Mr. Victor Davis Hanson wrote a very good article found below my comments here — but being the man he is he should have known better in his creating a title for his article.

I would not use the word Armageddon except in using it to mention the last battle, the last war that will take place on earth. Perhaps I’m considered a curmudgeon, a stickler, but using certain words in the wrong context for impact is wrong. Armageddon is a PLACE. As well as a FUTURE event.

Not a word to pull out and use willy nilly. For effect on writing an article.

We have people corrupting this word by making up nonsense such as “snowmageddon” and the like. So accepted at this point that spellchecks will correct you if you misspell that made-up word! Think about that folks. And stop shrugging and saying “it’s no big deal.” Because the drip, drip, slow drip, and acceptance of erosion ha gotten us to where we presently are. Because people couldn’t be bothered. Didn’t care. Didn’t pay attention. Didn’t believe it could ever get to a certain point.

Not harmless. Stop shrugging and accepting the constant decline and erosion of words, meanings, definitions, and language.

And America will be present in that place, at that time that only God knows when EVERY nation gathers as they bow to and worship the Antichrist in their arrogant and deluded attempt to remove Israel and all Jews from the face of the earth.

This isn’t something to add to corrupted language. Which, Mr. Victor Davis Hanson, who I do respect and admire — it’s why his work appears here — ought to know much better as he professes to be a Christian, is a well-established and known history writer, and a very conservative man and writer. Ironic the following commentary by him is about the decline and erosion within our society and those writing of this add to the degeneration and disintegration of language. Misusing words as if there is no impact for doing so.

I make more errors a day than can be counted. But I do not pretend to be an educated man, well known, an expert in anything. And if I corrupt language or misuse it, please let me know.

Words, language is vital. And we’re so lax, so negligent in our understanding and preserving of this knowledge in these last of the last days. Please don’t permit yourselves to fall into the category of individuals who weaken, use corrupted, wrongly defined, and perverted language. Misusing words. Supplanting euphemisms and adopting the definitions of the day attempting to take over and alter language, and thus understanding, communication as the workers of iniquity and darkness have been doing for these past many decades now. Slowly, continually, successfully.

And mention the misuse, the corruption of language, definitions, and such when they occur in front of you, around you. Because otherwise, folks go on thinking there’s nothing wrong in corrupting and perverting the language. It becomes adopted. Accepted. Ingrained.

As so much has these past many years.

It can slow down, it can be halted. But it takes every individual aware and speaking out truthfully and clearly regarding this erosion and decline that is leading us down a very dark and lost path.

Don’t take another step upon that path. No matter who misuses words, alters meanings, corrupts the language.

The majority of folks have left reality for an altered state. Living in utter delusion and fantasy. Attempting to make the world in their image and remove reality, facts, history, tearing apart and down everything established. Not only morals, ethics, institutions, all the foundations, everything in the Bible — but also putting the same evil efforts in on altering language. The meaning of words. And most people just go along. Accepting. Adopting. Being led astray more and more each day.

It takes an individual awareness, an individual effort to get off that corruption pathway and buck the trends. Buck what society now considers normal and accepted.

We are living Romans 1.

We are living…

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20 — King James Version

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

2 Timothy 4:1-5 — King James Version

Ken Pullen

Monday, August 16th, 2021

ACP — A Crooked Path

American Armageddon

What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps everyone’s daily life.

August 11, 2021

By Victor Davis Hanson

Reprinted from American Greatness

Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago.

The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time in their lives, all Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their families’ safety and the American way of life.

The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past. It is nonexistent. Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year—with complete impunity.

There is zero effort to stop them. Officials daily hector Americans to get vaccinated and tested for COVID-19. But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them infected with the virus.

Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of Americans what he does not of illegal aliens?

Joe Biden has also conceded that his hold on housing evictions deliberately defied a Supreme Court ruling. He added that he probably did not have the legal authority to ignore the court, but did not really care.

As in the case of demolishing immigration law, the president seems either unaware or proud that he is insidiously dismantling the Constitution.

America has also never quite seen such overt and multifaceted efforts to undermine the foundations of free-market capitalism.

At a time of resurging GDP, low unemployment, and record worker shortages, Biden has announced that renters can continue to avoid paying what they owe their landlords—even after a prior year of such free housing.

In a rebounding economy amid record debt, the government is still sending workers unemployment benefits that are more remunerative than the paychecks they would earn if employed.

Such insanity means not only that labor-short employers cannot provide goods and services to American consumers. The new ethos also institutionalizes the pernicious idea that it is smarter to stay home and idle than to get a job and be productive.

Biden is also considering further extending exemptions for the repayment of $1.7 trillion in student loans. That amnesty will only further mainstream this growing notion that borrowing money entails no legal or moral obligation to pay it back.

No one seems to acknowledge that both students and the universities—which lured them to borrow—knew exactly the risks they were taking. Meanwhile, millions of American youth, the working classes who choose not to attend college, and those who paid their loans off or whose parents saved enough over the years to cover their tuition obligations, will subsidize those who renege of their debts by paying higher taxes.

Inflation is roaring back as the administration is printing trillions of new dollars that do not reflect commensurate gains in productivity or population.

Soaring prices are a direct result of incentivizing the unemployed not to work, while discouraging manufacturers and producers of food, gas, oil, timber, mineral, and metals.

The crime wave likewise is not accidental. It is the logical result of deliberate nihilistic policies of releasing thousands of criminals from jails and prisons, defunding and defaming the police, and empowering woke mayors and prosecutors to contextualize crime as the fault of society, not of the criminal.

In response, millions of Americans now simply avoid the mayhem and chaos of blue-state big cities.

Race relations have regressed 50 years. Under the fad of critical race theory, the color of our skins is now deemed essential to who we are.

Most Americans still integrate, assimilate, and intermarry. But the current woke revolution is an elite, top-down effort to smear a self-critical and always improving nation, as some sort of contemporary racist hellhole.

George Orwell would say of these cultural Marxists that they grab power in the present to reinvent the past in order to control our futures.

All this multifaceted chaos is not just faculty lounge stuff. We are beginning to see the collective craziness filter down to disruptions in our everyday lives.

Airliners cannot take off due to fuel shortages. Automobiles, houses, gas, and lumber are in short supply.

Consumers can’t get their roofs fixed or their houses painted or the trees trimmed as employers plead to their idle government-subsidized employees to come back to work.

No one knows whether our laws even still exist—or at least exist haphazardly depending on who breaks them.

Thieves steal with brazen impunity. The police predicate arresting suspects on criteria that have nothing to do with breaking the law.

Scared Americans have lost faith in the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the CDC, and most of the federal bureaucracies that are as politicized as they are increasingly incompetent.

What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps everyone’s daily life. If we don’t wake up from wokeness, we will continue on our sure trajectory to self-inflicted, systemic paralysis—followed by civilizational collapse.

About Victor Davis Hanson