Church of Secular/Progressivism

The Evolution Continues…

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/04/01/the-evolution-continues%E2%80%A6/

By Bill Wavering
April 1st, 2010

In The Evolution we covered the rise of the Church of
Secular/Progressivism. From its beginnings as a mere political
curiosity to its rise as a comparative religious denomination. Now we
will analyze this faith in its present form.

In order to conduct as complete as study as possible; we will once
again have to track back in time. The Second Indochina War was
conducted within the boarders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between
September 26th 1959 and April 30th 1975. American involvement in the
conflict was, at first, limited to an advisory role. United States
combat units were first deployed in early 1965. Later that same year
President Johnson began a systematic bombing campaign against North
Vietnam. Interestingly enough this coincided with the rise of the
hippie culture. Words like "counter culture", "establishment",
"nonviolence", "pacification", "free love", "Kent State", and
"Woodstock" were all added to the American lexicon.

It is this same time the anti-war movement was established. America's
youth, the ones being asked to lay their lives on the line, wanted to
know what they were fighting for. This was also a time of media
evolution as America's anchorman, Walter Cronkite, brought the
violent and bloody conflict in Southeast Asia directly into the
living rooms of American homes across the country each and every night.

Over the next two years the anti-war movement gained momentum.
Activists, celebrities and musicians like Abbie Hoffmann, Timothy
Leary, Jane Fonda, Country Joe and the Fish, and countless others
took up the cause.

This anti-war movement coincided with the rise of
secular/progressivism on college campuses across the country. Two of
these radically progressive ideologues were named William Charles
Ayers and Bernardine Dorn. Ayers made his name first as the leader of
the 'Jessie James Gang' a more militant faction of the SDS (Students
for a Democratic Society) and as a result of a 1969 meeting he formed
the Weather Underground, touted as the paramilitary arm of the SDS.

From Spring 1969 until late 1972 Ayer's faction was responsible for
several acts of violence; but like the gang that couldn't shoot
straight, more often than not they themselves paid the price as they
were just as likely to blow themselves up as their targets. Arrested
in 1973 Ayers and his wife Dorn were released from jail when charges
were dropped due to a technicality. But they never forgot the lessons
learned from their thwarted attempt to bring down the system from the outside.

During this same time a little known duo of Columbia University
sociologists named Richard Cloward and Frances Piven wrote an essay
which appeared in the magazine The Nation entitled The Weight of the
Poor: a Strategy to End Poverty. The idea was that only a small
percentage of the people who actually qualified for public assistance
were actually registered with the program. Their idea was to enroll
as many Americans as possible within the public assistance system.
This in turn would apply additional fiscal pressure on the federal
government. The resulting political crisis, they theorized, would
cause the Democratic Party; which controlled both ends of
Pennsylvania Avenue at the time, to enact legislation establishing a
guaranteed national income. While this was an interesting strategy;
some within the new secular/progressive groups realized that such a
game plan could only be executed through a highly organized network
or organization.

Enter one of the founders of the Church of Secular/Progressivism;
Saul Alinsky. Known as the father of modern American radicalism,
Alinsky is also generally considered the founder of the modern
community organizing movement. Like Ayers, Alinsky has his roots in
Chicago, Illinois. A lifetime organizer; it was in the early 1960's
that Alinsky began to describe his outline for organizing the
country; believing that America was experiencing frustration and
despair and was ripe for radical social change. His book entitled
'Rules for Radicals" was authored in 1972, just before his death, and
could reasonably be considered as the commandments of progressivism.
This book set forth the methods by which one would not only establish
a counter-movement aimed at engaging and destroying existing
institutions but, at the same time, creating the 'replacement'
structure of the new system so there would be something awaiting the
opportunity to replace the deliberately collapsed system as well.

Now we will turn our attention to Wade Rathke. Wade Rathke was a
former draft-resistance activist in the SDS and was involved as an
organizer for the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) that
sprang from the aforementioned Cloward-Piven strategy memo. In 1970
he founded the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN) in my state capital, Little Rock, Arkansas. He enlisted civil
rights workers and trained them in a program patterned after Saul
Alinsky's activist tactics. The group later changed its name to the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now keeping the
original acronym. Rathke gave ACORN a wider mission than that of
NWRO. Instead of focusing solely on welfare recipients, ACORN would
address issues touching all low-income people ­ most notably "living
wage" ordinances, "affordable" housing and mortgage lending
legislation, and voter-registration drives.

Next, we'll meet the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and James Hal Cone. The
Reverend Jeremiah Wright is the former pastor of the Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago Illinois. He has a Master's Degree from
the University of Chicago Divinity School and is probably one of the
leading authorities in Black Liberation Theology. Black Liberation
Theology maintains that African Americans must be liberated from
multiple forms of bondage ­ especially social, political, and
economic. This formulation views Christian theology as a theology of
liberation ­ "a rational study of the being of God in the world in
light of the existential situation of an oppressed community." The
origins of this philosophy may be found in the organization of the
National Committee of Negro Churchmen (NCNC) which first met in July
of 1966. According to the original BLT (pardon the pun) theorist
James Hal Cone; "Whether the American system is beyond redemption we
will have to wait and see. But we can be certain that black patience
has run out, and unless white America responds positively to the
theory and activity of Black Power, then a bloody, protracted civil
war is inevitable."

