In his powerful book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist writes,
 
“For seventy years, southern and northern economic and political elites—and many average white citizens—had cooperated to extract profit and power from the forced movement and exploitation of enslaved people’s bodies and minds. Always, the proslavery forces had made the rest of the United States choose between profitable expansion of the slave country or economic slowdown.”
 
Unfortunately, economic and political elites are still at it.

Today, the price we pay for economic expansion, so they say, is what some critics refer to as “wage slavery.” Now, there are those who have theorized that anytime a man or woman agrees to work for a wage, they have entered a form of slavery. I am not so extreme. However, in today’s economic environment, many corporations, with a nod of the head and wink of an eye by politicians of all stripes, have suppressed common wages and kept the minimum wage so wickedly low as to, essentially, have created indentured servants. In addition, employers have, again with politicians’ blessing, stripped away benefits such as health care and pensions. And while all of this is happening, company profits go up, already rich stock holders get richer, and CEO’s salaries and bonuses go through the roof.

Really? You can’t cut just a tad, a trifling mite into your grotesquely gigantic financial portfolio to give that skilled technician who installs your customers’ cable service a measly little raise so he or she is making $15 dollars an hour rather than $10 or $12? You know, the one you demand six 10-12 hour days’ labor a week; the one who gets no paid vacation (while you sail on your yacht during one of your 20 weeks a year vacation); the one you take from his or her family so that their children see them 15 minutes a day? By how many hundreds could we multiply this one example?

Great “Family Values” you have there.

You are pathetic. Cro-Magnon.

Your behavior is ungodly. It is anti-Christ.

“It be sin unto you.”[1]

You are, not doubt, simply acting the part of “disciple.” Following the “Satanic Verses” written by one such as the false prophet, Milton Friedman, who “holds that a corporation that acts responsibly toward the community in which it does its business is shirking its only duty: to maximize its short-term stock valuation.”[2]

Of course, your guilt is, perhaps, nothing compared to others; you know, those who claim to know better; who claim grace and inspiration and discernment through the Holy Spirit; those who call themselves Christian.

O, how many so-called Christians, with the Bible sitting at their fingertips shouting at them to do otherwise, actively condone and support such immoral behavior or, by their silence, assent to the ungodly oppression of the poor!

It is mind-boggling. The entire unseemly gaggle—corporatists, politicians, and “Christians”—are united in their commitment to shamefully set at naught the commandments of a just God, and reject his attempt to assist “deviant us” in the formation of a just society.

“This is a rebellious people, lying children,
      children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Which say to the seers,
      ‘See not;’
and to the prophets,
      ‘prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things,
      prophesy deceits:
Get you out of the way,
      turn aside out of the path,
            cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.’”[3]
 
Where is the Christian prophetic voice? Obsessed and diverted by gay marriage and all other genitalia related matters, they have forgotten or ignored or denied that “the love of money is the root of all evil.”[4] This one passage captures the message that is at the heart of so much of the Old Testament prophets.
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But, alas, the watchmen have not, or will not blow the trump. Rather,
 
“…The shepherds of Israel… do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.”[5]
 
Too many Christian shepherds have been taken in by the sorcery of wealth; heeded the siren call of the wealthy “wizards that peep, and that mutter.”
 
“But, should not a people seek unto their God?
 
To the law and to the testimony:
      if they speak not according to this word,
            it is because there is no light in them.”[6]
 
Be warned, those wizards of wealth and those false prophets who oppress are not to be trusted.
 
“Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips… destruction and misery are in their ways.”[7]


[1] Deuteronomy 24.15

[2] See, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, Mike Lofgren, chapter 7.

[3] Isaiah 30.9-11

[4] 1 Timothy 6.10

[5] Ezekiel 34.2-6

[6] See Isaiah 8.19-20

[7] Romans 3.13 & 16

​“I was honestly concerned that he might lie.”
 
Wise man. We all should wish there were tapes.
 
If Comey said it once, he said it 4, 5, 6, 7 times. The man is a liar. He is not to be trusted. Truer words have seldom been spoken in the halls of government.
 
Of course, he’s just stating the obvious, really. It has been clear from the beginning. America’s Caligula is a liar. He is a con artist. He has lied his entire life and never been held accountable.  He never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever speaks a truth, except by accident.
 
Now he has managed to perpetrate the greatest con in American political history and become President of these Dis-United States. Will he finally be held accountable?
 
