Politics

Chick-fil-A, it’s worse than you think

November 25, 2019 By Robert Truelove 1 Comment

This isn’t what I first thought it was. I first thought Chic-fil-A was going to step out of the culture wars. Not so. They are simply changing sides.

The Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Chick-fil-A, Inc. and Executive Director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation is Rodney D. Bullard. This man is a progressive who personally gave $1,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, $1,000 to Obama’s campaign, and $600 to Kevin Able’s (Democrat) recent campaign here in Georgia. Here is his giving record record from the Federal Election Commission’s Website.

One of the new non-profits CFA is now supporting is Covenant House. This is more than a non-profit that helps the needy including LGBTQ+, but actually celebrates the LGBTQ+ agenda.

Now that they are pandering to the LGBTQ+ agenda, there will be no end to the demands placed upon them. Until Chick-fil-A puts rainbow “Just Eat Chikin” cows in gay pride parades, flies the rainbow flag, and opens on Sundays they will be hounded at every step. The Progressive agenda demands the absolute adoration of its many perversions. Nothing less will do.

As more conservatives and Christians realize what they have done, CFA will will become ostracized by the Right and they aren’t Left enough yet for the Left.

We know which way they are moving though…

Why conservatism can’t win the war against progressives

September 10, 2019 By Robert Truelove Leave a Comment

Over the past few generations the West has been in the downward death spiral of progressive ideology. There have been no true victories, only brief pauses.

Progressivism is about victimology and the desire to “get their stuff” (via taxes and redistribution). Victimology is a powerful ideology, not for its morality or logical coherence, but for its ability to play to the fallen nature of man. To see the problems, and more particularly the sins, in our life as the result of systemic oppression is to blame shift to others and justify the envy for what the “oppressor” has.

Wealthy progressives are opportunists who, seeing the signs of the times, virtue signal while positioning themselves socially and politically to remain at the top. In this way, wealthy progressives are little different from conservatives save for the fact they have no qualms about lying to the poor and downtrodden in order to protect their own status.

So while the wealthy progressives beat the victimology drum through their control of the media, Hollywood, and the universities, the poor progressives are all too eager to follow. The power of progressivism is how it plays to the carnal nature of man.

When we survey leading voices of so called conservatism, the dominate area of agreement is that capitalism is superior to socialism. Put simply, it’s the desire to “keep their stuff.” On the other hand, there is no substantive agreement on such central matters such as ethics and worldview. Ideologically it is an exceedingly weak counter to victimology.

To clear the socio-political smokescreen, the issue is “personal peace and affluence” versus “victimology.” “I want to keep my stuff!” versus “I am a victim…and deserve your stuff!” This is why conservatism is doomed to failure. Victimology makes easy converts because it plays to the nature of fallen man. The ground, once taken, is never given up.

In the past it was the Christian influence on the West that rendered victimology relatively powerless. A Biblical anthropology exposes the SJW as the emperor with no clothes. Tossing Biblical authority to the gutter has not only empowered victimology, but rendered the rest of society without a coherent, ideological identity that can counter it. This is why personal peace and affluence can’t win the war against progressives.

“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”

—Revelation 18:2

Trump, a product of the left

May 28, 2019 By Robert Truelove Leave a Comment

So why doesn’t Trump want people to see his tax returns? In all likelihood it is because he is not worth nearly as much as he boasts.

“Trump” is a brand that means wealth and success. His tax return would likely damage that brand.

The illusion that one is more successful than he really is is not an uncommon device among the wealthy. It’s also a tactic used by corporations (especially publicly traded ones). They seem to be pillars of success until they literally come tumbling down and we learn that they had been in trouble for some time.

Being a Christian, I offer no defense for this practice. “Thou shalt not lie.”

That said, your tax returns are your private business and there is no requirement that politicians make their’s publicly available. This business with Trump’s filings are nothing more than the continued assault by the Left to find anything they can to progress their narrative for a victory in 2020.

I find it all so ironic. I was opposed to Trump in the last election because, based upon his history before his presidency, he was not a conservative. Now, as a president with a track record, he has been among the most conservative presidents of the last one hundred years.

So what happened? Did Trump have a change of heart? No. The irony is that the Left flipped out when Clinton lost and waged this war on Trump and Trump reacted as his ego demanded. Trump has stood against the Left because they not only did not flatter him, but because they unceasingly attacked him.

In this way, the Left created the most conservative president of our lifetime. The irony.