Anatomy of a Liberal Democrat
John Cohn November 10, 2015 / updated March 28, 2026
A liberal democrat is someone who seems to live in a bubble,
void of portals, designed to only let certain information enter.
They come with extreme restrictions on which sites they can
use. The sites have to be those far enough left, like CNN, MSNBC,
WaPo and a variety of other liberal sites, to fit their agenda.
They seem to also need to possess a record of numerous apologies
and retractions that somehow makes them believable.
Democrats seem bound to a culture that will not allow the
individual reader to think for themselves.
Their bubble forbids them to be their own person capable of
separating facts and truth from lies and half truths fed to them
by their very limited collection of sources. Sources that are ac-
ceptable to their ranks of minions who are focused on hatred for
anyone who disagrees with their limited viewpoint.
Their reluctance to search for the truth seems out of bounds
to what their peer struction will allow.
The more outrageous the claim and agenda items of their can-
didates, although all planned items are unaffordable forAmericans,
the more they want to support it.
Doubling and tripling the budget and socializing the nation
are totaling acceptable to the left. Even though this will require
virtually every person who might still have a job to be taxed at
more than a 50% rate. The rest get $30 trillion worth of free
healthcare on top of the Obama freebies created to make them
dependent upon the corrupt government.
That will bankrupt the United States. Welcome to Venezuela,
Democratic-style.
Wake up people, it's not rocket science.
**I wrote this before Trump, term #1.
Now we have things to do and flex our muscle.
We have had Democrats lie every time they open their mouth.
They make up fake news, out-right lies and accusations.
I have asked hundreds on the Left "Why are you supposed to
hate President after all he has done for the American people, not
one single reason.
I asked them many, many times who keeps filling their heads
with lies that they know are not true? Still no excuses or logical
answer.
I show them evidence with obvious truth and I get ignored.
I give them links to the truth. Nothing!
Lists of sources and the places to explain facts. Nothing!
The media, (CNN, MSNBC, MSNOW, ABC, CBS, WaPo, New York Times,
Washington Times, Wikipedia and almost any main stream media
source).
Then I give them places that don't lie and that will give you
where they get their facts, like Lindell TV, NEWSMAX, mostly Fox,
The Washington Times, Mostly Reuters, Mostly NY Post, Bloomberg
Website. There are many more.
Things every democrat should read that will open your eyes.
After Karl Marx brought Communism came Saul Alinsky who wrote
'Rules for Radicals'. The lies come from rule #10 but all 12 will
look familiar to the Left. In that book Soros, Hillary, Obama, and
many in D.C. now have followed these rules.
Also in that book you will find the "Cloward-Piven strategy"
written by a pair of communists that will also seem familiar but
they have all been tried.
We have with God's grace defeated an army that is more than
ten times the size of what the corrupt and lying liberal side of
the world's population wants us to believe.
Think for yourself and stand up and defend what God tells us
we must follow and trust.
Find the lies and fake news that you accuse President Trump
of saying or doing. You dig past the lies at the beginning of
every search you preform and seek the truth.
God will save His people. Are you one of them?
Conservatively,
John
Trump Provides Solution for Housing Crisis …30 December 2025
Trump provides solution to housing crisis
Search Daily Signal…
EJ Antoni | January 09, 2026
**President Donald Trump announced on Jan. 7 plans to ban
institutional investors from buying up homes and renting them
back to Americans.
*You’ll Own Something and Be Happy
Corporate landlord Blackstone’s stock plunged nearly 5% on
the move to make housing more affordable.
Trump’s goal is to lower house prices and prevent Wall Street
outbidding the rest of us with their unfair access to cheap capital.
And it’s something a lot of Americans have wanted, from the MAGA
base to Bernie Bros.
Home ownership has long been a bipartisan goal, as it promotes
family formation, promotes community involvement, and lets people
build a nest egg.
A recent study found the average net worth of an American home-
owner is close to $400,000. The average net worth of an American
renter is $10,000. Ten grand makes for a thin retirement.
The problem, of course, is Americans can no longer afford
houses that skyrocketed in price to almost 40% under Biden. Toss in
Federal Reserve rate hikes that doubled mortgage rates and, accord-
ing to Bankrate, the median monthly mortgage payment, which doubled
from $1,242 a month in 2019 to $2,207 in 2024.
This then bled to rents—landlords have mortgages too.
Meanwhile, wages for twentysomethings—who should be starting a
family—actually went down under Biden. And have only made back part
of the lost ground.
