There's Something Happening Here...

It’s called a Color Revolution. We’re in one now. It was and is an idea and method used by the United States to cause political change in other countries. It is what amounts to the standard technique for promoting “regime change” in targeted nations that are a direct threat to the United States or one of our allies. It is no longer relegated to second or third world countries. It is currently being used here in the United States.

There are two primary organizations that disseminate the funds to various Regime Change projects: The International Republican Institute, affiliated with the Republican Party, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, affiliated with the Democrats. Both organizations carry out the same type of activities. In truth it accentuates the fact that on matters of changing the political dynamic of the rest of the world, there is a lot more bipartisanship in the US than people are inclined to think. It is interesting though to realize that an entity with political ideologies has essentially turned it on the United States itself to try and bring down conservativism and any other political ideology that now stands in its way of their ‘ideal’ 'woke' republic. I will note that although there is no specific evidence indicating that democrats are directly funding civil unrest it is clear they have not denounced them outright or in some cases denied they were even happening (Jerry Nadler). 

Actions once shared between Democrats and Republicans to achieve political ends in other countries for American interests are now been turned like weapons inward in a form of cannibalizing democracy on its own representatives and citizens (Matthew 7:1-2). Progressives fail to understand (especially from the lesson of the French Revolution) that the revolt will not stop with the intended victims. It will spread system-wide and engulf them also just as it did to Maximilien Robespierre in the FrenchRevolution in 1794.

Other non-government organizations (NGO) such as the Open Society Foundations invariably pump money into the latest Color Revolutions, for reasons that are often more commercial than strictly political.  We need only follow the money. After 9/11 regime change fever swept the foreign policy establishment or both Bush's and Obama's administrations, and anyone who even looked sideways at the US became a target. By the later portions of 2010s this had grown to include the conservative and libertarians in the US Government. By default, their supporters fell under that umbrella. This of course is still being supported by those that have a vested interest in the success of the Progressive political platform.

As a way to quickly brief one’s self on what a Color Revolution is I will refer you to Revolution techniques used on a large scale in the former Soviet Union in the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia or the 2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Hence the moniker ‘Color’. Color revolution movements generally became associated with a specific color as their symbol. Another resistance movement not identified by a color but using similar stratagems to cause regime change was the Arab Spring in the early 2010’s which led to, among other things, the Syrian Civil War.

Participants in a color revolution mostly use nonviolent resistance, also called civil resistance or disobedience. These of course always have the potential of escalating to violence or even death. In the case of BLM, it has done just that with the help of Antifa. Such methods as demonstrations, strikes and interventions have aimed to protest governments or organizations like police forces and paramilitary forces seen as corrupt and/or authoritarian. These protests are done under the guise of advocating for democracy even though they use socialist and fascist subterfuge. They built up strong socio-political pressure for change. In so doing they create or foment dissent. The color revolutions are notable for the important role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs: Open Society Foundations) and particularly student activists in organizing creative non-violent resistance.

The commonly understood pattern of a Color Revolution was outlined by Michael McFaul a Stanford academic who served as Ambassador to Russia in the Obama Administration. He identified these seven stages of successful Color Revolutions.

1) A semi-autocratic rather than fully autocratic regime

2) An unpopular incumbent

3) A united and organized opposition

4) Ability quickly to drive home the point voting results were false

5) Enough media to inform citizens about the claimed falsified vote

6) A political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest electoral fraud

7) Divisions among the regime’s coercive forces.

In most but not all cases, massive street-protests follow disputed elections or requests for fair elections and led to the resignation or overthrow of leaders regarded by their opponents as authoritarian or totalitarian. In truth the color revolutions tactics are Machiavellian. The irony is that most of the rest of the world recognized it was the United States that stirred this unrest. Now it is being used against us and the Chinese and Russians are aiding its spread through social media propaganda. Especially interference in elections. Just as the CIA has been complicit in overseas operations. The United States electorate is already in question and this will be a pretext to violence.

We should recognize that this is what is taking place in the United States as I type this on the eve of the 2020 election. There is more on the line here than who becomes the next president. Organizations like BLM and Antifa are keeping the unrest going until the election for reason. It is the reason the COVID-19 crisis was overhyped without the data to back it up. They know the media has a large swathe of people convinced that Trump will handedly lose to Biden. There is almost universal denial of the fact that rally after rally of pro-Trump supporters are turning out en masse just as they did in 2016. It again is being ignored by most media and the narrative that Trump is in a two-digit hole are being broadcast. All the polls show this.

