My view of this election is that Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris are engaged in a spiritual battle. Many, including myself, felt that it was clear divine providence that saved Trump's life during the first assassination attempt. It's incredible that he turned his head at that exact moment to avoid the assassin's bullet, only grazing his ear. I don't believe in such coincidences. Trump himself has leaned toward religious overtones, understanding that many Christian supporters see him as a savior-like figure. Personally, I believe that God has chosen certain individuals to carry out His plans on earth, and the Bible is full of examples of this. And there is no doubt in my mind that Trump is one of those individuals. Isaiah 6:8 says: Then I said, “Here I am.” Send it to me. “
Mr. Trump's tribulations were almost job-like. Stripped of virtually everything, impeached, beaten, humiliated, nearly killed, slandered, deplatformed, sued, and on the verge of being thrown into prison for the rest of his life, Trump won a remarkable election. I found the strength to campaign and win. It is the greatest political revival in American history. Many consider his resilience to be superhuman and divinely inspired.
Walkism is similar in some ways to the other two secular cults in that it has rituals, priests, and elements of original sin (whiteness, privilege, etc.). Walkism even has a millennial bent, in that it assumes the world is fundamentally unfair. We are exposed to a vast and oppressive conspiracy.
Now, on the other hand, we have another religion. I consider it idolatrous, but it is still a religion. You see, when you strip a life of God, you don't leave people intact, but rather a God-shaped hole. Today's left has eliminated (or corrupted) the church, and in its place the left has adopted a secular religion (some call this Gnosticism). Harris and her progressive supporters support three of these cults: climate fatalism, revolutionaryism, and, to a lesser extent, AI safety. Broadly speaking, all of this falls under the category of Decelism.
eternal apocalypse
It's worth unpacking these a bit. Climate change and AI disruptors are modern-day millennial cults. So they're interested in the apocalypse. Adherents of such cults believe that a reckoning will come that will change the earth, punish the sinful, save the worthy, or simply destroy us completely. When it comes to climate, the idea is that we have committed a grave original sin of corrupting nature and emitting carbon dioxide. Gaia is punishing us by unleashing her wrath in the form of increasingly intense storms (never mind that the toll on humans from climate-related disasters is decreasing). And if we don't change our ways enough, we will disappear in the final day of reckoning (think “the day after tomorrow”). AI safety is a new cult, but very similar. By creating AI, we are summoning a demon of sorts, and if we dig deeper into machine intelligence, we risk destroying humanity. There is an even stranger variant of the AI Dwemer cult, where we reach rapture in some kind of singularity and merge with the Machine God. Both cults emphasize the sin of industrial pursuits, and in both cases the solution is the same: to slow or even reverse progress.
Let's compare Trump and Harris on AI and climate. President Trump wants to revitalize America's heartland and unleash its rich energy resources for things like bitcoin mining, AI and chip manufacturing. President Trump recognizes that he cannot limit himself in the energy transition like Chancellor Merkel. It would be suicidal to sacrifice oneself to an angry climate god through a Thunberg-like atonement while China prints coal-fired power plants and nuclear power plants. Harris, on the other hand, represents a bland green transition that has failed wherever it has been attempted. The left's preoccupation with the green transition should be understood as a superstition rather than a policy. If progressives really believed in the existential risks of climate, they would go all-in on nuclear weapons or global cooling with aerosolized sulfates. it's not. When it comes to AI, Harris heads AI Safety, a self-aggrandizing Silicon Valley cult that both worships and fears the God of the Machine. Trump, on the other hand, sees AI as an important strategic resource to be unleashed, without making any underlying metaphysical claims.
Desel cult aside, the most important spiritual lens through which to understand Harris is wokeism. Walkism is similar in some ways to the other two secular cults in that it has rituals, priests, and elements of original sin (whiteness, privilege, etc.). Walkism even has a millennial bent, in that it assumes the world is fundamentally unfair. exposed to a vast and oppressive conspiracy (though it is not clearly stipulated what the day of reckoning will be); But the essential flaw with wokeism and the reason it does not universalize well is that it does not offer absolution. There is no way for a straight white male (or anyone near the top of the privileged hierarchy) to atone for original sin. Compare with Christianity. Christianity emphasizes (depending on the denomination) that all one has to do to be forgiven is to accept Jesus Christ into one's heart. In other words, woke discrimination is not actually a cannot maintain itself. But who would enroll in a religion that offers no redemption? Even the most ardent white woke people recognize themselves as perpetuated Dalits in the woke caste system and decide to join a cult. You must feel a tinge of doubt.
