Remember 2020? I don’t know about you but it seems like a fever dream.
First covid, but then George Floyd dies, gets national coverage, and next thing you know Black Lives Matter goes from being a chant to a billion dollar movement who carried out illegal acts of arson and destruction across America.
I think the “fever dream” aspect of it came from the sheer delusion displayed by the media at the time.
In August for example, CNN broadcast from the street in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and ran a caption underneath…
“Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting.”
While behind the reporter, cars and buildings were literally on fire.
It’s practically a meme.
I personally remember I was threatened by clients of a coaching business I was working at, at the time. I was told that if I didn’t post the infamous black square, I was somehow racist.
It was such a culturally and emotionally charged time in our country.
Now let’s forward to April 2024.
Protesters at the University of North Carolina pulled down the American flag on the main quad and raised a Palestinian flag in its place.
The chancellor of the school had to walk out with police and put Old Glory back up himself.
This is four years apart, but still the same campuses. Same institutions and slogans of “liberation” and “resistance”.
The same people telling you and me that if we ask questions, we’re racists.
And no, you’re not crazy. Here’s the truth…
Islam is the new black.
Now, what do I mean by this?
I’m obviously not referring to ALL Muslims. I am specifically referring to the political movement that is wrapped up in Islam.
In other words, Palestine has replaced Black Lives Matter as the West’s sacred victim.
And I will prove it to you.
There are three parts to this and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
First, I’ll show you how and why these very powerful people with agendas NEED a sacred victim in the first place.
Second, where the Palestinian cause specifically came from, because it’s much older than we think, long before 2023.
And third, why in the world it keeps working on us, and what’s at stake.
There is much, much more at stake than you think.
So first…
Every manufactured sacred victim follows the same sequence.
A tragedy happens. Then, certain leaders amplify the suffering, they demand your allegiance in the name of support, they use that allegiance to seize more power, you and I pay the price.
The genius is in the middle. Once the victim is placed beyond question, the movement claims to speak for the victim.
So anyone who questions the movement is accused of attacking the victim.
So most people just shut up.
For example, let’s go back to 2020 during the BLM riots. Within a matter of days, Black Lives Matter went from a hashtag to a movement every institution in America was expected to bow to. Corporations posted black squares on Instagram. Members of Congress knelt in the Capitol wearing kente cloth. Churches planted BLM signs on their front lawns.
The media called it a “racial reckoning.”
And the message was simply this...
If you asked whether burning down a neighborhood actually helped the people who lived there… if you pointed out that Black Lives Matter the ORGANIZATION was not the same thing as the statement that Black lives matter… you were a racist.
It worked. It worked beautifully.
But at what cost?
The BLM riots caused an estimated $1-2 BILLION in insured property damage. To put this into perspective, this made it the most expensive civil disorder literally in American insurance history. Worse than the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
More than 2,000 police officers were injured in the first two weeks alone.
Local businesses that were already struggling due to the lockdowns were looted, burned, and forced to shut down. Many of them owned by the very people the movement claimed to be fighting for.
And instead of naming it, our institutions excused it.
“Mostly peaceful”, they said.
Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation took in roughly $90 million in 2020 alone.
And where did the money go?
Well… according to the foundation’s own tax filings, nearly $970,000 went to a company owned by the father of co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ child.
About $840,000 went to Patrisse Cullors’ brother for “security” and a firm tied to board member Shalomyah Bowers was paid more than $2 million.
And the foundation quietly bought a roughly $6 million house in Southern California.
The New York Post reported that Cullors herself bought four homes worth a combined $3 million+ before she stepped down in 2021.
If you look at CharityWatch, a nonprofit watchdog, they can’t even give the foundation a grade, because the organization’s books are so unreliable, they can’t tell donors how their money was spent.
Even Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s mother, called the organization a fraud.
Really? The movement that told you to “say her name”?
Yes, really.
That’s just the BLM foundation, let’s not forget corporate America.
According to a Washington Post analysis, America’s 50 largest public companies and their foundations pledged $49.5 BILLION toward racial justice after Floyd’s death.
Amazing, right? So generous?
