I read an article recently about how socialists just want good things for everyone. They can’t bear that anyone should be weighed down with student debt or have to use gofund.me to pay their medical bills or suffer in any way.
Here’s the thing. I’ve been homeless, weighed down with parent plus student loans that could choke a horse, making below poverty level in the US… quite recently, in fact. And I’d take every bit of it again before I’d say government had to make all my problems go away.
Government can make everyone equal… equally miserable, equally impoverished, equally unable to rise above their circumstances.
Even when I was in the lowest of lows, I knew I lived in America and that somehow, someway, I could use my initiative and my mind to rise above my circumstances and rebuild my life. Socialism might look sexy in the short run, but in the long run it always leads to widespread poverty and misery for the masses while an elite core run the show and take all the power and spoils. Hmmm… isn’t that what socialists claim they’re trying to get rid of???
Don’t sell your soul to Satan because you want a free ride or because you can’t watch people suffer. Suffering builds character IF the person is free to learn and grow and adapt in a free environment. Don’t rob yourself or your fellow citizens of the priceless self-growth that comes from rising above their circumstances and the sheer joy of conquering challenges.
We’re on this planet to go through hard things and grow from them. You’re never going to eradicate pain and hardship. If you can’t bear to watch people suffer, lend a helping hand, encourage and lift others, share what you have. Giving isn’t giving if you stole the money from someone else to give it or if you use the force of government to redistribute other people’s wealth. You aren’t benevolent being generous with other people’s money. You’re just a thief.
If you want to make a difference: Work, learn how to think, get yourself out of the scarcity mentality, stop playing the victim and take advantage of the incredible privilege of living in a free country where anyone can make something of themselves… IF they will. Become a producer and everyone around you will be blessed in the process.
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By some reports, Bernie Sanders wants to tax people who make $250,000-$500,000 starting at 40%, and nothing on the first $29,000 people make. He wants to tax the top tier people at 90%. So if you’re someone who makes $250,000, you’re going to get to keep about $161,000 (then of course take out state tax, social security (which is another 15% for the self-employed), Medicare/Medicaid with-holdings).
There are a lot more people than you might think who make this. They are small business owners who employ others many times. Or perhaps they’re paying people to clean their houses, or putting money into the economy with restaurants, buying cars, clothes and furniture. They’re paying for services like manicures, massages, haircuts, etc.
If you’re one of these people who are improving the economy and employing others, what’s the incentive to continue to do so? What’s the incentive to take on that pressure and stress? I’d rather downsize and just live simply on less and not kill myself. Heck I’d rather do the service work I love for free than give them all that money.
So what is THAT going to do to our economy when they’ve snuffed out everyone’s incentive? If your job is working in retail, entertainment, arts, personal services, luxury items or an industry that people don’t absolutely need, you’re in for some serious hurt.
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I still remember watching the news of September 1, 1983. I was a senior in high school at the time. It was the day Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald’s plane (Korean Airlines Flight 007) was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. Supposedly, through a navigational error, the commercial flight entered Soviet prohibited airspace.
The most conservative member of Congress (Lawrence P. McDonald) was aboard. He was a vocal opponent of socialism and communism. Congressman Jesse Helms (another very conservative member of Congress) was scheduled for that flight, but made a last minute change. He was not aboard.
While this tragic event greatly disturbed most Americans, my family felt it more acutely than others. Why? My father (Jack Morton) knew Larry McDonald personally, admired him, and worked on his campaign. (A photo of Larry’s inscription in my father’s copy of “We Hold These Truths…” is featured in the image with this article.)
Dr. Ron Paul said of the late Congressman Larry McDonald, “He was the most principled man in Congress.” My father agreed.
Would the Soviets Shoot Down a Commercial Flight to Take Out the Two Most Conservative Voices Against Communism in the U.S. Congress?
While studying the words of Congressman Larry McDonald, it occurred to me that the Soviets shot down a plane (KAL 007) to silence and remove this man who vocally opposed their philosophy. About 4 months before his plane disappeared, he proclaimed on national television:
“There is an elitist core in this country that has seen value in subsidizing communism, in protecting communism. There is an elite core in this country that has dominated American society (the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations) that have dominated the State Department for forty years and pretty much openly so. Their objective is to bring about a gradual transition in our society, a dissolving of sovereignty, and a moving steadily to the left on the political spectrum … on the road to world government.” Congressman Larry McDonald, Crossfire around May of 1983.
