THE WILDERNESS VOICE: October 2018

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PAST ACCOLADES ARE NO BASIS FOR PRESENT ALLEGIANCE

October 29, 2018 @ 8:00 AM

Present allegiance is often demanded in today’s America on the basis of past accolades. For instance, criticism of our modern-day media is decried as an attack on our free press and as an imperilment to our representative republic. However, our modern media is more propaganda than press; more an attempt to indoctrinate people rather than to inform them. Yet, if one criticizes today’s manipulative media, he or she is denounced for attacking the watchdog of the American people, despite the fact that most of today’s media has become a lapdog for progressives rather than a watchdog for the populace.

Unfortunately, present-day politics, like our present-day press, is protected from renunciation on the basis of............

ABORTING AMERICA

October 24, 2018 @ 1:30 PM

I recently read a book that enumerates the striking parallels between the goings-on in today’s America and what happened in Germany during the days of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Despite the book’s irrefutable comparisons, the author goes out of his way to stress the importance of not taking his perturbing parallels too far, insisting that America could never sink to the depths of Nazi depravity. For instance, the author argues that we would never take the lives of millions of “undesirables” as the Nazis did during the Holocaust.

It’s estimated that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. This unconscionable evil was not only excused by Germany’s courts on.........