Well… only $4.2 billion of that was actual grants. Meaning, the rest was mostly loans and investments. The bulk of it from two banks, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.
All designed to come back to them in some way.
And how much went to criminal justice reform? The thing millions of people actually marched in the streets for?
About $70 million.
Out of nearly $50 BILLION..
That’s only about 14 cents of every $100.
Follow the money and you don’t find a movement at all, you find a social justice cosplay of Game of Thrones.
It’s all bureaucracy and theatre.
The movement that claimed to fight for Black lives left Black neighborhoods burned, got rich, and walked away.
The next year, Chicago recorded 797 homicides making it the deadliest year in a quarter century.
You were lied to. WE were lied to.
And then, almost overnight, it vanished.
Why, you might ask?
Because these same actors had a new sacred victim.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas crossed into Israel, murdered roughly 1,200 people, and dragged about 250 hostages back into Gaza.
It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Within days, before Israel had even begun its response in earnest, the same campuses, the same media apparatus, and the same activist networks that told you to “say their names” in 2020 were chanting “from the river to the sea.”
All across Columbia, UCLA, Harvard, Yale, etc…
Keffiyehs replaced the kente cloth.
And the vocabulary, the language, etc.. all the same.
“Occupation…”
“Liberation...”
“Resistance...”
“Decolonization....”
I want you to notice how fast this happened.
And the same patterns.
What’s interesting when you begin to look deeper is realizing that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not new at all. What IS new is how quickly, and how completely, the Western left adopted it as its sacred cause.
One minute, the defining moral crisis of our time was police violence. The next, it was Gaza.
How does an entire movement pivot that fast?
Because the cause itself was never the end, the cause is simply the means.
Still think I’m reaching?
If you don’t believe me, believe them.
On October 10, 2023, three days after the massacre, while Israeli families were still identifying their dead, BLM Chicago posted a graphic of a paraglider with the words “I stand with Palestine.”
If that doesn’t mean anything to you, Hamas terrorists used paragliders to drop into the Nova music festival in southern Israel, right before they slaughtered and raped innocent young people.
They deleted it the next day. Then they posted that they stand with the people who “will do what they must to live free.”
The same week, BLM Grassroots, a national network of BLM chapters, put out a statement describing the attack as an attempt to tear down the gates of “the world’s largest open air prison.”
The national BLM Foundation claimed it had no official relationship with the Chicago chapter. But what’s interesting is back in 2016, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 50 organizations, published a platform accusing America of being complicit in a “genocide” against Palestinians.
Even The Nation, about as left-leaning as magazines get, has written about how deep those roots go.
And then there’s the moment that, for me, settles the whole question.
On the night of April 29, 2024, more than 100 activists, many masked and in keffiyehs, packed into the ground floor of a building on 37th Street in Manhattan, a few blocks from Times Square.
This space belonged to a nonprofit called The People’s Forum. Some of them had just come from the Columbia encampment.
The group’s executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, got up and urged the room to “give Joe Biden a hot summer.” He praised the Columbia students for deciding “that resistance is more important than negotiations,” and told everyone to “support our students so that the encampments can go for as long as they can.”
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the end goal was to “recreate the summer of 2020.”
Just a few hours later, they smashed the windows of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, barricaded themselves inside, and renamed it “Hind’s Hall.”
Two janitors who were working the overnight shift that night are now suing the People’s Forum in federal court because, according to them, the takeover was not an organic student protest but a coordinated, professional operation.
They say they were assaulted and mocked as “Jew-lovers” and “Zionists.”
Neither of them is even Jewish.
Now, here’s an important question. Who pays for the People’s Forum?
A 2023 New York Times investigation traced its money to an American tech millionaire named Neville Roy Singham. The Times tied him to a global network that pushes Chinese Communist Party propaganda. The People’s Forum itself has publicly called him “a Marxist comrade.”
According to public filings, Singham and his wife gave the People’s Forum more than $20 million between 2017 and 2022, routed through shell organizations and donor-advised funds that make the money harder to trace.