This put institutional buyers in the spotlight, who have spent
decades quietly hoovering up millions of homes to rent. The buying
accelerated dramatically during COVID’s low rates—at one point in
2022 institutions were buying one in four single family homes.
Banning institutional banners will lower prices. But not by
much considering they make up just a couple percent of home
purchases. So going by price elasticities you might get a 3-5% drop
in home prices—possibly closer to 10% in sunbelt cities where
institutions are most active.
But this comes with a roughly equivalent 3-5% rise in rents if
Blackstone drops the rental business, where price elasticities are
similar.
So, slightly cheaper houses, and slightly higher rent. Both
nudge people into owning. At the expense of people with poor credit
or no down payment who will pay more rent.
Moreover, we’re talking 3-5% when houses went up 40% and
housing costs doubled.
*Buyers need a lot more.
Since he took office in January 2025, Trump’s been trying
everything. He’s tried to cut closing costs, promoted simplified
local building codes, removed tariffs on construction materials,
proposed opening federal land to housing. Additionally, just this
week, he deployed $200 billion from government-controlled mortgage
giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower mortgage rates.
In the Big Beautiful Bill, he added tax relief for builders,
which is already helping multi-family construction. He even floated
50-year mortgages, which lower payments at the cost of paying your
mortgage when you’re 92. And, of course deportations, which have
opened over a million houses and are finally lowering rent prices,
especially in deportation-heavy cities like Austin.
What’s missing is the two biggest drivers of house prices:
inflation, which is driven by federal deficits. And mass deregula-
tion in home-building, including environmental mandates, zoning,
and rent control the National Association of Homebuilders estimates
can add $94,000 to the cost of a home.
For these, he needs Congress. Along with local governments
like New York or San Francisco, where rent control has led to over
a hundred thousand empty units despite citywide shortages and
nosebleed rents that delivered New York to Comrade Mamdani.
Affordability and inflation have been the top voter concern
all year, and prediction markets currently have 77% odds the GOP
loses the House in the midterms.
Given Congress won’t meaningfully cut inflationary spending
or regulation in areas like healthcare and insurance, housing costs
are the last man standing.
Trump’s doing what he can, but Congress has to do the heavy
lifting if they want to keep their seats.**
We have a good chance today of keeping control of Congress but
I keep thinking how bad things would be now if Trump was not at
the wheel keeping us out of the ditches and trying to catch up.
Faith and prayer and a relationship with God is our best anchor.
Conservatively,
John
Right-Sizing SNAP…23 December 2025
Right-Sizing SNAP
**USDA's Rollins: SNAP Faces 'Right-Sizing' Changes
By James Morley III | Wednesday, 19 November 2025
**USDA's Rollins: SNAP Faces 'Right-Sizing' Changes
By James Morley III | Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday that the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will undergo major
changes, even though regular funding has resumed now that the
government shutdown is over.
On "NewsNation Now," Rollins said, "Clearly there's a right
-sizing that needs to happen with the program."
After the 43-day shutdown ended, Rollins announced that SNAP
beneficiaries must reapply in order to eliminate suspected fraud,
adding that other changes to the benefits program will be announced
after Thanksgiving.
"We have to make sure that for those who really need this
benefit, it's going to the right people," she said. "So, we're
making a lot of structural changes in SNAP."
Rollins said that before the shutdown, USDA data from 29 Re-
publican-led states showed that 186,000 deceased enrollees were
still receiving SNAP benefits and 500,000 people were receiving
benefits twice.
"And that just includes the states that have sent their data
in," Rollins said. "That doesn't include most of the blue states,
where we believe there's even more fraud and abuse."
She added that SNAP benefits increased by 40% under the Biden
administration. "The unintended consequence of the Democrat shut-
down is that the spotlight has been shined on this," she said,
"and we have to make sure that for those who really need this
benefit, it's going to the right people."
In fiscal 2024, SNAP served an average of 41.7 million people
each month, with federal spending totaling $99.8 billion, about
$187.20 per recipient monthly, according to the USDA.
James Morley III ✉**
Since November 2024, the government has been reducing the cost
while slightly decreasing the number of recipients to 41.3M or 12.1%
of the population from Obama's about 47.2M in 2013.
The number has shrunk by about 700K as Trump chips away at the
inflation Biden created.
