No, it isn’t the “complexity of idiocy” [explained further below], nor that the left as almost everyone can only see, hear, speak, and write in terms of left versus right, political movements — nor is the left “a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility.”

It is simply, clearly visible, and audible evidence revealing the simplicity of evil consuming ever greater numbers of people. Not necessarily those who are only liberal or leftist in their political views.

But who wants to say, read, or hear that plain and clear, accurate, of an explanation? Especially when folks today imagine themselves as brilliant, erudite, informed, and clever. Yes, there is plenty of arrogance. Not the sole domain of those misguided in their leftist/Marxist/liberal political posture. Yes, evil — not mere political ideologies — is highly toxic. Socialism, communism, nazism, pantheism, and the like are not truly political views or ideologies. They are the offspring of the father of lies, of mayhem, confusion, rioting, death, and destruction — the Evil One. Satan.

But who wants to say, read, or hear that plain and clear, accurate, of an explanation? Especially when folks today imagine themselves as brilliant, erudite, informed, and clever.

In the first Men in Black film, and I knew better than to watch the second one knowing sequels are never close to being as creative, funny, or good as the first issue, the old grizzled character played by Tommy Lee Jones sits on a bench giving the new guy some words of wisdom, wherein his character K says, “A person is smart, people are dumb.”

Some say, have written, and more films have been made about how people are getting dumber.

Nah, not really dumber. Lazy, lost, lascivious, laeotropic [or so some say], lamentable, and downright base, foul, ungodly, unholy, heinous, nefarious, unrighteous, wicked, and exhibit in growing numbers and intensity the pure evil within them.

But it doesn’t lie in political movements.

It all lies within the human heart, the individual human heart, spirit, soul, and mind.

When folks begin to stop attempting to intellectualize, think themselves so smart, advanced, evolved, and educated, and stop all the noise —an impossibility in a group, an organization, on a committee, in a nation, around the world — but they can as an individual stop the noise within themselves and in the quiet move from the place of utter darkness inhabited to a place of Light, and Truth they then can, and only then can see it’s all about, really only about the spiritual war taking place within and around every person. With each person in the escalating battle on one side or the other.

Aligned with God’s Word, aligned with God as their Father, Jesus as the Lord of their lives, their Saviour and Redeemer having taken on their sin due to their faith and obedience, placing all their trust in the Holy Spirit to help them…living faithfully with, for, by, and through the grace of God…

…or they align themselves with themselves. They align themselves with the teachings of the world, the so-called wisdom of the world which has emanated, has always emanated from that Old Serpent, the devil. From that historical moment in the Garden to this very second within the world.

Period.

Read on, but what is found below only reveals the lost position of a worldly person. It is the stance of someone thinking that leaping off a cliff provides them a solid footing, a strong stance, and a firm foundation — for that is exactly what following the ways and so-called wisdom of the world is compared to placing one’s feet, heart, spirit, soul, mind and body firmly in the Lord Jesus Christ and the whole inerrant infallible living Word of God.

Yes, redundant, I know to write that the Holy Bible is inerrant and infallible and the true Word of God but in these days in which we live even a great number of those professing to be Christians do not believe that, so it needs being repeated again, and again, and again in these times of great and growing blandness and ignorance.

It is simply, clearly visible, and audible evidence revealing the simplicity of evil consuming ever greater numbers of people.

Which is idiotic considering there is a clear, straightforward, easy to understand — so easy even a child can understand it — way out of the lost lunacy and idiocy. If willing.

He is called Jesus. King of kings. Lord of lords. Saviour. Redeemer. God. Friend. And He who takes on the sin of repentant confessing sinners to free them by the free gift of grace from God the Father providing salvation and eternal life through faith, faithfulness, perseverance, and obedience.

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

The ‘Complexity’ of Idiocy

The Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility

November 25, 2023

By Thaddeus G. McCotter

Reprinted from American Greatness

Often, yours truly has expounded (okay, ranted) upon the term “narrative,” which is just an artful euphemism for “lie.” A device drawn from fiction, as opposed to non-fiction, it facilitates lying by eliding the need for providing the facts and proving the truth of one’s assertions. Consequently, it is a boon to propagandists, who can harp on a “narrative” ad nauseum to provoke and persuade the public to do as the purveyor of the lie seeks.

For the Left, one oft used word signaling an impending narrative is the word “complexity.” Usage of this word allows the Leftist to cull and, importantly, dispense with whatever facts or allegations they choose to create a narrative. This is critical in instances where the facts at hand lead to an ineluctable conclusion – i.e., the truth – that is antithetical to the Left’s aim. Let us explore four instances of the Left’s “complexity” of idiocy driving a narrative harmful to America and the world.