Watch Congressman Larry McDonald on Crossfire, May 1983
I believe the fate of KAL-007 was premeditated. Here’s why…
McDonald and Helms were calm, reasonable voices against the forces in the U.S. who were supporting communism. McDonald called out the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. (You might recall that it was in a CFR meeting where Biden bragged about having the Ukrainian investigator who was working on the Burisma Holdings / Hunter Biden case removed or the Ukraine wouldn’t get their billion dollars. Yes! Biden is CFR.)
McDonald had just been named president of the John Birch Society – an educational group that openly exposed the elite players who were undermining American sovereignty and working toward socialism and one world government.
The following evidence leads one to believe that the plane actually landed and Congressman McDonald was interrogated, tortured and imprisoned.
Evidence Suggests McDonald Did NOT Die in the Plane Crash
While the Soviets claimed there were no survivors, the Israeli Research Center for Prisons Psych-prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the USSR, directed by Avraham Shifrin discovered otherwise. Their reports provided the following information:
Photo of Prisoner Number 3 (to the left) alongside computer aged photos of Congressman Larry McDonald
“McDonald had been brought by KGB to Sakhalin Island and then to Moscow. Upon arrival in Moscow, McDonald was taken to the Lubyanka KGB prison where he was given the designation, “Prisoner Number 3.” While at the Lubyanka, he was kept in isolation, taken from his cell only for questioning. He was interrogated several times by the head of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov.
Following a number of questionings, Mr. McDonald was moved to the Lefortovo KGB prison also in Moscow for continued interrogation over a period of several months. After a time in Lefortovo, Mr. McDonald was then moved to a “dacha” (summer house) in Sukhanova near Moscow where the interrogations continued.
Mr. Shifrin’s sources indicated that they had strong reason to believe that, while in Sukhanova, McDonald was interrogated under drugs that may have eventually resulted in identity loss.
He was brought eventually to a prison in Karaganda, Kazakhstan,from which he was moved in mid-1987, by special transport, to a small prison near the town of Temir-Tau, also in Kazakhstan. The wardens of this prison identified him from a photograph that had been computer-aged to show what he would have looked like at the time. It also showed a scar that runs from his left nostril to the left end of his lips. Here he was given special treatment but was not allowed to communicate with anyone.
In the summer of 1990, he was taken to the transportation prison in Karaganda. Here, as an unknown prisoner whose file is sealed by the KGB, he remained. As of 1995, all efforts to obtain additional information from the Karaganda prison have failed.” Quoted on Conservapedia.
“One of the greatest tragedies of the Cold War was the shoot-down of the Korean Airlines Flight 007 by the Armed Forces of what was then the Soviet Union on 1 September 1983… The KAL-007 tragedy was one of the most tense incidences of the entire Cold War. However, now that relations between our two nations have improved substantially, I believe that it is time to resolve the mysteries surrounding this event. Clearing the air on this issue could help further to improve relations.” Helms appended to this letter Interrogatories including the following:
“From Soviet reports of the incident, please provide
a) A list of the names of any living passengers and crew members from the airplane;
b) A list of missing passengers and crew;
c) A list of dead passengers and crew;
d) A list and explanation of what happened to the bodies of any dead passengers and crew;
Please provide detailed information on the fate of U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.”
Senator Helms’ letter to Yeltsin was prompted, according to the Chief of Staff under Helms for the Minority Staff of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Rear Admiral Bud Nance, by the CIA verified information coming from Israel concerning a water landing of KAL 007. See the Admiral Nance letter to the Director of the Israel Research Centre for Prisons, Psych-prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the U.S.S.R.
And finally, Helms added:
“How many KAL-007 family members and crew are being held in Soviet camps?
Please provide a detailed list of the camps containing live passengers and crew, together with a map showing their location.”
The Russians did not cooperate. Even though people petitioned Obama to re-open the investigation into KAL-007 in 2012, nothing appears to have been done then either.
On March 2, 2020, I emailed and snail mailed a letter to President Donald J. Trump requesting that he honor Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald, and if possible, re-open the investigation into what became of the KAL-007 crew and passengers.
