When Hillary Clinton was seeking the presidency in 2016, she referred to a segment of the citizenry that objected to the so-called liberal agenda as “deplorables (that liberal agenda is now seen more clearly as a communist agenda expanded to include cultural communism). Communism is a socio-political-economic doctrine originating in the writings of Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; cultural communism was advanced in great detail by Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist, who expanded the Marxist “class struggle” to also being an intense struggle against all bourgeois values in every segment of society – education, family, entertainment, sports, etc.
This writer was delighted to be included in Hillary’s deplorable grouping, and in my published essays and in private communications, I enjoyed referring to myself as a “deplorable.” This term reminded me of a certain protestant group in England in the 17th century snidely being referred to as “Puritans.” The term was applied as a put-down of those who dared criticize the Church of England as being unbiblical in a variety of ways. Yet, when the Puritan group of Pilgrims came to the North American continent, faithfully trusting the Lord to meet their needs and hoping to establish a “city on a hill,” they did not know that the Lord would use their ...
