What a year. The left have made themselves known. I could describe them, but a better man has done it: Tom Kratman, take it away.

Bu’, bu’, but…you’re educated! You’re just so much better educated than the knuckle-dragging high school graduates of flyover country! Surely their votes shouldn’t count! Surely, at least, yours should count for more!

No, you are not educated; you are propagandized. Propagandization is the exact opposite of education. You have not been taught to think; you have been told what to think and taught not to think. Your skulls have been filled to the brim, as mentioned above, with left wing professorial shit. Not only should your votes not count for more; you should not be allowed to vote at all. You’re not mentally fit for the responsibility. As for the high school graduates of flyover country, no, they don’t have your sheepskins, and precisely because of that, because their native intelligence and talent have, unlike yours, not been suppressed or eradicated, they are in every way more fit for citizenship and its responsibilities, to include voting, than you are. They’re not, for example, dumb enough to vote for politicians and policies that will leave their children with a standard of living comparable to that found in Bangla Desh or Haiti. You people, on the other hand, are just that dumb.

Speaking of them, that misogynistic, racist, homophobic cohort of just ever so privileged white males, they’re not only more effectively intelligent than you are, they’re, as a general rule, none of the things you accuse them of. I won’t even try to convince you of that, though; your self-satisfied10 smugness and the ignorance of your misguided certainty would surely defeat any such effort.

Let me tell you, though, yet another way in which they’re a lot brighter than you are; they’re bright enough to realize that the globalist elites, who don’t care a fig for them, or you, or me, are the enemy. You’re dumb enough to “Occupy Wall Street” and accomplish nothing. They’re bright enough to vote against a woman who was completely the creature of moneyed interests, utterly beholden to them, US hyper-rich, international globalist, and outright enemy (Saudi Arabia, I am looking at you).

Your credentials are worthless. This year I have seen young men walk away from degrees. They have seen the university up close and personal, and are deciding for the trades. For there is no worth left in the liberal project; it has been turned into a wasteland. The same liberal twits are trying to ruin medicine (CANMEDS has never been shown to help make better doctors. It reads like a Human Resources document. It should be binned). They are decriminalizing child prostitution, telling Alaskans not to burn wood, an generally acting like idiots.

Or Greens. Given that we have ‘Murican green MPs here, who proceed to tell us native Pakeha we are racist gits who should get on the programme, the sewage from the towers of privilege sticks in the craw.

And this year people revolted.

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.”

The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

(Isaiah 26:1-9 ESV)

From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says,

“In a favorable time I listened to you,
and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”

Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

(2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2 ESV)

The cure of our delusion of collective virtue is Christ. It may be that us pakeha (whites) do have a privilege: because we are told that we are truly unworthy by the elite, we cannot virtue signal and tell ourselves that we are righteous. We cannot play competitive victimhood. This is a good thing.

For Christ calls us. Today is the day of salvation.

Forget new year’s resolutions. Turn instead to Christ. The time is short. The progressive narrative has failed. Choose Christ. Choose people.

For I have learned this when my live imploded: you can always replace things. You cannot replace people. In the end, it is people who matter.

Two comments that I have had this week: one from Scott. He sees few young people who were not abandoned and abused. He sees very few families where the parents are still together. Divorce and remarriage are common, and our kids are scarred.

The way this society and culture are arranged, does it really matter what kind of family scenario you have constructed? Nisbet points out that psychologists and other soft science professionals have been obsessed with chronicling the decline of the family, and painstakingly mapping out the benefits and detractors of being raised in such an environment. I myself have noticed that when I collect a history on a new patient during the intake interview, almost none of them (most of whom are between 19-25) report that they grew up in an intact family, and that their parents are still married.

In fact, as a social structure and developmental historical trajectory, I find it to be nearly ubiquitously unremarkable. Now, I admit that patients who come to see me are there to discuss their personal issues, many of which have to do with disordered attachment and the subsequent relationships that have collapsed or are not functioning. This group is highly self-selecting in that way. But it is still weird how infrequently I get the other story. I almost want to say “so let me get this straight. Your biological parents were married before you were born, had other children together. There are no step or half brothers and sisters and they are still married to this day?”

I actually worry that my children will have no one to relate to when they grow up. No friends or mates to select because their family story will be so strange (although, they do have a step brother who is old enough to be their uncle).

But my central hypothesis regarding this article is much more ominous than that. It is a harbinger that the total destruction of the nuclear family appears to be baked into the cake. It is no accident that when Mychael and I walk around in the world we feel like there are no others like us.

His wife noted that her friends are those who are trying, imperfectly but trying, to raise children and live by biblical principles. The way this works out is difficult and different between each family and in each community, and often the way we communicate is by email and text. I’ve never met Scott or Hearthie or Elspeth or Alte or Vox or this young woman, who reminds us that life raising children is difficult but the rewards are great.

I say this a lot but my oldest truly saved my life. I don’t mean just got me back on track I mean I genuinely don’t know if I’d be here if it weren’t for her. And He knew that.

My marriage was literally falling apart. My husband and I couldn’t stand each other.(the first year of marriage was HARD) and boom. Our second was on the way. He was born early and living through a high risk pregnancy and a preemie brought us closer together. We had to lean on each other. We cried together. I think the moment it clicked for both of us that we NEEDED each other was in the NICU parking lot screaming(we never yell at each other. We fight but never like that) we were both emotionally drained and took it out on each other. It was ugly. And embarrassing. And I hate thinking about it but at the end of it I was sobbing uncontrollably and we sat there in the middle of the parking lot holding each other together. Literally. Our hearts hurt. Our son was struggling. Our marriage was struggling. Everything hurt. And in that moment it clicked. We are a team. We need each other. We’d get through this.

Having 2 kids, a husband who was working full time and taking 5 college classes so he was literally never home was hard. I felt like I was stretched so thin I had time for nothing. So my Bible reading slowed down. My church attendance dropped. My praying was usually in the car or before bed when I had 5 seconds to myself. Then we found out our 3rd was on the way. We were told we’d need to prepare to lose the baby due to some complications. We had to cling to Him. He made sure we knew who was in control. Who had to be put first. He saw His children slacking and gave us a huge slap in the face. And it worked. It worked.

We needed each and every one of our children far more than they needed us. Our house is full of love and laugher and joy and slobbery sticky fingers that I wouldn’t trade for the world.

If you had asked me 5 years ago what I’d be doing today the answer wouldn’t include kids. But.. here I am.

No child is a mistake.

Ame commented on this, and her life putting together a blended family.

Most people in this world are careening through the wide gate and down the broad road leading to destruction, intentionally denying the truth of where they’re heading. It’s like an uncontrolled mob. When we choose Christ, we choose a totally different path – one through a narrow gate where the road is difficult, but it leads to life. There will be few joining us along this journey, and we will feel alone and isolated sometimes.

But we have hope … because, God. Because, Jesus.

So Choose Christ. Cleave to your spouse. Accept that none of us are perfect. Encourage each other to chase that which is good and righteous and beautiful and true and worthy.

Even though the elite make laws against such.

But this elite will fall. Do not be them, and do not be like them.