: Dare express viewpoints that undermine the elites’ official narrative and you will be reviled, suppressed and persecuted.

Thus are moral, honest Americans daily smeared as “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists” and “ultra-MAGA insurrectionists.” Or – as Joe Biden characterized tens of millions of Republicans during a major speech last summer, “semi-fascists,” a blanket attack on the great American middle class reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s on-camera remarks before the 2016 election. At a fundraising dinner, she described a very large sector of the American population (i.e., those opposing her) as “deplorable” and “irredeemable” – one of the rare times when leaders of the ruling class speak frankly and publicly about how they really feel about regular Americans.

Sometimes, as with many of the approximately 1,000 Americans arrested after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, decent people are unjustly incarcerated as in Third World dictatorships, simply for holding – and expressing – political views condemned by the ruling elites.

Bottom line: Today’s powers-that-be simply cannot stand truthful expression because it exposes both them and their self-serving agendas for what they really are. Thus, truthtellers must be censored, “cancelled” and destroyed.

Cancelling Tucker
Take Tucker Carlson, the most trusted news personality in America according to a recent poll, yet ousted by Fox News Channel’s ruling Murdoch family on Monday, April 24 with no prior notice nor reason given. The cable news giant has been seriously hemorrhaging viewers ever since. Multiple insider reports have claimed that despite official denials from all sides, Carlson’s expulsion was part of Fox’s $787.5 million out-of-court settlement of the Dominion voting machine lawsuit.

Regardless, many of America’s elites were delighted to see Fox News kill off its top show, since in their minds, the host was a purveyor of extreme rightwing conspiracy theories, an “election denier,” an ally of Vladimir Putin, and – of course – a racist. Consider:

* Tucker Carlson freely expressed the still-forbidden, though wildly obvious, truth that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. After all, totally aside from the mountain of proven election “irregularities” (the last-minute unconstitutional rule changes, the unsavory “ballot harvesting,” the double-counted ballots and so much more), Elon Musk’s public release of the previously suppressed “Twitter files” proved conclusively that the “Deep State” colluded with Big Tech to alter the outcome of the 2020 election. Period. Just weeks prior to the election, the guardians of the internet knowingly suppressed overwhelming evidence of rampant corruption and criminality on the part of the Biden family, very much including “the big guy.” Post-election polling revealed that Biden would have lost and Trump would now be president had Americans simply been allowed to hear the truth about Joe Biden before they cast their vote.

The reality of this is no longer even seriously disputed by the elite media – just totally ignored. Indeed, even Barack Obama’s CIA chief John Brennan, the man behind the pivotal “Russian disinformation letter” signed by 51 former intelligence officials denying the reality of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer, finally admitted just recently that the whole letter project “was political” – which is to say, fake.

* Carlson also exposed the Biden administration’s supremely reckless Ukraine policy of sending gargantuan amounts of taxpayer money and advanced weaponry to the epically corrupt eastern European country with no accounting required, while secretly pursuing the overthrow of Russian President Vladimir Putin – that is, a war of regime change in Moscow – thereby risking all-out global nuclear war.

* He exposed the ultra-dark insanity of the current transgender child-grooming craze, including the fact that not only are Hitlerian doctors surgically mutilating untold numbers of mentally fragile American children pursuing the impossible dream of “gender transition,” they are also plying many more children with the same drugs used to chemically castrate convicted child rapists.

* During the COVID-19 pandemic, Carlson frequently featured guests who told the forbidden truth about the pandemic, often at great personal cost, many blowing the whistle on the Biden administration’s shockingly authoritarian response to the viral outbreak and its corrupt relationship with Big Pharma, who together attempted to force every American man, woman and child to be injected with an experimental, ineffective and dangerous drug.

* He likewise exposed some of the many outrageous lies and injustices associated with the January 6 Capitol riot, dramatically airing for the first time long-suppressed surveillance video from that day on his primetime Fox News show.

The double-edged sword of conscience
To fully grasp what lies at the very root of this phenomenon that is currently tearing our country apart, let’s dig a little deeper.

It’s an extraordinary characteristic of truth that, since God imbues human beings with a conscience (“con” + “science,” literally “with knowing”), everyone actually possesses an inner “knowing” of basic right from wrong. (“I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts.” – Jeremiah 31:33)

On the other hand, those who choose to rebel against the Creator and His truth, thus existing in a state of de facto inner warfare against reality, cannot stand to hear the truth – with which they are already at war internally – spoken by another human being. It burns. This is the basis of persecution.

In the end, the elites’ obsession with “election denialism,” “pro-Putin disinformation,” “white supremacist MAGA conspiracy theories” and other cruel absurdities is really just the playing out of their ongoing internal war with reality. Truth is virtually the only speech the “rulers of this world” cannot endure, since it tends to cause them unbearable conflict, seeing as it fans the flame of their conscience – the truth of God’s moral laws “written in their minds and hearts” – but with which they are at war.

Fortunately, there are still many millions of good, decent Americans – truly the best people on earth. Hundreds of thousands fought to protect this nation and many were wounded in battle – and of course many families have members who paid the ultimate price to defend this nation. They’re horrified at what is being described here. But they still love their country – and they want it back.

A good start in that effort is to speak the truth – boldly, kindly, clearly, joyfully, and without rancor or hate. It’s therapeutic to speak the truth with love. After all, you’re not insane, deplorable, irredeemable or racist, as they insist. You’re an American, with a God-given and constitutionally guaranteed right to speak your mind, come what may.

Or as Tucker Carlson put it on his Fox show just two weeks before being ousted: “Whether you agree with what someone is saying has nothing to do with his right to say it. Americans are allowed to say what they think is true. Period. If they take that right away, you are no longer a citizen. You are a slave.”

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” – John 8:32

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s lead story in the May issue of WND’s critically acclaimed WHISTLEBLOWER magazine, titled “THE ELITES’ ALL-OUT WAR ON FREE SPEECH.”

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Adm. Jeremiah Denton

On Memorial Day, along with all the glorious multitude of heroes we remember and honor, my thoughts often turn to Jeremiah Denton.

In his classic book "When Hell Was In Session," Adm. Jeremiah Denton, who left this world in 2014, described a life-changing personal encounter he had with God while being tortured as a POW in a rodent-infested North Vietnamese prison cell:

Our resistance remained resolute, and in the middle of October, Lump [the POWs' nickname for one senior prison official] demanded information from me on camp communications. He told me they knew I was inciting others to resist, and he lost his composure for the first time, threatening me with torture if I didn't cooperate.

I refused, and a special rig was devised for me in my cell. I was placed in a sitting position on a pallet, with my hands tightly cuffed behind my back and my feet flat against the wall. Shackles were put on my ankles, with the open ends down, and an iron bar was pushed through the eyelets of the shackles. The iron bar was tied to the pallet and the shackles in such a way that when the rope was drawn over a pulley arrangement, the bar would cut into the backs of my legs, gradually turning them into a swollen, bloody mess.

I couldn't move my legs; I couldn't turn my ankles; I had to remain in a sitting position at all times with my legs absolutely straight. The pulley was used daily to increase the pressure, and the iron bar began to eat through the Achilles tendons on the backs of my ankles.

After five days and nights in the rig, I decided to give them something harmless, hoping that the gesture would allow them to save face and release me. I wrote that we had talked to other prisoners while pretending to talk to the guards, and had also shouted under the doors. Lump shrugged and ordered me back into the rig. He was angered by my attempt to deceive him and determined to break me.

The punishment was so gory that each day Happy [a prison guard], after tightening the ropes, would still be weeping when he went to the next cell to let Mulligan out to empty his bucket. For five more days and nights, I remained in the rig. My back got one respite in that time. I managed to lean against my bucket, which I had maneuvered into position on the pallet, and relieve the strain enough to get some sleep. Even a roving guard took some pity. He saw me leaning against the bucket but didn't report it for 18 hours. By the fifth morning, I was nearing despair. I offered myself to God with an admission that I could take no more on my own. Tears ran down my face as I repeated my vow of surrender to Him. Strangely, as soon as I made the vow, a deep feeling of peace settled into my tortured mind and pain-wracked body, and the suffering left me completely. It was the most profound and deeply inspiring moment of my life.

A few minutes later, Happy and another guard came into my cell and the two of them began pulling on the rope. Blood began to flow heavily from my legs. I felt nothing, though I still bear the scars and have frequent spasms in my legs from the ordeal.

"I still bear the scars … frequent spasms in my legs," wrote Denton.

Which perhaps is why, close to five decades later when my daughter and I were privileged to be walking through the Jamestown Settlement museum with Jeremiah Denton and his wife, Mary, he couldn't bend down and tie his shoelaces that had become untied. Mary knelt down and tied them.

Jeremiah Denton, or Admiral Denton or Sen. Denton (or, as he preferred, "Jerry," though I had a hard time calling him that to his face, even when he insisted) was a hero not just because he fought for America valiently, and was imprisoned in filthy prison cells and tortured for his country. Denton, along with the other heroic Americans POWs – many of them, like Denton, Naval aviators shot down over enemy territory – are especially worthy of honor because they dealt with their horrendous mistreatment so nobly, so admirably, so defiantly, like the natural aristocrats of the human race that they were.

It's hard to fully appreciate this without reading Denton's book, "When Hell Was In Session." It affected me in a profound and lasting way.

As I said, I was privileged to meet Jeremiah Denton and his wife, Mary, some years ago while spending a week with them aboard a WND cruise, and found the daily experience of talking and dining with them somewhat akin to sitting down to dinner with Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or William Bradford and experiencing living history. We're talking stories – amazing stories.

Anyway, having gotten to know the Dentons through that experience, we stayed in touch and they graciously invited me to visit them at their home near Colonial Williamsburg. I took my daughter, Sarah, along with me.

We drove down from Washington, D.C., with me at the wheel and Sarah navigating, and eventually ended up at the door of the Dentons' home. After unpacking, we drove out with the Dentons for a little sightseeing, visiting nearby Colonial Williamsburg briefly, but spending more time at Jamestown, which Sarah and I had not previously visited.

It was remarkable walking through the Jamestown Settlement, talking about and reflecting on America's history with a living part of that history walking along with us.

But the best part of our visit was the hours we spent in the Dentons' living room later that evening and the next morning, just talking about life, about America, about God, about the future, about the events of Jeremiah Denton's life – in other words, great stories. He even reminisced about his encounter with the divine in his North Vietnamese prison cell, adding a few more details.

My daughter, then in her early 20s, not only watched and listened, but talked, asked questions and interacted with this American hero (occasionally holding back tears, she later told me; I felt the same way). He graciously signed a book for her, and was – as I am quite sure he was with all his friends and admirers – warm and enthusiastically supportive of both Sarah and me in our own work and our lives. That's just how he was.

Denton's well-known life story – his A-6 Intruder being shot down over North Vietnam; his nearly eight years as a prisoner of war, four of them in solitary; his communicating with U.S. intelligence by blinking "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" in Morse code while being interrogated on international TV; his valiant leadership role with the other POWs; his astonishingly patriotic and humble comments upon finally being released ("We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our commander in chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America"); his subsequent role as a U.S. senator; his advising a grateful President Ronald Reagan on foreign policy; his continual outreach and inspiration to new generations of Americans; his charitable work – is a story that stands as a stark and annihilating contrast to everything the Left has been doing to America, including her military, during the same period of time.

As we prepared to leave the Denton home, we packed our car (Sarah later reminded me that "Jerry" was so kind, always making a point of carrying her suitcase for her) and said our goodbyes. Then, as we slowly turned and pulled out of the driveway, we looked back – and there were Jerry and Mary Denton, standing side by side "at attention," both of them smiling and locked in a military salute, as we pulled away.

Today, of course, it is we and all of America who salute the likes of Jeremiah Denton and every other soldier who "gave all" for our great country.

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If a competition were held to determine what is the most egregious betrayal of America perpetrated by the Marxist left, which has infiltrated and subverted pretty much every major institution in the nation, there’d be many candidates.

Like the engineered foreign invasion of America across her southern border by millions of illegals to create a permanent Democrat voting majority. And the weaponization of this nation's best-in-the-world justice system to persecute conservatives, Christians and Trump supporters while giving a green light to criminals, crazies and violent revolutionaries. And the multifaceted corruption of America’s election system. And the government promotion and funding of surgically mutilating our children. And the catastropically perverse craze of “defunding the police.” And so on.

There would be many worthy contenders.

But there’s one betrayal – by virtue of its sheer magnitude and the egregious harm it inflicts on so many millions of young people over such an extended period of time – that is arguably the worst of all.

Every day, parents throughout America send their precious children off to their local public schools, imagining their kids’ days will be filled with reading, writing and arithmetic, along with science, history, sports, music and group recreation, just like when they attended school decades ago.

After all, in bygone eras public-school classrooms were generally patriotic, perhaps even reverent, each school day opening with a prayer to Almighty God (until the Supreme Court killed that practice in the 1960s). And of course, students and teachers would put their hands over their heart and pledge allegiance to the flag, and maybe sing “God bless America” or “You’re a grand old flag.” After that, punctuated two or three times by recess and lunch, would come hours of listening, reading, discussing, learning, doing – and at some point, testing. The knowledge base and skills thus acquired served as a foundation for all that would come later in life. Far from perfect, but it worked.

That was then. Today, what are still euphemistically called “public schools” – and remember, “public” means “government” – have been transmogrified into far-left ideological, political and religious indoctrination centers aimed at reprogramming and completely transforming America’s children.

Does that sound exaggerated? Sorry, but if anything it’s understated. Stay with me.

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Let’s briefly step inside today’s “hallowed halls of learning,” where most American children spend the major part of their young lives, and consider the dystopian reality of “public education” in 2023.

Far from beginning the school day with an acknowledgement of God and any sincere expression of reverence for their uniquely blessed country, students in thousands of schools today are literally taught to hate America. Children increasingly are programmed, via various anti-American curricula – including the notorious “1619 Project” K-12 curriculum already in use in at least 4,500 U.S. public schools – to loathe and feel ashamed of their own country as white supremacist, racist and even genocidal. They’re indoctrinated to regard all white people as intrinsically racist, or at best as unjust beneficiaries of “white privilege” and therefore still personally guilty for America’s deeply entrenched “systemic racism.” That of course is the central premise of Marxist “critical race theory,” which proposes to solve the “problem” of America by dismantling and restructuring all of the major institutions that comprise what is, in reality, the least racist, most successful multi-ethnic nation in world history.

Continuing our tour of today’s public schools, one soon encounters what all previous generations of Americans would have regarded as the criminal sexual abuse of children. This starts, almost unbelievably, in preschool when confused and intimidated parents take their highly impressionable young children – even babies – to “drag queen” events, during which obviously mentally deranged – and in truth, demonically possessed – men dressed as women corrupt society’s most vulnerable members with degenerate, and often overtly sexual, indoctrination and “entertainment.”

Fast forward a few short years: Frequent news stories document the overt LGBT grooming craze now sweeping the nation’s public schools. Openly activist LGBT teachers post recruitment videos of themselves on social media platforms like TikTok, their greatest desire being to shepherd new young recruits into the fold. Then, to complete the job, there are the after-school “support clubs” or “GSAs” – formerly called “gay-straight alliances,” but more recently, as the transgender craze has metastasized, rechristened “gender and sexuality alliances” – which in reality are straight-up, in-school recruitment hubs.

Often teachers “protect” the children they have seduced into gender “transitioning” from meddlesome parental interference by purposefully keeping mom and dad in the dark. Indeed, almost 6,000 public schools have adopted policies of concealing students’ “gender transitions” from their own parents. Once again, not long ago such behavior would have been prosecuted as an egregious child sex crime and worse – punishable by years in prison. Today, it’s all part of “woke” public education.

Time to go to the school library? When kids walk through the library doors, they can expect to encounter explicit pornography, proudly and prominently displayed – books such as “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, which graphically depicts multiple lesbian sex acts and equates the scars from “top surgery” (where a young girls’ breasts are cut off) to having cool tattoos. Another popular book is “Flamer” by Mike Curato, featuring a boy explicitly describing various homosexual acts. And then there’s “Let’s Talk About It” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, detailing how to perform homosexual sex, even guiding children in how to accomplish “sexting” – that is, sending sexually explicit texts and images of themselves to others.

In between all this leftwing indoctrination and sexual corruption, teachers take time to scare children to death about the near-term end of life on earth due to “catastrophic climate change.” It doesn’t matter that it’s not true. Rendering children fearful, anxious and radicalized serves the elites’ core purpose of wresting authority over kids from their parents. Indeed, it has long been the heart and soul of Marxism/communism to hold the nuclear family in contempt while insisting children rightfully belong to the state, which then is responsible for indoctrinating, re-directing and re-creating them.

No wonder every measure of pathology, from anxiety to depression to suicidality, is skyrocketing in America’s young people today. U.S. teen girls are experiencing a particularly disturbing rise in “sadness and violence.”

“But wait,” many may still ask in desperation: “What about the ‘3 Rs’ – reading, writing and arithmetic? Surely those basic skills are still being taught in today’s public schools, and such totally non-political disciplines can’t easily be messed with by the crazies on the left. Right?”

Wrong.

Even the most essential – and in the case of mathematics, purely logical – subjects are being corrupted at breakneck speed, in the service of the new American Marxism.

Epitomized by Brooklyn College’s math education Professor Laurie Rubel, who claims the whole notion that two plus two equals four “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy,” today’s public school curriculum developers are succeeding in generating a new version of the “3 Rs” that are, quite literally, insane.

If that sounds hyperbolic, consider what Rubel posted to her Twitter followers in 2020: “The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. … Along with the 'Of course math is neutral because 2+2=4' trope are the related (and creepy) 'Math is pure' and 'Protect math.' Reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. I'd rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals).”

So, going against the official state orthodoxy and insisting that “two plus two make four,” as did Winston Smith, the main character in George Orwell’s “1984,” makes one a “white supremacist” in today’s America.

Such Marxist madness as this, so bizarre it could develop and flourish only in the rarefied air of super-“woke” far-left academia, has now seeped out into public education, from high school all the way down to preschool. Thus, in Oregon, to cite just one example, the state’s education department promotes “A Pathway to Math Equity,” which purports to train teachers in how to “dismantle racism in mathematics instruction.” Yes, really.

“We see white supremacy culture show up in the mathematics classroom even as we carry out our professional responsibilities,” declares the teachers’ guide, which demands that educators take responsibility for “visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.” The main “toxic characteristic” being the old-fashioned focus on getting the “right” answer.

“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” declares the course’s “toolkit,” “and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

All of this, of course, is utterly and droolingly deranged.

Meanwhile, just as with “white supremacist” math, Rutgers University has determined that speaking and writing English correctly is also racist. The school’s English department has altered its grammar standards to “stand with and respond” to the Black Lives Matter movement and emphasize "social justice" and "critical grammar" over irrelevancies like correct spelling and grammar.

The new "critical grammar" approach challenges the standard form of the English language in favor of a more “inclusive” writing experience, noting “the curriculum puts an emphasis on the variability of the English language instead of accuracy,” as the Washington Free Beacon reported. The English Department is even offering an internship titled "Decolonizing the Writing Center" to make writing “more linguistically diverse."

In trying to come to terms with how intelligent, educated people in the world’s freest and most advanced nation can possibly embrace such fantastically dumb concepts, Orwell’s “1984” actually provides a vital clue. In response to the seemingly impenetrable question of why the ruling elites insist that “two plus two make five,” Orwell explains: “It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. … the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.”

In other words, it's all about power. Consider that pressuring and intimidating people into embracing an obviously deluded position, such as “two plus two make five,” is a powerful way to not just control but corrupt their minds, essentially forcing them to abandon reality and “bend the knees of their mind” to the ruling elites’ will.

If this obsession with ultimate power to the point of total insanity sounds familiar, it’s because the denial of objective reality by “the Party” in “1984” – which to those in power confers the delusion they can control not just people’s minds, but also reality itself, like gods – is very much the political, psychological and spiritual identity of the modern Democratic Party.

All this is especially chilling in light of Abraham Lincoln’s famous observation that “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

So, what can you do?

For starters, see and speak the truth – with courage and love, but not hate. That will keep you sane.

Protect your family and loved ones. Find and contribute to a decent Christian subculture in which to raise your children and grandchildren.

Most urgently, take them out of the public school system.

Don’t delude yourself by insisting, “I’ve been to my child’s school and I know the principal. She’s a Christian!” Or, “I went to back-to-school night and met my kids’ teachers – they’re great!” You’re dreaming; it’s time to wake up.

If you love your children, take them out of the regime indoctrination centers. Those in charge of today's government schools see themselves, in effect, as the “gods” of our society and its future, intent on re-creating your children in the regime's image. However, they are not gods, but rebels against God, which makes them both deluded and corrupting in their influence on your children.

In truth, these are dark, dangerous, tumultuous times. America is in the middle of what some are calling a “soft communist revolution,” and how it’s ultimately going to turn out is unknown.

One thing you can do, however, is refuse to knowingly sacrifice your children to it.

Possibly you’ll find a Christian school that is both worthy and affordable for you, but from personal experience, I would recommend homeschooling.

While public school students are in serious danger to their mental health and wellbeing in today’s public education system, a 2021 peer-reviewed Harvard study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE shows that, compared to their peers attending public schools, “adolescents who are homeschooled are more likely to report greater character strengths and fewer risky health behaviors later in life.”

There is an enormous amount of help online for parents considering homeschooling their children, and the ranks of homeschool families are growing rapidly.

“In my opinion,” sums up Christian actor and bestselling author Kirk Cameron, “the public school system has become public enemy number one." Last year, Cameron produced a movie called “The Homeschool Awakening,” and the two-minute trailer gives viewers a vivid sense of exactly why homeschooling is so strongly resonating with many parents today.

More broadly, popular podcaster and columnist Jason Whitlock, recently appearing on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” – before the powers-that-be at Fox News killed off their most popular program – offered some biblical advice to good Americans regarding the increasingly deranged “woke” culture all around them.

Quoting 2 Corinthians 6:17, Whitlock counseled, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding was adapted from David Kupelian's cover story in the April 2023 issue of WND's critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled “THE GREATEST BETRAYAL: How Marxism and madness have taken over America’s public school system.” It devastatingly documents how today’s “public” (government) schools have become far-left ideological, political and religious indoctrination centers aimed at reprogramming and transforming America’s children.

Perhaps never has the true threat of today’s U.S. public school system been exposed as clearly and persuasively as in “THE GREATEST BETRAYAL.” Whistleblower is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.

Children victims of the Armenian Genocide

EDITOR'S NOTE: April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marked annually to commemorate the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago, a mega-crime the nation of Turkey has never acknowledged.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." – Ephesians 6:12

Decades ago when I was very young, my grandmother, Mary Kupelian, told me a haunting story I've wondered about ever since.

As I sat in the kitchen of her cozy little home in Bethesda, Maryland, eating her delicious homemade bread and talking about a frequent topic – the Armenian Genocide, which she and my dad (as a little boy) had barely survived – she shared with me the following enigma.

"The Turkish people are very hospitable people," she said with surprising warmth, seeing as they had murdered her husband and dozens of other members of her extended family, just a few of the 1.5 million Christian Armenians killed by the Turks during the first genocide of the 20th century. Grandmom knew the Turkish people well, not just from having grown up in southern Turkey, but from having returned several times to the "old country" later in life, during more quiescent times.

However, continuing her story, she intimated to me that the Muslim Turks lived under the spell of strange forces.

"They were very hospitable and would invite you in," she said. "But, if a distant signal was given – it sounded something like a trumpet – then they would instantly change, and would attempt to harm you. Yet if the signal sounded again, they would immediately switch back to normal."

"Even," she added by way of illustration, "if they had injured you after the first signal, as soon as the second signal sounded, they would bind up the very wounds they had inflicted on you."

As I said – a very, very strange tale, with overtones of "The Manchurian Candidate" and its post-hypnotic suggestions (remember the Queen of Diamonds?) triggering murderous, pre-programmed behavior.

An Armenian woman forced to march in the desert carrying her child

That story, so pregnant with hidden significance, has remained gestating in my mind for all these decades since my grandmother matter-of-factly shared it with me over her kitchen table. It has piqued my interest especially in recent years, as I have endeavored in my writing to sort out and make some sense of a world so powerfully controlled by dark forces.

Since today, April 24, is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, let's delve into my grandmother's mystery story and see where it leads.

First, it's necessary that I briefly summarize my family's personal experience during this terrible period.

It was 100 years ago, and my dad, just a toddler then, along with his mother and baby sister were among thousands of Armenian Christians being herded into the Syrian Der Zor desert east of Aleppo to die. That's right, to die. Forced into such a miserable and dangerous trek, the plan was that exposure, hunger, thirst, bandits or marauding soldiers would get the job done, one way or the other. As for my father’s father, a physician, he had already been forced into the Turkish army against his will to head a medical regiment to tend to the Turkish soldiers' injuries.

"One of my earliest recollections, I was not quite three years old at the time," my dad told me shortly before he died in 1988, was that "the wagon we were in had tipped over, my hand was broken and bloody, and mother was looking for my infant sister who had rolled away. The next thing I remember after that, mother was on a horse, holding my baby sister, and had me sitting behind her, saying, ‘Hold on tight, or the Turks will get you!’"

The three of them rode off on horseback, ending up in Aleppo, one of the gateways to the desert deportation and certain death. Once there, my always-resourceful grandmother Mary bluffed her way into getting an audience with Aleppo’s governor-general. Seeing as her Armenian doctor husband was in the service of the Turkish army – albeit by force – she played her one and only card, brazenly telling the governor general, "I demand my rights as the wife of a Turkish army officer!"

"What are those rights?"

"I want commissary privileges and two orderlies," she answered.

"Granted."

By thus boldly deceiving the not-too-bright Turkish politician, Mary avoided the unthinkable, saving not only her own life and those of her son and daughter, but also the lives of her husband’s two brothers, whom she immediately deputized as orderlies. The group then succeeded in sneaking several other family members out of harm’s way, and my grandmother kept them all from starving by obtaining food from the commissary. Thus was my family spared, although my father’s infant sister was unable to survive the harshness of those times and died shortly thereafter. And my grandfather, Simeon Kupelian, was executed along with other Armenian doctors by a squadron of Turkish gunmen.

On finally returning to their beautiful home in Marash in southern Turkey a couple of years later, Mary and son Vahey, who was then about six, found it had been ransacked. Their fine tapestries had been pulled off the walls, ripped, and urinated on. Everything that could be carried out had been stolen, and everything else had been deliberately broken – even every last pane of glass in the French doors was broken, and the drawer handles all destroyed.

Eventually, they escaped – and made their way to America.

Ottoman Armenians are marched to a prison in Kharpert, Armenia, by armed Turkish soldiers in April 1915. Up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in what is now recognized as the 20th century's first genocide.

That was my father's side of the family. But on my mother's side, things were just as bad.

In 1909, my great-grandfather, a Protestant minister named Steelianos Leondiades, was traveling to the major Turkish city of Adana to attend a pastors’ conference. Today, Incirlik Air Base, used by the U.S. Air Force, is five miles east of Adana. But then, under the Ottoman caliph, Abdul-Hamid II, ethnic cleansing was the order of the day. Here’s how my maternal grandmother, Anna Paulson, daughter of Steelianos, told the story:

"Some of the Turkish officers came to the conference room and told all these ministers – there were 70 of them, ministers and laymen and a few wives: ‘If you embrace the Islamic religion you will all be saved. If you don’t, you will all be killed.’"

My great-grandfather, acting as a spokesman for the ministers’ group, asked the Turks for 15 minutes so they could make their decision, according to my grandmother’s account. During that time the ministers and their companions talked, read the Bible to each other, and prayed. In the end, none of them would renounce their Christian faith and convert to Islam.

"And then," Anna recalled, "they were all killed.

"They were not even buried. They were all thrown down the ravine."

Ultimately, by the grace of God, both sides of my family made it to the Promised Land – America – and eventually my father met and married my mother, and that's how my brother, sister and I were blessed to come on the scene.

Now, back to my grandmother Mary's strange story ...

A street in the Armenian quarter of Adana left pillaged and destroyed after massacres in 1909

Marauding hordes of 'Manchurian candidates'

Any thoughtful person, even without any particular knowledge of mind control, hypnosis or brainwashing, could offer a reasonable hypothesis as to what is being described by my grandmother: The actors are clearly people who have somehow been deeply programmed, and the "trumpet-like" signal is a trigger, a post-hypnotic suggestion initiating the pre-programmed behavior.

Interestingly, I mentioned this story to a close colleague of mine who lived in a country once part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. His response to my grandmother's scenario – where on signal, Turks turned on innocent people to kill them, but stopped midstream at the second signal and even resumed their hospitality to the point of patching up any injuries they had caused – was to recall his own time living among a Muslim population whose ancestors had lived for five centuries under Turkish rule.

"The people were extremely hospitable," he recalled, "but after living in the country for some time, I learned there was another dimension to how they generally perceived foreigners. I had the feeling that some of the most outwardly welcoming people could stab me in the back."

Encouraged that I might be on to something, I reached out to noted Islam scholar Andrew Bostom for help.

After doing a little research, Andrew called me back and said, enthusiastically, "Your grandmother is right!" The mysterious "trumpet-like signal" was a bugle, he informed me, leading me to a series of books and other contemporaneous genocide reports with additional details. A quick sampling:

There was this New York Times story from Sept. 25, 1915, quoting Dr. M. Simbad Gabriel, head of a U.S.-based Armenian organization:

The doctor said that greed, religion, and politics all combined to induce the Turks to massacre the Armenians. The Government was always behind every massacre, and the people were acting under orders.

"When the bugle blows in the morning," he said, "Turks rush fiercely to the work of killing the Christians and plundering them of their wealth. When it stops in the evening, or in two or three days, the shooting and stabbing stop just as suddenly then as it began. The people obey their orders like soldiers."

And there was Simon Payaslian, chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University:

At Friday prayers in the mosque, Muslims were encouraged to attack Armenians. After prayers let out, a bugle would sound from the minarets for the attack to begin, and then a bugle would sound for the attack to end.

And then there was, contained in Bostom's own book, "The Legacy of Jihad," this chilling account by Scottish historian Lord Kinross:

Each operation, between the bugle calls, followed a similar pattern. First the Turkish troops came into a town for the purpose of massacre; then came the Kurdish irregulars and tribesmen for the purpose of plunder. Finally came the holocaust, by fire and destruction, which spread, with the pursuit of the fugitives and mopping-up operations, throughout the lands and villages of the surrounding province. ...

Cruelest and most ruinous of all were the massacres of Urfa, where the Armenian Christians numbered a third of the total population ... When the bugle blast ended the day's operations, some three thousand refugees poured into the cathedral, hoping for sanctuary. But the next morning – a Sunday – a fanatic mob swarmed into the church in an orgy of slaughter, rifling its shrines with cries of "Call upon Christ to prove Himself a greater prophet than Mohammed." Then they amassed a large pile of straw matting, which they spread over the litter of corpses and set alight with thirty cans of petroleum. The woodwork of the gallery where a crowd of women and children crouched, wailing with terror, caught fire, and all perished in the flames.

Punctiliously at three-thirty in the afternoon the bugle blew once more, and the Moslem officials proceeded around the Armenian quarter to proclaim that the massacres were over ... the total casualties in the town, including those slaughtered in the cathedral, amounted to eight thousand dead.

Superficially, one might conclude such narratives are depicting normal, albeit horribly brutal, military operations where soldiers are coordinated in their advances and retreats by bugle calls. But there's much more going on here.

"I've read accounts," Andrew Bostom assured me, "of a call to arms where Muslims would show up at residences – people who lived with neighbors for a decade or more – and engaged in indiscriminate slaughter."

Really? Living and sharing with your neighbors for years, borrowing hummus and olive oil when you ran short – and then suddenly turning on them in a frenzy of "indiscriminate slaughter"? Doesn't sound exactly normal to me.

A Turkish official torments starving Armenian children by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian Genocide

Let's freeze-frame this whole bugle-massacre business for a minute, and shift our focus to another bizarre but disturbingly common phenomenon in today's Arab-Muslim world: so-called "honor killings."

A teenage girl – whose father, mother and brothers one would assume share a natural love, affection and protectiveness toward her – is observed walking down the street with a male non-relative, perhaps even holding hands with him.

In response, the girl is stabbed to death by her brother(s), or her mother or father, or all of them together – stabbed not just once, but often dozens of times in an orgy of slaughter, like the most deranged psychopath might commit. This fate is meted out to girls and young women for anything vaguely considered to have brought "shame" or "dishonor" upon a family. The poor girl's offense could be that she refused to enter into an arranged marriage, or was in a relationship that wasn't approved of by the family, or had dressed in a way deemed inappropriate. Even flirting, even failing to serve a meal on time, even being a rape victim, all have been the occasions of "honor killings."

"Amnesty International has reported on one case in which a husband murdered his wife based on a dream that she had betrayed him," reports National Geographic. "In Turkey, a young woman's throat was slit in the town square because a love ballad had been dedicated to her over the radio."

Such monstrous, bizarre and outrageously unjustified and unprovoked murders of innocent girls by their own family members occur at least 5,000 times annually according to the U.N., but that number is considered low due to underreporting. BBC reports that some victim-advocate organizations "suspect that more than 20,000 women are killed worldwide each year" via "honor killings."

Now, what do the bugle-signaled mass slaughters of the Armenian Genocide and today's Islamic "honor killings" – and, for that matter, the crucifixions and beheadings and burying-alive of Christian believers by ISIS zombies – have in common?

All demonstrate an extreme level of pre-programmed, murderous conditioning, to be called forth by a post-hypnotic suggestion – a bugle sound, a sister crossing some pre-set behavioral line, an encounter with a Christian holding fast to his or her faith.

How could such "Manchurian Candidate"-like conditioning possibly be accomplished, you might ask? Did somebody send teams of Russian scientists schooled in Pavlovian conditioning over to the Middle East to hypnotize millions of people in giant laboratories?

Of course not. But Pavlov did not invent "Pavlovian conditioning." He just recognized the pre-existing principle and codified it into a psychological-physiological theory. Cruel, predatory, psychopathic (conscienceless) people have always seemed to understand how to program and control others in this way.

For example, African warlords have been notorious for recruiting and creating (i.e., programming) child soldiers, often turning kidnapped children into the most brutal and unhesitating killers of all. One common conversion technique: Force a child to kill a family member or friend. ("Shoot your friend in the head, or I'll cut off your hand right now.") If the child shoots his friend, he's converted – usually for life, since the searing guilt of what he has done prevents him from ever going back to any other life.

We have all observed ISIS and other jihadist groups using virtually the same techniques to recruit and condition young children to become cold-blooded killers.

A similar technique is common in gang initiations all over America. To join, you must commit a crime (slash a stranger in the face with a knife, even commit murder) before you can become a member – which assures, both legally and psychologically, that there's almost no way out for you.

It's doubtful many gang leaders, African warlords or jihad recruiters have taken any courses on hypnosis, brainwashing or "Pavlovian conditioning," yet the dark knowledge of controlling and programming others is something human predators always figure out and exploit.

What about the ISIS conversions from the West we've seen over the last few years – all those young men and women from the U.S. and Europe, persuaded by cool jihad recruitment websites to leave the freest nations on earth and head to the Middle East to become cannon fodder or sex slaves? Such recruiting is not difficult to accomplish.

Enraged young people who have been abandoned, betrayed or exploited (or who believe they have been), full of fury and desire for vengeance, who have lost everything and feel they have nothing more to lose – such as these are easy prey for recruitment pitches promising fulfillment, identity, "family," adventure, glory and revenge.

In the case of jihad groups, in addition to all the standard benefits of gang membership, recruits are also assured they are the chosen of God, superior to all other people in the world (except fellow Muslim brothers and sisters) and are going to help establish a glorious Islamic paradise here on earth – plus they get to slaughter all the vile infidels who get in their way. (And the males are promised lots of hot women, both now and in the next life.)

You see, whether it's ISIS, al-Qaida, Boko Haram, the Al Nusra Front or other modern-day jihadists, or their Turkish predecessors in the Ottoman Caliphate a century ago; whether, for that matter, it's the Christian-hating automatons of North Korea or in other communist nations throughout the world – when it comes to those who persecute Christians, we are looking at people firmly in the grip of exceedingly dark forces. And since darkness cannot stand the light – it burns – they feel compelled to attempt to put it out. Yet they cannot. For although the persecutors enslave, they are the true slaves; though they imprison, they are the real prisoners; though they kill, they are the ones spiritually dying.

An Armenian woman kneels beside a dead child in a field outside Aleppo

Remembering

So today the whole world commemorates the Turkish genocide of the Armenians.

Well, except for Turkey. After a century of denial, Turkey has never even acknowledged that this monstrous genocide of a million-and-a-half Christians ever occurred.

Unfortunately, there's a grave danger in failing to come clean – and that is, the great crime is likely to be repeated.

Adolf HItler

Consider what Adolf Hitler wrote in this Aug. 22, 1939, document, which was entered into evidence in the Nuremberg Trials. After you read his absolutely horrendous plans, pay special attention to the last sentence, in which Hitler reveals why he's so sure he can get away with committing genocide while pulling off what he calls the "redistribution of the world":

My decision to attack Poland was arrived at last spring. Originally, I feared that the political constellation would compel me to strike simultaneously at England, Russia, France, and Poland. Even this risk would have had to be taken.

Ever since the autumn of 1938, and because I realized that Japan would not join us unconditionally and that Mussolini is threatened by that nit-wit of a king and the treasonable scoundrel of a crown prince, I decided to go with Stalin.

In the last analysis, there are only three great statesmen in the world, Stalin, I, and Mussolini. Mussolini is the weakest, for he has been unable to break the power of either the crown or the church. Stalin and I are the only ones who envisage the future and nothing but the future. Accordingly, I shall in a few weeks stretch out my hand to Stalin at the common German-Russian frontier and undertake the redistribution of the world with him.

Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter – with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me.

I have issued the command – and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

That was 1939. Just a few years earlier, in the early '30s, much of the world regarded Hitler and his gathering movement as a joke. Some journalists "burst out laughing at his shrill voice and jerky hand movements and refused to take him seriously," writes Andrew Nagorski in his 2012 book, "Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power."

In our time, we have had ISIS, which Barack Obama infamously sized up as the "jayvee team" a few months before it blitzkrieged its way across large parts of the Middle East. ISIS has been, in fact, frequently compared to the Hitler machine of the early 1930s, maniacal and growing, but not yet a massive world power with fearsome weapons.

And just to bring things full circle, consider the primary role model for caliphate-wannabes like ISIS. No, it's not Hitler, even though ISIS and Hitler share an infinite hatred for Jews. Rather, it's the world's previous Sunni Islamic caliphate – namely, the Turkish Ottoman Empire, whose martyrdom of 1.5 million Armenian Christians is being remembered today.

Armenian looking at the human remains at Der el-Zor, 1916. Photo: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute

'We had forgotten theology and the Bible'

Just as there are little-understood mysteries of evil, such as that crystallized in my grandmother's story, so are there other mysteries – from God – secretly at work in people who are in His grip.

Richard Wurmbrand, the heroic Romanian evangelical pastor, spent 14-and-a-half years in a Romanian prison suffering starvation and torture for the crime of boldly preaching the Gospel of Christ in what was then a brutally repressive communist nation. When, two years after his final release from captivity, Wurmbrand testified in May 1966 before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee, he stripped to the waist to reveal 18 deep wounds covering his torso, the result of years of unspeakable abuse.

And yet, as Wurmbrand proclaims in his classic book, "Tortured for Christ," he and his fellow Christian prisoners well understood that the communists, especially those who imprisoned and tortured them, "knew not what they did." He recognized deeply that his persecutors were all programmed "Manchurian candidates" – brainwashed slaves of "principalities and powers," of "rulers of the darkness of this world" and "spiritual wickedness in high places."

Until he died at age 91 in 2001, Wurmbrand's message, one faithfully carried forward by the international ministry he founded, Voice of the Martyrs, has always been: "Hate the evil systems, but love your persecutors. Love their souls, and try to win them for Christ."

With striking compassion for his jailers, in "Tortured for Christ" Wurmbrand writes:

The enormous amount of drunkenness in Communist countries exposes the longing for a more meaningful life, which communism cannot give. The average Russian is a deep, big-hearted, generous person. Communism is shallow and superficial. He seeks the deep life and, finding it nowhere else, he seeks it in alcohol. He expresses in alcoholism his horror about the brutal and deceitful life he must live. For a few moments alcohol sets him free, as truth would set him free forever if he could know it.

So genuine was Wurmbrand's concern for the souls of his tormentors that, over the years, quite a few of them were converted to the Christian faith, ending up in prison with him – and glad for it!

Contemplate, if you can, Wurmbrand's last act before leaving Romania after years of living 30 feet underground in a communist prison – no sunshine, no fresh air, always hungry, treated brutally and sadistically day after day, year after year.

"In December 1965," writes Wurmbrand, "my family and I were allowed to leave Romania":

My last deed before leaving was to go to the grave of the colonel who had given the order for my arrest and who had ordered my years of torture. I placed a flower on his grave. By doing this I dedicated myself to bringing the joys of Christ that I have to the communists who are so empty spiritually.

I hate the communist system but I love the men. I hate the sin but I love the sinner. I love the communists with all of my heart. Communists can kill Christians but they cannot kill their love toward even those who killed them. I have not the slightest bitterness or resentment against the communists or my torturers.

How is such an attitude possible? Says Wurmbrand:

I have seen Christians in communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold – and praying with fervor for the communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.

Finally, in words reminiscent of some of the early Christian martyrs of the First Century, Richard Wurmbrand shares with the reader the presence of God he experienced in his filthy prison cell:

God is "the Truth." The Bible is the "truth about the Truth." Theology is the "truth about the truth about the Truth." Christian people live in these many truths about the Truth, and, because of them, have not "the Truth." Hungry, beaten, and drugged, we had forgotten theology and the Bible. We had forgotten the "truths about the Truth," therefore we lived in "the Truth." It is written, "The Son of man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him" (Matthew 24:44). We could not think anymore. In our darkest hours of torture, the Son of Man came to us, making the prison walls shine like diamonds and filling the cells with light. Somewhere, far away, were the torturers below us in the sphere of the body. But the spirit rejoiced in the Lord. We would not have given up this joy for that of kingly palaces.

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Chinese soldiers (Video screenshot)

With America self-destructing at maximum speed and the world daily inching closer to nuclear war, answering one question may hold the key to understanding much of what is currently vexing America. Here it is:

Why are the political, cultural and corporate leaders of America – long the freest, most successful, most prosperous and most Christian nation in history – now in craven submission to China, a ruthless, communist, totalitarian and explicitly atheistic dictatorship openly committed to ruling the world, including America?

The astonishing answers to this question come into view only when one can contemplate both the unprecedented level of political and financial corruption in America’s ruling class, and simultaneously the communist Chinese government’s brilliantly devious methods of unconventional total warfare.

Consider one of the recent revelations about China: It intentionally created the COVID-19 virus that killed almost 7 million worldwide – including over 1 million Americans – in a Wuhan bio-lab, the result of wildly dangerous “gain-of-function” research on bat coronaviruses, literally intended to make the pathogen more lethal to human beings.

Yet America’s leadership class perversely spent years covering up China’s complicity in all of this. And in response to the few U.S. voices demanding transparency from China, the communist government there continuously lied, denied, threatened and even launched a propaganda campaign claiming America had created and leaked the deadly virus from a Maryland military base.

Of course, through its controlling influence on the World Health Organization, China largely dictated the disastrous “total lockdown” pandemic response adopted by America at the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, which wreaked serious havoc on this nation’s society, business, education, mental health, economy and free exercise of religion.

Meet China’s god

China’s ruling authority, the atheist Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, is that nation’s de facto god, dictating virtually every major aspect of the lives of the almost one-and-a-half billion people living within China’s borders. For example, the CCP has long dictated the exact number of children couples are permitted to have, imposing its infamous “one-child policy” in 1980, replaced by a “two-child policy” in 2016 and a “three-child policy” in 2021. Enforcement has been brutal, including forced abortions, sterilization and fines, and the policies have resulted in an appalling epidemic of female infanticide, especially in rural areas.

But that’s just the beginning. China forces entire minority populations, like the Uyghur Muslims, into slave-labor concentration camps. Even worse, it routinely harvests organs from them and other innocent people it regards as expendable commodities. In 2019, the China Tribunal – an independent, London-based panel of international legal and medical experts – determined conclusively that China’s communist government for decades had been systematically killing prisoners of conscience, especially Falun Gong practitioners and Muslims, in order to harvest their organs and sell them. That’s capitalism, China-style.

Multiple credible eyewitness reports confirm that women in these large slave-labor camps – which Chinese communist authorities call "re-education camps" – are routinely raped, tortured, forcibly sterilized, and forced to sing patriotic communist songs.

As Amelia Pang, author of “Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods,” told the New York Post: “Rape is pretty standard in forced labor camps. The goal is to brainwash prisoners into being patriotic and extremely aligned with the Chinese state.”

And Kuzzat Altay, CEO of international software-coding outfit Cydeo and an activist dedicated to exposing China’s human-rights abuses, says, “China keeps prices low and Americans keep buying Chinese products cheaply.” However, “China’s entire supply chain of manufacturing involves forced labor,” he told the Post. “They make shoes, pants, solar panels in these forced-labor factories. The Chinese economy is a vehicle for oppression and a source of influence in Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Wall Street. That money comes from slavery.”

Altay, whose own father was imprisoned in one of China’s camps for two years but managed to emerge with his organs intact, confirms that “Organ harvesting is normal in the Chinese Communist Party. They are known for this.” As an example, he explained, “There are some rich Middle Eastern clients who want Muslim kidneys,” since they are free of alcohol and pork. “So Uyghur people were having their kidneys taken.”

This is clearly nothing short of Hitlerian for the people of China.

But, beyond providing really cheap goods for Americans, plus cheap outsourceable labor and more than a billion potential Chinese consumers for American companies like Disney, how does all of this impact the United States?

In every way imaginable – almost all very bad.

Slow-motion conquest

For decades, China has been plundering America – massively stealing her intellectual property at every opportunity; embedding spies in the U.S. government, including in the halls of Congress; buying up American farmland, especially acreage near sensitive military installations; infiltrating the nation’s universities in multiple ways, from planting communist professors to making generous “endowments”; and in general buying influence in every way possible.

Truly, China’s infiltration and ongoing de facto colonization of America has a thousand faces.

One of those many faces is China’s wildly popular social media app TikTok, with a staggering 150 million active users within the United States. Not only has TikTok been exposed as a secret surveillance tool for the CCP, enabling it to gather personal data on tens of millions of American young people, but it is also – as the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” has documented – heavily populated with wildly corrupting videos, such as the ubiquitous, heavily pierced transgender school teacher seducing and grooming America’s teens into changing their gender and encouraging them to undergo horrifying surgical mutilations. Interestingly, none of these LGBT grooming videos are allowed on the Chinese version of TikTok viewed by young people in that country. The CCP wants its nation’s next generation to be good patriotic communists, and has no interest in seducing China’s future leaders into “identifying as” the opposite (or nonexistent) gender, or fretting over which pronoun they should force everyone else to use for them.

Another aspect of the CCP’s stealth war on America’s youth is its partnership with the Mexican criminal drug cartels in flooding America with fentanyl, the No. 1 killer of younger Americans aged 18 to 45. As Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., recently wrote: "It’s estimated China is responsible for over 90 percent of illicit fentanyl found in the United States. We simply cannot allow the lethal fentanyl engine in China to run while communities across America’s heartland are being torn apart."

With China engaged in this long-term, multifaceted, unconventional war on America – most of which is well known – why does the U.S. government under Joe Biden’s leadership, along with corporate America from Disney to Nike, supplicate before China?

Follow the money

Americans are witnessing the largest-scale political corruption in U.S. history, with Chinese money bribing not only the spectacularly corrupt Biden family, but countless other U.S. politicians.

In his recent book, "Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win," top investigative journalist-author Peter Schweizer documents the shocking and “unprecedented” Biden family dealings with the communist regime that have led to China paying Joe Biden’s family a staggering $31 million. Schweizer details specifically how Biden's son Hunter, "while the elder Biden was serving as both vice president and president, was engaged in deals with individuals tied to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence."

Likewise, other Democratic Party politicians – including most scandalously, California Rep. Eric Swalwell, who reportedly engaged in a sexual affair with a Chinese spy and “fundraiser” named Fang Fang – have long been on the take from China.

But it’s not just Democrats. The powerful Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, have major financial ties to the highest levels of Chinese power. Chao’s father, James Chao, a shipping magnate with extensive business interests in China, has “gifted” McConnell and his wife many millions of dollars. As Tucker Carlson recently put it, McConnell and Chao are “living in splendor on Chinese money.”

And here's how Donald Trump recently assessed the McConnell situation: “Why do Republican senators allow a broken-down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard-working Republican candidates for the United States Senate? This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”

Here’s the bottom line: The American far left now running the U.S. government is totalitarian, Orwellian, anti-God, anti-Constitution and anti-American. They despise America and its history, the religion that gave the nation its morality and unparalleled success, and the resulting freedoms – freedom of speech and the press, freedom of religion, and the freedom to keep and bear arms among them. These sociopaths crave wealth, privilege and glory for themselves, and power and control in perpetuity. They love abortion. They crave increasing control over every aspect of people’s lives – including how they think – and deploy their ideology as a weapon, to coerce and shame the population into conforming out of fear, intimidation and a need for acceptance and peace. Those who don’t comply, or are too different, are treated as “extremists,” “criminals” and “terrorists,” and are often locked up.

Oh yeah. Exactly like China.

Finally, there are two developments on the brighter side, one for China and the other for America.

Despite being officially atheistic, China is home to one of the fastest-growing Christian populations on earth, and not just the officially sanctioned “house church” approved by the Chinese Communist Party. (Indeed, according to ChristianPost.com, members of the “approved” Christian church are now required to register on a government app called “Smart Religion,” which requires every would-be worshipper to submit his or her name, phone number, government ID number, permanent residence, occupation and date of birth if they wish “to attend worship services” at a government-approved church.)

However, it is the unofficial church, the underground church, comprising millions of good Chinese people willing to suffer and endure persecution for their Christian faith – 38 million of them by one recent account – that is growing rapidly throughout China. So God is present, acting and moving, even in atheistic communist China.

Meanwhile, in an America reeling from the increasingly deranged and destructive revolution waged by “woke” sociopaths, former President Donald Trump recently vowed, if elected president again next year, to end the elites’ love affair with China once and for all.

As he told this year’s CPAC audience last month: “I will create a true national trade policy like the kind that made America the world’s economic powerhouse. … I will revoke China’s ‘most favored nation’ trade status immediately on day one, and I will implement a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods and gain total independence from China. We have to do it. We have to do it.”

Trump added, to thunderous applause, “I will hold China financially accountable for unleashing the China virus upon the world, and I will again withdraw from the WHO – which stands for ‘We Hide Outbreaks.’”

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It may be hard to believe today, but 40 years ago when I started out in journalism and Reagan was president, it really was “Morning in America” – our nation was prosperous, largely unified, respected by its allies and feared by its enemies. Almost miraculously, the Berlin Wall was torn down and the fearsome nuclear-armed Soviet Union peacefully dissolved … without a shot being fired! That’s what good American leadership can do.

Today, just a few decades later, America’s ruling elites drool over Marxist ideologies, our border is purposely left wide open so millions of illegals can invade our country, our elections are rigged, and our government promotes maniacally deranged policies on every front while busily turning citizens against each other. They prosecute conservative Christians as criminals and terrorists, while excusing and encouraging actual crime and terrorism. They sexualize, corrupt and brainwash our precious children with toxic ideologies and groom them into undergoing double mastectomies and castration in a desperate and impossible effort to “change genders.” Oh yes, and we’re on the verge of World War III with Russia!

As a direct result of all this, suicide and depression have skyrocketed in the U.S.A. and – believe it or not – a staggering 130 million Americans have come to depend on mind-altering substances just to get through life.

What happened?

Turbocharged by the presidency of Barack Obama – one of the most radical, destructive and utterly dishonest chief executives in American history – and continuing into our current time under the demented and epically corrupt Joe Biden, long-coalescing forces of the political, cultural and sexual Left have finally succeeded in bringing about their long-promised “fundamental transformation of America.”

But there’s more – much more.

The bigger story is, this revolution is also causing a “fundamental transformation” of Americans, as I explore in the new edition of my book, “The Snapping of the American Mind: Healing a Nation Broken by a Lawless Government and Godless Culture.” In this newly revised and expanded paperback edition, I reveal how the radical Left – which today dominates virtually all of America’s key institutions – is accomplishing far more than just enlarging government, redistributing wealth, de-Christianizing the culture and generally wrecking our country. With its wild celebration of sexual anarchy, its intimidating culture of “woke” political correctness, its perverse incomprehension of the fundamental sacredness of human life, and – as is increasingly evident – its blinding hatred of Almighty God, our leader class is not only negatively transforming the greatest nation in history. It is also actively promoting widespread dependency, debauchery, family breakdown, violent crime, corruption, suffering, addiction, mental illness, despair and suicide.

This is what I explore in the new edition of "Snapping," which includes brand-new chapters illuminating the astonishing "1984"-style attacks on America taking place under the deranged presidency of Joe Biden. I invite you to read the reviews below to get others' assessment of how I did.

Fortunately, contrary to what our leader class believes, there actually is a great and all-powerful God, and therein lies the hope for America. As I lay out in this new edition of “The Snapping of the American Mind,” there really is a way back for the country Reagan liked to call “this shining city on a hill.”

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Although one would never guess it based on the increasingly vicious and open attacks on Christians by this nation’s ruling elites, America was for many generations the most Christian nation on earth – the true secret of its greatness.

In fact, Christianity has unquestionably been the most powerful, consequential and benevolent force in all of world history. Nothing else even comes close.

Yet today, in the United States of America, a new religion has somehow become the country’s de facto official church.

Mind you, this new faith is not like a religion; it’s not cult-like. It’s a complete and total life religion, influencing every aspect of the true believer’s existence. And right now, it is being forcibly imposed on the entire American populace by virtually every major societal institution, from government, media and big tech; to academia (preschool through grad school); to entertainment and sports; and perhaps most surprisingly of all, by most of this nation’s biggest and wealthiest businesses.

This new state religion overtaking the United States of America – and increasingly, much of the Western (and formerly Christian) world – is Wokeism.