His wife, Jodie Evans, co-founded Code Pink, another regular presence at these protests. Groups linked to Singham have given Code Pink more than $1.4 million since 2017. That’s roughly a quarter of its funding.
A self-described Marxist millionaire living in China, bankrolling the room where American activists were told to bring back the summer of 2020.
You can’t make this up.
Now, where all of this starts to make more sense, is just peeking back through time just a little further.
Because the “free palestine” movement seemed to arrive at universities with the language of liberation. It didn’t arrive there on its own.
So why is that?
We have to go back to 1921.
The British appointed a man named Haj Amin al-Husseini as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was supposed to be a bridge between the Arab population and the British administration.
This made him the highest religious AND political Arab authority in the region.
However this got tense, in 1936, Al-Husseini organized the “Arab Revolt” against the British for three years.
He then fled to Lebanon, then Iraq, and tried to organize a coup against the British again. So British forces fight back, humiliate him and guess where he runs to?
Berlin. In 1941 he arrives in Germany and sits down with Adolf Hitler, begins to broadcast anti-british Nazi propaganda to the Arab world, and helped recruit Muslims into the Waffen-SS.
After WWII, it’s May 1945, Al-Husseini is humiliated once again, runs away to Cairo, Egypt.
Years pass and in 1964, the Arab League, led by Egypt, created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
One thing that needs to be made clear is that this is a full three years before the “Six Day War”.
The reason this is significant is because as you’ll see the messaging that will be used “resistance to Israeli occupation”, but this is before any single Israeli soldier occupies the West Bank or Gaza. There was no occupation to resist at this point.
All you have to do is look up the PLO charter from their founding and read it for yourself. The Palestinian National Council met in Jerusalem that year and adopted the original, which rejected Jewish national rights in the territory and called for the elimination of Israel.
Finally in 1967, the Arab states went to war with Israel and lost brutally in six days. The Arab world was humiliated after three military defeats.
Since Israel sided with the West, the Soviet Union saw an opportunity to gain leverage in the middle east. So they took Arafat in and they also understood something the Arabs hadn’t yet.
Since WWII and the fall of the Nazis, open ethnic hatred had become bad optics.
Not an effective approach anymore and they knew this.
The language of the second half of the twentieth century was liberation, colonialism, and self-determination.
If you wanted the world’s sympathy, you didn’t talk about driving the Jews into the sea. You talked about land. Refugees. Occupation.
The Soviet Union understood this better than anyone. The KGB were masters at public perception and propaganda.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West, later documented extensively how KGB helped craft the Palestinian cause into a Cold War weapon against America’s most reliable ally in the Middle East, and that Yasser Arafat, born in Cairo, was cultivated and trained by Soviet-aligned services.
Some historians argue about how much of Pacepa’s account to trust. But what is NOT in dispute is that the PLO was armed, funded, and diplomatically backed by the Soviet Union for decades. So much so that the PLO even had an embassy built in Moscow in 1974.
By the 1970s, the rebrand was complete. A cause whose founding father had courted Hitler was now the flagship of Third World liberation, complete with revolutionary posters, academic champions, and observer status at the United Nations.
Now what happens after should send shivers down your spine.
The Arab countries that took the PLO in, every single one that supported them, eventually threw them out aggressively.
Not once…
Not twice…
But three times, this happened.
Jordan was first. The PLO found refuge in Jordan, but instead of assimilating, they built a state within a state. They had their own checkpoints, military, they rejected Jordanian law.
Then, in September 1970, Palestinian militants hijacked several passenger jets, forced three of them down in the Jordanian desert, and blew them up in front of the world’s cameras.
King Hussein was livid. He unleashed his army, crushed the militias in what Palestinians still call Black September, and within a year had thrown the PLO out of Jordan entirely.
They ran away to Lebanon. The PLO took over the refugee camps and did exactly what they had done before but worse. They setup their own police and even taxed Lebanese citizens. They even setup their own courts, so much so Lebanese citizens had a name for it.
Fatahland.
Rocket attacks on Israel became routine, and Lebanese civilians paid the price with their own lives.
This escalated and escalated until civil war broke out in 1975.