Stanley Kurtz of the National Review claims that Black Liberation
Theology is "…a scarcely concealed, Marxist-inspired indictment of
American capitalism…" Hal Cone goes on to say; "The black
intellectual's goal, is to aid in the destruction of America as he
knows it." According to him such destruction requires both black
anger and white guilt. He claimed the black theologian's goal is to
tell the story of American oppression so powerfully and precisely
that white men will tremble, curse, and eventually go mad, because
they will be drenched with the filth of their evil.

Another part of the religious segment of this puzzle is Jim Wallis.
The Reverend Jim Wallis is a well known Christian writer that was
heavily involved in political activism during the Vietnam War. Jim
Wallis has long promoted the idea of Christian social justice saying;
"Of course, Christians may disagree about what social justice means
in our current political context ­ and that conversation is an
important one ­ but the Bible is clear: from the Mosaic law of
Jubilee, to the Hebrew prophets, to Jesus Christ, social justice is
an integral part of God's plan for humanity." Never mind that there
are no identifiable passages anywhere in scripture where the Messiah
may be quoted as saying that it is the role of government to enforce
the morality of equal resource distribution. Jim Wallis is the latest
spiritual advisor to the White House.

All of these above mentioned people have had a part to play in the
development of the Gospel of the Church of Secular/Progressivism. We
have the revolutionary faction that tried and failed to alter the
fabric of the republic from the outside as represented by Bill Ayers
and Bernardine Dorn. We have Richard Cloward and Frances Piven who
theorized how one may utilize a public program to foment radical
social change. Then there was Saul Alinsky who laid the ground work
for conducting a regimented campaign to accomplish that change within
almost any existing public system. The Rathke brothers, Wade and
Dale, who applied and tuned these tactics for maximum disturbing
effect; especially as they relate to the organization of special
victim's groups and the rigging of the electoral process. Finally we
have the preachers; Cone, Wright, and Wallis; who developed and
fomented the misconception that social justice is deeply rooted in
both the Bible and in Christianity itself.

What resulted from the collective experiences of these people is
remarkable. They now possess a multi-pronged strategy for
[R]evolution; the complete alteration of the republic from a country
of individual liberty and rule of law into a social redistributive
tyranny where the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or
the one. It's impossible to tell if the final concept was vocalized
by any or all of this collection of extremists. At some point, there
was an epiphany; turning the system inside-out was incorrect! Turning
the system upside down, on the other hand, was exactly what they
discovered they truly required. For decades all of these people had
labored within their own fields of expertise to "Beat the Man." Their
shining, sudden realization was; "If you want to beat the Man, you
must become the Man." This is exactly what they've nearly accomplished.

The interconnections between all these individuals, are at times so
tenuous, that they can be almost impossible to establish. Indeed;
progressive pundits and bloggers will pooh pooh any attempt to play
connect-the-dots with these radicals as paranoid conspiracy. (As an
aside; when the left starts denigrating an idea you may be certain
you're on to something.) However there is one thing that is
abundantly clear: There is an individual; who studied the works of,
experienced the persuasion of, practiced the tenets of, or
purposefully cultivated relationships with, each and every one of
these characters. That person is Barry Soetoro; AKA Barack Hussein Obama.

From his days surrounded by radicals at Columbia University and
Harvard Law, to his work as a lecturer at the University of Chicago
Law School; he honed his skills at community organizing. His 1992
involvement with Project Vote gave him his first connections to
ACORN. His service on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge from 1995 until 1999 resulted in his introduction to one of
the original grant writers for this educational project, a person
named William Charles Ayers.

First elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 he immediately set to
work reforming ethics and health care laws; sponsored a law
increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare
reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare. Using his
Chicago political contacts, in 2004 he ran and won election to the US
Senate, and 2007 began his campaign for the office of the Presidency.

So the situation has almost turned completely upside down from the
conditions that existed some forty years ago. Bomb throwing
radicalism has been subsumed into a culture of organize, mainstream,
placate and conquer. This strategy has been purified to the point
where it is beginning to make a enduring connection between the
social justice aspects of progressivism and the Christian morality
practiced by the balance of the nation. Health care, education,
immigration reform, and stewardship of the earth are being framed as
moral or Christian foundational beliefs. The radicals have literally
attempted to turn the nation on its head. They now have what they've
always treasured, institutionalized power. They have indeed become the Man.

There is only one item they lack. In order to solidify their hold,
they must have a public enemy, an identifiable, defined, multitude
they can point to and say; "See, these are the bomb throwing radicals
we are trying to protect you from! You must see them for who they
really are. You must assist in relegating them to the ideological
wilderness. The very survival of the country is at stake!"

