America’s Rift Becomes More Obvious

I read something very sad on the Internet today.

Actor James Woods says he has been blacklisted because he’s an outspoken conservative. He’s very talented, and he has a history of solid work, but he is not getting hired like he used to. Now he has proof that the blacklisting isn’t just coming from potential employers.

Yesterday, on the Fourth of July, his former agent, Ken Kaplan, sent him this email:

It’s the 4th of July and I’m feeling patriotic. I don’t want to represent you anymore. I mean I can go on a rant but you know what I’d say.

People in Hollywood love to claim there is no anti-conservative blacklist, but as you can see, the blacklist exists. It’s pretty surprising to see someone blacklisted by his own agent. An agent is supposed to be loyal. This is one of the people Woods counted on to find him work, so it’s bizarre to see Kaplan work against him.

The story is sad, but when I say I saw something sad on the Internet, I’m not talking about the agent’s email. I’m talking about this comment on the story:

I wish i had the power the snap my fingers AND TURN THIS PLACE INTO A NORMAN ROCKWELL PAINTING AGAIN i was born 1956 I WANT GO AND SEE HOME AGAIN

That hit the mark. “Home” doesn’t exist any more on this earth. There are pockets of America in which people behave fairly normally, but the nation has lost its innocence. We are cynical and coarse. We are the kind of people our great-grandparents wouldn’t let our grandparents associate with.

When I was a little kid in Tampa, I could leave my house and play a block away, without getting permission first. My parents didn’t worry about me being kidnapped and sexually abused and murdered. I didn’t have a chip in my arm or a smartphone in my pocket. When I rode in the car with my parents, I didn’t see dirty words on billboards or bumper stickers. When I was at home, and the family watched our only TV, my parents didn’t have to block channels or change channels for me to prevent me from seeing nudity or gay men having sex.

Back then, we didn’t have a lot of naked protestors. We didn’t have cities like modern San Francisco and New York, in which sexually depraved people were allowed to appear nude in public. We didn’t have naked men in women’s locker rooms, exposing themselves to young girls with the backing of the law.

I can’t say life was a Norman Rockwell painting, but it wasn’t disgusting, either. Modern life is revolting.

What do leftists tell us when we say we yearn for the good old days? They say we want to bring back segregation. America had segregation in the good old days, so anyone who longs for those days must want segregation. It’s not a good argument. There is no reason why a God-fearing nation full of decent people has to have segregation or any other ill we had in the past.

I miss the good old days, but I don’t miss going to school without air conditioning. Missing the good things of the past isn’t the same as missing everything about it.

The funny thing is that leftists are now in favor of segregation, even while they use past segregation to criticize conservatives. Leftists want all-black dormitories and student unions. They want all-female gyms. They have special days on university campuses on which they force white people to stay home. Leftists used to work for the right to associate with white males. Now they’re pushing for the right to be separated from us.

I left Miami because the people were too much for me. They are coarse. They are violent. They are arrogant and obsessed with sex. They are racist; it’s not a good place for a white person to live.

I moved to a place where people hold doors for each other and hear Christian music in stores and restaurants. It’s wonderful to be here and to be shielded from provocation and temptation, but it’s a strategic retreat which will be followed by abandonment of the field. No one is ever going to march back into Miami (or New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or San Francisco) and claim it for God. These places will never recover. Not until after Jesus returns.

We destroyed what we had. It’s not coming back.

Leftists like to tell us we can’t get our innocence back. That’s not true. God restores innocence to people who desire it. The reason we won’t get it back is that we don’t want it. Most Americans like living in a nation with a locker room atmosphere. We’ve become depraved, and one of the consequences of depravity is that you tend to forget how nice life was before you became depraved.

If we could have our innocence restored instantaneously, many of us would be shocked at how much we prefer it. Unfortunately, that’s not possible. God allows people to continue down the self-destructive paths they choose.

What we had 60 years ago was magnificent. We should have held onto it and worked to increase our innocence and holiness. We would be stronger now. We would have more peace. America would be the light of the world. We ought to be mourning for what we lost.

I worked very hard to make myself depraved. I made a deliberate effort to make myself numb to outrage. Now I don’t know what it’s like to be a decent person. I’m better than I was 10 years ago, but I think that if I went back in time and moved to a place like Knoxville or Dallas, I would offend people with my coarseness and assertiveness. They wouldn’t want their kids to talk to me.

For about a decade, I’ve been working to get restoration, and although I am very different from what I was, I’m still a dysfunctional Christian. That says a lot about the nation in which I grew up. As a fairly typical American, I started out as a basket case. There was a lot of work to be done. And I thought I was doing pretty well!

How many Americans, including Christians, are aware of the rot inside and around them? Only a tiny percentage. Very few people are rooted in the Holy Spirit, so very few of us are able to see what’s wrong with us and move away from it. Our situation is grave, and it is made worse by the blindness and depravity of most of the people we look to for instruction. The pope wants rule-followers who worship statues. Popular charismatic preachers respond to cries for help with demands for money. Mainstream protestants teach pride and hard work instead of supernatural restoration, and many have decided that unrepentant homosexuals make good pastors and priests. Who are we supposed to look to for guidance?