1982, Israel had had enough. They drove the PLO out of Beirut, and its fighters took off to Tunisia, while Arafat sailed off to Greece, waving to the cameras.
Then there’s Kuwait.
Kuwait bankrolled the PLO for years. So when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, you’d think Arafat would condemn it. Instead, he celebrated it and allied with Hussein. Not exactly how you treat your friends.
So after the Gulf War, Kuwait drove out nearly all of its roughly 400,000 Palestinians, many of whom had lived there for decades.
Needless to say, they also stopped sending the checks.
The Arab world used the Palestinians, fought the Palestinians, and expelled the Palestinians.
And the Western left barely said a word.
This brings us to our final alliance: Iran and Qatar.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has openly called for Israel’s destruction for more than forty years. It needed proxies to fight the war it couldn’t fight directly.
Hamas, founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, became one of them. Tehran is well armed so they supplied the military resources, the weapons, and the training.
And understand this: Iran has never wanted a Palestinian state. A state would mean a peace deal, and a peace deal would end the war. This doesn’t help them at all.
But a war needs a story and telling stories was the one thing the Soviet Union had perfected.
So even though the USSR collapsed in 1991, the KGB’s strategy lived on.
The language Moscow had spent decades wrapping around the Palestinian cause, words like “liberation,” “colonialism,” and “resistance,” was still there, waiting for a new owner.
And this is where Qatar comes in.
The emirate has been the Muslim Brotherhood’s most reliable state patron for decades. It hosted Hamas’s political leadership in Doha. It sent hundreds of millions of dollars a year into Hamas-run Gaza (with, to be fair, the blessing of Israeli governments that thought cash would buy peace and quiet).
And in 1996, Qatar launched Al Jazeera.
Most of it’s staff came straight from the BBC’s Arabic channel, which had just shut down. Western-trained journalists, Western production practice, and a story Moscow had already written.
It instantly became the most-watched news network in the Arab world and of course well funded.
This alliance was genius.
On Al Jazeera, every Israeli operation became a war crime. Every Hamas attack became resistance. Every dead civilian became a martyr, photographed, packaged, and broadcast to a global audience with no framework to question what it was seeing.
The prophet Isaiah had a word for that, about 2,700 years ago:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” - Isaiah 5:20
And Qatar didn’t stop at television. According to the Department of Education’s own database, Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of American universities.
They have poured $8.8 BILLION into our education system.
When the same country that hosts Hamas’s political leadership is also the biggest foreign check writer to American higher education, it’s worth asking what all that money buys.
At minimum, it buys a seat at the table. And a lot of goodwill.
Iran provided the guns and Qatar provided the narrative that made it all look righteous.
So when this cause finally arrived in Western universities, newsrooms, and parliaments, it came wearing the exact vocabulary the Western left had spent decades building.
“Colonialism...”
“Indigenous rights...”
“Occupation…. resistance...”
And if you think all of this is ancient history, it’s not.
Just in May of 2024, at the height of the encampments, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote an open letter to American college students.
He told them:
“You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front…”
The “Resistance Front” is Iran’s own name for its network of terrorist proxies.
It’s what they call Hamas, Hezbollah, and The Houthis.
That’s who welcomed the American campus movement into the family.
That same month, a University of Tehran professor went on Iranian state TV and bragged that their “Hezbollah-style base in the US is much larger than what we have in Lebanon.”
Really?
Unfortunately, yes.
Two months later, in July 2024, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines put out a public statement. Keep in mind, this was the top intelligence official in the Biden administration. Not exactly a right-wing operation.
She said:
“We have observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters.”
Can you believe this?
A hostile foreign government financially supporting American protesters… ON American soil.
She also said Americans protesting “may not be aware that they are interacting with or receiving support from a foreign government.”
In other words, most of the kids in the tents weren’t the masterminds.
Instead, they were the product. This should make us angry.
The sincere become the human shield for the whole operation, because who wants to be the guy yelling at college kids?
This is by design.
How do I know this is true? How do I know this isn’t sincere and genuine concern for human suffering?
Simple… Follow the suffering and see if the outrage follows it.
It doesn’t.