Yet, there is a poll from the Cato Institute showing that large portions of the electorate are being coy and silent about who they will vote for (the silent majority) because they fear reprisal if the tell the truth. Unofficial polling and much of my own research leads me to conclude that this is shaping up to be similar to the 1968 election when Richard Nixon won on a campaign of 'law and order' after the late 1960’s erupted into a mass of protests and civil unrest. The same as we see now. Same as we saw in 2016. 

Amos 5:13 ~ "Therefore, the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil."

Yet this is not the 1960’s. People are far more radicalized. Some of the radicals of the 1960’s and 1970’s are involved with current unrest too like domestic terrorist Susan Rosenberg. She’s on the on the board of a company Thousand Currents group, which handles the intake of donations made to Black Lives Matter. Furthermore, Alicia Garza, one of three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter national organization, has repeatedly talked about how convicted cop killer and wanted domestic terrorist Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, is one of her main inspirations. This is the organization calling for defunding the police. One would think that this would be a blatant bias and immoral conflict of interests.

But we don’t care about the past in the United States do we?

As we’ve seen in the media, those protesting have an ideological agenda and might have college degrees, but it is clear they are far less educated. An even smaller percentage of them understand history and are aware enough to grasp what history teaches about violence. What it teaches about Revolution like that of the French and Maximilien Robespierre. I fear that because most have not been taught proper history many will zealously repeat it. The irony being that not once will they realize they are repeating history since they didn’t understand and study what it must teach them to begin with…or they wouldn’t have even revolted. All the signs for Revolution are manifesting themselves right now in society.

Proverbs 24:21-22 ~ Fear the LORD and the king, my son, and do not join with rebellious officials, for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?

Man's heart is inclined to violence (Mark 7:21). History has shown this ad nauseam. Every new generation thinks it's better than the last and believe this time will be different. This time they’ll get it right. It is that exact denial, arrogance and ignorance that propels the revolution. The only difference between many of the second and third world countries Color Revolutions and the United States is the people. Specifically, a heavily armed people. The sheer volume of arms at the disposal of the American Citizens that wish only to live in peace as the Constitution promises them. The ‘silent majority’ is also the ‘well-armed majority'.

That ‘well-armed majority' are now seeing radicalized politicians (political organizations) attempting to deny them their Constitutional rights. They see a large contingent of youth and radicalized educated elites/academics leading those youth into a fight against ‘the man’ or ‘the system’ that is ‘oppressing’ them. They view any that would support that law-abiding populace or any within that ‘law and order’ system to be their enemy. That includes the ‘silent well-armed majority’.

This is going to get ugly after the election (if not before). A Biden victory emboldens the radicalized elements because they've already received little reprisal or punishment for the rioting and violence we've already seen (Ecclesiastes 8:11). A Trump win reaffirms what the radicalized already believe about an authoritarian regime ruling over them which will be further aggravated by a belief the electorate was compromised. Either way, this is leading to a conflict. Just how bad remains to be seen. As a liberal friend said to me today, “Hopefully our better angels prevail.” I hope so too but the road we are on is a path to violence and war.

There’s something happening here…and what it is…is unfortunately perfectly clear. For whatever that's worth. What a Christian needs to take away from this is simple. God is sovereign. All things work out according to His overall plan.

Genesis 50:20 ~ You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

God providentially guided all the events of Joseph’s life and everyone else’s also. There are no stray events or rogue agents in God’s overall plan. Joseph chose not to respond in-kind or violently to his brother’s past events which had been intended to harm him but responded with tact and kindness like a true leader. The sequence of deceptions that causes this family so much suffering finally comes to an end when Joseph chooses not to take revenge on his brothers (lex talionis). In this short passage we are left with three takeaways leading into stormy November elections.  

(1) We need to leave all the righting of one's wrongs to God as best we can (Romans 12:19; 1 Thessalonian. 5:15; 1 Peter 4:19). 

(2) We need to see even in man’s malice that through God’s providence HE can even use violence to a righteous end. We need to do our best to not repay evil with evil but with forgiveness (Luke 6:27). 

(3) Not only should we attempt to forgive but we should show compassion when understanding is not possible. Ideally these are possible. Perhaps not probable but we should at least try to limit damage done. Retaliation or defense should be a means of last resort. See link below for may own local electorate being called into question.

(1) Memory Sticks Used to Program Philadelphia Voting Machines Were Stolen from Elections Warehouse-The Morning Call, Allentown PA