Political Ecumenism, Progressivism, and the Neo-Con Betrayal; Cultural Marxism in Full Bloom

Submitted by David Sauls (United States), Jul 22, 2016 at 08:07

I agree with Dr. Pipes. The speeches I heard during the convention last night were infected with Progressivism. Progressivism = Cultural Marxism. Asking me to choose between the two candidates is like asking me to choose a seat of my liking in Hell.

Republicans have been lulled into accepting progressive agendas. The tone of the speeches implicitly embrace the abandonment of traditional values. This abandonment has been camouflaged using sympathetic catch-phrases that amount to mental memes and courts the more vitriolic concerns of the electorate in order to distract them from what is actually taking place. They appeal to angry and fearful sentiments using the common language of the everyday voter. They got conservatives all pissed off and worked up, then slid in there and asserted their real objectives, bringing progressive values into the party platform. Forget it. I'm out. I cherish traditional values as they were practiced in my father's house. I would betray everything he taught me that is good if I supported this party any longer. When we abandon our fathers, we abandon ourselves.

The objective of Cultural Marxism is to silently infiltrate our institutions by using an innocuous pseudonym (the term "progressive"; no one used it during the speeches because it speaks for itself), quietly infuse ideology by loudly proclaiming sympathy to our beliefs and obscuring the boundaries between the two, then once we are hooked by the marketing of mental memes and highly charged, emotional displays of empathy, swoop in like an owl on silent wings and convince you that alternative values are the same as traditional values. They are not. Gender neutrality, more prevalent and rampant emasculation, the spread of modernist family values where the father becomes a mere accessory rather than the head of the household, and the acceptance of near pagan religious philosophies will be the ultimate result of sacrificing tradition for ecumenical, progressive political beliefs.

Dr. Pipes is an academic, which will cause many to outright dismiss him without even considering what he says. But he articulates reasons that academics have nothing to with. He identifies the symptoms of a society slowly abandoning its traditional institutions that ensure a civilized society and the freedoms that come with it. The psychology of Donald Trump's campaign is custom made to suit the Cultural Marxist and Progressive agenda. It has been a brilliant psycho-propaganda campaign to pull the wool over the eyes of millions of conservatives, and forever change the fundamental views of conservatism. It is candy and Kool-Aid laced with the arsenic of political ecumenism and progressivism.

Ecumenism in any form is dangerous. Stay away from it. A world without physical boundaries begins with a mental state that has no value boundaries. Some of those boundaries were blurred and obscured last night, all to the cheering support of a roaring crowd, and an angry, fearful electorate. Progressivism targets institutions like church, marriage, and family. Destroy it. Or, watch our society descend into Roman paganism where God, men, and traditions become objects of comedy and persecution.

The convention amounted to a theater of political pornography that destroys from within, where the soul is enticed to assent, the body is then corrupted, and the image in which it was created, fouled and altered.

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