The dust isn’t settled, but we have a President-elect. As the country comes down from election campaign fever, the question is… now what? The Aftermath, brought to you online by Real Vision and a host of expert guests, will cut through the noise around the election and focus on the short and long-term impacts on your economy… your money… your investments… your life. You know, the s*it that actually matters.
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you online by Real Vision and a host of expert guests, will cut through the noise around the election and focus on the short and long-term impacts on your economy… your money… your investments… your life. You know, the s*it that actually matters.The dust isn’t settled, but we have a President-elect. As the country comes down from election campaign fever, the question is… now what? The Aftermath, brought to you online by Real Vision and a host of expert guests, will cut through the noise around the election and focus on the short and long-term impacts on your economy… your money… your investments… your life. You know, the s*it that actually matters.
Let's get into it all with some snippets taken from a far longer and detailed story the author writes about someone he names Evelyn:
". . .There are noturning points when the world is spinning out of control, so the Trump interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired August 31—displaced by the time you read this by a dozen more distractions and disasters—did not so much mark a new low as erase altogether the meaning of pre-Trump terms such as “new low.” Now there is only the abyss.We’re all in it together, and Trump is down here too. Which is why it’s worth pausing, as we rush toward November and the certain violence that will follow any outcome, to consider Trump’s words to Ingraham . . .
But something different is happening with Ingraham. He’s not insinuating that she knows whom he’s talking about—he’s insisting she doesn’t. It’s none of the usual suspects. Nobody and everybody, nameless and everywhere. When he glances away it’s as if only he can see them, an intimate moment not between Trump and Ingraham, but between Trump and his own mind. We’re witnessing a man cross a line. . .
Trump used to flirt with and feed morsels to evangelicalism’s spiritual warriors and the rabbit-holers of Q. That’s when they were distinct constituencies, the Christians and the crazies. Lately they’ve been merging, the theology of Q infecting evangelicalism, the organization of the Christian right incarnating Q’s digital power. Together they’re his base; his hope; and now, maybe, his identity. He’s no longer a con artist. Now he’s his own mark, like an email scammer who clicks on his own malware. He isn’t selling a dream, he’s dreaming it. The difference between him and his believers is that he has the power to make the dream real, for them, for him, for us. To summon into being the “American carnage” he nightmared at his inauguration, the cities he said were desolate now set ablaze; the killers in the street recast as heroes, with paramilitary backup; fear a daily given; the plague risen up from legend to fill the land with ghosts. This was his dream. Now we are all nightmaring it together. . . "
If you LOVE TRUMP, you’re receiving THE SIGNAL. If you FEAR HIM, fear he’ll never really BE GONE, you’re hearing it too.
EUREKA! If there's one thing that helps to explain almost everything happening here in Maricopa County, Arizona and America, this is it > Gnostic America with this image of a Trump supporter-QAnon believer speaking to a crowd outside the Maricopa County Recorder's Office when votes were being counted in the 2020 General Election
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It’s been two weeks since Trump lost the election to Biden. But he and his followers are still claiming victory. Jeff Sharlet, who has been covering the election for Vanity Fair, credits two Christian-adjacent ideas for these claims. The first is the so-called “prosperity gospel”: the notion that, among other things, positive thinking can manifest positive consequences. Even electoral victory in the face of electoral loss. But the problem with prosperity gospel, like day-and-date rapture prophecies, is that when its bets don’t pay off, it’s glaringly obvious.
As prosperity thinking loses its edge for Trump, another strain of fringe Christianity — dating back nearly two millennia — is flourishing. Jeff Sharlet says an ancient heresy, Gnosticism, can help us understand the unifying force of pseudo-intellectualism on the right. Sharlet explains how a gnostic emphasis on "hidden" truths has animated QAnon conspiracies and Trump’s base."
This is a segment from our November 20th, 2020 program,Believe It Or Not.
The postmodern move away from “logo-centric” communication toward phantasy, characteristic of the media revolution, fulfills the vision of Christianity’s oldest anti-Logos foes, the Gnostics. Modern progressivism, rooted in Social Gospel theology, “Religion of Humanity” ideas, and Hegel are direct descendants of a Medieval-Gnostic perversion of Christian theology.
Neo-evangelicalism, or “non-denominationalism,” has become the Christian wing of the New Age movement, finding more in common with ancient Gnosticism than orthodox Christianity. America is far from secular! Like Rome c. 325 AD, it is undergoing a spiritual revolution toward Gnosticism.
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Gnostic America: A Reading of Contemporary American Culture & Religion according to Christianity's Oldest Heresy
