Revival

The age of Trump has crushed the extreme left’s utopian dreams – and the left has responded with pathological behavior.

Martin Gurri

By Dr. Jim Ferguson
The progressive socialist Democrats still refuse to take their medicine and abandon their unpopular policies. And as the truth comes out about the Schumer Shutdown, the sombrero just keeps getting bigger. The latest poll shows that 70% of Americans oppose the government shutdown and 65% say Democrats should accept the Republican’s “clean CR” (continuing resolution). After all, Schumer and Dems have always voted for CRs to keep the government open while budget negotiations are ongoing.

The problem for Schumer is that he’s in political trouble. The radical progressive socialist base that has taken over the Democrat party is demanding that Schumer oppose President Trump and Republicans on everything. “Schumer is watching the rise of Marxism in his state,” said Speaker Mike Johnson and has to prove himself to AOC and other leftists in the Democrat party.

Every year it’s the same Congressional budget drama and Americans are sick of the childish grandstanding. This time around, Dems want billions of additional spending for bizarre foreign aid projects, extension of Obamacare tax credits and illegal healthcare benefits which the Big Beautiful Bill had stopped. All the Democrat presidential candidates raised their hands in support of healthcare for illegals during the 2020 debate which became a reality during the odious Biden years. And the AI Schumer parody stated what all sane people know: the Democrats need illegals to vote for them and they are willing to buy those votes with healthcare.

The Dems say, “it’s not happening” (that millions of illegals are getting healthcare, as they fill up ERs). Or, “it happens, but it’s rare.” (Then why is the wait time for emergency evaluation so long?) And lastly, “it’s happening, but it’s for the best” (that Americans take on the responsibilities of the world).

I realize that the truth is hard to come by these days. Consequently, I recommend Ferguson’s axiom: “read widely, think carefully and sift everything through your own observations and common sense. This will bring you closer to the truth.”

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that all truth goes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as being self-evident. The legacy media and Democrats are ignoring, rejecting or trying to suppress the truth about the harm that 15 million illegals have caused our country. As President Trump told the United Nations, it is noble that the nations of the world help those less blessed. But bringing the problems and people of the world into America or Europe is a recipe for disaster. Trump was right, again.

In my life I’ve embraced many creeds. I was christened as a baby in the Presbyterian church and later confirmed. Then I went to college and became “so enlightened” that I didn’t need God. That foolishness continued in medical school where I was doing fine academically, but the rest of my life wasn’t working.

A Christian friend challenged me with logic, “Jim, since what you’re doing isn’t working, come to church with me.” That was a turning point for me and ushered in my revival. The Prodigal came to his senses, changed course, was saved and re-baptized. And in short order the Lord brought Becky into my life and the rest is history. I tell people I was elected, sprinkled, lost, found, saved, dunked and now I’m blessed with the “cord of three” (Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Frankly, I don’t know how people can survive without a spiritual perspective. To think that the universe of billions of galaxies just happened is utter foolishness, a concept the ancient Greeks called hubris. “But wait!” There is even more. The Creation extends to the quantum realm as well, which underpins all matter and energy from quarks to quasars.

I consider myself a devout Christian but no longer a denominational Christian. I was once a Methodist and admire the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. His Rule of Life: “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”

I now worship at Sevier Heights church. The sermons are thought provoking, the music is impactful and I love my Sunday School class. And each Sunday evening the church provides the 3rd largest college program in the country. Charlie Kirk would be proud. I went through a revival as a young adult and I hope others will find the Way, the Truth and the Life.

There have always been challenges to the faith. Charlie Kirk understood this in his campus ministry. Jesus and Paul understood that there would be consequences for returning to Jerusalem and challenging the elitist hierarchy. Similarly, President Trump challenged the Washington establishment and has suffered lawfare, vilification and two assassination attempts. There are encouraging signs that America is undergoing revival.

I began this essay by quoting Martin Gurri from his October 7 piece in the New York Post. Gurri said “We must resist the moral rot that has the left cheering for the death of its opponents.” In the piece Mr. Gurri wrote of the murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, children shot at Mass in a Minneapolis school, the insurance executive assassinated in Manhattan, illegals shot at an ICE facility, young Israeli employees gunned down in Washington and, of course, the murder of Charlie Kirk.

How quickly we forget these heinous crimes and the depraved who cheered these crimes from the sidelines of their pathetic lives. The Democrat party is full of these delusional, depraved psychos. It is no longer the party of your parents; that no longer exists.

Sometimes I feel my efforts are insufficient to oppose the scourge that has come upon our country. I live in and write this column in relative safety. Would I be so bold if faced with consequences like Charlie Kirk or President Trump? Granted, I am an average fish in a small pond and not a target. But we’ve seen how the lawfare of the government can destroy the lives of everyday citizens.

Like Hamas the modern progressive socialist Democrat party has embraced perverse ideology and has become delusional and dangerous. They must be defeated locally, statewide and nationally to protect citizens and communities. We must be courageous, vote and resist the devilish forces of evil.