A spiritual war for the soul of the nation
So I view the Trump-Harris conflict through the lens of spiritual warfare. Of course, the battle between right and left already has a spiritual element. Because it's not just two sets of opposing policy positions, it's actually a much deeper set of mutually contradictory worldviews: individual versus system-level thinking. Resolving merit and race scores. Small government and collectivism. The nuclear family and the nation as a family. and so on. The case for Trump and Harris was even more direct. Trump is unintentionally playing the role of savior, one that he was thrust into almost by accident. Trump's faith may not be all that sincere, but his fans' belief that he is God's chosen savior of suffering is sincere. Harris, on the other hand, is the purest representative of progressive religion we've ever seen, chosen for the role not for her track record in government but for her oil position within a woke cult. It's because of the status he's been given. Black, Indian, female, she's perfect. She simply lacked charisma, meaningful policy views, a clear message of change, and a platform. There's no real debate that she was more of an empty vessel to carry an awakened payload than a genuine candidate. Her campaign has primarily focused on attracting the votes of women, who are more likely to have abortions, shaming minorities into conformity, and scolding men to vote “for their wives and daughters.” Ta. She flatly refused to articulate any meaningful policy positions, remaining deliberately vague and instead implementing policies based on pure identitarianism.
Democrats should do some soul-searching and realize that they are going against the tide by embracing cults like wokeism and GDP-destroying fantasies like climate fatalism and AI fatalism.
For the right, her grave blasphemy, the killing of an unborn child, was a key campaign issue. Other issues she supports, such as forced chemical castration of children, are considered by the right not just bad policy, but downright diabolical. It's no surprise that the most powerful message of President Trump's campaign was “Kamala is for them.” Trump is your friend. ” For Trump’s Christian supporters, the difference could not be more obvious. Many felt that if she won, this would be her last election. The left misunderstood this when people like Elon Musk said it. The idea was not that elections would never be held again, but rather that the left would greatly accelerate Third World imports and voluntarily grant citizenship to these newcomers. This is not far-fetched. The left has been pretty clear about its desire to achieve this, and it has partially done so under the Biden administration. Some on the left also felt that if Trump regained power, he would turn the government into a fascist dictatorship and leave democracy behind forever. So there was a clear existential bent to this election. Many on both sides felt this would be the last freely contested vote.
As a Christian and a conservative, I am heartened by America's steadfast rejection of these woke cults and their emissaries in Harris. This was a redistricting election that cannot be dismissed as a fluke like 2016. Hispanics suddenly shifted to the right, weakening the core coalition of the left. In fact, Ms. Harris underperformed Mr. Biden among black voters, demonstrating the weakness of her identity-focused campaign. The departure from the left was particularly noticeable among black men. Mr. Trump won the support of young voters, a generally secular group that remains devoted to Waychism. By contrast, Trump fared surprisingly well against Catholics, winning by 18 points, the largest margin in decades. Trump also gained support from Protestants compared to 2020. 80% of evangelicals expressed support for Trump, again a wider margin than in 2020. Harris' campaign was built around: egg It simply wasn't convincing enough. And some of her more inclined supporters, such as suburban white mothers, are disgusted by the left's rituals of sacrificing girls on the altar of wokeness (e.g., allowing men to participate in women's sports). I held Voters were more concerned with immigration and the economy.
Democrats should do some soul-searching and realize that they are going against the tide by embracing cults like wokeism and GDP-destroying fantasies like climate fatalism and AI fatalism. Their Obama coalition was shattered in the biggest redistricting election since Reagan. If they lose working-class and Hispanic votes, fail to bring in new voters as planned, and continue down the path of racial shaming to elevate DEI candidates, they will lose again and again. It will be. As for the right, they have resurrected the Messiah. Expectations couldn't be higher. But one thing is clear: religion, real religion, remains a force to be reckoned with in American politics. The left has lost its divine mandate. It's Trump's now.
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