Prophetic Warning
People said Larry was crazy. They called him a conspiracy theorist. Today we see the fruit of that “elite core” he talked about and would more likely call Larry a prophet. What Larry said in 1983 that got him killed can no longer be denied. There is a Deep State. There is a Swamp. The socialists are out of the closet and some Americans are so duped that they actively support socialist candidates.
On the bright side, there are too many patriots to silence. Big tech shuts some down, censors, yet this action only awakens more patriots. The battle lines are drawn, and every citizen must take a stand.
Will You Choose Life & Liberty or Captivity & Death?
I hope that we will remember this valiant pioneering patriot who paid dearly to warn us. I hope we will fight to keep our freedom of speech, of religion, to bear arms, our rights of life, liberty and property. We will need every last one of our God-give rights to thwart the swelling tide of socialism that no longer feels the need to plot in the shadows but openly flaunts itself as a seductive alternative to the naive and uninformed.
Every patriot must become a teacher of truth. Awake and arise and hold your flags of liberty high.
What would you like to see happen with the Senate Impeachment Trial? The other day I posted this question with the following options to the Front Porch Sense Facebook page.
a) Dismiss it without trial. Since the 2 articles of impeachment do not include any allegation or proof of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” the Chief Justice could rule the articles unconstitutional. Dismissing without a trial would prevent unsubstantial impeachments in the future.
b) Trial, but no additional witnesses called.
c) Full trial with all the witnesses either side wishes to call.
Please leave a comment about which option you’d choose. Listen to this week’s episode to discover how your thoughts align with mine and others.
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Have you wondered why the Democrats are alienating the moderate Republican Senators and the nation with the way they are handling their presentation in the Senate Impeachment Trial? This episode of Front Porch Sense reveals their secret strategy – the method to their madness.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.7 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father in the home. Research shows that when a child is reared with their father absent from the home, he or she is affected in the following ways:
Four times greater risk of poverty
Seven times more likely to become pregnant as a teen
The traditional two-parent home is one of the best defenses our society has against anarchy and tyranny. It is in the home that children are taught values, morals, good behavior, cooperation, work-ethic, and team-building skills. Typically, fathers tend to be instinctively protective of their wives and children. Mothers, too, have a natural Mama-bear instinct to protect their young. Each of these individuals brings a unique mix of protection, nurturing, and emotional and physical support.
While stereotyping men as the protectors and providers may have been common in the past, there are plenty of variations. For example, in my family of origin, my mother was the authoritative figure, more likely to discipline, and more likely to stand up to outside forces that threatened our home or those in it. My father provided for the family, brought a nurturing presence, and provided protection in his own unique way. He was never one to pursue conflict with anyone in the world, but has an aura of safety and trust about him. Any worry or concern I had as a child melted away in my father’s presence. I knew he would keep me safe.
Together, my parents were a complete package that helped develop their children into well-rounded adults.
From the very beginning of recorded history, God instituted the family in the creation and union of Adam and Eve. He said it was not good for man to be alone. For children to achieve their highest likelihood for emotional, physical, mental and spiritual development, a two-parent home (while not always practical or possible) is the ideal.
The Family: Archenemy of Marxism
According to the philosophy of Karl Marx (the father of socialism and communism), the traditional family is considered a tool of the Bourgeoisie elite and a capitalistic creation. Marx claimed that humanity lived in tribal promiscuous hordes until capitalism came along and the elite started using the two-parent home to pass wealth from one generation to another. *
Marxism, and the cultural Marxism we see infesting our current society in the Progressive and Socialist movements, is anti-family. Family, according to this philosophy, is just something that morphs with society and has no optimal structure. In fact, traditional family is the enemy. It is something to be undermined and destroyed.
Why?
Strong Families Make Strong Nations
A nation with strong families and two-parent households is more likely to teach values such as independence and personal responsibility. Independence and personal responsibility directly correlate to freedom. You can’t have freedom without personal responsibility. And you can’t have true freedom inside of tyranny (socialism which eventually evolves into communism and oligarchy). The two do not coexist.
Thus, destroying the family is a key method for a gradually devolving free society into socialism/communism.
