This exceptionally rampant state of decay is nothing more than an indication of the loss of the previously shared sets of principles and values America was founded with. Over time, the moral foundation of American life and government has been cast aside and replaced by an age of irresponsibility and convenience.

Glenn Greenwald is making headlines on Fox News about the CIA dominating the American media. The other more significant part of the story is that the CIA is doing Russia’s bidding. That’s why the CIA’s role in facilitating the Russia-supplied dossier on President Trump is being covered-up by CIA Director Gina Haspel.

When I married my sweetheart 36 years ago, beards weren’t the fashion, but his was neat and trimmed, and when it started going grey, it went bye-bye.  He wasn’t covering up anything, there was a beautiful face underneath!

Over the years, and particularly after the 9/11 PsyOp and the popularization of the Internet, even the most gullible American citizen has suspected that there must be a secret reason why more often than not our government acts against the best interests of the American people, as well as helps our enemies and betrays our friends.

Joe Biden is the 47-year gift from hell that wants to keep on giving.  Don’t let him give anymore to America.  Vote for life, freedom, achievement, safety and a real future.  Vote for Trump.

It is common knowledge that the Cult of Woke has conquered academia except for STEM subjects. Its minions are hard at work finding “evidence” of “systemic racism” in those. The Cult of Woke has also conquered mainstream media, Big Tech, and large portions of the business world generally.

Time and again in every election we see politicians promise everything, and once elected deliver very little or nothing. Beth Van Duyne is a welcome exception and her past record clearly proves it. A person of impeccable integrity, Beth has always remained loyal to the values and wishes of her constituents and has not compromised them on the altar of political expediency so widely practiced by self-promoting politicians.

There is the Deep State, the Swamp, and what Biorseth calls the homosexual cabal now running the Catholic hierarchy. On November 3, they area all backing Biden for president. President Trump stands in the way of their grab for total power.

We have reached the point where we can no longer trust Government to “do the right thing.”  We must make our voices heard.  Thomas Jefferson said, “When the government fears the people there is liberty and when the people fear the government there is tyranny.” We are taking our grievances to the streets.

Communists have always liked to say you have to break eggs to make an omelet, although never in history did they ever get past the egg-breaking stage. But what we’re talking about here is breaking all the eggs. All of them. And depend on this: if they ever do get back into power, Democrats will change the rules so that they’ll never be turned out of power again.

But "The Steal" is not without its challenges for the Democrats because they know you can't overcome a landslide or even a significant win without being detected. Democrats know their best bet is to steal an election with narrow margins. It starts to become too obvious if the real margin too big.

Have you noticed that Joe Biden intends to open our borders to unlimited illegal and legal immigration?  Have you noticed what’s happening to our country, its quality of life, our culture, our cities and our language?  Have you noticed what’s happening to our children rioting and the rule of law?  Have you noticed the latest lootings and riots in Philadelphia?

Anyone paying attention knows that there will be a COVID-19 vaccine, and it will, for all intents and purposes, be mandated for all and distributed by the military. This is not news to most, however, the propaganda campaign has begun, and Facebook will assist the tyrants with censorship.

When the fourth estate carries the banner of one political ideology and weaves that ideology into every aspect of its reporting, it becomes an agenda-driven entity, working in collusion with the Democrat Party.  At that point the constitutional foundation of individual freedom is forever diminished, or silenced and is the Founding Father's worst nightmare come true.  In such event, totalitarian government cannot be far behind.

The DNC’s media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and all “mainstream” print and Internet) have done everything they can to cover for Joe Biden.  Tech giants are continuing to blatantly censor everything regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and the Biden crime family influence peddling over the decades.

Today, candidate Biden pledges to reopen the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) mission in Washington, D.C.And he vows, incomprehensibly, to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, in which the arch-terrorist state in the entire world has vowed to exterminate the State of Israel.

All this led up to my bad behavior in the presence of Rev. Erwin Lutzer.  I am so sorry for my conduct that evening so long ago, but hopefully this explanation will bring some understanding about my behavior that night.  Again, I deeply apologize to you Rev. Lutzer.  If I lived in or near Chicago, I would be attending your church.  You are a minister/pastor that all servants of God should emulate.

Dr. Fauci and his gang of complicit experts, along with democratic socialists and the communist mainstream media have labored to instill fear in America, to mask us into infinity and to destroy the man who loves America and her people and gave up a life of luxury to save his beloved country.

Investigator Chris Farrell asks why Barr fights Judicial Watch in virtually every Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records over the Obamagate coup plot. Farrell, who was banned by Fox for criticizing George Soros on the Lou Dobbs show, has also drawn attention to CIA director Gina Haspel’s role in Obamagate.

America has been bombarded with the finest in Soviet-style propaganda for longer than I’ve been alive.  Propaganda forced upon America’s school children cleverly dressed up as education while in fact, as Jeri Lynn Ball wrote in her thoroughly researched book, Masters of Seduction, public schools are the institutions transforming our people into the new Soviet man and woman.

The COVID-19 outbreak and the draconian global elitists worldwide shutdowns in response to it has many people talking about a ‘reset.’ There have been many resets in world history as a result of wars and bankrupt nations, such as in Europe after World War 2 and Yugoslavia after their nation Balkanized (split into separate nations).

Biden would give 23 to 25 million foreigners instant access to America’s welfare, food, medical, education and housing programs—instead of American citizens.  He would reward lawlessness with extraordinary benefits paid for by your tax dollars.

Writers at NewsWithViews have been staying atop current events.  I’m so grateful for the serious journalists and writers who endeavor to bring much needed data points and perspective.  Current events are moving so fast, everything I think of writing is already replaced with the next thing.