The point is that the Democrat administrations robbed the us
of Trillions of dollars and made themselves wealthy but still do
not care about the country or the people who voted them into office.
This has been a disastrous string of losers with the only one
trying to fight for Americans has been Trump's two terms.
The left has been a massive failure.
We pray and have faith that keeps us going.
Conservatively,
John
Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection… 16 December 2025
Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection as Democrats Lose
Power.
Victor Davis Hanson | July 09, 2025
**Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
We’ve talked in the past a lot about the unfortunate turn to the
hard Left that Democrats have made. But in the last week, it’s
become surreal.
We had this minor official—a Democratic official—Sade Perkins,
and she posted that she was almost happy that we lost over a hundred
people, the majority of them children, in this flash flood in Texas.
She said they were “all white,” and therefore, they were discrimi-
natory. I’ve never seen anything like it.
And then, people weighed in. And they had some atrocious
comments. A pediatrician was almost gloating. And they had a
variety of mechanisms to show how grotesque and ghoulish they were.
One group of people said, “It was global warming. You people
in Texas”—where, by the way, there’s more, I think, there’s more
wind turbines and solar than almost anywhere—“you people denied
global warming. This was caused by global warming. And therefore,
you got your just desserts.”
It was not caused by global warming. It was a once-in-a-cen-
tury flash flood of a magnitude no one had seen in a hundred years.
And then there were other people who said, “You supported the
Department of Government Efficiency cuts, so you got what you
deserved.” And in her case, she said, “You’re white people.”
So, it’s very, very, very disturbing.
At the same time, we’ve had now two organized assassination
attempts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who are
just following the law. Remember what they’re doing. Apparently,
in the mind of the Left, it was a moral thing to break the law and
let 12 million people—without vaccinations, without audits, without
criminal background checks—come into the United States. But it is
an amoral thing to enforce the law and restore the rule of law,
and ask people, who came in illegally, to please return.
But in that conundrum, we’ve had now 10 people arrested. And
they were kind of Antifa types. I’m not saying they were Antifa.
But they were dressed in black. They had radios. They had semi-
automatic weapons. They had body armor. They were young, mostly
white kids that looked like they were children of the middle class.
And they shot an ICE agent in the neck. And they had a gun battle.
And then, this was following an earlier assassination attempt.
Now, you think that the Democratic Party would be worried. But
we’ve got even more disturbing reports that Democratic Congress
people said, “Well, what are we supposed to do? We meet with our
constituents and they’re telling us that one of us should be shot.
I don’t mean shot by punishment. They’re urging us to use violence
and be willing to be shot by others to promote a radical agenda.”
And I don’t know if that’s true because they won’t report any
circumstances that would substantiate that. But basically, the con-
gressional Democrats are saying, “I don’t know what I can do. These
people are pushing us to the radical edge.”
And then you saw House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, didn’t
you? He was posing with a bat like he was going to club people, in
opposition to the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
I could go on with all of these examples. But I mean, this is
an age in which people tried to kill President Donald Trump twice.
And we know what happened to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise
and other congressional personnel. And so, we’re getting a Luigi
Mangione, etc. The attacks on Jewish people in Washington, D.C.
We’re getting to the point now, the Left is entering the era of
sedition, insurrection.
We had Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass go to a park and confront
ICE agents who were federal law enforcement people, obeying and
enforcing, and trying to restore the legitimacy of federal law,
which surpasses municipal and state law, remember? And she said,
“You’ve got to get out of my city.”
This is insurrection. Why is it happening? We’ve said in the
past that part of it is that the Democratic agenda nobody wanted,
there were 80/20, 70/30 issues, and as a result of that, they lost
the Congress, they lost the White House, they lost, of course, in
most cases, the Supreme Court.
So, they don’t have any power. So, they’re frustrated. But I
think, even more importantly, in the first administration, Donald
Trump addressed symptoms of the progressive project: Let’s restore
deterrence. Let’s try to deal with the border. Let’s try to stop
crime. Let’s cut taxes. But he didn’t have time or the knowledge
or the constituencies. And he was working with a hostile Congress
to address the root causes of those symptoms.
This time he’s saying, “This lunacy, it’s caused by certain
institutions: foundations, universities, the Democratic Party,
public broadcasting, the media.” And so, what he’s doing is he’s
going after blue-stocking, left-wing law firms. He’s going after
the endowment and taxing university endowments. He’s looking at
grants on federal—grant surcharges gouging the federal government
on university grants. He’s dealing with countries that are openly
promoting open borders.
