AMERICA DISASSEMBLED

America disassembled

By Timothy Buchanan

May 30, 2019

How do you undermine a nation's moral structure? 

It can be as simple as a television commercial. 

It seems that corporate bullies will spare no effort or expense to please the homosexual community. 

Paper products giant, Kimberly-Clark has begun airing a new TV ad for its Cottonelle bathroom tissue, which serves that purpose.

In typically graphic face-slapping style, the commercial shows the seamed side of a peach – selected for its similarity to a human backside – being wiped to demonstrate how to use the product. 

This no doubt arouses the obsession of its target audience. 

The final scene shows two men, one behind the other. 

The announcer then advises viewers to make sure that your partner is clean before you take him home to meet your mother.

Many large corporations like Kimberly-Clark now demand adherence to the alternative values of "diversity and inclusion," but it's a disingenuous public relations claim. 

Like social media platforms, these corporations now forbid open opposition to the grave sins of homosexuality and trangenderism, while claiming an honorable moral imperative for doing so.

Herein is a classic example of how insidious false implications are being imposed by compulsion. 

It's a form of tyranny that chips away at the bedrock principle of America's foundation – 

freedom of conscience. 

In a real sense, godless corporate heads are forcing compliance with their secular humanist religion.

In Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises, Bill asks, 

"How did you go bankrupt?"

"Two ways," Mike replies. "Gradually, then suddenly." 

So it has been with the moral bankruptcy in the United States.

The movement in this direction began with LGBTQ activist groups, GLAAD, GLSEN and the Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 

Activists forced Hollywood to adopt their agenda to show homosexuals and lesbians in a positive light. 

Since media liberals lacked stable moral standards already, it was an easy victory.

Next, LGBTQ thugs invaded the political arena. 

Working behind the scenes, they found sympathetic ears in the Democrat National Committee. 

Democrats have been eager to accommodate the alternative values of radical homosexuals for their ability to turnout Democrat voters.

Now, major corporations seeking to curry favor with sophisticated marketing professionals, Hollywood celebrities, Democrat politicians and media executives, are folding like cheap suits. 

For those few who resisted, the same sort of bullying tactics employed by community rabble-rousers, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Barack Hussein Obama to compel banks to write junk loans to unqualified clients (which led to the mortgage industry collapse of 2008) were used against opponents of LGBTQ radicals – 

threats of lawsuits and protests.

Why would a large corporation like Kimberly-Clark risk offending 95% of its customer base in order to ingratiate itself to the less than 5% that is engaged in sexual debauchery? 

Corporate attorneys have convinced boards of directors that it's easier and cheaper to comply with the militant LGBTQ fanatics that to deal with the threats and potentially-negative publicity. 

They know that is very little risk that Christians and conservatives – 

who spend most of their time working, paying taxes and raising families – will hold them accountable for promoting sin.

In many places, Judeo-Christian morality is being replaced by alternative secular values. 

The chief of these fake values is acceptance of the very grave sins of abortion and homosexuality. 

Truth is being replaced by emotivism as a fundamental basis for them.

America has been disassembled two ways. 

Gradually, then suddenly. 

And it's the scheme that will be used by the world's final dictator to gain power over all mankind.
The United States has been at such a crossroad before. 

During the Civil War period, President Abraham Lincoln said that America could not remain so divided. 

He believed that the nation would become all on thing or all the other; slave or free. 

Our most deadly war followed President Lincoln's prophetic declaration.

An immoral nation is a weak nation that cannot long endure. 

The same choice faces America; slave or free. 

May we this time, take a different path.

© Timothy Buchanan

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/buchanan/190530

AMERICAN MINUTE

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN RELIGION LOSES ITS INFLUENCE?

Bill Federer relates both distant and modern concerns of increasing atheism in America

• Harvard President Langdon: “Vice will … corrupt the constitution & in time bring on its dissolution.”
• Harvard Professor Christensen: “As religion loses its influence over the lives of Americans, what will happen to our democracy?”

Just six weeks after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Harvard President Samuel Langdon, May 31, 1775, spoke to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Samuel Langdon’s address was titled “Government Corrupted By Vice”: 

“They … attempted, by a sudden march of a body of troops in the night, to seize and destroy one of our magazines, formed by the people merely for their own security.

 … The fire began first on the side of the king’s troops. 

… But for what? 

Because they have made a noble stand for their natural and constitutional rights, in opposition to the machinations of wicked men … aiming to enslave and ruin the whole nation. …”

Langdon continued: 

“We must keep our eyes fixed on the supreme government of the Eternal King, as directing all events, setting up or pulling down the kings of the earth at His pleasure. 

