Since his inauguration on January 20, President Trump has delivered more positive achievements for more of the American people than any other president serving an equivalent time in office. Yet, Trump has experienced more opposition, including assassination attempts, than any other president since the Civil War. In fact, 67% of all federal injunctions in the last 100 years have been issued against President Trump.
When opposition and hostility to a national leader who is delivering major solutions for the people is so obviously irrational, it is imperative to understand what is at work to cause such division and hatred. With the 250th anniversary of America’s founding only a year away, we can start with identifying the one or two cultural variables that are dramatically different between the first 125 years and the last 125 years of American history that may explain this division, hatred, and decline.
The two variables that have dramatically changed from America’s first half to its second half are: 1) the marginalization of God and Christianity; and 2) the rise of demonic influence and apocalyptic cults.
Because Christianity’s key tenets are forgiveness and love, we should never underestimate the consequences of secularization over the last century and accelerating into the present. With diminished Christian influence in culture, social and family relations, manners, civility, and honesty are markedly worse today than a century or two ago. With the declining influence of the Christian worldview, paganism and the worship of nature have been on the rise, with many embracing apocalyptic cult groupthink — often linked to a negative impending doom.
The 2012 Democratic National Convention removed any and all references to “God” from the party’s platform, which was a 24,000-word plus mission statement. At the same time the Democrat Party, becoming ever more like a cult, has embraced false and apocalyptic views, like “gender is fluid” and “man-made CO2 levels are dangerously high” and the root cause of climate change.
Now, with Donald Trump’s second term, the Democrat cult has gone into overdrive, abandoning rational analyses and simply believing that whatever Trump does is a coming apocalypse that must be resisted and fought by any means whatsoever.
Rediscovering America, has been the number one Amazon New Release in the history genre for eight weeks. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
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