Rod Dreher: Quo Vadis, America?

[Kamaji]

Quo Vadis, America?

By Rod Dreher
July 4, 2022

Two tweets about American on this Independence Day. The first is from a drag restaurant in Miami, which is in Florida, a state that has a sane governor and a department of child protective services, from which we should be hearing soon:

https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1543405646049058816

There is our future, America, if we stay on this path.  A trans stripper leading a child down the primrose path is a condensed symbol for the road to hell down which our country is walking. Seems like there’s a new moral and cultural low every day here in a country led by a Democratic president who said that advancing the goals of groomers like the trans stripper above is “the civil rights issue of our time.” It is hard to believe that the Democratic Party as well as the entire ruling class of the USA has been captured by decadence to this degree. But here we are.

Which brings us to the second tweet:

https://twitter.com/WilliamA_33/status/1543067436341235712

I think the old man speaks for a lot of us. In fact, I know so. Gallup just released a poll showing that Americans’ pride in their country is at unprecedented lows. Excerpts:

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We have become a country ruled in many public and most major private institutions by people who hate its founding ideals, who hate its traditional liberties and moral norms, who hate the race of the majority of people in this country and who wish to stir up racial hatred among us, who hate orthodox forms of the religion of a majority of its people, and who are busy destroying the pillars of national life and cleansing the memories of the next generation so they will forget what America ever was. One party promotes this, and the other party is too cowardly or otherwise disengaged to defend their own country’s traditions. The business class is all in on celebrating decadence. The military-industrial complex and the foreign policy elites want to spread it throughout the West. The light unto the nations has turned itself into the neon filaments of the trans strippers’ neon.

What is it going to take to make America great again? It’s not going to be politics alone. Some Evangelical I follow on Twitter, can’t remember who, tweeted the other day that he changed his view of seminary education when he heard someone say that churches should be preparing people to face persecution. I forget his phrasing, but the point was not about predicting persecution, but rather talking about effective discipleship. Persecution may not come, but we should prepare ourselves to be able to thrive if it did.

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Source:  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/quo-vadis-america-2022-weimar-trans-stripper/

[Kamaji]

How are the events in that first video not child abuse, per se?

[Fishrrman]

Rod Dreher:
"We have become a country ruled in many public and most major private institutions by people who hate its founding ideals, who hate its traditional liberties and moral norms, who hate the race of the majority of people in this country and who wish to stir up racial hatred among us, who hate orthodox forms of the religion of a majority of its people, and who are busy destroying the pillars of national life and cleansing the memories of the next generation so they will forget what America ever was."

OK, folks, here's one more "Fishrrman question":
How many members still believe that the problems and division that exist in The United States right now will be fixed "at the ballot box"...?

Mr. Dreher also remarks:
"What is it going to take to make America great again? It’s not going to be politics alone."

Brings to mind a famous quote attributed to General Carl von Clausewitz. Hmmm... how did that go...?