From
Real Clear Politics:
Donald Trump at a Thursday afternoon campaign rally in West Palm Beach:
DONALD TRUMP: Take a look at what is going on. They have stripped away these towns bare and rated the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away, out of our country, never to return unless I am elected president.
The Clinton regime is at the center of this power structure. We have seen this first hand in the Wikileaks document in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. So true.
Honestly, she should be locked up.
And likewise, the e-mails show the Clinton regime is so closely and irrevocably tied to the media organizations that she, listen to this, she is given the questions and answers in advance of her debate performance with Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton York Times.
They definitely do not do that for me. I can tell you. The e-mail show the reporters collaborate and inspire directly with the Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over.
With their control over our government at stake, with trillions of dollars on the line, the Clinton machine is determined to achieve the destruction of our campaign... this has now become a great, great great movement, the likes of which our country has never been seen before. They never seen a moment like this in our country before....
It's one of the great political phenomenons. The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.
In his critically important work Man Against Mass Society, Gabriel Marcel writes, "In spite of everything
that can be said to the contrary, is not the real and deep purpose of propaganda
after all that of reducing men to a condition in which they lose all capacity
for individual reaction? In other words, whether the men in control of
propaganda intend this or not,
is it not of the very nature of
propaganda to degrade those whose attitudes it seeks to shape? And is
it possible to be unaware of the fact that propaganda presupposes, in these men
in control, a fundamental contempt for the rest of the human race? If we really
attach any value at all to what a man is in himself, to his authentic nature,
how can we assume the responsibility of passing him through the flattening-out
machinery of propaganda?
What we ought to enquire into, however, is the
nature of this contempt. There are, of course, fine shades of distinction that
analysis ought to bring out: but is there any essential difference between the
attitude of someone like Goebbels, for instance, and that of a chief of
Communist propaganda?
In both cases we are faced with a radical and
cynical refusal to recognize the competence of individual judgment, an
impatience with what appears, from this point of view, the intolerable
presumptuousness of the individual.
It is also broadly noteworthy that
even the sense of truth cannot fail gradually and unconsciously to be destroyed
in those who assume the task of manipulating opinion. It would require a very
uncommon degree of simple-mindedness in a professional propagandist for him to
remain very long convinced that his truth was the whole truth.
Such simple-mindedness is only conceivable in a fanatic." (pp. 50-51).
We
witness such a fanaticism in Rudolf Hess, who became deputy leader of the Third
Reich, and who said: "It was granted to me for many years of my life to live and
work under the greatest son whom my nation has produced in the thousand years of
its history.
Even if I could I would not expunge this period from my
existence. I regret nothing. If I were standing once more at the beginning I
should act once again as I did then, even if I knew that at the end I should be
burnt at the stake. No matter what men do, I shall one day stand before the
judgment seat of the Almighty. I shall answer to him, and I know that he will
acquit me."
For such a fanatic, the State is beyond criticism. Its
realm is utterly sacred. And even if one should have convictions which run
counter to those of the State, these must be subordinated to the State. Hermann
Goring expressed this belief when he said, "I have no conscience! Adolf Hitler
is my conscience!" and "It is not I who live, but the Fuhrer who lives in
me."
As Dusty Sklar notes, "In the suggestible state, the proselyte may
attribute divine powers to his leader and accept dogmas which he might have
rejected in a more normal state [see
here
for example]. Some of the men closest to Hitler, for example, acknowledged that
they believed in his divinity. Himmler's masseur, Felix Kersten, relates that he
once answered the phone and heard Hitler's voice before passing the phone on to
Himmler, who exclaimed" 'You have been listening to the voice of the Fuhrer,
you're a very lucky man.' Himmler told Kersten that Hitler's commands came 'from
a world transcending this one.' and that they should be 'saved' by 'a figure of
the greatest brilliance' which had 'become incarnate' in Hitler's person." (The
Nazis and the Occult, p. 157).
Even intelligent people are not immune
from the desire to conform. As Sklar notes, "We 'catch' ideas, too, because we
want to be like others, particularly when we want not to be our despised selves.
If we're satisfied, we don't need to
conform, but if we're not, we imitate people whom we admire for having greater
judgment, taste, or good fortune than we do. Obedience itself is a kind of
imitation. Through conformity, the person who feels inferior is in no danger of
being exposed. He's indistinguishable from the others. No one can single him out
and examine his unique being. Conformity, in turn, sets him up
to be further canceled out as an individual, to have no life apart from his
collective purpose. This gives a movement tremendous power over the
individual...Hoffer [Eric Hoffer] observes: 'Above all, he [the true believer]
must never feel alone. Though stranded on a desert island, he must still feel
that he is under the eyes of the group. To be cast out from the group should be
equivalent to being cut off from life. This is undoubtedly a primitive state of
being, and its most perfect examples are found among primitive tribes. Mass
movements strive to approximate this primitive perfection, and we are not
imagining things when the anti-individual bias of contemporary mass movements
strikes us as a throwback to the primitive.'" (Dusty Sklar, The Nazis and the
Occult, citing Eric Hoffer, p. 158).
What is a Christian [or anyone of good will] to do when faced with a mass movement which seeks to
subjugate the individual to the collective? A movement which "refuses to
recognize the competence of individual judgment" and to enslave all in a prison
of absolute conformity to the State? The Christian must prepare himself or
herself by relinquishing the fear of public opinion and to pray for the Holy
Spirit's gift of Fortitude.
It was the Cure of Ars [St. Jean Vianney, patron saint of parish priests]
who said: "
Do not try to please everybody.
Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your
public." To which he added: "
If you are afraid of other people's opinion, you should
not have become a Christian."
There is always a price to be paid for following Jesus. Those committed to
their Christian faith must expect a certain amount of unpopularity. God knows I
live with this unpopularity every day. So be it. What difference does this make?
It was St. Gerard Majella who asked, "Who except God can give you peace? Has the
world ever been able to satisfy the heart?" To which I would add: look closely
at the photograph at the top of this post. Think of the masses who succumbed to
Hitler's propaganda of a "thousand year Reich" which would transform the world.
Were these throngs of people any happier at the end of the war? Did the world
satisfy their hearts? Were these people not left with the bitter and empty taste
of defeat?
What is the absolute worse the world can do to us? Why do we fear the world
so much? We must recall the words of Blessed Miguel Pro, S.J., as he faced his
firing squad: Viva Christo Rey! Long live Christ the King! For, as St. Paul of
the Cross has told us, "The aversions that you experience, the ridicule, the
scorn, the jokes, etc., should be received with great gratitude toward God.
These serve as the pyre of love on which the victim of love is burned..."
The soul that gives itself completely to God can expect to be persecuted.
Even killed. But what of it? We should remember the words of Jesus:
"
I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid
of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom
to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into
Gehenna; yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one. Are not five sparrows sold for
two small coins? Yet not one of them has escaped the notice of God. Even the
hairs of your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid. You are worth more
than many sparrows." (Luke 12: 4-7).
Now is the time for Christians, Conservatives and all those who value truth to rise up and take a stand against the Godless Demon State and its Propaganda Ministry, the mass media. The MSM serves the Devil. It serves the Demon State and its candidate, the godless Hillary Clinton.
The mass media is comprised of manipulators, not journalists. See
here,
here and
here. These stories are simply ignored by a Propaganda Ministry which will do everything in its power, including lie, to ensure a victory for Hillary Clinton.