… That for the sins of a people God may suffer the best government to be corrupted, or entirely dissolved; 

and that nothing but a general reformation can give ground to hope that the public happiness will be restored. …”

Harvard President Langdon spoke further: 

“The kingdom of Israel was brought to destruction, because its iniquities were full 

 because there remained no hope of reformation. 

… Their government degenerated in proportion as their vices increased, till few faithful men were left in any public offices. 

… At length, when they were delivered up for seventy years into the hands of the king of Babylon, scarcely any remains of their original excellent civil polity appeared among them. …”

Langdon added: 

“When a government is in its prime … virtue prevails – every thing is managed with justice, prudence, and frugality. 

… But vice will increase with the riches and glory of an empire; 

and this gradually tends to corrupt the constitution, and in time bring on its dissolution. 

… This may be considered not only as the natural effect of vice, but a righteous judgment of heaven, especially upon a nation which has been favored with the blessing of religion and liberty, and is guilty of undervaluing them; 

and eagerly going into the gratification of every lust. …”

Langdon continued describing ancient Israel: 

“They were a sinful nation … who had forsaken the Lord; and provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger. 

… Their princes were rebellious against God 

… seizing the property of the subjects … and robbing the public treasury. 

Every one loved gifts … they were influenced in every thing by bribery 

… they even justified and encouraged the murder of innocent persons to support their lawless power. 

… And God, in righteous judgment, left them to run into all this excess of vice to their own destruction, because they had forsaken Him. 

… The public greatly suffered, and the people groaned, and wished for better rulers and better management. 

But in vain they hoped for a change … when the spirit of religion was gone, and the infection of vice was become universal. 

The whole body being so corrupted, there could be no rational prospect of any great reformation in the state, but rather of its ruin. …”

Rev. Samuel Langdon continued his address to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress: 

“Yet if a general reformation of religion and morals had taken place, and they had turned to God from all their sins – 

if they had again recovered the true spirit of their religion, God, by the gracious interpositions of His providence, would soon have found out methods to restore the former virtue of the state, and again have given them men of wisdom and integrity. 

… We have rebelled against God. We have lost the true spirit of Christianity, though we retain the outward profession and form of it. 

We have neglected … the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and His holy commands and institutions. 

… Their hearts are far from Him. 

By many, the Gospel is corrupted into a superficial system of moral philosophy, little better than ancient Platonism. …”

Langdon concluded: 

“Let us repent and implore the divine mercy. 

Let us amend our ways and our doings, reform everything that has been provoking the Most High and thus endeavor to obtain the gracious interpositions of Providence for our deliverance. 

… May the Lord hear us in this day of trouble 

… We will rejoice in His salvation, and in the name of our God, we will set up our banners! 

… Wherefore is all this evil upon us? 

Is it not because we have forsaken the Lord? 

Can we say we are innocent of crimes against God? 

No, surely it becomes us to humble ourselves under His mighty hand, that He may exalt us in due time. 

… If God be for us, who can be against us? 

The enemy has reproached us for calling on His name and professing our trust in Him. 

They have made a mock of our solemn fasts and every appearance of serious Christianity in the land. 

… May our land be purged from all its sins! 

Then the Lord will be our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble, and we will have no reason to be afraid, though thousands of enemies set themselves against us round about.”

More recently, on Feb. 8, 2011, Harvard Professor Clay Christensen, the Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, observed: 

“Sometime ago I had a conversation with a Marxist economist from China. 

He was coming to the end of a Fulbright Fellowship here in Boston, and I asked him if he had learned anything that was surprising or unexpected. And without any hesitation he said 

‘Yes, I had no idea how critical religion is to the functioning of democracy.’

“‘The reason why democracy works,’ he said, ‘is not because the government was designed to oversee what everybody does. 

But rather democracy works because most people, most of the time, voluntarily choose to obey the law. 

And in your past, most Americans attended a church or synagogue every week. 

And they were taught there by people who they respected.’

My friend went on to say that 

‘Americans followed these rules because they had come to believe that they weren’t just accountable to society, they were accountable to God.'”

Professor Christensen continued: 

“My Chinese friend heightened a vague but nagging concern I harbored inside that as religion loses its influence over the lives of Americans, what will happen to our democracy? 

Where are the institutions that are going to teach the next generation of Americans that they too need to voluntarily choose to obey the laws? 

Because if you take away religion, you cannot hire enough police.”

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FBI DEPUTY ASS. DIRCTOR MADE 'UNAUTHORIZED CONTACTS WITH THE MEDIA'

A new investigation summary by the Inspector General for the Department of Justice reveals an FBI deputy assistant director was caught making “unauthorized contacts with the media” and “disclosing sensitive information.”

