The Darkest Hour

 

Current events are unrelentingly depressing. Militant transvestites and their supporters, more or less including the governments of the US and Canada, have declared open war on Christians, and begun shooting. Governments everywhere seem to be seizing totalitarian powers. Inflation is out of control, and recession likely to follow. The health system is broken. People are homeless. The pope is an apostate.

In the early days of the Second World War, some woman was reassured that the good would surely triumph. She countered, “Why would you think so? Why isn’t it as likely to be evil?”

In the early days of the Second World War, as Hitler seemed to win every battle, it was hard to have such faith. Yet he did eventually lose—no consolation to the six million—and in retrospect, his loss was not a close run thing. Economically, he was running a Ponzi scheme. Only continual conquest and pillage could keep the machine running. The British blockade was sure to starve him of food and fuel over the long run. And he was soon fighting not just the British Empire, one quarter of the world, but also the Soviet Union and the United States.

I do think the great arc of history bends toward justice, and that, if we look back at history, the bad guys do lose. The present times look a lot too like the Cultural Revolution in China. But the Gang of Four ended up in the dock, Lin Piao was shot down over Mongolia, and Deng Xiaoping took over. Robespierre’s Reign of Terror ended with him its last victim. The Khmer Rouge madly invaded Vietnam, and got themselves crushed. Radical revolutionary movements can rarely help themselves; they go too far, and march off a cliff. The worse things seem to look, the closer we probably are to the end.

Evil is a Ponzi scheme. Its ultimate defeat is built into the structure of the universe. Lying only works so long as most people usually tell the truth. Theft only works so long as property rights are generally respected. The mass of people will not resist evil until they feel personally threatened, but eventually, they do feel threatened.

The crazy left, the forces of chaos, are now attacking women and children.

How much farther can they go?