Not by those who call themselves Christians, he won’t! Those who falsely claim to have discernment through the Holy Spirit can’t see what is perhaps the clearest thing that has happened in decades in an always murky American political system.
 
He is a con artist.
 
They’ve been had. Conned by a fiendishly professional and skilled con artist. A master of illusion. A sorcerer.
 
Willingly and willfully, they’ve been conned. “If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, ‘We see;’ therefore your sin remaineth” (John 9.41).

The astonishing madness continues to gush, spilling over into ever widening channels. The newest spew of madness is, as usual, based on ignorance, arrogance, deceptions, murderous idolatry, and religious perversion.

In yet another act of impure theater, America’s Caligula[1] has withdrawn an ignorant and greedy nation from the Paris Climate Accord. One of three nations rejecting the accord, it has shown itself to be, in very fact, the greatest danger to and the most wicked nation on planet earth.

I call it theater based on ignorance because, though his ardent and admiring audience presumably does not know it, the “accord” had no teeth. It was less edict, and more mild suggestion. All “suggestions” were “voluntary.” There was no way and no organization to “enforce” its “suggestions.” Under an unprincipled and sick Caligula, who could remain in the accord while ignoring all suggestions without consequence, not one single job would ever be lost… never mind that it could create millions of jobs, as the much wiser Chinese well know. I suppose that they will now become the world leader in searching out investment opportunities aimed at renewable energy sources. While they prepare for the future, we will remain bogged down in outdated and polluting energy sources.

I call it theater based on ignorance because neither the perverted actor nor his adoring minions has the intellectual honesty to acknowledge the indisputable truth that we—whether, or not, you believe that humans are contributing to global warming—are doing unconscionable violence to our God-given global inheritance. And, really, what is the problem with taking care of the planet, whether we are having an impact upon it or not?

I call it theater based on deception because Caligula’s administration knows there was no need to withdraw; knows there would be no need to act in accordance with the accord; knows there would be no consequence for non-compliance; knows that with inaction not one American job would be lost; knows that not one job will be created as a result of our withdrawal; knows that many jobs will be lost through neglect of renewable energy advancements; and knows that we are doing immeasurable harm to the planet. All this deception is simply meant to feed the beastly and mad crowd with the lies it craves.

Caligula’s circus, a modern-day version of flesh-eating lions, has excited his mobs, who cheer the tyrant on to ever more and greater outrages. He does not stand on some street of New York and kill someone, as he once boasted he could do without consequence. Rather, he sits in his office and threatens millions; for which he receives the accolades of his depraved hordes. I, for my part give his killing circus a big thumbs down.

I call it theater based on murderous idolatry because, though no jobs will be lost and no economic disadvantage will come to the good ol’ U.S of A if it remains in the accord, the little man has told his disciples otherwise. His reason for leaving, he claims, is to get gain. His minions cheer his greed. His minions suck on the teats of his greed. His greed is their greed. Mammon is their god. They have, all of them, as Cain of old, murdered to get gain. Sold their souls for filthy lucre.

I call it theater based on arrogance because Caligula does what Caligula wants—and to hell with the rest of the planet. How long before they all go their own way without us? We have proven that we can be trusted with nothing but our own selfish self-interests. Hopefully, in his arrogance, and in the arrogance of his minions, he will finally put an end to the ungodly American hegemony that has for too long polluted (pun intended) the world.

I call it theater based on religious perversion because the most adoring portion of his craven audience—white unchristian evangelicals and fundamentalists—claiming an unction of the Holy Spirit by which they discern truth from error, good from evil, loudly applaud Caligula’s intended defilement of our divine inheritance. Oh, what language is sufficient to describe the perversion of those who claim so falsely that they, with their eyes anointed with the unction of the Holy Spirit, “need not that any man teach” them when, in fact, their eyes and ears and hearts and minds are slathered with a thick coating of hell’s putrid muck?
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In the end, it is this religious perversion of the unchristian right that is most damning. What do we do when the “righteous” fail? Caligula is simply sick in the head. To some degree he “knows not what he does.” But those who vainly take the name of God onto their lips and claim to see… they are the real threat to our nation and to all that is good and pure in the world. “How are the mighty fallen!”


[1] Up to now, refusing to call him by name—thus denying him a certain degree of power—I have only referred to the latest POTUS as “that man” (emphasis on the “little”). But, I have decided to give him a name. It is a name he has well earned. The name by which he will be known on the pages of this site is “Caligula,” “little boots.” Consistent with my paste manner of referring to him, the name still emphasizes his smallness of character, but has the added benefit of emphasizing his madness.