Strong families are more likely to protect themselves against outside tyranny and oppression. Here’s a personal example:
Decades ago, the IRS audited my father about some matter for which he was innocent. They claimed he owed millions of dollars, which he did not. An IRS agent showed up at the house and began harassing my dad. My mother was sitting there, and she discreetly turned on a tape recorder. After a few minutes, the agent noticed what my mother had done, and told her she couldn’t record the conversation. My mother proceeded to tell him in her no-nonsense way that it was her house, and she could do anything she pleased in her house.
The man left and in time the matter was resolved in my father’s favor. My father probably never would have thought to record the conversation; and he was too gentle to go toe-to-toe with the IRS agent. But my mom, as Southern and gentile as she was, stood up for her family like a bear when provoked. Can you see how a two-parent home came in handy against tyranny in this situation? I sure can!
Attacks Upon Men Are Attacks Upon the Family and Our Nation
Not only are government social programs geared toward incentivizing single motherhood with additional payouts, but also our society demeans men and masculinity. It downplays the role of fathers.
I recently spoke with Christi Turley Diamond (a Director of Marriage Boot Camp and a Certified Life Coach and Certified Grief and Loss Recovery Specialist) about the work she and her husband do with couples. She said,
“So many men are in self-preservation mode.”
In the work she and her husband, Rick Diamond, do with couples, they have noticed that shifts in our society have had a demoralizing effect on men and masculinity. This is negatively affecting marriages and families, leading to more divorce and to more fathers leaving the home. This, obviously, results in more of the negative effects on society which I listed at the beginning of this article.
A Solution
In her work with men, specifically, Christi has seen dramatic shifts that have helped to save marriages and families. She told me that many times, a wife brings a husband kicking and screaming, completely resistant to going to a Marriage Bootcamp. By the end, the man is the biggest fan of the event, excited to share it with the world. He has found safety in opening his heart and giving a voice to buried feelings. He’s unveiled the wounding that created the walls he once used to push his wife away in the first place. Being in a community with other men gives him the ability to let go of the belief that “men don’t talk about feelings,” which is so deeply ingrained in him by society.
Christi shares, “We’ve made marriage so easily disposable in our county, and at an extremely high cost to our children and our society. If we realized that healing and fixing our marriages isn’t an impossible monumental mountain to climb. Repairing and healing marriages requires only a few shifts here and there. These shifts create a domino effect that leads to transformation in marriage and re-connection of relationships. This leads to the family unit remaining intact, with both parents. Many, many times we see couples who are on their last leg literally turn their marriage around in four days.”
If we can keep families together, the result would be a changed nation.
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Additional Resources on Marxism and the Destruction of the Family
* Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto: “On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie,”
Marx believed that abolishing the family would be relatively easy once bourgeois property was abolished. “The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.”
Are you ready to turn down the volume on the vitriol in our nation? I’m going to share with you a solution. It requires no government intervention, no bureaucracy, no committee. The Democrats or the Republicans don’t even need to change. It only requires you and me to take some personal responsibility.
First, I’m going to say something radical that you may not believe. Be patient and please read to the end. I believe it will eventually make sense.
When someone makes you so angry that you can’t see straight and you absolutely hate or despise them, it’s not about them. It’s about you. There’s something in them that you don’t want to see or face in yourself. It could be an inaccurate belief you hold, a fear from a past trauma being triggered, a story you have running in your mind about this person. Most likely it’s some aspect of yourself that is being mirrored back to you. It’s easier to make that person the villain than admit you have similar traits and accept those aspects of yourself. Whatever it is… this immense hatred isn’t about the person you hate, it’s about you.
This is something to consider as we see people with various political stances who hate individuals of the other stance. When people despise our President with vigor, this isn’t about him. It’s not about the Democrats or the Republicans. It’s about each of us as individuals and how we are reacting. We should be able to disagree with each other without despising one another. If we’re despising someone, it’s on us. We have some serious inner work to do. We need to get to the root of that.
Indignation Isn’t Vitriol
I’m not a fan of a certain group of politicians. I’d like to see them leave office. But I don’t despise or loathe them as individuals. I see them as a threat to our Constitution and to our American ideals. I’d like them to either see the light or step down. But that doesn’t require hate. Sure, I’m annoyed with the nonsense some days. But vehement loathing? Nope. What I feel is appropriate indignation for individuals who, I believe, are seeking to undermine and destroy our Constitution.