Take Yemen for example. The civil war there began in 2014. By the end of 2021, the UN Development Programme estimated it had killed about 377,000 people, most of them through hunger and preventable disease rather than combat, and the large majority of them children under five.
And the United States sold weapons to the Saudi-led coalition fighting that war.
Where were the encampments? Where were the keffiyehs? Where was the correspondent standing in a famine ward, demanding justice?
Sam Harris has made exactly this point. For years Yemen was the worst humanitarian crisis on earth, with American weapons directly implicated, and it never became the moral obsession of universities, newsrooms, or activist networks the way Gaza did.
Why not?
Because the perpetrator wasn’t Israel.
What about Nigeria? Right now, Christians are being slaughtered by jihadists. Genocide Watch puts the toll above 60,000 innocent people.
No divestment campaigns, no campus statements, no protests, or tent cities.
Silence.
None of this makes sense if the outrage is about human suffering.
ALL of it makes sense if the outrage is about the villain.
Just like BLM.
In 2019, the year before George Floyd died, police in America fatally shot 14 unarmed Black people. That’s according to the Washington Post’s own database.
Fourteen.
That same year, 7,441 Black Americans were murdered.
A Black man in America was roughly eight times more likely to be murdered than a white man. And in almost all of those cases, the killer wasn’t a cop.
When Harvard economist Roland Fryer, who admittedly expected to find bias, studied police shootings, he found no racial difference in the data. He called it the most surprising result of his career.
In fact, within minutes of publishing his paper, he was asked to take it down. Later, he received death threats.
Why?
Again, it didn’t fit the desired narrative.
So ask yourself. If the movement was really about Black lives, where was it for the 7,441?
Billions were pledged in the name of Black lives, under the banner of police violence. Then in 2021, 797 people were killed in Chicago alone, and the movement was nowhere to be found.
Why?
Because those victims didn’t come with the right villain.
So when a warlord starves Muslim children in Yemen: silence.
When jihadists slaughter Christians in Nigeria: silence.
When Israel fights back against a terrorist organization that hides behind its own civilians, the entire Western left suddenly rediscovers the sanctity of human life.
This is an orchestrated lie.
Now I get it, I do.
George Floyd was a real man, and his death was a tragedy. Palestinians in Gaza are real people, and they are suffering terribly.
But that’s exactly what makes the manipulation so evil.
This manipulation and power machine does not invent pain. It harvests it.
It picks which pain to amplify, manufactures the outrage around it, promises to do something about it and does nothing except enrich its leaders and seize more power.
And who has to pay the price?
WE the people do.
The man who planned October 7 said it himself.
In June 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported on dozens of messages from Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, sent to ceasefire negotiators and Hamas officials.
In them, he described the deaths of Palestinian civilians as “necessary sacrifices.” And he told Hamas officials:
“We have the Israelis right where we want them.”
He believed the rising civilian death toll would build worldwide pressure on Israel.
Years earlier, he’d put it even more bluntly in an interview with an Italian journalist:
“We make the headlines only with blood.”
His own words.
Hamas didn’t stumble into a sacred victim position. It manufactured it out of its own people.
Both things can be true at once.
Yes, the suffering is horrible AND the people exploiting it are evil.
If you actually care about human suffering, you don’t get to pick which victims are sacred and which ones are invisible. Compassion doesn’t choose its victims by political convenience.
I’m not here to defend Israel. That’s a different discussion. I am here to point out a pattern that we keep falling for.
And to make it worse, the leaders of this movement just so happen to be socialists and communists. The organizers behind the People’s Forum and Code Pink, are run AND funded by self-described Marxists.
They use this sacred victim narrative to get votes and those votes are for BIGGER government.
Bigger government = more power. For them, not us.
I don’t have a problem with Muslims who come to America, assimilate, embrace the Constitution and the values it was built on. That has always been true and it always will be.
What I’m talking about is radical Islam as a political movement. One that, like communism, wants to re-found the West in its own image, and has learned to use the sacred victim playbook to get there.
There’s a difference between a religion and a political movement that wraps itself in one.