When sinners come to us for help, they get a poor imitation of what we were supposed to be. We can give them moral guidance, help them to receive salvation, and teach them to pray. We generally can’t heal their bodies or get them delivered from evil compulsions and delusions. Usually, we can’t cast devils out. We can’t help sexual deviants or addicts who genuinely want to change. Then we get angry at them when they give up on God and start attacking the church. What they do is wrong, but if we can’t help them, their antipathy shouldn’t surprise us.

We’re not responsible for what other people do, but we are responsible for failing to be powerful, informed Christians who are able to provide others with help.

I wish I had a message of hope, but the world is going to go under. If you want hope, here it is: you can be lifted above the mess, and you can help others if they will listen. That’s about it. You’re not going to save your world, your race, your nation, your city, or even your block. You don’t get to decide who gets saved, and you can’t force people to accept help. Noah had to watch bodies sink, and so will we.

It’s wonderful to be out of Miami, but the truth is that the whole world is like Miami. Some parts are nicer than others, but the whole planet is ruined.

Last night I received an analogy. Mankind is like a body with gangrene, which is death. A gangrenous limb isn’t just infected; it’s dead. We treat gangrene by amputation because we can’t reverse death. Antibiotics won’t bring a dead leg back to life. You sever the living tissue from the dead, and you throw out the dead part. That’s what’s on the way. That’s the rapture.

Depravity causes gangrene. A person who is merely sinful can be changed, but a depraved person hates righteousness and shuts out help. Depravity is like a tourniquet you apply between yourself and God.

That tourniquet will be part of your life no matter what you do. It will be between you and God, or it will be between you and people who hate God.

I’ll tell you something interesting. Farmers use rubber bands to castrate cattle. There is a special tool that holds strong bands open. You put a band over the calf’s genitals, and you release it. It snaps shut and cuts off the blood supply, and eventually the dead parts drop off. That’s what people who hate God are doing to themselves. They’re separating themselves from life. We were supposed to help God reproduce, but he will not hold onto the infertile forever.

When we see parades and rallies celebrating sexual perversion, which are among the most obvious symptoms of our decay, we are seeing something beyond sin. We are seeing love of evil and death. It’s almost like prayer and worship. The participants are signalling their willingness to be cut off forever, just as Christians signal their willingness to repent and belong.

I look forward to leaving this place. Heaven will be different. It will be a lot like a Norman Rockwell painting. There will be no obscenity. There will be no violence or hate. People there won’t have dark thoughts or desires. No one there will pull you out of a car and break your eye sockets because you’re wearing a red hat. We won’t have to hear demonstrators telling us heaven belongs to illegal aliens from earth and hell; heaven has perfect border control. No one will be confused sexually. No one will feel entitled to what anyone else has. There will be no racial division, because the only race will be the children of God.

On the whole, I wish I had been born sooner. A lot of people were born after the charismatic revival, benefited from it, and died before they had to watch our country putrefy and face wholesale persecution.

I wonder what I’ll have to witness next. It seems like things can’t get any worse, but I know they can.

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I stole a metaphor from Robert Bork, who stole it from Joan Didion, who stole it from William Butler Yeats. I may as well show you the poem from which it was taken. It was published in 1919, and it relates to the chaos in Europe following World War I.

If you’re a Christian who knows prophecy, it may give you some chills.

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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I feel like adding a few things, to remind us all how crazy things have been. By now, you have probably heard of Kino Jimenez. He appears in a viral video, in which he appears, throwing a drink in a young man’s face and stealing his MAGA hat. It happened in a Texas Whataburger. Jimenez battered the young man and used filthy language to ridicule him. Might as well post a video.

News sites are saying he “allegedly” did these things. They want to avoid lawsuits. Fine. He allegedly did these things. Maybe he didn’t. Maybe the video is the most amazing fake in the history of the Internet.

Here’s what’s interesting. Many leftists are defending the attacker and even suggesting that attacking Trump supporters is a good thing to do. Here are some Internet comments. They were not hard to find. Go to any mainstream news site and look.

Wearing that in public is heedlessly provocative. I don’t support any physical response at all, but others may.

MAGA hats should come with a disclaimer, “if you wear this hat that promotes racism you might get your a33 kicked”

Hey magas. We’re coming for your guns 🙂

You wanna out yourself as a xenophobic racist then don’t be surprised if people react.

boy the butthurt snowflake beta cuck republicans are sure whining up a storm about this.
buy your tissues while you still can

anyone who wears that hat deserves to get beat, period

Here is a really bad idea. Wearing a maga hat into a fast food restaurant… Unless you love spit burgers.

Trumptards only wear their MAGA hats to bed, i wonder why?

Oh man being a magatard in public is a bad idea. Keep it at home.

It’s a freaking lame azz hat, deal with it.

Welcome to 2018 America. Kiss your illusions goodbye.