Sleepwalkers Awoke!

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Andrew Sullivan called it “the Great Awokening” in a shrewd New York Magazine column this week. He refers, off course, to earlier episodes of American religious hysteria, namely the Great Awakening of the 1730s that featured the Rev. Jonathan Edwards raining sulfur and brimstone down on guilt-wracked New Englanders, and then the Second Awakening of the the early 1800s that spun off innumerable Protestant sects, cults, and utopian experiments. I like the term “Wokesterism” because the “ism” part acknowledges that the current hysteria makes a religion out of politics.

      Sullivan’s theory is that Wokesterism is an improvised replacement for sclerotic American Christianity, to fill the vacuum of entropic meaninglessness that pervades life in the republic these days. He says:

     And so we’re mistaken if we believe that the collapse of Christianity in America has led to a decline in religion. It has merely led to religious impulses being expressed by political cults. Like almost all new cultish impulses, they see no boundary between politics and their religion.

     Wokesterism eerily mirrors many of the harsher practices of the most severe American Protestantism. It offers its own original sin, “white privilege,” from which there is neither redemption nor hope of redemption — like the old Presbyterian hell for babies who have come into this world drenched in sin. No amount of abject apology will avail for heretics to Wokesterism. The principal aims of Wokesterism are coercion of others, persecution, and punishment of the guilty (the un-Woke). Most importantly, it requires the suspension of individual conscience in order to promote unthinking, robotic obedience and mob justice. That helps explain the disgraceful blindness of the Wokester Left, especially the educated elites who work in the news media, the computer tech sector, and other “creative class” vocations.

     One thing that Sullivan leaves out is the necessity for the Devil. That role is filled by Mr. Trump. His sinister cargo of belief, countering the Wokefullness of unicorns and rainbows, is the dark theology of MAGA, and Mr. Trump’s followers are the imps, demons, incubi and succubi of deplorable fly-over land. Wokesters will spare no effort to vanquish all this wickedness, and even lying and cheating in the service of that end is considered fair play. Hence the arrant and epic dishonesty of The New York Times.

       Interesting case in point: Yesterday’s developments in the General Flynn court case are not even present in this morning’s Times. I speak of the action on the bench of Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan. It’s been brought to his attention that the scurrilous entrapment of Gen. Flynn by Woke FBI managers entailed departures from normal, lawful procedure. Gen. Flynn was interrogated in January of 2017, and the FBI account of the interview was not written (supposedly) until August off that year. The reason that reports and memoranda must be written ASAP after an interview is for the obvious reason that much important fact may be forgotten or misremembered if not documented right away. There is actually reason to believe that earlier versions of the report exist (or did exist), and they were trashed or buried when the main interrogator-of-Flynn, Peter Strzok, was cashiered from Robert Mueller’s team in July 2017. Judge Sullivan has demanded that the FBI produce those earlier docs by today (Friday) at 3:00 pm. It will be interesting to see if the FBI complies… or not. There is also a fair chance that Judge Sullivan will throw out Gen. Flynn’s conviction based on prosecutorial misconduct.

     In the event, we could see the awesome downfall of the Archangel Mueller, and the unravelling of Wokester dreams of defeating the Devil via the Mueller inquisition. It will certainly be an embarrassment to the ardent Wokesters of the news media, who have shilled for this campaign for over two years. The General Flynn business is not the only thread unwinding in the giant tapestry of Wokester narrative. As in other epic persecutions, like the Jacobin Reign of Terror in 1790s France, and Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, the tables are turning. The inquisitors, prosecutors, and executioners are going too face charges themselves, and harsh punishment is not out of the question.

     The defeat of Wokesterism would be a very salutary outcome for a nation that has so badly lost its bearings to the worst of human instincts: religious persecution. It could be a fatal blow to the Democratic Party, which will have to find an alternative reason for its existence than Devil-and-Demon hunting. The Devil hunters themselves could be in the dock in 2019, answering for their actual crimes against American citizens and the public interest. Even the sainted Holy Mother of Wokesterism, the Archangel Hillary, may find herself wingless in a witness chair, answering how all that schwag from Russian banksters happened to end up in her foundation’s cookie jar.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Good one. Liking JK more and more.