To most outsiders, the expression “being woke,” or “going woke,” conjures up notions of a person or entity claiming to be acutely sensitive (“awake”) to “systemic social and political injustice” in every form. The “injustice” being condemned by Wokeism is not simply alleged widespread bigotry against black people, but also – as noted in Joe Biden’s Jan. 20, 2021 White House Executive Order – “Latino and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.” Of course, the “persons who live in rural areas” bit was thrown in as a cynical pretense of caring about blue-collar, working-class, mostly Trump-supporting Americans, when the elites couldn’t care less about them, as their deplorable non-response to the toxic disaster in rural East Palestine, Ohio, demonstrates.) On the other hand, rest assured that the expansive “LGBTQ+” population includes every child-grooming “trans” school teacher, purple-haired, heavily pierced, “nonbinary” TikTok recruiter and mentally ill cross-dresser seducing your toddler in “drag queen story hour” events.

Bear in mind that all of these people, deemed victims of societal bigotry, are therefore regarded as intrinsically more virtuous and moral than the shameful oppressor class – primarily heterosexual white Christian males.

This new “woke” consciousness is manifesting in dramatic ways – from the nationwide Antifa and Black Lives Matter race riots that decimated countless major U.S. cities during the summer of 2020, to the desecration of long-cherished historic monuments. From insisting on multi-million-dollar reparation payments for every black person in America, to appointing men who claim they’re women as top officials in the Biden administration. From Disney producers gleefully boasting on camera how they’re secretly “injecting queerness” into children’s programming, to the U.S. military imposing mandatory “diversity training” and transgender pronoun use on all personnel, causing recruitment to disastrously plummet. From top college and professional athletic organizations permitting and encouraging biological men to compete in women’s athletics – essentially destroying women’s sports – to incarcerating convicted men who suddenly claim they’re women in women’s prisons, resulting unsurprisingly in a rape epidemic in those correctional facilities.

Most ubiquitously of all, there is the rampant racial discrimination in employment, college admissions and every other area of life, as seen in today’s mass corporate embrace of DEI, or “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” which, stripped of its sanctimony and guilt, amounts to hiring people based on their skin color rather than their qualifications. Not only is such racial discrimination both immoral and flagrantly illegal – remember the 1964 Civil Rights Act? – but it’s also killing people. That’s what happens when, for example, you hire airline pilots and surgeons based on their skin color, rather than their abilities. And it’s happening everywhere.

The power of Wokeism

Unlike in the biblical account, wherein Original Sin consisted of the first man and woman’s disobedience to God in the Garden of Eden, according to Wokeist theology Original Sin consisted of predatory straight white Christians abusing and exploiting “people of color.” Today, this ongoing sinfulness comprises not just actual racism – as manifested in slavery and later segregation, which America long ago repented of and definitively outlawed – but also mysterious and elusive modern-day phenomena like “systemic” or “institutional” racism, as well as “white privilege,” a spiritual condition that renders people who aren’t even the slightest bit racist as still guilty of racism, just for being white.

That is the universal and transcendent power of the religion of Wokeism. And yet, all this is merely the outer face of America’s new state religion.

To understand what’s really at the heart of the new faith rapidly transforming the nation, and to grasp how and why it exerts such a strong hold on so many people – despite being obviously immoral, destructive and deranged – it’s necessary to consider what constitutes true God-ordained religion. Specifically, the Christian faith, since the religion of Wokeism so closely mimics Christianity in many ways. If Wokeism is a counterfeit, let’s take a brief look at the real thing.

First, recognize that pretty much all religions (with the obvious exception of Satanism) hold that human beings come into this world in an incomplete or “fallen” condition, in some way separated from God, and in need of redemption, completion or union with Him, and an embrace of a moral and righteous personal life. And indeed, all people, as they grow up, have to contend with an inherited sinful nature, within both themselves and others, and the consequent strong tendency to transgress God’s moral laws. In fact, unredeemed human beings – if one looks past whatever veneer of competence, happiness, attractiveness or achievement they labor to project outward in life – are usually conflicted, guilt-ridden and insecure deep down.

Why would that be?

According to the biblical narrative, it goes back to that very first (“original”) sin, committed by the first man and woman.

As the Apostle Paul explains with remarkable clarity and simplicity in Romans 5, sin and death came upon the entire human race because of the sin of one man, Adam. However, another man, Jesus Christ, the long-promised Messiah, came to earth on a rescue mission as a “second Adam,” so to speak, to reverse the original curse that followed the Fall of mankind. The Son of God accomplished this by taking upon Himself the burden of the sins of all humanity and, by willingly suffering the horrors of crucifixion and death on a Roman cross, paid to a righteous and just God the legal penalty – in full – for the sins of the entire human race.

Seeing as “sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned,” reasons Paul, “… how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!” (Romans 5:12, 15)

Paul’s explanation is so elegantly logical that he restates the principle one more time, just to drive the message all the way home: “Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.” (Romans 5:18)

This, of course, is the beating heart of the Christian Gospel, that a just yet merciful God has provided a way for wayward mankind to become fully righteous in His eyes – to be redeemed, renewed and restored – to be brought, justified and free, into close and eternal fellowship with God and His family.

Let's pause for a moment just to acknowledge that the Christian Gospel constitutes the most magnificent, cosmic love story of all time. To undo the consequences of The Fall, it took great love. As Christ Himself said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) That’s exactly what Jesus did. As a result, He made a way, through this sacrificial act of great love on His part – and through faith, obedience and sincere commitment on our part – for us to be transformed and renewed, literally reborn spiritually with a new nature and a new and wonderful eternal destiny.

‘Woke’ is the new ‘saved’

However, believe it or not, in the bizarre and deranged world of Wokeism, America’s new official national religion promises much the same thing as Christianity.

Wokeism promises to make sinful human beings (especially heterosexual white men) justified and free, not only from their own sins, but from the curse of the sins of their forefathers, a sinfulness that clings to white Americans like the stain of Adam and Eve’s Original Sin, no matter how many generations pass since the end of slavery and Jim Crow. It’s systemic, you see; we’re born with it.

This leads us to Wokeism’s formula for “salvation” and “forgiveness of sins,” whereby the guilt, the burden, the stain of all of our sins and those of our ancestors are lifted and washed clean, replaced by freedom, innocence and righteousness.

So be of good cheer, there is good news afoot. Christian author John Zmirak, senior editor of The Stream, paints a vivid and relieving picture of just how salvation and progressive sanctification typically occur in the religion of Wokeism. In “‘Woke’ is the New ‘Saved,” Zmirak explains:

“By listening to professors, or following peer pressure, a student discovers that the world is deeply wrong. Permeated by evil. Its evil is inequality. And that evil has an author: straight white males.

“Realizing the depth and extent of this all-pervading evil comes as a kind of conversion. One wakes up. Then one is ‘woke.’ That’s SJW-speak for ‘saved.’” Hence the first moment of faith. ‘I once was lost but now am found. Was blind but now I see.’”

In hopes of “joining the righteous,” reveals Zmirak, students learn to cherish victimhood as the highest virtue in all of life:

“If a student belongs to any other group but straight white males, then she is in luck: She’s certified as a victim,” he writes. “She deserves special treatment from everyone from college deans to government bureaucrats. Even better, she should feel virtuous for wallowing in anger and resentment. No matter if she’s Malia Obama. She can righteously seethe with rage at jobless white coal miners, or homeless white veterans. Her sense of victimhood gives her the ‘blessed assurance’ that she is part of the Elect.

“This creed offers salvation even to the worst of sinners, straight white males. The price is steep: a life of self-denial and penance. But for those who walk this path, rewards await. You can attain justification. Not by your own efforts – but by the righteousness that suffering, innocent victims (non-straights, non-whites, non-males) can impute to you. As an ‘ally’ of the less privileged, you earn the same right to despise the mass of oppressors. And feminists will date you, for whatever that’s worth.”

The more deeply new converts venture into the religion of Wokeism, Zmirak cautions, the more rigorous the disciplines become:

Now white women must admit their role in oppressing women of color. This requires some of the groveling that white males must endure. But it offers the same benefit: a sense of forgiveness, and spiritual progress. Likewise black males must atone to women of color. All straights must bow down to gays. Even gays must make amends for their insensitivity to “trans” people. …

Observing that the Woke “religious movement apes the structure of a Christian conversion, and of subsequent life in the Spirit,” Zmirak translates: “It replaces worship with protest. Spirituality with unhinged histrionics. Examination of conscience with the scapegoating of others conveniently dead or out of power.”

Let’s sum up: Just as the Apostle Paul crystalizes the Christian Gospel when he describes, in Romans 8, how “through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death,” today the apostles of America’s new state religion might say, “The law of wokeness set me free from the law of bigotry and cancellation.”

How extraordinary that the Creator of the Universe demonstrated the greatest love imaginable, sending His own Son to suffer and die to save a broken and sinful human race – or as Paul expressed it, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). And yet, multitudes today are turning away from that shining path to true freedom, only to jump into the astonishingly destructive, unjust and – in some ways, worst of all – unbelievably stupid religion of Wokeism.

Surprise. It’s all an act.

Oh, one more thing: Our dive into the official state religion of Wokeism wouldn’t be complete without pointing out that, though there are multitudes of true believers, and though tens of millions of lives are currently being disrupted, sabotaged and in many cases destroyed by Wokeism, in truth America’s top-tier political leaders – and I’m talking now about those wielding the real power over Americans – don’t believe in any of this. It’s all just a big act for them.

They pretend to care about inner-city black families, equal rights for Pacific Islanders, and “trans” men who brag about having periods and getting pregnant, but they do not care. Not a bit. They just play-act, while exploiting the ever-expanding wokeness craze for their personal benefit, so they can build and consolidate their own power, wealth, privilege and glory.

This is how tyranny takes hold in a once-free country. The Frankfurt School-era communist theorist Antonio Gramsci famously advocated for the incremental Marxist takeover of America via what he called a “long march through the institutions,” as opposed to the traditional method of having a violent revolution as in Russia and elsewhere. Wokeism is just the latest phase in the far-left, progressive, globalist, collectivist, Marxist, communist (please chose your favorite word, it doesn’t matter, since in the end they all converge into totalitarian global government) revolution’s slow-motion “fundamental transformation” of America.

Keep in mind, the revolutionary left always disguises its depredations by blaming the innocent for what they themselves are actually doing – it’s classic projection. It is the leftwing Democratic Party whose history and current agenda are notoriously racist. Meanwhile, most members of the center-right, great American middle class long ago embraced the liberating message of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and haven’t a racist bone in their body. America is, more than any other nation in the world and in all of history, a diverse, free, uniquely successful “live-and-let-live” multi-ethnic national success story. No wonder would-be totalitarians hate it and seek to destroy it.

So, even though the crazy Marxist college professors and their sadly indoctrinated students might believe in the religion of Wokeism, the powerful politicians, the elite class, the deep-staters, the super-rich CEOs and the globalist schemers do not. They just pretend, and play along, because it confers a veneer of morality and righteousness onto very immoral, unrighteous and utterly self-serving sociopaths. It disguises their real agendas. And it serves to keep “the rabble” off balance, confused, divided, fearful, intimidated, reacting to one another, afraid of being “cancelled” and losing their friends, livelihood, everything – the perfect cover for the left’s “long march.”

Most of all, it is a potent tool for amassing ever more POWER and GLORY to themselves – which, of course, is their real religion.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian’s introductory story in the February issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, which Kupelian edits and compiles monthly for WND.

The entire issue, titled “WOKEISM: AMERICA’S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION,” is dedicated to exploring and exposing the religion of Wokeism as never before. For example, if you’ve ever wondered exactly how the most radical elements in American society are successfully pressuring the biggest corporations into adopting the most outrageous and immoral policies imaginable, even when doing so permanently damages and devalues the company, the stunning answers are revealed in this issue of Whistleblower. “WOKEISM: AMERICA’S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION” is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital edition.

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Dear WND reader,

After two years under the leadership of Joe Biden, unquestionably the worst and most destructive president in U.S. history, I thought I’d offer a quick 30,000-foot view of what’s REALLY happening in America, and how to protect the land we love from being completely lost.

If you think about it, the biggest reason Americans are so shocked and perplexed by the madness unfolding all around us – i.e. our leaders intentionally crippling our economy while engineering a full-scale foreign invasion of our country, school kids being groomed into identifying as “transgender” and having body parts amputated, and so on – is that America has always been the one place in the world seemingly exempt from such madness.

When I started out in journalism 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan was president, it was “Morning in America” and, whatever our country’s imperfections and problems, America was a refuge of blessed freedom in an otherwise very dark and violent world.

As a child, my father barely escaped the Armenian Genocide that meant the brutal murder of 1.5 million of his countrymen, including his own father, baby sister and dozens of relatives, all maniacally killed by the Muslim Turks a century ago. America was his promised land.

My wife, born and raised in South Africa, lived for a time in Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe), which under the leadership of the brutal Marxist psychopath Robert Mugabe would experience inflation so bad the government issued one-hundred-TRILLION-dollar bills that were barely enough to pay for bus fare! America was her promised land.

Today, all of America’s elites bow down before China, including – just to cite one example about which you might be unaware – Anita Dunn, senior Biden adviser. While she was White House communications director under Obama, Dunn gave a speech where she publicly described China’s psychopath leader Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political philosophers.” (Here’s the video.) Yet during Mao’s vaunted four-year “Great Leap Forward” from 1958 to 1962, he was responsible for the deaths of approximately 45 million Chinese men, women and children. Since that’s an entirely incomprehensible number, let’s break it down: That averages to about 30,000 deaths PER DAY, every single day, for four years. But hey, that didn’t stop Mao from being an inspiration and role model for Biden’s senior adviser.

As I said, America has always been spared all of this sort of mega-evil – until recently. But because our nation has steadily abandoned its Christian moorings and values, America, having sown the wind, is reaping the whirlwind. Everybody reading this knows it to be true.

The question is: What can and should we do?

First, we can and must pray. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves,” promises 2 Chronicles 7:14, “and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” Our walk with and total reliance on God always comes first.

Second, unlike in Turkey, Zimbabwe, China and most other hellholes in this world, America still has its best-in-the-world Constitution, however reviled and under assault it is by our ruling class. If that seems like a small thing, remember that Roe v. Wade, which led directly to well over 60 million American deaths, was recently overturned by the United States Supreme Court after almost 50 years … because it was blatantly unconstitutional. Many good people doubted we would ever see that day come, but it did, thanks to Donald Trump who as president put three conservative justices onto the high court. So don’t give up. With the Constitution as our firewall, we can and must use the courts to hold the deranged revolutionaries at bay.

Third, and critically, we must support parallel institutions in America that champion our cherished Judeo-Christian values and not the communistic, nihilistic, globalist values of society’s current ruling elites. That means, for instance, taking your kids out of the corrupt public school system and homeschooling them; there’s a whole world of Christian homeschool curricula and support out there.

Likewise, in every area of life, support, join and champion alternative, truly God-honoring, pro-American, pro-liberty institutions that offer a fighting chance to take our country back.

One of those, I can humbly but truly say, is WND, America’s first independent Christian online journalism company, founded back in 1997 and running 24/7 seven days a week ever since, despite constant and often brutal attacks on us.

As Thomas Jefferson wisely and presciently warned, “The only security of all is in a Free Press.”

WND, whose motto for the last 25-plus years has been “A Free Press for a Free People,” is operating in a completely hostile environment. The internet has been taken over by Marxists, globalists, sexual revolutionaries and greedy, utterly self-serving, power-obsessed monopolies, who detest what we are doing.

And yet we’re still here. How on earth can that be?

How can we still be operating, truthfully reporting on all the genuinely important stories, despite all the attacks on us? The answer is that ever since Big Tech destroyed the advertising-based business model that used to support us and other alternative online media organizations, a new model has, of necessity, emerged.

That new model for survival is READER SUPPORT. We need you. If you value and appreciate WND and would like it to continue, please support us financially. It is just as simple as that.

The grace of God and the generosity of donors has gotten us this far, but we need your help to continue, to make payroll for our fantastic group of journalists, all of whom have taken significant pay cuts and missed paychecks entirely, yet who have stayed with us for the past two decades!

Here’s how you can help:

Please prayerfully consider making a generous tax-deductible donation to the 501c3 Christian nonprofit charity, the WND News Center. You can make either a one-time donation or a monthly recurring donation. Either way is enormously appreciated.

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May God bless you and yours,

David Kupelian
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Author, "The Marketing of Evil," "How Evil Works" and "The Snapping of the American Mind"

Of all the shared values Americans have held sacred over the centuries, one of the most important has been the conviction that our children are precious, innocent, literally a gift from God, to be cherished and protected – at all costs.

Why then, in today’s America, are so many adults destroying children in a dizzying variety of ways – from aborting them right up to the very moment of birth, to killing them after they’re born, to sexualizing them virtually from birth (Harvard now teaches a course on infants who are “LGBTQIA+,” “queer” or “asexual”), to injecting them with an experimental “vaccine” PROVEN to be both ineffective and dangerous, to transporting 2- and 3-year-olds to “drag queen story hour” events glorifying mentally ill, demonically possessed men dressed as women (some with criminal histories of child sexual abuse) who indoctrinate America’s next generation with fantastical stories about heroic LGBT characters?

And that’s just the abuse heaped on infants and toddlers.

As they grow older, America’s children are systematically sexualized in government (“public”) school classrooms and after-school LGBT “support clubs,” as well as by the ubiquitous, purple-haired, heavily pierced transgender recruiters on social media platforms like TikTok. As a direct consequence, many children are seduced into “identifying” as the opposite gender, or a brand-new imaginary gender. And although too young to drive or vote, they are encouraged, convinced – and permitted by grownups – to take powerful drugs and hormones, and to have their healthy breasts amputated or undergo chemical or surgical castration. The resulting teen transgender suicide rate is “shockingly high.”

Make no mistake: Today’s rampant transgender grooming craze amounts to widespread child sexual abuse of the most serious and irreversible kind.

America is literally normalizing pedophilia.

As if the rampant sexual abuse were not enough, alongside it are countless other daily school-based assaults on America’s youth: Children are indoctrinated with toxic Marxist ideologies like “critical race theory,” intended to condition them to hate and reject their own country, their parents, their faith, their race, their gender and themselves. At the same time, they’re being intentionally scared to death by being fed lurid, terrifying – and utterly groundless – apocalyptic tales of the imminent destruction of the world due to global warming.

And of course, things just get worse once the kids go off to college, undoubtedly the most deranged and toxic places in the country, where young people are indoctrinated assembly-line style with Marxist ideology, intimidated into adopting perverse “woke” sensibilities and effortlessly drawn into immoral and hopeless lifestyles.

As a result of these and still other assaults on America’s young people  (for example, during the COVID hysteria, forcing them to wear useless and ineffective masks even outside while competing in sporting events, causing some kids to collapse from oxygen deprivation), youth suicides have skyrocketed, as have depression, anxiety and many other mental and emotional problems. Even violent crime at an early age, something virtually unheard-of in previous eras, is becoming an increasing reality, as reflected in recent headlines, including “6-year-old student in custody after allegedly shooting his elementary school teacher in Virginia” and “12-year-old Oklahoma girl accused of stabbing her 9-year-old brother to death.”

Meanwhile, the synthetic opioid fentanyl, the No. 1 cause of death of younger Americans 18 to 45, destroys thousands of children annually. In fact, recently – making its first appearance just prior to Halloween – it has been disguised as candy (so-called “rainbow fentanyl”) so as to destroy as many kids as possible. The fentanyl crisis is largely a direct result of the Biden administration’s intentional and perverse demolition of border enforcement, essentially handing over the U.S.-Mexico border region to the terroristic Mexican drug cartels, who in turn profit massively from trafficking China-sourced fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the U.S.

This multi-front war is intended ultimately to convert America’s next generation into a frightened, corrupted, ideologically brainwashed and therefore obedient – but spiritually dead – version of the bright and moral people they were created to be. And make no mistake, the harm being done to children in this war is neither accidental nor collateral: Children are the primary target.

How can all this be happening in the greatest nation on earth? Who and what is behind it? And how can it be stopped? Let's start by clearly identifying the real adversary.

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The left’s ultimate enemy

Cryptically referred to as “the left” – code words for a godless revolutionary worldview steeped in pathological anger, perpetual discontent and churning rebellion against America as a uniquely blessed Christian country – this is a movement forever at war. But not, as it claims, at war with “racism,” “inequity,” “white supremacy” or “fascism.” Nor, on the other hand, is leftists’ ultimate enemy really America’s children whom they are rapidly corrupting and destroying, nor even is it the reviled conservatives and Christians they daily slander as “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.” No, their REAL war is with God – with Truth, Reality, science, biology, human nature, history, and the most basic laws of economics. They literally cannot tolerate the truth that exposes them for what they are, which is why they are so obsessed today with censoring and discrediting truth as “misinformation,” “Russian disinformation,” “fake news” and “conspiracy theories.”

That explains, for example, why decent, loving parents standing up to deranged school-board members, simply speaking obvious and uncontroversial truths, could be equated with “domestic terrorists” by the Biden Justice Department, a stunning 180-degree inversion of reality.

Still, the question at hand is why this godless movement so relentlessly and tragically focuses its deadliest fire on children?

At their very core, radical leftists are threatened by the innocence, joy and spiritual brightness that shines in uncorrupted children – qualities they themselves have lost. They are likewise fearful of what those young people will become if allowed to grow up and mature in a normal, healthy, God-honoring way, protected and nurtured by moral and decent parents.

Remember, the far left exists in a state of mass delusion rooted in all-out rebellion against God and His laws. The left literally violates all of the Ten Commandments every single day – not accidentally, but purposefully, since the core dynamic of the left’s operating system entirely depends upon violating God’s laws. Therefore, they create false gods to worship (though some vainly pretend to venerate the true God), they specifically teach children not to honor their parents, they kill innocent babies, they steal citizens’ wealth, they encourage and revel in sexual immorality, and they “bear false witness” (lie) nonstop against good people. And underlying it all, they covet all that is not rightfully theirs. Winston Churchill insightfully characterized this false religion by dubbing socialism “the gospel of envy.”

Because of this total moral inversion, the left’s worst nightmare is a nation of kids raised learning about God and Jesus Christ, about the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, about the Golden Rule and about sexual morality, about righteousness and virtue. Radical leftists hate all of that with a blinding hatred, since Christian virtue represents an existential threat to the revolutionary Marxist left.

In fact, to demonstrate that Marxism has always felt compelled to destroy children – primarily by obliterating the nuclear family – consider what Vladimir Lenin did right off the bat when trying to facilitate Russia’s new communist system: He torched the family, which comprises an alternate system of values and loyalties to that of communism, which has always regarded the functional nuclear family as some sort of dangerous, illegitimate mini-cult as it represents a mortal threat to their rule.

Here's how celebrated Soviet dissident, historian and author Mikhail Heller, in his book “Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man,” explains what Lenin did:

It is significant to note that one of the first things V.I. Lenin did when he came to power in the Soviet Union, after the revolution in 1917, was to have passed what amounts to our no-fault divorce statutes.

Lenin, and later Stalin, determined that in order to maintain control of the people it would be necessary to completely destroy the family and restructure it.

Thus, on September 16, 1918, a law was passed whereby one could obtain a divorce by simply mailing or delivering a postcard to the local register without the necessity of even notifying the spouse being divorced.

This statute, along with the communist encouragement of sexual immorality during marriage, approval of abortion, and forcing women out of the home into the workforce, accomplished its purpose of destroying the Russian family.

Sound familiar? Encouraging sexual immorality, pushing abortion and forcing women out of the home and into “the workforce” have been key ways the Marxist left has undermined the American family since the 1960s.

In the end, there is only one thing that can neutralize and overcome the dark spiritual forces animating the left in its maniacal revolutionary campaign to “fundamentally transform America”: The light of genuine Christian virtue has to once again shine brightly in Americans and their families – that’s where the real counterrevolution starts. Of course, it will offend the predators, groomers, corrupters and indoctrinators, and their defenders and promoters in politics, big media, big tech and big business, who are mysteriously repelled by genuine goodness.

But it will save America’s children – and America.

Christians simply have to find the inner strength and grace to be what they truly are – loved children of God, who are loyal to, and servants of, the Most High, willing to speak the truth and stand up for it, come what may. With love. With passion. But not with hate and violence – since that’s exactly what those on the radical left want, indeed it’s what they crave, as they would seize on any violence to condemn all conservatives and Christians as “domestic terrorists,” “violent extremists” and “ultra MAGA insurrectionists.”

Remember, Jesus Christ did not come to lead an outward revolution. He started an inner revolution, one that has never stopped, but continues to this day. We're called to help it continue.

You never know. God just might reward us by giving us our country back, as scripture famously promises in 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

But what if America is too far gone? That's possible. What if, as many pastors and others now believe, America as a nation is “under God’s judgment”?

We can still live unto God, and cherish and protect our kids and grandkids – at all costs.

A great place to start would be to take them out of the increasingly appalling public education system entirely and either homeschool them or find a worthy private Christian school.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is David Kupelian’s opening article in the January 2023 issue of WND’s monthly Whistleblower magazine, an issue titled “WINNING THE WAR AGAINST AMERICA’S CHILDREN” and focused entirely, from cover to cover, on the shocking reality of the left’s all-out war on children – as well as some of the best, most inspired and effective solutions. Whistleblower is available in both print and state-of-the-art digital editions.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris observe a moment of reflection, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

To mark Martin Luther King Day, some prominent “civil rights activists” are rebuking Republicans, from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for quoting the civil rights leader’s most famous statement ever about the virtues of a truly color-blind America. In his August 1963 “I have a dream” speech, King powerfully appealed to the conscience of Americans when he said: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Yet in an article on Axios, Republican politicians citing King’s memorable line are accused of misrepresenting and dishonoring MLK, and advised to stop. The article cites numerous scholars extoling critical race theory, affirmative action and other reverse-discrimination methods of achieving racial justice in America, claiming that King was sympathetic to these means, and that America is still “systemically racist.” Republicans and those on the political and cultural right, they believe, are holding America back from finally attaining true racial justice and equality, while the left, whose stronghold is today’s Democratic Party, constitute the true champions of racial justice.

However, there's a big problem with that analysis: The Democratic Party has historically been the enemy of racial equality, and in fact, was the party of slavery, opposition to Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the KKK and segregation – right on into the era of the civil rights movement King led.

Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and herself a black woman, summarizes in a devastating, six-minute PragerUniversity.com video the Democratic Party's true history of overt racial discrimination and opposition to every major civil rights initiative since its founding in 1829:

The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s. In contrast, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories, with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court in the 1857 case, Dred Scott v. Sandford. The court ruled that slaves aren't citizens; they're property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery – all Democrats. The two justices who dissented – both Republicans.

(Watch Carol Swain's video):

Ending slavery in America, of course, ultimately came at the expense of a bloody Civil War. "The commander in chief during that war," notes Swain, "was the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves. Six days after the Confederate Army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln."

While the slaves were legally freed, explains Swain, as soon as Reconstruction had ended and the federal troops had gone home, "Democrats roared back into power in the south":

They quickly re-established white supremacy across the region, with measures like "black codes" – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses – and they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests used to subvert black citizens' right to vote. And how was all of this enforced? By terror – much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest. As historian Eric Foner, himself a Democrat, notes: "In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party."

Lest one imagine this is all just “ancient history,” and that during the actual civil rights movement led by MLK, which culminated in passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democrats were the champions of the rights of blacks, reality is very different.

As Swain recounts, "the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats." In fact, she says, "Democratic senators filibustered the bill for 75 days until Republicans mustered the few extra votes needed to break the logjam."

What about today, when Pew Research confirms that 90 percent of American blacks faithfully vote Democrat? Explains Swain:

When all of their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was reported to have said about the Civil Rights Act, "I'll have them n*ggers voting Democrat for 200 years."

As always, today's Democratic Party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing. Democrats falsely claim the Republican Party is the villain, when in reality, it's the failed policies of the Democratic Party that have kept blacks down: Massive government welfare has decimated the black family; opposition to school choice has kept them trapped in failing schools; politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods defenseless against violent crime.

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Although today’s widespread transgender recruitment craze targeting schoolchildren is enthusiastically supported by America’s governmental, academic and cultural elites, many conservatives and Christians condemn the movement as “satanic.”

Indeed, considering the irreversible bodily mutilations and “shockingly high” suicide rate, the “satanic” label isn’t surprising, with columnist and podcaster Jason Whitlock telling Tucker Carlson, “All of this, to me, is satanic – the targeting of young people and children that are very impressionable at a very early age.” Echoes author and talk-host Candace Owens, "When I look at the face of this trans movement, and this trans agenda, and confusing kids ... when I see that, I think this is actually satanic." Even Rev. Franklin Graham decries the reality that "Students are being encouraged and groomed by older students to change their sexual identity,” adding, “Satan, the evil one, is a deceiver and brings chaos, disorder, and confusion. It is not a happy lifestyle when you reject God's original design.”

So, is it satanic?

It must be, because the transgender grooming craze, from its “drag queen story hours” for toddlers, to the systematic sexualization of public school students, to the explicit encouragement of preteens and teens too young to drive to “identify” as transgender and have healthy body parts amputated – all regarded by many as serious forms of child sexual abuse – appears to be too satanic even for the Church of Satan.

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At least, that’s according to the organization’s official tenets as formulated and published by Anton Szandor LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan in 1966 and remained its high priest until his death in 1997.

In his manifesto, "The Satanic Bible" (pages 37 and 38), LaVey writes:

“Satanism encourages any form of sexual expression you may desire, so long as it hurts no one else. If you attempt to impose your sexual desires upon others who do not welcome your advances, you are infringing upon their sexual freedom. Therefore, Satanism does not advocate rape, child molesting, sexual defilement of animals, or any other form of sexual activity which entails the participation of those who are unwilling or whose innocence or naïveté would allow them to be intimidated or misguided into doing something against their wishes.”

LaVey adds: “If all parties involved are mature adults who willingly take full responsibility for their actions and voluntarily engage in a given form of sexual expression – even if it is generally considered taboo – then there is no reason for them to repress their sexual inclinations.” (Italics added.)

The prohibition of preying on children is repeated on the Church of Satan’s official website, on a page titled “The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth,” No. 9 of which, in LaVey’s words, is simply: “Do not harm little children.”

However, times change – and a generation later a new satanic organization called the Satanic Temple, distinct from the Church of Satan, was founded in 2013 and is now known as a “queer haven.” And an article posted on the LGBT website OUT.com says: "According to [Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien] Greaves, the Temple is mostly made up of LGBTQ+ people who feel disowned and disenfranchised from the traditional religious institution, saying ‘we will always fight them, we will fight them to the death to ensure that there are equal rights for the gay community.’”

This April, the Satanic Temple is planning what it bills as "The Largest Satanic Gathering in History" in Boston, called “SatanCon.”

IMPORTANT NOTE: David Kupelian's critically acclaimed book "The Snapping of the American Mind has just been released in a new, completely revised and expanded 2022 paperback version, and includes all-new chapters illuminating the astonishing "1984"-style transformation of America taking place under the Biden administration.

“A must-read if you really want to understand the world we live in and where it’s headed,” says Sean Hannity. Dinesh D’Souza writes, "David Kupelian's 'The Snapping of the American Mind' chronicles the decline and fall of America and shows that it is no accident, but rather a direct result of progressive misrule – an eye-opening, scary and galvanizing book." And Dr. Ted Baehr, Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, says: "David Kupelian is one of the very few must-read writers in the twenty-first century. He has the insight and wisdom to perceive the true state of the culture and the world, and he has the incredible ability to tell the Truth in a readable manner that helps the reader not only understand the Truth, but to understand how to redeem America's culture as well."

“The Snapping of the American Mind” is available now at the WND Superstore, as is the updated and expanded 2022 paperback edition of Kupelian's culture-war classic, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom."

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To right-thinking Americans attempting to make sense of a nation seemingly gone mad, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the irrational, deranged – and often demonic – leftwing political and cultural movements currently capturing the minds of millions of Americans are nothing short of full-fledged cults.

Although the high priesthood of all these leftwing religious cults – i.e., university professors, academics and other Marxist ideologues and activists – may be true believers, the people actually wielding REAL POWER do not believe any of it. To them, these leftwing cults conveniently serve to disguise and distract “the rabble” from what the leader class is REALLY up to, which is the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and glory for themselves, and a total transformation of America and the world.

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A child being offered as a burning sacrifice to the pagan god Molech

In today’s America, the array of de facto cults masquerading as science-based political movements is vast, bewildering and ever-expanding:

There’s the “Climate Change Cult.” And the “Anti-Racism Cult” and the “Cult of Wokeness.” There’s the “LGBTQ Cult” and its out-of-control predatory offspring targeting America’s children, the “Cult of Transgender.” There’s the ever-more-strident “Cult of Abortion.” And the “Cult of COVID.” Overarching many of these, of course, is the “Cult of Globalism.” And there are many more, like the ever-expanding number of “TikTok Cults.” Every month the list grows.

To right-thinking Americans attempting to make sense of a nation gone mad, it’s becoming increasingly clear that these irrational, deranged – and often demonic – political and cultural movements that are so readily capturing the minds of millions of Americans are nothing short of full-fledged religious cults.

Their profoundly negative effects are inescapable: Repeated polls confirm that the “Climate Change Cult,” with its hysterical indoctrination of America’s school kids, has caused a staggering seven out of 10 young people to fear the future, so great is their concern that the world may soon come to an apocalyptic end. Four in 10 even say they will not bring any children into such a cursed and short-lived world. Never mind that 1,100 scientists and scholars recently signed a document affirming “There is no climate emergency.”

Meanwhile, the “Wokeness Cult” intimidates millions into living in continual fear of saying, writing or even thinking the “wrong thing,” on threat of being shunned, “cancelled,” ostracized from their peer group or fired from their job – a scenario jarringly reminiscent of the dreaded “thoughtcrime” accusation in George Orwell’s “1984.”

The “Cult of Abortion” is compared by many to the ancient “Cult of Moloch” because of the uncanny similarity between modern-day abortion and the ubiquitous practice of child sacrifice in the pagan world of old. In past millennia, sacrificing children to demonic gods like Moloch and Baal was justified by the belief that the gods thus satisfied would reward the parents with prosperity and good fortune. That’s precisely the argument given for legalized abortion today. Last May, testifying against the Supreme Court’s imminent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that eliminating or reducing women’s access to abortion would be devastating both to women and to America’s prosperity in general. “I believe that eliminating the rights of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades,” Yellen said.

Then there’s the “COVID Cult,” which has crippled much of American society over the last three years. While shutting down real churches all over the country during the pandemic, the high priests of COVID founded their own religion. As with most faiths, the “COVID Cult” clearly differentiates between the clean and the unclean, the justified and the unjustified, the saved and the unsaved – or as they are better known, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The only problem is that their sacred ritual of internal cleansing, an act elevated almost to the level of holy communion, necessitated that the CDC quietly change the definition of “vaccine”  to fit an unproven, ineffective and dangerous experimental medicine the COVID priests still insist on administering to true believers – and their children.

Social contagion and brainwashing

Today’s cults share disturbing yet unmistakable similarities to infamous cults and mass-hysteria episodes of the past. For example, consider the hypnotic influence various TikTok personalities exert on adolescents, persuading many to “identify” as transgender and undergo surgical amputation of healthy body parts. Still other TikTok influencers, displaying their Tourette’s Syndrome on camera, have ignited a bizarre epidemic of teenage girls suddenly manifesting spontaneous Tourette’s tics themselves. There are few limits to this social contagion phenomenon, which Western medicine refers to as “mass sociogenic illness,” more commonly known as "mass hysteria."

Some of the behaviors and sudden personality changes – especially in the “Transgender Cult” where countless adolescents have suffered their minds to be completely captivated by groomers, mimicking their utterly deranged beliefs and statements – are even reminiscent of the infamous Salem witch trials of the late 1600s when girls suddenly started imitating the behavior of their peers and identifying innocent women as witches. Or the 1980s’ McMartin Preschool sex-abuse case, about which the "mainstream media" went bonkers, including the New York Times, which reported that “hundreds of children might have been molested and subjected to satanic rituals" at the California daycare center. Except they weren't. None of it actually happened, and after the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history, not a single conviction resulted. But many young people, while in the grip of “mass sociogenic” influences, claimed a lot of horrendous things to police and investigators that were totally untrue, as some of the child accusers confessed years later.

Cult Central, of course, would be the nation’s far-left colleges and universities, which historian William Lind likens to “little ivy-covered North Koreas.” There, America’s next generation is daily indoctrinated in toxic, delusional and intensely guilt-producing Marxist ideologies that, in many cases, totally transform the student.

Case in point: Recently Manhattan resident Melinda Rockwell hired a cult deprogrammer for $300 per day to undo the “brainwashing” her daughter experienced courtesy of Mount Holyoke College, the famed $60,000-a-year Ivy League girls’ school in Massachusetts. During her time there, Annabella Rockwell was deeply indoctrinated with far-left ideology while being turned totally against her own parents, and was basically transformed, her mother later said, into a “very anxious, very nervous, very depressed and sad" would-be soldier for the woke revolution.

"She was no longer the Annabella I'd known all her life," Melinda Rockwell told the New York Post. "This girl was the most bubbly breath of fresh air to everyone. She lit up a room. But the light was stolen from her at that school. It was extinguished. It was no different than if she'd been taken away by the Moonies or the Children of God."

It’s no exaggeration to say these various far-left cults are destroying millions of American lives. Sadly, some of the damage is irreversible, particularly in the lives shattered by gender recruitment cults that persuade teen girls to undergo “top surgery” (double mastectomies) and boys to be chemically or surgically castrated (“bottom surgery”).

Nevertheless, this wildly metastasizing panorama of leftwing cults is not the whole story – far from it. However catastrophic and life-altering these various quasi-religious movements are to the individuals swept up in them, and to American society as a whole, there is a larger, and in some ways, even more shocking dimension to what is going on behind the scenes.

Never let a crisis go to waste

First, it’s essential to recognize that every one of these cults is a hoax, a fraud – a construct.

The “Anti-Racism Cult” is based on the proposition that America is irredeemably racist. But the USA is hands-down the least racist, most successful multi-ethnic society in world history, which is why it remains the world’s No. 1 destination for immigrants, legal and illegal. The “Cult of Transgender” is based on the absurdly unscientific, pathological and arguably demonic belief that gender is a state of mind, and that feelings, emotions, cravings and irrational compulsions comprise a legitimate and compelling basis for defining reality and one’s true identity. But that’s pretty much the definition of mental illness. And so on with the other cults.

However, if they’re all hoaxes and constructs, who constructed them? And for what purpose?

During the Obama administration, Americans often heard the expression “manufactured crisis,” a concept explained by Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” The clear implication is that, for the left, a crisis – whether real or manufactured – can be leveraged mightily to advance a secret agenda that society would otherwise resist or reject.

Thus it is that, behind every one of today’s cults is a supposedly apocalyptic crisis that isn’t real – literally a manufactured crisis. So, the crises of “America’s systemic racism,” of “near-term catastrophic climate change,” of “the war on women’s reproductive freedom” and so on are not real. They’re leftwing manufactured crises, the response to which is the creation of these revolutionary movements that amount to full-blown cults.

Marx’s opiate

Karl Marx, whose ideas lie at the core of much of what today’s Democratic Party espouses – from “critical race theory” to its many attacks on the nuclear family – famously wrote that "Religion is the opium of the people" (often translated as "Religion is the opiate of the masses”). Even though Marx as a professed atheist detested religion – after all, his very next sentence was, “The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness” – Marx ironically was responsible for creating the ultimate false “religion,” which has indeed served as “the opiate of the masses” ever since.

That’s right. Whether one calls it “Marxism,” “communism,” “socialism” or “progressivism,” or any of today’s more exotic terms like “wokism” and “anti-racism,” these labels are appealing because they confer a veneer of transcendent meaning and morality to the left’s perverse causes. Of course, the high priesthood of the various leftwing religious cults – i.e., university professors, academics and other Marxist ideologues and activists – are indeed enamored of leftwing causes and seem to truly believe they represent a roadmap for achieving a more just, equitable and enlightened society.

But the people actually wielding real power in America and the world do not believe in any of this. To them, these leftwing cults conveniently serve to disguise and distract “the rabble” from what the leader class is really up to, which of course is the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and glory for themselves, along with revenge on their enemies. Publicly espousing and embracing these various Marxist cults thus fosters the illusion that the leaders actually care about anybody or anything other than themselves. All of which is to say that the abundance of bizarre and dramatic Marxist cults dominating American society and media today serve as the real “opiate of the masses.”

Just as communist leaders throughout the last century, from Stalin to Mao, didn’t really and truly believe in “Marxism,” or a “classless society,” or “equality for all” or the wellbeing of “the working class,” these corrupt and sociopathic political criminals, each responsible for millions of deaths, were simply obsessed with their own power and privilege. Marxist ideology was just their moral fig leaf.

Likewise, in today’s America, leftist leaders don’t really believe in the secular religious sermons they preach. Barack Obama doesn’t truly believe America is an irredeemably racist country when it elected him as the first black president in U.S. history. And he doesn’t really believe “catastrophic climate change” is causing the oceans to disastrously rise, or else he wouldn’t have built a $12 million mansion right on the beach of Martha’s Vineyard, an island in the Atlantic Ocean. None of the elites truly believe fossil fuels are destroying the earth and that the vast peasant classes are all better off eating insects instead of meat, or else they wouldn’t fly hundreds of private jets to every climate-change conference held in exotic locales where they feast on the finest meats and seafood.

It’s all an act – for the sake of their own power, privilege and personal wealth.

So, what's the bottom line of the ruling elites, of the “Great Reset” globalists and all the power-obsessed political, cultural and corporate leaders who run America and much of the world, who somehow are able to deceive others as easily as breathing, and for whom nothing is sacred?

They believe in and serve only one religion and one god. Themselves.

And thus are they the most deceived of all, as they will one day realize.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” – Galatians 6:7 KJV

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Carina Nebula viewed by Hubble Space Telescope

Decades ago as a young person, I liked to visit the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where one exhibit featured a nine-minute film that played continuously in a loop. I would stand there, in awe, watching it over and over again.

It was called "Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe – and the Effect of Adding Another Zero."

Narrated by MIT physics professor Philip Morrison, the short movie takes viewers on a virtual high-speed voyage into outer space, zooming away from earth another order of magnitude (10 times farther) every 10 seconds, thus traversing through our solar system and vastly beyond, eventually past the Milky Way galaxy unto the outer reaches of the known universe – ending up 100 million light years from home. Upon returning to earth, the cosmic roller-coaster pauses temporarily at its initial starting point at the planet's surface, but now continues on "in the other direction" – that is, inward. Microscopically traveling by a new order of magnitude (10 times smaller) every 10 seconds, the same rate as the previous journey, this time the "fantastic voyage" ventures inside a man's hand. We survey skin cells and other structures, then chromosomes and DNA, and, as the magnification increases exponentially, molecules and atoms, until finally we arrive at our destination: a single proton within the nucleus of a carbon atom.

Not only does "Powers of Ten" (as well as a later remake called "Cosmic Voyage" narrated by Morgan Freeman) provide a glimpse of the astonishing complexity and magnificence of creation and the relative size of all things known, it also, intriguingly, shows man to be more-or-less right smack in the middle of two universes, one infinitely larger than us and the other infinitesimally smaller.

Think of it: Zoom out to, say, one light-year of distance from earth (10-to-the-16th-power meters) and our sun is seen as a tiny speck in space. But zoom inward, toward the center of a carbon atom, and you've traveled the same number of orders of magnitude, sixteen (10-to-the-minus-16th-power meters, or 0.000001 angstroms), and the atomic nucleus is likewise seen as a tiny speck in space.

With this mind-blowing relativity in mind, man is obviously not "small," as we're often told, except when compared to the distances, speeds and heavenly bodies inhabiting outer space. But relative to the equally mind-bogglingly small universes of inner space – well, let's just say, you and I are to the tiny particles in the nucleus of an atom as the Milky Way galaxy is to us.

Thus perched between these "parallel universes," we human beings exist on this remarkably beautiful blue-green-and-brown spinning sphere called Earth. And as such, we are faced with a great enigma – a Creator who can conceive universes large and small, both equally incomprehensible in their largeness and smallness (not to mention their infinite complexity and wonder), and yet Who places, right in the middle of it all, human beings, full of all our vexing and even malignant flaws.

For what purpose?

That's a mystery. It is THE mystery.

In our life on this Earth, our first and most tangible reality is the wondrous natural world surrounding us and providing all our material needs. We are likewise blessed with marvelous faculties – two little spherical cameras called eyes with which to see, ears to hear, plus all our other senses and abilities, all topped off with an astonishing super-computer – our brain. All this, that we may perceive, navigate and live our lives successfully within this natural world, like the rest of the animal kingdom.

Alas, we're not just animals, ordained to live in an ecosystem, locate food, procreate and try to steer clear of predators. For co-existing with this natural world is a mysterious moral dimension in which we humans are also immersed. Animals don't share this moral realm, nor do plants, rocks, mountains or oceans, nor for that matter do atoms, molecules, planets, stars or black holes, all of which "act" in accord with their given nature, all without honor or dishonor, reward or punishment. Kittens aren’t good, and man-eating sharks aren't evil. Only man dwells in this peculiar moral realm wherein good and evil not only manifest, but seem to be focused directly on recruiting us! As such, we inevitably assume the role of conduits of good, or of evil – or more often, of both good and evil, since both realms relentlessly strive to claim our minds, hearts, loyalties, and ultimately our souls.

It is this moral dimension that is the matrix from which most of our problems emerge, overshadowing and often overwhelming everything else in our lives.

For despite all that is truly amazing about human beings – the civilizations we've built, literature and art we've created, diseases we've conquered, our dizzying scientific and technological achievements and, most important, our genuine capacity for nobility, generosity and self-sacrifice – we are seriously troubled, problem-ridden creatures. The human race is a giant mess, and from everything we know, always has been. Along with our conscience (a little speck of God's mind that he graciously enfolds within each one of us) and the many virtues with which we are blessed, we're also mightily beset by pride, doubt, anger, selfishness, greed, lust – in fact, by ignoble impulses and destructive proclivities of every imaginable sort, almost as though we had a genetic predisposition toward them. Some of us become full-fledged monsters.

As a result, our world includes entire nations that resemble insane asylums where the most deluded and dangerous people are those in positions of authority. Moreover, each culture, religion and political ideology has a set of core beliefs about which adherents are absolutely certain, yet which are utterly at odds with the core beliefs of all other cultures, religions and political systems. Even worse, in the case of major utopian systems like communism, Nazism and Islamism, millions are brainwashed into not only embracing impossibly irrational, degrading and destructive beliefs, but into believing they are required to force everyone else on Earth to adopt their beliefs – or else be subjugated or slaughtered.

False messiahs
Clearly there is something in our makeup, some mysterious inheritance from ancient times, that beckons us to so easily cross the line of conscience, morality and reason – to violate God's laws, to become spiritual outlaws. In Christian shorthand, we're all "born in sin."

It's one of the great mysteries of life that some people – usually after great suffering and soul-searching – eventually manage somehow to mature into responsible, conscientious, moral adults, while others unfortunately become ever more entangled in dark thoughts and feelings, leading to self-destructive or predatory behaviors.

But here's the rub. Even in those who eventually leave behind their former sinful behavior, the nature that allowed it seems to linger somewhere deep within us like a latent virus. Moreover, even if we were somehow graced to become totally free of our sinful nature, we still cannot undo the sins we committed in the past. In a cosmic legal sense, we're still guilty. We're like offenders who have broken the law and hurt, violated and damaged other people, and though we may now sincerely regret what we did, we're still guilty of having done it! How can our guilt then be taken away? Can the past be magically wiped out? This is where the idea of the Messiah as savior comes in.

Unfortunately, because repentance and facing our own dark, angry, sinful nature can be painful and requires humility, many people are more inclined to skip the introspection and just appoint an earthly savior to rescue them from their misery. The most notorious example of a false messiah in modern times was Adolf Hitler, although both Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were responsible for far more deaths. All demanded obedience and worship in return for a glorious kingdom on Earth, but of course it didn't work out. It never does – but we keep trying.

As former New Left leader David Horowitz explains, progressive true-believers “regard the past, which is real, with contempt, and are focused exclusively on a future which is imaginary.” He explains the strange thinking inherent in this political ideology:

Think of progressives as a species of religious fundamentalists planning a redemption. Like fundamentalists, they look at the world as fallen — a place corrupted by racism, sexism and class division. But the truly religious understand that we are the source of corruption and that redemption is only possible through the work of a Divinity. In contrast, progressives see themselves as the redeemers, which is why they are so dangerous, because they regard those who oppose them as the eternally damned. Progressives are on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth by redistributing income and using the state to enforce politically correct attitudes and practices in everyone’s life.

Of course, the communist/socialist dream has never delivered on its utopian promises, with 100 to 200 million dead bodies resulting from it in the last century. How strange, then, that the stench emanating from those mountains of rotting corpses is somehow overcome by the sweet aroma of an impossible dream, the delusion that we can reform and redeem mankind through the “enlightened” coercion of an all-powerful government. Socialism, the strange religion of the Left, still energizes and excites true believers.

In America, the last time a political figure was worshipped as a messiah, someone in whom millions of people invested all their hopes and dreams for the future, was the elevation to the presidency of Barack Obama in 2008.

“We thought that he was going to be – I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime – but the next messiah,” veteran broadcast journalist Barbara Walters told Piers Morgan on CNN. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas told MSNBC, "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God." And upon Obama's 2012 resurrection – I mean, reelection – Newsweek celebrated the occasion with the front-cover headline, "THE SECOND COMING."

A messiah, at least in the Christian sense, is not only supposed to lead people out of bondage and oppression, but to take away their guilt and past sins. Obama was, in effect, anointed by the majority of American voters to absolve their guilt over our great national sin of slavery (and later, racial segregation). But instead of cleansing us of our national guilt, Obama and his administration, including Joe Biden and Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, cynically magnified and enlarged our guilt, using it as a weapon to confuse, confound and divide us, to neutralize patriots and critics, all for the unholy purpose of amassing ever more power.

Most Americans – some sooner, some later – ultimately realized that not only was Obama not a messiah, he was arguably the worst, most dishonest, incompetent, anti-American president in U.S. history. His radical-left administration caused tremendous harm not just to the nation's constitutional system of government, its economy, security and culture – but to its national soul. That's because, to "fundamentally transform" a uniquely great nation like America into just one more pathetic redistributionist welfare state presided over by an all-powerful nanny government, the American people must be seduced into becoming less independent and less moral than they once were, they mustn't trust in God quite as much as they once did, they must become less rugged and resilient, less logical and competent, less principled and courageous than they once were.

This, alas, is the true legacy of the Obama presidency – the degradation and demoralization of America.

The desire for a messiah – a God-anointed person who will lead us to lasting peace and happiness – is embedded deep in the human soul. The messiah is central not just to Christianity and to Judaism, but also to Islam, which has its own exotic version of a last-days deliverer.

In fact, polls reveal that a large percentage of Muslims currently living in the Middle East believe they will see, in their lifetime, the coming of their messiah – whom they call the Mahdi. But believe it or not, Islam anticipates that the Mahdi will return with a sidekick – Jesus, whom Muslims call “Isa.” The Muslim Jesus is expected to tell the entire world that he is not the son of God, was not crucified and was not resurrected from the dead. Rather, according to Muslim teachings, Jesus' message upon his return will be that he does indeed exist, but that he is – surprise! – a Muslim, and that all the world must convert to Islam.

Since human beings, as is demonstrated again and again, are prone to disastrously appointing false "messiahs" to absolve their sins and lead them to peace and freedom, one question, which has endured for millennia, looms large: Is the messiah a political (group) savior, or a spiritual (individual) one?

Twenty centuries ago at the time Jesus walked the Earth, the Jewish people, citing the biblical prophets, were awaiting a great leader descended from King David who would rescue and lead them into a time of lasting peace on earth. However, Jesus, when urged to lead a rebellion against the Roman oppressors and occupiers, said he had come to lead a different sort of revolution – an inner one, within each person. Why?

True Messiah
If we’re completely honest, at some point during our lives we come to realize we are broken in such a deep way that we cannot fix ourselves. Our problem with sin, with deep roots going back to our childhood and beyond, seems to cling to us all of our lives.

Even in the best of us, the traumas of life have become so much a part of us, the perverse cravings of our hearts so strong, and the hold sin has on us so powerful, that even with our best efforts we remain a shadow of the person we’d like to be. We never seem to be totally healed – not through living a clean, law-abiding, moral life, not with the help of modern medicine and antidepressants, not with church attendance and sermons and hymns and good deeds, not even by diligently trying to obey all of God’s commandments.

We need something we cannot give ourselves.

We need true healing; we need forgiveness; we need a new identity; we need new life.

This mystery of otherworldly redemption is alluded to throughout the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah writing: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

All of which brings us to the coming of the Messiah – the real one.

What more compassionate and needed gift could God possibly give His struggling, wayward children than a perfect, in-the-flesh example of how to live, a great lover of our souls who would suffer greatly for our redemption and dramatically demonstrate real love, and one who would actually do battle with the dark spiritual forces that oppress the human race?

Why, indeed, would a Creator so great as to imagine into existence such an astonishingly magnificent universe not provide for us the example, the teacher, and the savior we so desperately need?

The simplicity and sincerity of Christ’s essential message is conveyed by one of my very favorite scriptures, courtesy of John the apostle: “Here is the message we heard from him [Jesus] and pass on to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to be sharing in his life while we walk in the dark, our words and our lives are a lie; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, then we share together a common life, and we are being cleansed from every sin by the blood of Jesus his Son” (1 John 1:5–7).

John mentions here no complicated dogma, no required religious observances, rituals, pilgrimages, or special diet. Just a sincere appreciation of God’s forgiveness and this glistening instruction: If we “walk in the light, as he himself is in the light” – that is, if we calmly and humbly welcome God’s light of understanding to shine in our minds and souls, by which light we will observe our sinful nature – He will grace us with repentance. And “then,” assures John, “we share together a common life, and we are being cleansed from every sin by the blood of Jesus his Son.”

Again, living “in the light” – not losing ourselves in worry over the past, or anxiety and fear over the future, but staying faithful in the present moment, in the presence of God – involves facing our own vexing imperfections and faults, without condemning ourselves, or covering up the sin, or struggling with it to fix it, but just patiently waiting on God for help. When we do that, we are, in that very moment, being transformed, redeemed, graced to “share together a common life” with God.

These are, of course, simply my reflections on an enormously profound subject. But I believe such deep matters are meant to be pondered by each of us in our hearts, without worry, without pressure, without fear of hellfire hanging over us. If we don’t understand something, it’s okay. If we experience doubt or confusion, it’s okay – just honestly admit it. God sees all, and will help.