So, he’s dealing with the symptoms. And the Left is saying,
“Oh my gosh, we have no institutional power. And now the way that
we exercise power without having legislative or executive influence
is institutions, foundations, media, K-12, universities. And Donald
Trump is starting to address our left-wing monopoly and dominance
of those institutions. And if he were to be successful, we would
collapse, dissipate, disintegrate. So, we’re going to go take to
the streets and we’re going to use violence and we’re going to do
anything possible to stop this Donald Trump counterrevolution.”
It’s going to be very dangerous times. We’ve got to be very
careful about what everybody says and not escalate the situation.
But it’s mostly, now, coming from a frustrated and impotent Left.**
WE continue to pray that God will judge and make the evil on
the left pay for the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the
American people. He will teach them that they will always reap what
sew against His people.
Conservatively,
John
Your Mind Can Bend Time… 9 December 2025
**Your Mind Can Bend Time—Here’s How
Makai Allbert / 27 December 2025
Everyone experiences time, but not in the same way.
A minute is always a minute, except when it isn’t.
This idea was put to the test in a 2023 Harvard study.
Researchers induced minor bruising on participants’ forearms
and then had them sit in rooms where the clocks ran at normal
speed, half-speed, or double-speed.
Crucially, the actual elapsed time was identical across all
conditions—28 minutes—but the clocks ticked at different rates.
The results surprised the researchers. Wounds healed faster
when people thought more time had passed, and slower when they
thought less time had passed. “Personally, I didn’t think it would
work,” lead author Peter Aungle told The Epoch Times. “And then it
did work!”
A century ago, Albert Einstein demonstrated that time is
relative—not fixed. He explained the idea with a simple, humorous
example: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like
a minute. That’s relativity.”
Now, psychologists and neuroscientists are finding that our
sense of time is not only inherently subjective but also highly
malleable.
We can’t stop the clock, but by understanding how we perceive
time, we can make minutes feel longer, heal faster, and even expand
our memories.
How the Mind Affects Reality
The Harvard healing experiment is a pivotal piece of evidence
that mind and body are not only connected, but may be one and the
same. “We weren’t really manipulating time itself. We were manipu-
lating expectations,” Aungle said.
“If they [people] think more time has passed, they expect more
healing—and those expectations can shape the body.”
Most people think of mind-body effects only in terms of
emotion, he added. Yet, “psychology is embedded in everything the
body does. I would argue the mind influences every physiological
outcome to some degree.”
Expectations are not the only time bender. While believing
time has sped up aids healing, high-arousal negative emotions,
such as fear, significantly dilate our perception of time, making
it feel slower.
In one study, participants watched frightening clips from
“The Shining” or “Scream.” Afterward, a blue circle was presented
in the center of the computer screen. Participants perceived that
the circle lasted longer after watching frightening movies than
after watching neutral or sad films.
Sylvie Droit-Volet, the lead researcher of the study, told
The Epoch Times that subjective expansion is likely because “fear
accelerates the internal clock, making time seem to pass more
quickly and prompting action”—the fight or flight response.
Because the internal clock is ticking faster, measuring more
units of time per second, the external world appears to move in
slow motion. The time dilation allows the brain to process infor-
mation with higher resolution during life-threatening situations.
You can find the rest of this article and Read Full Article
on TheEpochTimes.com**
We have to remind ourselves that God sets the time for every
moment in our lives.
I was told once by a very smart thoughtful man that said;
God gives us each a specific number of heartbeats in His plan for
all of us. When you have fulfilled His plan He will call you to
Heaven and we all will be judged.
Conservatively,
John
What the Government Owes us… 2 December 2025
**What the Government Owes Us
By: Bill O'Reilly / June 29, 2025
Let's talk contracts here. Social contracts. If you are an
American citizen who pays taxes you are owed certain things. That's
the agreement the Constitution memorializes, that the feds and
states are obligated to take shielding actions on your behalf.
First and most important, protection from people and nations
that might hurt you. That's what the Iran thing is. Violent
extremists getting nuclear capability. The U.S. federal government
cannot allow it especially with the 9/11 legacy. Apparently,
isolationists don't understand the contract. Danger is to be
mitigated.
Next, the Guard and Marines to Los Angeles. The President
believed the Governor of California and the LA Mayor would not
protect citizens and property during the "No Kings" demonstration.