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FEDS REPORT FINDS WASTE COSTIN TENS OF BILLIONS

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FEET OF CLAY

WILL A FEMINIST MOB NOW SLEDGEHAMMER MLK'S STATUE?

Laura Hollis advises us not to have unrealistic moral tests for historical figures

So, what happens now?

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow, FBI surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the late 1950s and early 1960s (the records of which were just released) produced evidence that Dr. King had dozens of extramarital affairs, 

participated in sex orgies, 

hired prostitutes, 

used the most vulgar language to describe his conduct with women and even laughingly looked on while an associate allegedly raped a woman in a hotel room.

Will the civil rights icon be subject to the same standard that is now being applied to other towering historical figures?

Just last week, South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested that the Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinners should be renamed, since Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and Andrew Jackson was responsible for the forcible relocation of 100,000 Native Americans.

There are calls to remove a painted mural of George Washington in a San Francisco high school named for the first president.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, over 100 Confederate monuments have been removed since 2015 (when mass murderer and white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine African American worshipers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina). 

Some of these have been taken down by officials in the dead of night. Others – like “Silent Sam,” a statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier at the University of North Carolina – have been destroyed by a mob.

Universities are scrambling to rename buildings and otherwise redress grievances. 

The University of Oregon has put in place new criteria that prohibit naming buildings after individuals with “discriminatory, racist, homophobic, or misogynist views.” 

At the University of Notre Dame, historic painted murals in the campus’ Main Building (popularly known as “the Golden Dome”) are going to be covered up (high-resolution images of the artwork will be posted elsewhere on campus), 

because the depictions of Christopher Columbus’ interactions with indigenous peoples of the New World have been deemed inaccurate and offensive to Native Americans.

In this era of #MeToo and “Trust Women,” 

what would the reaction be if a group of feminist activists were to arrange a protest around the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., take sledgehammers and other blunt instruments to the statue of the man there, deface it with spray-painted sayings and hire a crane to knock it over? 

What would the public reaction be if local police and the National Park Service personnel were ordered to “stand down” and allow that to happen? 

Would pundits, gender and race scholars and Hollywood tweeters jump to the protesters’ defense? 

Would we hear calls for all streets and schools and parks named for Dr. King to be renamed?

I don’t think so. (And I would hope not.) 

But the deafening silence since the sordid revelations – unverified though some of them are – says plenty about the public discomfort when our heroes are revealed to be deeply flawed individuals. 

What does it do to their legacy? 

What standards are we holding public figures to now?

These questions are closely related, and it seems to me that there are three ways we can respond to revelations like the recent headlines about Dr. King.

First, we can be hypocritical about human failings, feigning outrage when they appear in our political opponents and nudge-nudge-wink-wink them away when they are manifest in political allies. 

This is, quite frankly, the way things have been done for the past 30 years or so, and it is past time we admit what havoc this has wrought. It has resulted in a precipitous erosion in standards of behavior 

(“Well, their guy did it, so ours can, too”), 

cynicism and widespread contempt for public figures generally.

Admittedly, it’s easy to hold public figures in contempt when they behave so abysmally, but we’re far less likely to blame ourselves for rewarding it.

It would be a marked improvement for us to start by agreeing to hold all public figures – 

not just the ones we personally agree with – to the same standards. 

But we must avoid the inclination to deny the achievements of anyone of current or historical significance unless they pass some moral purity test. 

History has shown that, humans being what they are, this is doomed to failure, whether such impossible standards are imposed by right-wing puritans or Politburo leftists. 

Accomplishments become a source of dread rather than a sense of achievement, as the achiever knows it is only a matter of time before the mob piles on, looking for chinks in the armor. 

(Social media at its worst is a contemporary example of this.) 

Such an approach leaves us with no one to look up to, admire or emulate.

The correct approach, in my view, is to apply not only a more consistent standard when evaluating behavior but also a more honest one. 

We can recognize – and, where appropriate, honor – 

the achievements of remarkable individuals like Thomas Jefferson or Martin Luther King Jr. without glossing over their failings: 

We can discuss their blind spots, the standards of their day that differ from our own, the times they fell short of their own expectations.

None of this is to suggest that – for example – we cut Benito Mussolini some slack because he made the trains run on time, or revere Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin because of their brutal efficiency in modernizing the countries they ruled.

But admittedly, mass murderers and leaders of repressive regimes are the easy cases. 

The lives of nearly everyone else – including those who have made positive contributions to mankind – 

will be complex portraits of virtues and vices, sacrifice and selfishness.

It would serve us well to admit this truth, and stop politicizing it.

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