Our lives are an adventure playing out in two different worlds simultaneously: We’re meant not only to live our lives on this earth the best we can manage, but also to embrace an inner journey that is ultimately far more important. Sadly, some of us lead unexamined lives, but as Socrates said at his trial, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Still others simply don’t want to face reality no matter what, stubbornly preferring to inhabit their own alternate universe, their mad dreamworld, in which they inevitably hurt many people, and themselves.

That seems to be the great divide in humanity. It’s not a racial, ethnic, cultural, class, or generational one, nor is it even a philosophical, ideological, or religious divide per se. Rather, it is simply that there are people who are willing to honestly face their sinful nature no matter how uncomfortable or humbling, and to truly repent in the light of God and thereby find reconciliation with Him. And then there are people who are not. There are those who, even in the worst of circumstances, find this blessed place, and others who, though benefiting from the best of circumstances, reject it. Our deep-down love of truth – or lack of it – forms the invisible nucleus around which orbit all our beliefs and attitudes. What kind of person we become in this life emanates naturally from our willingness or unwillingness to face the sometimes painful mystery of ourselves with honesty and integrity.

Earlier we considered why God would position the human race betwixt alternate universes – magnificent cosmic clockwork large and small – and immerse us likewise in two opposing spiritual dimensions of good and evil, virtue and wickedness, sanity and madness.

Why are we here? What is God intent on creating in this special realm – the realm of man – that He couldn’t bring into being any other way, or anywhere else in the universe, even 100 million light-years out?

Love, sacrifice, courage, character – in a word, goodness. Manifesting real love and goodness in this world has more to do with patient suffering, endurance, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice than anything else, but how does God create that kind of person with purely natural processes? Can He create love the way He creates stars, with giant explosions of dense clouds of hydrogen gas? Or the way He causes an acorn to follow an invisible blueprint and grow into a towering oak?

God is seeking people who will truly love Him and love one another – and even, as Jesus taught and exemplified, love and pray for their enemies. That means He’s looking for something that simply cannot be brought into being any other way than as an end result of the troubled lives we lead in this difficult world and the hard-won lessons of humility and faith we ultimately embrace. And to help us, to guide us – indeed to make the impossible possible – He sends His Son, the true Messiah, our best friend, to lift the curse and destroy the virus through some wondrous magic from beyond the ends of the universe.

So, the solution to our mystery of why God put such imperfect beings in the midst of colliding galaxies and subatomic constellations may simply be that, in the Creator’s mind, all that dazzling stuff just serves as the ornate setting, and we – we’re the crown jewel of His creation. Not that we’re anything praiseworthy, mind you. Not at all. It’s just that God wanted children – and all the stars, planets, oceans, rocks, trees, and birds just wouldn’t do.

God does not create loving and obedient children the same way He creates the rest of the universe. But in leaving a race of prodigal sons and daughters here, untethered in a moral wilderness with the freedom to follow their own folly for a season and thereby learn precious lessons, God knew many would eventually come to their senses and come back home to Him. May it be so with you.

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Merriam-Webster, America’s oldest dictionary company, has revealed that “gaslighting” is the top word of 2022, noting that online searches for the definition of the strange expression were up a staggering 1,740% over the previous year. And no wonder.

The term derives from the classic 1944 film “Gaslight,” in which an extraordinarily evil criminal, who has recently gotten married, psychologically manipulates his perfectly sane wife into believing she’s going insane as a means of distracting her from uncovering his horrendous crime spree. From the movie emerged the modern psychological term “gaslighting,” which means, “to cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation.”

Why are so many people interested in learning more about gaslighting, as Merriam-Webster reveals?

Possibly because America’s current ruling elites – including not only the Biden-Harris administration, but most of the Democratic Party, Big Tech, Big Media, the “Deep State,” academia, and even an increasing number of major “woke” corporations – are literally gaslighting the rest of America every single day, from morning until night, in a dizzying and ever-expanding variety of ways.

Indeed, gaslighting has become the No. 1 psychological warfare principle of America’s ruling class.

One of the most obvious examples of Biden administration gaslighting has been its ongoing campaign to not only demonize but induce paralyzing doubt, guilt, fear and self-loathing in tens of millions of thoroughly decent, law-abiding Americans by continually denouncing them as “racists,” “white supremacists,” “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.”

In fact, in virtually every arena in which the war for America’s future is being fought, those currently in power continually portray large segments of the American population – basically all those with whom they disagree – as essentially immoral, deplorable and irredeemable people, indeed almost subhuman.

A quick tour through some of today’s key political and cultural battlefields brings this dynamic into sharp focus.

January 6 riot: The so-called “armed insurrection” of January 6 was neither an “insurrection” by any known definition, nor did it involve a single armed protester. Rather, it consisted (aside from all the FBI, Antifa and other agent provocateurs on scene) largely of Trump supporters rallying in Washington, D.C., understandably upset at the likelihood that the most consequential presidential election of their lifetime had just been stolen from them, with several hundred of them entering the U.S. Capitol and some committing property crimes and other mayhem.

Although these rioters have been absurdly accused of attempting to steal control of the entire United States government, in reality, stealing control of the entire government is precisely what the Democrats were obsessed with accomplishing, not just through rampant election fraud, but throughout Donald Trump’s presidency. From the illegal spying on the Trump campaign before the 2016 election, to Robert Mueller’s fraudulent three-year “Russia collusion” probe, to the two fraudulent presidential impeachments – all coaxed along by the never-ending comparisons of Trump to Adolf Hitler and his administration to Nazi Germany – Americans lived in a state of constant gaslighting.

COVID-19: The entire COVID pandemic has showcased some of the most surreal gaslighting in modern history. For more than a year, the official narrative was that SARS-CoV-2 emanated from a bat in a Wuhan, China “wet market” (at a time when there were no bats at the Wuhan market) – and not from the level-4 biolab up the street, staffed with Chinese military personnel, that just happened to be conducting dangerous “gain-of-function” research on bat coronaviruses to make them much more dangerous to humans. Anyone doubting the “bat in the wet market” explanation and suggesting the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the more likely source of the virus – that is, anyone embracing honesty, common sense and logic – was mocked, censored, banned from social media, fact-checked to death and branded a dangerous “conspiracy theorist” spreading “COVID Misinformation.”

That is, until it all turned out to be true, at which time the elites just moved on to new and fresher gaslighting opportunities. No apologies – EVER.

Meanwhile, Americans reluctant to have their bodies injected with an experimental gene therapy loaded with massive downside risk and frightening unknowns have continually been told “it’s perfectly safe” and tens of millions were ordered to take “the jab” or lose their jobs.

Likewise, if they preferred to treat their COVID infection – or to prevent it prophylactically – with wonder drugs like the FDA-approved-as-safe-and-effective ivermectin, whose discovery was honored with a Nobel Prize in 2015, they were made to feel like ignorant, gullible (and probably racist) Trump-supporting “deplorables” who self-medicate with “horse paste.”

Incredibly, the Biden Department of Homeland Security even released a graphic titled “POTENTIAL TERROR THREATS,” illustrating what DHS considers the biggest terrorism threats facing Americans. The top terror threat cited? “OPPOSITION TO COVID MEASURES.”

Presidential dementia: For four years, Democrats pursued a multi-faceted campaign to end Donald Trump’s presidency by any means possible, including their demand that the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove him from office for his “disability,” “incapacity” or “mental illness.”

“Almost immediately after his inauguration,” explained constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley, “Democrats and the media called for the removal of Trump through impeachment or the 25th Amendment. Various liberal psychologists held forth on alleged mental illness without the benefit of any examination.”

In reality, of course, Trump is remarkably sharp, and in fact “aced” the difficult Montreal Cognitive Assessment test administered to him while president, getting all 30 questions right. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is obviously in a state of rapidly advancing dementia – something virtually every sentient adult American now understands.

Immigration: Democrats in power are allowing, encouraging and facilitating the illegal immigration of millions of people, not just from Mexico and Central America, but from all over the world, and settling them en masse in the American heartland – permanently and profoundly altering the fabric of American society. Yet anyone who dares complain about the rapid destruction of their nation is accused of being a racist, a white supremacist, and a selfish, heartless person who “hates black and brown people.”

This is straight-up gaslighting, the purveyors of such outrageous and revolutionary policies cynically condemning the totally moral, caring and logical sensibilities of good Americans as grievous character defects like racism and bigotry. In reality, as the nation’s elites well know, America is unquestionably the least racist, most successful multiethnic nation in the history of the world.

Abortion: Anyone who advocates the murder of children in the womb is considered by America’s ruling elite to be a loving, enlightened defender and protector of women – even though half of the babies being thus killed are female. However, if one believes human life begins at conception (i.e., “the science”) and moreover, comprehends that the human child in the womb is sacred, created in the image of God, and worthy of every protection, that person is viciously demonized as immoral, anti-choice, anti-science, anti-woman and anti-freedom – an American Taliban scheming to impose an insane theocracy that enslaves women. In other words, a terrorist.

Transgender agenda: Claiming to be “the party of science,” today’s Democrats insist that men can menstruate, get pregnant, have babies and “chest-feed” their children. This is obviously straight-up insane, yet anyone who dares say the truth out loud is painted as bigoted, hateful and immoral.

The gaslighting involved in today’s aggressive transgender movement – which increasingly includes seducing little children into undergoing irreversible medical and surgical desecration of their own bodies – is far more extreme than that dramatized in the movie “Gaslight.”

Election fraud: Democratic Party operatives have long specialized in election fraud and abuse. Their opposition to Voter ID laws, expansion of Election Day into Election Month, unconstitutional alteration of state election laws, promotion of universal vote-by-mail, advocacy of “ballot harvesting,” opposition to cleaning voter rolls, requirements to accept late mail ballots and a multitude of other strategies are proof of their love affair with election fraud. And yet, Republicans who support the most basic, mild, commonsense, universally accepted standards like Voter ID – having to identify oneself before voting – are condemned as racists and white supremacists, and – as Biden told the nation – amount to nothing less than “Jim Crow 2.0.”

In every area of life and policy, the ruling elite has tried to confuse, distract, project, accuse and intimidate the American public into believing normal, patriotic, Judeo-Christian values-affirming Americans such as have populated and loved and protected this uniquely blessed nation generation after generation, are somehow extremists and potential terrorists.

No wonder “gaslighting” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022: It’s the go-to tactic that the Biden administration – and all the radicals, elitists, pseudo-experts, globalists and power-mad leftwing politicians – use all day, every day, on the tens of millions of good and decent Americans.

By the way, in 2021 Merriam-Webster named "vaccine" as its word of the year. Ironic, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  changed the definition of “vaccine” to make it fit the experimental mRNA gene therapies that fail both of the two basic requirements of all vaccines – preventing infection and preventing transmission of the target disease. The “COVID vaccines” do neither. So why did the CDC change the definition of vaccine? Get ready for more gaslighting: To be "more transparent,” explained CDC officials.

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The discovery of a “noose” at the construction site of the future Obama Presidential Center in Chicago brought work on the massive $830 million project to a halt last week.

A wave of moral outrage ensued, with Lakeside Alliance, the consortium of construction companies undertaking the project, issuing a statement saying: “We are horrified that this would occur on our site and are offering a $100,000 reward to help find the individual or individuals responsible for this shameful act. Lakeside Alliance remains committed to providing a work environment where everyone can feel safe, be their best self, and is treated with dignity and respect.”

“We are suspending all operations onsite,” the statement added, “in order to provide another series of these trainings and conversations for all staff and workers.”

The Obama Foundation likewise released a statement decrying the appearance of the “noose,” saying: “This shameless act of cowardice and hate is designed to get attention and divide us. Our priority is protecting the health and safety of our workforce.”

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Also weighing in was Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who tweeted, “Hate has no place in Illinois. The noose is more than a symbol of racism, it is a heart-stopping reminder of the violence and terror inflicted on Black Americans for centuries.”

The event is reportedly under investigation by the Chicago Police Department.

Although no perpetrator has yet been identified, and Democratic politicians and major media voices continue to express outrage, many conservatives are voicing skepticism:

“Have you heard a story like this before?” asked Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. “Well, it wasn’t that long ago in the middle of a national crime wave, which it has done very little to solve, the FBI rushed a team of agents to a NASCAR garage after a character called Bubba Wallace suggested that a noose had been left in that garage. Turns out the noose was a garage door pull,” he said.

"I’m guessing this is #FakeNoose," tweeted Dinesh D’Souza, bestselling author and documentary filmmaker.

"I’ll take ‘hate crime hoaxes’ for $3,500, Alex," tweeted Scott Morefield at Townhall.

And Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire tweeted, "Definitely a hate crime. I can't imagine any other reason why a rope would be on a construction site. Also, this is Chicago. It's not a place known for hate crime hoaxes."

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Walsh's Chicago reference was an allusion to the high-profile hate crime hoax perpetrated by actor Jussie Smollet, who still insists he was attacked by two racist and homophobic Trump supporters in sub-zero temperatures on the streets of Chicago during a 2019 snowstorm. Smollett told police the two attackers wore “Make America Great Again” hats, beat him up, doused him with bleach and tied a noose around his neck.

Except Smollet had made the whole thing up, and in December 2021 was finally found guilty in court of having staged a fake hate crime to boost his acting career.

Smollet’s fake hate crime was not an exception. In fact, virtually every reported instance of supposed white supremacist “hate crimes” featuring nooses in modern times has turned out to be a hoax. As columnist and author Michelle Malkin noted in “Malkin's handy history of fake noose,” “Fake Noose is a sick phenomenon that has run rampant across the country unchecked.” Here are a few examples of this “self-victimization pathology” Malkin cites:

* University of Delaware, 2015. Black Lives Matter agitators and campus activists triggered a full alert when a student spotted a “racist display” of three “noose-like objects” hanging from trees. The UD president called it “deplorable”; protesters wept that they were not being taken seriously. After investigating, police discovered the “nooses” were metal “remnants of paper lanterns” hung as decorations during an alumni weekend celebration.

* Salisbury State University, 2016. Students, faculty and administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school’s library. The N-word and hashtag #WhitePower also appeared in the menacing graffiti. Campus authorities immediately launched an investigation, which exposed two black students as the perpetrators. Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against the Fake Noosers.

* Kansas State University, 2017. A paroxysm of protest struck K-State after someone reported a noose hanging from a tree on campus. Black students lambasted authorities for not acting quickly enough. They stoked anger online with the hashtag #DontLeaveUsHanging and demanded increased security. But the “noose” was made of cut pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had been discarded by someone who “may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots.”

* Michigan State University, 2017. When a student reported a noose hanging outside her dorm room, MSU administrators went into full freakout mode over the racial incident. Cops and the Office of Institutional Equity were immediately notified. “A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America,” the university president bemoaned. But it turned out the “noose” was a “packaged leather shoelace” that someone had dropped accidentally.

* Smithsonian museums, 2017. NPR called the discovery of “nooses” lying on the grounds of two Smithsonian Institute museums the “latest in a string of hate incidents” after Trump’s election. The African-American museum director called them a “reminder of America’s dark history.” But the museums refused to release surveillance video and my public records request filed last November yielded zero corroboration of any hate crime.

* Mississippi State Capitol, 2018. ABC, CBS, CNN and Yahoo were among the media outlets that blared headlines about seven nooses and “hate signs” found hanging in trees by the capitol building before a special runoff election for U.S. Senate. The stories created an unmistakable impression that the nooses were left by GOP racists intending to intimidate black voters. In truth, the nooses were a publicity stunt perpetrated by Democrats.

In truth, a huge number of the highest-profile "hate crimes" of all sorts have turned out to be hoaxes, with the website FakeHateCrimes.org, which links to mainstream media reports, documenting close to 500 such fake hate crimes.

The syndrome – in Smollett’s case, finally exposed by a court of law for all to see – is seen by many as an attempt on the perpetrator’s part to enhance his own wealth, fame, opportunity, power and influence by clothing himself in the moral superiority and public adulation that, in today's America, attach to anyone regarded as a victim of bigotry.

Or as Tucker Carlson put it, “Accusations of hate crimes, and bias more generally, are tools that the people in power use, not the powerless – the powerful – to award themselves greater and totally unearned moral authority over everybody else.”

Another likely reason many conservatives are skeptical of the latest Obama “noose” hate crime also has to do with the eerie parallel to the way today's Democratic Party itself, historically the party of slavery, segregation and racism, also plays the “fake hate crime” game by defaming virtually everyone else to advance its power agenda while feigning moral superiority over Republicans, conservatives and America itself.

The party of slavery, segregation and the Klan

To illustrate this, Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and herself a black woman, summarizes in a devastating, six-minute PragerUniversity.com video the Democratic Party's true history of overt racial discrimination and opposition to every major civil rights initiative since its founding in 1829:

The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s. In contrast, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories, with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court in the 1857 case, Dred Scott v. Sandford. The court ruled that slaves aren't citizens; they're property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery – all Democrats. The two justices who dissented – both Republicans.

Ending slavery in America, of course, ultimately came at the expense of a bloody Civil War. "The commander in chief during that war," notes Swain, "was the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves. Six days after the Confederate Army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln."

While the slaves were legally freed, explains Swain, as soon as Reconstruction had ended and the federal troops had gone home, "Democrats roared back into power in the south":

They quickly re-established white supremacy across the region, with measures like "black codes" – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses – and they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests used to subvert black citizens' right to vote. And how was all of this enforced? By terror – much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest. As historian Eric Foner, himself a Democrat, notes: "In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party."

But what about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Weren't Democrats the champions of the rights of blacks then?

As Swain recounts, "the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats." In fact, she says, "Democratic senators filibustered the bill for 75 days until Republicans mustered the few extra votes needed to break the logjam."

What about today, when Pew Research confirms that 90 percent of American blacks faithfully vote Democrat? Explains Swain:

When all of their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was reported to have said about the Civil Rights Act, "I'll have them n*ggers voting Democrat for 200 years."

So now, the Democratic Party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing. Democrats falsely claim that the Republican Party is the villain, when in reality, it's the failed policies of the Democratic Party that have kept blacks down: Massive government welfare has decimated the black family; opposition to school choice has kept them trapped in failing schools; politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods defenseless against violent crime.

This is the essential dynamic of today's hate-crime hoaxes: Pretend you are a victim when, in reality, you are the victimizer. It is also the core essential nature of the left, which forever feigns victimhood as a way of advancing its own interests.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Leftwing billionaire George Soros bankrolls everything evil – most recently the 75 pro-criminal "Soros district attorneys" who have transformed America's most dynamic cities into degraded, crime-infested hellscapes of skyrocketing violent crime. Soros also funds drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders, globalism, Black Lives Matter, "defunding the police," devaluing America's currency and destroying her sovereignty. But why?

Whistleblower magazine reveals and explores the stunning truth: Soros, an atheist, literally says he's "some kind of god," obsessed with re-creating the world in his image. Here are a few actual quotes from Soros: "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood…" "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out." "You know, in my personal capacity I'm not actually a selfless philanthropic person. I've very much self-centered." "I am kind of a nut who wants to have an impact." "Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. … I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it."

Except he hasn't "escaped it." Not only is Soros totally mad, but he's imposing his insanity on America. See Soros and the leftwing world he has created and funded as never before in "THE BILLIONAIRE WHO THINKS HE'S 'GOD': Why George Soros is obsessed with destroying America."

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As America progressively unravels in every area – from the disintegration of core constitutional freedoms of speech, press and religion, to the explosion of violent crime and attacks on law enforcement, to today’s multi-pronged assaults on free and fair elections, to what can only be described as a full-scale foreign invasion of America, one virtually engineered by this nation’s leaders – somehow the name “George Soros” always mysteriously seems to crop up.

Soros’ name, of course, is typically preceded by the words “billionaire philanthropist.” But there’s a problem.

Philanthropists donate money and property to needy individuals and institutions for the purpose of advancing human welfare, security and happiness. Indeed, with its anthro root, philanthropy literally means "love of mankind."

For decades, however, Hungarian-born leftwing “billionaire philanthropist” George Soros has supported, advocated and bankrolled everything rotten, subversive, destructive, hateful and evil.

Currently, Soros’ name is most often heard in conjunction with funding dozens of radically pro-criminal district attorneys across America, many of them household names due to the spectacular explosion in violent crime they have enabled: “Soros DA Larry Krasner” (Philadelphia), “Soros DA Kim Foxx” (Chicago), “Soros DA Chesa Boudin” (San Francisco) and scores of others, from George Gascon (Los Angeles) to Marilyn Mosby (Baltimore) to Kim Gardner (St. Louis), 75 in all – each elected because of massive infusions of Soros cash into their campaigns. In turn, the “Soros DAs” have transformed America’s most beautiful, dynamic and storied cities into degraded, crime-infested hellscapes of skyrocketing murder, rape, robbery, rioting, arson, drug abuse, wild mass-shoplifting episodes and other mayhem, leading not only to widespread property loss, suffering and death, but also to major exoduses by those with the means to relocate.

And yet, radical-progressive prosecutors constitute just one recent manifestation of Soros’ “philanthropy.”

He funds efforts to legalize dangerous drugs, he supports euthanasia and assisted suicide, and he funds Black Lives Matter. He is for socialism and globalism and open borders and “defunding the police.” He's for devaluing America's currency – once telling the Financial Times that “an orderly decline of the dollar is actually desirable” – even though that amounts to an outright theft of Americans’ life savings and investments. He favors the destruction of American sovereignty in favor of “global governance.” He doesn't like Israel and has supported her enemies. He detests fair elections and truthful news coverage, and indeed funds organizations that daily attack the only free press America currently has (including Soros-funded attacks on WND and this writer).

In short, if it's immoral, subversive and anti-American, Soros favors, organizes and funds it. If it's noble and freedom-producing, like free markets, fair elections and constitutional government, he sets up and funds organizations to undermine and destroy it.

Why? What is really going on inside the mind and soul of George Soros?

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‘Messianic fantasies … the creator of everything’

Even though conservatives generally regard him as akin to the evil emperor in "Star Wars," the empire's shadowy and malevolent behind-the-scenes power, George Soros simultaneously represents the lifeblood – indeed, life itself – to hundreds of organizations on the far left. They see him as a messianic figure, a revered leader, a godfather – almost a god, who provides good things for his children.

Indeed, Soros admits he wants to re-create the world in his image – like a god. That characterization is not opinion, hyperbole or rhetorical flourish: Living out “messianic fantasies” and openly likening himself to a “some kind of god” is precisely how George Soros – ironically, an atheist and self-hating Jew – describes himself in his more candid moments.

“I fancied myself as some kind of god,” Soros once wrote. “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.”

When the British online newspaper The Independent asked Soros to explain these extraordinary statements, he responded: “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”

As Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber wrote in a revealing Los Angeles Times op-ed, “George Soros: The ‘God’ Who Carries Around Some Dangerous Demons”:

Soros has proved that with the vast resources of money at his command he has the ability to make the once unthinkable acceptable. His work as a self-professed “amoral” financial speculator has left millions in poverty when their national currencies were devaluated, and he pumped so much cash into shaping former Soviet republics to his liking that he has bragged that the former Soviet empire is now the “Soros Empire.”

Now he’s turned his eye on the internal affairs of the United States. Today’s U.S., he writes in his latest book, “The Bubble of American Supremacy,” is a “threat to the world,” run by a Republican Party that is the devil child of an unholy alliance between “market fundamentalists” and “religious fundamentalists.” We have become a “supremacist” nation.

… Despite his reputation as an international philanthropist, Soros remains candid about his true charitable tendencies. “I am sort of a deus ex machina,” Soros told the New York Times in 1994. “I am something unnatural. I’m very comfortable with my public persona because it is one I have created for myself. It represents what I like to be as distinct from what I really am. You know, in my personal capacity I’m not actually a selfless philanthropic person. I’ve very much self-centered.”

Soros was more succinct when he explained his life philosophy to biographer Michael Kaufman. “I am kind of a nut who wants to have an impact,” he said.

Yet Soros’ remarkable visions – many would say delusions – don’t end there, as Ehrenfeld and Macomber explain:

“Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad,” Soros once confided on British television. “In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it.”

Except he hasn’t “escaped it.” Not only has George Soros succumbed to a form of madness, but he’s imposing his insanity on the United States of America.

After all, his motto for changing society is simply, “If I spend enough, I will make it right.” Combine that with his proclamation in his 1995 book, “Soros on Soros” – “I do not accept the rules imposed by others. ... And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don’t apply” – and you have a formula for truly epic madness, imposed on hundreds of millions of people, by a super-wealthy atheist who thinks he’s God.

IMPORTANT NOTE: From bankrolling dozens of pro-criminal district attorneys who have transformed America’s most dynamic cities into degraded, crime-infested hellscapes of skyrocketing violent crime, to funding drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders, globalism, Black Lives Matter, “defunding the police,” devaluing America's currency and destroying her sovereignty, George Soros financially enables a great deal of what most Americans regard as evil. The current issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine explores George Soros and his world – the evil he enables, and what secretly motivates him – as perhaps never before. Available in both print and state-of-the-art digital editions, check out “THE BILLIONAIRE WHO THINKS HE’S ‘GOD’: Why George Soros is obsessed with destroying America.”

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Horrified by what has been called the Sovietization of the Biden administration – including the shocking criminalization of dissent and the weaponization of the FBI, whose agents daily arrest, intimidate and persecute the regime's political opponents – tens of millions of Americans anxiously wonder whether November's midterm elections will bring any positive change of direction for a once-great nation now careening toward total destruction.

Although many voices are weighing in on "what's at stake" in the midterms, ironically no one has expressed it more clearly or forcefully than Joe Biden himself, in his astonishingly dark Sept. 1 "Soul of the Nation" speech, delivered while bathed in ominous red lights and flanked by Marine guards.

Of course, the key to de-coding Biden's dire warnings about the "greatest threats to America" is to understand that he was engaging in a mirror-perfect case of political projection: Every single evil that Biden ascribed to "MAGA Republicans" – the Left's new name for America's vast center-right middle class, literally the nation's backbone – is actually true of today's Democratic Party and its unhinged supporters.

Consider just a few highlights from Biden's Orwellian speech, in which he describes half of Republicans as "semi-fascists." Upon reading each statement, it becomes crystal clear which camp Biden's words truly describe – his own. Biden said:

• "MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic."

• "MAGA forces ... promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country."

• "MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election."

• "MAGA Republicans ... embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live, not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies."

• "MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies. Lies told for profit and power."

Again, by just substituting "Radical Democrats" for "MAGA Republicans," one gains a vivid and stunningly accurate description of the ever-growing neo-communist threat to America.

A party 'possessed'
But what is at the root of the Democrats' maniacal daily exercises in projection? Or to expand the question exponentially: Why does evil always claim to be good and moral, or at least rational and logical, while claiming good is evil? (The biblical prophet Isaiah weighed in on this when he wrote, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!")

What's at work here is not just the common human pathology that psychologists call projection – i.e., attributing one's own unacceptable qualities and actions to another person or group. It's also a cynical, vicious, cold-blooded political tactic: Projection is extremely effective as a weapon of protracted political warfare. It is, in fact, the essence of virtually everything today's Democratic Party leaders and their media apologists say from morning to night.

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But delving deeper still, all of this is rooted in the fact that today's Democratic Party is, in a very real sense, "possessed" – that is, its political and thought leaders have been completely taken over by the kind of dark psychological and spiritual forces that readily capture the minds of corrupted human beings who have turned their backs on God and His laws of life. These exact same forces have animated history's most destructive, cult-like political movements, most obviously communism/Marxism/socialism, which has been metastasizing around the world for the past century – and now has its sights set on America.

Yet even such controversial ideological labels are, themselves, essentially lies intended to create a moral façade that either covers up or justifies deeply inhuman and criminal behavior. That is, the ideological labels are just an attempt to sell the notion that, whether or not one agrees with their ideology, "communists," "socialists" and "Marxists" – and "Antifa" (short for "anti-fascist"), "Black Lives Matter" and today's "Democratic Party" – still somehow have the interests of others at heart.

It's a lie. We're talking about sociopaths, people without a functioning conscience. Deeply corrupt people like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and their ilk do not possess the capacity to actually care about anyone else, any more than a drug addict has the capacity to unselfishly care about others. And these ruling elites are addicted to the most powerful and addictive drug of all: POWER.

Therefore, their daily attacks on law-abiding, Bible-believing, hardworking Americans as "violent extremists," "racists," "conspiracy theorists," "domestic terrorists" and "insurrectionists" merely constitute a colorful sideshow meant to distract voters from discerning the real problem: Today's leaders are consumed with perpetuating and increasing their own power, wealth, privilege, fame, supposed moral superiority, and revenge on their enemies.

In a word, they are hell-bent on being gods.

They have contempt for the "little people" they pretend to champion, those decent, long-suffering and conscience-driven folks who work hard, marry, raise families, pay their taxes, defend their country with their lives, and willingly do their part to preserve and perpetuate the greatest nation in history, which they love: America.

What's being described here is a deeply compromised and corrupt class of people, possessed and controlled by dark spiritual "powers and principalities" about which they know nothing, and care less. Whatever their professed religion, they are mockers of God, the same sort of people who self-righteously expanded communism over so much of the world and made the 20th century the bloodiest and deadliest in all of human history. Today, they're laser-focused on the biggest prize of all: The United States of America.

That's what's at stake.

America's saving grace
Fortunately, even though America is being likened increasingly to a third-world or communist dictatorship – not just because its current rulers crush and punish dissent, but because of their heedless monetary inflation, trashing of the nation's Constitution and continual threats to destroy and corrupt key American institutions from the Supreme Court to the electoral college – there is still one thing America retains, one saving grace, one sacred institution that one-party dictatorships from Zimbabwe to communist China do not have.

America still has real elections. And in truth, there is no reason the tens of millions of decent, right-thinking American voters cannot slow down, if not entirely halt, the Biden administration's nonstop madness in November's midterm elections just a few weeks from now.

I know what you're thinking: Of course the Democratic Party will try to steal the election – that's what they do – through every manner of election fraud, abuse and corruption for which their party is famous, not to mention Biden's mysterious executive order mandating every department of the federal government to essentially serve as a Democrat get-out-the-vote machine.

But good Americans, as former Trump adviser Steve Bannon passionately argues, simply must outvote whatever fraud occurs.

Therefore, one final word to Christians, who still constitute the vast majority of Americans and potential voters:

Every election cycle, tens of millions of American Christians do not vote!

How is that even possible, one wonders, considering that so much of what Democrats are pushing right now – from congressionally "codifying Roe" so that throughout America abortion will again be legal up to the moment of birth – i.e., straight-up infanticide – to expanding the satanic craze of amputating body parts of multitudes of children tricked into believing they're "transgender" – amounts to a grotesque frontal attack on everything Christians, indeed all decent people, consider sacred?

Here are the most common rationales cited by non-voting Christians: 1) Their particular church denomination tells them they are "citizens of heaven" or "not part of this world" and therefore don't need to vote; 2) they're so upset by government corruption they feel contaminated just reading and hearing about it; 3) they believe God will determine who leads America without their help; 4) they believe church and state should be "separate"; 5) they believe their focus should be the gospel, not politics; and finally, perhaps underlying all these reasons, 6) they've given up hope of any good ever coming out of Washington, regardless of who is elected. Indeed, many non-voters are so disillusioned by the lies and hypocrisy dominating politics that they have given up hope and walked away.

The Christian Broadcast Network, CBN, has reported that 15 million American Christians are not even registered to vote.

So listen up, Christian brothers and sisters: The history of Christianity is full of martyrs, believers who were burned alive, sawn in half or crucified to defend their faith, which they endured willingly, even gladly. Today, you are not being asked to endure torture and death, but rather, just to get in your car and drive to your polling place on Election Day and cast your ballot affirming good, and not the most abominable evils imaginable, so that your own children and grandchildren might inherit a safe and decent country in which to grow up, just as you did.

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For millions of good and decent Americans, President Joe Biden’s astonishingly dark “soul of the nation” speech on Sept. 1 – delivered while bathed ominously in red lights and flanked by two Marine guards – luridly evoked the angry rantings of history’s worst dictators. How is it possible, today’s Americans wonder, that the greatest and freest nation in history has so rapidly come under the almost complete control of such serially lying, deranged, power-mad sociopaths? Leaders with nothing but contempt for America, for its history, its Constitution, its Judeo-Christian culture and its people.

How, they wonder, is the current ruling class continually able to concoct and carry out such staggeringly destructive policies? Like decimating America’s economy and purposely paralyzing its energy sector? Like tearing down the nation’s borders and intentionally flooding it with endless millions of illegal aliens? Like continually demonizing the least racist, most successful multiethnic nation in world history as somehow irredeemably racist? Like promoting widespread, taxpayer-funded child sexual abuse and mutilation, encouraging young people to “identify as transgender” and have various healthy body parts surgically amputated? Like daily branding normal, law-abiding, hard-working, Bible-believing Americans as “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists” and "fascists" and throwing many essentially innocent people into jail, while refusing to prosecute actual “domestic terrorists,” “violent extremists” and other dangerous criminals?

To pose the question differently: By what dark magic are today’s power-obsessed oligarchs mysteriously enabled to successfully seduce, mesmerize and persuade so many Americans, as the Bible puts it, to “call evil good, and good evil,” to “put darkness for light, and light for darkness,” and to “put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter,” thereby enabling them to successfully wage an insane Marxist revolution in America, once the “sweet land of liberty”?

What’s their secret weapon?

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George Orwell’s classic novel “1984” points directly to the answer: While all the usual, tried-and-true tactics of tyrants and dictators are playing their customary sordid role in today’s America – from bribing supporters and collaborators and promising them ever more advantages, to constantly intimidating and lying to the great unwashed masses, to demonizing opponents and weaponizing all the institutions of government against them – one utterly devastating additional element enables all the other tactics to work. Yet it remains, for too many people, largely undetected and therefore invisible:

The elites are changing America’s language itself, so that people’s words – and therefore, their very thoughts – inevitably come under the control of the ruling class. It’s a way of bending reality in real time, so that what is actually illusion appears to be true, while what is real and true can readily be discredited as lies, misinformation, “extremist rhetoric” and “conspiracy theories.”

Thus, the unprecedented, banana-republic-style raid on the home of former President Donald Trump by dozens of armed FBI agents was not, you see, a raid at all, insists the Ministry of Truth (i.e., virtually the entire elite media). “The execution of a search warrant isn’t a raid,” Americans were told condescendingly. “It’s a judicially overseen process!”

Oh. So the massive, unannounced, armed police raid on a U.S. president’s home wasn’t a “raid.” But the Jan. 6, 2021, demonstration in the U.S. Capitol by that same president’s supporters, who had every reason to suspect the 2020 election had been stolen – was an “armed insurrection,” even though not one protestor was armed nor did their actions in any way amount to an “insurrection.” Nevertheless, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted the Jan. 6 “insurrection” was every bit as infamous and awful as the raid on Pearl Harbor and the 9-11 terror attacks, each of which killed thousands of Americans. Change the definitions of words and you change everything.

In the same way, the U.S. economy, which is currently driving many middle-class folks to food banks, isn’t in a “recession,” the Ministry of Truth insists. Because, you see, there’s a whole new definition of “recession,” since they just buried the old one. The economy is fine, thank you – in fact, insists the Biden White House, America is “stronger economically than we have been in history!”

But wait, what about the sky-high inflation? Even though food, gas, housing and other key expenses like cars and building materials are through the roof, some of them 20% and 30% higher than before the Biden era, the official inflation rate hovers around 8.5%? Why? Because the federal government – that is, the same entity that created the inflation – has redefined the Consumer Price Index. If 1980s’ CPI was still used to calculate today’s inflation, economists point out, the “official” inflation rate would be perhaps twice as high as what Americans are being told.

Well, at least the COVID pandemic seems to be waning, thanks to the vaccines, right? Wrong. In reality, the experimental shots the government forced on virtually everyone in the country do not work, as even its key salespeople like Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx now openly admit. But wait: All vaccines prevent people from contracting and transmitting a particular disease – that’s literally what vaccines have always done! How, then, can these shots, which we now know do not work as vaccines, and which have become irrefutably associated with many deaths and serious side effects, possibly be called “vaccines”? That’s easy: The CDC quietly changed its official definition of “vaccine”! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you turn an untested, unproven, experimental gene therapy into a "vaccine"; simply change the definition of something everybody in the world has trusted and revered for more than two centuries, since the first smallpox vaccine, and re-tool the "official" definition of that almost sacred word to apply to whatever your flawed, unproven shot actually does.

These examples barely scratch the surface of the left’s full-bore Orwellian redefinition of history, politics, economics, science, culture, religion and morality – in other words, of reality – by radically messing with Americans’ language. Indeed, the ruling elite’s wild redefinition of terms like “racism,” “equity,” “justice,” “democracy,” “diversity,” “illegal alien,” “voter suppression,” “disinformation,” “domestic terrorist,” “violent extremist,” “insurrectionist,” “marriage” and scores of other terms – including, of course, “woman” – has turned America upside down, a condition they confidently define as right-side up. And if you dare disagree with their perverse, upside-down version of reality, they will intimidate, threaten, silence and punish you. Exactly as in "1984."

Thus are today’s oligarchs able to change the way millions of people think – indeed, to force a new way of thinking, believing and acting on much of the country’s population.

All of this Orwellian tampering with language might not be quite as necessary in a nation that has never known freedom. But in the United States of America, where tens of millions of citizens are very well acquainted with genuine, God-blessed liberty – indeed, where so many have fought, bled and died to preserve it – the ruling elites find it necessary to redefine, and thereby corrupt the meaning of, everything in order to enable actual violent extremists, domestic terrorists, racists and fascists to implement the real insurrection. Theirs.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian's introductory story in the current issue of WND's critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. An enormously powerful but little-understood weapon of war employed 24/7 by the Marxist left – namely, the flagrant redefinition of virtually all of the truly important political, cultural, economic, moral and even spiritual terms – is exposed, documented, explained and illuminated in “NEWSPEAK 2022: How tyrants and lunatics are enslaving Americans by redefining everything.”

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The Google “Goliath” has finally outdone itself in its campaign to completely destroy the WND “David,” the small Christian journalism operation that somehow refuses to die, despite continual attacks from all sides.

For the past week, Google has been warning everyone on the internet who tries to access WND.com via Google that the 25-year-old pioneering news website is outright dangerous to their computer!

This is no exaggeration: Reports from readers from all over confirm what WND’s staffers and independent tech team have been experiencing continually for the last week: When they try to reach WND by way of Google, clicking on the “WND: Home” link that Google provides leads not to WND.com, but to a threatening page saying: "Warning — visiting this web site may harm your computer!"

Here’s a screenshot of the page:

Ironically, if you click on Google’s own “Safe Browsing diagnostic page” link, you get taken to a page labeled “Safe Browsing Site Status” which clearly states: “No unsafe content found.” (See screenshot below.) This deceitful and profoundly destructive attack on WND persists day after day, despite multiple appeals to Google by WND’s tech team.

Perhaps even more concerning, WND is simultaneously receiving a flood of reader reports that subscribers to WND’s email news alerts are finding WND’s emails being redirected to their spam folders! Even when subscribers go to the trouble of repeatedly designating that WND’s emails are not spam, our emails continue to go to their spam folder, many have told us. For some readers, the live links to various stories on WND’s news alerts are now also dead – that is, recipients cannot click through to the story being promoted.

Evidently, once WND was officially – and falsely – condemned by Google as “harmful to your computer,” the various email providers took the cue from Google that WND is an “unsafe” site and stopped delivering WND’s emails to their intended recipients. Yet email is literally WND’s lifeline.

I began this message by comparing Google with Goliath. Indeed, Google is BIG – the second wealthiest company in the world, and some believe the most evil. WND, on the other hand, is more like David. We’re small and have very little, but unlike Googliath, we honor God and are not intimidated by the malevolent giant.

In truth, Google has been after WND for years, attacking the trailblazing journalism site back in 2014, long before it came after most other conservative sites. The attacks progressed until a few months back Google totally and permanently de-monetized WND, which seriously hurt the ad revenue on which WND has long relied.

Why are they trying to destroy us? That’s easy to answer, because Google doesn’t hold back in describing exactly what it finds “dangerous,” “derogatory,” “misrepresentative,” “unreliable” and “harmful” – their words – about WND.

“We do not allow content,” Google exhorts us, “that incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.”

Translation: Google is intent on suppressing any criticism or opposing viewpoint regarding the LGBT juggernaut that is currently taking over America’s schools. When as a news organization WND dares to report honestly and forthrightly on the fantastically deranged transgender agenda – where beautiful American children from coast to coast are indoctrinated, seduced, groomed, recruited and enabled to “transition to a different gender” by taking puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even undergoing double mastectomies and castration – when WND sounds the alarm over any of this, which we do daily, to Google we’re “inciting hatred” and “promoting discrimination.”

No. We’re defending and protecting the most innocent, helpless and precious among us – the children who will make up America’s next generation. That’s not “hatred”; it’s love.

There’s more: Google repeatedly tells WND it does “not allow content that … promotes harmful health claims, or relates to a current major health crisis and contradicts authoritative scientific consensus.”

So when WND reports truthfully on the Biden administration’s deranged mismanagement and exploitation of the COVID pandemic – from imposing vaccine mandates that have thrown tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Navy SEALS, Marines, nurses, paramedics, police, firemen and other frontline heroes (including my own son) out of work, to suppressing inexpensive, effective and readily available early outpatient treatment of COVID, to pretending “natural immunity” isn’t real even though at least 92 studies prove it’s superior to vaccine immunity, to insisting that infants and toddlers be needlessly injected with the experimental and hazardous mRNA “vaccines” – well, such reporting as ours is simply not allowed. Only the official Biden narrative – the one based on massive lying, and which failed at every turn to end the pandemic, while driving up suicide, addiction, overdose deaths, depression and crime rates across the nation, and introduced a level of authoritarianism never before seen in America – is allowed.

Let’s dig just a little deeper and confront what’s really bugging Google, and exactly why the super-rich mega-monopoly (and the rest of the Big Tech oligarchs) have been so maniacally intent on taking down little WND.

Though disguised as high-minded moral concern over “accurate and beneficial information,” what we’re really contending with is a worldview in thrall to exceedingly dark forces, one that is obsessed with its own power, wealth, privilege, control and glory, that ignores Reality at every turn while manifesting an abiding contempt for biology, the lessons of history, the basic laws of economics, the transcendent value of human life, and especially, for God and His laws.

That’s what we’re really dealing with, and that’s what is trying to take us down.

Of course, it’s not just Google. YouTube (owned by Google) has also permanently de-monetized WND’s channel, Facebook has massively suppressed WND’s traffic on its platform, something Facebook’s reps have admitted to us. Three major online ad companies canceled WND due to our supposed “hate speech” (that’s what they call it when you uphold basic biblical morality). On and on it goes.

So what can we do to survive? In truth, because of the extremely difficult environment in which a genuinely free press is now forced to operate, there is only one source of support on which we can rely. And that’s you, our readers, those who appreciate and value WND.

Kindly consider supporting us during these extremely challenging times.

I’ll give it to you straight: The grace of God and generosity of donors has gotten us this far, but we need your help to continue, to make payroll for our fantastic group of journalists, all of whom have taken significant pay cuts and missed paychecks entirely, yet who have stayed with us for the past two decades!

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Twitter recently banned the term “groomer” as being “anti-LGBT.” However, “groomer” is precisely the right term to describe those involved in today’s widespread phenomenon of “gender activists” indoctrinating, seducing and flat-out recruiting American children into “identifying” as transgender. This has already led to countless children taking powerful and dangerous drugs, undergoing double mastectomies and chemical-or-surgical castration, resulting – tragically but not surprisingly – in an astronomical suicide rate. How can this possibly be happening in America?

Let’s start at the beginning, by clearly and unequivocally stating out loud today’s forbidden truth: It is literally impossible for a male to become a female, or for a female to become a male. Impossible.

The entire human race – which is to say, virtually all people of every ethnicity, skin color, religion, political ideology and socioeconomic status – recognized this obvious truth from the beginning of human life on earth until around 2013. That’s when the powerful LGBT lobby pressured and intimidated the notoriously weak-kneed American Psychiatric Association into de-pathologizing gender identity disorder in the fifth edition of its “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (so-called “DSM-5”), psychiatrists’ official “bible” for diagnosing mental illnesses.

Thus was transgenderism, until then a vexing mental disorder, suddenly declared to be perfectly normal, as virtually the entire “mainstream media” exuberantly reported at the time.

Except it’s not. “The science” regarding gender couldn’t be more clear and incontrovertible: Virtually all of the 30-40 trillion cells in an adult male’s body are permanently encoded with XY – that means MALE – chromosomes. So changing one’s first name and pronouns, wearing women’s clothing and growing one’s hair long and taking estrogen – even having one’s private parts surgically mutilated – does not transform a man into a woman. Likewise, though a woman cuts her hair, has her breasts amputated and receives testosterone injections, she does not magically morph into a man.

Regardless of the very real emotional suffering (“dysphoria”) that can and often does accompany gender identity disorder, pretending to be the opposite sex and mutilating one’s body in the process – and nowadays, demanding that everyone else in society support one’s delusion, thereby becoming delusional themselves – is not the best answer.

Nevertheless, America is a free country, and if an adult decides to change his or her name, amputate body parts, take powerful drugs and “identify as” the opposite gender – or as a brand-new gender that never existed until a few months ago – he or she is probably not breaking any laws.

However, during the Biden era of rapidly metastasizing madness in every area of life, what once was a realm wherein a relatively few troubled adults made sad and often catastrophically irreversible personal choices to medically “transition” to a different gender, has morphed into a depraved and shockingly widespread campaign to GROOM America’s children to “identify” as “trans.”

Incredibly, countless LGBT activists, including many public school teachers, have taken to proselytizing this new transgender salvation to America’s children, resulting in untold numbers of school kids being led into lives of not just unending internal conflict, suffering and disability, but far too often, as multiple studies prove, suicide.

That’s right. Research overwhelmingly confirms that staggeringly high percentages of “transgender teens” attempt to commit suicide every year.

And yet, according to no fewer than 11 different studies, fully 80% of those children who are drawn into the “trans” lifestyle – that’s 4 out of 5 – would have totally outgrown their youthful gender dysphoria by the time they emerged from adolescence, had they simply been left alone – that is, not groomed, encouraged and enabled by parents, teachers, peers, social media personalities and cooperative doctors to enter the tragically phantasmagorical world of transgenderism.

Why, then, are so many public-school teachers and others with access to America’s children intent on pushing them to identify as transgender?

There are several powerful contributing factors that must be identified, but one deeper, profound and ultimate reason that underlies them all.

SPECIAL NOTE: David Kupelian's classic bestseller, "The Marketing of Evil," has just been re-released in a new, expanded paperback edition, and includes brand-new chapters exploring the latest incredible developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America.

* One factor, of course, is that in today’s increasingly godless, immoral, “postmodern” culture, there are simply lots of broken and deeply disturbed adults who are, right now, “teaching” America’s children. This is not speculation; they publicly advertise this reality on social media sites like Tumblr and TikTok, as many whistleblowers – most notably “Libs of TikTok” – have amply documented. (Recent Libs of TikTok posts document public school grooming episodes like “Kindergarteners sent home with masturbation assignment” and “Teacher asks students to write down how comfortable they are with anal sex,” but there are countless others.)

Here, just to provide a small taste, is one of hundreds of similar social-media videos currently targeting America’s children:

Other factors contributing to today’s transgender grooming craze:

* Powerful LGBT nonprofits like the Human Rights Campaign raise millions of dollars off promoting and championing the issue.

* Mega-corporations like Disney have profit motives intertwined with their radical support for the left’s entire “woke” agenda, manifesting, for example, in its recent release of what is widely being described as the “gayest kids movie yet.” Indeed, Disney staffers have been caught on hidden camera bragging about how they’re obsessed with injecting as much “queerness” as possible into Disney’s entertainment products targeting America’s children.

* Then of course, there are the proverbial liberal suburban parents who fear being labeled racists, homophobes and transphobes more than death itself, making them easy recruitment prey for attending – with their children in tow – all manner of “pride parades” (like the one in Pennsylvania where a man dressed only in a tight bathing suit taught little children how to dance on a stripper pole) and of course the ubiquitous “drag-queen story hour,” as well as “kid-friendly drag shows” in gay bars and other children’s events featuring “gender activists.”

More reasons:

* There is a strong element of social contagion when gender activists flood TikTok and other popular social media aps with their recruitment messages, which are readily absorbed and internalized by vast numbers of troubled adolescents. If you doubt or minimize this social contagion factor, consider that large numbers of teenage girls have spontaneously manifested a tic disorder resembling Tourette’s Syndrome simply as a result of binge watching videos of Tourette’s-afflicted people on TikTok. A great deal of media and medical journal coverage has documented this bizarre social media-caused phenomenon.

* Then there’s the leftist elite’s “1984”-ish obsession with compelling normal people to believe absurd things as a means of controlling their minds. As the history of totalitarianism demonstrates, it’s easier for would-be tyrants to rule a once-free people if, having been pressured to embrace absurdities (in “1984” it was “2+2=5”), they are degraded and intimidated into becoming a more broken, conflicted, polarized and confused version of their former selves.

* Furthermore – and critically – the LGBT agenda serves as the “sharp point of the spear” which the left uses to attack America’s traditional Judeo-Christian culture, which it loathes and fears. No other issue, not even abortion, serves so well as a direct attack on Christians as the LGBT agenda, which is engaged in an all-out, long-term war against the Bible’s clear moral standards.

No wonder the Biden administration, entirely a puppet of the ascendent Marxist left, is so deeply invested in transgender grooming and recruitment of the nation’s youth. The explicitly pro-communist Xavier Becerra, Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary, fully supports taxpayer-funded amputations of healthy body parts of these vulnerable children, announcing ghoulishly, “We should help those have the life-affirming care that they need.”

Some Democrat leaders appear to have gone completely mad: In Oregon, openly bisexual Gov. Kate Brown signed the “Menstrual Dignity Act” into law last year, mandating that menstrual “products will be available in all restrooms (male, female and all-gender)” in every public school, K-12, in the state. So, kindergarteners – that means lots of innocent and curious 5-and-6-year-old boys and girls – will have to look at these products every time they go to the restroom, where “[i]nstructions on how to use tampons and pads will be posted,” according to the governor’s official press statement.

As a result of all this, Americans are continually confronted with news stories like that of Colorado mom Erin Lee, whose 12-year-old daughter was invited to an after-school "art club” that was actually an LGBT recruitment club, where she was told she was probably transgender, but that she should lie to her parents about what she was told. That mother is far from alone, as after-school GSA clubs (formerly “Gay-Straight Alliance,” but now re-christened “Gender and Sexualities Alliance”), which purport to be support groups, but in reality are all about recruitment, are rapidly proliferating throughout America’s public schools.

No wonder a brand-new syndrome has now manifested among America’s youth, called Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, or ROGD.

The ultimate reason all this is happening

Let’s go deeper. What is the actual underlying cause of this sudden preoccupation with grooming America’s children to enter the sad world of transgenderism? Why are some kids with absolutely typical youthful confusion and growing-up pains and anxieties being deliberately channeled in such an utterly catastrophic direction?

Here’s a hint: Why do you suppose pedophiles are obsessed with sex with pre-pubescent children? There’s absolutely nothing sexually attractive about little children – quite the contrary. But the pleasure derived by the pedophile from violating a child is not so much sexual, as it is the relief and satisfaction derived from corrupting and destroying their innocence.

Stay with me here. Young children represent and, indeed, embody innocence and brightness, spiritual qualities which corrupted people themselves once possessed, before they themselves were seduced or violated. Thus the innocence of undefiled children serves as a very unwelcome and uncomfortable reminder of the light and genuine carefree happiness that has been replaced by darkness and conflict within them. So they feel compelled to put out that light … by drawing the child into their dark world.

Here's how I address this phenomenon in “The Marketing of Evil,” during an exploration of the high prevalence of homosexual molestation of young people. (Multiple large U.S. studies conclusively document that early sexual molestation is a primary cause of people later identifying as homosexual.)

Children are exquisitely impressionable, so much so that sexual seduction or assault is a major trauma that can, and often does, reprogram the victim’s identity – his view of who and what he is. … Our prisons are full of child molesters who were molested as children and batterers who were battered as children.

An innocent young child has a “bright light” quality that feels mysteriously threatening to those in the grip of corruption. In fact, many see this dynamic at the core of a great deal of child abuse.

To the person who’s already been “converted” and is acting out the homosexual lifestyle, it’s deeply satisfying – far beyond mere sexual pleasure – to “initiate” an innocent person. Doing so serves to anesthetize his own conscience and assuage his inner conflict by destroying the innocence of another person, since that innocence tends to make him aware of his own corruption.

As the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh (creator of the popular “What Is a Woman” documentary) correctly points out, when parents encourage and enable their kids to “transition” to the opposite sex, it’s not only child abuse, it’s a form of child sexual abuse.

Consider the case of California teenager Chloe Cole, who recently testified to a Florida legislative committee about how “transitioning” from female to male was the worst mistake of her life, yet one she cannot undo.

Having decided she was transgender at age 12, due to the influence of LGBT activists on social media, Chloe started getting injections of testosterone at 14, and at the tender age of 15 underwent a double mastectomy. Immediately, she says, she regretted her decision.

“I really didn’t understand all of the ramifications of any of the medical decisions that I was making,” said Cole at the hearing. “I was unknowingly physically cutting off my true self from my body, irreversibly and painfully.”

In heartbreaking testimony, the teen, now 17, reflected on what having been seduced into “transitioning” to another gender means for her life now:

“I don’t know if I’ll be able to fully carry a child, and I might be at increased risk for certain cancers, mainly cervical cancer. And because I do not have my breasts – I no longer have breasts – I’m not able to breastfeed whatever future children I have.” After a long pause, Chloe continued: “That realization actually was one of the biggest things that led to me realizing that this was not the path that I should have taken,” adding that “No child should have to experience what I have.”

Although she would like to have children one day, Chloe said she isn’t sure that’s even possible anymore, since her eggs’ viability was compromised by the testosterone injections she received.

Chloe is far from alone. The ever-growing “Sex Change Regret” movement, spearheaded by Walt Heyer, who spent eight years as a “transgender woman” before reclaiming his true identity as a man – and as a Christian – is adding to its numbers daily, as countless Americans who were seduced into the transgender world and regretted it seek a way back. Heyer’s SexChangeRegret.com website is one of the best places to start that search.