So, Mr. Trump provided federal help, which the LA police chief
needed because he said his force was "overwhelmed" by violent
protesters.
Seems fairly clear. Trump had to enforce the contract
because California leadership is corrupt and irresponsible. The
Guard was not sent anywhere else.
Shockingly, the vital Constitutional agreement was essen-
tially ignored by President Biden when he allowed at least 14
million foreign nationals into the USA unsupervised. Thousands
of citizens were physically hurt by that colossal dereliction of
duty, some actually killed. An open border provides no protection
to anyone.
Failure to punish criminals also violates the social con-
tract. States like New York and California have passed laws
allowing miscreants to roam the streets despite being charged or
convicted of heinous crimes. In addition, those states make it
extremely difficult to protect yourself with firearms. The result
has been a dangerous rise in public disorder.
In their wisdom, the Founding Fathers installed a system
that demands responsibility on both sides; citizens are compelled
to obey the law while those in power are mandated to enforce
statutes domestically as well as diminish dangerous threats abroad.
Of course, the progressive left is energetically trying to
crash the social contract and those radicals are succeeding to some
extent. Law enforcement is often politicized, foreign policy
pettifogged by agenda-driven fanatics.
Finally, many Americans do not trust the government, and that
is not an extreme position. If you depend on elected leadership
to do the right thing, you will often be disappointed. However,
the social contract is pretty much all we, the people, have, and
supporting politicians who don't respect it is a doom loop.
I can't make the big picture any clearer than that. Madison
and Jefferson would concur.**
Since this was written, things has exploded.
In New York they elected a Communist Mayor who is 25 and has
no clue what he is supposed to do but he plans to make the entire
city government owned and operated.
The entire state of Minnesota has committed fraud to the tune
of $9B and have been financing the country of Somali and over 70%
of the residents of Minneapolis are on welfare collecting about
$70+ and no one actually works.
Now they are fleeing because their Visas are being voided and
deportation is taking place. The Somali community has left by the
thousands and over 100 Minnesotans have been indicted with as many
as millions to follow.
Governor Walz and his administration is soon to see the cells
the federal prison system has waiting for more.
Whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork so much more is
yet to be done.
Pray that God will make this task easier for President Trump.
Conservatively,
John
Trump: Special Prosecutor Should Probe 2020 Election… 25 November 2025
**Trump: Special Prosecutor Should Probe 2020 Election
By Charlie McCarthy / 20 June 2025
President Donald Trump called for a special prosecutor to
investigate the 2020 presidential election because an alleged
stolen outcome "cannot be allowed to happen again."
The president and his allies have said voter fraud in several
key battleground states gave the election to former President Joe
Biden, who served four years before Trump was sworn in for his
second term on Jan. 20.
There's also allegations the Chinese attempted to help improve
Biden's chances of winning the election.
Biden's term was filled with a wide-open southern border,
alleged lawfare and extremely progressive social policies.
"Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000
for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential
Election by a 'LANDSLIDE!' Biden was grossly incompetent, and the
2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVER-
WHELMING," Trump posted Friday morning on Truth Social.
"A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed
to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin!
What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our
Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable! MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN!"
Trump was reelected in November when he decisively defeated
former Vice President Kamala Harris by winning all seven key battle-
ground states.
On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X that the bureau
"has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to
the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by
the CCP [Chinese Communist Party]."
Patel said he "immediately declassified the material and turned
the documents over" to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa.
Patel linked his post to an article from Just the News, which
said an intelligence report raises concerns that the Chinese alle-
gedly mass-produced fake U.S. driver's licenses to further a
scheme to use fraudulent mail-in ballots for then-Democrat nominee
Biden.**
The documents, emails, texts, and other evidence has brought
forward tons of proof that the 2020 election was a fraud and to make
it worse, dozens of Democrats and liberals have been indicted and
our new Justice Dept has exposed dozens more.
Now it is time for us to fire ALL of the leakers and bad eggs
until we can return to a lawful, ethical, and moral government.
You would think that after 60 years of these corrupt and
un-American they would run out of habitual liars.**
So many things have been exposed since the author of this was
published.
Over 90 Democrats, many from the DOJ have been indicted.
Dozens of prominent Democrats have left or been subpoenaed and now
the truth about the Jan 6 riot is out and fraud from the 2020
election have found that possibly one million deceased, 100+ year
olds, and nonexistent voters cast their votes for Biden. Georgia
alone had 300K+ illegal voters were found.