Bob P
Bob P

Not sure why it would be the injustices carried out against Flynn that would finally derail the Mueller inquisition. The nothingness of the Russia gate nonsense as well as the outrageous illegality of the DOJ/FBI/Obama team have been clear for well over a year, yet the inquisition continues unabated, with MSM egging them on, and the criminals still free. I never understood how the House could hear testimony that proves beyond any doubt the guilt of the Obama/Hillary gang, yet nothing comes of it. How will this change now that the Democrats will soon take charge of the House?

Declassify the documents!

CCRider
CCRider

Chris Hedges points out, from his work in prisons, that 94% of federal inmates have not been convicted by a jury of their peers. They’ve all plea bargained. So ‘defense’ lawyers get to quickly grind out billable hours and prosecutors get heroic conviction rates-like it has anything to do with a search for justice. It’s all based on coercion-government’s only reason for being. Accept this deal we’re offering or spend a fortune finding yourself not guilty. I have no sympathy for the Orange Crusader but he’s getting porked. And it won’t stop until we all put on our yellow reflective vests.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

I have got to hand it to Jim, he has been on a roll for a least a year now, reminding me much of the Jim of old.
The Tables have turned, momentum builds, the beginnings of a New America are now visible. I can see much destruction of unsavory plans for development, what I cannot see, or will not see, because of my general positivity, are the seeds of the next unsavory plans for development, sure to be hidden under all of the excitement. Thus my support for Team Trump remains elevated, as it is necessary to complete demolition of the current paradigm, and I mean demolition, in full Fourth Turning style, financial, political, civic, and spiritual.
It does not matter if Trump is or has been corrupted, it does not matter if Q is a LARP.
The effects both have had on the American psyche cannot be undone.
It’s time, and everyday more come to this realization.
The question remains, what is it to be after demolition?

musket
musket

I see the far left filing more b/s lawsuits and ultimately judge and court shopping in Ca to get the best judicial treatment…but the bottom line is that they are losing power and it is scaring the hell out of them. The treatment of Flynn and the current battering of President Trump by the elites/establishment, the media, the academics and even the silly putty valley technodweezils is pointing to the second revolution or the second civil war…….

bubbah
bubbah

Unfortunately there aren’t many “Liberals” left in the Demo-Commie party. Kunstler is a minority in his own party. They party of thought crimes and anti- 1st, 2nd and America itself is what they have morphed into. The Dems used to be more of a centrist type party, I remember pro gun rights Dems not too long ago. Now its going to turn into a clown car of intersectionality-insanity. People like Kunstler will no longer be part of the club, as he laments in his past posts about going to colleges and interacting with other Dems that are now just authoritarian commies.
It’s beyond insane that as the US Titanic continues to sink, we add more and more folks that hate the US but want free shit, or just want to make money b/c their shithole socialist country has already gone apeshit crazy. Meanwhile they come here and support the same insanity that made them leave. The notion that the US is a “rich” country at this point is becoming a joke, the debt is so F-ing huge and our population is so large and unwell with obesity, diseases, new resistant versions of viruses etc that is truly scary.
The country is already full of fiefdoms galore, Trump just pulled the curtain back from the show, despite him being a TV guy that clearly likes to bullshit as much as the rest of them. Clearly elections aren’t going to fix anything, they will either slow the icy waters slightly, or just speed up the sinking. But its nice to know that half the country hates me based on the randomness of being born a white male, and that my opinion apparently doesn’t mean shit and violence seems to be the path for Dems via gov’t or via their iditoic thugs.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

If you’ve ever worked for a female supervisor then you know they are entirely ruled by emotions and not logic or reason. About the worst position you can ever find yourself in is one where you must answer to a woman. Well, now the entire left is acting like that Hit-The-Wall unmarried hag manager that got turtle-posted into her position over you.

In the same manner that it is impossible to reason with such a person it is also impossible to reason with 70% of the people here in the USA

bubbah
bubbah

I’ve had multiple female supervisors back in the day, and a couple of them were great. My worst boss every by FAR was an insane woman, nice one minute, scream at us like we were children. She eventually got fired, but it was Academia and she kissed some major ass. Plus the place was run by a bunch of Beta males and that was before Men started becoming even bigger sissies to fit in with the new sublimated sycophants that seem to be everywhere now adays.

KeyserSusie
KeyserSusie

I add counterpoint to the written wise words to sing like a song and ring like a bell.

“He refers, off course, to earlier episodes of American religious hysteria, namely the Great Awakening of the 1730s that featured the Rev. Jonathan Edwards raining sulfur and brimstone down on guilt-wracked New Englanders,”

Jonathan Edwards rains down Sunshine going away.