Let’s get real, America: Adults convincing a 14-year-old girl to get testosterone injections, and the following year to have her breasts surgically removed – or encouraging the chemical or surgical castration of teenage boys in an impossible quest to turn them into females – are guilty of child sexual abuse. Check out this “therapist” on TikTok who says she’s “so happy” that a teenage girl who was inspired by her video convinced her father to allow her to undergo “top surgery” – that is, to have her breasts cut off. We’re looking at child sexual abuse writ large.

What about compelling 2- and 3-year-old toddlers to sit at the feet of drag queens – many of whom, it turns out, have criminal records as sex offenders? Is that not a form of child sexual abuse?

And by the way, who on earth are these “doctors” that are cutting into the sacred creation of God, surgically amputating children’s healthy body parts and deforming and disabling them, while freely dispensing dangerous drugs with possibly lethal side effects? An enormous amount of baseline respect Americans have traditionally had for physicians has already been lost due to the cowardly acquiescence on the part of many, though fortunately not all, doctors to the intensely politicized and grossly dishonest, unscientific, and in many cases, deadly, mismanagement of the COVID pandemic. Doctors are not rebuilding that lost trust by performing ghoulish, Frankenstein-like surgeries on children in craven obedience to radical gender ideology, but radical disobedience to the Hippocratic Oath they swore – to “first, do no harm.”

Bottom line: Those on the radical left are angry, obsessed – and arguably possessed – and have little regard for the God-given innocence of children. They prove that every day. Their abortion messaging has gone from “safe, legal and rare” a couple decades ago to openly reveling in being able to kill unborn children up to the very moment of birth, for any reason or no reason at all. They indoctrinate America’s youth with toxic doctrines like Marxist “critical race theory” and corrupt them with pornography and explicit “sex education” at absurdly immature ages.

Still, exceeding all of this is the left’s current obsession with grooming and recruiting innocent children into the dark transgender realm. It is, very simply – as Jason Whitlock recently told Tucker Carlson – "satanic," and amounts to the sexual abuse and corruption of innocent children on a scale more massive than this nation has ever seen, or even imagined was possible.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian's introductory story in the groundbreaking July issue of WND's critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. What amounts to the most massive child sexual abuse campaign in American history, including the underlying reasons, almost entirely unreported elsewhere, is explored as never before in “WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND THE TRANSGENDER CRAZE?”

ALSO, get the brand-new expanded paperback edition of David Kupelian's bestselling culture-war classic, "The Marketing of Evil," including new chapters exploring the latest incredible Biden-era developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America. 

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Google – the second richest company in the world, and some say the most evil – recently attempted to do away with WND, going for its “kill shot” by totally de-monetizing the site, which seriously hurt the advertising revenue on which we (and all news sites) depend for survival. Our formal appeal to Google was, of course, turned down, so WND is permanently banned by the world’s main internet gatekeeper.

But why, you might ask, would the Google “Goliath” be so maniacally intent on killing the WND “David,” a small, Christian journalism operation that somehow refuses to die, despite continual attacks from all sides?

And yes, I do mean “maniacally.” Google doesn’t hold back in telling us exactly what it finds “dangerous,” “derogatory,” “misrepresentative,” “unreliable” and “harmful” – their words – about our 25-year-old pioneering independent news website. Check this out:

“We do not allow content,” the Google overlords exhort us, “that incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.”

Of course, all this pained moralizing over “hatred” and “discrimination” toward people who are military veterans, disabled, elderly and so on is idiotic. No one hates or discriminates against veterans, the disabled or the elderly. That’s camouflage. What Google really wants to protect from any criticism or opposing viewpoint is “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Indeed, when as a news organization WND dares to report honestly and forthrightly on the fantastically deranged transgender agenda – where beautiful American children from coast to coast are indoctrinated, seduced, groomed, recruited and enabled to “transition to a different gender” by taking puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even undergoing double mastectomies and castration – when WND sounds the alarm over any of this, which we do daily, Google sees that as “inciting hatred” and “promoting discrimination.”

How about: We’re defending and protecting the most innocent, helpless and precious among us – the children who will make up America’s next generation? That’s not “hatred”; it sounds more like love.

There’s more. Google tells WND it does “not allow content that … promotes harmful health claims, or relates to a current major health crisis and contradicts authoritative scientific consensus.”

Translation: When we report knowledgeably and truthfully on the Biden administration’s absolutely deranged and tyrannical mismanagement of the COVID pandemic – from imposing vaccine mandates that have thrown tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, nurses, paramedics, police, firemen and other frontline heroes (including my own son) out of work, to suppressing inexpensive, effective and readily available early outpatient treatment of COVID, to pretending “natural immunity” isn’t real even though at least 92 studies prove it’s superior to vaccine immunity, to insisting that infants and toddlers be needlessly injected with the experimental and hazardous mRNA “vaccines” – well, such reporting as ours is simply not allowed. Only the official Biden narrative – you know, the one based on massive lying, and which failed at every turn to end the pandemic, while driving up suicide, addiction, overdose deaths, depression and crime rates across the nation, and introduced a level of authoritarianism never before seen in America – is allowed.

But let’s dig a little deeper. Let’s venture beneath Google’s “woke” moralizing about all the “marginalized” and “underserved communities” WND is “discriminating against,” and how we’re spreading dangerous “misinformation,” “disinformation” and “conspiracy theories,” even though we are simply reporting the provable (and often obvious) truth. Let’s dare to confront what is really bugging Google, and exactly WHY the super-rich mega-monopoly (and the rest of the Big Tech oligarchs) have been so maniacally intent on taking down little WND and making sure you are never able to read it again.

Though disguised as high-minded moral concern over “accurate and beneficial information,” what we’re really contending with is a worldview in total thrall to exceedingly dark forces, a worldview that lusts after power and glory and worship, one that ignores Reality at every turn, while manifesting an abiding contempt for biology, for the lessons of history, for the fundamental laws of economics, for the transcendent value of human life, and especially, for Almighty God and His laws.

That’s what we’re REALLY dealing with. That’s what is trying to take us down.

Again, we're not talking only about Google. YouTube (owned by Google) has permanently de-monetized WND’s channel. Facebook has massively suppressed WND’s traffic on its platform, by up to 90%. Three major online ad companies (TripleLift, AppNexus/Xander and Teads) have all canceled WND, seriously hurting our revenues. Why? Because of our supposed “hate speech” – that’s what they call it when you uphold basic biblical morality. Then there’s the Southern Poverty Law Center, the hateful leftwing extremist group that Big Tech relies on to identify hateful extremist groups, which – naturally – classifies WND as a hateful “extremist group.” Apparently, your favorite news site specializes in “manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions … from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds.” In other words, we’re conservative and Christian.

So, in light of this daunting reality facing us, what can we do?

Futurist George Gilder wrote a stunning book called “Life After Google,” providing an insightful and ultimately hopeful view of what the Internet could be in a future era when the Big Tech oligarch tyrants finally lose their monopoly control. Will that ever happen? I honestly don’t know.

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Kindly consider stepping up and helping us REPLACE GOOGLE (and all the other super-wealthy tech entities suppressing and de-monetizing us) with a more fitting and reliable source of support and sustenance in these extremely challenging times.

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In case you missed it, two shocking and unprecedented megatrends are unfolding simultaneously in the United States of America right now.

The first is the explosion of what can only be described as openly predatory targeting of America’s children by legions of “gender activists” obsessed with seducing, grooming and recruiting kids into the phantasmagoric transgender world of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical amputation of healthy body parts and astronomical suicide rates.

Incredibly, this wild celebration of transgenderism is being praised, promoted and funded by the ruling class at the highest levels, from the White House on down, while all who sound the alarm are demonized and canceled.

At first, this trend manifested most notably as “drag queen story hour” events hosted in public libraries across the nation, during which innocent toddlers would be made to sit at the feet of severely mentally ill men (often made-up to appear openly demonic) and be regaled with tales of heroic LGBT characters. But that was just the warm-up.

Throughout June, almost all of America’s big institutions – big media, big tech, big government, big education, big business, big sports – gushed uncontrollably over “Pride Month,” glorifying everything homosexual, transgender and “nonbinary,” while the push to groom America’s children into the LGBT lifestyle has gone into overdrive. Disney staffers explicitly brag on camera about inserting as much “queerness” as possible into their entertainment products. After-school “gay-straight alliance” (GSA) clubs, which purport to be support groups but in reality are all about recruitment, are rapidly proliferating throughout America’s public schools. Teachers with bizarre hairdos and multiple facial piercings openly proselytize America’s children, some evangelizing the new transgender salvation aggressively on social media platforms like TikTok.

However, as Tucker Carlson recently put it, “Having some purple-haired loser in a nose ring convince your six-year-old to get a sex change is not why most people send their children to school.”

And yet, although the nation is wracked with violent crime, edging toward financial collapse and losing 290 people daily from drug overdoses, the Biden administration is focused on recruiting children into transgenderism, with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra fully supporting taxpayer-funded amputations of healthy body parts of these vulnerable young people. Or as Becerra ghoulishly put it, “We should help those have the life-affirming care that they need.”

Predictably, as a result of this explosion of LGBT proselytizers, promoters and cheerleaders, a newly minted syndrome has magically emerged among America’s youth: “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. Mission accomplished.

Consider now the second megatrend.

While this sexual-gender anarchy is exploding nationwide – and alongside it, of course, the rest of the deranged Biden agenda, from engineering an ever-expanding foreign invasion of America across its southern border, to destroying the nation’s fossil fuel industry, to bringing the U.S. to the brink of nuclear war with Russia – the very same political, financial, cultural and sexual revolutionaries responsible for all of this chaos have finally dared to “come out” and publicly identify who exactly they consider to be their biggest enemy.

Christians.

That’s right. Bible-believing, Judeo-Christian morals-affirming, Ten Commandments and Sermon on the Mount-loving Christian believers are the real enemy.

Of course, throughout the Biden era, many tricky substitute names for Christians have been stealthily deployed by those in power, who daily blame “white supremacists,” “conservative fascists,” “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists” and other never-defined groups for everything they claim to find intolerable about America. Some of their attacks have been staggeringly idiotic, like officially branding parents as “domestic terrorists” for complaining at school-board meetings about teachers indoctrinating their young children with Marxist critical race theory.

Yet, fantastical and extreme as all this demonization of normal, traditional-values, law-abiding Americans has been, there has always been a lingering sense that the ruling elites were holding something back – that they were not quite speaking plainly about what is really bothering them.

Until now.

The “progressive” ruling class has finally grown sufficiently brazen, deranged and desperate to openly admit that the people it considers to be the true and ultimate enemy of America – or at least the America they envision – are those who “identify” as biblical Christians.

Consider a few recent major media stories:

* “With the Buffalo massacre, white Christian nationalism strikes again” – The Washington Post

* “The Religious Right's Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response” – The New York Times

* “White Christian Nationalism ‘Is a Fundamental Threat to Democracy’” – New York Magazine

* “How Christian nationalism paved the way for Jan. 6” – Religion News Service

* “Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns” – The Associated Press

* “‘The View’ co-host blames 'Christian nationalism' for mass shootings” – FoxNews.com

Suddenly, bandying about an arcane academic term virtually no one used until recently – “Christian nationalism” – big media and Democrats are falling over each other to blame all of America’s problems on “Christian nationalists” (or “White Christian nationalists” or “White nationalists” or “Christian fascists” or “Christian fundamentalists” or “the Religious Right”). In rapid succession, virtually the entire leftwing media has taken to hysterically warning about Christians:

* "It’s becoming increasingly clear that the United States is under siege by Christian fundamentalists and traditionalists," warns MSNBC's Ja'han Jones.

* "Christian Nationalism Is The ‘Single Biggest Threat’ to America’s Religious Freedom,” announces the Center for American Progress.

* “[The Republican Party is] a movement dedicated to imposing White Christian nationalism,” insists the Washington Post’s former token “conservative,” Jennifer Rubin.

* "If Christian Nationalism isn't essentially domestic terrorism, then I don’t know what is,” opines Cari Marshall of the Texas Democracy Foundation, who goes on to explain the treacherous methods of all those violent Christian extremists: “They simultaneously weaponize the Bible and the Constitution to justify their wanton disregard for the views and safety of others and their insatiable lust for weapons and violence.”

‘American Taliban’

Some of this elite denigration of Christianity is not entirely new. In fact, for years many on the left have been likening American Christians to terrorists, as the late Angelo M. Codevilla, author of the 2010 mega-bestseller “The Ruling Class,” explained: “Every time [Christians] try to manifest their religious identity in public affairs, they are deluged by accusations of being ‘American Taliban’ trying to set up a ‘theocracy.’”

Or as MSNBC anchor Joy Reid tweeted after the Taliban victory that resulted from Biden’s catastrophic pullout from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021: “This is the real-life Handmaid’s Tale. A true cautionary tale for the U.S., which has our own far religious right dreaming of a theocracy that would impose a particular brand of Christianity, drive women from the workforce and solely into childbirth, and control all politics.”

What is new right now, however, is: 1) the extreme and ubiquitous Sodom-and-Gomorrah level of moral depravity in America, 2) the absolutely shocking campaign to recruit the nation’s pre-pubescent children into deviant sexual and gender “identities” and lifestyles, and 3) the fact that all of this is not merely tolerated, but wildly celebrated and glorified, by almost all of America’s most powerful institutions, from its schools to its government to its news and entertainment media.

Parallel to all this is the rapidly increasing demonization of those Americans who hold to the traditional Judeo-Christian values that formed the very foundation of the “American experiment,” the biblical principles of morality and justice woven into the U.S. Constitution and legal system, and which, for over two centuries, have made America the greatest, freest and most prosperous nation in all of human history.

Indeed, biblical Christianity is what gave birth to the whole notion of “individual rights” in the first place, rooted as they are in the conviction that man is created in the image of God. Likewise, the biblical understanding that mankind is fallen and in need of redemption (prompting Lord Acton to famously observe that “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”) led to America’s unique and extraordinarily wise constitutional separation of powers. The biblical roots of the American system made this country the unique oasis of liberty and human rights it has long been in an otherwise mostly dark world.

That is why the current power-mad elites hate genuine Christianity, and why the ruling class is at war with, and daily attacking, America’s Christian foundations with increasing ferocity.

It also explains, as Pastor Andrew Brunson – who was imprisoned for two years in Turkey on fake "terrorism" charges – recently warned, the growing trend toward persecution of Christians in the United States of America.

In truth, to the radical left, Christians are not merely racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes, but Nazis, fascists, violent extremists and terrorists. But this perfect inversion of reality is because – bottom line – the left has always been in a state of war with Almighty God and His laws and His ways. In other words, at war with Reality. They are in perpetual rebellion against the Creator of the Universe because Marxism, by its very nature, amounts to hatred and rejection of God so that human “saviors” (who are generally sociopaths) can create their make-believe paradise on earth – with them in charge, of course. That, in turn, always ends up as hell on earth, with the 20th century being the bloodiest century in all of human history, thanks to the very types of God-rejecting, power-addicted Marxist utopians who are currently obsessed with ruling America.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian's introductory article in the powerful June issue of WND's critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled “ELITES FINALLY REVEAL THEIR #1 ENEMY: CHRISTIANS.” It explores the latest openly anti-Christian efforts of the Biden administration, that is, the massive grooming and recruitment efforts by LGBT and transgender activists, fully supported by the federal government, to seduce the most innocent and vulnerable members of the American population – young children – into the dark world of transgenderism. Now, the very same political, cultural and sexual revolutionaries responsible for all of the chaos and madness of the Biden era have finally dared to “come out” and PUBLICLY IDENTIFY exactly who they consider to be their biggest enemy: CHRISTIANS. That’s right. Bible-believing, Judeo-Christian morals-affirming Christian believers – the kind who founded America, wrote her Constitution and defended her with their lives for centuries – are now considered the biggest enemy threatening the future of America! This almost unbelievable trend is documented in a stunningly clear and undeniable way in the June Whistleblower issue (available in both print and digital editions), “ELITES FINALLY REVEAL THEIR #1 ENEMY: CHRISTIANS.”

ALSO, David Kupelian's classic bestseller, "The Marketing of Evil," has just been re-released in a new, expanded paperback edition, and includes brand-new chapters exploring the latest incredible developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America. Available now on Amazon!

Likewise, Kupelian’s acclaimed sequel, "The Snapping of the American Mind," will be released this month in a completely revised and expanded paperback edition, including all-new chapters illuminating the "1984"-style transformation of America taking place under the Biden administration. It is now available for pre-order on Amazon!

America has become a war zone because of the utterly unprecedented revolutionary madness being served up daily by today’s radicalized Democratic Party, which fiercely insists men can get pregnant and give birth, that the full-scale foreign invasion of our country they’ve engineered is enlightened and moral, that Democrats are somehow able to magically control the world’s weather, and that the least racist nation in all of human history is somehow the most racist.

But now, things are getting serious.

America is heading toward full-blown meltdown over the Supreme Court’s anticipated repeal of Roe v. Wade, its most controversial and society-transforming (not to mention unconstitutional and unspeakably immoral) decision in a century.

Hysterically shrieking mobs waving coat hangers and promising violence are everywhere, firebombing pro-life headquarters and threatening the lives of its staffers, others swarming the private homes of Supreme Court justices and their families in brazen violation of federal law. A new Department of Homeland Security report reveals law enforcement agencies are now investigating “threats to burn down or storm the Supreme Court building and murder justices and their clerks” and to attack “places of worship.” All just the beginning of their widely proclaimed “Summer of Rage.”

Meanwhile, congressional Democrats fan the flames of mob violence while insisting the “vital constitutional protections” of Roe must be codified into federal law, as establishment news organizations cheerlead their attempts to implement the most radical and brutal abortion laws in the Western world.

And yet – amidst all of today’s “end-of-the-world” rhetoric, criminal violence, on-air meltdowns and public hysteria, replete with screaming demonstrators bewailing the imminent destruction of women’s lives, health, happiness, economic productivity, “control over their own bodies” and “ability to choose when to have a family,” there is no discussion – ever – of what the abortion issue is actually all about.

After all, truthfully exploring that core reality would destroy their “pro-choice” fantasy world like a nuclear bomb.

That’s because what the “choice” issue is really about – of course – is babies. Beautiful, heart-beating, thumb-sucking, hearing, kicking, hiccupping, growing, pain-feeling, very much alive, learning, made-in-the-image-of-God human babies.

SPECIAL NOTE: David Kupelian's classic bestseller, "The Marketing of Evil," has just been re-released in a new, expanded paperback edition, and includes brand-new chapters exploring the latest incredible developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America. Available now on Amazon!

It’s no longer even necessary to specify “preborn” babies, since today’s super-radicalized abortion proponents insist this doesn’t matter. Indeed, many states now allow abortion at any time throughout pregnancy right up to the very moment of natural birth, as long as the abortionist claims having the baby would endanger the mother’s physical or mental health – a notoriously cynical catch-all that routinely amounts to the practitioner’s affirmation that “My patient will be depressed, or suffer anxiety, if forced to give birth.”

Consider now the bill for which 49 Senate Democrats recently voted, but that has so far failed to pass, surreally named “The Women’s Health Protection Act.” Remember the rule: Democrats always name their legislation the exact opposite of whatever the law actually accomplishes, like Obama’s “Affordable Care Act” that radically increased the cost of healthcare. In the same way, “The Women’s Health Protection Act,” instead of protecting women’s health, would explicitly grant health-care providers the "right" to abort women's babies in all 50 states, throughout all nine months of pregnancy – period. No reason for wanting to kill her nine-months-in-the-womb child need be given by the mother, nor would any medical justification need to be offered by the abortionist (beyond checking off the “health-of-the-mother” box). Nor would the law require any disclosure to the mother regarding “fetal viability.” It would even explicitly invalidate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and all other bipartisan conscience laws that have exempted health-care providers from having to offer abortion services for moral or religious reasons.

In other words, the Senate Democrats are attempting to go beyond Roe v. Wade and make America’s abortion laws among the most barbaric in the entire world.

In an unparalleled display of reality-avoidance, today’s proponents of “choice” are maniacally pursuing an abortion culture that totally dehumanizes the child in its mother’s womb, reducing him or her to the level of an unwanted cancerous tumor. They manage this feat by doubling down on the same constellation of false, fabricated and astonishingly dishonest issues that has driven the abortion movement since its inception.

Indeed, the abortion movement has always avoided core realities, even back when the movement was founded in the 1960s, when it was carefully framed to obscure the real issue of killing human babies. That stark reality was long ago abducted and hidden away by abortion proponents, while an imposter narrative that had never before been seen or heard was presented to the public with a straight face: “Choice.” “Who decides?”

What? Never discussed was whether the “choice” was wise, moral, sane and decent or sinful, traumatizing, evil and criminal.

“Who will decide this most important issue of a woman’s life,” went one pro-abortion marketing slogan, “the woman and her doctor, or politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.?” Pretty slick. If one doesn’t stop to think about what’s actually being asked – “Is it OK to kill your children?” – the question almost sounds reasonable. After all, who wants “politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.” to decide anything about their lives?

Fast forward to today, when virtually everything America’s power elites obsess over – celebrating the first-ever “woman of color” vice president, the first-ever transgender four-star admiral, the first-ever black lesbian White House press secretary, and so on – is either meaningless or far worse than meaningless. So, it stands to reason that the issue leftist elites would most want to avoid discussing would be the most meaningful and central issue of our lives: the preservation of our progeny, of innocent human beings made in the image of God, whose safety, rights, welfare and protection constitute the sole purpose for our government’s very existence, according to the Declaration of Independence.

So this – the reality of human life and its preciousness and dignity – is the issue they pretend doesn’t exist.

This is understandable when one considers that the left is, at heart, in rebellion against the Creator and His laws of life, and is dominated at the highest levels mostly by sociopaths who care nothing about anyone or anything other than their own personal power, privilege, wealth and glory. They reject God in a vain and inglorious attempt to become little gods themselves.

No wonder this miracle of new human life – Imago Dei – would go to the very bottom of the list of “important things in life” for them.

Remember, in almost every area of public policy, the left’s fabricated “truth” constitutes the diametric opposite of actual Truth: On “voter integrity,” today’s Democrats insist Voter ID laws – which simply require citizens to identify themselves before voting – equal KKK-era “Jim Crow 2.0” racism, when in reality failing to ID voters is a clear invitation to widespread voter fraud. In the same way, Democrats insist gender is a state of mind, and if you don’t play along with their insane delusion, you’re a bigot and a criminal, when in reality gender is immutable and unchangeable. Likewise, Democrats claim their radical open-border policies are somehow noble, humanitarian and anti-racist, when they are literally destroying America, not just by replacing our nations’ population with foreigners who neither know nor care anything about America’s values, culture or laws, but by throwing America's doors wide open for Mexico’s drug cartels, making fentanyl overdose now the No. 1 cause of death of Americans aged 18-45.

The abortion issue is no different; everything they champion with regard to it is the opposite of truth.

Interestingly, in an age when those on the Left, on issues ranging from COVID to climate change, insist that “the science” justifies their ever-increasing control over the behavior and the thoughts of Americans, somehow when it comes to abortion they have almost given up arguing science. Embryology, after all, is highly advanced today and the characteristics of the developing human being in utero are stunningly documented and far beyond rational dispute.

It is a beautiful, miraculous, vibrant human baby – period. They’ve apparently given up trying to claim otherwise as they once did, when Planned Parenthood counselors routinely told frightened pregnant teens, “It’s all right, honey. It’s not a baby, it’s just a mass of cells.”

Instead, they simply ignore the reality of the infinitely valuable life at stake and instead angrily attack you for “hating women” and denying them “their right to choose.”

Not surprisingly, when the sanctity and blessedness of innocent human life is ignored and denied, into that moral vacuum rushes hell itself: The Satanic Temple is now issuing statements demanding "religious abortion access" for its members since it considers abortion both a religious right and a religious “rite” for its satanic faith. Pro-abortion activists are now seen carrying signs with phrases like “FETUS = GOOD SNACK.” Even taking a child’s life after being born – once considered unthinkable, since it literally constitutes the heinous crime of infanticide – is increasingly considered an option by the “pro-choice” movement, as in this recent on-camera exchange between a reporter for Live Action and a female pro-abortion activist demonstrating in favor of Roe v. Wade:

Live Action: Do you believe in abortion after birth?

Pro-abortion activist: I believe in whatever the woman wants to choose to do, that’s her choice.

Live Action: At any point in the child’s life?

Activist: At any point in the lady’s life, that’s her choice.

Live Action: To kill another person’s body …?

Activist: It’s going to always be her choice.

Live Action: Even after the baby’s born?

Activist: It’s always her choice.

Live Action: So if they’re two years old?

Activist: It’s always her choice.

Live Action: I can kill my two-year-old?

Activist: It’s a woman’s right to choose.

Live Action: To kill their child at any point?

Activist: It’s a woman’s right to choose.

Three decades ago, in 1992, President Bill Clinton insisted he wanted abortion to be “safe, legal and rare.” Twenty years later, in 2012, the Democratic Party expunged “rare” from its official platform position on abortion. Today, abortion advocacy has evolved to the truly radical position that women must be allowed and enabled to kill their offspring from conception until birth and perhaps beyond – no questions asked.

After all, “It’s a woman’s right to choose.”

Bottom line: Today’s gruesome, hellish reality – desperately half-concealed beneath moldy, smelly, half-century-old marketing slogans like “Women must have control over their own bodies” as well as newer (and even more meaningless) ones like “Reproductive Justice!” that serve mainly to provide an emotionally compelling distraction from ever-present truth – is that they are advocating the wanton murder of millions of American babies. That amounts to more than 63 million children already killed since 1973’s Roe decision, including the equivalent to close to half of the current black population of the United States, exterminated by abortion.

In response, many millions of good and decent Americans are now rising up and crying out, “For God’s sake, this has to stop!”

This, then, is the greatest challenge and opportunity in decades for pro-life Americans. If Roe v. Wade is indeed overturned and the issue of abortion is returned to the 50 states, it will be a time of tremendous national focus, debate and persuasion, and thus a golden opportunity for the expression of truth and genuine Christian love. Indeed, regardless of what the high court does, now is a golden opportunity – while everyone is obsessed with abortion – to let the truth shine as never before.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian's introductory article in the powerfully moving May issue of WND's critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled “LIFE AND DEATH DECISION: After almost 50 years, the movement to save America's unborn faces its greatest challenge.” Whistleblower is available both in the popular print edition and in a state-of-the-art digital version.

ALSO, David Kupelian's classic bestseller, "The Marketing of Evil," has just been re-released in a new, expanded paperback edition, and includes brand-new chapters exploring the latest incredible developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America. Available now on Amazon!

Likewise, Kupelian’s acclaimed sequel, "The Snapping of the American Mind," will soon be released in a completely revised and expanded paperback edition, including all-new chapters illuminating the "1984"-style transformation of America taking place under the Biden administration. It is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

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For years it's been viciously attacked as "hate speech," "despicable," "the worst book ever" and "serving the Antichrist" – even formally condemned by faculty vote at one university, resulting in lawsuits, campus hysteria and national news coverage. Others say it has genuinely changed their lives for the better, with one conservative leader calling it "one of the most important books of the last 20 years."

In any event, I’m pleased to announce that "The Marketing of Evil" has just been re-released in an expanded paperback edition including brand-new chapters explaining exactly how today’s truly unprecedented level of insanity, psychosis and evil has been skillfully sold to America.

In case you're unfamiliar with it, "The Marketing of Evil" essentially explains why and how so many millions of today's Americans have come to strongly embrace and defend ideas and behaviors that horrified every previous generation of Americans since its founding.

As I write in the book's introduction, "Within the space of our lifetime, much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped, and sold to us as though it had great value. By skillfully playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity, and tolerance, these marketers have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which every other generation has regarded as grossly self-destructive – in a word, evil."

The book has had a storied and sometimes tumultuous history, including, for example, becoming the focal point of a national scandal when several openly homosexual professors at Ohio State University brought "sexual harassment" charges against head librarian Scott Savage, a Christian, after he recommended "The Marketing of Evil" as required reading for all incoming freshmen. The gay profs maintained that merely recommending the book constituted an act of "harassment due to sexual orientation." (Chapter 1 documents, in LGBT leaders' own words, their brilliant but little-known strategies for mainstreaming total sexual/gender anarchy in what was a largely Christian country.)

The other faculty members were so intimidated by the enraged gay professors that they either voted in agreement with them or abstained out of fear. It was so bizarre that major media exposure by Sean Hannity, Brit Hume on Fox's "Special Report," the New York Post, Human Events and others – plus strong legal pressure from the Alliance Defending Freedom – caused the university to cave and drop the absurd charges.

As a direct consequence of being publicly branded "hate literature" and "homophobic tripe" by the OSU faculty, "The Marketing of Evil" immediately became one of the hottest-selling books in the country, topping Amazon’s daily "Current Events" bestseller chart.

'It changed my life!'
On Amazon the controversial book has garnered over 600 five-star reader reviews, plus a few nasty one-star reviews describing the book as "horrendous" and "truly despicable" and accusing me personally of being a "Nazi," "scum" and "social blight." Whatever. The vast majority are much kinder:

• "Opening this book is like turning on the Sun. … Mr. David Kupelian has written a remarkable book that reveals how the American public has been taken down the slippery slope of moral relativism.”
• "I finished 'The Marketing of Evil' over a month ago. It absolutely changed my life."
• "Prepare to see your world with new eyes!"
• "The way Kupelian writes is phenomenal. … Give this book to everyone you know, you’ll thank me."
• "This book has put a powerful voice to many things that truth-loving people in America have felt in their spirits for a long, long time. … I for one am forever changed."

Pastors fired up
As a result of such notoriety, both positive and negative, "The Marketing of Evil" eventually lit a fire in a place where it was more welcome – the nation’s churches. From small-town churches and prayer groups to one of America’s largest congregations, Christian leaders and laymen started getting hold of the book, sometimes by the case, to hand out to fellow churchgoers.

The late D. James Kennedy, who until his death was perhaps the world’s most influential Presbyterian minister and founder of D. James Kennedy Ministries (formerly Coral Ridge Ministries) in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., called "The Marketing of Evil" a "powerful new book that I wish every Christian in America could read." He even took the dramatic step of printing 15,000 special-edition softcover copies which he sent to thousands of supporters.

'A magician's secrets'
Despite the ongoing controversy over this book, many conservative and Christian voices have been kind enough to single out "The Marketing of Evil" as essential reading:

• "Every parent in America needs to read this book." – Michelle Malkin, columnist, cable news pundit and bestselling author
• "David Kupelian is one of the most thought-provoking and iconoclastic writers I know." – Sean Hannity, host of Fox News' "Hannity" and "The Sean Hannity Radio Show"
• "If you really want to understand the adversary’s thinking and help turn the tide of battle, read this book!" – David Limbaugh, columnist and bestselling author
• "Like the dazzling disclosures in the final page of a gripping whodunit or the fascinating revelation of a magician’s secrets, 'The Marketing of Evil' irresistibly exposes how it was done." – Rabbi Daniel Lapin, American Alliance of Jews and Christians
• "David Kupelian is one of the very few must-read writers in the 21st Century." – Dr. Ted Baehr, Chairman, Christian Film and Television Commission

The big screen
One more quick story: In 2017, "The Marketing of Evil" was featured in the Hollywood movie "I am Michael" starring James Franco and Zachary Quinto.

Scene from "I Am Michael" with actor James Franco holding “The Marketing of Evil”

In this amazing true story, Franco, playing the lead role of high-profile LGBT activist Michael Glatze, is shown reading "The Marketing of Evil" during the pivotal scene in which Glatze publicly renounces his "gay" identification and reveals he wants to live for God. The real-life Glatze, who left the homosexual lifestyle in 2007 and become a happily married Christian pastor, has said reading "The Marketing of Evil" played a significant role in helping him in his dramatic personal journey.

So, those are some highlights of my own journey with this book. As I said at the outset, I’m happy to announce that the new, expanded edition of "The Marketing of Evil" is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere. In the brand-new chapters, I dive right into the Trump and Biden eras, shining a bright light on the secret workings of today’s “marketers of evil” who figured out how to convince so many Americans that the least racist nation on earth is somehow actually the most racist, that Trump is comparable to Hitler, and so on. But even more fundamentally, I explore and document how the Left is able to brainwash huge numbers of people into believing – and acting on –  literally anything, no matter how obviously insane, destructive or evil.

Fortunately, once the light goes on, their dark games don't work so well. And believe me, we need the light to shine in our country right now, more than ever.

Thank you!

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Every day, America's leaders bombard the rest of us with a fusillade of the latest "woke" moral imperatives: "Equity!" "Diversity!" "Climate justice!" "Anti-racism!" "Trans rights!" "Reproductive justice!" "Preserving our democracy!"

Whether in government, big tech, big media or big business, our elites continually invoke these and other sacred mantras of the religion of Leftism, displaying to the world their superior moral virtue – in stark contrast to the vast unwashed peasant class comprising tens of millions of bigots, extremists, white supremacists, conservatives and other deplorables.

Yet, probe just beneath the surface of their "woke" righteousness, their passionate angst over "systemic racism," "marginalized communities" and "saving the planet," and it turns out most of these wealthy elites – whose policies are, after all, wrecking the country – don't really believe in any of the left's phantasmagoric causes.

They know men can't have babies.

They know getting rid of police causes crime.

They just don't care. They're in it for the money – and the power, privilege and prestige.

IMPORTANT NOTE: David Kupelian's classic bestseller, "The Marketing of Evil," has just been re-released in a new, expanded paperback edition, and includes brand-new chapters exploring the latest extraordinary developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few short years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America. Available now on Amazon!

Let's start at the top with Joe Biden: Not only is he obviously unqualified to be president of the United States and leader of the Free World due to his advanced dementia, his decades of lying and fantastical boasting, and his utter lack of accomplishments. But Biden is also dangerously compromised and therefore extraordinarily vulnerable to blackmail. Why? Because of the many years of brazen political corruption, influence-peddling and shady business deals and payoffs between multiple members of the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, and America's most formidable adversaries – China and Russia – not to mention other nations, notably Ukraine. This combination of factors has put America and the entire world in greater jeopardy right now than at any time since World War II.

But, at least "the Big Guy" made a lot of money for himself and his family, and that's what was important to him.

This disgraceful and dangerous dynamic is much the same with many other influential denizens of "the swamp."

Bill and Hillary Clinton have been "in it for the money" for decades, from Whitewater to the Clinton Foundation, as many books and investigative reports have documented in detail. "No one has even come close in recent years to enriching themselves on the scale of the Clintons while they or a spouse continued to serve in public office," writes author-journalist Peter Schweitzer in his bestselling book, "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Business Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich." The Clintons' prodigious ability to exploit their power for personal gain, compared to that "of any other ex-politician, whether a former president, or congressman, Republican or Democrat, to accumulate such a large amount of money in such a short period of time is unmatched," adds Schweitzer.

Like many in Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul have made millions on technology stocks of companies Pelosi helps regulate, amounting to de facto insider trading. In the same way, Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who literally sets America's energy policy and tirelessly pushes renewable energy projects around the country, has reaped huge profits off her millions of dollars' worth of alternative energy stocks, whose value is directly affected by her public advocacy.

And then there's John Kerry, former Democratic presidential candidate and now Joe Biden's "climate czar." Kerry's first reaction to Russia's murderous invasion of Ukraine was fear that it might divert some of the world's attention away from "climate change." However, John Kerry does not truly believe in the catastrophic, near-term, man-caused climate change he preaches. Not when he has spent years cajoling regular people to avoid driving "gas-guzzling SUVs" while flying everywhere in his own private jet.

Noting that Kerry – whose net worth is $750 million and who owns five luxury homes, a 76-foot yacht, a private jet, and of course an SUV – simply "loves luxury," Daniel Turner, founder of Power The Future, a nonprofit that advocates for American energy jobs, reveals in the New York Post: "Asked about the green contradiction of traveling on his private jet to win an environmental award in 2019, the unserious statesman claimed it was 'the only choice for someone like me.'"

Concludes Turner: "Take the threat of climate change seriously when John Kerry forgoes the private jets and luxury mega-conferences. Worry about rising sea levels when John Kerry sells his oceanfront mansion."

Even the colorful freshmen congresswomen of "the Squad," who if nothing else present themselves as true believers in the most extreme leftwing ideologies and agendas, are really just in it for the money, power and prestige. As one headline put it last summer, "AOC Invests $1.4 Million in Campaign Funds for Apparel Line With Her Initials," revealing how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez created and funded a new clothing line for herself.

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in another move to make herself ubiquitous," reported the Daily Wire, "paid a political merchandise firm a whopping $1.4 million from her campaign coffers just in the first six months of 2021 to create T-shirts and hats with leftist slogans such as 'Tax the Rich' and 'Abolish ICE' – much of the merchandise featuring her initials."

And what about Rep. Ilhan Omar, who infamously tweeted "It's all about the Benjamins, baby" – "Benjamins" being slang for $100 bills – implying U.S. lawmakers are bribed into supporting Israel? The venomously anti-Semitic Omar was just following the Left's tried-and-true strategy of projection: Whenever someone on the hard Left accuses others of political corruption or any other crime, sin, fraud or scam, it's because that is precisely what they themselves are guilty of doing.

Indeed, corruption is Rep. Ilhan Omar's middle name.

She has been credibly tied to alleged criminal violations including "perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, federal student loan fraud, and bigamy." DNA evidence virtually proves she married her own brother and committed immigration fraud, but she has also been connected to voter fraud in the form of illegal "ballot harvesting" in her largely Somali congressional district in Minnesota, while also allegedly violating campaign finance laws. One investigation found that on five different occasions, Omar misspent campaign funds, according to CBS 4 Minnesota. Even more brazen, Federal Election Commission records show Omar's campaign sent $606,000 to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm that just happens to be run by Tim Mynett, Omar's third husband. That was in addition to the $1 million of donor funds she had previously directed to her husband's firm. Omar married Mynett soon after both of them divorced their previous spouses.

But wait, many may ask at this point: If it's really true that all these supposedly super-woke elites are just "in it for the money," then what about the radical Left's ideology, the fervent beliefs and causes all these politicians continually espouse, which have totally captured today's Democratic Party and are metastasizing throughout the country and rapidly destroying it? What about the extreme ideological agendas currently corrupting America's children, with "drag queen story hour" in pre-school, then full-bore LGBT and transgender indoctrination starting in kindergarten, followed by toxic Marxist "critical race theory" propaganda? What about the ubiquitous America-is-racist ideology that is perverting and transforming American society and culture into a guilt-ridden, divided, self-hating, emotionally crippled shadow of its former self?

Make no mistake: America's universities and public schools and leftwing nonprofits and think tanks and "woke" activist groups and many other organizations and individuals are, indeed, totally captivated by today's bizarre Marxist "narratives." They have been convinced, seduced, intimidated or guilted into believing America is a predatory, racist country, that men are women if they think they are, that little children should be sexualized, that conservatives are Nazis and Trump is Hitler, that capitalism is evil, and that the world will soon be uninhabitable due to global warming. The nightmarish dreams of leftist crazies are indeed alive in all the true believers.

However, that body of true believers does not actually include the leader class, who just pretend for the sake of maintaining and increasing their own power and privilege.

That's right. The elites in government and business who wield the real power in American life don't truly believe the radical agendas they force on everyone else.

Leaders of giant companies like Disney self-righteously promote Black Lives Matter, transgender and other radically woke agendas in the U.S., while simultaneously in their lucrative Chinese market remaining silent on the mass confinement of abused minorities in concentration camps and other grotesque civil rights outrages. Meanwhile, politicians go maskless while demanding everyone else mask up; they spend tons of taxpayer money on private police for themselves after defunding law enforcement for the rabble. From Joe Biden to Nancy Pelosi to Chuck Schumer, today's leader class can be seen on video just a few short years ago passionately evangelizing precisely the opposite positions to those they now advocate, on issues ranging from the crucial importance of border security to the sanctity of the Senate filibuster. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly changed their views on same-sex marriage depending on the political winds – Obama claiming in 1996, "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages," but in 2008 insisting just the opposite, "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage," but then in 2012, flipping back to, "[I]t is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married." Same exact story with Hillary Clinton who, like Obama, claims to have "evolved" on the issue.

They didn't evolve. They cravenly changed their "views" in order to safeguard and increase their own privilege, wealth and power.

Question: Do such politicians, who have become hopelessly addicted to wealth, power and privilege, really believe in anything outside of themselves? Do they actually have any principles at all – other than personal advantage?

Arguably, many have become so selfish and corrupt, so hooked on the crack cocaine of power, that they no longer retain the internal capacity to truly care about anything outside of themselves. All of their most passionate, fervent-sounding positions are thus contrived solely to fulfill the current day's requirements to maintain their power. They need their fix.

It's all about them.

So, this is the surreal political culture now engulfing America: Though the oligarchs have no real principles nor agendas beyond themselves, down in the world of "the unwashed masses," today's Democratic Party and the causes it champions resemble one giant religious cult, with millions of people caught up with its various ideological denominations: the Climate Change cult, the Transgender cult, the America Is Racist cult, and so on. Indeed, many people have become total slaves of these and other bizarre leftwing "narratives."

And yet, society's elites – from the top politicians to "woke" mega-companies like Nike – know better. Their leaders and policy makers do not truly believe men have periods and can become pregnant, or that Donald Trump is another Hitler, or that Dr. Seuss is a racist. They just play along, they game the system … for the money and the power and the glory. For the ruling class, all the deranged leftwing agendas serve largely as a giant smokescreen enabling them to perpetually virtue-signal while disguising their raw selfishness, greed and personal ambition, their desire for privilege, wealth and fame, and for revenge against their enemies – that is, their desire essentially to be gods.

Still, one may well wonder how it is possible that, for example, someone like Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, a lesbian who openly identifies as "a trained Marxist," can spend millions of dollars, donated by people wanting to support BLM's cause, to purchase upscale mansions in southern California. Is she not a "true believer" in her own cause? What is it about leftist leaders that makes them betray everyone, even the people whose very cause they claim to champion? For decades, race hustlers like Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson have become super-wealthy while pretending to address the plight of urban blacks, even though their efforts have served merely to stir up racial hatreds rather than meaningfully address obvious core problems like fatherlessness and family breakdown.

Shedding light on this whole phenomenon, and perhaps better explaining in what way the elites can appear to "believe" in the radical agendas they espouse while at the same time paradoxically "being in it for the money," is M. Scott Peck, M.D., the celebrated psychiatrist and bestselling author of the classic book, "People of the Lie."

People caught up with evil, writes Peck, are inherently liars, "deceiving others as they also build layer upon layer of self-deception." Which is to say, it's not so much a matter of the elites simply pretending to believe all of the left's certifiably deranged ideologies – that fossil fuels must be completely eliminated from the earth and that babies aren't actually human until after they're born and so on. It's more like: They have to continually delude even themselves (Peck's "layer upon layer of self-deception") into espousing positions they don't truly believe, as a vehicle and justification for enriching and gratifying themselves – self-interest being what truly motivates them.

Put a little differently, their prodigious ability to lie, the ease with which they adopt and champion a perfectly insane cause as though it made sense – and apparently without suffering any conscience, conflict or guilt – applies inwardly as well. That is, while they're lying to everyone else, they're lying to themselves too. They're like method actors who get deeply emotionally involved in their role and can be very convincing, even to themselves. But in the end, it's all just an act. They collect their big paycheck and move on to their next role.

One final but crucial point to consider: Why is it that most Republicans are so maddeningly ineffective in countering the ruling Democrats' rapid dismantling and destruction of America? Even those who espouse correct principles and publicly complain about the Biden administration and Big Tech and other malignant institutions rarely do anything to effectively counter them. Why would that be?

Same reason: Because of money and privilege. For many, though fortunately not all Republicans, various monied powers ranging from big corporate donors to communist China keep them and their political careers alive. They're just too comfortable with the money, privilege and job security that come with their position as lawmaker, so they betray – however unconsciously – the very people and Constitution they are sworn to serve.

Peter Schweitzer's most recent bestseller, "Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win," cites 20 former and current elected Republicans as having compelling political and business ties with America's foremost adversary, China. Although fortunately many of those named by Schweitzer are no longer in office, one current figure wielding enormous power is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. McConnell, along with his wife, Elaine Chao, who served as transportation secretary during the Trump administration, "enjoy some of the deepest and most abiding ties to Beijing- linked entities of anyone in Washington, D.C.," writes Schweizer.

When November's much-anticipated midterm elections come, America's very survival will depend on two big things: 1) Election integrity, since cheating will be literally the only hope Democrats have of retaining power, and 2) principled Republican freedom fighters, who don't care if they serve only one term.

Remember, soldiers are deployed to fight and win battles and preserve their nation's peace and wellbeing – not to carve out safe, comfortable, lucrative and permanent abodes for themselves on the battlefield.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding is adapted from David Kupelian's introductory article in the powerful April issue of WND's critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled
"MONEY AND POWER! The elites zealously embrace every leftist cause, but it's just an act." Whistleblower is available both in the popular print edition and in a state-of-the-art digital version.

Also, David Kupelian's classic bestseller, "The Marketing of Evil," has just been re-released in a new, expanded paperback edition, and includes brand-new chapters exploring the latest extraordinary developments in the promotion of destructive lifestyles, worldviews and political agendas so insane that, just a few short years ago, almost no one dreamed they could ever take root in America. Available now on Amazon!

Joe Biden walks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as he arrives to deliver remarks in National Statuary Hall on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

As you read these words, the Biden White House is wildly championing the cause of amputating healthy body parts of children who have been groomed and manipulated into believing they are the opposite sex from what God made them. Team Biden even wants America’s taxpayers to pay for these mutilating surgeries. At the same time, a new Colorado law explicitly permits the slaughter of perfect, viable human babies, for any reason, right up to the very moment they emerge from their mother.

All of this new madness joins the ongoing madness – Team Biden’s engineering of a full-scale foreign invasion of America from the south, its intentional destruction of our nation’s oil, coal and natural gas industries, the ruinous runaway inflation it has inflicted on the whole country, and its apparent obliviousness to the dangers of plunging the U.S. into World War III.

Many names are being used to try to describe what is currently happening to America – “Marxism,” “communism,” “totalitarianism,” “globalism,” “the Great Reset.” Or how about, “total insanity and evil”?

Whatever you want to call it, America – the greatest and most blessed nation on earth – is at war. And our main adversary is not Vladimir Putin.

I’m talking about the full-fledged Marxist revolution exploding right here in America – from the halls of Congress to the White House to our nation’s southern border to our classrooms to our streets to Big Tech to Big Media to “woke corporations” like Disney.

This is no exaggeration. Some of the best-selling books in the country right now are serious works by smart, serious people, like “American Marxism” by Mark Levin, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military” by Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier and “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America” by historian Victor Davis Hanson.

Yes, this is all too real. And let's just be clear as to what we're actually dealing with: What we cryptically refer to as "The Left" – code words for a godless, revolutionary movement steeped in pathological anger and churning rebellion against America as a uniquely blessed Judeo-Christian country – is at war not with “racism” and “inequity,” nor ultimately is their war really against conservatives and Christians (whom they label “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists”), but with God. That’s right, their problem is with Reality, with science and biology, with history, with the most fundamental and immutable laws of economics, with human nature, with objective TRUTH. They hate truth.

Because of this, most everything the Democrats and the Left champion eerily boils down to the opposite of truth. Abortion is “women’s health care.” Men can get pregnant and give birth to babies. Donald Trump is just like Hitler. Biden’s runaway inflation and the highest gas prices EVER are Vladimir Putin’s fault!

As I noted at the outset, most recently Biden’s radically pro-abortion and openly pro-communist secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, has been pushing to force already financially strapped American taxpayers to pay for ghoulish, body-mutilating surgeries and amputation of healthy body parts of children who have been groomed into believing they are “transgender.”

So things are pretty bad right now.

The problem is, anyone daring to speak the forbidden Truth about these things is immediately accused of “discrimination” and “bigotry,” of spreading “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories” – and is censored or destroyed altogether.

Ever wonder why “freedom of speech” is America’s core freedom, the foundation of all the others? Because it amounts to freedom to speak the truth. It literally legalizes truth! Remember, truth has always been the one type of speech that poses a mortal threat to tyrants and wannabe tyrants.

Traditionally, society’s natural defenders against the onslaught of such tyranny, and against all the lies and deceptions that underlie and support it, are those who make up the free and independent press. Don’t laugh; it’s true. That’s why Thomas Jefferson said, “The only security of all is in a FREE PRESS,” and “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

REAL journalists are professional Truth-tellers – their job is literally to tell the truth, no matter what, to shout it from the rooftops so to speak, without fear or favor. Because without Truth, liberty and prosperity in a nation quickly wither and die. That’s what’s happening in America right now.

Of course, today’s “news media” consists almost entirely of lying, corrupt, self-serving, cravenly obedient cheerleaders for the revolution, for Marxist indoctrination like “critical race theory,” for the “Great Reset,” for men having babies, and for innocent children being groomed and channeled into desperate and hopeless lifestyles.

As a result, the number one target of today’s Big Tech totalitarians, who have become gatekeepers of all information, is that tiny part of the news media not extoling the virtues of the ascendent Democrats’ insane, delusional and fantastically destructive agenda, but rather, committed to reporting the TRUTH … no matter the cost or consequences.

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We are under continual attack. In just the last few months, Google has permanently de-monetized WND, decimating our advertising revenue, as has YouTube (owned by Google). Facebook has radically suppressed our traffic, three major online ad companies have canceled WND because of our “hate speech” (that’s what they call it when you affirm basic biblical morality and defend the innocence of children). T-Mobile has blocked people attempting to share WND exclusive reporting on COVID. We’ve had to fight a predatory lawsuit filed against us because (believe it or not) a blind plaintiff claimed he couldn’t read WND. You can laugh, but this case has cost us many thousands of dollars in attorney fees to fight it. (Many blind readers of WND have emailed me recently and I’ve talked to several on the phone – they love WND, read it easily with the help of the right software, and are totally outraged at the lawsuit.)

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris arrive at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

Thanks to the theft of the 2020 election (and yes, that radioactive truth bears repeating, since it’s now officially forbidden to acknowledge what most Americans believe to be true, that the last presidential contest was rigged), Americans are stuck with one of the most corrupt, dishonest, and definitely the most cognitively disintegrating presidents in the nation's history.

Also, as Newt Gingrich recently put it, “the dumbest person ever elected vice president” in Kamala Harris. After that, next in line for the presidency is Nancy Pelosi. Enough said.

So, let’s see how our top leaders explain the current runaway inflation that is already seriously stressing millions of American lives and businesses and threatens more catastrophic consequences in the near future.

Here’s what an angry and exasperated President Joe Biden barked out on Friday, March 11: “I’m sick of this stuff! The American people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money! It’s simply not true!”

We won’t spend time on Kamala Harris, whose comments on virtually all vexing national issues are embarrassing and often idiotic, including her take on inflation.

But two days after Biden’s claim that galactic government over-spending (requiring the Fed to create large amounts of new “money”) doesn’t cause inflation – which is similar to arguing that driving while drunk doesn’t cause drunk driving – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubled down on Biden’s claim, attacking those pointing to Democrats’ drunk-on-power spending as the main inflation culprit and insisting, incredibly, that “the government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt! It is not inflationary.”

Yes, she actually said that.

Pelosi even blamed rapidly rising prices on Vladimir Putin – even though the Russian dictator invaded Ukraine just weeks ago on Feb. 24, while “Bidenflation” has been boiling over since shortly after Biden took office in January 2021.

As usual, whatever America’s progressive ruling elites fervently claim is the truth can reliably be assumed to be precisely the opposite of the truth.

In reality, Americans are being progressively crushed by rapidly rising prices for virtually everything, including the most urgent necessities of life, and it is the Biden administration’s fault. Though the stratospheric rise in gasoline and diesel prices grabs most of the headlines, an equally shocking rise in food prices, electricity, home heating oil and pretty much everything else is likewise bedeviling the entire population.

Put another way, Americans are rapidly becoming a whole lot poorer, as inflation destroys their savings and earnings.

The main reason for this, notwithstanding the self-righteous denials from Biden, Pelosi and the “Democrat-media complex,” is the “hidden tax” of inflation, which is largely a creation of out-of-control and power-mad government. Under Biden, the federal bureaucracy has spent far more money than it has taxed or borrowed, and has therefore pumped enormous amounts of new “money” into the U.S. economy via the Federal Reserve. During the same period, the administration has created massive economic dislocation by ruinous and politically motivated pandemic lockdowns, encouraged people not to work by offering endless government “relief” and “stimulus” programs, and has purposely crippled America’s huge oil, gas and coal industries in almost cult-like obedience to a bizarre environmental ideology that claims the world will become uninhabitable for humans in a few years if fossil fuels aren’t eliminated.

Do all that, and you’re guaranteed to get sky-high prices, not just for fuel, but for everything.

Today’s actual inflation rate, despite the government’s official rate being pegged at 7.9% as of the end of February, is arguably double that percentage. The official rate is calculated in large part based on the consumer price index. But economists note that the CPI, configured by the same federal government that is creating the current inflation for its own benefit, intentionally underestimates the rate of inflation. After all, the price of construction materials in the U.S. increased well over 20% during 2021, the retail price of beef is up 21%, corn is up 39%, wheat 37%, coffee 108%. Indeed, Americans today are paying far more than an annualized 7.9% price increase for virtually everything they are purchasing.

Can you think of anything you buy regularly that hasn’t increased in price more than 7.9% over the last year? Of course not.

Let’s go a little deeper and ask why all this is happening. If inflation is viewed only through an economic lens – citing the various contributing economic and monetary factors, from government spending and low interest rates to supply-chain issues and pandemic lockdowns – the larger and deeper truth gets lost.

What is occurring in America’s economy today must be viewed in the context of the ruling Democrats’ total obsession with, and addiction to, permanent power, as well as the larger globalist dream they share of “the great reset” and the radical “green” agenda. In short, to America’s Democratic Party leadership, which has largely been taken over by the hard-core revolutionary Left, everything is about power and privilege for themselves and the unattainable and impossible (not to mention totalitarian and tyrannical) utopia they dream of leading.

Historically, whether considering hyperinflation nightmares like Weimar Germany, Venezuela or Zimbabwe (where President Robert Mugabe famously issued hundred-trillion-dollar bills), or societies plagued with less extreme inflation, the cause is always the same: A lawless government wants to spend money it does not have for the sake of increasing its power. So it simply prints much more money (however complex and deliberately obfuscating the mechanism it employs for creating, “borrowing” and spending the new “money” into circulation), which naturally dilutes the value of the rest of the money out in society, i.e., the wealth people actually earned and saved through years of hard work and personal sacrifice.

Inflation, as legendary economist Thomas Sowell put it, “is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all."