This is getting deep and we must pray that God will save our
land and open the hearts and minds to the truth.
Conservatively,
John
Am I Thinking for Myself or Just Following the Crowd?… November 18, 2025
Am I Thinking for Myself—Or Just Following the Crowd?
arnie.cole@backtothebible.org / Sun, Nov 16, 2025
**Am I thinking for myself—or just following the crowd?
Have you ever asked yourself that? And more importantly, how
do you tell the difference?
Romans 12:2 tells us: “Do not conform to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind….”
I absolutely love this verse. When I think about it “Do not
conform” means that you don’t just mindlessly go along with the
culture around you—maybe even the church culture as well. It means
don’t copy the behaviors and beliefs of those around you, in the
church or out of it, just to fit in. Instead, we are to let God
transform us from the inside out by renewing our mind, by changing
the way we think, through His Word and Spirit.
That’s easier said than done, especially when you look at
others instead of yourself!
It was just last Wednesday I had the privilege of driving my
grandkids to and from school. Whenever I drive, we have this little
routine of singing as loud as we possibly can: on the way there,
we sang “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” at the top of our lungs (yes,
even Grandpa gets in on E-I-E-I-O). We, myself included, giggled
as we mooed and oinked, and I thought to myself how lucky I am to
be a part of these kids' lives. But the real surprise came in the
afternoon when I had to pick them up. As soon as they clambered
into the backseat for the ride home, my sweet grandkids started
yelling one thing, over and over: “67!… 67!… 67!”
At first, I wondered if I’d missed something—67? Was it a
page number from math class? A secret code? “What does 67 mean?”
I asked, truly confused. They just laughed like I’d told the
funniest joke. “It doesn’t mean anything, Grandpa!” my oldest
finally managed between giggles. They then explained (with a mis-
chievous grin) that “67” is just a silly phrase all the kids were
shouting that day. No reason. No context. Just because. It’s the
latest viral inside joke among their friends, picked up from the
internet and the schoolyard.
I thought, funny, not funny. In the span of a single school
day, my grandkids, ages 4, 6 and 10, had gone from singing a
classic nursery rhyme to spouting a random phrase that means ab-
solutely nothing. It was cute and harmless on the surface—just kids
being kids. Yet, as I navigated the evening traffic, I couldn’t
shake a question: What made “67” catch on like wildfire?
In fact, the more I researched the more I found out that kids
worldwide were suddenly yelling this meaningless number in unison?
And what does that say about how easily and quickly groupthink can
shape our children?
Before I could wonder why can’t kids be like we were, I took
a humbling look in the mirror. It dawned on me, it’s not just kids,
adults catch the groupthink as well.
I remembered back when I was a brand new Christ Follower all
my new Christian guy friends were trying to sell me generators
because of the great Y2K threat which was looming. I had never
heard of it from my secular friends, but apparently lots of people
were preparing for the worst.
And who can forget the great toilet paper panic of 2020?
Seeing others hoard in our news feeds created a sense of urgency to
do the same; this kind of chain reaction is groupthink at its
finest.
The truth is, grown-ups fall prey to groupthink all the time.
It just looks a little different for us. Instead of TikTok memes,
we have social media feeds, search engines, news cycles, and
influencer-driven trends with AI nudging our every thought and
action. The mechanisms have gotten more high-tech, but the human
vulnerability is ageless.
Think about how we consume news and information. Ever for-
warded an article because it had thousands of shares, assuming it
must be credible if so many others are sharing it? I have – only
to later double-check and find out it was misleading. In fact,
studies show that on X (formerly Twitter), false news spreads
significantly faster and wider than true news, precisely because
it often appeals to emotions and people retweet it impulsively.
We see a bunch of folks sharing a shocking story, and we join the
chorus without pausing to verify. The crowd’s behavior sweeps us
along.
Think about conversations in our social circles or church
communities. If I am not careful, I find myself nodding in agreement
with a viewpoint, not because I truly examined it, but because it
was the popular opinion in the room? Psychologists actually have a
term for this phenomenon: the “illusory truth effect.” Studies show
that if we hear an idea repeated often enough, we tend to believe
it’s true – whether or not it is.
In our media-saturated world, an opinion (or even a false
statement) can start to feel like “common sense” simply because
it’s echoed by so many voices. We’re bombarded with certain talking
points on our favorite news channel, or we see the same memes and
slogans shared on social media, and gradually those ideas solidify
in our minds. Repetition creates familiarity, and familiarity can
masquerade as truth.
