Humpty Dumpty and Uncle Sam
A topsy-turvy world where fiction is fact, lies are truth, wrong is right, traitors are patriots, and democracy teeters on the brink.
Everything in Alice’s looking-glass was an absurd, upside-down world populated by Red and White Queens, Thackery Earwicket, Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, and the Mad Hatter.
It was the end of Alice's childhood and innocence in a world where things were never as they seemed.
Lewis Carroll’s trilogy on Alice was written in the 1870s.
Welcome to now, where our current crop of looking-glass crazies pick fights with Barbie and Mickey Mouse, claim Taylor Swift is an agent of the Deep State, Beyonce a tool of Satan, JFK Jr. is still alive, microchips are hidden in vaccines, and – duck! – Jewish Space Lasers are dive-bombing us!
Through endless firehoses of disinformation, the public is being saturated with an alternate reality designed to obfuscate, confuse, manipulate, and ultimately control.
In this world, propaganda is news, Q-Anon talking points are gospel, insurrectionists are heroes, and ravenous wolves are feeding it to the gullible flock.
I’m reminded of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin claiming the people of Ukraine are neo-Nazis to justify his war crimes.
Then, of course, there’s Adolf Hitler and the strategy of repeating big lies so often that the public swallowed them hook, line, and sinker… and eventually, six million Jews were exterminated as the masses chanted “Sieg Heil!”
The latest twist comes from evangelical zealots so drunk on their faux-religious fervor that they believe Donald Trump is the Second Coming of Christ.
The Awaken Church cult I write about so often is smack-dab in the middle of this movement, calling all opponents demons, vowing to run critics out of town, spreading disinformation as if it were gospel, and lusting to take over the world.
In this looking-glass world, every accusation is a confession by those who would crucify their enemies, impose a radical theocracy upon our nation, and end our constitutional principles of liberty & justice for all.
America’s 4th President, James Madison, who co-authored the Federalist Papers and was considered the Father of the Constitution, said it best: “The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.”
Like Humpty Dumpty, our great nation now teeters on the brink. Should America fall, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men might not be able to put Uncle Sam back together again.
Comments from recent signers of our No Cult in Coronado Petition:
“My two children both graduated from Coronado High School. The masquerade of 'AWAKEN' as a church is disingenuous at best, and in actuality, a sick ruse. I support exposing their covert anti-democracy (hidden) agenda!”
“This type of hateful division must stop. They are already in other SD communities and they are dangerous. Protect your residents. History will remember.”
“Christianity is open, loving, and humble to everyone. Cults are divisive and demeaning to ‘others.’ Put that hate in the ocean and learn to be better.”
Resources:
Christian Nationalism is not a Religion
Their Appetite is Insatiable, They Want it All
Christian Nationalism and Political Violence
What Happens When Church and State Merge? Look to Nazi Germany For Answers
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy