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Twisted and Mad: What’s the Antidote to Our Debauched and Disturbing ‘Leaders’?

Is the debauched and disturbing world we see playing out on the news networks and social media just “the world we live in,” or is there another, quiet and dignified America that doesn’t make it to the screen?

Twisted and Mad: What's the Antidote to Our Debauched and Disturbing 'Leaders'?

Is the debauched and disturbing world we see playing out on the news networks and social media just “the world we live in,” or is there another, quiet and dignified America that doesn’t make it to the screen? In a week when billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died under strange circumstances in a federal prison, Bill Whittle finds the following Tweet offers solace and hope…
“The only thing holding up the world at this point is the thoughtless routine and naive virtue of the working stiff. All the things the world weary revile: customary honesty, religion, family sustain our life. As for our “world leaders”, they are twisted and mad.” — @wretchardthecat , Richard Fernandez on Twitter

16 replies on “Twisted and Mad: What’s the Antidote to Our Debauched and Disturbing ‘Leaders’?”

I was recently on vacation – i.e. since I am retired, this means I was away from home, LOL.
Visiting family.
One of my sisters is very liberal, just not raving. Her friends, many of whom I encountered, were always telling stories about surprising niceness of other people, unexpected kindnesses… Unexpected because of the news constantly telling us all about how bad people are. They’re just as brainwashed about what is staring them in the face in their everyday lives as the rest of us.
I’m going to start believing my lying eyes rather than the hype I’m being fed by the news!

IN this country, we must continually choose between the Weak Right or the Evil Left. But debauchery runs along in both lines, though it is more prevalent on the Left. When you look at the things prominent high-level Democrats have done for years and years, and continue to do, it’s sickening. Take Joe Kennedy, who was known for a taking 16-year old girls to his bed while reporters listened, or all the things Bill Clinton has done and all of the things Hillary may have committed to protect her Empire, and then you see this Epstein thing, which is just a little too convenient for the Clintons (and possibly others) and you begin to realize that the existence of this weird and elite pedophile network might not be fiction, but a real thing. It’s like the powerful don’t think they have to follow the laws. I don’t think it is a political thing. It’s an evil thing, and it infests the elite on all sides of the political spectrum. Its more about power and debauchery than politics, for power desire is the basis of all evil. The grace and the value of the country is always in the middle, in the good, the naïve and the hopeful citizens of Flyover Country, the ones Obama complained still cling to their bibles and their guns. But beyond the pedophile rings, the politics of the Democrats have slowly made it into the Party of Evil. They support most of what is evil in life (power over the people, excessive taxation, drug addiction, attack on the Constitution, enslavement through socialism, violence with those they disagree with, murder of the unborn, and virtually all of the biblical sins) and every whacko victim group. This radicalism will fracture their party, driving moderates away to the Republicans or to Independent status, leaving in its wake only a fully-radicalized party of hateful Democrat socialists. But most of the good people are in the middle, who still believe in the Constitution and God in goodness and in America. They believe in right and wrong. But though good, they are not perfect, and they can be driven to anger and righteous justice once radicals of any stripe push them too far. This is the one saving grace of the American people that has not changed.

I’m sure there were nice people who lived under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Robespierre, and Caligula, too. Some of them probably even out-lived those monsters. Didn’t stop the monsters, however.

At times it seems like the vocal mob on Twitter or Facebook or the news channels are nothing more than celebrities and sports players. Very visible and very tracked in all of the People/SI/tabloid rags but what they do and say have nothing to do with the people in the supermarket checkouts seeing the faces while getting ready to pay for groceries. They could be fictional actors in a soap opera for all of their effect on us. (like Scott Said)

If someone is out wandering around and no one is following, is that person really a leader?

The other thing they say about social media: that when someone is posting all of the great pictures of things they’re doing, it makes them seem like they have a such a great life, but you’re not to feel bad because they just post the great snippets and you can’t see the boring stuff that you’re so focused in your own life. I think that needs to go for all of the bad stuff as well. Life isn’t vitriol 24×7.. more like 5 minutes a week.

With Bill’s close, that maybe they cannot win, I thought about the variously phrased saying about evil triumph when good people do nothing. It has been said a variety of ways but I always heard it as “do nothing”. Not that good doesn’t do much, or does enough, but does nothing. Since we have a lot of good people doing a lot of good on a daily basis, even if naively and mindlessly, good people are still doing good, and that means that evil cannot triumph. Might do some bad, might cause some hurt but it cannot win. We just have to keep doing good.

Americans seem to get strange swoonie ideas about European nobility. “Noblesse oblige” was really only an English nobility thing, and the reason for it stems from England’s unique history. The “English nobility” started with the Norman invasion of French soldiers of Viking descent. In other words, the French would barely consider them nobles, but they had learned the tactics and lifestyles of the most uppity (and certifiably crazy) nobles in all of Europe.

This relatively small band of young men managed to gain power over England (through the use of castles) and then married wives from the upper crust of English society (later known as the yeomanry…not to be confused with the military use of that term). This is where the initial connection of English nobility to the English people came from…from their mothers (and the fact that they pretty much all spoke English from the cradle). To keep them set apart (instead of melding back into English society as most of the leading invaders of the English had before that time) their fathers insisted they learn and speak French. In fact the words “noblesse oblige” ARE French.

In general, the European aristocracy came about because of invasions…where the former leaders of the subjugated peoples became surfs like everyone else and wives for the new nobles came from their homelands or other European noble houses. The Norman invasion was unique in that it was more of a take over by half measures.

American conservatives rightly promote the idea that some people will always have more resources than others. But this should not be confused with being aristocratic or “noble”. Aristocracies in general have always been about taking undue blood, sweat and tears from subjugated peoples without effort other than brutality from the “nobles”. Although the English have had their share of this attitude, the English people themselves have over centuries of these cycles learned how to keep throwing off the shackles. In a way, America is the crowning glory of these unknown Cornish, Briton, Welsh, Flemish and other peoples whose names are barely remembered in history. There is NO reason for Americans to accept an “elite”. Period.

This summer I traveled to Syracuse, NY to visit my nephew. He currently is working at the only Chick Fil A within 50 miles of another. A little backstory:

Jimmer Szatkowski lived for 10 years in Raleigh, the city in which I currently live. He worked for IBM, but was looking for a change of career. He applied for, and received, a Chick Fil A franchise in Cicero, NY (where he was raised). There is no other Chick Fil A within a 50 mile radius of Jimmer’s store, so he makes good volume.

He uses his store for community outreach. He is involved with the local school district, Special Olympics, etc.

But here’s the important part. He also takes good care of his employees. He has chaplains come into the store every Monday (one for the men, one for the women) to help give his employees an ear to listen if they need it. He has given my nephew opportunities above and beyond his job description, and my nephew has flourished in this environment. The employees at that Chcik Fil A are far happier than the norm, and there is a sense of community not usually seen in a fast food restaurant.

My nephew, having a troubled past, is anchored and thriving because of the opportunities afforded him by Jimmer. He was an answer to my prayers, and I thank God every day for His mercy and kindness.

I tell this story to illustrate the good in America that the guys have spoken about. There are miracles happening every day all around. We just have to be willing to see them. <3

That is why I haven't been as present here. My perspective has shifted. I'm not as quick to go off on a hair trigger on any given political topic. There are real people out there, doing real things. I want that.

Yep, that is the world in which I live as well. People are actually kind to each other.
I feel so much better since I put down FB and Twitter.

“And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.” ~ Luke 17:26-30

Unless this country miraculously regains its moral compass, there’s no going back. To quote a familiar and former member, “there shall be national repentance or there shall be national death”.

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