What is so sad is that groupthink has permeated almost every
aspect of our Christian life today as well. Some of it is most
certainly good, that is for sure, but some of it is very hurtful
to the cause of Christ.
Stay tuned, because next week we will explore how to tell the
difference between being transformed by God’s Word, or conformed
to society’s groupthink.
And to finish this week with great news–Nigel has reached out
to us. He said: "Based on the commitment of support from Back to
the Bible USA, we have gone ahead and ordered the StarLink system
for Back to the Bible Jamaica which we expect to be delivered next
week. It will certainly help in our own continuous connectivity.
Being a portal system, we look forward to helping those we can, to
be in touch with loved ones. We really appreciate your support."
In His service and yours, – Arnie**
We have to learn to think for ourselves or Satan and the evil
ones will destroy our love for God and make our relationship for
Him near impossible to survive. God loves us and always will.
Conservatively,
John
Agencies Tagged for Elimination or Reduction Revealed… 11 November 2025
Agencies tagged for elimination or reduction revealed
Jerry McConway / October 13, 2025
**When Democrats shut down the government by refusing to sign
the continuing resolution (CR), Trump made it clear that if the
shutdown had any length to it, he was going to start trimming down
the government.
Democrats balked, believing that Trump was bluffing, and they
have held the line.
Now the agencies Trump wants to cut have been revealed, and
Democrats are starting to realize that the clock is ticking if they
want to save these jobs.
*Political Pawns
The media, of course, has been accusing Trump of using federal
workers as political pawns, but they are directing their allegations
in the wrong direction.
Trump has never hidden the fact that he wants to cut government
payroll, and this, he believes, will give him the power to make
massive cuts that do not need to be approved by Congress.
Federal workers are now panicking, knowing the ax is coming if
Democrats do not cave.
For instance, Priscilla Novak, a furloughed federal employee
researcher, stated, “This is the third time I’ve been furloughed in
my federal career. But this is the first time there were threats of
having people be fired en masse. I’ve been checking my email every
day to see if I’m fired yet.
*Trump Will Take the Heat
In case people have not yet realized it, Donald Trump has no
problem being the bad guy in these scenarios.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich explained, “What’s
fascinating, if you watch, Trump has now begun to systematically
lay off people permanently. I think what Trump is gambling is that
he can actually change the federal government dramatically during
the shutdown.
“He’s willing to take the heat because, frankly, when he’s
busy going to the Middle East to be part of a peace treaty signing,
that is astonishing, he’s got other big things he’s doing, so he’s
not particularly bothered.”
Trump is also willing to take the heat because the GOP believes
it can point the blame at Democrats for this happening. After all,
all they have to do is sign the CR, and everyone goes back to work.
*The Hit List
A report has just surfaced in Axios that has revealed all the
agencies that Trump is targeting to either eliminate or signifi-
cantly scale down as this shutdown continues.
A spokesperson told Axios, "HHS employees across multiple
divisions have received reduction-in-force notices as a direct
consequence of the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
The Department of Homeland Security is expecting to cut 176
jobs, the Treasury is expected to cut nearly 1,500 employees, and
the Department of Education is expected to cut nearly 500 jobs.
The EPA, HUD, and the Department of Energy are also expected to
make cuts.
I would suspect that most of these cuts will be challenged by
Democrats, but my guess is that Trump is hoping this announcement
will make the cuts unnecessary. Remember, Dems can stop all this
just by signing the CR, so this just became a staring contest.**
The cuts are the fat that Democrats put in DC. They have
been doing this for decades. They pack it with fat and feed unions
and then the Republicans take it back to reality. Many of those
agencies are creations of the Left. They are useless and they give
away billions to meaningless pet projects.
What happened to the billion Pelosi gave to the Arts in 2 of
the inflated bills she forced on Trump so he could get funding for
the pandemic and they still stole millions of it.
Do the math and pray for God to protect us.
Conservatively,
John
Known By Our Love: How We Resist Helplessness in a World of Hate… November 4, 2025
Known by Our Love: How We Resist Helplessness in a World
of Hate
arnie.cole@backtothebible.org
Sep 21, 2025 / Arnie Cole
I got a text the other day from our daughter. One of the girls
in our barn had said that Charlie Kirk deserved to die because he
was such a terrible human being. My daughter didn’t fire back with
more angry words or try to win an argument. Instead, with quiet
wisdom, she simply said, “We can choose to disagree,” and left
it there.