President Ronald Reagan, whose moral clarity and strong leadership brought the Carter-era high inflation to an end, expressed this truth more colorfully: “Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

“Mugger?” “Armed robber?” “Hit man?” Was Reagan joking or exaggerating about inflation and those who create it?

No. It's the very nature of corrupt oligarchs, whose goal is always to profit personally for the sake of their own wealth, power and privilege, to exploit and essentially steal from the middle class, whom they pretend to represent and care about, but secretly detest.

Why detest them? Because the middle class – which works hard and sacrifices and raises families and contributes to society and obeys the nation’s laws – is America’s repository of goodness, Judeo-Christian morality, love of country and honor for their forbears, including those who fought, bled and died to protect their nation.

The would-be oligarchs, the “great reset” crowd, the global socialist dreamers not only don’t care about all of that, they have contempt for it.

After all, these are people whose lifeblood is privilege and corruption, starting with Joe Biden, whose family members are openly engaged in lucrative and utterly corrupt multi-million-dollar influence-peddling “business deals” and payoffs involving the world’s most corrupt nations, including both China and Russia, not to mention Ukraine. What could go wrong with that?

Likewise, Nancy Pelosi’s corrupt dealings and insider trading are well known, the New York Post recently revealing: “Nancy Pelosi is scrambling to quash bipartisan efforts to ban stock trading by congressional lawmakers – even as she and her husband have raked in as much as $30 million from bets on the Big Tech firms Pelosi is responsible for regulating.” Ditto many other Democrat icons, including of course the Clinton family and their lifetime of epic political corruption.

If stripped down to the naked truth, America’s ruling elites are inextricably intertwined in a vast money-and-power machine of self-interest among the political, cultural and technological elite. They are today’s aristocrats, looking down contemptuously on the deplorable peasants.

But instead of Marie Antoinette saying, “Let them eat cake,” they cry, “Let them drive Teslas.” The contempt, however, is the same.

Moreover, since it is their core operating system to lie, steal and break the law – after all, to render their political power permanent they are willing to engineer a full-scale foreign invasion of the United States of America by millions of illegal aliens who will one day vote for them in return – they think nothing of financing their dreams by imposing the hidden, and ultimate, tax of inflation.

Every right-thinking person recognizes that today’s Democratic leadership class lies spectacularly and continually. Ultimately that’s because, on some level, their deceit is intended to enable them to take something that doesn’t rightfully belong to them. That’s called stealing.

Stealing your wealth. Stealing your elections. Stealing and repurposing your government and vital institutions. Stealing your country. And if necessary – as the sad fate of the Jan. 6 political prisoners has made clear – stealing your life.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The preceding was adapted from the introductory article in the March 2022 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian. The issue (available in both print and digital versions) insightfully explores the rapidly growing runaway inflation being visited upon America by the Biden administration, and is titled “THE LOOTING OF AMERICA: How the elites are robbing everyone else through runaway inflation and skyrocketing prices.”

Migrant caravan headed to the United States from Honduras (Video screenshot)

When future historians inevitably address themselves to identifying the single most destructive and suicidal policy of the disastrous Biden administration, there will be many contenders to consider:

Policies like racking up unprecedented levels of federal spending while strangling America’s fossil fuel industries, thereby creating ruinous inflation and rendering the entire U.S. population markedly poorer.

Policies like condemning the least racist nation in all of history as irredeemably racist – and then brainwashing the next generation with this Big Lie while branding tens of millions of normal Americans who disagree with such madness as “white supremacists,” “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.”

A weak, corrupt and perverse approach to foreign policy, leading directly to America’s catastrophic exit from Afghanistan and then virtually inviting Russia’s Vladimir Putin to ravage Ukraine.

Pandemic policies that include forcing little children with near-zero risk to wear masks all day, while pressuring the entire population to receive repeated injections of a poorly understood experimental medicine that prevents neither infection nor transmission, but has reportedly caused more than one million adverse events including over 24,000 deaths – all while intentionally suppressing cheap, plentiful, effective and safe medications that would have saved hundreds of thousands of Americans from needlessly dying.

All terrible, of course. And yet, in terms of sheer perversity and long-term, irreversible damage to the entire nation in an ever-cascading multiplicity of ways – while demonstrating an unadorned hatred for the very country these leaders pretend to love – one policy arguably rises to the top of the list:

From day one, the Biden-Harris administration has literally engineered a full-scale foreign invasion of the United States of America.

This ongoing assault on the greatest and freest nation on earth is one whose true implications and repercussions are largely unrecognized, and of course unreported by the establishment media, though they are little short of apocalyptic for the country.

Unthinkable as this intentional foreign-invasion policy is, the reason Team Biden is implementing it is every bit as depraved as the policy itself: It’s all so the Democratic Party – which in the current era is led almost entirely by deranged, lying, power-obsessed autocrats – can remain in power in America forever.

After all, every poll, even those emanating from the most liberal establishment outlets, shows the Biden administration has utterly lost middle America. But that presents a problem to Democrats, who are, first and foremost, obsessed with and committed to staying in power. Nothing in heaven or earth is more important to them. How, then, having lost the confidence of the citizens of the nation they rule, can they still hold on to the reins of power?

The Democrats have a two-pronged plan: One, aided mightily by Big Tech and Big Media, is to engage in and encourage massive election rigging and fraud in every conceivable and inconceivable way, as they did in the 2020 presidential election. And two, since they have essentially lost Americans with their clearly insane and anti-American policies, they are resorting to importing an entirely new electorate into the country.

For the sake of clinging to power permanently, Democrats are hell-bent on fulfilling the dream openly expressed by many party strategists of “creating a permanent progressive majority” in America. Therefore, Democrats are enacting this prime directive by importing millions of people who are, first and foremost, beholden to Democrats for encouraging and enabling them to come to America, to cross her border and enter illegally, to stay permanently, and then to be supported by American taxpayers.

This bears repeating: As perverse and suicidal as it sounds, today’s Democrats are illegally importing an entirely new pro-Democrat electorate into America, because actual American citizens can’t stand them anymore.

Unfortunately, even the best of the illegal aliens Team Biden is encouraging to invade America have no loyalty to this nation’s Constitution nor its history of liberty, limited government and individual rights and responsibilities, not to mention its traditional Judeo-Christian culture. Most have come from corrupt, autocratic, semi-functional dictatorships and are generally low-skilled people who, once here, are needy of government support. In other words, the perfect Democrat voter.

It goes downhill from there. For generously mixed in with the endless mega-caravans of aliens illegally crossing America’s southern border – migrants hailing not just from Mexico and Central America, but from nations around the globe, including the Arab-Muslim Middle East, Africa, even (according to recent reports) hundreds from Russia and Ukraine – are many drug traffickers, sex traffickers, MS-13 gang members, terrorists, cartel members, drug mules, rapists and convicted violent criminals, all indiscriminately welcomed into America with open arms, courtesy of the Biden administration.

Question: How can the ruling Democrats possibly justify such madness?

It turns out the signature myth of the left – namely, that America, the most successful multi-ethnic society on earth, is actually a “systemically racist,” predatory, indeed almost genocidal nation – is central to the left’s open-borders policy.

After all, how does one counter the obvious truth that a nation without borders soon ceases to be a nation?

Simple: Explicitly or implicitly accuse America of “exploiting black and brown peoples,” “indigenous peoples” and so on, from the era of slavery onward, and not just in the U.S. but around the world. A paradigm then emerges according to which America owes the world’s black, brown, Muslim and other “persecuted minority” populations – basically, everyone other than white people – a home, and even reparations in one form or another!

This secret message of the left is encoded in everything: Americans somehow are responsible, because of their horrible and predatory nation, for causing the very conditions (i.e., Kamala Harris’s mysterious “root causes”) that are bringing immigrants to America’s shores. Thus, the ubiquitous “America is systemically racist” theme is motivated in large part by the desperate need for a pretext, a justification, for the profoundly nation-destroying policy of tearing down America’s borders and promising the invaders endless government benefits, healthcare and welfare.

Now for a deeper question: What can possibly explain an entire major political party in the greatest nation on earth becoming so degenerate, dishonest and treacherous that it would willingly degrade and destroy the nation it claims to love, all so it can rule over the ruins of a once-great civilization? And make no mistake, the Democrats, with their grotesquely pro-illegal immigration policies (presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke even promised on camera he would “absolutely” tear down Trump’s border wall if elected) are indeed causing the rapid degradation of American society as a whole.

For example, the massive illegal immigration they love is primarily responsible for the astronomical level of illegal drugs being brought across the U.S-Mexico border, particularly fentanyl, which in turn is responsible for many of the 100,000 overdose deaths in the United States every year. Indeed, overdosing on fentanyl is now the No. 1 cause of death of Americans ages 18 to 45!

The wildly unchecked importation of illegal drugs into America, which vastly enriches the criminal Mexican cartels that essentially rule that nation, in turn powerfully fuels the ubiquitous drug addiction in America’s streets that is disguised as a crisis of “homelessness.” However, the “homeless crisis,” which has metastasized beyond America’s big cities and into her smallest towns and villages, is a dishonest euphemism for the actual problem: an epidemic of drug addiction and mental illness – multitudes of people so broken, so lost, so overcome by dark psychological-spiritual forces that they can no longer function and live anything approaching competent, independent lives. So they live in the streets, where so many shoot up drugs, defecate in public, and sometimes commit crimes – while the Biden administration encourages and enlarges all of this by funding it, building $300,000-per-unit apartments for “the homeless” and directing $30 million of taxpayers’ money to pay for “safe smoking kits,” clean syringes and needles so addicts can “safely” smoke crack and shoot up heroin and fentanyl.

Ironically, as horrible and tragic as this growing addiction epidemic is, it does provide the perfect metaphor for explaining today’s Democrats. They likewise live lives of hopeless, craven addiction. To power.

Consider: A seriously drug-addicted person – for example, a young woman in her 20s or 30s, even one who has young children – will often forsake everything, even abandoning her own children, to get her fix. She will continually lie to her loving parents who are desperately trying to save her. She will prostitute herself, she will do everything imaginable – lie, steal, cheat, sell her body, sell drugs, forsake her own family and everything she once held dear – all in order to get her fix. This is an entirely typical scenario, as any addiction recovery counselor knows all too well. Getting the drug and getting high have entirely consumed the addict’s mind, life and soul.

That is today’s Democratic Party – from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer down to the various blue-state governors, mayors and other politicians – all so totally addicted to power that, just like drug addicts, they are ready, willing and able to lie, cheat, steal, prostitute themselves, and basically forsake everyone and everything they once held dear, all so they can hold on to power – the “fix” they have come to crave above all else.

Thus, the Democrats’ game plan for maintaining power in perpetuity is built not just on their usual deceit and hypocrisy, but literally on the broken bodies and lives of the hundreds of thousands who have died of drug overdoses, of the millions of drug addicts, the sex trafficking victims, the crime victims of the hordes of unvetted criminals and gangs freely welcomed into America, the thousands of migrant children that, as recent reports attest, are missing and unaccounted-for, and every other known and unknown form of degradation and human misery the Democrats have so wantonly unleashed.

All so they can get their fix.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The invasion of America engineered by the Biden administration is devastatingly documented and explored in the February 2022 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian. The issue, available in both print and digital editions, is titled “BIDEN’S BORDER BETRAYAL: Secret night flights, rampant criminality and 100,000 dead Americans.”

President Joe Biden claps Thursday, August 5, 2021 on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Cameron Smith)

One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, President Joe Biden gravely informed the nation that the incident, during which exactly one person, an unarmed female pro-Trump protester, was killed – unnecessarily shot to death at close range, without warning, by a Capitol Hill policeman – was “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.”

Biden delivered this extraordinary assessment immediately after Vice President Kamala Harris solemnly equated the out-of-control D.C. protest to both the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 2,403 Americans and injured 1,178, and the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed 2,977 Americans and injured over 6,000. The Civil War killed an estimated 750,000 Americans.

How, wonder normal Americans, is it possible that the nation’s top political leaders could make such obviously insane statements? More important, what do such bizarre pronouncements say about where the progressive elites are secretly leading the nation?

Although today’s Democratic Party does indeed seem completely deranged and therefore unpredictable – insisting men are actually women if they think they are, claiming Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar spending programs and wild currency creation will “reduce inflation,” engineering a full-scale invasion of the American homeland by millions of illegal aliens so Democrats can stay in power forever, and so on – there actually is one reliable way both to determine with uncanny accuracy what these revolutionary-minded Democrats are up to right now, and to gauge what they are secretly planning for the future.

Here’s the rule: Whatever the Democrats are falsely accusing their critics of doing and planning, that is precisely what they themselves are actually doing and planning.

And since today’s super-radicalized Democratic Party is continually accusing conservatives both in and out of government of carrying out an “insurrection” against America’s constitutional system of government, you can be sure – as we will soon see – that insurrection is exactly what they themselves are maniacally pursuing.

But first, understand that those on the revolutionary Left are, and always have been, slaves of projection: the compulsion to accuse others of the very sins and crimes of which they themselves are guilty. It’s in their nature, they can’t help it, it’s reflexive and automatic.

Consider:

* The Biden administration daily refers to regular Americans – say, parents who attend school board meetings to protest the Marxist indoctrination of their own children, or citizens who object to Biden’s tyrannical and dangerous COVID mandates – as “violent extremists.” But when actual violent extremists – virtually all on the Left, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa – were on full display during the summer of 2020, destroying, looting and burning down dozens of major American cities, killing dozens, wounding over 2,000 police officers and causing 1,300 times the damage as the Jan. 6 riot, Democrats and the major media blithely praised the massive, destructive riots as “mostly peaceful,” noble and historic civil rights protests.

* The Democratic Party, which is totally obsessed with race – insisting on hiring, discriminating against, and even (in the age of COVID) denying medical treatment to people solely on the basis of their skin color – accuses those who embrace the color-blind America championed by Martin Luther King of being "racists." America, unquestionably the least racist, most successful multi-ethnic nation in world history, is daily condemned as irredeemably racist by the Democratic Party, which is forever accusing Republicans and conservatives of being the party of racism and “white supremacy.” Yet, as Professor Carol M. Swain has documented, it is the Democratic Party that "defendeded slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings" and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for over two months.

* The Democratic Party has long smiled on election fraud and abuse. Democrats’ indefensible opposition to Voter ID laws, their expansion of Election Day into “Election Month,” their flat-out unconstitutional alteration of state election laws such as occurred in 2020, their promotion of universal vote-by-mail with the simultaneous abandonment of traditional safeguards, their advocacy of the fraud-plagued practice of “ballot harvesting,” their perverse opposition to cleaning voter rolls, their insistence that ballots mailed late be counted, and a multitude of other strategies all testify to their love affair with election fraud. Meanwhile, conservatives who support the most basic, commonsense, universally accepted standards like Voter ID are gaslighted as racists and white supremacists, accused of “voter suppression” and, as Biden repeatedly tells the nation, promoting “Jim Crow 2.0.” This despite the fact that a large majority of black and Hispanic voters in the U.S. say they favor Voter ID laws!

* The Democrats alleged that President Donald Trump "colluded with Vladimir Putin and the Russians" in 2016 to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton. After three years of agonizing, ever-expanding special counsel investigation that ripped apart the country, paralyzed Washington and, in many ways, hobbled the Trump presidency, the investigation was revealed to be a total sham. No evidence ever surfaced that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the election. However, what eventually emerged is that Hillary Clinton did "collude with the Russians" to obtain dirt on Trump to influence the 2016 presidential contest. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, then under the candidate's control, paid a reported $1 million to opposition-research firm Fusion GPS for the infamous and mostly fictitious "Steele dossier," based largely on interviews with Russian officials. The salacious and fabricated claims about Trump were then used fraudulently by the Obama Justice Department to con a secret Washington FISA court into granting the Obama administration permission to send spies into Trump’s presidential campaign.

* The Democrats then endeavored relentlessly, throughout the entire Trump presidency, to wrest control of the government from America’s elected leaders – including two fraudulent impeachment trials, in addition to the fraudulent Mueller investigation. Yet today, Democrats claim Republicans, conservatives and Trump supporters are trying to mount a multifaceted “insurrection” to illegally take control of the government.

Here’s how respected military historian Victor Davis Hansen recently responded to the question of “Who are the real insurrectionists?” The Democrats, said Hanson …

… mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.

After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old, 50-state union? Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators per state?

The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.: Who slammed through the impeachment of former president Donald Trump without a presiding chief justice?

Never had a president been either impeached twice or tried in the Senate as a private citizen. Who did both?

So where is all this heading?

‘The Great Reset’

What we cryptically call “the Left” is, of course, always trying to “reset,” “reform” or “transform” the world, as it holds a fundamentally revolutionary worldview. Barack Obama, just prior to being elected president in 2008, famously boasted, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” His wife Michelle likewise promised, “We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” Echoed Joe Biden, before he was elected president, “[We] won’t just rebuild this nation – we’ll transform it.” And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, breathlessly anticipating the 2020 Georgia runoff races that would give control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats, announced with a flourish: "Now we take Georgia, and then we change America!"

What on earth are they all talking about?

Superficially, those on the hard Left claim they seek a socialist utopia where justice and equality can prevail. But that is not at all the prize they truly seek.

Under the banner of the “Great Reset,” progressive-left global elites, including in America, are intent on leveraging every crisis – whether real (the COVID-19 pandemic) or fake (the earth will be totally uninhabitable in 10 years due to man-caused global warming!) – into the establishment of a completely new world system.

Now, there’s an insurrection for you!

One key phase of the Great Reset plan was winning the 2020 presidential election through a multifaceted attack on the integrity of U.S. elections, including a powerful and all-pervasive campaign by Big Tech, aided by Big Media, to elect Joe Biden at all costs.

After all, Donald Trump, as president, represented “America First” and pretty much all the traditional cultural, constitutional and economic underpinnings of genuine American success, whereas Joe Biden identified himself as fully on board with the “Great Reset.”

Indeed, Biden’s presidential election campaign chose as its official slogan “Build Back Better,” which also happens to be the official slogan of the “Great Reset” as coined by its originator and chief advocate, billionaire World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab.

Trying to leverage the COVID-19 pandemic, Schwab insists the entire world must “act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies,” meaning, as he explained, “we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”

In truth, the elite class in America and around the world has been planning – and increasingly, bragging openly about – the “Great Reset,” whereby they intend to exploit every crisis, real or contrived, to “reset” the world’s economic, social and governmental systems to institute a “more just” global collectivist  utopia. All run by them, of course.

“Every country,” insists Schwab, “from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.”

Prince Charles has been a key advocate for the Great Reset, along with International Monetary Fund chief economist Gina Gopinath, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, and heads of many major corporations, including Microsoft. Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been all in, exclaiming: "The notion of a reset is more important than ever before. I personally believe ... we're at the dawn of an extremely exciting time."

In fact, during a World Economic Forum panel discussion in late 2020, Kerry – who would soon become a special presidential envoy for Biden on climate issues – publicly affirmed not only that the Biden administration would support the Great Reset, but that it “will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was remarkably candid about the subterfuge under which the global Reset elites operate, proclaiming: “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine our economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

Some might ask: Well, what’s wrong with combatting poverty and inequality?

What many Democratic Party voters – particularly younger millennials – naïvely fail to comprehend is twofold: Not only doesn’t collectivism cure poverty – in fact, it always creates it – but even worse, it always necessitates turning a free society into an authoritarian dictatorship. After all, radical wealth redistribution occurs only when the brute power of government compels it, which means personal liberty is crushed.

But even more fundamentally, the world’s elites do not really want equality for everybody. Historically, from Stalin to Mao to Chavez, Marxist/socialist leaders have never been truly interested in everyone being equal. That’s just happy talk to seduce the masses. First and foremost, these sociopaths crave power over other people, they want to be the arbiters of reality, they want wealth and privilege for themselves, they want glory, they want revenge on their enemies, and they want worship.

In a word, what they really want is to be gods.

Which brings into view the nuclear core of the issue: The original temptation in the biblical Garden of Eden story was, “Ye shall be as gods.” (Genesis 3:5)

The problem is, when human beings try to become gods, they turn into devils. Indeed, from celebrating the slaughter of unborn babies up to the very moment of birth, to condemning their own wonderful country as incorrigibly racist and everyone who disagrees with them as white supremacists and terrorists, to intentionally flooding the nation with millions of illegal aliens, to blaming every normal weather event on “catastrophic global warming,” to today’s unprecedented suppression of free speech, the Democratic Party, knowingly or not, increasingly is promoting policies and agendas that are totalitarian, insane and evil.

Good thing there’s an election in a few months.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The preceding is the introductory article in the groundbreaking January issue of Whistleblower magazine, published monthly by WND and compiled and edited by David Kupelian. The issue is titled “THE REAL INSURRECTION: Branding normal Americans as ‘terrorists,’ Democrats pursue total revolution.” While Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi’s “House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack” daily accuse law-abiding, patriotic, conservative Americans of being “domestic terrorists,” “violent extremists” and “insurrectionists,” a REAL INSURRECTION – indeed, a full-scale MARXIST “RESET” of the greatest nation on earth – is well underway in the United States of America, led by them. The reality of all this is stunningly documented and explored in “THE REAL INSURRECTION.”

Record-setting inflation that is rapidly making all Americans poorer. A full-scale invasion by millions of illegal aliens across the nation’s southern border. Tyrannical COVID policies decimating America’s economy. Solitary confinement and brutal treatment of Jan. 6 political prisoners in the bowels of Washington, D.C. The outrages of the Biden administration seem endless.

Indeed, hiding behind a weak and shockingly senile puppet president, today’s radicalized Democratic Party and its media propagandists are audaciously attempting a full-scale Marxist “reset” of America, one aimed at overturning capitalism, upending the U.S. Constitution with its limited government and individual rights, and “re-imagining” America’s key institutions of liberty. Everything from “stacking” the Supreme Court to repealing the Senate’s filibuster rule to “defunding” the nation’s police to eliminating the fossil fuel sector to eradicating suburbs. Or, as Barack Obama put it just before being elected president in 2008, “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

All terrible, devastating and destructive to a great country under mortal attack from within.

And yet – all of this is not the real war being waged against the freest and most successful nation in history.

The more fundamental, profound and ultimately consequential war being fought within the United States of America today is the one being waged against the American mind. A never-ending wave of assaults is literally targeting Americans’ core values, religious faith, historical memory, love of country, common sense, equanimity and happiness – indeed, their very sanity.

The weapons deployed against the American mind are many. They include relentless daily accusations that the U.S.A. – hands-down the least racist, most multiethnic nation on earth – is somehow irredeemably racist and predatory, even genocidal. White people must feel guilty and beg for forgiveness for crimes they never committed, while blacks are encouraged to identify as angry, aggrieved victims who can’t possibly succeed in racist America. The nation’s police are maligned as white supremacists who routinely “hunt” and kill black people for sport.

The racial brainwashing starts early, with public schools nationwide plying children with toxic Marxist “critical race theory” ideology that amounts to a blanket indictment of white people as privileged racists and America’s core institutions as inherently discriminatory.

Another devastating weapon being unleashed on the American mind is the ever-increasing promotion of debilitating fear. The COVID-19 pandemic, which could have been treated as a common foe uniting all Americans, as during World War II when virtually all citizens patriotically participated in the war effort, instead has enabled power-obsessed politicians – virtually all of them Democrats – to weaponize the pandemic via lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates so as to maximize their authoritarian control over Americans. In the process, they have decimated a once-robust economy, fostered a culture of demonizing “the other” (“the unvaccinated!”), thrown tens of thousands of “last year’s frontline heroes” – nurses, doctors, paramedics, police, firemen and others – out of work, forced millions to take an experimental medicine even if they already possessed superior natural immunity, and suppressed cheap, safe, effective and readily available medicines that literally could have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives.

But most fundamentally, by imposing draconian mandates while suppressing early treatment, America’s ruling oligarchy has been intentionally promoting paralyzing fear as a means of controlling the citizenry. After all, a fearful, docile and compliant population is what all dictators and authoritarians have always craved.

Yet another weapon used to attack the American mind is the normalization and forced acceptance of transgenderism, the bizarre ideology that men are women if they think they are or feel they are, and vice versa – a form of mass psychosis that is causing much more harm than merely destroying women’s athletics worldwide. It is actually driving many people to madness and suicide, with the attempted suicide rate among transgenders being a staggering 41%. Yet America’s children are being targeted with gender-fluidity indoctrination in school and are encouraged to “transition” to the opposite gender via puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even amputation. Even toddlers are being brainwashed via “Drag Queen Story Hour” in the nation’s public libraries, where innocent preschoolers are made to sit in rapt attention at the feet of mentally ill men dressed up as women, dramatically reading stories featuring heroic LGBTQ characters to America’s next generation.

All this while forcing children to wear dehumanizing masks that make it difficult for them to breathe, and which inculcate fear, insecurity and unquestioning compliance.

Meanwhile, in a desperate effort to suppress opposition to all this madness, the Biden administration portrays its political opponents – from conservative activists and Donald Trump supporters to parents upset over the Marxist indoctrination of their children – as “domestic terrorists” and “violent extremists.” This is exactly the kind of hardcore psychological warfare against a nation’s population one might expect from communist revolutionaries.

The casualties in this war on the American mind have been high. Violent crime has exploded across the nation, while rates of suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, various forms of addiction, depression and other “mental health” issues have all skyrocketed. The CDC recently reported that “Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually.”

And America’s young people have not been spared. In early December, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy reported in a rare and alarming “public health advisory” titled “Protecting Youth Mental Health” that rates of depression and anxiety among America’s youth have doubled during the COVID pandemic, with 1 in 4 American kids experiencing depression.

In early 2021, Murthy reported, visits to emergency rooms in the U.S. for suicide attempts were an astonishing 51% higher for teen girls and 4% higher for teen boys, when compared to the same time period just two years earlier. Sadly, large numbers of Americans, young and old, are finding life hopeless and not worth living.

Is America hopeless?

But wait. America – more than any other nation on earth – has always been a land of opportunity and freedom, and most of all, HOPE. Millions of refugees fleeing genocide and tyranny, including this writer’s father, grandmother and many other relatives, have regarded America as nothing less than their “promised land.”

What is the basis of this mysterious and wonderful hope? And more urgently, how can that hope on which the nation was founded be rekindled and restored?

The stark and otherworldly truth – unlikely to be uttered except in a Christian publication – is that the Christian faith is, and has been from the beginning of the American experience, the true basis of Americans’ hope. And it is the progressive abandonment of that faith that has led directly to the madness, hopelessness and tyranny Americans are now suffering.

Everything good about America – its Judeo-Christian culture, its Constitution, its exceptional level of personal liberty, as well as Americans’ unique magnanimity and generosity and even their willingness to sacrifice their own lives and substance for the sake of others – are direct emanations of the Christian faith of this nation's founding generation and the largely Christian population and culture that have prevailed up until the current era.

The Christian faith is what allowed America to fight off and ultimately purge itself of the sin of slavery, and yet to remain one unified country. It was at the heart of the Civil Rights movement, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister. It was the Christian sentiment that lived large in America that impelled it to rescue Jews from the Nazi death camps during WWII, sacrificing over 400,000 American lives in that war. And today, the Christian faith is the force behind the pro-life movement, which labors tirelessly to save the approximately one million American children targeted for death every year via abortion.

If you would like to explore this crucial topic further, I heartily recommend the current issue (December 2021) of Whistleblower magazine, which I have compiled and edited monthly for WND for over 20 years. It’s titled “FINDING REAL HOPE IN A WORLD GONE MAD,” and insightfully explores the Christian faith that has long been the source of Americans’ genuine hope, not just for this life, but for the next.

Reporters raise their hands during a press briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday, July 16, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (Official White House photo by Erin Scott)

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One year before the 2022 midterm elections, the United States of America, long the freest, most powerful and most successful nation on earth, is on the brink of total meltdown.

Power-obsessed politicians in thrall to a bizarre, quasi-religious ideology, seemingly oblivious to the destruction and suffering they’re causing, daily implement new agendas that crush America’s great middle class, her economy and her most hallowed institutions.

Staging this revolution from behind their shockingly senile puppet president, Joe Biden, they have fomented a full-scale invasion of the U.S. mainland, mandated that tens of millions of citizens be injected with an experimental new drug or lose their livelihoods, and heedlessly created Third World-style inflation, shortages, poverty, drug addiction and runaway crime. And they’re just getting started.

Ironically, America’s current ruling elites hate the very nation they govern, daily condemning it as irredeemably racist, when in reality it is indisputably the least racist nation in human history.

Ignoring reality at every turn, they manifest an abiding contempt for biology, the lessons of history, the fundamental laws of economics, the transcendent value of human life, and especially, for God and His laws.

On top of all this, their current figureheads – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – are unlikable, meanspirited, pathologically dishonest, and in Biden’s case cognitively disintegrating in real time before the entire world. Harris is so singularly repellant that the Biden administration has essentially kept her hidden since Day 1 and her top staffers are quitting in droves.

So phantasmagoric has 2021 become, Team Biden appears to be engaged in an “Alice in Wonderland”-type intramural competition to determine who in the administration can be the most deranged: Biden is winning, with his straight-faced claims that his planned multi-trillion-dollar spending orgy “costs zero dollars” and will reduce inflation. But Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is giving him stiff competition with his assertion that many of America’s highways and bridges are racist, as is Vice President Kamala Harris, who recently asked NASA if it can possibly “track trees” by race to assure “environmental justice.”

No wonder every recent poll shows voters of both parties are running away, as fast as possible, from Biden and Harris. As USA Today reported in early November, “The approval ratings for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have reached dismal new lows, according to a stunning, just-released poll. In a survey published Sunday by USA Today, the president’s approval rating stands at just 38 percent. … The vice president fared equally poorly in the new poll. USA Today found that just 28 percent of those surveyed approve of Kamala Harris at the moment.”

Thus, for the ascendent Democratic Party, every bit as addicted to power as a drug addict is to heroin or fentanyl, the only question is: How can Democrats possibly retain their power in light of the growing awareness among the American electorate that their current leaders are basically insane? How, they ask themselves, can they not only avoid losing control of the U.S. Congress in the November 2022 election, but also continue to elect and re-elect Democrats as governors, state legislators, secretaries of state, mayors, Soros-funded district attorneys and other vital down-ballot positions?

In light of voters’ ever-decreasing approval of them, there’s only one conceivable solution for Democrats.

Cheating.

That’s right: Rigging elections. Voter fraud. Changing the rules. Big Tech censorship. Demonizing Voter ID laws. Exploiting every conceivable opportunity to enable, abet, promote, excuse and encourage election-related fraud and abuse in its myriad and ever-expanding forms, all the while vehemently denying it even when caught red-handed, and simultaneously accusing everyone demanding fair elections of being “white supremacists” and “violent extremists” intent on “voter suppression” and implementing “Jim Crow 2.0.”

And yet, for leaders of today’s Democratic Party, every bit of this – from outright fraud to the demonization of opponents – is perfectly moral, according to their worldview.

That’s because, in the inverted moral universe of the far left, everything is its opposite, just as in Orwell’s “1984” where “WAR IS PEACE,” “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY” and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” In Biden’s 2021, men are women, concerned parents speaking up at school-board meetings are terrorists, and color-blind meritocracy is systemic racism.

But most essential to the Democrats’ secret love affair with election fraud, Donald J. Trump – who accomplished more good for the nation and its people than any president in a generation, restoring America’s economy, getting control of its southern border, defending life in the womb, and courageously deterring aggression in an increasingly treacherous world – is the new Adolf Hitler in their eyes.

It matters not that Hitler murdered 11 million and Trump murdered zero. For four years, top Democrats and their media mouthpieces continually likened Trump to “Hitler,” his administration to “the Third Reich,” ICE officers to “Nazi guards,” border detainment facilities to “concentration camps,” and the National Guard soldiers to “stormtroopers” and “the Gestapo.”

Why? Because if one were truly fighting Hitler, then cheating, lying, deception and even stronger measures would not only be morally permissible, they would become a moral imperative.

This, then, is the key to understanding how Democrats can feel morally justified in enabling and encouraging election fraud – which is both a crime, and a mortal assault on the most essential foundation of a civilized society: They literally regard their opponents as evil. As legendary columnist Charles Krauthammer put it, “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”

To sum up: As evidenced by the outcome of the recent elections in Virginia, today’s radicalized Democrats are now recognized by a majority of voters to be so dangerous to the republic that there is no way they can stay in power without cheating.

If they remain in power, America will rapidly become even more unrecognizable, a nightmarish shadow of the magnificent, powerful and liberty-loving nation it once was.

Here’s the good news: If America can manage to assure that elections are truly fair going forward, the maniacal Marxist revolutionaries will have to go away and the nation can then return to sanity and healing.

Thus, election integrity is more important than any other issue. It is literally the singular key to whether America lives or dies.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says an electoral “tsunami” is coming next year.

Maybe. But only if the elections are fair.

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 National Month of Action on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

Throughout 2020, America’s doctors, nurses, paramedics and other medical professionals were celebrated as heroes – courageous frontline soldier-healers, selflessly battling a fearsome new pandemic called COVID-19.

Just one year later, in 2021, tens of thousands of those same “frontline heroes” are now branded as rebels, conspiracy theorists, extremists – and yes, potential terrorists, at least according to the Department of Homeland Security. Considered so dangerous as to merit termination, their professional and personal lives turned upside down due to their decision not to be injected with the experimental COVID vaccines, they are forbidden from working in their field of hard-won expertise and forced to take any job they can get – or go on unemployment. Many are compelled to sell their homes, relocate their families entirely and try to start over. This is happening in massive numbers, right now, all over America.

From hero to untouchable – what a difference a year makes. A year in which America has been ruled by a corrupt, dishonest and cognitively disintegrating puppet of a president totally subservient to secret handlers and even-more-secret anti-American agendas.

But healthcare heroes being disposed of en masse is just the beginning.

The same fate is being imposed on America’s police, its firemen, its border patrol agents and other key protectors and defenders of civilized society; its airline pilots, air-traffic controllers, plane mechanics and others essential to America’s transportation and distribution systems; plus all federal government employees, multitudes of teachers and college students, and all employees of private companies employing more than 100 people – all ordered by Joe Biden to “GET VACCINATED” or else. Then there are the forced vaccinations for the entire Armed Forces of the United States, populated largely by young people at an age and fitness level that render serious COVID-19 outcomes extremely rare. Indeed, as of Oct. 8, only 62 out of 1.4 million members of America’s military – approximately 0.004% – had died of COVID.

In reality, what the Biden administration has put into motion resembles a monumental game of “Chicken” between the “government-medical complex” and tens of millions of Americans who simply choose not to be vaccinated. It’s a harrowing, death-defying contest to see which will happen first: Either millions give in and allow their bodies to be injected with the controversial experimental medicines, or the entire nation loses as many as a quarter of its most essential workers who are forbidden from working, causing the nation to grind to a halt – crippling everything from law enforcement to airlines to commercial supply chains, even hospitals. The shutdowns are already happening – from an obstetric hospital wing in New York to a neonatal intensive care unit in Maine to nursing homes announcing their imminent closure.

Incredibly, the Biden administration is mandating that those who have already recovered from COVID-19 – estimated by the CDC to be over 100 million Americans – be vaccinated. This despite the undisputed fact that, as 92 studies prove, the COVID-recovered possess “natural immunity” far superior in every way – more robust, longer lasting and broader (i.e., effective on new variants like delta) than that conferred by any existing COVID vaccine.

Moreover, while the COVID recovered possess superb immunity against future infection, they also face a 4.4 times greater likelihood of suffering adverse effects from receiving the mRNA shots than do those who haven’t previously had COVID. So, while reaping zero benefit from the vaccine, they face a far higher than average risk of bodily harm from the shot they don’t need or want. And yet, the Biden administration is manically forcing them to take it anyway – or lose their livelihood.

The good news is that tens of millions of Americans realize all of this and are now fighting back – bravely and boldly. Many are not waiting to be fired and are instead resigning in protest – from nurses to police to pilots. Demonstrations by yesterday’s “frontline heroes” are breaking out everywhere, with participants carrying signs saying, “I call my own shots,” “No forced vaccines,” “My body, my choice” and “Yesterday's heroes, today's unemployed.”

Of course, in response the Biden administration is doing what it always does to its political and ideological opponents: It brands them as terrorists.

A "national terrorism alert" released by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security in September, shortly before the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, is titled "POTENTIAL TERROR THREATS."

DHS specifies three terror threats as particularly worrisome to the Biden administration, but the top threat cited is: "OPPOSITION TO COVID MEASURES."

Meanwhile, as the whole vaccine mandate drama is wracking the nation, yet another front in the Biden administration’s new “war on terror” has emerged: Parents, upset that their own children, who face virtually no threat from COVID-19, are forced to wear masks all day while being brainwashed with “critical race theory,” transgenderism and other toxic ideologies, are fighting back. At school board meetings across the country, courageous mothers and fathers are defending their children and excoriating school board members for promoting Marxist poison in the schools the parents are forced to pay for.

Attorney General Merrick Garland recently weaponized the Department of Justice against America’s parents when he issued a memo characterizing those speaking up at school board meetings as extremists and potential terrorists, directing the FBI to work with each U.S. Attorney's office and federal, state and local leaders to convene meetings addressing "threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff."

Just as the Biden administration characterizes those who cried foul after the fraud-plagued November 2020 election as insurrectionists and white supremacist terrorists, it has now enlarged the “violent extremist” dragnet to include nurses and pilots who choose not to receive the experimental COVID vaccines, as well as parents protesting schools traumatizing and brainwashing their kids.

This is the first time an American government has turned against its own people, essentially branding them as public enemy No. 1.

Fortunately, growing multitudes of decent, patriotic and God-fearing Americans are courageously standing up, speaking out, and nonviolently fighting back – hard – for their livelihoods, for their families, and for the country they love. Last Tuesday's election was just the beginning.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe Biden’s tyrannical mandate threatens to cripple American society – from law enforcement to airlines to commercial supply chains to hospitals. It’s already happening. But the good news is that huge numbers of “yesterday’s heroes” are now fighting back. The whole epic showdown is laid out as never before in a special issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled “THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION: ‘We will not comply!’ COVID-19 power grab ignites bold new era of national defiance.”

President Donald J. Trump disembarks Air Force One on his arrival Saturday, June 20, 2020, to Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

The numbing spectacle of America being humiliated and mocked by the rest of the world and ordered around by Afghan terrorists, and of the greatest nation on earth being led by a babbling, obviously senile, unprincipled, corrupt, mindless shell of a man – with a vice president arguably even worse – should compel every American to carefully consider how on earth we got here, and whether the presidential selection process so employed was truly legitimate.

To that end, mentally travel back in time to a few days before the Nov. 3, 2020 election.

President Donald Trump was drawing massive overflow crowds to his daily rallies in cities across the nation, even holding five events in five different cities on the Sunday before Election Day. In every venue, the air was filled with thunderous chants of “Four more years,” “Trump! Trump! Trump!” and “USA! USA! USA!”

Indeed, Trump had made the USA energy-independent for the first time in 70 years, created more than 5 million jobs, reduced unemployment to below 4% and brought African-American unemployment to its lowest ever. He brought America’s southern border finally under control including construction of over 450 miles of border wall, cut taxes and burdensome regulations, raised household middleclass incomes and negotiated strong pro-American trade agreements in place of job-killing ones like NAFTA. Early in the COVID pandemic, he marshalled all the forces of government, military and private business to join together to keep the mysterious new virus from overwhelming America’s hospitals, manufacturing needed ventilators, bringing military hospital ships to hard-hit areas, and launching “Operation Warp Speed” to try to develop a safe and effective vaccine.

Internationally, he stood up to China – something no other modern president has done – withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, destroyed the murderous ISIS caliphate, ratcheted down the nuclear threat from North Korea’s deranged dictator, moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to the capital Jerusalem, and brokered peace deals between Israel and five different Arab-Muslim countries, for which he was twice nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

All this while being attacked literally non-stop – including two corrupt impeachment trials – by Democrats, virtually the entire “mainstream media,” the powerful tech monopolies and the permanent “deep state,” particularly Washington’s scandalously weaponized federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

OK. So what about Trump’s challenger?

A shuffling, peevish and often confused Joe Biden attracted no more than 100 to 200 people to his pre-election rallies where he stumbled through short scripted speeches. His vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, selected entirely for being a woman of color (Biden had committed publicly to choosing a woman VP and said he’d prefer one of color), turned out to be so jarringly repellant, even to Democrats, that she dropped out of the presidential race during the primaries, winning zero electoral votes.

Yet Biden and Harris won the 2020 election – supposedly.

Since taking office in January, the Biden-Harris administration has enabled an unprecedented tidal wave of illegal aliens, many COVID-positive, to freely enter the U.S. They have presided over an explosion of violent crime directly caused by Democrat policies like “defunding the police,” releasing incarcerated violent offenders and refusing to prosecute rioters, arsonists and shoplifters. They’ve reversed Trump’s unemployment gains and energy self-sufficiency, seriously inflated the nation’s currency by creating trillions of new dollars to fund astronomically expensive socialist spending programs, and weaponized COVID-19 to keep Americans fearful, insecure, poor and dependent on government handouts. They’ve prioritized recruiting transgenders into the military while mandating the nation’s armed forces be force-fed anti-American “critical race theory” to make them hate the country they’re sworn to defend.

Internationally, Biden and Harris have projected shocking weakness to America’s adversaries, from China to Russia to Iran, all of which predictably have become ever bolder in threatening their neighbors – and the U.S. And with Biden’s astonishingly botched exit from Afghanistan, up to 15,000 American citizens are trapped there – effectively hostages inside the tribal nation now controlled by Taliban jihadists.

In short, just seven months into the Biden-Harris administration, America’s standing in the world has been effectively destroyed, while at home the nation writhes in the grip of an increasingly insane Marxist political and cultural revolution.

Question: Did America’s voters really want all of this?

How is it possible that the vast American middle class – long blessed as a bastion of common sense, decency, rugged individualism and Judeo-Christian sensibilities in a dark and largely godless world – could choose the chaos, disintegration, fear, hopelessness and death ushered in by Joe Biden, over the previous administration that was unquestionably pro-American, pro-liberty, pro-growth and pro-life?

In short, was the 2020 election truly fair? Or was it rigged?

Most allegations that last November’s election was stolen from Donald Trump center on election fraud and abuse. Indeed, the number of documented “irregularities” is overwhelming: five crucial swing states bizarrely announcing on election eve they were going to stop counting votes for the night when Trump was ahead, only to report the next morning that Joe Biden was in the lead; the clearly unconstitutional last-minute changes in voting regulations in various states, all obviously intended to invite fraud and abuse; Philadelphia election workers refusing to allow Republican observers to witness the vote count and Detroit election personnel likewise plastering cardboard over windows in a vote-counting room to avoid being observed as required by law; the refusal of some states to check voters’ signatures on ballots; the hundreds of affidavits, sworn under penalty of perjury and imprisonment, all testifying to having witnessed overt election fraud; and so on ad infinitum.

Even now, Democrats are still desperately trying to discredit and halt the ongoing forensic election audits underway in key battleground states, while accusing states attempting to pass the most reasonable, commonsense Voter ID laws of engaging in white-supremacist “voter suppression.” Biden has ridiculously labeled them “Jim Crow 2.0.”

But voter fraud is only one element in what was – if one dares speak the forbidden truth out loud – a clearly unfair and rigged election.

From day one of Donald Trump’s presidency, virtually the entire Democratic Party establishment, its secret collaborators in the federal law enforcement and intel agencies, as well as Big Tech and Big Media were unified in their determination to deny Trump a second term, and preferably to remove him from office as quickly as possible.

The all-out campaign to destroy Trump – whatever it took, moral or immoral, legal or illegal – actually began before Trump took office in January 2017.

The Obama administration used the FBI to illegally spy on the Trump campaign. This led to three years of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax in which Trump was essentially accused of being a traitor, colluding with America’s mortal enemy. After great suffering on the part of many, from Trump and his family, to others caught in Mueller’s web, like former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn and former Navy lieutenant Carter Page, the truth finally emerged: “Trump-Russia collusion” was all a giant hoax concocted to divert attention from Hillary Clinton’s actual crimes.

“Newly declassified handwritten notes authored by former CIA Director John Brennan,” revealed attorney and bestselling author Gregg Jarrett, “show that on July 28, 2016, he briefed President Barack Obama on intelligence evidence that Clinton had approved a plan to vilify Trump with false accusations that he was colluding with Russia. She did it, the intel concluded, to distract from her own damaging email scandal.”

The story of the decade was, of course, ignored by Big Media, which had breathlessly front-paged “Trump-Russia collusion!” every day for three years.

It was much the same with the two fraudulent impeachments of Trump, the attempts to invoke the 25th Amendment to have him removed from office as mentally unfit, the vicious defamation of his Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh as a serial rapist, the persistent characterization of Trump himself as another Hitler, and so on throughout Trump’s presidency.

But this is not just a matter of “The Swamp” disliking Trump and treating him shabbily, and thus affecting voters’ perception.

This is also about direct interference with the 2020 election. For example, during the last few weeks before the Nov. 3 election, the New York Post published a sensational and entirely accurate story about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer. Along with photos and videos showing Hunter smoking crack and engaging in group sex with prostitutes, his emails contained damning information tying Joe Biden to his son’s corrupt foreign business deals, including Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter $50,000 per month to sit on its board while his father, as vice president, was in charge of U.S. policy toward Ukraine – a textbook example of political high corruption. Other emails on the laptop revealed Hunter discussing future business deals with China’s largest energy company.

Not only did Big Tech ban the story so voters wouldn’t get wind of it, but Big Media concocted an outrageous diversionary tactic to refute it.

“More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son ‘has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.’”

That was the lead in Politico's top story of Oct. 19, 2020, two weeks before the Nov. 3 election:

While the letter’s signatories presented no new evidence, they said their national security experience had made them “deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case” and cited several elements of the story that suggested the Kremlin’s hand at work.

“If we are right,” they added, “this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”

In reality, as became clear after the election, every one of those 50 “former intel agents” disgraced themselves by smearing the New York Post story as the work of Russian spooks. There was not a shred of truth to their allegation. Indeed, Hunter Biden later would all but admit to the media that it was indeed his laptop. Today, there is no Democrat leader, media member or “intel agent” that doubts the laptop is Hunter Biden’s. Indeed, they knew it all along.

After the election, polls revealed that if Democratic voters had known about the New York Post story and its damning revelations of corruption involving both Hunter Biden and his father, enough of them would have changed their vote that Biden would have lost.

“A full 36% of Democrats knew nothing about the Hunter Biden story,” revealed Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, which polled voters. “Further, 4.6% of Democrats said they would not have voted for Joe Biden had they known this story. … Had they known this story, Joe Biden would not have carried Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the Trump lead would have been definitive in North Carolina. … Meaning that Donald Trump would have won 289 electoral votes and would be the re-elect president of the United States.”

This is just one example of rigging an election without ever creating a fake ballot or voting twice. There are many others.

If what Big Tech and Big Media did in shielding voters from damning and factual information about Joe Biden in October 2020 amounts to election interference, then one logically should multiply that episode by hundreds of times throughout the Trump presidency.

From the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, to the two fake impeachments, to false claims Trump praised “very fine” Nazis in Charlottesville, to claims he instituted a “Muslim travel ban,” to claims he “locks children in cages” and “makes women and children drink from toilets,” to the continual comparisons with Hitler, the media and tech monopolies, along with Democrats and the “deep state,” had been interfering with Trump’s re-election bid for more than four years.

One more thing: If a nation’s leader truly is another Hitler, as top Democrats and media personalities insisted continually, not only should that leader obviously be defeated, but there is an absolute moral imperative to cheat in order to defeat him.

Except they never really believed Trump was another Hitler. They were just lying – because they love power more than truth, more than honor, more than what’s right. More than anything.

Important note to readers from David Kupelian: The preceding is adapted from my introductory story in the current issue of Whistleblower magazine, titled “YES, THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN: How Big Tech, Big Media, lying Democrats, deep staters and vote fraudsters cheated Trump – and America.” That issue makes it absolutely undeniable, to any half-way fair-minded person, that last November’s election was indeed stolen from President Donald Trump. To cite just one example, in Whistleblower's exclusive interview with top Google researcher Dr. Robert Epstein, he explains how Google singlehandedly induced at least 6 million “undecided” voters to cast their ballots for Joe Biden.

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President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

Just a year ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci was widely regarded as a wise, warm, grandfatherly medical expert whom Americans could trust to guide them safely through a frightening pandemic. Today, we know that besides ushering in the catastrophic long-term national lockdown based on absurdly flawed computer modeling, changing his positions on almost everything, and increasingly flat-out lying, Fauci ignored the U.S. government’s own ban on funding dangerous “gain of function” research and recklessly sent American taxpayers’ hard-earned money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to fund Frankenstein-type experiments to make bat coronaviruses more dangerous to humans. That is literally true.

As U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a medical doctor himself, recently concluded: “Fauci could be culpable for the entire pandemic.”

But that’s not the only, nor even the most bizarre, truth now emerging with regard to the plague that, by all indications, has profoundly changed America and the world, perhaps forever.

It’s hard to even quantify just how perverse the current official response to COVID-19 truly is. Remember, we’re talking about the “Biden-Harris administration,” where federal policy on every major issue is destructive, deadly and insane. So why should COVID be any different?

After all, today’s ruling Democrats literally created a horrendous national crime wave by idiotically “defunding” America’s police, encouraging riots, decriminalizing shoplifting, releasing dangerous criminals from prison, and refusing to prosecute violent offenders. They are also in the process of permanently replacing our nation’s population with millions of illegal aliens, many infected with COVID-19, in hopes they’ll become Democrat voters. And of course, they just gave a huge booster shot to Islamic jihad worldwide with their ignominious, Saigon-style summary withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In addition, our ruling elites are simultaneously creating ruinous inflation by "printing" trillions of new dollars to fund incomprehensively expensive and corrupt socialist spending programs. They’re destroying women’s sports by forcing women and girls to compete with men who think they’re women. And they’re brainwashing America’s children to hate their own country – and each other – by indoctrinating them with toxic Marxist doctrines like Critical Race Theory. And so on.

Yet, arguably more damaging and destructive than all of these, at least in terms of actual human death and suffering, has been the ruling elite’s policies with regard to COVID-19.

Americans are just starting to discover that most of what they thought they knew about the pandemic has been not just a lie, but in many cases a Big Lie – the exact opposite of the truth, intentionally meant to deceive and manipulate entire populations.

The first lie to fall was that an entire healthy society should be locked down – quarantine not just the sick and vulnerable, but everybody, including those with virtually zero risk from the virus. This radical departure from previous public health practice prolonged the pandemic by delaying the necessary attainment of herd immunity, crushed America’s booming Trump economy with millions losing their jobs and businesses, and forced little children to wear masks in the classroom and on the playground, or stay home from school altogether. The entire nation still lives in fear. Suicide, depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, crime – have all skyrocketed.

Moreover, the radical national lockdown enabled the far left to ride the wave of COVID chaos to shield what were hands-down the worst presidential and vice-presidential candidates in American history, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, from any real scrutiny, and then to corrupt the 2020 election and ultimately install a ruling regime of deranged leftwing revolutionaries untethered to reality, history, the Constitution, Judeo-Christian values, reason, decency, love or basic sanity.

Then, just recently, most Americans finally learned that what Democrats, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Medicine and Big Fact-checkers had censored and mercilessly ridiculed for more than a year as a rightwing, racist, Trumpian conspiracy theory – namely, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was actually created in a U.S.-funded level-4 biolab in Wuhan, China staffed with Chinese military personnel, and didn’t spontaneously jump species from a bat in a nearby “wet market” – turned out to be true.

If that isn’t surreal enough, there’s the elite class’s maniacal obsession with forcing every living human being to be injected with an experimental messenger-RNA gene therapy, which they call a “vaccination,” despite an unprecedented lack of safety data and – as of this writing – more than 12,000 American deaths reported after receiving the mRNA jab. Also 1,381 miscarriages, 5,236 heart attacks, 4,044 cases of Bell's Palsy, 4,759 cases of anaphylaxis, 3,728 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, 14,251 people permanently disabled, and over 200,000 trips to the hospital, urgent care of doctors' offices as a result. Other than that, as Biden has assured Americans regarding the COVID jabs: “The bottom line is this – I promise you: They are safe. They are safe. And even more importantly, they’re extremely effective.”

It gets more surreal by the day: Pregnant women, who normally are advised not to put anything even possibly pathogenic into their bodies during their first trimester – even to refrain from drinking wine or eating certain soft cheeses – are now being advised by the head of the CDC to inject a powerful, experimental, little-understood and potentially gene-altering drug into their bodies and that of their developing babies. And 2- and 3-year-olds are now forced to wear masks when it is established beyond doubt that they have essentially zero risk of either contracting or transmitting COVID, yet are damaged physically, mentally and emotionally by being forced to wear a mask all day long in school.

Likewise, our medical bureaucracy bizarrely refuses to acknowledge that natural immunity from a COVID-recovered person is superior in every way to the immunity conferred by any of the current mRNA vaccines. Natural immunity is more robust, longer-lasting and broad-spectrum (i.e., effective against COVID variants) than the mRNA vaccines that were manufactured to work on the original SARS CoV-2 virus that came from China. Worse, there is evidence that the COVID-fighting antibodies present in a COVID-recovered person renders that person – who already has no need whatsoever to be vaccinated – even more likely to suffer ill effects from getting the vaccine than others! Repeat: The COVID-recovered don’t need the vaccine because they already possess superior immunity, but if they do get the vaccine – which they are being mercilessly pressured to do to return to college, keep their job, and so on – they’re more likely to suffer negative effects.

These and other emerging realities are leading many thoughtful Americans to the conclusion that their leaders absolutely are not on their side. And they are right.

Now believe it or not, there is something even more shocking and inexcusable than all of the preceding COVID lies: The intentional suppression of well-documented, safe, effective and inexpensive early treatments for COVID-19 that could – and would – have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives. That is the considered conclusion of countless frontline COVID-treating doctors in the U.S. and around the world.

Repeat: Safe and effective treatment for COVID-19, which would allow the infected to be treated at home with inexpensive, widely used medications approved for decades by the FDA as safe, and thereby avoiding massive hospitalization and death, has been intentionally suppressed and demonized. Even online discussions about these medications have been largely banned, suppressed or “fact-checked” out of existence by social media for more than a year. Don’t even think of trying to find any of this on Google.