In American domestic policy, the Left is not content with foisting cancel culture upon the country and coopting the corporate media to control the political debate. The Left wants to silence any dissent to its authoritarian aims. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution recognizes and protects the God-given rights to each citizen of “political rights,” such as free speech. One would think the constitution’s prohibition would be the last word on censorship; but one would be underestimating the Left’s power to pretend the clear prohibition of government censorship is, instead, “complex.”

Consequently, as they have on college campuses, the Left has been weaponizing federal and state governments both directly and through colluding with private entities to censor free speech.  Creating the camouflage of “complexity” by pretending there exists a transcendent right not to be “offended” and purporting to be promoting “safety,” the censorious Left’s aim is to cloud the truth that the supreme law of the land prohibits the government from infringing upon Americans’ free speech and all political rights. And no amount of faux complexity can obscure the fact that there is nothing more dangerous than a censor.

In the realm of American foreign policy, a classic example is the Left’s obstinate determination to appease the terrorist regime in Iran. Citing imagined “moderate” mullahs, ignoring the Iranian people’s courageous efforts to be free, and abiding the delusion Iran’s nuclear program can be managed for solely energy purposes and separated from the regime’s exportation of terror, the Left has manufactured the complexity it hopes can convince someone other than themselves that this barbarous, tyrannical government does not really mean it when it screams, “Death to America!  Death to Israel!”

Spoiler alert: they really mean it.

The Iran Deal, too, also affords the opportunity to examine how the Left uses their other “prog whistles” of “nuance” in conjunction with “complexity.” After ginning up sufficient “complexity” regarding an issue, the Left then breaks out “nuance” to both preen about their alleged intellectual and moral superiority and to justify an otherwise obviously imbecilic policy decision. Once that imbecilic policy decision results in the expected disaster, the Left regurgitates how the situation is “complex” to avoid the bitter fruits of their “nuanced” lunacy. In sum, this three-legged fool of policy making it is nothing but a formula to escape accountability for the consequences of their actions and ideology.

On the world stage, far from dissipating as it metastasizes from the domestic Left into the global Left, the complexity mounts to more egregious heights of hypocrisy and willful blindness.  Consider rogue regimes’, the global elite’s, and the United Nations’ sympathy and/or outright support of the terrorist organization Hamas against democratic Israel. This is manifested in the “complexity of idiocy” in the mealy-mouthed objections to Hamas’ terrorist atrocities against Israelis and their tourists that never fail to include a tacit or implicit “but.” This is merely the hypocritical version of the vile declarations of Hamas supporters who claim “resistance” – i.e., the killing, raping, torturing, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians and tourists – is “justified” because Gaza is “occupied.” Gaza is not occupied by Israel. But the Left’s narrative requires its protagonists to be victims, so they can justify any action, however evil, against their imagined “oppressors.” And, because of their hubristic belief they are better than anyone else and, ergo, empowered to propagate the “noble lie” to attain their allegedly “altruistic” aims – voila! – the Left transmogrifies the terrorists into “liberators” and their victims into “oppressors.” While seemingly lost upon and/or callously dismissed by the global Left, the perversity of their global Left’s “complexity” and “nuance” is not lost upon nor capable of being dismissed by the Hamas terrorists’ victims.

Equally, it is also instructive what the Left deems not complex. Ponder their Manichean, paranoiac narratives of “us good, them bad” that (to them at least) justify their every indulgence and excesses.  The Left has no compunction in pronouncing a former duly elected president as an abject threat to their fundamental transformation of “democracy” into anything but; brand nearly half the country who voted for him as potential domestic terrorists – especially if they “cling” to their religion and rights.

The Left’s “complexity of idiocy” is the bitter fruit of a disordered soul. As a result, the Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility under the threadbare cloak of intellectual “complexity” to foist its radical, extreme, and dangerous policies upon Americans. Then again, in fairness to the Left, amidst these chaotic times most things are “complex” for tiny, bigoted minds.

Oh, that fourth instance where the facts belie one of the Left’s “complex” narratives? “The Democrats are the smart party.”

An American Greatness contributor, the Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) represented Michigan’s 11th Congressional district from 2003-2012, and served as Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee. Not a lobbyist, he is a frequent public speaker and moderator for public policy seminars; and a Monday co-host of the “John Batchelor Radio Show,” among sundry media appearances.