Even Christ felt that kind of indignation. We might say He was “angry” with the money changers whose tables he overturned in the temple. Yet, Jesus never despised anyone – not even those who crucified Him.
Time for Some Self-Reflection
Only you can say what you’re feeling. If it’s deep loathing, despising, hatred and revenge; take that as a clue. It’s an indicator that there’s something there you need to get to the root of and work through.
Ask yourself when you’ve felt that feeling before. Trace back through your life and look for the pattern. Jot down the traits/characteristics of the people you’ve felt that way around before.
Now the tough part… when have you possessed the same characteristics? When have other people accused you of being the same way or treated you as if they saw you that way?
How did your possession of those same traits or characteristics serve you? How did those traits serve other people?
A Real Life Example
For example, at one time I was very upset with someone. They had done something that personally wounded me and radically impacted me, my family and our finances. I saw their actions as incredibly self-serving. I was so mad at this person, I wanted God to rein vengeance down on them. I knew how I felt wasn’t good, but I decided stuffing my feelings wasn’t healthy either.
Then I learned this principle of looking for negative traits and seeing them in myself. As I did so, I discovered that not only had I made similar choices in another area of my life, but also I was equally self-serving. I discovered that everything I do is self-serving. When I help others, I get a good feeling. That’s self-serving. If I do business with someone, I’m getting paid. That’s self-serving. If I love my family, that’s self-serving because life is more peaceful when I’m loving. And usually they love me back.
There isn’t a single thing I do that doesn’t serve me in some way. My self-serving-ness actually serves others at the same time. My business serves my clients and my family. Me helping and loving others blesses them. Even the time I left a bad marriage was seen by many as self-serving, yet I know how it served others.
At last, I owned my self-serving-ness. I saw how it benefited others and the world around me. Once, I really got it, the anger and need for revenge against my “enemy” melted away. I no longer could judge this person. Within a short time, I saw that this person did me one of the biggest favors anyone had ever done for me. Their actions – which I originally deemed as purely self-serving – served me in a powerful, liberating way.
There is an excellent book that will take you through an expanded version of this exercise. I highly recommend it. It’s what I used in this situation and it changed my life going forward. I no longer put people on a pedestal or relegate them to a pit. I see both the challenge and support in others and in myself. It’s called The Breakthrough Experience* by Dr. Jon Demartini. If you get it, do the exercise in the middle of the book. If you don’t do the work, you won’t get the transformation.
It’s worth the 2-3 hours it will take you to do this exercise. Your life will never be the same. You will be free. Who can put a price on freedom?
The video shares some blessings our nation is reaping from the attacks on our President. Be sure to listen.
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How do the circumstances underlying the Nixon Impeachment relate to the circumstances surrounding the articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump?
This episode of Front Porch Sense takes a look at what happened with Nixon and Watergate in comparison to the Trump articles of impeachment. How does what happened with Watergate relate to the Steele Dossier, the Russian Collusion allegations and what the DNC and Clinton Campaign did to Trump? And what can we do about all this? This episode gives an action step we can all take – no matter who we believe is corrupt.
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Let’s take a look at why many Americans don’t care about how President Trump went about investigating Biden and do not want President Trump impeached.
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The problem with the world today is with all our communication technology we’ve forgotten how important it is to have face to face conversations. We’ve forgotten (or never learned) how to communicate with each other effectively. Instead many walk around looking for offenses and finding them everywhere. Most of the stories we invent in our minds about other people’s motivations, actions, beliefs or intentions are so incredibly wrong.
I believe most people are doing the best they can. They’re trying to do the right thing. They aren’t going around intentionally trying to screw up your life.
Yet many of us assume they are and then spout off to others, portraying our perceptions as truth when we haven’t taken the time to ask questions, wait for answers and seek understanding. As one of my university professors used to say, “When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.”
So the next time someone does something that offends you or makes you angry, stop to ask for clarification … not via text or messenger… Pick up the phone and have a conversation, or better yet sit down face to face. People wouldn’t say half the rude crap in person that they’ll say hiding being a device. Maybe if we had more real conversations, our society wouldn’t be in the mess it is.
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