We are living in an era where we are being told one thing but the opposite is true. Think about some of the hard core stances made by corporate media and the government that are now proven to be false. The COVID mRNA shots are both safe and reliable. There was no evidence of voter integrity issues. The Jan 6 protest was an insurrection. The US border is secure. The Hunter Biden laptop story is fake news. Joe Biden never took money from the Chinese. Climate change is the reason behind massive worldwide migration. Free speech must be protected from misinformation. If you don’t believe this weaponized propaganda, you and people like you are threats to democracy, especially if you are a Christian.
This type of pressure is called soft tyranny. It’s a constant pressure. One that most people can’t quite come to grips with it in their minds. They feel the heaviness, the restrictions, the hesitation to say what they are thinking for fear of reprisal in some way, shape or form. There are people who have put words to this phenomena. One is Jeffrey A Tucker, president of the Brownstone Institute, who in a column for Epoch News says of the Left, “Their only hope at this point is to hold onto power through any means possible. It’s they who don’t believe in democracy. Indeed they fear it more than ever, and in every respect. They are against it in politics but also in economics, education, culture, and media. Democracy means competition and consumer choice whereas they want cartel-based control.”
Robert Knight, columnist for The Washington Times, writes: “Their first order of business is to defeat former President Donald Trump by any means possible, wielding the legal system like a stiletto. The second is to get rid of as many election integrity safeguards as possible… This is what “democracy” looks like in communist and Third World countries… At some point, more Americans in every state need to wake up to the fact that elections have consequences and that “saving democracy” has become shorthand for one-party tyranny. Perhaps the donkey party could adopt a more honest slogan, such as: “Vote Democrat. Help destroy democracy.”” Knight says, “By painting opponents as “threats to democracy,” they issue a license to would-be tyrants at all levels of government to silence speech.”
Layered on top of this march toward tyranny is the corporate media that shills the woke dogma with impunity, opinionizing from a godless Marxist worldview. One thing we hear a lot is how Christian Nationalists and White Nationalists are a threat to democracy, and the mouthpieces draw a direct line to Trump supports. Hence, they pound the drum that all Christians and all white people and all Trump supporters are a threat to democracy—they have to dumb it down because America is a Constitutional Republic, not a true democracy. But why let facts get in the way? So the dog whistle is constantly blowing. Galatians 5:1 says, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free.” The threats to your freedom are hiding in plain sight and you hear them every day. To heed them is, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
Sources:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/12/projection-and-denial-thats-biden-way/