Instead of treating COVID-19 early, when it is by far the most manageable, the entire thrust of the elites’ COVID policy has been to quarantine/lockdown everybody and everything in the country – actually the whole world – a surefire recipe for economic and social disintegration of societies (making them ripe for “fundamental transformation,” aka “The Great Reset”) while waiting for a vaccine. Unfortunately, as most people now realize, the mRNA vaccines are extremely flawed – a reality that is becoming more and more painfully evident with every passing week. Yet, despite the huge numbers of reported adverse events and deaths following mRNA vaccination, authorities are still maniacally pushing for everyone to get the jab.

Fortunately, there is an entire underground of frontline medical doctors across the U.S. who are daily treating those infected with SARS-CoV-2 and also prescribing prophylaxis – medicines like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as well as over-the-counter supplements, taken to prevent infection in the first place. Indeed, taking these meds and supplements is precisely how many frontline doctors who treat COVID-19 patients daily avoid becoming infected themselves.

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(U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Justin Stack)

Dear friend of WND,

America is at war. And our adversary, sadly, lies within.

There is a Marxist revolution now exploding throughout America – from our classrooms, to our streets, to the halls of Congress and the White House. There is not even the slightest exaggeration in that statement.

For a reality check, consider that the No. 1 bestselling book in the country right now is “American Marxism” by Mark Levin. Other top-selling nonfiction books include “The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America” by David Horowitz, “The Tyranny of Big Tech” by Sen. Josh Hawley and “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military” by Matthew Lohmeier. (You’ll recall that Lohmeier is the heroic Space Force officer who Team Biden recently ousted for daring to expose the rampant Marxist indoctrination being imposed on America’s armed forces.)

This is real, folks. And let's be totally clear as to what we're really dealing with: What we cryptically refer to as "The Left" – code words for a godless, revolutionary movement steeped in pathological anger and churning rebellion against America as a uniquely blessed Judeo-Christian, constitutional republic – is at war not with “racism” and “inequity” and Trump supporters (whom they label “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists”), but with America herself.

Traditionally, society’s natural defenders against such an onslaught of lies and deception would be a free and independent press. That’s why Thomas Jefferson famously warned, “The only security of all is in a free press.” Journalists are supposed to be professional Truth-tellers – because when the truth about threats to a nation is boldly and widely proclaimed and understood, that nation can begin course-correcting, healing and breathing easily again.

Unfortunately, today’s elite media consists almost entirely of lying, corrupt, self-serving, low-IQ cheerleaders for the revolution. As a result, the number one target of today’s Big Tech totalitarians is that tiny part of the news media not extoling the virtues of the ascendent Democrats’ insane, delusional and destructive agenda, but rather, committed to reporting the truth … no matter the cost or consequences.

And I can assure you, WND, now in its 25th year of bold, independent, 24/7 news reporting, is paying a great price, and is suffering major consequences, for reporting truthfully. Just a few examples:

* The Southern Poverty Law Center, the wretched leftwing hate group that Big Tech companies rely on to identify hateful extremist groups (and which the Biden administration just announced it is teaming up with to tackle “extremism”) characterizes WND as an “extremist group.” Apparently, your favorite news site engages in “manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions … from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds.” Translation: We’re conservative and Christian.

* A short while ago, WND posted a single video on its YouTube channel defending Trump mega-supporter, MyPillow guy Mike Lindell. As a direct consequence, YouTube de-monetized WND’s YouTube channel.

* A few months ago, Newsguard, the internet’s self-appointed guardian of truthful reporting, complained to me about a WND piece suggesting COVID-19 originated in a biolab, and not from a bat someone purchased to eat at a “wet market.” “Firstly,” Newsguard authoritatively informed me, “medical authorities have found no evidence that the virus was created intentionally or otherwise in a lab,” adding, “the CDC states that its research suggests ‘recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir.” Except today, virtually all experts, including the CDC, publicly concede that the coronavirus pandemic almost certainly originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the level-4 biolab where dangerous “gain-of-function” research was being conducted on bat viruses, secretly funded by the U.S. taxpayer thanks to Anthony Fauci’s approval.

* Three major international online ad companies – TripleLift, AppNexus/Xander and Teads – all recently canceled WND, seriously hurting our revenues. Why? One said we engaged in “hate speech” while another specifically cited an opinion article critical of allowing homosexual couples to adopt children. The way I see it, if WND has to go out of business for affirming such obvious and crucially important truths, such as defending the innocence of our nation’s children, then so be it.

* Since last September, Facebook has massively suppressed WND’s traffic on its platform – by up to 90% – by confining us to what is known to insiders as “Facebook Jail.” This hurts tremendously when you have close to a million followers. Why is Facebook doing this? I spent an hour with two Facebook reps to find out, but they could provide neither a reason for the radical suppression of WND, nor any real recourse for us.

There’s much more, but here’s where we are now: As a result of all the aforementioned attacks and others (I haven’t told you about the malicious lawsuits, the major hack attacks that almost shut us down, and other threats and assaults of every imaginable sort), WND is suffering seriously hard times.

We’ve cut our staff down to remain lean and competitive, and all have had to endure big pay-cuts and late paychecks – and sometimes to go without pay at all. It’s very hard to keep financially ahead of the relentless attacks on us and to pay our fantastically dedicated and hard-working staffers – most of whom have been with us (believe it or not) for over 20 years!

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President Joe Biden meets with White House staff in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, April 27, 2021, to prepare for an off-the-record discussion with news anchors. (Official White House photo of by Adam Schultz)

During Joe Biden’s appallingly divisive speech in Tulsa last week, he basically claimed little has changed in America since a century ago when millions of white supremacist Ku Klux Klansmen routinely lynched innocent black people for fun. “Millions of white Americans belonged to the Klan,” Biden insisted, and their “hate became embedded systematically and systemically in our laws and our culture.”

Got that? America is still a bastion of hateful, low-IQ, white-supremacist terrorists – and people of color aren’t safe anywhere.

Biden’s comments were carefully crafted by his handlers to stir up and incite racial guilt, resentment, fear and loathing in today’s Americans, who live in the least racist nation on earth.

Why do our elites keep doing this? There is a pattern.

Consider a few other vexing political-cultural issues currently ripping our country apart – and note the one factor uniting them all:

* There’s the COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant lockdown and mask mandates, plus the relentless campaign to pressure everyone to be vaccinated with an experimental drug even if they’re young and healthy and have virtually no risk from the virus, or are pregnant, or have recovered from COVID and thus already possess superior immunity to that which a vaccine could confer. Likewise, there’s the official demonization of early outpatient COVID treatments, including repurposed proven-safe-and-effective drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, currently being successfully used by physicians and governments around the world to treat COVID patients and save countless lives, but officially disparaged and demonized in America;

* Then there’s “climate change,” which our elites assure us threatens the very existence of life on earth unless a radical new global “reset” is implemented within the current decade. It also serves as a pretext for the Biden administration’s total sabotage of America’s energy independence and destruction of thousands of high-paying energy jobs, as well as the adoption of deranged and astronomically expensive “Green New Deal”-type programs. At the same time, millions of school children are traumatically indoctrinated with scary predictions of near-term destruction, and many young couples are choosing not to bring children into such a doomed world;

* There’s our elites’ hysterical insistence that America is almost irredeemably racist – a state of unique national sinfulness that justifies and encourages revolutionary groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa to perpetrate an ongoing campaign of terror, intimidation, violence, arson, vandalism, monument-destruction, looting, assault and murder in cities throughout the country. These same groups also deploy menacing mobs to the homes of politicians, journalists and any others with whom they disagree – spray-painting curses and shouting threats at the home’s occupants. Meanwhile, America’s children are increasingly being taught to hate their own nation and internalize nonexistent racial conflict and guilt via Marxist “critical race theory” indoctrination;

* And there’s the related vilification of federal, state and local law enforcement as “systemically racist,” as well as the actual “defunding” of police departments, resulting in an immediate and utterly predictable rise in violent crime. With more than 2,000 police officers injured during the BLM riots in 2020 and 264 cops killed in the line of duty nationally during that same year – almost double the previous year’s death toll – a mass exodus from police departments is occurring via early retirement, relocation and career change, as well as a historic dearth of new recruits at police training academies. The biggest victims of all of this, by far, are poor urban minority populations – the very people BLM and other Marxist groups cynically pretend to care about. At the same time, George Soros-funded far-left district attorneys around the nation are busy releasing hardcore criminals – many convicted of violent offenses – from prison back into the general population;

* What about “cancel culture,” which, whether instigated by the “Twitter mob” or by giant multinational “woke” corporations, results in the rampant firing, boycotting, humiliating, “doxing” and “canceling” of innocent people – often destroying their lives – solely for expressing opinions contrary to the unhinged and destructive views of today’s radical left;

* Likewise, out-of-control tech monopolies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are daily banning, censoring, de-platforming, de-monetizing and otherwise suppressing conservative, Christian and pro-life expression. After all, if they could permanently ban a sitting president of the United States and leader of the free world, which they did with impunity, then they can ban literally any person, entity or expression at any time for any reason or no reason – amounting to complete totalitarian control of America’s most prized constitutional right, the freedom of speech;

* The ruling class insists that deeply confused and deranged men must be allowed to use women’s restrooms, showers and changing rooms and to dominate and destroy women’s athletics. And how do they induce normal everyday Americans to embrace something so obviously insane and dangerous? Simple. By branding everyone who refuses to pretend biological men are women and vice versa, and who objects to using their “preferred pronouns,” as deeply hateful transphobic bigots – and possibly criminals as well;

* And of course there’s the demonization of conservatives and Trump supporters as “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists” and the construction in January of a seven-foot-tall metal fence topped with prison-style razor wire around the U.S. Capitol building, along with the deployment of thousands of armed soldiers in Washington, D.C., to protect Democratic politicians from an unseen and nonexistent enemy.

What unites every one of these – and many other – current assaults on the minds, livelihoods, families, happiness and liberties of Americans can be summarized in a single word: Fear.

The Biden administration – a tightly managed puppet show featuring a mumbling, shuffling, corrupt old political hack, behind whom schemes a cabal of far-left radicals dedicated to rapidly transforming America into a socialist state – rules through fear.

Utterly incompetent to deal with any actual major challenge to our nation, the current administration is attempting to subjugate the citizens of the freest nation on earth by resorting to the same methods totalitarians, dictators and tyrants have long used to dominate a population: Deliberately instilling into the people mortal fear and hatred toward nonexistent or exaggerated threats, and toward one another, at every opportunity.

Of course, fear isn’t an end in itself. What today’s ruling oligarchs crave is control, submission, subservience – their ticket to ultimate power, the fulfillment of their desire to be gods, since they have nothing but contempt for the real God and His laws.

Bestselling author and national radio talker Dennis Prager sums it up nicely when he says, “The dominant force in America is fear of the left.”

Biden’s real running mate

If fear is the primary tool wielded by today’s ascendant Democrats, it is also how they came to power in the first place.

During the 2020 presidential campaign, many pundits astutely observed that Biden’s real running mate was not the shallow, dishonest, cackling and uniquely repellant Kamala Harris, but COVID-19. The pandemic allowed Biden to hide in his Delaware home and avoid answering questions that would easily have exposed his excruciatingly evident physical and cognitive decline, while subjecting him to inquiries about his decades-long history of lying and serial plagiarism, as well as his epic personal and family corruption. The public might also have discovered why Biden manages to be almost preternaturally wrong about everything. As Robert Gates, secretary of Defense for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, put it: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Instead, the coronavirus pandemic allowed the Democrat-Media Complex to shield Biden from public scrutiny under cover of COVID – while simultaneously stoking fears of then-President Donald Trump, whom they continually compared to Hitler – and essentially to pick Biden up, hold him high overhead and carry him across the finish line without his ever really having to come face-to-face with the American people.

Since his January inauguration, Team Biden has done its very best to keep Americans in a constant state of fear and confusion with regard to COVID. In the name of “fighting COVID” or “COVID relief,” the Biden administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress are pushing astronomical spending bills, Democrat-socialist wish lists, big payoffs to Democratic constituent groups and a never-ending list of perverse, reckless, revolutionary, unconstitutional, corrupt and just plain stupid initiatives – all by invoking the fear-inducing magic word, “COVID!”

The “Great Reset,” which globalists and world leaders have openly boasted would amount to a complete socialist restructuring of the world system under cover of COVID-19, is playing out in America right now.

So, where’s the mass pushback?

Many – perhaps most – Americans today are afraid of honestly expressing what they really think. Last November’s presidential election was likely the most fraudulent of our lifetime – and yet, no one in the media is supposed to say that anymore. If a news or opinion host says “the election was rigged,” he or she is likely to be censored or banned. Pretty soon, most people in such an environment become self-censoring: If they know they’re going to be shut down, they never say it in the first place.

Likewise, Americans are raising a generation of children who live in fear. The left would love nothing more than for every child to be a little Greta Thunberg, neurotically obsessed with, and fearful of, imminent catastrophic climate change. Why? Because that mindset opens the floodgates to the complete “re-imagining” – one of the left’s favorite terms – not just of policing, race relations, immigration and energy policy, but of everything.

Editor's note: The preceding is adapted from the May issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you would like to explore this subject more deeply, read “MERCHANTS OF FEAR: How Democrats are weaponizing anxiety, panic and terror to transform America.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

An MV-22B Osprey assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 21 of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, lands aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy in the Pacific Ocean, April 19, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jake Greenberg)

Of all the institutions of the federal government that leftwing elites have infiltrated and corrupted – from public education to the judiciary to, most recently, the Justice Department, FBI and intelligence agencies – one all-important organization has remained relatively unscathed: The United States military. But that is in danger of radically changing under the Biden administration.

For “diversity”-obsessed Team Biden, even the armed forces, which heroically protect and defend this nation and her vital interests in a dangerous and unpredictable world, are not to be spared the ascendent left’s maniacal insistence on “fundamentally transforming” America and her key institutions.

In just the brief period since Biden’s January inauguration, his administration’s radical expansion of perverse Obama-era initiatives is resulting in what amounts to an assault on the American military’s readiness to fight wars and defeat enemies. All in the name of social justice, equity, anti-racism, radical diversity, inclusion, transgender rights, and of course, rooting out legions of “racists” and “white supremacists” that supposedly inhabit the armed forces of the United States.

Consider some of the bizarre and transformative policies the Biden administration has already set in motion:

* Transgendered people appear to constitute the one group Biden is most committed to recruiting into the armed forces, despite the fact that their condition, Gender Identity Disorder, was universally regarded and diagnosed as a mental illness from the dawn of psychiatry until 2013, when the powerful LGBT lobby pressured the American Psychiatric Association to “de-pathologize” it. In his Jan. 25 executive order, Biden mandates not only “permitting transgender individuals to serve openly in the military,” thereby overturning Trump’s 2017 ban, but also requiring the military to pay the entire cost of transgender soldiers’ “surgical transition,” which normally ranges from $100,000 to $200,000. This has led some – including Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, who commanded Army forces in Iraq – to voice concern that transgenders might now join the military for the express purpose of obtaining taxpayer-funded “gender reassignment surgery.”

* In March, Team Biden hired Richard Torres-Estrada to head the U.S. Special Operations Command’s “office of diversity and inclusion.” SOCOM oversees the Army Rangers, Navy SEALs and all other Special Operations components of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps that lead America’s counterterrorism and unconventional warfare operations. What exactly qualified Torres-Estrada – whose most recent job was as an equal employment opportunity officer for the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority – to occupy an important position over America’s most elite fighting forces?

It turns out, in June 2020, Torres-Estrada explicitly compared President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler, posting on Facebook side-by-side photos of America’s 45th president and history’s most reviled genocidal monster, each holding a Bible.

In response to widespread outrage that someone with the views of Torres-Estrada was being put in charge of hiring Navy SEALs – indeed, that an “office of diversity and inclusion” was even created in the first place for America’s Special Ops forces – Torres-Estrada was “reassigned” to other duties while his background and qualifications are investigated.

* After Biden's new Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin insisted during his confirmation hearing that the United States military must rid itself of "racists and extremists" in its ranks, the nation’s first black Defense secretary ordered an unprecedented "60-day service-wide stand down" – a pause in military activity in all services – to root out "white supremacism" and “extremism.” The Pentagon has released no data to support Austin’s contention that the military is overrun with racists and white supremacists.

* Instead of deploying troops to America’s southern border, as Trump did, to prevent an all-out invasion of the nation – albeit one encouraged and invited by the Biden administration – the Democrats who run the federal government have instead deployed thousands of armed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to protect members of Congress from imaginary threats from supposed legions of pro-Trump “violent extremists” and “insurrectionists.”

What are we to make of this?

Americans have become accustomed to seeing many of their most vital institutions subverted by leftwing political, cultural and sexual revolutionaries. But there is something uniquely repugnant about these and other assaults on America’s armed forces from the Biden administration.

The lack of genuine respect for the military, its members and its mission is palpable. Right now, Biden says he’s considering forcing all members of America’s armed forces to take the COVID vaccine, despite the fact that these vaccines are still experimental and not FDA-approved, and that the vast majority of service members are young, healthy and face minimal risk from COVID. Indeed, the COVID-19 vaccine is not popular in the U.S. military, with Military.com reporting that nearly 40% of the 123,000 Marines who have had the chance to receive the COVID-19 vaccine have turned it down.

Bottom line: The military is unlike any other institution of government in that it involves the transcendent dimension of its participants’ willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice. Indeed, the courage, the discipline, the dangers of wartime, the implicit demand that one be willing to lay down one’s life, as well as the concurrent sacrifices required of families separated for months or years from deployed loved ones, set the military apart from other forms of government service. Likewise, on the macro level, there is the absolute necessity of building and maintaining the best-trained, best-equipped and most motivated military on the planet to deal with the many powerful and malevolent forces in today's troubled world.

All this makes the Biden administration’s ideologically driven policies undermining the readiness, cohesion and morale of America’s armed forces uniquely abhorrent and dangerous.

Editor's note: The preceding is excerpted from the April issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you would like to explore this subject more deeply, read “BIDEN’S WAR ON THE MILITARY.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

In “1984,” George Orwell’s famous novel about a nightmarish future society, the main character Winston Smith runs afoul of the ruling “Party” for insisting that “two plus two make four.” Only after being tortured by those in power does he come around to agreeing that, of course, “two plus two make five.”

America in 2021 has become Orwell’s “1984.”

In New York City, math education Professor Laurie Rubel claims the whole notion that “2+2=4” is one that “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” As the Brooklyn College prof explained in a tweet to her followers: “The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. … Along with the 'Of course math is neutral because 2+2=4' trope are the related (and creepy) 'Math is pure' and 'Protect math.' Reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. I'd rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals).”

Unfortunately, the academy’s Marxist madness inexorably seeps into public education, from high school down to preschool. In Oregon, for example, the state’s education department is promoting “A Pathway to Math Equity,” intended to train teachers in how to “dismantle racism in mathematics instruction.”

“We see white supremacy culture show up in the mathematics classroom even as we carry out our professional responsibilities,” declares the teachers’ guide, which demands that educators take responsibility for “visualizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.” The main “toxic characteristic” being the old-fashioned focus on getting the “right” answer.

“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” declares the course’s “toolkit,” “and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

This, of course, is genuinely insane.

Just as with “white supremacist” math,” Rutgers University recently determined that speaking and writing English correctly is also racist. The school’s English department is altering its grammar standards to “stand with and respond” to the Black Lives Matter movement and emphasize "social justice" and "critical grammar" over irrelevancies like correct spelling and grammar.

As the Washington Free Beacon reported, the new "critical grammar" approach challenges the standard form of the English language in favor of a more “inclusive” writing experience, noting “the curriculum puts an emphasis on the variability of the English language instead of accuracy.” The English Department is even offering an internship titled "Decolonizing the Writing Center" to make writing “more linguistically diverse."

To recap: Insisting that two plus two equals four and that there are correct and incorrect ways to spell, write and speak English are indicative of “white supremacist patriarchy” and a need for “decolonization.”

Back to “1984,” where a deeper question lurks: Why does the ruling elite insist “two plus two make five”? Explains Orwell, “It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. … the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.”

“After all,” muses the perplexed protagonist Winston, “how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

According to Orwell, when the ruling Party insists there’s no objective reality, the underlying message is that the entire universe exists only in human beings’ minds, which the Party controls – and therefore the Party controls the universe.

If this power-obsessed insanity sounds uncomfortably familiar, it’s because the denial of objective reality – which to those in power confers the delusion they can control not just people’s minds, but reality itself, like gods – is very much the political, psychological and spiritual identity of today’s Democratic Party.

Indeed, the madness of “the Party” in “1984” is shared by the ruling Democratic Party in 2021 America, and is spreading across the land like a pandemic.

Today, the Democratic Party, while claiming to be the party of science, operates in stupefying denial of basic biology. It holds that there are dozens of different genders – but then, relative truth can accommodate an infinite number of new genders. Today’s Democrats believe men can menstruate, get pregnant, have babies and “chest-feed” their little ones. On the other hand, babies aren’t actually human until the moment they’re born, when they suddenly are magically transformed into precious children. One minute earlier they were just bio-waste, unwanted tumor-like tissue to be destroyed at will (by means of poison, decapitation, chemical burning or induced heart attack) and discarded – but only if “the mother and her doctor” so decide.

Let that sink in: Whether “it” is the most precious thing in the universe – a newborn human baby, created in the image of God – or just an unwanted and disposable mass of organic matter, has no objective reality. The answer is only to be found in the minds of the god-like beings wielding power over “it” – just as two plus two can equal four, or five if you prefer. Either way is OK. It’s your personal truth. That’s how a man can one day decide that he is now a woman. It’s all in his mind.

The same delusional worldview impels Democrats to promise voters that electing them to positions of power will somehow enable them to change the world’s weather (their version of Orwell’s “the Party controls the universe”). It permits them to revise history by going back in time and making 1619 the year of America’s founding rather than 1776, while retroactively assigning an evil, racist and often genocidal intent to most everything earlier generations of Americans did (their version of Orwell’s changing the past). And it permits them to proclaim that all white people today are racists, that Trump voters are “domestic terrorists,” that throwing open America’s borders and inviting the entire world to invade this nation isn’t suicidal, and that an ill-tempered, lying, corrupt, doddering, shockingly demented old man who continually forgets where is and what he’s doing is somehow a great, wise and unifying president.

Most disturbing of all, however, is what is occurring in America’s schools. The next generation is literally at stake. Picking up the Marxist “virus” from the nation’s colleges and universities, today’s government schools – from pre-school through high school – are infecting millions of children with hatred and guilt toward their own country. This is happening right now.

In “1984,” the “Party” controls everything in the mythical state of Oceania – from its politics to its culture to its economy. But what the ruling oligarchy most craves, which enables it to exercise full totalitarian control of its citizens, is shaping and taking control of the people’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes, beliefs, guilts, comforts, and particularly their sense of moral self-worth. This is precisely what today’s “woke” “progressive” “left” (all Marxist code words) is engaged in doing in every corner of society – but nowhere more consequentially than in education.

Remember Abraham Lincoln’s chilling observation: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

Editor's note: The preceding is reprinted from the current issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you would like to explore this subject more deeply, read “BRAINWASHING AMERICA’S NEXT GENERATION.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

Even though the sensational and endlessly recycled media reports of pro-Trump rioters murdering people on Jan. 6 – in particular, killing Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick by bashing him in the head with a fire extinguisher – have turned out to be utterly false, the Biden administration’s bold new “war on terror,” supposedly inspired by the Capitol riot, is gearing up big-time.

Unlike the “war on terror” of yesteryear, which pursued groups like al-Qaida and ISIS, Biden’s new war is aimed at homegrown “violent extremists” within the U.S. Yet Team Biden has no interest in known ultra-violent anarchist/Marxist revolutionary groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, which spent much of 2020 rioting, burning, vandalizing, looting, threatening, assaulting and killing throughout America’s major cities.

Instead, this hunt for terrorists is focused squarely on the millions of American citizens who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump’s re-election, attended his rallies, exercise their constitutional rights, believe the election was rife with fraud, and are critical of the radical policies being implemented rapid-fire by the new Biden-Harris administration.

That’s right. The "comprehensive threat assessment" of "domestic violent extremism" Biden ordered shortly after being sworn in as president, conducted jointly by the FBI, DHS and Director of National Intelligence, targets Trump conservatives, who are lumped in with the January 6 rioters, and even likened to terror groups like al-Qaida. This is no exaggeration.

Consider:

* Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of American troops in Afghanistan, and who supported Biden for president, sees terrifying parallels between the birth of al-Qaida and the people who swarmed the Capitol building in January: “I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq,” McChrystal told Yahoo News, “where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America.”

* Biden's new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, insisted during his confirmation hearing that the military must rid itself of "racists and extremists" in its ranks. To that end, Austin, America’s first black Defense secretary, has ordered an unprecedented "60-day service-wide stand down" – a pause in military activity in all services – to root out "white supremacism" and “extremism.” This despite the fact that the Pentagon has presented no data to back up Austin’s concerns.

* Robert Grenier, former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism program, compared Donald Trump to Saddam Hussein and his supporters to al-Qaida and the Taliban, adding: “We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen.” The “insurgents,” Grenier warned, may emerge from groups who “believe that the election was stolen” or those “who don’t trust NPR or the New York Times.” Specifically citing “the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, the Oath Keepers, ‘Christian’ national chauvinists, white supremacists and QAnon fantasists,” Grenier claims all these groups are “committed to violent extremism.”

* Obama-Biden era CIA Director John Brennan previewed the new "threat assessment" order on MSNBC, revealing that Team Biden is “now moving in laser-light fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians."

“Religious extremists”? “Libertarians”? People “who don’t trust NPR or the New York Times”?

The demonization of ordinary Americans by today’s ascendent Democrats has reached the point that congressional leaders, from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to leftist thought-leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, openly refer to their own colleagues in the United States Congress as “the enemy.”

Pelosi recently told reporters she’s afraid of other members of Congress, insisting more money be appropriated for their safety: "We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives – a threat that members are concerned about, in addition to what is happening outside." When asked to clarify her extraordinary accusation, Pelosi doubled down: "We have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress."

For her part, Ocasio-Cortez claims “white supremacist sympathizers … sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives.” She also accused Sen. Ted Cruz of attempted murder, addressing the Texas senator in a tweet – “You almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago” – referring to the January 6 riot. Since Ocasio-Cortez went on Instagram to dramatically tell her millions of followers the “harrowing, life-and-death” story of how she feared being killed by Capitol rioters and hid in the bathroom, it later emerged that she was not even in the Capitol building that day, and no rioters entered the Cannon House Office Building a block away, where Ocasio-Cortez was holed up in her office.

Never to be outdone, California Rep. Maxine Waters insisted during an MSNBC interview that, for his supposed role in the January 6 riot, President Trump “absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder.”

A few big questions:

Why are regular, law-abiding Americans being indiscriminately demonized as “racists” and “white supremacists,” and compared to al-Qaida and other genocidal terrorists?

Why is free speech, once considered the most fundamental and revered of all American constitutional rights, being crushed?

And why is Washington, D.C. now under de facto martial law, with thousands of armed soldiers everywhere and an eight-foot steel fence topped with razor wire encircling the United States Capitol?

The plain truth is, today’s ruling elite – which encompasses not just the Biden administration and Democrat-controlled Congress, but also the “mainstream media,” Big Tech monopolies and Washington’s massive, permanent “deep state” bureaucracy – are afraid of the 75 million American voters who supported Donald Trump, believe both the election and their nation were stolen from them, and consider the Democrats’ governing agenda to be deranged and destructive to the nation they love.

Still, since they command virtually all the main levers of power, why does today’s progressive oligarchy feel compelled to intimidate, cancel, censor, silence and crush all ideas that differ with theirs? What’s so threatening about criticism and contrary views? And why do they carry this aversion so far as to malign normal patriotic, conservative Americans as “extremists,” “racists,” “white supremacists” and potential “terrorists”?

Hidden but powerful dynamics are at play here.

For one thing – although saying this is strictly forbidden by today’s ruling elite – it’s essential to realize that November’s presidential election was indeed rigged. Fraud was encouraged, aided and abetted in multitudinous ways, including, for example, the wanton disregard for, and flouting of, the constitutional rules governing how state elections are held in several pivotal states; this is simply indisputable. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, dissenting from the majority, have just warned the nation of "catastrophic" consequences if the high court doesn't address the issue of state authorities "changing the rules in the middle of the game."  In fact, Thomas said, "The refusal to do so is inexplicable."

Moreover, all of the various species of election fraud came on top of Big Tech’s censorship of negative news about Biden, including the sensational – and entirely accurate – New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop just days before the election. Likewise, Big Media refused to press Biden on any tough, substantive questions about his family’s epic corruption, his history of entirely fabricating stories, his serial plagiarism, his habit of radically changing his policy positions to their opposite (i.e., fracking) during the presidential campaign, and so on.

In a word, the 2020 election was stolen, and what’s more, the progressive oligarchs know it was stolen. (That’s why Trump had to be continually compared to Hitler, because cheating to defeat someone like Hitler is not only acceptable, it’s a moral imperative.)

There’s more. Like all nascent totalitarian regimes, today’s Democrats feel compelled to conjure up a universally loathed and feared “enemy” for the purpose of uniting their voting coalition, one made up of wildly disparate, discontented and demanding factions with little or nothing uniting them – except a common enemy. It’s the classic strategy autocratic leaders have used throughout the ages to unite their subjects against an outside foe – and distract them from their leaders’ own malfeasance, hypocrisy and plunder.

For years, the “enemy” of choice was Donald J. Trump. But now that Trump is gone, the progressive ruling class is zeroing in on what was arguably the real enemy all along. Superficially designated “Trump supporters,” they comprise, more broadly and fundamentally, a gargantuan swath of normal, traditional-values, red-blooded, flag-saluting, Constitution-honoring, Bible-believing Americans.

There’s yet another, even darker dynamic at play here.

It’s not simply that the progressive oligarchs are attempting to occupy the moral high ground by demonizing conservatives – in 2016 they were “deplorables” and “irredeemable,” during Trump’s presidency they were “racists” and “white supremacists,” now under Biden-Harris they’re “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.” It’s more than that. The radical ruling elite – the Pelosis, AOCs, Schumers and Schiffs – actually want to see violent extremism on the right. They need it to validate their cruel and blame-shifting narrative. The absurd extent to which they have leveraged the January 6 Capitol siege proves the enormous strategic value violent episodes (that are attributable to conservatives) have for them. Their secret intent in pushing Americans so relentlessly and so maddeningly is that some rightwing person or group will get so angry and desperate that they snap and in desperation do something truly terrible.

After all, a genuine terror act perpetrated by one or more “Trump supporters” would free the ruling oligarchy to implement the most radical parts of their agenda, such as widespread gun confiscation. Recently, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D.-Texas, introduced a massive new bill that would outright ban a long list of firearms, require gun owners and their family members to undergo "psychological evaluations" by government-approved psychologists, and require firearms owners to pay the government $800 in "insurance" fees.

Likewise, actual terrorism by “Trump supporters” would bolster the elites’ claims that conservative speech inevitably leads to violence. (That’s why Antifa rioted and vandalized nearby property at U.C. Berkeley in efforts to prevent conservatives from speaking there – because to Antifa, speech it doesn’t like equals violence.)

Finally, on a deeper level still, our ruling oligarchy’s real problem – and this is true of the radical left in general – is not really with conservatives or Republicans or “religious extremists” or “racist” white people. Their real problem is with Truth.

“Truth is not a left-wing value,” explains radio talker and author Dennis Prager. “From Lenin to today’s left, lying, especially about opponents, is morally acceptable as long as it serves the left’s goals of defeating opponents and attaining more power.”

Prager, founder of the popular video company PragerU, illustrates his point: “Why has YouTube taken down the video of two emergency room physicians who argue that the lockdown may not be called for? Because the left does not argue with opponents; it shuts them down. And that is because it has no interest in truth.”

And that’s the truth. But this still begs the question of why the left feels compelled to suppress truth. Which brings us to the very heart of the matter.

For those at war with Reality, whose ambitions and goals depend on suppressing their own conscience – the sacred inner knowing of right and wrong God graciously enfolds into each human being – hearing others speak the truth, the very same truth they themselves are daily denying internally, feels profoundly threatening. They feel mysteriously offended, harassed and “unsafe” in deep and dark ways they themselves can’t begin to understand.

This is what undergirds this growing totalitarian impulse to crush free speech in America – to de-platform conservative voices from social media, to stage destructive riots to prevent conservative personalities from speaking on campus, to demonize conservatives as dangerous “extremists” and as a “threat to democracy.” Very simply, they represent the truth the left hates – and with which they are engaged in daily, internal mortal combat.

They literally can’t stand to hear the truth. It’s more painful than they can bear, like sunlight to a vampire; they feel as though it’s going to burn them up. They just can’t stand it.

That’s what America is dealing with.

Editor's note: The preceding is adapted and abridged from the lead-off story in the current issue of WND’s monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you would like to explore this subject more deeply, read "DEMOCRATS’ NEW ‘WAR ON DOMESTIC TERROR’: How normal, patriotic, center-right Americans have become ‘the enemy.’” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

Rush Limbaugh celebrating the start of his 30th year as a national radio host on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017

Editor’s note: During the summer of 1992, David Kupelian, then a magazine journalist, conducted what turned out to be a very personal and revealing interview with Rush Limbaugh, during which the undisputed king of talk radio, who passed away Wednesday, opened up about the personal motivations, experiences, values and influences that shaped him. Here is the interview in full:

Question: You have broken all the rules of radio. Your show is not guest-driven, it’s not topic-driven. You don’t do interviews. Your show is basically you-driven. What drives you? Where does your tremendous energy come from?

Rush Limbaugh: Well, I think it comes primarily from the fact that I quit college. I did so naively, thinking that since I had chosen a career in radio, I could do what I wanted without having a formal education. But a year later, when I was 20, I realized what a mistake that it had been in terms of achieving long-term objectives, competing with my peers, making money, and so forth. So I decided, “Well, pal, you’re going to have to demonstrate what you know in order to convince people you’re educated.” College-educated people really don’t have to demonstrate much, other than that they have work experience. People automatically assume that a college graduate is an educated person. I don’t have that, so I am driven to learn. I’m also driven to demonstrate what I know and to talk about the things that I consider myself to be well-versed on. That still drives me today.

Q: There is something about you that seems to drive people crazy. You are obviously a fun-loving, self-confident conservative, very different from the one-dimensional stereotype of the stodgy, selfish, grey-business-suit conservative. Many people look at you as something of a role model, proving to the world that people who believe in the free market and who are moral and who oppose abortion and love their country can also be fun-loving and dynamic people.

Rush: Well, there are two groups of conservatives that hear me, and they react in different ways. The first group, and the one I’m interested in, consists of the rank-and-file conservative members of our population, the middle class, those great people who make the country work. I think they’re enthused, and are positively impacted by the show. I think that was the great thing about Reagan – although I by no means equate myself with Reagan here. But I do believe that one of the great things Reagan did was to make people feel good about themselves. With the dominant liberal media culture being what it is, the fact that here comes a conservative who is getting away with being conservative and having fun at the same time shows others that it’s OK, that you don’t need to feel guilty about it. Remember, all liberalism and political correctness do is force guilt on you for having a good time amidst so much suffering. I think the better example is when you are amid suffering, show people there’s a way out. A positive example doesn’t hurt anybody.

Rush Limbaugh enjoys a cigar during his 29th anniversary show Aug. 1, 2017

The other group of conservatives is the entrenched conservative intelligentsia, the conservative intellectual movement. I think they are still scratching their heads about me, although many of them have become, I believe, very good friends with me. But there are some who say, “Gee, I hope this guy doesn’t embarrass us someday down the line because he’s so off-the-wall.” I am not the staid, country-club type, so although they like me and appreciate what I have done, there are a number of them who think that I will not have the entrenched long legs that the intellectual conservative intelligentsia has. I intend to prove them wrong. You know, the intellectual crowd is a very elite group, be they liberal or conservative, and I’ll never crack that group. But I don’t think they are the majority.

Q: You mentioned the dominant liberal media culture. That brings up a very interesting point. What we call “conservative” solutions are, in fact, historically the ones that work. By any objective measure, they are more logical and scientific than most “liberal” solutions. They are even more compassionate, in that they actually work, and make people’s lives better instead of worse. Affirmative action is a proven disaster; welfare state, a proven disaster; the high capital gains tax has been disastrous for the economy; gun control is proven to actually benefit criminals and disarm law-abiding citizens. Yet despite all the evidence, in today’s dominant culture, liberalism somehow manages to hang on to the moral high ground. How do you explain this total in version of values?

Rush: Gosh, there are a lot of answers to this, and many of them are maddening and frustrating. First, let’s look at college campuses, home of the political correctness movement. You’ve got liberals there who came out of the ‘60s, who have become tenured, and who are now in charge of curricula and departments. Then again, which kids go to journalism school? The liberal idealists. Go to a journalism school, walk down the hall, and ask the first student you see why he’s there, and he’ll say, “I am here to make the world a better place.” These kids have an activist’s view of the media. Conservative kids, on the other hand, go to business school and get masters degrees. In other words, they’re out there working. You see this in the protest march. The left has owned the protest march for all these years because conservatives and Republicans are out working. They don’t have time to march during the day.

Q: Why don’t conservative youths who recognize the power of the media go to journalism school?

Rush: How much money do most journalists make? Not much. There’s far more opportunity to be successful in the business world then as a reporter, unless you get lucky and happen to become a television reporter and become a star on the Sunday shows, but most don’t.

Let’s look at Hollywood. Hollywood used to try to uncover communists behind every projector in the country. Today, it’s just the opposite. If you want to work in Hollywood, you’ve got to be a leftist. Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, while they were married, actually had a hilltop academy in Santa Monica where they brought the Emilio Estevezes and the Ally Sheedys and the Demi Moores when they were young kids. They educated these future stars on what they were supposed to think issue-wise, how they were supposed to feel, the right things to say. This really happened, it was in the newspapers.

The things that you and I believe in, such things as God and the Ten Commandments and the Judeo-Christian definition of morality, all those things are made fun of in movies and television shows now, and that of course drives conservatives underground. Who wants to be made fun of? So people just go about living their lives and generally show up on Election Day.

Rush Limbaugh (Video screenshot courtesy RushLimbaugh.com)

Q: The Rush Limbaugh Show certainly helps relieve that feeling conservatives have of being mocked and belittled by the dominant culture.

Rush: Yes, I think people have just been waiting for somebody to come along who says what they think. It is my good fortune that I happened to come along at a time when, just by being myself, I am saying what a lot of people happen to think.

Q: How did you become a conservative?

Rush: My father. He has had the most profound influence on me of anybody I have known. My whole family was staunchly Republican, but my father was one of the first thinkers that I was really exposed to. He was an independent, maverick sort of man, not afraid to tell anybody what he thought, no matter how extreme it might have sounded to people. On Friday nights in high school when I was 15 or 16, my friends, instead of going out and drinking beer, would come over to my house, and we’d sit there and watch television with my dad. All it took was somebody on TV making a statement about something, and he’d just start making a speech about things: “You boys, let me tell you about your future.” It was just mesmerizing to listen to. He was brilliant, a biblical scholar, an extremely educated person. I never did waiver from conservatism when I was growing up. I never rebelled and became a liberal or any of that.

Q: You were fired at least five times from radio jobs before you became the mega-superstar with “half his brain tied behind his back.” One of your managers even told you to get out of the talent side of radio and to try to make it in sales because you didn’t have what it took. Rush, everybody is fascinated with success, so tell me: What was different the last time? What was different about you? What was different about the job opportunity offered to you?

Rush: Here’s the big difference. For 17 years I was the same guy, I had the same beliefs, I had the same philosophy about radio programming. The only thing that changed in those 17 years is that I grew older and, hopefully, matured and learned a little bit more. But my personality and beliefs have always been what they are today. So I’ll tell you what made the difference: It was freedom.

The first time in my career that I was allowed to be myself on the radio was 1984 in Sacramento, California, and it was an accident. I was hired in October of ‘84. In January of ‘85 the radio station stole the morning team from a competing station, and then devoted all their attention to developing that morning show, and therefore left me alone. For the first three months before that, they tried to force guests on me, they tried to force topics on me, they tried to force local issues on me, they tried to force all the formula things on me. But when they hired the morning team, they forgot about me. That was the first time that I was given the freedom to be myself. From that, everything else has sprung, and I am convinced that if more people in this country were given the freedom to be themselves, it would be a great thing.

Q: Describe the effect that being given total freedom had on you.

Rush: The responsibility inherent in that freedom slaps you in the face. It’s the greatest maturing thing that happens. When you know that you’re being yourself – and if you take it seriously, and take life seriously as I do – then you will be your best. You’re not trying to please somebody else, not trying to follow a list of guidelines or behavior memos from corporate. You have the freedom to be yourself, which is especially important when you’re in a talent business. I don’t know how applicable this is to somebody in middle-management on a corporate ladder, but when you are writing or speaking and are responsible for getting people to listen to you, then when you are yourself is when you are your best. If that works, and you get ratings, then they leave you alone. And that’s what happened to me. It took from 1967 to 1984 for that to happen.

Rush Limbaugh

Q: How do you deal with the pressure of being at the top?

Rush: Well, I have never been busier, and I have never felt more pressure. But it’s not a burdening kind of pressure; it’s a motivating kind of pressure. When you’re on the ladder going up and you maybe slip a rung or two, people say, “Hey, that’s OK. That’s a learning experience. Get back up there and keep going.” But when you get to where people perceive the top of the ladder and you slip a rung, then they start saying, “Oh, it may be over for the Rush guy.” The pressure is to avoid that.

A couple of days after the “60 Minutes” profile aired, a guy who works down the hall, asked: “Rush, I’ve got to know, how do you keep your head on straight? You are not a prima donna, you are not an egomaniac. How have you avoided that happening to you?” I said, “Because I don’t have time to think about it. I have to be great on the air tomorrow.” The pressure and the demands of the job are enough to keep me focused on the future rather than watch happened in the past.

Q: How do you explain all the liberals who love your show?

Rush: Liberals who love the show say, “I don’t agree with anything you say, but I know you’re just teasing about that stuff anyway. You’re an entertainer. Hell, I’ve got to hand it to you, pal, you’re good.” Now, what are they saying? They’re saying they love the show, they listen to it, but to justify listening to it, they have to tell themselves that I’m not sincere, that I’m just a great entertainer hoodwinking a lot of people. But if there is any hoodwinking going on, it’s me hoodwinking them. Because if they think that I’m insincere about my positions, that’s fine. That disarms them, so the more they think that I’m just an enjoyable, lovable clown that they like, the more I’ve disarmed them.

Rush Limbaugh

Q: Do you see yourself primarily as an entertainer, or as a serious commentator?

Rush: I’m on the radio for two reasons: First, to attract the largest audience I can and hold that audience as long as I can. If I don’t do that first, then nothing else matters. I don’t look at this first as an opportunity to change America or to represent the conservative point of view. I look at it first as a job where I have specific requirements in order to be successful. A very close second reason is my passion, my beliefs. But I think that if I re-ordered those and said, “OK, the purpose of this show is for me to make sure America knows what’s going on,” I think the show wouldn’t be as popular because it wouldn’t have the spontaneous, loosey-goosey fun factor that it has.

Q: It may surprise people to know that your radio persona is, I would say, only 5% different from your off-the-air manner. And yet, when you remove that 5% – the on-air theatrics, antics and bluster – you come across in person as disarmingly down-to-earth and sincere.

Rush: Thank you. Well, I care about this. It is my career, and I’m not in this to get rich quick and get out. People say, “You’ve got to get it while you’re hot.” I don’t subscribe to that. If that’s the way people want to look at it, fine. But I do this because I love it, first. I did this for a lot of years when I didn’t make any money, and because I love it, I want to be able to do it for as long as I can.

Q: Thank you, Rush.

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Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa – the one-time communist spymaster who would later become the highest-ranking Soviet bloc defector during the Cold War, and a true American patriot praised by President Reagan and countless others – died Sunday morning. He was 92.

Pacepa, who had battled various health issues in recent years, had been in the hospital for a while and in intensive care the past couple of days before succumbing to COVID-19. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou, and his daughter, Dana.

The story of Ion Mihai Pacepa is a rare one, since seldom does someone occupying such a high-ranking position in an “evil empire” experience both the requisite change of heart to leave, and the good fortune to actually make it out alive.

After two decades as head of Romanian espionage, Pacepa in 1972 became the communist nation’s director of foreign intelligence and also top adviser to the infamous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. As such, Pacepa not only was an eyewitness to some of the most audacious and influential disinformation campaigns of the 20th century, he was in some cases a major participant.

Fortunately, despite the power and prestige he had, as well as the seductive delusions of communism and the luxurious lifestyle he enjoyed as a spymaster, replete with mountain villas, hunting lodges and chauffeurs – Pacepa’s internal moral compass ultimately prevailed and he knew he had to get out.

It was 1978 when Pacepa, in West Germany ostensibly to carry out business for Ceausescu, gathered up his courage, walked into the U.S. Embassy there and informed the officer on duty that he, a two-star general and top official in the Soviet intelligence world, wanted to defect to America. He was whisked out on a night flight.

Taking this precarious leap of faith from the pinnacle of power, Pacepa landed in the U.S., where he spent years revealing to America’s intelligence services precisely how their enemy counterparts conducted their most secret and nefarious activities.

For decades, Pacepa lived this way as a “proud American,” but due to long-term security threats and assassination plots against him, he continued to live under cover of an assumed identity for the rest of his life.

That's because, when Pacepa broke with communism, defected to the West and single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service (the one he himself managed), Ceausescu had a nervous breakdown, put a $2 million bounty on Pacepa’s head and dispatched multiple assassination squads – including the notorious terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. “Carlos the Jackal” – to the U.S. to find his former top adviser and kill him.

It didn’t work. All such attempts against Pacepa's life – and there were several – proved unsuccessful, though twice the general’s CIA-created cover was blown, necessitating his adoption of a whole new identity and relocating again.

Ultimately, the curse Ceausescu placed upon Pacepa came back home to roost, as the dictator and his wife Elena were executed by a Romanian firing squad immediately following a trial in which the accusations against them came almost word-for-word out of Pacepa’s first book, “Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu’s Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption.”

“Red Horizons” became an international bestseller published in 27 countries, and President Ronald Reagan came to refer to it as “my bible for dealing with dictators.” (See photo below.)

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf handing President Reagan a copy of "Red Horizons" in the Oval Office

On a personal note: In 2012, Pacepa wrote the definitive book on disinformation, titled “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism,” coauthored with historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, and with an Introduction by R. James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence. I was honored to be involved as the book’s editor, and also as a scriptwriter for the companion feature-length film documentary, “Disinformation: The Secret Strategy to Destroy the West.”

It was wonderful to know and to work with Mihai Pacepa – “Mike,” as his friends called him. Mike, Ron Rychlak and I have remained good friends ever since.

I can’t think of a better way to close this reflection on the life of Mike Pacepa than with the following recollection he shared with me:

"It was noon when the U.S. military plane bringing me to freedom landed at the U.S. presidential airport inside Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C."

"It was a glorious, sunny day outside, which only magnified the fireworks popping off inside of me. For many, many years, I had learned to hide my personal feelings. For that was the way of life in a Marxist society, where the government had its informants everywhere and where microphones covered you everyplace you went, from the office to the bedroom. But on that unforgettable day, I had an overwhelming desire to dance around in a jig all by myself. I was a free man! I was in America! The joy of finally becoming part of this magnanimous land of liberty, where nothing was impossible, was surpassed only by the joy of simply being alive.”

One final thought: During an interview I did with Mike for WND, I asked him, “Did you believe in God during the years you were working for the atheist Soviet bloc intelligence and disinformation apparatus? When did faith become an important part of your life?”

His response: “On that memorable day of July 28, 1978, when I became a free man, I fell to my knees and I prayed out loud for the first time in more than a quarter of a century. It took me a while. It was not easy to find the right words to express my great joy and thanks to the good Lord. In the end, all that I asked for was forgiveness for my past, freedom for my daughter and strength for my new life.

“It was my deep-down belief in God, inherited from my mother, that had kept my dream of freedom alive for all those 27 years I was a communist spy.”

God bless you, Mike. Rest in peace, my friend.

During the tumultuous 1960s, after centuries of legal prohibition and moral condemnation of abortion, a handful of dedicated activists launched an unprecedented campaign, whose purpose was two-fold: first, capture the news media and thus public opinion, and then, change the nation's abortion laws.

Their success was rapid and total – resulting in abortion being legalized in all 50 states, for virtually any reason and throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Since the Supreme Court's controversial Roe v. Wade decision made 48 years ago today, Jan. 22, 1973, American doctors have performed well over 60 million abortions.

Although polls consistently show a vast majority of Americans oppose unfettered abortion-on-demand, the movement's well-crafted, almost magical slogans – appealing to Americans' deeply rooted inclination toward tolerance, privacy and individual rights – enabled the early abortion marketers to divert attention away from the core issues of exactly what abortion does to both mother and unborn child, focusing instead on a newly created issue: "choice." No longer was the morality of killing the unborn at issue, but rather, "who decides."

The original abortion-rights slogans from the early '70s – they remain virtual articles of faith and rallying cries of the "pro-choice" movement to this day – were "Freedom of choice" and "Women must have control over their own bodies."

"I remember laughing when we made those slogans up," recalled Bernard Nathanson, M.D., co-founder of pro-abortion vanguard group NARAL, during a lengthy interview I did with him in 1990. Reminiscing about the early days of the abortion-rights movement in the late '60s and early '70s, he confided, "We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical."

Besides having served as chairman of the executive committee of NARAL – originally, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, and later renamed the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League – Nathanson was one of the principal architects and strategists of the abortion movement in the United States. He told me an astonishing story.

Changing the law on abortion

"In 1968 I met Lawrence Lader," Nathanson explained. "Lader had just finished a book called 'Abortion,' and in it had made the audacious demand that abortion should be legalized throughout the country. I had just finished a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and was impressed with the number of women who were coming into our clinics, wards and hospitals suffering from illegal, infected, botched abortions.

"Lader and I were perfect for each other. We sat down and plotted out the organization now known as NARAL. With Betty Friedan, we set up this organization and began working on the strategy."

"We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one," recalled the movement's co-founder. "Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million.

Bernard Nathanson

"Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law.

"Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization."

NARAL's brilliantly deceitful marketing campaign, bolstered by fraudulent "research," was uncannily successful. In New York, the law outlawing abortion had been on the books for 140 years. "In two years of work, we at NARAL struck that law down," said Nathanson. "We lobbied the legislature, we captured the media, we spent money on public relations ... Our first year's budget was $7,500. Of that, $5,000 was allotted to a public relations firm to persuade the media of the correctness of our position. That was in 1969."

New York immediately became the abortion capital for the eastern half of the United States.

"We were inundated with applicants for abortion," Nathanson told me. "To that end, I set up a clinic, the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), which operated in the east side of Manhattan. It had 10 operating rooms, 35 doctors, 85 nurses. It operated seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to midnight. We did 120 abortions every day in that clinic. At the end of the two years that I was the director, we had done 60,000 abortions. I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion."

At the time, CRASH was the largest abortion clinic in America.

'A window into the womb'

After two years, Nathanson resigned from CRASH and became chief of the obstetrical service at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, a major teaching center for Columbia University Medical School. At that time, in 1973, a raft of new technologies and apparatuses had just become available, all designed to afford physicians a "window into the womb."

Nathanson recounted for me the dazzling array of cutting-edge technologies coming online back then:

Real-time ultrasound: an instrument which beams high-frequency sound into the mother's abdomen. The echoes that come back are collected by a computer and assembled into a moving picture;

Electronic fetal heart monitoring: We clamp an apparatus on the mother's abdomen, and then continuously record the fetal heart rate, instant by instant;

Fetoscopy: an optical instrument put directly into the womb. We could watch that baby, actually eyeball it.

Cordocentesis: taking a needle, sticking it into the pregnant mother's uterus and, under ultrasound, locating the umbilical arteries and actually putting a needle into the cord, taking the baby's blood, diagnosing its illnesses, and treating it by giving it medicine. Today, surgery is actually performed on the unborn!

"Anyway," Nathanson told me, "as a result of all of this technology – looking at this baby, examining it, investigating it, watching its metabolic functions, watching it urinate, swallow, move and sleep, watching it dream, which you could see by its rapid eye movements via ultrasound, treating it, operating on it – I finally came to the conviction that this was my patient. This was a person! I was a physician, pledged to save my patients' lives, not to destroy them. So I changed my mind on the subject of abortion."

"There was nothing religious about it," he hastened to add. "This was purely a change of mind as a result of this fantastic technology, and the new insights and perceptions I had into the nature of the unborn child."

Nathanson expressed some doubts about abortion then, in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. "I was immediately summoned to a kangaroo court and was discharged from the pro-abortion movement, something I do not lose sleep over."

In 1985, intrigued by the question of what really happens during an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, Nathanson decided to put an ultrasound machine on the abdomen of a woman undergoing an abortion and to videotape what happens.

"We got a film that was astonishing, shocking, frightening," he told me.

It was made into a film called "The Silent Scream." It was shattering, and the pro-abortion people panicked. Because at this point, we had moved the abortion debate away from moralizing, sermonizing, sloganeering and pamphleteering into a high-tech argument. For the first time, the pro-life movement now had all of the technology and all of the smarts, and the pro-abortion people were on the defensive.

Nathanson's film provoked a massive campaign of defamation on the part of the pro-abortion movement, including charges that he had doctored the film. He hadn't. "I was accused of everything from pederasty to nepotism. But the American public saw the film."

In 1987, Nathanson released another, even stronger film called "Eclipse of Reason," introduced by Charlton Heston. "'The Silent Scream' dealt with a child who was aborted at 12 weeks," said Nathanson. "But there are 400 abortions every day in this country that are done after the third month of pregnancy. Contrary to popular misconception, Roe v. Wade makes abortion permissible up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy. I wanted to dramatize what happens in one of these late abortions, after the third month." He explained:

They took a fetuscope, which is a long optical instrument with a lens at one end and a strong light at the other. They inserted the fetuscope into the womb of a woman at 19-1/2 weeks, and a camera was clamped on the eyepiece and then the abortionist went to work.

This procedure was known as a D&E (dilation and evacuation). It involves dilating the cervix, rupturing the bag of waters, taking a large crushing instrument and introducing it way high up into the uterus, grabbing a piece of the baby, pulling it off the baby, and just repeating this procedure until the baby has been pulled apart piece by piece.

Then the pieces are assembled on a table, put together like a jigsaw puzzle, so the abortionist can be sure that the entire baby has been removed. We photographed all this through the fetuscope. This is a shattering film.

Thus did Bernard Nathanson, once a founder and top strategist of the pro-abortion movement, come to be staunchly committed to the cause of ending legalized abortion in America.

