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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23


I know this is difficult for many people to wrap their brains around, but there is a significant portion of our country’s leadership that wants failure and chaos. It includes almost all of the Democrats and a not-small portion of the Republicans. Not only do they want it, they are actively working for it.
Please read this entire post, especially the two screenshots I included near the end. (I don’t know who wrote them.)
Consider the power of these six things:
They are all tied together, especially the first four. That is how the Democrat Party functions. That is how the Democrat Party and bureaucracy funds itself. How it survives. If you eliminate or even severely cripple the first four, they are done. They have no movement to speak of except for insane people who are being paid to protest and the portion of the Baby Boomers who never grew up.
If you take out the money flow and the people flow, there is nothing left.
So what are they trying to do now that they can see their power slipping? Here is what they are doing to Heritage Americans, the people whose ancestors built this country (overwhelmingly, but not exclusively, White and European). If your family has been here for multiple generations either as settlers or legitimate immigrants who came to build and not take, then your family is probably Heritage American.
If you are a Heritage American and a Christian, then the attack on you is even more fierce.
Here is the four step attack against the backbone of the USA.
That’s it.
They want you confused by the chaos. They want you uncertain who you should trust.
They want you demoralized so you give up and tune out. This includes undermining Christianity and importing millions of people whose faith is directly contrary to the U.S. Constitution.
They want to humiliate you so you take whatever abuse they wish to put on you. This includes:
They especially want to humiliate you. Just look at the UK and Europe and what has happened to the girls and women there. The invaders do whatever they want to the women and girls while the country’s leadership looks away and punishes those who try to fight against it.
If they do it there, they certainly plan to do it here.
And then they take us to war.
If you think I’m exaggerating, look at what is happening now in the UK and the EU. They are actively feeding their populations war-footing propaganda.
Does it make sense for them to go to war?
Of course not.
So why would they?
Control.
Control the food. Control the movement of people. Control what people can say.
But especially control the money.
Centralized control of everything.
Their 2030 goals have not gone away.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
They haven’t stopped.
They can’t stop because as soon as they stop, they know they are over on a grand scale and for a long time.
They will push until they win or are forced to stop.
If we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the chaos, demoralization, and humiliation rituals, then they win.
Every single mentally healthy person must actively stand against it.
Why?
Because there are too many mentally fragile and broken people in our country right now. We cannot afford more of them.
You and I need to protect our minds, our hearts, and our overall well-being. Finding the balance in this time is challenging.
Look at how many people were utterly broken by the Covid operation. How many people do you know who have never really fully recovered mentally from that experience?
How many people were broken and changed by the race riots and open war on Whites? The trans and “gender identity” insanity push? How many people do you know who have never really fully recovered from all of that?
Even the people who stood strong against all of it were hurt and changed by it to varying degrees. It might not have broken us, but it took a toll on us. Every one of us.
I would love nothing better than to turn everything off and disconnect. Pretend that none of this is happening. Believe me. I’ve had that temptation and conversation with myself more than a few times this year.
But how would that help me? How would that help my family? My church? My community? My state?
It wouldn’t.
I’ve been resetting my life all year. I may not be writing about it every week, but I have been doing what I can to bring order to every part of my life – physical, mental, spiritual, relational, etc.
I encourage you to do the same.
Find the balance that works for you. Give yourself what you need to be well, but resist the temptation to think that you can somehow escape all of it if you just wish it away.
Consider this.


I believe some version of the above is why everything is going at such as excruciatingly slow pace when it comes to arrests and the like. Those working toward the good of our country have to do it without breaking our country.
They are threading needles we can’t even begin to understand.
While they are doing that, we need to continue to pray for them and prepare our own mind, spirit, heart, and home.

I’m guessing people might wonder if I’m exaggerating when I say that search and traffic are bad now. Not just really bad. Kind of horrific in many ways.
So here’s one proof that shocked even me.
Raptive (formerly AdThrive) is one of the premier ad networks to which bloggers and website owners can apply. Their long-time requirement was 100,000 page views per month in order to qualify. This has to be verifiable by Google Analytics.
A few years ago, they opened up a scaled-down version for blogs and websites called Rise with “only” a 50,000 page view requirement.
This week Raptive announced they are getting rid of that and going to a blanket 25,000 page view requirement to be considered for the full Raptive service.
Yes, I said 25,000.
If that doesn’t tell everyone how bad it has gotten in terms of being able to bring traffic to your website, I don’t know what will. That number would have been unthinkable four or five years ago.
I know someone who uses Raptive and she forwarded her official email to me. The Raptive announcement said:
We’ve found that as the industry evolves, traffic alone no longer defines success, and what truly matters is original, high-quality content that audiences trust.
and
We’ll continue to be thoughtful and selective about who we partner with, choosing creators who share our commitment to quality, creativity, and authenticity.
In a world full of AI-generated slop, we’re proud to stand for the real, human web.
A blogging friend and I have been discussing for a few years that the long-term winners online will be the ones who stick to real content that they write themselves. Raptive apparently agrees.
That’s why I played with AI a bit and realized it wasn’t for me when it came to writing posts. I’ve disclosed how I do use AI in a limited way, but this website has always been and will continue to be written by me.
The goal of 100,000 pages views was really never achievable for me. Even 50,000 seemed impossible in recent years (and apparently I was correct). But 25,000 does not.
So we’ll see what happens. But if Raptive decided this was their best strategic choice, then things must be even worse than I thought for the bigger websites. Raptive only makes money when bloggers make money so this is a fascinating decision in so many ways.

I saw this image a few months ago on Telegram and have re-shared it a couple of times.
The sentiment describes very much where I am in this season of life as I reflect on where I’ve been, where I am now, and where I want to go in the future.
“Because I don’t want that for myself anymore” is an extremely valid reason to stop doing literally anything.