I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
- John 15.5
There’s not much good news these days. And not only is the news not good, it’s downright appalling.
Just to give one example, consider the situation with the presidential election. Here we are, about six weeks after the election with the nation deeply divided about the winner. The establishment media have all proclaimed Joe Biden president-elect, yet there is substantial evidence that the election was stolen. But in spite of what is, in my own opinion, clear evidence of election fraud, the Trump legal team has gone from defeat to defeat. The latest loss, the refusal of the Supreme Court to hear the complaint by the Texas Attorney General against several other states for their failure to follow the constitution in their election procedures, suggests that there is little hope for Trump and his supporters to find redress for their grievances in the courts. The bottom line: at this point it appears that, come January, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.
As if this weren’t bad enough, there are several other pressing problems facing this nation, any one of which threatens serious destruction on its own. Taken together, the threats seem overwhelming.
For starters, we have the abject failure of many mayors, governors, district attorneys and police chiefs to do government’s most basic job: punish those who practice evil. For months we have witnessed destructive riots in some of our largest cities. Not only have those who have deliberately destroyed and stolen property and caused bodily harm to peaceful citizens not been punished, but those who have sought to defend themselves and their property from the aggressors have found themselves in legal trouble. In 2020 America, good is evil, and evil good.
The state of our nation’s finances continues to deteriorate. But the economic pain is not equally shared. In fact, while many ordinary Americans are struggling financially as a result of losing their jobs and business from government imposed Covid lockdowns, the wealth of billionaires has soared.
Wall Street is hitting records highs while Main Street struggles to pay the grocery bill. This is not the result of capitalism, as many socialists like to point out, but the result of the oceans of printed money by the Fed. Some observers have noted that about 23 percent of all US dollars were created just this year, 2020!
If all this weren’t bad enough, the federal budget deficit for 2020 hit a record $3.1 trillion. This means that the federal government overspent its tax revenues by over $3 trillion.
I doubt our culture has ever been more vulgar. Sexual deviants are celebrated and those who oppose them are silenced. Vulgar language and fornication are openly celebrated. Internet pornography runs rampant. Oh, and did I mention that transgenderism has attained sacred status and that even the mildest criticism of homosexuality is taken for blasphemy? If you don’t think men who claim they are women are awesome, and women who claim they are men must be believed and have praise heaped upon them, then you, my friend, are the one who has the problem. On the other hand, the man in the dress screaming at you for making the mistake of “misgendering” him? He is above criticism.
Lux Lucet 
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