Sunshine, go away today, I don’t feel much like dancing
Some man’s come he’s trying to run my life, don’t know what he’s asking
Working starts to make me wonder where fruits of what I do are going
When he says in love and war all is fair, he’s got cards he ain’t showing

How much does it cost?
I’ll buy it!
The time is all we’ve lost–I’ll try it!
He can’t even run his own life,
I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine–sunshine

Sunshine, come on back another day,
I promise you I’ll be singing
This old world, she’s gonna turn around,
brand new bells will be ringing

And Ima gonna sit around the shanty today…and read the buzz of TBP

Shanty
Jonathan Edwards
Gonna sit down in the kitchen
And fix me something good to eat
And make my head a little high
And make this whole day complete
‘Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

grace country pastor

Outstanding!

PlatoPlubius

Kunslter has fallen for the hijacking of the Awakening by elements of the ruling kakistocracy and their presstitute mockingbirds who act as the corporate overlords media monopolies’ mouthpieces and perception managers like the piece he attributes to the Woke Left and New York Magazine…

Anyone who does bring up topics such as being woke now will be lumped in with the Left and the author mentioned above, similar to how certain talking points Trump brings up like the FED’s fault in this economic depression and how the average person who is revolted by Trump as a homo sapien will associate these talking points to Trump and more than likely ignore them or attack them in personal conversations.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

Luciferians as Devil hunters. “When the going gets weird” indeed. JHK is definitely on a roll in recent weeks. Bravo!

flash
flash

It’s strange the Neo-Center Bolshevik never penned any missives depicting Obama, whom he voted for twice, as “sinister ” or his followers as “demons” , but then Sabbateans are known for the appearance of support for Western Society while surreptitiously undermining it’s progress.

The minions of Father of the Lie understand the human psyche well enough to know that leading with a lie is to risk losing the reader, but bury the lie deep enough in the hook of truth and the gullible reader will be snagged every time.

And, reading the essay by left-leaning homosexual ‘conservative Andrew Sullivan which the Bolshevik references, I come across this little gem of disinformation.

” They have embraced wealth and nationalism as core goods, two ideas utterly anathema to Christ. ”

How so ? Where in the holy scriptures does the God which destroyed the Tower of Babel , the first temple erected to the pagan god of universalism, demand that nations allow entrance to invaders bent on destroying their nation?

The Catholic Church recognized that purveyors of filth that Hollywood was becoming in the 20’ and by 1934 forced a Production Code though boycott of theaters that controlled what Hollywood could release to the public. The Catholic Church controlled this content until 1962 , afterwards it became a secular affair due to “free speech” soon to replaced by age ratings . What followed was a wave of cinematic culture debasement concluding in the glibly produced soft porn debauchery we now acknowledgement as mainstream entertainment. Oddly enough , the same “free speech” which was used to break down the moral barriers to cultural degeneracy is the entertainment industry is now anathema to the left battling barrages of criticism on everything from fake news to media spawned attracts on Christians and white people in general.

The very fact that Christianity in the US , and entire West for that matter, is in decline is because of the anti-Christian efforts of globalists in possession of the financial means with which to wage war against Christian culture.

If you choose to not defend your Faith, Nation and culture , then it will be replaced. We get what we allow and deservedly so.

Any interested in how the Christian America lost it’s way need look no further than here:

The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
https://archive.org/details/TheJewishRevolutionarySpiritrevised62909?q=The+Jewish+Revolutionary+Spirit

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
― William Paley

unit472

Kunstler has sure woken up himself in the past couple of months. If intelligent leftists like Raul Illargi Meijer and Kunstler can see the travesty that is the left’s maniacal pursuit of Trump for what it is then some top Democrat strategists are going to have to tell the party you are going nuts.

starfcker
starfcker

That’s a great essay. I agree with you completely on this. Nice job

BB
BB

He is Jewish and a liar. Every Jew in the media has an intense hatred of Christ and Christianity. What has to happened to get you to understand those people hate you. If we lose our majority due to Third world immigration which every Jew supports then we lose everything you take for granted. Look at the bloodbath in Russia during the first half of the 20th century yet Jews still deny any responsibility for this genocide of white Russians. Wake the Fuck up!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

Absofuckinglutely. “Very few know the Fuehrer was a great dancer.”

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