When I read her message, I started thinking. As a Christ-
follower, what could I possibly say to someone who feels that way?
How do you respond when the hatred is so strong that even murder
seems justifiable?
And then it struck me: moments like these only add to the
heaviness we already carry. Many mornings, when my feet hit the
floor, I wonder, does what I do today even matter? The places I go,
the conversations I either have or avoid, the prayers I say… All
of it can feel so completely insignificant. Then I turn on the
news, and it’s more of the same: chaos, injustice, hostility. It’s
easy to believe that no matter how hard we try, nothing ever
changes. That creeping sense of powerlessness is what psychologists
call learned helplessness. It’s where repeated setbacks and constant
negativity convince us we have no control. Spiritually, it can kill
our hope, blunt our action, and silence our love.
*The Deepening Shadows
I wanted you to know that your responses to the Learned Help-
lessness Assessment, which many of you took last week (we will have
the full analysis for you next week), showed this clearly:
Most of us doubt that our daily actions make a difference.
Most of us are hesitant to step forward in faith, unsure that we
have anything worth offering.
Most of us regret, and sometimes feel shame, for what we didn’t do.
Thus, when another tragedy strikes—like the recent assassin-
ation of Charlie Kirk, a public figure killed while speaking on a
university campus—it doesn’t just add news items to our feed. It
feeds the fear that strong voices are silenced and that speaking or
trying to speak will make us targets more than instruments of love.
And then there’s the ugliness around the response: mocking,
celebrating, re-enacting violence, public shaming, online cruelty.
These acts of hate amplify the sense that the world is hostile,
that we’re already defeated before we begin.
*Why This Magnifies Helplessness
When we see that speaking out or showing faith might invite
ridicule, threats, or worse, the risk feels too high and many pull
back afraid of the cost. When we see people mock grief even at
memorials, what hope is there to show compassion? And this just
makes us feel isolated and silenced. The hatred we experience con-
vinces us that we’re alone in our convictions and as a result, we
begin to censor ourselves and shrink from our public demonstrations
of faith.
*What Faith Tells Us
Christian hope doesn’t deny the darkness. But it does insist
that love still matters. Especially when it feels like nothing else
does. Jesus didn’t say we’d be known by our outrage, our power, or
our arguments. He said, “By this everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:35).
The Apostle Paul reminds us that “Love does no harm to a
neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans
13:10.) He’s saying that even when institutions fail or society
turns toxic, we can choose love. But he knows it’s not easy, so he
encourages us, “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due
season we will reap, if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:9). The
results may not be immediate, but they are eternal.
*Known By Love in a Time of Hate
If we are to resist helplessness, we must reclaim our identity
as Christ’s followers, not as people defined by fear, retaliation,
or despair, but as people defined by love. In other words:
When others curse, we bless.
When others mock, we comfort.
When others spread hate, we sow peace.
This doesn’t mean ignoring injustice or staying silent. It means
our response is anchored in love, not poisoned by bitterness for
those who hate everything we believe in. Imagine the testimony if,
in the wake of violence and hatred, Christ-followers became more
known for their love than the world is known for its hate.
*Small Steps Toward Breakthrough
So, what can we do to move ourselves towards a spiritual break-
through? First, anchor yourself in Scripture. Remind yourself of
who you are. That you are chosen, loved and sent by God. Next,
commit to speaking kindness to someone who may least expect it. When
sharing your faith, witness honestly. Admit your fears. Community
can be built through vulnerability.
Finally, pray for those who celebrate hate knowing that God’s
love can transform even the hardest of hearts. Step by step we can
stand courageously for truth.
*A Vision: Redefining What We Are Known For
Let’s imagine the kind of people we want to be remembered as:
Not shrinking back when hatred shouts.
Not silenced because the cost seems too high.
People whose love is louder, because it holds fast when others let
go.
The world might remember acts of hatred first. But God remembers
acts of love. And one day, that memory will matter more.
*Response
This week, choose one small act of love, something that costs
you humility, vulnerability, or sacrifice. And after doing it, write
it down. Pray about what it means. Trust that even in the face of
tragedy, even when it seems like nothing shifts, this act is doing
more than you know.
*In it, to Kingdom win it!**
God's Love is free and faith is free but hatred is what you
choose to destroy the gift of God and everyone around you.
Conservatively,
John
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