It began in 2009; the spending, the mounting debt, the bailouts of
the banks, and the deliberate ignoring of the plight of the people.
It continued with the takeover of GM, the President of the United
States exercising an almost imperial right by firing the Board
Chairman; concluding the subsequent 'gifting' of the company to the
UAW. Prolonged unemployment, high foreclosure rates, and the public
excoriation of anyone who was rich were continuing factors as well.
The public fight over health care, an entitlement the public believed
to be unaffordable, was persistently pushed upon the American public
for months despite their protest. 2010 was full of discussion as to
the methods available to those in the majority to foist this program
on the American citizenry regardless of public opinion. People became
outraged that such a thing would even be considered by our elected
representatives. Would they actually ignore public pressure and
saddle the nation with this program in spite of continued protest? It
came to a head on Sunday, March 21st 2010 when democratic lawmakers
say they bore the brunt of overt racial epithets being hurled at them
as they entered the Capital to vote on health care.

No one questioned the democrats march to the capitol that day.
Congressmen have many alternative routes they may have used to enter
the Rotunda that afternoon. That they deliberately chose to walk
across the open square, led by the Speaker with her over-sized gavel
speaks volumes. Were they rubbing the protesters' faces in what they
were about to do? Were they deliberately hoping for a confrontation
that would be caught on the cameras of a complicit press? No one can
refute that there was more than enough media present that any such
outbursts would have surly ended up on tape and on TV.

The next day House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer held a news conference
where it was revealed that several Congressmen had received 'death
threats' as a result of their health care votes. One alleged
answering machine message, a brick supposedly thrown through a
window, and a severed gas line to a grill were offered as evidence.
No one in the media has any evidence as to who the actual
perpetrators of these events are, but connections are already being
drawn between these events and those outspoken, dangerous,
radicalized, racist T.E.A. Party activists.

To be fair, this kind of behavior by the more strident adherents of
both political persuasions has been well documented in the past.
However; while it is easy to find examples of republican politicians
condemning this behavior no matter which side is involved, democratic
condemnation only ever seems to run one way. Draw a cartoon depicting
former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as Aunt Jemima and that's
just a cartoonist expressing himself; attend a rally against health
care though and you are a tea-bagging homophobe that needs to be
reported to Homeland Security. Ignore the mutually exclusive
reference to a strictly gay sex act and the connection of anti- gay
feelings here. When ascribed to conservatives no connection is too
bizarre to exploit.

Julianne Malveaux can comment about Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas by saying; "The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife
feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black
men do, of heart disease. Well, that's how I feel. He is an
absolutely reprehensible person." That's free speech ya' know. Call
Barack Obama a socialist and you've just scored the top spot on Eric
Holder's Justice Department racial hit parade!

The progressives will not let up. They need to have somebody,
anybody, to blow their top. Before the ink was dry on the health care
bill, two other progressives Senators, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were busy announcing the revival of one of the
most contentious issues of the previous administration; amnesty for
13 million illegal aliens.

On another front, once again, RINO Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is
partnering with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) to exhume the cap & trade
bill that was buried in the Senate last year. The unspoken plan here
is to keep turning up the pressure.

Time after time, people at T.E.A. Party rallies ask the question;
"Don't these people realize what they are doing?" the answer is most
assuredly they do. After the fourteen months of antagonism over
health care. Most political operatives would counsel a pull back, a
time of respite, if you will. Why would you deliberately further
antagonize an already distressed population with additional anxiety?

The answer is simple; in order to complete the transformation, they
need only one Timothy McVeigh, one Joe Stack, or one James Von Brunn
that they can connect directly to the T.E.A. Party. One highly
publicized incident involving a provable T.E.A. party associate and
documented evidence of violence will be all that is necessary to
complete the evolution. At the first sign of such an act; Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Department of Justice
Attorney General Eric Holder will bring the power of these two
federal agencies to bear on T.E.A. Party affiliates across the
country. Now that progressives are firmly in control of the
Washington apparatus; they will not hesitate to bring the full weight
of the statutes that exist within both the Patriot Act and RICO to
spotlight and destroy an organized enemy. Remember the third tenet;
all political discourse is war. Nothing is more important than the
triumph of progressivism.

How many years do you believe they could remain ascendant given a
complicit press, and a potential of tens of thousands of nameless
dangerous felons across the country to pursue, round up, interrogate,
and try? Seizing the membership lists of T.E.A. Party organizations
county by county, and subjecting each and every name on each and
every list to detailed questioning . How long would any politician
continue to identify himself with a radicalized political ideology
such as conservatism under such circumstances?

The progressives will keep up the relentless pressure, hoping that
somewhere out there, someone will eventually snap; and hand them the
republic on a platter.
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Bill Wavering is an eight year military veteran, a degreed Industrial
Engineer, and for the last decade has been employed as the Master
Planner for the Arkansas Army National Guard. He is a member of the
C4AA (Citizens for the American Agenda) and is currently running as a
candidate for Justice of the Peace, District Nine, Garland County,
Arkansas. Discover more regarding his campaign at
http://billwaveringcampaign.com Bill Wavering | bwavering@hotmail.com

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