Nathanson is by no means the only abortionist to switch sides in the abortion war. In recent decades, hundreds of abortion providers have left their profession. On its website, NARAL has bemoaned "the dwindling number of doctors willing or trained to perform abortions."

Putting the genie back in the bottle

Ironically, Bernard Nathanson, perhaps the closest thing to being "the man who started it all" for the "pro-choice movement" – the Edward Teller of abortion – spent the rest of his life trying to put the abortion genie back in the bottle. Like Norma McCorvey – who as the barefoot-and-pregnant "Jane Roe" was the pro-abortion plaintiff in the Supreme Court's momentous and fateful Roe v. Wade decision – Nathanson also became utterly dedicated to putting an end to what both later came to see as a national tragedy on a par with the Nazi Holocaust.

"Let me share with you my own personal perception of the abortion tragedy," Nathanson told one California audience:

I'm going to set it against my Jewish heritage and the Holocaust in Europe. The abortion holocaust is beyond the ordinary discourse of morality and rational condemnation. It is not enough to pronounce it absolutely evil. Absolute evil used to characterize this abortion tragedy is an inept formulation.

The abortion tragedy is a new event, severed from connections with traditional presuppositions of history, psychology, politics and morality. It extends beyond the deliberations of reason, beyond the discernments of moral judgment, beyond meaning itself. It trivializes itself to call itself merely a holocaust or a tragedy.

It is, in the words of Arthur Cohen, perhaps the world's leading scholar on the European Holocaust, a mysterium tremendum, an utter mystery to the rational mind – a mystery that carries with it not only the aspect of vastness, but the resonance of terror, something so unutterably diabolic as to be literally unknowable to us.

"This is an evil torn free of its moorings in reason and causality, an ordinary secular corruption raised to unimaginable powers of magnification and limitless extremity. Nelly Sachs, a poetess who wrote poems on the Holocaust in Europe and who won the Nobel Prize in 1966, wrote a poem called 'Chorus of the Unborn.' Permit me to give you a few lines. She said:

We, the unborn, the yearning has begun to plague us
as shores of blood broaden to receive us.
Like dew, we sink into love but still
the shadows of time lie like questions over our secret.

'The Hand of God'

Six years after his interview with me, Dr. Bernard Nathanson – who had long described himself as a "Jewish atheist," including during the years when he first turned away from abortion – converted to Roman Catholicism and was baptized by John Cardinal O'Connor in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1996. That same year, he published his autobiography, "The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by The Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind." Toward the end of this insightful and shatteringly honest narrative, Nathanson describes one particular experience – his presence during a 1989 Operation Rescue demonstration against Planned Parenthood in New York City – that directly precipitated his spiritual conversion to Christianity:

Now, I had not been immune to the religious fervor of the pro-life movement. I had been aware in the early and mid-eighties that a great many of the Catholics and Protestants in the ranks had prayed for me, were praying for me, and I was not unmoved as time wore on. But it was not until I saw the spirit put to the test on those bitterly cold demonstration mornings, with pro-choicers hurling the most fulsome epithets at them, the police surrounding them, the media openly unsympathetic to their cause, the federal judiciary fining and jailing them, and municipal officials threatening them – all through it they sat smiling, quietly praying, singing, confident and righteous of their cause and ineradicably persuaded of their ultimate triumph – that I began seriously to question what indescribable Force generated them to this activity. Why, too, was I there? What had led me to this time and place? Was it the same Force that allowed them to sit serene and unafraid at the epicenter of legal, physical, ethical, and moral chaos?

And for the first time in my entire adult life, I began to entertain seriously the notion of God – a god who problematically had led me through the proverbial circles of hell, only to show me the way to redemption and mercy through His grace. The thought violated every eighteenth-century certainty I had cherished; it instantly converted my past into a vile bog of sin and evil; it indicted me and convicted me of high crimes against those who had loved me, and against those whom I did not even know; and simultaneously – miraculously – it held out a shimmering sliver of Hope to me, in the growing belief that Someone had died for my sins and my evil two millennia ago.

Bernard Nathanson passed away on Feb. 21, 2011, at the age of 84.

Note: The preceding interview with Bernard Nathanson, M.D., is excerpted and adapted from David Kupelian's bestselling book, "The Marketing of Evil."

"… become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world …" –Philippians 2:15

The United States of America is in the throes of a full-scale revolution. The new administration, which openly promises to transform America, rewrite her Constitution and "reimagine" all of her bedrock institutions, is being heralded by a shockingly totalitarian censorship campaign targeting everyone in opposition, from Donald J. Trump on down.

But this revolution is not new. For decades, our nation has been under covert, slow-motion assault by what we cryptically call "the far Left," a religious-political movement fundamentally at war with both Christianity and America.

From the sexual revolution and the "marriage-is-legalized-rape" radical feminists of the 1960s, to today's open love affair with socialism, sexual anarchy, abortion, identity politics, radical environmentalism and "defunding the police," the Left has relentlessly pursued its goal, as Barack Obama put it, of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

And though President Trump fought mightily against this tide for four years, tirelessly pursuing a pro-life, pro-religious freedom, pro-Constitution, pro-America agenda, as of today the revolutionaries are wildly ascendent.

Consider that in the past year the radical Left – with whose cause Big Media, Big Tech, Big Education, Big Hollywood and the entire Democratic Party totally identify – has succeeded in:

* indicting the freest, most welcoming and least racist nation on earth as irredeemably racist;

* inciting violent Marxist revolutionaries to riot, vandalize, loot and burn America's major cities;

* abandoning their former "safe, legal and rare" stance on abortion in favor of wanton celebration of late-term abortion up to the moment of birth and beyond;

* encouraging innocent children to irreversibly ruin their lives by chemically (and sometimes surgically) "transitioning" to the opposite sex – a scientific impossibility;

* using the COVID pandemic as a cover for imposing unprecedented totalitarian control over Americans; and

* gaslighting an entire nation by perpetrating the most wide-ranging, egregious and in-your-face election fraud in U.S. history while pretending disenfranchised American voters who simply want a fair and impartial investigation are the crazy ones, "trying to steal the election from Joe Biden."

And that's just for starters.

As America's once-great middle class becomes crushed through endless COVID lockdowns, a wealthy and privileged globalist elite is not only growing ever richer and more powerful, but also strategically deploying COVID as a pretext for engineering what they call a "Great Reset" of the world – replacing capitalism with socialism. This is neither conspiracy theory nor partisan conjecture; the "Reset" movement's leaders openly brag about it.

'Evil in high places'

What Americans are beholding as the new year unfolds is more than just a host of extremely daunting circumstances brought about by corrupt, misguided and power-hungry people in leadership positions. Something else seems to be at work.

Consider that the well-intentioned but naïve liberal leaders of yesteryear are almost nowhere to be found. In their place are politicians, academics and media personalities whose breathtaking level of dishonestly and delusion (they talk earnestly about men becoming pregnant, they liken Trump to Hitler and they pretend the corrupt and shockingly senile Joe Biden is qualified to be president) suggests a surreal, dystopian, darkly spiritual dimension to the current troubled era.

In truth, Americans today are confronted with a maniacal revolutionary movement emanating from a full-bore rebellion against God Almighty and the essential foundation stones of Western Judeo-Christian civilization – from biblical morality, to "unalienable" individual rights, to equal justice under the law, to the color-blind society championed by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., to the sacredness of children in the womb. After all, each of these priceless principles emanates directly from a deep recognition that human beings are created in the image of God – Imago Dei – and are therefore precious and of inestimable value.

Ironically, although atheist Karl Marx famously attacked religion and particularly Christianity as the "opium of the people," he himself concocted the ultimate religious opiate: Marxism.

For although the fantasy-world promise of socialism was a "classless" society wherein all people are equal and cared for, in the real world, corrupt leftist-elite politicians like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are so dishonest and desperately addicted to power, their consciences so seared by decades of lying, that they retain zero capacity for genuinely caring about the "poor and disadvantaged." It's all an act.

Rather, the religion they preach – Marxism, socialism, progressivism, whatever the label – is just an opiate they cynically dispense to pacify and distract the masses, while they grow ever more wealthy, powerful and privileged, but inwardly ever more ugly, corrupt and self-deceived.

So now comes the big question: With such genuine wickedness openly manifesting in "the land of the free," so much that it evokes the Apostle Paul's admonitions about "powers and principalities" and "spiritual wickedness in high places," what can good Americans do about the precarious state of their country? During this time of genuine tribulation and even persecution, how should moral, right-thinking Americans, who work hard, love their country, honor its history and obey its laws – and who don't pretend there are dozens of new genders and that America is a despicable racist hellhole – now respond?

'Uniquely blessed by God'

First, remember that our current time isn't uniquely burdened by evil and misfortune. When Jesus Christ walked the earth two millennia ago, He and His Jewish countrymen lived under harsh Roman occupation, "individual rights" (including the right to vote) didn't exist and most people were "poor and disadvantaged." And then there was leprosy. Moreover, to make sure the rabble always knew who was in charge, the Romans routinely crucified people along the roadsides – escaped slaves, criminals and other "lowlifes," and especially those they regarded as any sort of threat to Roman rule.

The intervening centuries have all too often presented equally daunting circumstances. While today's coronavirus pandemic has taken several hundred thousand American lives, 14th century Europe had to contend with the Black Plague, which killed some 25 to 50 million people – and no treatments or vaccines. Then there have been the countless wars, the costliest being World War II with over 70 million deaths, including over 400,000 Americans. Indeed, the 20th century was the bloodiest in all of human history, dominated as it was by the ever-metastasizing Marxist cancer, which consumed an appalling 100-200 million lives.

Truth is, the human race is so regularly mired in intractable crises, one could reasonably conclude that crisis and chaos are the norm for humans, with societal peace and prosperity but rare and cherished aberrations.

And that may be the point: America has historically constituted one of those few extraordinary "cherished aberrations," a nation uniquely blessed by God.

America was blessed by wise founders who crafted a magnificent Constitution to be the template for a government based on individual rights and ordered liberty, not the rule of kings and potentates. Blessed with a population willing to sacrifice 600,000 lives in a war that ended up expunging the evil of slavery. Blessed with an admirably resilient Judeo-Christian culture and a population genuinely in love with their country. Blessed with extraordinary natural resources, including more oil than Saudi Arabia. Blessed with unparalleled freedom and prosperity that to this day attract more immigrants to our shores than any other country in the world, by far.

Therefore, when they see their beloved country being stolen, defiled and "fundamentally transformed" as it is right now, right-thinking Americans feel compelled to defend her. But how?

First and most immediate: November's election was a freak show featuring hands-down the most massive amount of voter fraud in Americans' lifetimes. If the various states that permitted and encouraged election fraud – such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and others – aren't compelled to play by the rules, America will never again be a unified, peaceful nation – ever. So that is job one.

Even setting aside the outrageous election abuses, the major news media and tech monopolies pre-rigged November's contest long before Election Day by continually portraying Donald Trump as a Hitlerian, mentally ill traitor while casting the demented and spectacularly corrupt Joe Biden as a moral paragon and guarantor of national healing.

They all knew better, but they did it anyway.

However, a corrupt news establishment, a rigged election process, a radicalized Democratic Party and out-of-control Big Tech information gatekeepers are not our only problems.

America's colleges and universities have become Marxist indoctrination centers. Our public elementary, middle and high schools teach our children that America is a racist nation. Even preschoolers are herded into public libraries where demonically possessed men pretending to be women – some of them convicted sex-offenders – are allowed to beguile, indoctrinate and corrupt these children's tender little minds, while their clueless parents smile and nervously laugh.

Summarizing America's current spiritual state, Los Angeles mega-pastor John MacArthur recently told Fox News' Laura Ingraham: "America's in a moral free fall. … You murder the babies in the womb. If they survive the womb, you try to seduce them into transgender sexual deviation when they're young. If they survive that, you corrupt them with a godless education. If they survive that, you have divorce in the family. And if they grow to be adults, we drown them in a sea of pornography. This is a nation so far down in the sewer of immorality and wickedness that nothing surprises me."

MacArthur is right, of course. Which means even if Trump had managed to remain in office for another four years and continued to turbocharge the U.S. economy as he did previously, America would remain in a state of "moral free fall."

Try this thought experiment: Recall how Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court led to hordes of screaming people wildly pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court building, an epic mob scene reminiscent of something out of the French Revolution. And that was just over a nomination! Imagine what would happen if those rioters' worst fears – the outlawing of abortion – actually came to pass. What if the Supreme Court actually repealed Roe v. Wade, or – to take the hypothetical even further – suppose the states actually amended the U.S. Constitution with a Human Life Amendment, outlawing abortion throughout the nation.

It would be a great day, of course – except America would be in a state of war, her streets unsafe, mass hysteria dominating public life every single day.

I think you get the picture. America has become a very broken nation, with millions of people utterly captive to bizarre, deceitful and deadly beliefs.

Thus, while we work and litigate and demonstrate and persuade and donate and pray for a turnaround on all the current battlefields – from election integrity to media corruption to abortion – what America really needs is indeed a revolution. But not a Marxist one.

Toward national revival

First, a word of warning to hotheads: Whereas civil disobedience in the manner of the Civil Rights Movement demonstrators of the 1960s can be a powerful force for good, awakening the conscience of a nation and bringing about truly positive change, angry and violent rebellion is not only counterproductive, it is precisely what the maniacal, power-obsessed Left wants.

That's right. Although they will never admit it, it's what they desire most of all. Why? Because it would enable them to point to "rightwing, white-supremacist extremists and terrorists" and say, "See! We told you all along that white-nationalist Trump-supporting fascists were the real problem!"

This is precisely why the left is forever fabricating and publicizing a never-ending array of "hate-crime" hoaxes, because they serve to validate their deranged narrative that conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters are the real criminals, fascists and terrorists, and must be throttled at all costs. The left dreams of an unhinged, violent "rightwing" rebellion, as such would serve only to vindicate them and give them a lock on the power they crave.

As events unfold in the new year and beyond, bold strategies will emerge for restoring our nation, and patriotic right-thinking Americans will surely pursue them. Members of Congress and all state legislators will play pivotal roles, especially with regard to asuring free and fair elections, as will governors and mayors and indeed all elected office holders. Traditionally minded citizens will pursue parallel institutions to protect their children as well as their own wellbeing and sanity, from alternative educational modalities (homeschooling and private Christians schools) to alternative news media. Indeed, the American samizdat (that's what the "underground" press, the only source of truthful news, was called in the former Soviet empire) must flourish, although it will have to endure more censorship and abuse as they perform their vital role of investigating corruption and truthfully keeping Americans informed.

In every area of life, Americans will have to bear up with grace and dignity in fighting the good fight. Citizens, the ultimate sovereigns in America's unique constitutional system, who may be tempted to "drop out of politics" must do the opposite – vigorously exercising their sacred rights of voting, free speech, free association, freedom of worship, and to "petition the government for a redress of grievances" in every legal and moral way.

One final all-important point: Unlike virtually all other nations, the essence of America is not a common ethnicity but a common spirit – a grateful, liberty-loving, generous, essentially Christian spirit, which needs to burn more brightly now in America than ever.

Indeed, no real and lasting recovery is possible for America without a genuine spiritual revival. And each of us can and must play a key part in this revival. How? While we're engaged on every battlefront – committed to work creatively and effectively, to educate and persuade, to enlighten and awaken, and to outthink and outmaneuver the demented Left – each of us needs, as Christ commanded, to "Let [our] light … shine before men," always praying we can wage the battle righteously. And even praying for our enemies.

Christianity has historically grown during times of persecution, not only in numbers but in depth and sincerity. America's coming days promise to be very tough ones, with much persecution directed toward those who dare speak the Truth. But if good people stand up for what is right, for their nation, for what is legal and proper and moral and good – and if they do it with faith in Almighty God that He may be glorified and His will ultimately triumph – they absolutely cannot lose.

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." – Romans 8:28

Editor's note: The preceding is the lead-off story in the current issue of Whistleblower magazine, compiled and edited monthly by David Kupelian. If you would like to explore this subject more deeply, read "TRIBULATION AND REDEMPTION IN AMERICA: How today's breathtakingly corrupt politics and culture invite personal and national recovery." The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

Dear friend of WND,

Everything we have been urgently warning about for four years has come true: The lords of the Internet – Google, Facebook, Twitter and others – are finally making their big move for all-out, undisguised, totalitarian control of what you are allowed to read, watch, hear – and therefore think.

For Twitter to permanently ban the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump – who just two weeks ago a Gallup survey of Americans revealed to be the “most admired” man in the world – makes it pretty clear that Big Tech’s mask is off.

For years, tech monopoly CEOs lied and made lame excuses when congressmen and senators questioned them in committee hearings about why they continually censored, suppressed and tried to destroy conservatives, Christians and pro-lifers. Their answers were always, “It was a glitch.” “It was a mistake we have since corrected.” “A mid-level employee thought it violated our community standards, but on further examination, we have determined that was in error and have corrected it.” And so on – all lies.

We even heard this craven excuse-making when, one week before the most crucial election in American history, Twitter and other social media sites banned the New York Post’s devastating – and truthful – story documenting the corruption and criminality not just of Joe Biden’s son Hunter, but of the entire Biden family. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, later questioned fiercely by Sen. Ted Cruz about this, made the usual excuses: “Straight blocking of URLs was wrong,” Dorsey tweeted in his faux apology, “and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix. Our goal is to attempt to add context, and now we have capabilities to do that.”

But now, as I said, the mask is off. No more excuses or blaming employees or “glitches” or pretending to sort-of apologize. Since the Jan. 6 congressional certification of the presidential election for Joe Biden – despite massive election fraud (not “irregularities”) – and the siege of the U.S. Capitol building, social media giants have abandoned their former painful pretense and now openly pursue the course they long dreamed of: Effectively purging conservatives from the internet, as though they didn’t exist.

Hence, not only did Twitter ban Trump, but also many of his most prominent supporters and advisers, like attorney Sidney Powell and Gen. Michael Flynn – for life. And the list grows daily. But that’s just the beginning. Talk-radio giant Cumulus Media is telling its conservative talk-show hosts to shut up about election fraud or get fired, saying, “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.”

No sooner did prominent conservatives announce they were quitting Twitter in favor of free-speech social media alternatives like Parler, than the Tech Giants set out to kill their competitors in the cradle. As Media Research Center President Brent Bozell put it: “Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and a handful of other tech giants have seized control over the internet. … The widespread acts of censorship we witnessed this past weekend should scare everyone. If Big Tech is not reined in soon, democracy will die.”

Which brings me to WND.

What, you might ask, can WND possibly do about the rising insanity and unprecedented wickedness all around us?

Well, here’s what we can do: Honestly, accurately and fearlessly shine a very bright journalistic light into all the growing darkness and focus that light on corruption and fraud and deceit and evil everywhere they can be found.

This is exactly what Thomas Jefferson was talking about when he said, “The only security of all is in a FREE PRESS.” He knew an honest, truth-oriented press is essential for a free society to exist. In fact, that’s the very reason Big Tech (like the maniacal Leftist juggernaut of which it is a part) doesn’t want a free press in America! We at WND have always known this, which is why our motto since 1997 – long before most of the rest of the online media pack even existed – has been “A Free Press for a Free People.”

However, right now, just when our country needs a free press more than ever before, the free press happens to be in a very tough situation. As you may know, Big Tech has been attacking WND for very a long time:

* For years, Google has set its search algorithm to push WND way, way down in its search results.

* The Southern Poverty Law Center, the leftwing hate group Big Tech companies rely on to identify hate groups, characterizes WND as a hate group – one engaging in “manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions … from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds.” (Translation: We’re conservative and Christian, and therefore must be destroyed.)

* Last September, Facebook suddenly decided to massively suppress WND’s traffic on their platform – by about 90%. No reason given.

* At the same time, three major international online ad companies – TripleLift, AppNexus/Xander and Teads – canceled WND, seriously hurting our revenues.

* And of course, the tech monopolies have long been perpetrating an all-out assault on our operating revenues:

"Journalism, sustained by traditional advertising, is dying," confirms the respected Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC. In the research center's written testimony to Congress's Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, EPIC summarized its findings starkly: "Two companies [Google and Facebook] dominate the market. The privacy of internet users is under assault. The revenue model that sustained journalism is broken.”

Remember what enabled Google and Facebook to accomplish this – to essentially steal the life-sustaining advertising revenues from WND and other independent online news organizations: It’s their scandalous practice of invading your privacy and harvesting and monetizing your private, personal information.

As I said at the outset of this letter, we at WND have been warning – not for months, but years – that all this was coming. We documented how the leaders of Google, the most powerful company on earth, considered Trump's 2016 electoral triumph to have been a grotesquely historic mistake and a major failure on their part. They believed they didn't try hard enough on Hillary Clinton's behalf, and, as multiple courageous ex-Google whistleblowers told us over the years, Google fully intended to get the job done right in 2020.

To that end, as WND reported, based on multiple interviews with Harvard psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein – a lifelong Democrat whose extensive, peer-reviewed research on Google is featured in the sensational documentary "The Creepy Line" – Google has long been obsessed with defeating Trump.

“Not only does Google have the power to shift votes and opinions on a massive scale,” Epstein told us, “they actually USE that power.”

"Randomized, controlled experiments conducted with more than 10,000 people from 39 countries," Epstein said, "suggest that one company alone – Google LLC, which controls about 90 percent of online search in most countries – has likely been determining the outcomes of upwards of 25 percent of the national elections in the world for several years now, with increasing impact each year as Internet penetration has grown."

Bottom line: Big Tech's two most urgent tasks have long been #1) defeating Donald Trump in November’s election – which they unfortunately accomplished, and #2) making dissenting voices disappear, since that would pretty much eliminate any chance of a return of the real, Judeo-Christian America of our youth, and leave our once-great nation permanently in the hands of heedless, godless and conscienceless Far Left lunatics.

Friends, we are fighters here at WND, and we still intend – as long as God allows us to exist as a news organization – to shout the truth from the rooftops and publish it from sea to shining sea! WND fully intends to continue to sound the alarm and expose the totalitarian left's efforts to completely take over America – everything from the Democrats' election-time specialty of voter fraud, to the leftwing indoctrination of young voters at America's progressive brainwashing centers called colleges, to the Democratic Party's passionate love affair with abortion, to exposing all the outrageous lies of the corrupt "mainstream news media."

There is, thank goodness, some good news. There is one key factor in WND’s continued existence and wellbeing that neither Big Tech, nor Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, nor the lying “mainstream media” can touch. And that is you, and your willingness to partner with us to keep us shining the bright light into the darkness.

Therefore, I am humbly but boldly asking you, during this troubled but crucial time for our beloved country, to please consider making a generous, tax-deductible donation to the WND News Center, the nonprofit, charitable, 501(c)3 sister organization to the for-profit WND.

WND is the oldest online Christian journalism organization in America, staffed by experienced professional journalists from all the major broadcast and print organizations, but who are also committed Christians. The WND News Center, which has been approved and designated by the IRS as a public charity, makes our original investigative reporting, breaking news, analysis and commentary available free for re-publication to other qualified news organizations.

The nonprofit route has emerged as one of the most viable and necessary vehicles for online news in the era of the Big Tech monopoly, especially since, in addition to banning, censoring, shadow-banning, demonetizing and otherwise suppressing news and expression reflecting Judeo-Christian moral values, Big Tech has vacuumed up some 90% of all digital advertising! As a result, we are almost totally dependent on your support.

But that’s OK with us, as long as you’re willing to partner with us!

Friends, WND and the WND News Center cannot survive without your support. It’s as simple as that. If you help us, we will be able to boldly report, like no one else, on the tremendous forces of anarchy, insanity and spiritual darkness that are now washing over our beloved republic. Help us push back against the tide of darkness!

Whatever you can donate, just know that you are deeply appreciated by all of us, just as, in turn, our special brand of journalism is appreciated by millions of readers. Please help keep the flame of America's free press alive.

This is a time for bold action – for all of us. Our adversaries are not holding back, and we need to not hold back either. I pray you will be inspired to join with us by making a tax-deductible donation to the WND News Center.

Thank you so much, and God bless you.

David Kupelian
Vice President and Managing Editor, WND
Editor, Whistleblower magazine
Author, "The Marketing of Evil," "How Evil Works" and "The Snapping of the American Mind"

Looking back at 2020, it’s undeniable that this has been one of the strangest years in American history – from January’s sham presidential impeachment, to the coronavirus pandemic and economy-destroying national lockdown, to widespread hysterical demands to “defund the police” while Marxist mobs burned and looted American cities, to Big Tech scandalously suppressing journalism it doesn’t like, to Big Media openly siding with the senile and corrupt Joe Biden while portraying President Donald Trump as a mentally ill, racist would-be dictator, to November’s breathtakingly rigged election – likely the most crooked and corrupt in our history.

In between these wall-to-wall crises, blue-state mayors and governors still found time to close churches while keeping strip clubs open, destroy as many small businesses as possible while encouraging rioting, and threaten law-abiding citizens with arrest and imprisonment for having too many people in their home for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

The widespread anxiety, confusion, distrust, and most of all, anger and fear resulting from these events all but guarantees ongoing division and violence throughout America, if not outright civil war. It’s been well over a century since American national politics was this ugly and explosive.

Yet what is happening in our nation today cannot truly be understood by looking at it through a political lens.

It’s often said “politics is downstream from culture” – that is, a society’s political life reflects its citizens’ deeply held cultural values. But culture in turn is downstream from religion, which represents the “unseen realm” of ultimate issues like good and evil, sin and redemption, the origin, meaning and purpose of life, and where we spend eternity. This all-important moral-spiritual dimension in which human beings uniquely dwell is the only frame of reference by which one can really comprehend what is happening in America right now.

For the great war in which Americans are engaged is not left versus right, Democrat versus Republican, or Trump supporters versus Biden supporters. Rather, it is one of good versus evil. And as usual, it features a great evil masquerading as noble and good, while accusing what is good and decent of being immoral and reprobate. It’s a classic case of projection – evil pretending to be good while condemning good as evil.

Which brings us to the “Great Reset.”

What we cryptically call “the left” is, of course, always trying to “reset,” “reform” or “transform” the world, as it is a fundamentally revolutionary worldview. Barack Obama, just prior to being elected president in 2008, famously said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Today, Joe Biden likewise insists he wants to “transform” America. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, breathlessly anticipating the upcoming Georgia runoff races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate, announced with a flourish: "Now we take Georgia, and then we change America!"

What are they all talking about? In a world of very deeply flawed human beings, America has already been blessed with the most enlightened, noble, moral, compassionate and liberty-preserving political and economic system in world history.

Superficially, those on the hard left claim they want a socialist utopia (though most avoid the word “socialist”) where justice and equality prevail. But that’s not the prize they truly seek. Let’s take a closer look.

‘Build back better’

In the case of the “Great Reset,” global elites, including right here in America, are intent on leveraging the coronavirus pandemic into a completely new world system.

The first and most pivotal phase of the Great Reset plan under cover of COVID is, of course, winning the 2020 presidential election through a dizzyingly multifaceted attack on the integrity of the U.S. election system itself, on top of a unified campaign by Big Media and Big Tech to elect Joe Biden at all costs.

Whereas Trump, as president, has represented “America First” and all the traditional moral and constitutional underpinnings of genuine American greatness, Biden is fully on board with the “Great Reset.”

In fact, Biden’s campaign chose as its official campaign slogan the seemingly innocuous phrase, “Build Back Better.”

“Build Back Better” is literally the slogan of the “Great Reset,” coined by its originator and main advocate, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab.

Under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic, Schwab insists the entire world must “act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies,” meaning, as he explains, “we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.” In other words, socialism.

Indeed, right now, the elite class in America and around the world is planning – in fact, openly bragging about – the “Great Reset,” whereby they intend to leverage the COVID era’s widespread public fears and government’s rampant emergency powers to “reset” the world’s economic, social and governmental systems to institute a “more just” global socialist utopia – run by them.

Schwab, patriarch of the “Great Reset,” explains: “The level of cooperation and ambition this implies is unprecedented. But it is not some impossible dream. In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles. Almost instantly, the crisis forced businesses and individuals to abandon practices long claimed to be essential, from frequent air travel to working in an office.”

“Every country,” insists Schwab, “from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.”

Prince Charles is a key advocate for the Great Reset, as is International Monetary Fund chief economist Gina Gopinath, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, as well as heads of many major corporations, including Microsoft.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry is all in, recently exclaiming: "The notion of a reset is more important than ever before. I personally believe ... we're at the dawn of an extremely exciting time."

In fact, during a World Economic Forum panel discussion in mid-November, Kerry – who figures to be a special presidential envoy for Biden on climate issues – publicly affirmed not only that the Biden administration will support the Great Reset, but that it “will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is remarkably frank about the subterfuge under which the global Reset elites are operating: “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine our economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

Many might ask, what’s wrong with combatting poverty and inequality?

What many Democrat Party voters – especially younger millennials – naively fail to comprehend is twofold: First, not only doesn’t socialism cure poverty – in fact, it creates it – but socialism also necessitates turning a society into a totalitarian dictatorship; after all, radical wealth redistribution only occurs when the brute power of government compels it.

But even more fundamentally, the world’s elites do not really want equality for everybody. Historically, from Stalin to Mao to Chavez, Marxist/socialist leaders have never been truly interested in everyone being equal. That’s just happy-talk to seduce the masses. They want, first and foremost, power, they want wealth and privilege for themselves, they want glory, they want revenge on their enemies, and they want worship.

In a word, they want to be gods.

Which brings us to the nuclear core of the issue: The original temptation in the Garden of Eden was, “Ye shall be as gods.” (Genesis 3:5)

But when humans try to become gods, they turn into devils. Indeed, from abortion up to the moment of birth to the celebration of transgenderism to mandatory gun confiscation to the outright suppression of free speech, today’s Democratic Party increasingly is promoting policies and agendas that are either insane or evil – or both.

Evangelist Franklin Graham recently urged Georgia voters to reject what he called the "demonic” agenda of the Democratic Party in the two January elections to determine the majority in the U.S. Senate.

"I hope the church and all Georgians will see through this demonic-driven abortion agenda," he said. "This is not just a political issue, it is a moral and biblical issue. We need leadership in our nation that sees the wisdom in defending life."

Graham, the CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, noted that Senate candidate “Rev.” Raphael Warnock had tweeted his support for "reproductive justice."

“Justice”? What an ironic term to use, when abortion represents the biggest and most significant injustice of our time, and perhaps in all of American history – the genocide of tens of millions of innocent human babies.

Summarizing America’s current state, Los Angeles mega-pastor John MacArthur recently told Laura Ingraham: “America's in a moral free fall. … You murder the babies in the womb. If they survive the womb, you try to seduce them into transgender sexual deviation when they're young. If they survive that, you corrupt them with a godless education. If they survive that, you have divorce in the family. And if they grow to be adults, we drown them in a sea of pornography. This is a nation so far down in the sewer of immorality and wickedness that nothing surprises me.”

Barring a spiritual-cultural turnaround in the United States of America, where is all this leading?

A barcode for every human on the planet?

Since the coronavirus originated in China, and since Joe Biden is profoundly compromised with regard to China because of his family’s corrupt financial activities with that nation, and since Big Tech and so many U.S.-based mega-companies are in total thrall to China both for its vast retail markets and its cheap labor pool, it is reasonable to wonder: How exactly does China fit into the plan to “reset” the world under cover of COVID?

That’s easy: China is the leader.

Recently, in a chilling story headlined “Give Everyone a Barcode? China Trying to Use COVID Fears to Launch Global Tracking System for Humans,” the Christian Broadcast Network reported: “China's communist leader Xi Jinping is calling for countries across the world to accept a global COVID-19 tracking system that uses QR codes in an attempt to expedite international travel.”

It was during a Nov. 21 virtual G20 leaders' meeting that Xi proposed the "global mechanism" to deploy an electronic barcode that would help determine travelers’ health status.

"China has proposed a global mechanism on the mutual recognition of health certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes. We hope more countries will join this mechanism," Xi said, according to the CBN report, which explained:

The system provides users with a color code based on their risk of exposure to the coronavirus and the QR codes, or bar codes can be read on mobile devices.

A green code indicates that someone is safe to travel, while an orange or red code signifies the need to quarantine for up to two weeks.

Xi didn't elaborate on the type of app or QR code system that would be used and who would design it.

Not everyone is thrilled with a brutal communist dictator, one openly bent on ruling the entire planet, launching such a new surveillance and people control system.

As CBN reported, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth tweeted, “Beware of the Chinese government's proposal for a global QR code system. An initial focus on health could easily become a Trojan Horse for broader political monitoring and exclusion, akin to the dangers associated with China's social-credit system."

And according to some Christians, the report concluded, such technology-driven measures and tracking systems look a lot like “another step toward the fulfillment of the End Times ‘Mark of the Beast’ prophesied 2,000 years ago in the biblical book of Revelation.”

Revelation 13:16-17 famously warns: "It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name."

Conclusion

Is “The Great Reset” inevitable? Not in America – unless 74 million American adults who voted for Donald Trump throw up their hands and resign themselves to a rapid decline and ultimate loss of the nation they labored to build, and in many cases fought and bled to defend.

America is still home to tens of millions of praying, Bible-believing, freedom-loving, right-thinking Americans. Rage and violence are not the answer, but boldly – as happy warriors – standing up for truth and for the nation that has blessed us all is now the order of the day, and will remain so for a long time to come.

America indeed needs a great reset, but not one envisioned by deluded, power-obsessed, sociopathic elites. Rather, the reset we truly need is a repentance-fueled revival that will invite God’s renewed blessing on us and restore our nation to its former greatness and goodness.

Editor’s note: To explore this subject more deeply, see the current issue of WND’s acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian, titled “THE GREAT RESET: How American and global elites are leveraging COVID to socialize the world.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

President Donald J. Trump speaks with reporters following his conversations with military service personnel Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, during a Thanksgiving video conference call from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

With time rapidly running out for the Trump legal team to challenge the rampant election fraud that has characterized the most corrupt presidential contest of our lifetimes, it’s easy to lose sight of the other massive fraud that preceded, encouraged, enabled and excused the freakshow election Americans are being forced to endure.

And that’s the massive fraud that has been perpetrated by the American “news media,” which in reality is almost entirely a Pravda-type propaganda ministry for the Biden-Harris campaign.

That’s right. Pravda is a perfect descriptor for the American “news media.” Remember the famous joke in the dark days of the former Soviet Union? “There is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia” – Pravda meaning “truth” and Izvestia meaning “news.”

The sole purpose of those two giant propaganda mills disguised as journalism organizations was to guard, protect, lie for and defend at all costs the corrupt, elite ruling class in charge of the 20th century’s most destructive totalitarian regime.

Ironically, here in America – the nation that, under Ronald Reagan, defeated the Soviet Union – in 2020 virtually the entire “mainstream media” serves precisely the same purpose as Pravda and Izvestia once did: To protect, defend, and lie day in and day out to preserve this nation’s corrupt, elite ruling class. That includes the newly radicalized Democratic Party, the permanent government bureaucracy called the “deep state,” and even today’s often-violent neo-Marxist political and cultural juggernaut obsessed with tearing down and transforming what they all condemn as an unjust, immoral and racist country.

Thus, the hallmark of America’s establishment media has become an unwavering commitment to the increasingly radical progressive-left narrative – as diametrically opposed to truth – on every issue.

That means a refusal to report monumentally consequential news if doing so would undermine the left’s favored narrative. It means the total abandonment of basic fairness, evenhandedness and honesty in news coverage. And it means the demonization of everyone and everything that doesn’t support their progressive worldview – especially its all-out, four-year war on President Donald Trump.

Let’s quickly review a few of the main battlegrounds:

* Millions of Americans wonder aloud how it’s even possible that someone like Joe Biden – who not only is obviously disintegrating mentally, is wrong on virtually every issue, and lies continually, but also, as recent but largely suppressed evidence proves, is one of the most spectacularly corrupt politicians in modern American history – could become the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, let alone become leader of the free world.

* Likewise with regard to his vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, who will soon become president if the Biden ticket ultimately wins, as Biden inevitably fades further and fails. In addition to being the most leftwing member of the U.S. Senate, as the nonpartisan GovTrack.us determined in 2019, Harris has also proven to be one of the most thoroughly unlikable, abrasive, condescending, greedy, grasping, shallow and insincere candidates in a generation.

* Many Americans who don’t pay much attention to politics rely on the candidate debates held during the election season’s homestretch to help them with their voting decisions. So, how is it that the journalist-moderators always side with the Democrat while attempting to trip up and defame the Republican? When Kamala Harris insisted during the vice-presidential debate that both she and Joe Biden favor oil and gas fracking – even though multiple current videos show them both swearing up and down that they will completely abolish it – she somehow mysteriously got away with telling a giant lie, one of many, to millions of American voters. Throughout the campaign, Joe Biden was regularly served up tenderly prepared non-confrontational questions such as one might pose to a child, never challenged with a real question about either his dismal record or his astonishing corruption. Donald Trump, meanwhile, was repeatedly hammered with defamatory accusations disguised as questions (Will you finally, tonight, denounce “white supremacy?”) Indeed, the sitting president of the United States, who rescued the nation’s economy and destroyed ISIS, has since early 2016 been repeatedly compared by major U.S. news organizations to genocidal monster Adolf Hitler.

* As openly Marxist revolutionary groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa burned, vandalized and looted America’s cities day after day, month after month, destroying businesses, assaulting and sometimes murdering people, today’s journalists routinely dismissed it all as “mostly peaceful protests” against “systemic racism” and “police brutality” – while complaining loudly that America is actually under siege by “white supremacists.” Those who dare point out that it’s really hard to find many genuine “white supremacists” in today’s America, let alone rampaging hordes of them laying waste to the nation’s cities, are of course immediately condemned as white supremacists.

* Ever since explosive documentary proof finally emerged that Hillary Clinton was the person behind the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the media have ignored the true story of the worst political scandal in American history: It was Clinton, not Trump, who actually colluded with Russia; it was she who bought Russia’s intelligence product (the fake “Trump dossier”) and then channeled the false, defamatory “intel” through cooperative American news organizations.

This, by the way, precisely mirrors the modus operandi of Soviet disinformation campaigns of yesteryear: Carefully create a false narrative to advance a secret agenda, and then induce trusted Western media to broadcast the disinformation as “news.”

Think of it: Hillary Clinton literally fomented a four-year attempted coup d’etat against Donald Trump, to whom she had lost the 2016 election, seriously interfering with and undermining his presidency. Why? To divert FBI and DOJ attention away from her own criminal wrongdoing – illegally deleting 33,000 emails after they were subpoenaed, a serious felony for which anyone else would be prosecuted and imprisoned. Yet the media, after front-paging the Trump-Russia collusion story virtually every day for years, simply moved on once their big story was proven to be the greatest political hoax in U.S. history. No apologies – none.

* Indeed, many of the top-tier deep-state conspirators that engineered the Trump-Russia collusion hoax actually joined today’s media.That’s right. In their post-Obama careers, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe became either paid cable news analysts or frequent commentators.

* As historian Victor Davis Hanson explained: “Clapper is a CNN security analyst. Brennan was hired by MSNBC for a similar role. McCabe is a CNN contributor. Comey often makes guest appearances on news programs. In the most controversial stories, Brennan, Clapper and McCabe are being paid to analyze theories, facts and findings in which they themselves are often central players. As a guest commentator, Comey has weighed in on these controversies even as he distorts his past roles in them.”

And remember disgraced FBI agent Lisa Page (who conspired against Trump with her paramour, Peter Strzok, leader of the FBI's phony investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server and later a leading figure in the Russia-collusion hoax)? Recently Page became the new national security and legal analyst at NBC News.

* So desperate has much of today’s “news coverage” become that it often crosses the line into total drooling absurdity – like the CNN analyst who claimed that “Russian agents” were there in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with President Trump when he was being treated for COVID-19. The media also recently accused Donald Trump, the most pro-military, pro-veteran president in a generation, of hating and mocking war heroes – a slanderous allegation both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have continually repeated. A subsequent “news report” from the same source, The Atlantic, claimed that Trump secretly hates and mocks Christians too.

* Meanwhile, the promised Biden-Harris agenda – from virtual open borders and mass amnesty, to the confiscation of “assault weapons” (otherwise known as semiautomatic firearms), to the demented Green New Deal, to fundamentally altering America’s constitutional system of government by “packing” the Supreme Court, eliminating the Senate filibuster, abolishing the Electoral College and more – would rapidly lead to a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States of America.

‘Money and power’

Why has the “mainstream media” morphed into what undercover journalist James O’Keefe described in the title of his 2018 book as “American Pravda”?

The most obvious factor is ideology; the media have been overwhelmingly liberal-left for at least the last two generations. The landmark 1986 study titled “The Media Elite: America's New Powerbrokers” by researchers S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Linda Lichter confirmed that the vast majority of major U.S. media personalities were far more leftwing and secular in outlook than most Americans. The trend has only become more extreme since then.

In fact, far from valuing objectivity and fairness, the media has become a magnet for activists in recent decades. In the 1990s, when the LGBT movement (then called “gay rights”) was really taking off, many young gay and lesbian college students gravitated to journalism, not so much because they were interested in the pursuit of truth or informing the public, but to champion and advance their cause.

But there’s much more than ideology and activism at play. There’s money and power.

Consider why MSNBC switched its format several years ago, from featuring both liberals and conservatives in its show line-up. After all, arch-conservatives Michael Savage and Alan Keyes both had their own MSNBC shows. Even Tucker Carlson hosted “The Situation with Tucker Carlson” on MSNBC from 2005 to 2008. (I remember being a guest on that show.) Yet today, the entire MSNBC lineup consists of hair-on-fire radical left-wingers. Why?

MSNBC’s top brass determined it would make more money if it served the far left. In a story headlined “MSNBC as Fox's Liberal Evil Twin,” the New York Times reported in 2012: “MSNBC has pumped up its ratings by recasting itself as a left-leaning riposte to Fox.” It’s all about money.

However, the financial dynamics get much worse: U.S.-headquartered multinational corporations have come to depend on China, both for its huge retail market and the super-cheap (sometimes slave) labor it offers. This exerts a major influence on American media coverage. Remember, journalism is a business, and the “mainstream” news organizations are all owned by gigantic companies. AT&T owns CNN; Comcast owns NBC, CNBC and MSNBC; Disney owns ABC and ESPN; ViacomCBS owns CBS. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. And all have huge stakes in China.

That might help explain why, for example, media coverage of China’s role in the coronavirus pandemic is so bizarrely absent. Credible reports from courageous Chinese virologists and other experts with intimate knowledge of the origins of the 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, who claim China intentionally created the virus in a lab, are ignored or dismissed as insane “conspiracy theories” and banned from social media platforms in the U.S. News organizations cannot afford to offend their parent companies’ most important international partner – even if it is run by a brutal, soulless, communist regime obsessed with ruling the world.

When news publications are owned by giant corporations with their fingers in many pies and even links to adversary foreign governments, reporters quickly learn – explicitly or through “osmosis” – of the bias, sensibilities and financial interests of their publishers or owners. And they play their tune accordingly.

‘A massive realignment’

One final factor that makes all these various elements come together to create a biased, blind, amoral, dishonest, but yet strangely self-righteous press: Hate.

Members of the establishment media tend to revile Donald Trump for being a genuine outsider who dared to invade their beloved realm – known as “the swamp” to outsiders – and for his promise to “drain” it of the monumental corruption, self-dealing and privilege that comprise life within the swamp. The media also hate him for championing a strongly conservative-Christian agenda – for example, appointing conservative Supreme Court justices who threaten their beloved abortion-on-demand culture. And of course, they detest Trump for publicly and continually exposing them for exactly what they are.

Hate is much more than it seems. It’s a transformative emotion that almost magically enables people to be horrendously wrong, yet to feel they are right – even supremely righteous and virtuous (for example, the mobs burning down America’s cities). In that “altered state,” down appears to be up, immoral seems moral and, most basically, evil masquerades as good.

Toward the end of my 2005 book “The Marketing of Evil,” I write: “Over the past few decades no institution has been more culpable for making evil appear good and good appear evil than the media.” That is true today more than ever.

For years Sean Hannity has said, “Journalism died in 2008,” keying off the absurdly biased coverage – more like deification – of then presidential candidate Barack Obama by the fawning, star-struck news media.

That’s right, Sean, the media died. But they’ve returned as the walking dead – ghoulish parodies of living, breathing, honest journalists.

Tucker Carlson gave this prophetic warning on his Fox News show just days before the 2020 presidential election, reflecting on the news media’s atrocious pre-election bias and total abandonment of even their former pretense of objectivity:

“The good news about all of this: It is so bad and so transparent that it can’t continue. All their stupid little morning shows, and their dumb Sunday shows and their even dumber cable shows. All of that’s going away. When the smoke clears from this election, there’ll be a massive realignment in the media, no matter who wins. Because they showed who they are, and it’s so unappealing, it’s so far from journalism that it can’t continue.”

Editor’s note: To explore this subject more deeply, see the current issue of WND’s acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian, titled “GUARDIANS OF THE SWAMP: How angry, entitled and shockingly dishonest ‘journalists’ are destroying America.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

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President Donald J. Trump talks with reporters outside the South Portico entrance of the White House Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, prior to boarding Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to begin his trip to North Carolina. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

Dear friend of WND,

Tucker Carlson was recently commenting on the media’s atrocious pre-election bias – from their wanton lying to protect Joe Biden, to their defamation of honest whistleblowers as Russian disinformation agents, to their flat-out refusal to cover major stories exposing the Biden family’s monumental corruption. He ended with this prophetic warning:

“When the smoke clears from this election, there’ll be a massive realignment in the media, no matter who wins. Because they showed who they are. And it’s so unappealing, it’s so far from journalism, that it can’t continue.”

Tucker is correct. No matter how this election charade ends, the media landscape will be forever changed. Most so-called “mainstream journalists” have disgraced themselves beyond repair, having proven they are no better – and no different – than Pravda, the pretend “newspaper of record” in the former Soviet Union that was actually just a craven, lying, servile propaganda operation for that totalitarian regime’s ruling elite.

After all, within hours of President Donald Trump disclosing that both he and Melania were infected with the Chinese coronavirus, the media pounced on him, saying he had it coming. CNN anchor Don Lemon speculated on whether Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi might become president, while former Barack Obama staffer and Hillary Clinton national spokeswoman Zara Rahim wrote, "I hope he dies." Just before that, The Atlantic, which had recently published a high-profile libelous story claiming President Trump hates and mocks war heroes, published a second, similar high-profile libelous story claiming Trump hates and mocks Christians.

Enough! As Tucker said, this insanity “can’t continue.” Americans won’t stand for it.

Thus, whatever the future holds after this election, Americans are going to need, more than ever, a courageous and truthful “free press” to help the good people of this country navigate what promises to be a tumultuous, dangerous and unpredictable era ahead. Because even if Trump is re-elected, the left’s madness, violence, intimidation, nonstop lying, revolutionary lawlessness, massive hoaxes and demonization of the innocent will not stop – in fact, they will almost certainly increase.

WorldNetDaily fully intends to remain a key part of America’s truth-proclaiming free press in the days, months and years to come. Indeed, our motto since 1997 – long before most of the rest of the online media pack even existed – has been “A Free Press for a Free People.”

Unfortunately, I’m sorry to say powerful forces are hard at work attempting to destroy us. Recently, three major international online advertising companies that had long served ads on WND – our main source of revenue and sustenance – all suddenly decided, at the same time, to cancel WND in the run-up to the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. The ad companies blacklisting WND – namely, TripleLift, AppNexus/Xander and Teads – all cited vague breaches of their terms of service (i.e. “any content that is illegal or otherwise contrary to any applicable law, regulation, directive, guideline or order, including without limitation any misleading, unethical, obscene, defamatory, deceptive, gambling-related or hateful content,” etc.). You get the idea: If they don’t like your politics, you’re cancelled.

Even worse than losing key ad companies: A few months ago Facebook suddenly decided to massively suppress WND’s traffic on their platform – which forms a key part of our overall reader engagement, since WND has close to a million Facebook friends. Why is Facebook massively suppressing WND? No reason given, despite repeated attempts to find out from them. As a result, WND’s overall traffic, and therefore our revenue, is down significantly and painfully from what it was a few months ago.

Meanwhile, Google has virtually written WND out of its search algorithm so that unless you specify “WND.com” in your search terms, WND rarely shows up. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the leftwing hate group that many Big Tech companies rely on to identify hate groups, sees WND as a hate group – specifically, one engaging in “manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions … from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds.” Translation: We’re conservative and Christian.

I could provide many more examples, but the point is clear.

So WHY do they do this to WND?

It’s not because we are “conspiracy theorists” or “white supremacists” – or as one of the three advertising companies that just blacklisted us alleged, because we engage in “hate speech.”

It’s because we dare to publish the truth, something basically forbidden in today’s leftwing-dominated news and information culture.

That’s right, the truth – what a concept! The truth about Joe Biden’s decades-long family corruption, serial plagiarism, continual lying, dismal half-century track record, growing dementia and more. The truth about Kamala Harris being rated by the nonpartisan GovTrack.us as the most leftwing member of the U.S. Senate – further left than Bernie Sanders (not to mention being one of the most dishonest, vacuous, insincere, abrasive, condescending and excruciatingly unlikeable candidates for high office in our lifetime). The truth about the Chinese coronavirus – about what real science actually says about masks, about lockdowns, about medications like hydroxychloroquine, about school openings, about the importance of early treatment and much more. The truth about Hillary Clinton being the actual villain at the heart of the whole Trump-Russia collusion hoax. And much more – including the truth about America’s “mainstream media” having morphed fully into the militant, continually lying propaganda wing of the Democratic Party.

We at WND, particularly Joseph Farah and myself, have been warning America for over three years – longer than virtually any other journalists, since shortly after the 2016 election – that Big Tech intended to crush conservative expression and to do everything within their power, moral or immoral, legal or illegal, to prevent Donald Trump’s re-election. They’re doing precisely that right now, and WND is in danger of being mortally wounded in this war.

Please help us. We have been hit hard. It’s very difficult for us to pay our terrific and dedicated journalists, all of whom have taken major pay-cuts and missed paychecks entirely.

I won’t prolong my request: If WND dies, the world will go on, but (and hopefully you would agree) it will have lost something valuable and needful. And I can promise you, the Left – from Big Tech and the “mainstream media” to the Democratic Party and their rioting street goons – would be overjoyed to gloat over the demise of America’s original, pioneering, independent online news source, now in its 24th year.

I know you’re receiving a lot of donation appeals right now; that’s how it is at election time. But please consider our request.

As Thomas Jefferson so astutely said about America’s wellbeing, “The only security of all is in a FREE PRESS.” Jefferson was right; an honest, truth-based press is precious and essential for a free society. To keep America’s free press alive, please take a minute to make a donation of any amount. Everybody at WND will be enormously grateful.

One final thought: Whatever happens in Tuesday’s election, the good people in America are going to need to stick together. As I said, even if Trump wins, the left will go crazy. (Yeah I know, they’re already crazy – but I mean crazy violent.) If Biden wins … well let’s not go there. Either way, expect the media to lie their heads off like never before.

But if you want honest news reporting by journalists who honor God, America and the Constitution, please help us out now, so we can be there for you in the months and years to come. In other words: Let’s help each other.

Thank you and God bless you,

David Kupelian
Vice President and Managing Editor, WND
Editor, Whistleblower magazine
Author, "The Marketing of Evil," "How Evil Works" and "The Snapping of the American Mind"

President Donald J. Trump disembarks Air Force One at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, to attend an event at the Gastonia Municipal Airport in nearby Gastonia, North Carolina. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Americans are in the midst of what is undoubtedly the most consequential election since the Civil War.

It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between the two choices. As evangelist Franklin Graham puts it, these “two vastly different directions for the future of this country” will affect not just today’s Americans, “but our children and our grandchildren” as well.

Ironically, though one of these possible “futures” is clearly pro-life and pro-freedom, and the other is clearly anti-life and anti-freedom, large numbers of professing Christians intend either to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, or even more inexplicably, not to vote at all.

Why?

Last week, popular evangelical pastor John Piper made his case for Christians not voting for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

Piper makes clear from the get-go that Biden’s far-left policies are abhorrent to Christians, acknowledging that they’re geared toward what Piper describes as “baby-killing, sex-switching, freedom-limiting and socialistic overreach.”

But what about Trump, whose policies for the past four years have proven to be overwhelmingly consistent with, and supportive of, evangelical Christian sensibilities and concerns? Donald Trump is, in fact, widely regarded as the most pro-life president of our lifetime. Likewise, as president he has been the best friend of Israel in a generation, courageously recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. Embassy there – something many previous presidents of both parties promised but failed to do. And Trump has consistently championed religious freedom and freedom of speech, both under brutal attack by the radical left, which – truth be told – is essentially hostile to Christianity.

So what’s the problem? Piper is concerned that Trump’s personal failings, specifically four things – his “unrepentant boastfulness,” his “vulgarity,” his “factiousness” and his past “sexual immorality” – are also, like abortion and socialism, “deadly,” even potentially “nation-corrupting.” Therefore, he said, he will not vote for either candidate.

Putting aside Piper’s odd moral equivalence between rampant abortion and boastfulness, does the good pastor not realize that when you vote for a president, you are not choosing only one leader and his policy agenda, but a multitude of leaders and policies in every area of life, and therefore a whole “future” for the country, as Franklin Graham put it? Most prominently, you are choosing a vice president who may well become president (as has happened 14 times in U.S. history). You are also choosing Cabinet and department heads. And you are choosing federal judges, including Supreme Court justices with lifetime tenure who will decide issues of stupendous importance that affect every American. And you are choosing thousands of other people – about 4,000 federal government appointees in all – who will profoundly shape the nation in which your children and grandchildren will live for a long, long time – whether for good or for ill.

Contrast Vice President Mike Pence with his vice-presidential rival Kamala Harris. Pence has proven, on the field of battle for the last four years, that he is indeed a true Christian in word, deed and manner – exactly the kind of Christian, with a spotless personal life, that one would suppose John Piper could support. However, Kamala Harris is precisely the opposite sort of person. Aside from being gratingly unlikable, condescending and shockingly dishonest, the far-left Harris has a long history – first as California’s attorney general and later as a U.S. senator – of open religious bigotry.

Since both Trump and Biden are in their 70s and could easily turn the presidency over to their vice presidents, what then? Would John Piper prefer Mike Pence to Kamala Harris?

