If the Republic intends to survive the 21st Century, its foreign born Elite must do a better job of understanding America.
The governing foreign born elite governing America is comprised of John Oliver, Fareed Zakaria, Medhi Hasan, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Katy Kay, Alejandro Mayorkas, David Frum, David Brooks, Ilhan Omar, Maria Hinojosa, Karin Jean Pierre, Christiane Amanpour and Ali Velshi.
They are all oblivious to American Blood Memory and its continuing power over the American Psyche.
They all had conniption fits last week when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared her admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as a Defender of the Faith, Christianity.
“Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday said that Russia is "protecting Christianity" more than Ukraine, as part of what she described as a broader war against the religion.
Greene, the two-term GOP lawmaker out of Georgia, has been one of the more outspoken members of her party's conference over not providing continuous domestic aid to Ukraine in its two-plus year conflict with Russia since it was invaded on February 24, 2022.
A strong supporter of wanting Congress to devote funding towards the southern border and against illegal immigration, ......
"Let's talk about what this really is, Steve: This is a war against Christianity," Greene said on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast. "The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians; the Ukrainian government is executing priests. Russia is not doing that; they're not attacking Christianity. As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it."….NEWSWEEK.”
This admiration for Putin should not be a surprise; for, at least since 2013, Putin has dedicated himself to being a super Christian.
“On August 13,2013, this Blogger published the following: “It has been 22 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union; to Putin, ex-KGB officer, it is time to reverse history, to reverse Russia’s Cold War defeat.
How to reverse the decision of History? The Soviet(Russian) defeat in the Cold War? Become religious, and vehemently anti-Gay. Putin will use being anti-Gay to reverse Defeat.
Ex-KGB officers believe that they lost the Cold War because they were atheists, and the winning West was religious. In their post mortem, the winning difference was Faith. Religion defeated Atheism.
….When I had dinner in East Germany with KGB Gleb (his nom de guerre), I picked up the tab. When Gleb came to America, he picked up our dinner tab and smiled,” Gerry, your nation and culture is doomed, and we now know how to bring it down….. We will revisit the Cold War and this time we will win, because now Russia is the most religious Christian country in the world.”…THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”
On April 29, 2015, this Blogger published the following: “……if a more Christian force challenges the United States, American Christians will have a tough time making war against people who still believe in the Bible. The most Christian society in the world now, with the most Christian Army in the world now, is Russia and the Russian Army under the devout Vladimir Putin(whom American Christians call "The Lion of Christianity")….. THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”
The upshot is this: American Christians would rather fight foreign born influences than Vladimir Putin.
Fareed Zakaria is a very smart and clever man, clueless about the American heartbeat, or the American Blood Memory.
On Sunday, he did an essay on the rising Secularization of American society; the following is excerpted from that essay.
"ZAKARIA: …..Trump is a shrewd reader of his supporters and has clearly seen what the data show. White evangelicals, who make up about 14 percent of the population, made up about one-quarter of voters in the 2020 elections. And about three quarters of them voted for Donald Trump.
Even more striking, of those white voters who attend religious services once a month or more, 71 percent voted for Trump in the 2020 election. Even similarly religious blacks by contrast voted Democratic by a nine to one ratio.
The key to understanding Trump's coalition is the intensity of his support among white people who are and who claimed to be devout Christians. This phenomenon must be viewed against one of the most significant shifts in American life over the last two decades. The dramatic and rapid secularization of America.
As I write in my book, "Age of Revolutions," America was long an outlier among advanced industrial countries in that it remained religious. But around the 1990s that began to change and the numbers plunged after 2007. As the scholar Ronald Inglehart has shown, since that year religious decline in America has been the greatest of any country of the 49 surveyed. By one measure, America today is the 12th least religious country on earth.
In 1990, according to the General Social Survey, less than 10 percent of Americans had no religious affiliation. Today it's around 30 percent.
Why this is happening is not easily understood, but some of it is probably that the onward march of science, reason and skepticism has fueled secularism in most rich countries. But it might also relate to certain choices that American Christianity has made over the last decades. In his important work, American evangelicalism James Davison Hunter points out that evangelicals grew their numbers by adapting to an America that had become much less religiously observant and devout.
The old Protestant fundamentalism had been filled with warnings against sin, heresy, Catholicism, adultery, divorce, materialism, and any deviation from strict Christian morality. But preachers like Jerry Falwell made the religion more user friendly and less dark finally demanding. What filled the place of religious doctrine was politics. Over the last few years, this process has been extended even further with those who consider themselves devout Christians.
Defining their faith almost entirely in political terms by opposing abortion, gay marriage, and transgender rights.
This in turn has led to a great Democratic de-churching. According to Gallup, Democratic church membership was 46 percent in 2020 down from 71 percent two decades prior. The scholar David Campbell of Notre Dame told the AP increasingly, Americans associate religion with the Republican Party. And if they're not Republicans themselves, they turn away from religion. This phenomenon of the right using even weaponizing religion is not unique to America or Christianity. You can see it in Brazil, El Salvador, Italy, Israel, Turkey, and India, among other places.
Secularization may be inevitable, but it does seem to coincide with a sense of loss for many. A loss of faith and community that might be at the heart of the loneliness that many people report experiencing these days. ….GPS/CNN.”
How little the brilliant Zakaria knows of the American soul and Blood Memory.
This Brooklyn boy will now attempt to explain the rapid increase in American secularization, to all the brilliant minds who are clueless about America.
During World War II, out of a population of 150 million people, 16 million American men, out of 80 million men, served in a wartime military. They either saw combat or knew friends or someone who had seen combat.
Few men come back from a war as either secularists, or atheists, or agnostics; when, everyday, your life is in the hands of a Divine being, you Believe.
Those returning warriors went to church; served as Deacons, ushers, fundraisers for their churches. That is the least they could do as payback for surviving the war.
The rise of American secularization began, in the 1990s, when the World War II veterans began dying in droves. Secularization in America accelerated in 2007, when American veterans of the Korean War and Vietnam began to die off, in increasing numbers.
With the end of the draft, there are not enough men, in America, who have seen war, to maintain the churches, ergo….secularization.
War breeds religious fervor; Trump supporters are engaged in a cold war against the Liberal Elite.
That explains their religious fervor.
If that Cold War becomes Hot, American religiosity will come rampaging back.
THE LION OF CHRISTIANITY
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