If we can’t call this out, out of fear of being called an Islamophobe, we will keep falling for the trap and at some point we will cross a point of no return as a nation.
So why does this keep working on us?
I’ve written before about what I call identity dysphoria. It’s the distress that comes from believing the person you’re supposed to be isn’t being realized. What follows is deep shame, and then the hunt for relief.
It happens to people. And it happens to nations.
For decades, we’ve been told from classrooms, newsrooms, and screens that our founding was evil, our history uniquely predatory, and our prosperity stolen. And a lot of us started to believe it.
A people ashamed of their own story will grab almost anything that promises to make them feel righteous again.
That’s what a sacred victim offers… instant righteousness.
“Kneel here.”
“Post this.”
“Chant this.”
Congrats, you’re one of the good guys now.
It’s counterfeit absolution is what it is and it’s always paid for with somebody else’s freedom.
None of this is new, by the way. Not even in America.
One of my personal heroes didn’t bow down to the sacred victim even when it helped his cause.
In March 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston and killed five colonists. Within weeks, Paul Revere was selling an engraving of the “Bloody Massacre” that showed a neat line of redcoats calmly gunning down peaceful townspeople on an officer’s command.
The truth is, that’s not quite what happened.
But it spread like wildfire and Americans were outraged.
And who stepped up to defend those British soldiers in court?
John Adams.
One of our own founding fathers who hated what the Crown was doing took the case nobody else would touch, because he believed even the most hated men in Boston deserved a fair trial on the facts.
He famously told the jury:
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
The captain and six of his men were acquitted. Two were convicted of manslaughter.
In other words, one of our own founders looked straight at a sacred victim story, one that served HIS side, and refused to let passion override the facts.
That’s the type of leadership America was built on and the kind we need to get back to.
What if we don’t?
The wrong people will keep winning.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of the largest city in America, has been an advocate of the Palestinian cause since he’s been a public figure.
He also happens to be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and once told a room of young socialists that the issues they “firmly believe in” include “BDS” and “the end goal of seizing the means of production.”
That’s straight up communism.
The sacred victim and the communist end goal, sold as one package.
I wrote about this in The Commies Are Coming. Every major communist regime of the twentieth century followed the same sequence:
Utopian promise → win over the people → gain power → seize total control → destroy anyone who objects.
The sacred victim is also the first two steps.
Sure, most people at these rallies aren’t communists, but when a movement’s own leaders tell you where they’re headed…
Well, believe them.
And this is a one-way door. A nation can vote itself into this far more easily than it can vote its way out.
That’s why our founders didn’t trust anyone with unchecked power.
Not kings, mobs, factions, or movements with a seemingly righteous cause.
So they limited government.
And they wrote down that our rights don’t come from the state, the crowd, or the cause of the week. They come from God. Which is the exact opposite of the social or communist world view.
So what do we do?
Long before any of this, God wrote the warning into His law. When He gave Israel its standard for justice, He said this:
“You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with a majority, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.” - Exodus 23:2-3
Not even the poor man gets a pass.
Not because God doesn’t care about the poor. Scripture is full of His heart for the poor, the widow, and the orphan. But because justice that bends toward whoever looks most sympathetic isn’t justice at all.
It’s a sacred victim.
And Proverbs gives us the way out of it:
“The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.” - Proverbs 18:17
Be the one who examines.
Who is funding this?
Who is gaining power?
What am I being asked to surrender?
If you can’t answer these questions, stay neutral.
When you feel that rush of righteous outrage, slow down and ask who benefits from it first.
James Madison saw this coming too.
In Federalist No. 10, he warned about what he called faction: a group of citizens “united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens.”
That’s a sacred victim movement, described in one sentence, in 1787.
And in Federalist No. 55, he wrote one of my favorite lines in all of American political writing:
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
In other words, it doesn’t matter how smart or well-meaning the individuals are. Put enough of them in a crowd fired up by passion, and watch reason lose.
We answer to God, not the mob.
We need to get back to standing up for Truth, even if we’re standing alone.
Jesus told us, “the truth will set you free.”
-Mitchell
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2,000+ officers injured, Major Cities Chiefs Association report, via Fox News
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