If so, there is an opportunity for him to make that choice known at the ballot box on Nov. 3. And even more important, since he is an evangelical Christian figure with considerable influence, to make it known to his many listeners. Pastor, if you don’t want to see the viscerally anti-Christian Harris, whose policies are so extreme that the nonpartisan GovTrack.us found her to be the most leftwing member of the U.S. Senate – even more radical than socialist Bernie Sanders – then your other option is to vote for Donald Trump, even if he’s boastful and egotistical. Because Biden, who is obviously frail and rapidly failing both mentally and physically, would very likely turn the country over to Kamala Harris sometime during his first and only term as president.

Although many evangelical leaders openly support Trump and Pence, like mega-pastor John MacArthur who says, “Any real, true believer” will vote for Trump over Biden, John Piper is not alone, as there are other prominent Christians who refuse to support Trump because of his perceived character flaws.

But it actually gets worse than that.

Last week, a new coalition calling itself Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden urged pro-life Christians across America to support the most radically pro-abortion presidential and vice presidential candidates and party platform in American history.

You see, argues the group, whose online petition has garnered thousands of signatures, "poverty kills millions every year. So does lack of healthcare and smoking. Racism kills. Unless we quickly make major changes, devastating climate change will kill tens of millions. Poverty, lack of accessible health care services, smoking, racism and climate change are all pro-life issues."

This largely liberal-left coalition – which includes Christianity Today’s former board chairman John Huffman and Billy Graham’s granddaughter Jerushah Dufore – claims "the most common reason women give for abortion is the financial difficulty of another child." Thus, they praise “a number of Democratic proposals that would significantly alleviate that financial burden: accessible health services for all citizens, affordable childcare, a minimum wage that lifts workers out of poverty" and so on.

According to this group’s thinking, even though Biden and Harris openly support de facto infanticide for any reason or no reason, the Democratic candidates’ “policies are more consistent with the biblically shaped ethic of life than those of Donald Trump."

How can any Christian think this way?

Friends, because of the urgency of the hour, let’s just dispense with comforting euphemisms and other reality-avoidance. Abortion – which Biden, Harris and the 2020 Democratic Party Platform unreservedly endorse in all circumstances and demand that you and I as taxpayers pay for – amounts to executing babies right up to the actual moment of birth and sometimes beyond. That’s the dictionary definition of “infanticide.”

As pro-life group Live Action’s founder Lila Rose has publicized, the testimony of many abortion-clinic workers as well as abortionists themselves reveals the fate of thousands of late-term abortions, including viable human babies “mistakenly” born alive after attempted abortions. Methods of execution at that point – again, we are talking about living, breathing, already born, viable babies – range from “putting a baby who survives an abortion into a jar with toxic solution to drown,” said Rose, to cutting off oxygen and effectively strangling the child, and even to gruesome methods such has twisting off their heads. One abortionist boasted to Live Action investigators of having performed “‘20-some thousand’ abortions after 24 weeks, and nonchalantly detailed his chilling procedure for administering a fatal injection to the baby in the womb (to make the child ‘mushy’ and easier to remove) and extracting body parts in pieces.”

That – every bit of it – is what “Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden” are actually supporting and facilitating, whether they realize it or not, and whether they like it or not.

That is also what Christian voters who refuse to vote for either candidate “out of principle” are supporting, whether they realize it or not, and whether they like it or not.

It’s simple math: The only vote that effectively opposes and works against America’s great national sin – the abomination of violently snuffing the life out of the next generation at the rate of about 1 million per year – is to support the reelection of Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

Trump is not a perfect person. Neither am I and neither are you. Get over it.

Friends, we are blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on earth. Our forefathers came here at tremendous risk to life and limb to establish a free Christian nation and many died in the process. I’m not asking you to risk your life – just to vote. And you need to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates who will champion life and not death; freedom and not socialist totalitarianism; traditional values and not progressive-left “there-are-100-different-genders” sexual anarchy; freedom of speech and religion, not censorship and “cancel culture”; Rev. Martin Luther King’s vision of a color-blind society and not Black Lives Matter’s vision of revenge, destruction and revolution.

Life is full of tough decisions. Voting in 2020 is not one of them.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” – Proverbs 29:2

“Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Therefore the wrath of the LORD is upon you.” – 2 Chronicles 19:2

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” – Deuteronomy 30:19

Americans are facing a presidential election more crucial to their freedom and wellbeing than perhaps any election in their nation’s history – and yet which has become a total charade, a farce, a massive pretense in every way.

Virtually the entire “mainstream media” – the Democratic Party’s propaganda wing – loathes the fearless incumbent Donald Trump, even as he suffers from COVID-19. What does it matter that he resurrected the U.S. economy, made America energy-independent, destroyed the ISIS caliphate and largely kept his campaign promises, all while fighting off a never-ending coup d’etat against him? Most media figures hate him, while fiercely supporting – and actually pretending to venerate – the challenger, Joe Biden, a feeble, unprincipled, constantly lying and shockingly corrupt do-nothing career politician whose mental disintegration is now so obvious and advanced that he can barely speak coherently without a teleprompter or days of rehearsals.

Everyone paying attention, of course, realizes that Joe Biden is simply a smiling, failing and soon-to-be-discarded Trojan horse, in the bowels of which impatiently crouch the radicals, socialists and Marxist revolutionaries who plan to burst out and rule America should Biden win. That includes, first and foremost, his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, who the independent GovTrack.us “ranked most liberal compared to All Senators” in 2019 – that is, further left than flaming socialist Bernie Sanders.

So, with Election Day in less than a month, let’s venture a little deeper than the usual formulaic analyses pundits offer to explain today’s surreal political landscape.

In fact, let’s start with one utterly obvious truth that almost no one is willing to publicly express: Today’s Democratic Party is insane.

“Insane: not of sound mind; mentally deranged; unable to think clearly; utterly senseless; demented; frenzied”

Consider the classic, oft-cited example of a true statement so clearly self-evident that everybody acknowledges it: “2+2=4.”

Right?

Not anymore.

* New York City’s Brooklyn College math education professor Laurie Rubel is so “woke” she recently claimed that insisting 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” Yes, really.

* The Democratic Party insists it can change the earth’s weather by adopting a bizarre socialist-totalitarian program that would completely destroy the U.S. economy, eradicate Americans’ constitutional rights, kill millions of jobs and plunge the nation into inescapable chaos, anarchy and depression. The Green New Deal’s estimated cost approaches $100 trillion, more money than the gross world product – that is, the annual economic output of every nation on earth combined.

* In an era of skyrocketing violent crime, the Minneapolis City Council recently pledged not to merely “defund,” but to entirely “dismantle” its city's police department, while over a dozen other U.S. cities have promised to “defund” theirs. Meanwhile, as Democrat officials demonize America’s police as racist bullies and prosecute innocent citizens for defending themselves against violent mobs, they are also freeing thousands of criminals from prison, ending cash bail so offenders can get back on the street immediately after being arrested to offend again, and encouraging violent revolutionary mobs to rob, loot and burn America’s cities night after night. And then they blame it all on Trump.

* Sen. Bernie Sanders, who many believe would largely set the agenda for a Joe Biden administration, has publicly insisted that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who killed three people including an eight-year-old boy and injured 280 others, must be allowed to vote from prison, along with all other convicted felons in the country.

* The Democratic Party, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, have abandoned their former “safe, legal and rare” mantra regarding abortion and now insist a beautiful, full-term human baby just about to be born is not really a person at all, and therefore can be slaughtered at will, even after he or she is born – as long as “the mother and her doctor” agree.

* Democrats also agree there are more than 100 different genders, not just the two that existed from the dawn of mankind on earth until sometime last year, and insist that men can get pregnant and have babies and that taxpayers must fund pregnant men’s abortions. And, if you don’t agree with these extreme delusions, you’re an anti-science bigot.

Got it? These are the people who believe they’re much more intelligent and moral than you, and who, in just a few weeks, fully intend to take over America forever.

“Forever”?

"If the Democrats win,” Rush Limbaugh said recently, “that's the end of democracy. It's the end of the two-party system. We're gonna have a one-party government that is going to devote itself to eliminating all opposition. That's what's at stake. If they win, I think the Republican Party essentially ceases to exist."

How is that even possible, seeing as America has been a two-party system for centuries?

"One of the first things they will do,” explained Limbaugh, “is grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, and that will give them four Democrat senators. They will never lose control of the Senate. They will never lose control of the House. They will pack the Supreme Court with who knows how many new justices, and they'll all be left-leaning justices. And it won't take them long to do any of this. And after they've done it, there will be a one-party state. The United States will be a one-party government."

What would America look like under permanent Democrat rule? Limbaugh echoes what others have also predicted: The entire U.S. would become like California.

Once the most loved and admired state in the union – perfect weather, fantastically fertile land, the Pacific Ocean – California had everything. But today much of the state resembles feudal medieval Europe, with the middle class rapidly fleeing or disintegrating, leaving the state to a super-rich elite class in gated communities with private security, surrounded by large areas populated by multitudes of homeless drug addicts and other lost souls living in unthinkable filth and squalor, human feces and drug paraphernalia everywhere, and marked by the frightening re-emergence of long-conquered diseases like typhus, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and the bubonic plague.

What has driven the Democratic Party to this advanced state of madness?

For an important clue, consider a little more of Limbaugh’s analysis: "The Democrat Party has become full-fledged Marxist radical left. They do not believe in opposition. They don't believe in debate. They don't believe they should have to win minds and hearts. They don't believe they should have to persuade anybody. They don't believe that there is legitimate opposition. … And there will be punishment for people who oppose them, [who] try to stop them. They're gonna make everybody pay. … You can forget about the Democrat Party as a party that has to win its way into power and has to keep proving itself. Once they get it, folks, they're never gonna take the chance of losing it again."

All of this behavior is clearly irrational, immoral, totalitarian and, yes, insane. But then, that’s exactly what “full-fledged Marxist radical left” has always meant.

Marxism is in complete rebellion against God, against His commandments, against His morality, against the very idea of objective truth. Marxists want their own truth, their own laws, their own morality, their own biology, their own science, their own heaven – on earth. They want nothing to do with God or the Judeo-Christian culture that comprised the moral foundation of America and Western Civilization – which they openly hate.

At its deepest level, of course, we’re talking about a war between good and evil.

Hit the pause button: None of this is to say that our Democrat countrymen are evil – most are not, but they have been powerfully indoctrinated, intimidated, brainwashed. Their hatred of Trump – and of America herself as a “systemically racist” nation – combined with the Marxist indoctrination dished out by almost all U.S. colleges and reinforced by today’s “fake news” disinformation media and radically intolerant “cancel culture,” has rendered them guilt-ridden, monumentally deceived and very angry. But they are not our enemies; they’re our brothers and sisters who are enslaved by an enemy power that has, for the time being at least, totally captured their minds and loyalties. Some of them will one day wake up and come back to sanity, especially the young.

In the meantime, vote for Trump like your country and your freedom depend on it, because they most certainly do.

"Trump is the only guy that can prevent this from happening," said Limbaugh. "He's the only guy with the gonads, he's the only guy with the desire, he's the only guy with the know-how, and he's the only guy with the spirit to stand up and oppose them. He's the only guy not afraid of them. But this is what we're facing."

Limbaugh also predicted that if Democrats lose in November, "They're going to engage in violence like you haven't seen yet."

"The Democrats are promising that the riots will continue and intensify. The Democrats are promising that the violence will ratchet up. In fact, this is one of the things that the Democrats are using to try to win the election. They're actually extorting voters. The Democrats are saying, if you want this, if you want this stuff to continue, elect Trump. If you elect Trump, this stuff's gonna continue and it's gonna keep getting worse. If you want us to stop, then don't elect Trump."

And what does President Donald Trump himself say about all of this? During a late-August visit to Old Forge, Penn., Trump candidly told supporters:

“At stake in this election is the survival of our nation. It’s true, because we’re dealing with crazy people on the other side. They’ve gone totally, stone-cold crazy.”

“If you want a vision of your life under a Biden presidency, think of the smoldering ruins in Minneapolis, the violent anarchy of Portland, the bloodstained sidewalks of Chicago, and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in America.”

“They’re coming to get you. ... and me. We, we’re the wall between the American Dream and total insanity, and the destruction of the greatest country in the history of the world.”

“They want to cancel you. Totally cancel you. Take your job, turn your family against you for speaking your mind while they indoctrinate your children with twisted, twisted worldviews that nobody ever thought possible.”

“Joe Biden is the candidate of these privileged liberal hypocrites who hold you and your values in disdain. But you can send them all a thundering message on Election Day by voting for Trump-Pence.”

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I live near two of the Oregon towns that basically burned to the ground last week – Phoenix, population 4,600, virtually obliterated with approximately 1,000 homes destroyed, and neighboring Talent, population 6,500, which lost hundreds of homes. Virtually everybody in Oregon is currently breathing dangerously toxic smoke-polluted air, reportedly the worst air on earth.

All you have to do to grasp the magnitude of the catastrophe is watch this video shot from a helicopter surveying the destruction caused by the Almeda Fire to those two towns. Seeing neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood that look exactly as though they’d been bombed, leaving nothing left, the only comments possible are, “Oh my God … Oh my God … Oh my God.”

Meanwhile, Democrats, in keeping with the rule that everything happening during an election year must be politicized, are blaming the ferocious fires ravaging my state, as well as California and Washington, on climate change – and therefore on President Trump and “climate-change denying” Republicans.

Joe Biden is accusing Trump of being a "climate arsonist." "If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House," he said in a speech Monday, "why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze? If you give a climate denier four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised when more of America is underwater?"

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, said over the weekend that President Trump blaming the abandonment of sensible “forest management” for wildfires is “just a big and devastating lie.” Demanding that Americans vote for a president who would “follow the science on global warming,” Merkeley told ABC’s “This Week”: “The Cascade snow packs have gotten smaller. Our forests have gotten drier. Our ocean has gotten warmer and more acidic. And this has been happening steadily over the last several decades. America not only has to get its own act in order, it has to help lead the world to take this on. This is a planetary-scale tragedy of the commons that we need leadership to end.”

Likewise, Jay Inslee, Washington’s Democrat governor – best known recently for allowing the anarchist “CHAZ/CHOP” autonomous zone to take over six blocks of downtown Seattle – told “This Week” that America’s western states “have a blowtorch” over them “which is climate change,” the Hill reported.

“We know that climate change is making fires start easier, spread faster and intensify,” said Inslee. “And it is maddening right now that, when we have this cosmic challenge to our communities, with the entire West Coast of the United States on fire, to have a president to deny that these are not just wildfires, these are climate fires.” Inslee insisted Americans must “vote on climate” in November, adding, “if this is not a signal to the United States, I don't know what it will take.”

The swamp media are, of course, echoing the same themes: Saturday’s Washington Post story, headlined “Western wildfires: Blazes fueled by climate change engulf vast region in crisis,” places the blame squarely and unequivocally on “[h]uman-caused climate change,” which is “driving fire risks in the West to new heights, enabling more fires to behave in extreme, unpredictable ways.”

Almost as an afterthought, the Post writers add: “Another factor – decades of fire suppression policies, including a lack of prescribed burning – aggravated conditions further by leaving more material for the fires to burn.”

Oh. So, allowing fuel to accumulate endlessly, without any thinning, logging, mitigation, controlled burns or firebreaks – which reliably results in the creation of a perfect environment for apocalyptic fires just requiring a spark, which lightning, human carelessness or even arson can and do provide every “fire season” – is just “another factor” that, you know, “aggravated conditions.”

In reality, Democrat-led policies are arguably as complicit in allowing America’s forests to burn uncontrollably as are their policies that are allowing America’s major cities to burn at the hands of Marxist/anarchist revolutionary mobs.

Three decades ago, President Bill Clinton helped create the conditions necessary for today’s massive western wildfires by limiting the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to thin out dense thickets of foliage and downed trees on federal land and also from deploying controlled burns meant to safely cull underbrush in forests to reduce the chance of massive fires.

Clinton also introduced the Roadless Rule restricting the use of existing roads and construction of new roads on 49 million acres of National Forest, effectively keeping forestry officials out of the forests to identify problems that could lead to massive conflagrations, like those consuming millions of acres right now. Republican presidents since then have failed to reverse these reckless, heedless policies.

Before Clinton’s actions, there was the "spotted owl" crisis here in Oregon. Environmentalists claimed the northern spotted owl was dying out because of commercial logging of old-growth forests where the birds nested. So, in 1991 a compliant judge halted logging in Oregon's national forests, causing the loss of about 30,000 jobs, an 80% reduction in timber harvesting, a consequent decrease in the supply of lumber and sky-high prices. I remember – I was there.

However, it wasn't owls that environmentalists were in love with; they were in love with stopping loggers from harvesting any trees in Oregon's old-growth forests. The owls just provided the needed "crisis" to help advance their radical agenda.

Oh, here's the rest of the story: Long after Oregon's timber-based economy was decimated by the court-ordered logging ban, which also made responsibly managing the forests far more difficult, the northern spotted owl population inexplicably continued to decline. Surprise! New research showed logging in old-growth forests wasn't the problem at all. The real problem, it turned out, was competition from another larger and more aggressive species of owl that liked the same habitat and food as the spotted owl. But whatever. Leftists and radical environmentalists just shook the dust off their feet and moved on heedlessly to their next Utopian adventure.

Here is my plea to President Trump:

Mr. President, more than half of Oregon’s land is controlled by the federal government, either the Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service. If President Clinton could wreck our state by ignorantly sucking up to radical environmentalists, then hopefully you can undo this damage by aggressively restoring proper forest management to the vast public lands out here in the West. Please act now, before it's too late. Thank you.

President Donald J. Trump arrives at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pennsylvania Thursday, August 20, 2020, and boards Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

“Close your eyes. Remember what you saw on television. Remember seeing those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists coming out of a field with lighted torches, veins bulging, spewing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s. Remember the violent clash that ensued, between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And remember what the president said when asked. He said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides. That was a wake-up call for us as a country.”

That was Joe Biden, formally accepting his party’s nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention last Thursday – and staking his moral claim to lead the free world on the lie that President Donald Trump admires Nazis.

Indeed, what has become known as the “Charlottesville lie” has been continually refuted for three years by virtually everyone both on the right and on the left. Trump never said Nazis are “very fine people.” It’s an absurd and outrageous lie.

Yet Biden’s blatant dishonesty is just part of a much larger pattern of Democrats continuously tying President Trump to Hitler, the single most detested genocidal monster in human history:

* Last month, when Portland’s Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse was under nightly siege from violent radicals attempting to burn down the federal building – while full of employees – President Trump exercised his legal right and duty to dispatch federal law enforcement agents to help secure the building, since Portland’s police were restrained from doing their job. In response, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: "The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way."

“Stormtroopers.” Get it? Trump is Hitler.

* House Majority Whip James Clyburn made the same comparison in a CNN interview, likening federal law enforcement in Portland to Nazi Germany’s dreaded Gestapo police force. “This president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities in local communities,” he said.

These are not aberrations or mere election-season rhetorical excesses. Throughout Trump’s presidency, outrageous Hitler/Nazi/concentration camp comparisons have come hot and heavy from Democrats and their media allies and continue into the present:

* Even before he was elected, throughout the election year of 2016, as this writer documented at the time, no fewer than five different Washington Post writers likened candidate Donald Trump to Hitler – including essayist Shalom Auslander’s "Don't compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler" and a column by Richard Cohen, a Post political writer for five decades, headlined "Trump's Hitlerian disregard for the truth."

* “Hitlerian”? When Trump won the election and was sworn in, that’s the word MSNBC host Chris Matthews used to describe Trump’s inauguration speech.

* Then for the next four tumultuous years, Democrat politicians and media hacks continually compared Trump to Hitler, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to Nazi guards, and border detention facilities to "concentration camps" where children – in the words of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – are "locked in cages" and forced to "drink from toilets."

* One ICE agent, Justin Gaertner, a combat-wounded double-amputee Marine veteran now serving as a computer forensics analyst at ICE, was accused of being affiliated with Nazis after The New Yorker’s “fact-checker” identified the tattoo on Gaertner’s left elbow as an “iron cross,” supposedly popular with Nazis and white supremacists. As a result, Gaertner was attacked mercilessly by leftwing lunatics on the internet as one more ICE Nazi. In reality, this disabled war hero’s tattoo was a “Titan 2 cross,” the symbol for the platoon he fought with in Afghanistan. Eventually, The New Yorker fired its “fact-checker,” Talia Lavin, who was then promptly hired by the rabidly leftwing, Soros-funded Media Matters.

* During the 2020 primary season, CNN anchor Don Lemon compared Trump to Hitler on-air. In discussing the media’s proper role in covering Trump, Lemon said: "Think about Hitler. Think about any of those people ... If you could look back in history, would you say, 'Well, I'm so glad that person was allowed a platform so that they could spread their hate and propaganda and lies,' or would you say, 'That probably wasn't the right thing to do to spread that because you knew in that moment that was a bad person and they were doing bad things. And not only were they hurting people, they were killing people."

* Even one of the Democrats’ presidential candidates, "Beto" O'Rourke, likened the Trump administration to "the Third Reich" on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Fulminating that Trump hates Muslims and Hispanics, O’Rourke absurdly claimed that the president has openly said "all people of one religion" are "inherently defective and should be banned from the shores of this country." Then the designated Biden administration gun-confiscation czar added: "The only modern Western democracy that I can think of that said anything close to this is the Third Reich, Nazi Germany. Talking about human beings as though they are animals, making them subhuman to make it OK to put their kids in cages.”

On and on the demented Hitler comparisons go. Just this past weekend, longtime journalist for The Atlantic, Jemele Hill, tweeted that under the Trump administration the United States of America is – wait for it – "as bad as Nazi Germany."

Such comparisons are far worse and far more serious than merely being insane.

Yes of course they’re insane. Adolf Hitler murdered 11 million people while Donald Trump has murdered none; ergo Trump is not Hitler.

But why “far worse and far more serious” than merely insane?

Consider that the only truly moral and courageous response to the real Adolf Hitler during the real Third Reich was to try to kill him. There were 16 known plots to assassinate Hitler, and all of the participants – who were eventually executed, including the beloved Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the Nazis for his role in the “20 July plot” – are today universally regarded as heroes and martyrs. Therefore, comparing Trump to Hitler constitutes an insidious invitation to any of the countless violent leftwing crazies out there to attempt to assassinate the president, just like the “Bernie Bro” who shot at multiple Republican congressmen at a 2017 charity baseball practice, almost killing and gravely wounding Rep. Steve Scalise.

Indeed, Scalise made exactly this point Tuesday when he called out Nancy Pelosi’s latest condemnation of Trump and his congressional allies as “domestic enemies” and “enemies of the state.”

“Enemies of the state and all of this,” said Scalise, “that’s the hyper-charged language that led a gunman trying to kill every Republican on the ball field. Why don’t we talk about issues? They don’t want to talk about issues.”

But back to the question at hand: Why do top Democrats and their media allies continually liken Trump to Hitler, when the comparison is so obviously extreme, reckless, deranged, dangerous and frankly evil?

It’s not solely because they detest Trump and consider “Hitler,” “Gestapo,” “Nazi,” “stormtroopers” and “concentration camps” useful nasty words to hurl at him.

It is far more purposeful and strategic than that.

Casting Trump as Hitler, and his supporters as deplorable white-supremacist neo-Nazi types, comprises the entire moral core of the Democratic Party’s claim to be the rightful inheritors of permanent political power in America, starting in November.

Consider this: The left – as recent events make clearer than ever – detests law and order, individual rights, Judeo-Christian morality, anything and everything that limits, confines, exposes or restrains it. It is thus continually fighting and rebelling against the Constitution, the laws of economics, human nature, basic biology – everything that inhibits their imposition on society of their wildest and most unhinged utopian fantasies.

Consider also, if you will, that if you were truly fighting a genocidal monster like Hitler, almost nothing would be out of bounds for you. Essentially there would be no rules – and that’s exactly the way the left likes it. No rules.

In a civilizational battle against an almost supernaturally evil psychopath like Adolf Hitler, the normal rules of civil society are suspended. If you had lived in Nazi Germany during the Third Reich, would you have illegally stuffed the ballot box (if hypothetically such an opportunity presented itself) to remove Hitler? Of course you would; any other response would be immoral. Would you have lied, cheated and stolen if it would have defeated Hitler and saved millions of lives? Of course you would. Anything less would have been selfish and cowardly. All the usual rules would be suspended; after all, you’re at war, behind enemy lines, and as Sun Tzu famously said, “War is deception.”

Today’s Democratic Party is at war, and deception is its thing. Although Democrats, in their deranged fantasy world, imagine they are at war with a new Hitler, even describing themselves since Election Day 2016 as “The Resistance” – the WWII-era term for groups in German-occupied Europe that opposed Nazi rule – in reality they are at war with sanity, reality, decency, liberty and all the Judeo-Christian principles undergirding Western Civilization and its most hard-won and precious institutions. At core, the left is at war with God.

Virtually everything today’s Democratic Party does and says is fake, insincere, deceitful, corrupt and dangerous to America. In fact, today’s Democratic Party has become disturbingly similar to the Communist Party USA. If that comparison sounds over-the-top or even slightly exaggerated to you, stop reading right now and go visit the CPUSA’s website and see for yourself. Prepare for a shock.

Today’s Democratic Party has become possessed by the evil spirit of Marxist revolutionary madness. Democrats’ national, state and local leaders are literally encouraging the never-ending, Marxist/anarchist-led riots that are rapidly destroying America’s major cities. Their presidential candidate, Joe Biden, is mentally disintegrating before everyone’s eyes. Even Barack Obama’s White House doctor admits Biden “is just lost.” The Democrats condemn America, the least racist nation on earth, as irredeemably racist. They threaten to eliminate fossil fuels which would destroy at least a million jobs and decimate the economy, they threaten to lock down the country again and force everyone to wear masks whenever they go outside, they threaten to throw open America’s borders to the world while offering free healthcare to everyone who can get here. Under their rule, America the Beautiful would rapidly devolve into a giant Venezuela or Zimbabwe.

And yet, throughout this current election season’s excruciating daily pretense – the never-ending charade of Democratic sweetness, light and unity, produced by the Democrat-media complex – they somehow manage to maintain their illusion of moral superiority over everyone else. How do they sustain this massive level of self-delusion?

It’s simple. In their minds, they’re fighting the new Hitler and his Nazi stormtroopers to liberate the concentration camps. And they believe their job for the next two months is to convince as many voters as possible that Trump is Hitler – the “enemy of the state,” as Pelosi just put it.

After all, considering the Democrats’ shockingly fake candidate, their insane platform and their appalling totalitarian plans for America, Adolf Hitler is just about the only person in history who, by comparison, makes today's Democrats look halfway palatable.

Editor’s note: To explore this subject more deeply, see the current issue of WND’s acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian, titled “HOW DEMOCRATS PLAN TO STEAL THE 2020 ELECTION.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

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President Donald J. Trump waves as he disembarks Marine One Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, at the Wall Street landing zone in New York City. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

A few days ago, billionaire far-left mega-donor George Soros, who seems to finance everything that is perverse, anti-police, anti-law-and-order and anti-freedom in America today, told an interviewer that Donald Trump is “dangerous” and will “do anything to stay in power.” Soros was echoing Joe Biden’s recent claim that, "It's my greatest concern, my single greatest concern. … This president is going to try to steal this election."

Biden and Soros aren’t alone among those on the left – including not just the Democratic Party but virtually the entire media establishment – expressing anguished “concern” that Republicans will lie, cheat, steal and collude with foreign powers to win in November.

A Washington Monthly story headlined "How Trump Will Try to Steal the Election” exclaims, “If voter suppression and foreign influence don’t work, he’ll contest the results."

The Atlantic’s “How Donald Trump Could Steal the Election” contends, “The president can’t simply cancel the fall balloting, but his state-level allies could still deliver him a second term.”

CNN warns, "Trump predicts 'most corrupt election' in U.S. history while making false claims about mail-in voting."

Then there’s the Guardian, with "'It's all rigged': Trump foreshadows how he could undermine presidential election," and Salon, with “Investigative journalist Greg Palast: Here's how Trump will steal the 2020 election,” which “explains how the Republican Party has refined its strategy of voter suppression, voter intimidation and vote theft in elections across the country.” (Palast recently published a book titled “How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters.”)

But the grand prize goes to the Daily Beast for this headline: "This Is How Republicans Steal an Election, and Maybe Kill Some Dems in the Process."

As usual with the left, it’s all shameless, straight-up projection – accusing conservatives of the very sins and crimes they themselves commit. Remember, it was the Democrats who bitterly complained before the 2016 election that Trump would never accept the results – and then, when they lost, spent the next four years hysterically and illegally attempting to overturn that election, ripping the nation apart in the process.

During every election cycle, Democrats reflexively accuse Republicans of racist-motivated "voter suppression," simply because the GOP believes voters should identify themselves before voting, to prove they are actually eligible to cast a ballot. Their latest hoax is the allegation that Trump is stealing mailboxes around the nation to prevent people from voting.

In truth, however, it is the Democratic Party whose entire growth strategy relies on an ever-expanding variety of strategies of voter fraud and abuse, from encouraging non-citizens to vote (which of course is why they fiercely oppose the most sensible voter ID laws); to wanting to lower the voting age to 16; to insisting that incarcerated criminals including mass-murdering terrorists be allowed to vote (Bernie Sanders publicly stated specifically that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be allowed to vote from prison); to demanding universal vote-by-mail; to ballot harvesting; to ridiculously early voting; to abolishing the Electoral College; to same-day registration and much more.

The left’s ultimate get-out-the-vote strategy, of course, is to import into the United States an entirely new population of voters, one not loyal to either America's Constitution or core cultural values, to support Democrats' unconstitutional, un-American and increasingly deranged socialist agenda. Indeed, Joe Biden recently announced that his “immigration plan” would immediately reverse every single thing President Trump has done to stem the flow of illegal immigration, and specifically grant citizenship – which means the right to vote – to 11 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. Statistically, the vast majority of recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, favor Democrats.

Trump might have ‘to be fumigated out of there’

With the epic 2020 election now just around the corner, Democratic Party leaders are firmly on a war footing. If Republicans don’t understand that, they will lose in November.

After all, just consider: If the Democrats and their Deep State and media allies were willing to illegally spy on Donald Trump, charge him with colluding with America’s enemies – essentially treason – while knowing full well it was all a lie; if they were perfectly willing to pervert and corrupt the most powerful and revered institutions of the federal government, from the FBI to the DOJ; if they were willing to conduct transparently farcical impeachment hearings over a phone call they didn’t like; if they are fine with politicizing the coronavirus pandemic (which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now calls “the Trump virus”) to the point of panicking the public and causing as much anxiety, pain, financial stress, joblessness and misery as possible for political gain; and if they are willing to flat-out lie day after day to the American public – what would they not do now, to defeat Trump in the home stretch of 2020’s do-or-die election?

By repeatedly insisting Trump will not leave office if he loses in November, Democrats are setting a trap: If there is obvious voter fraud – a virtual certainty with universal mail-in voting – or even a serious question arising in one state or another, as in the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential race, the Trump camp will call the foul. And then, right on cue, Democrats and the establishment media will all scream in unison: “See, we told you! We warned you Trump wouldn’t accept the outcome of the election!”

Then they’ll reprise their favorite fantasies of physically dragging Trump out of the White House. Biden recently said that although Trump will "try to steal" the election, he’s "absolutely convinced" the military will remove Trump from the White House if necessary. And Pelosi, who of late has become preternaturally vicious in her rhetoric, said Trump might have “to be fumigated out of there” – as though the president of the United States is a cockroach or vermin.

Remember the rule: The Democrats compulsively telegraph their agenda by accusing their enemies – and yes, “enemies” is how they think of Donald Trump and his supporters – of committing the very crimes and corruption of which they themselves are spectacularly guilty.

Because in truth, despite Democrats’ and their media allies’ pretend angst over Republican “voter suppression,” it is the maniacal left that is fully intent on using every weapon possible to steal the 2020 election – not from Donald Trump, but from the American people.

One final thought: Although of course we don’t yet know who will win in November’s election, one thing is for sure. If the integrity of America’s elections is destroyed because of the left’s insatiable obsession with obtaining power at all costs, then the great “American experiment” will finally be at an end. For if no one believes his or her vote really counts any more, the United States of America will have ceased to exist as a functioning, prosperous and free society.

Editor’s note: To explore this subject more deeply, see the current issue of WND’s acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David Kupelian, titled “HOW DEMOCRATS PLAN TO STEAL THE 2020 ELECTION.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in a roundtable with stakeholders positively impacted by law enforcement Monday, July 13, 2020, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

2020 is undoubtedly the strangest – and most pivotal – year in modern American history.

The year started with a presidential impeachment trial, the culmination of three years of nonstop accusations that President Donald Trump had committed treasonous “high crimes” and must be removed from office immediately.

Every part of the Democratic Party’s attempted coup d’etat against the legally elected president – from “Russia collusion” to “Ukraine-gate” – turned out to be not just untrue, but straight-up projection: The Democrats had committed precisely the crimes they ascribed to Trump.

It was Hillary Clinton’s campaign, not Trump’s, that “colluded with the Russians” before the 2016 election, having funded the infamous “Steele dossier” composed of lurid disinformation about Trump largely from Kremlin-based intelligence sources. Likewise, it was Joe Biden, not Trump, who corruptly dealt with high Ukrainian government officials for his personal benefit, explicitly threatening to withhold $1 billion in promised U.S. foreign aid if the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Biden’s corrupt son Hunter wasn’t fired – a textbook case of extortion Biden later bragged about on video.

Despite all this, the Trump economy was roaring. Job creation, GDP, real household wealth and the stock market were up, while taxes had been cut and unemployment reduced to the lowest levels on record for virtually every demographic, including blacks and Hispanics. Trump was cruising to easy reelection victory.

Then came the coronavirus pandemic. Trump assembled an impressive science and policy team and addressed the extraordinarily daunting problem with what most Americans regarded as admirable executive decisiveness. His daily coronavirus briefings were must-see TV and his approval ratings soared. Yet, while the initial lockdown goal of “flattening the curve” to avoid overwhelming the nation’s healthcare system succeeded, it came at a very high economic and societal cost, including the loss – at least temporarily – of 40 million jobs.

Whatever the pandemic’s various ups and downs since then, Democrats and their media allies have steadfastly promoted public fear and hysteria while pushing to extend the nation’s shutdown as long, deep and painful as possible. Why? Not because they “follow the science and data,” but because in this near-apocalyptic election year they calculate that America remaining in crisis mode maximizes their chances for victory in November. In addition to the crisis of lockdown-induced recession and record-high unemployment, which they believe will hurt Trump, they also hope continued panic will force the adoption of universal vote-by-mail – with its notoriously high vote-fraud potential.

In a nutshell, Democrats realize their “virtual nominating convention” in August and the virtual election they hope for in November will somehow enable them to elect their virtual presidential candidate, Joe Biden.

Indeed, the 77-year-old Biden is disintegrating mentally right before the world’s eyes. Everybody knows it – everybody. Which is why Biden’s handlers and strategists prefer to keep him “in his basement.” Their strategy is to somehow get a harmless-looking Trojan horse across the election finish line, when the real powers will finally emerge, assume power and utterly transform America, having ousted the one person standing in their way – Donald Trump.

All of this was the situation before the nationwide mass rioting and chaos began.

‘Abolish the police!’

Like a raging mega-forest fire started by a single spark, the Memorial Day death of George Floyd ignited a nonstop conflagration of violent social upheaval, arson, rioting, looting, assault, shootings, desecration of historic monuments, demands to abolish the police and release incarcerated criminals – and explicit threats from ringleaders to “burn down” the American system.

Yet their alleged grievances – “systemic racism” and rampant “police brutality,” strenuously reinforced daily by Democrats politicians, media organizations, “woke” corporations, “black leaders,” college professors and radical groups – are cynical inventions of power-obsessed leftists.

In reality, as anyone honestly surveying the rest of the world knows, America is the least racist, most diverse, multi-ethnic, tolerant and welcoming society on earth, which is precisely why America remains the world’s No. 1 destination for immigrants of every nationality, ethnicity, color and religion.

Yet, suddenly calls to “defund the police” – some even use the more direct wording, “abolish the police,” a manifestly insane proposal – were seemingly on everyone’s lips. Top leaders in Los Angeles and New York City promised to radically slash their police departments’ budgets, while the Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to abolish their police department altogether.

Understandably, morale among law enforcement nationwide has plunged to an all-time low as resignations skyrocket, senior personnel retire and recruitment grinds down dramatically. And little wonder – when Virginia Democrats conspire to downgrade physical assaults on law enforcement officers to a mere misdemeanor, thereby literally encouraging people to violently attack their police.

Reality check: The premise of widespread police brutality is absurdly false and defamatory toward America’s 800,000 law enforcement officers. As Heather Mac Donald, bestselling author of “The War on Cops,” has reported:

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demolishes the Democratic narrative regarding race and police shootings, which holds that white officers are engaged in an epidemic of racially biased shootings of black men. It turns out that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians. It is a racial group’s rate of violent crime that determines police shootings, not the race of the officer. The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.

America’s police are very much like U.S. soldiers deployed overseas, risking their lives every day to defend and protect others in what amount to quasi-war zones, particularly America’s large cities. Indeed, the murder rate in Chicago has for years exceeded the death rate of American service members during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. “Since 2001,” reported Forbes, “Chicago has experienced 7,916 murders (as of September 6, 2016). The number of Americans killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was 2,384 and 4,504 respectively since 2001.”

Reviling and demonizing all police because of the bad behavior of a very few is chillingly reminiscent of the treatment U.S. military personnel received when, upon finally returning home from duty in Vietnam, they were attacked as “baby killers” because of the bad actions of a very few, when over 2.7 million Americans served honorably in that war.

‘We will burn down the system and replace it!’

While the nation’s police are reviled, mocked and abused – almost 2,000 have been injured so far during the riots – most Americans watching the daily spectacle don’t realize the “protests” have been engineered and largely coopted by openly Marxist revolutionary groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

All three co-founders of Black Lives Matter proudly admit they are “Marxists,” including Patrisse Cullors, who said on video: “We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [her lesbian partner and BLM co-founder] are particularly trained organizers – we are trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories …”

Meanwhile, New York’s BLM leader Hawk Newsome openly promised a violent revolution, telling Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down the system and replace it." To which President Trump responded by tweeting, "This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!"

Antifa, the violent, masked revolutionary alliance Trump has called a “domestic terror group,” has existed for many years and is made up largely of communists and anarchists. Ironically, though the name "Antifa" is a contraction of "anti-fascist," the violent, intimidating paramilitary organization is strikingly reminiscent of Mussolini's notorious Black Shirts.

Another group, Refuse Fascism, which has held recent rallies in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Tulsa and elsewhere across the U.S., was formed by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Led by open communists, it is headquartered in the RCP's Revolution Books store in Harlem.

Major media organizations are, of course, well aware of all these radical, anti-American, revolutionary affiliations, but never breathe a word of it to the public, instead pretending that what Americans are witnessing amounts to grassroots protests of the death of a black man, widespread police brutality and a nation so profoundly racist it might have to be “burned down” before it can be set right.

Boot camps creating millions of America-hating foot soldiers

In the early days of the upheaval, reasonable observers tried to distinguish between peaceful protesters – and there were many – and the mobs of rioters engaging in vandalism, arson, looting, assault, vicious attacks on property (including many black-owned businesses), shootings and murder.

Their confusion was compounded when the destruction of statues started. Well, many thought, maybe we shouldn’t celebrate Civil War heroes of the Confederacy, so they essentially approved the unfolding desecration of America’s historical monuments.

But then city after city saw statues of Christopher Columbus torn down, along with America’s founding fathers from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson. Radicals in Portland, Oregon, tore down a nearly 100-year-old George Washington statue and draped it with a burning American flag. The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., was defaced. In San Francisco, a statue of Francis Scott Key, who wrote America’s national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," was toppled.

Still, some thought, These historical figures did own slaves, so while I really don’t agree with tearing down their statues, I can understand the rage of the protesters.

That delusion finally evaporated when wild mobs turned to attacking statues of Abraham Lincoln, the president who freed the slaves by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, and Ulysses S. Grant, the general (and later president) who led the Union to victory over the Confederacy. In Boston, rioters defaced the Shaw Memorial, a monument honoring the first all-volunteer black regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, and in Madison, Wisconsin, they tore down a statue of Hans Christian Heg, an abolitionist who died trying to end slavery.

What on earth is going on? people asked? Why are they tearing down monuments to anti-slavery heroes?

Then Shaun King, co-founder of Real Justice PAC, called for tearing down statues of Jesus Christ, along with “all murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends,” insisting their very existence constitutes "a form of white supremacy." At least two statues of the Virgin Mary have since been set ablaze.

By now, many Americans have realized this sustained violent campaign to destroy their country’s culture, memorials, history and core religion is not really about combatting “systemic racism” at all.

The far left – which today entirely possesses the Democratic Party, body and soul – has long used racism as a cover for its true agenda. This includes the Communist Party USA, whose website is perpetually dominated by articles decrying “police brutality” and “rampant racism” in America. It’s all a pretext. Their actual agenda is dismantling America's constitutional government and vital institutions, eliminating free-market capitalism and instituting a totalitarian socialist system in America.

For precisely the same reason – the obsession (as Barack Obama put it) with “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” – the Democratic Party focused its 2020 presidential primary campaign on the proposition that America is irredeemably racist, each candidate striving to outdo the other in expressing just how bigoted, predatory and immoral America is. Bernie Sanders insisted the United States was “created” largely “on racist principles,” while Kirsten Gillibrand lectured audiences about their “white privilege” and Beto O’Rourke boldly declared: “This country, though we would like to think otherwise, was founded on racism, has persisted through racism, and is racist today.”

Magnifying the Democrats’ “America-is-a-racist-nation” narrative has been the elite news media, led by the New York Times which last year launched its notorious “1619 Project,” recasting American history as having begun in 1619 when settlers first brought African slaves to the New World. The Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for heading up the “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, wrote in a recently unearthed letter, "The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world."

To understand today’s all-out cultural revolution, one more huge factor must be considered: Millions of young Americans have been brainwashed – and yes, that's the correct term – in the nation’s colleges and universities, long the most far-left institutions in the country, some of which amount to little more than boot camps for creating militant leftwing activists.

In elite universities, young people take on tremendous debt to fund their “education.” There, living in in a homogeneous, cult-like environment cut off from the outside world, where dissent is both discouraged and punished, they’re indoctrinated by radical Marxist, America-hating professors and rewarded for absorbing the far left’s bizarre identity-politics, social-justice worldview.

“Higher education” has thus been “fundamentally transforming” many young people into an army of angry, arrogant, historically ignorant, morally confused, America-hating foot soldiers – and now they have been called to active duty.

Cultural revolution

Ultimately, of course, the problem confronting America is not primarily political, nor even cultural, but spiritual. “Politics is downstream from culture,” goes the saying, but culture is downstream from a society’s spiritual and moral beliefs and values. And since politics and culture abhor a vacuum, the absence of America’s traditional and foundational Judeo-Christian values – which for more than a century the atheistic, progressive left has labored to overthrow – throws the national door wide open to immoral, corrupt, deranged, and in some cases (i.e. abortion) barbaric values.

“Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants,” warned William Penn, founder and first governor of Pennsylvania.

Americans are facing a truly do-or-die election just around the corner, one that will determine their and their children’s future for decades, if not generations. As the revered 90-year-old economist Thomas Sowell recently put it, a Biden win in November could represent “the point of no return for this country.”

Surely there’s never been a more crucial time for those “governed by God” in their hearts to get down on their knees and pray for the strength, wisdom and courage to do everything they possibly can to stop the deranged Marxist takeover and transformation of their beloved country. It’s time to throw off all the fear, intimidation, guilt trips and lies that have given the left so much power in America. It’s time for moral, clear-headed Americans to stand up and boldly speak the truth as never before, with love and without fear, to their fellow citizens – and especially to their leaders. And it’s time to pray that God will, once again, have mercy on our nation and save us from the unthinkable horror that is now preparing to remake America in its unholy image.

Important note: The preceding is the lead-off story in the current issue of WND’s acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, compiled and edited monthly by David Kupelian. If you would like to further explore what is REALLY behind today’s violent revolutionary unrest, read “CANCEL AMERICA: Under cover of racial grievance, an all-out Marxist cultural revolution explodes.” The issue is also available in state-of-the-art digital form. Better yet, SUBSCRIBE TO WHISTLEBLOWER (print edition) and get 12 fantastic issues or else get an ANNUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION.

Radio great Barry Farber, a true pioneer in the world of talk radio going back to 1960, died Wednesday in New York City at the age of 90.

Farber’s journalist daughter Celia Farber first shared the news of her father’s passing in a tweet, writing: “My father Barry Farber, beloved, died this evening, at 6:25 pm. He was home, in bed, and we were all with him. He turned 90 just yesterday. He told me recently that his concept of death was ‘going somewhere I've never been before, like Finland or Estonia.’ May God rest his soul.”

Honoring his extraordinary and colorful career, Farber was designated by Talkers Magazine in 2002 as one of the Top 10 radio hosts of all time. And before being inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2014, Farber commented: "I would rather burn out than rust out. I am one of those who will not retire." And so he did, hosting “The Barry Farber Show” right to the end.

Barry Farber began in radio in 1960 on WINS 1010 in New York City, later moving to WOR AM 710 until 1977, when he got the political bug and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City. Turning back to his true love – radio – his show went national on the ABC Radio Network. Most recently, Farber had been hosting a live daily show five nights a week on CRN Digital Talk. As Sean Hannity said of Farber: "He blazed the trail for all of us today in talk radio.”

Alongside his broadcasting fame, and contributing mightily to his always-evident grasp of history and culture, was Farber’s love affair with language. He spoke or studied more than 25 – including Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish and Yiddish, Bulgarian and Korean. He also wrote a book titled “How to Learn Any Language.” In it, he wrote that when he was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1952, he was "tested and qualified for work in fourteen different languages."

Commenting on Farber’s passing, Talkers magazine publisher Michael Harrison said: “Barry Farber was one of the founding fathers of talk radio whose influential career spanned both the modern and pre-modern eras of the format. He described his longevity in the business as ‘being big in the old days and old in the big days.’ He was among the finest public speakers of his time and a true wordsmith who served as an inspiration for generations of broadcasters who strived to be artists as well as communicators.”

Barry Farber is survived by his wife, TV journalist Sara Pentz, whom he married in 2008, as well as daughters, Celia and Bibi.

On a personal note: Barry Farber was a friend, colleague and hero. He was a longtime weekly columnist for WND. Moreover, having had the opportunity to be a guest on his show dozens of times over the years, I can honestly say Barry Farber was my favorite talk show host in the whole world to be interviewed by, and I told him so more than once. The best talk hosts have the mysterious ability to draw the very best out of their guests, and that was Barry. He was unfailingly warm, gracious, knowledgeable, fresh, and effusively but genuinely enthusiastic about and interested in his guests. I am also grateful to have had the chance to talk to Barry just a day before he died. I called him up to wish him well on Tuesday – it was his 90th birthday. God rest your soul, Barry.

Dear friend of WND,

Today, May 4, 2020, is WorldNetDaily’s 23rd anniversary, having launched on this day in 1997, making it America’s first independent online journalism organization.

During those amazing early years, the internet was frequently compared to “the wild west” – very few laws and lots of dangers, but also lots of freedom, room to build and grow, and fantastic opportunities for pioneering journalists like WND's founder, Joseph Farah.

WorldNetDaily, later shortened to WND, became one of America’s most popular and influential news sources out there on the prairie of this fantastic new territory called the internet.

Fast forward two decades.

Today the internet has changed dramatically, from a realm of wide-open spaces and unlimited opportunity to one overshadowed by super-wealthy utopian gatekeepers, regulators and censors – leftist progressives dedicated to controlling everything you read, hear and THINK. The freedom of the wild west is steadily being replaced by something you’d expect to see in Communist China.

Last week, YouTube banned the viral video of two California ER doctors after more than 5 million people had viewed it over the course of just a few days. You see, the two physicians dissented from the “approved” view of how to manage the coronavirus pandemic – the one favored by the guardians of the internet.

Censorship of dissent has become the “new normal.” In the last couple weeks, several WND stories have been singled out and labeled “Partly False Information” by Facebook, which seriously hurts our readership. When we asked Facebook’s “independent fact checkers” why one story had been labeled “Partly False Information” even though it was 100% accurately reported, they told us the viewpoint of the expert being interviewed – a New York-based Ph.D. epidemiologist who argued herd immunity would be reached faster by not locking down the whole country – was “harmful misinformation.”

This is tyranny.

Hey Facebook: What about virtually the entire output of the “mainstream media” for the past four years, from the Washington Post and News York Times to all the broadcast and cable networks (except Fox News), with their never-ending conspiracy theories contending that Donald Trump “colluded” with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton? Those stories weren’t “partly false,” they were totally false. But did they merit any attention from Facebook’s fact checkers? We all know the answer.

Today, you can get a quick, personalized snapshot of what has become of the internet by doing a simple Google search for "WorldNetDaily." Of the top page-1 returns, almost all are brutally condemning of the internet's oldest independent journalism website:

* There’s the ridiculous Wikipedia article, written by rabid anti-WND folks who lead off this way: "WorldNetDaily (WND) is an American news and opinion website and online news aggregator which has been described as 'fringe' and far right as well as politically conservative. The website is known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

Translation: WND is pro-American, pro-Christian and pro-Constitution.

* Next there's the page profiling WND by the discredited hate-group Southern Poverty Law Center, which leads with this: "WorldNetDaily is an online publication founded and run by Joseph Farah that claims to pursue truth, justice and liberty. But in fact, its pages are devoted to manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions of Farah and his hand-picked contributors from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds."

* Then there's the Washington Post with a vicious, lengthy smear article on WND's "downfall" – published immediately after the Post's reporter learned from Elizabeth Farah that her husband and WND CEO Joseph Farah had just suffered a devastating stroke.

* Next comes an apocalyptic article about WND by the leftwing Salon website (headlined "Shed a tear for WorldNetDaily – or maybe don't. But the downfall of a far-right site is instructive"). Hey Salon and WaPo, we're still here.

* Then there’s the far-left, George Soros-funded group Media Matters for America, which says: “WorldNetDaily, now known as WND, is a haven for right-wing conspiracy theories founded in 1997 by Joseph Farah. WND was a major proponent of the racist birther conspiracy theory against President Barack Obama, and it has also repeatedly published incendiary comments about LGBTQ Americans.”

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“Get your flu shot!”

For years the influenza vaccine has been routinely recommended for virtually all Americans by everyone from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the American Medical Association to the Mayo Clinic to WebMD.

But what about in the age of coronavirus?

No change in message: Americans are being urged to “get their flu shot” to help with the coronavirus pandemic.

How exactly does that work?

Well, it doesn’t exactly protect you from coronavirus, experts concede. “While the flu shot won't protect you from developing COVID-19, it's still a good idea,” says Harvard Medical School, echoing the message heard from most medical authorities.

Nicole Saphier, M.D., has been all over Fox News Channel with her new book, “Make America Healthy Again.” Her message, as one FoxNews.com article headlined it: “Dr. Nicole Saphier explains why getting a flu shot can help fight coronavirus pandemic.”

Saphier acknowledges the flu vaccine will not protect people against coronavirus, but argues that by avoiding getting influenza, “you are keeping hospital beds open for those that may need it because of COVID-19.”

Likewise, at last month’s CNN “Global Town Hall” on “Corona Facts and Fears” hosted by the cable channel’s anchor Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cooper told the viewing audience: “If you are concerned about coronavirus, and you haven’t gotten a flu shot … you should get a flu shot.”

However, a 2019 Pentagon study of 6,120 Defense Department personnel concludes that getting a flu shot may actually increase one’s likelihood of coming down with a coronavirus infection. The peer-reviewed study,  published in ScienceDirect and titled “Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017-2018 influenza season,” was recently highlighted in an article by vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman of Children’s Health Defense, with this jarring headline: “Pentagon Study: Flu Shot Raises Risk of Coronavirus by 36% (and Other Supporting Studies).”

The problem, it turns out, has to do with an event called “virus interference,” which can render a person receiving a vaccine either more or less vulnerable to other diseases, depending on the specific pathogen. As the Pentagon study stipulates at the outset: “Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference.”

Under “ “CONCLUSIONS,” the researchers spell out the bad news:

“Examining virus interference by specific respiratory viruses showed mixed results. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus; … the odds of both coronavirus and human metapneumovirus in vaccinated individuals were significantly higher when compared to unvaccinated individuals (OR = 1.36 and 1.51, respectively).” Note: “OR” stands for "Odds Ratios."

And under “DISCUSSION,” the study explains:

“[T]he laboratory data in our study showed increased odds of coronavirus and human metapneumovirus in individuals receiving influenza vaccination." However, the DoD researchers also note that a 2013 study showing similar results overall "found no association between influenza vaccination and RSV, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus, rhinovirus or coronavirus." Summarizing the findings of the more recent Defense Department study, researchers said: "In our disease specific investigation, virus interference trends were noticed for coronavirus and human metapneumovirus; however, two specific respiratory viruses (parainfluenza and RSV) showed significant protection associated with influenza vaccine receipt, and all others tested (adenovirus, human bocavirus, and rhinovirus/enterovirus) showed protection, although non-significant, associated with vaccination (Table 5).”

"Table 5" in the final report shows the 36% increased likelihood of coronavirus infection in the DoD study.

WND asked Jane Orient, M.D., longtime executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, whether the Pentagon study and its specific conclusions regarding the flu vaccine actually increasing the odds of coronavirus infection made sense to her.

“Yes, it does,” she said. “The study shows that the influenza vaccine appears to be protective against some other viral illnesses, except those caused by coronaviruses (the earlier ones – we don't know about the new one, but it is the same family).”

The family of coronaviruses, so named for the crown-like spikes on their surface, include seven known varieties, according to the CDC. They include most notoriously, MERS-CoV, the beta coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS; SARS-CoV, the beta coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS; and SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19.

Orient added: “It would be very interesting to know the vaccination status of persons with severe cases of COVID-19. I have seen no information about that. I'll bet that most nursing home residents are vaccinated, and also health care workers.”

According to the CDC, 45.3% of Americans 18 or older received a flu shot during the 2018-19 influenza season.

And what do the "fact checkers" say about this controversy? In its April 1 article, “Fact check: Getting flu shot doesn't make you more (or less) likely to get the coronavirus,” USA Today’s Ian Richardson refutes several Facebook posters’ claims that “[t]he flu vaccine can cause people to test positive for coronavirus.” And although the USA Today piece does cite the Pentagon study and links to it on the NIH’s website, the story neither delves into nor refutes its findings, beyond quoting one line: "‘Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus,’ the study states.”