My heart is very grieved for the younger generation.  I see so many that are so angry — and even filled with rage.  So many living in anguish, confusion, and fear.  Our children and young adults are being fed lies by just about every institution in our nation, and there are ravenous wolves out there, hungry for the hearts, minds, blood and souls of our young people.

I am going to do everything I can to impress upon you the importance of this election and the importance of voting in person.  Democrats are going to do everything they can to steal this election.  The only way they will be able to win is with voter fraud and they are experts at it.  They drive vans full of illegals from district to district to vote as many times as they can.

Too many of us talk but are not understood.  We say a word with total assurance that listeners understand because we know what we’re saying.  But the NEW NOW and the abbreviations so popular in text messages have, with no one’s permission or acceptance, changed the interpretation of many words.

The Deep State usually refers to a left-leaning entrenched bureaucracy, with whom I am familiar from my years in the Reagan administration.  My first awareness of its existence came from my reading Graham Allison's book, THE ESSENCE OF DECISION, in which he wrote about "the bureaucratic model" concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis...

Jo Biden’s view of energy and resources would be the ‘alternative world’ of windmills, solar, electric cars etc.… I’m assuming airplanes, trains, cars and trucks, carrying food, people and products would drive or fly on vegetable juice, be pulled by hot air balloons and electrical stations which are unaffordable and not set up.

Following the recent series of debates, the issue of child abortion has once again resurfaced. Continuing the usual trend of conservative rhetoric, the Republican party is, in speech and theory, opposed to abortion, promising to bring a swift end to the practice.

Joe and Hunter Biden should be in jail, but they are not. The corruption and influence peddling evidence is overwhelming and yet they are allowed to walk free.  The damning information is scuttled by social media and the mainstream news and hidden from view.  The questions about the corruption are never asked and the answers are never forthcoming.

Whether proven true or not, it is not debatable that Joe Biden has taken leave of his senses, especially by abandoning his Catholic roots. He has serious family problems that need his immediate attention. He must answer to the reports of Hunter Biden using access to his father to make business deals with China and Ukraine.

Now it’s over fifty years later: and the new CEO of the Sacramento Bee has a plan to tie his reporters’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get. And those reporters are horrified.

The Democrat’s V8 is running on all 8 cylinders. Not well but running. Their argument on climate is bad, stupid, and fraudulent, but it is getting votes because it is based on fear. The Dems have captured 5 to 10 percent of the Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016

Most patriot commentators predict that there will be widespread bloodshed and destruction by Anarchists after the election, regardless of the outcome. Be Prepared. The Cabal and their Communist supporters in the Democratic party have too much invested in the destruction of the American Constitution to quit now.

The final presidential debate is scheduled for Thursday night with moderator Kristen Welker, from NBC News. Welker’s objectivity has been called into question, particularly after she deleted her Twitter account which included anti-Trump tweets.

Therefore, this column represents most people in America. It represents our highest and best as human beings.  And I must share with you: we’re going to come through this tempest because we love America, even with its warts and shortfalls.  It’s our only home.  It’s not like we can move to Africa, India, China or Mexico for a better life.  All of us of every race, color and racial group need to come together.

Monday, the state Supreme Court also reversed a lower court's judgment in a lawsuit brought by the Legislature, saying "the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act is incompatible with the Constitution of our state, and therefore, executive orders issued under that act are of no continuing legal effect."

As a result, Biden was the strongest supporter of the United Nations in the entire Congress. He openly supports a New World Order, as articulated by George Soros, with NATO serving as front-line troops until the U.N. is strong enough to play the role of “global peacekeeper.”

Given the choice between the systemic corruption and hate-America mentality of the left and the burgeoning peace, prosperity and love-America administration of President Trump, pulling the right lever on November 3rd is a no-brainer!

Most of us have heard the unfolding story and revelation from the NY Post exposing Hunter Biden’s very compromised laptop that had been turned in by a repair shop owner because it had been left there with no payment. Seeing what was on it he turned it into the FBI and Giuliani.

Deaths from the China virus number more than 1 million worldwide. Deaths from abortion worldwide number 1 billion. Interestingly, the China virus problem has been used in many states to shut down churches and keep abortion clinics open as “essential businesses.” In effect, the China virus serves as a cover for mass murder and Christian persecution.

Eventually, some of these patriotic CIA A employees smelled a rat, and became whistle blowers, mostly by publishing books about the CIA’s mistakes or evil deeds. These are the cases of ex-CIA officers like Victor Marchetti,[7] Ralph McGehee,[8] Frank Snepp,[9] and a few others.

The destruction of our statues, the re-naming of buildings, streets, and even towns, and the burning of books to erase our history. All this is being done for two reasons, 1. To erase our culture, and 2. To push us until we won’t take any more and stand up – thus kicking off the civil war the Left has been pushing for over the past several years, since Ferguson.

Moving aside all the screeching and political cannibalism going on, for Democrats, below is your party’s agenda.  It’s vitally important Democrats and even independents who intend to vote for an obviously neurologically impaired candidate, Joseph Biden and his ‘sleep your way to the top’, VP pick, Kamala Harris, understand what you’re voting for.

After 47 years of lies, corruption and malfeasance, candidate for the presidency, Joe Biden continues to make a mockery of integrity, honesty and decency. He lies so much, he can’t tell the truth from a lie, and he can’t cover them up.  He sniffs little girls’ hair and fondles them.

But aside from the constitutionality of the Senate’s decision, there is another issue that has arisen from the appointment of Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court. This issue is whether the next President in office can appoint additional Justices to balance out the roster of Democratic and Republican Justices.

The deception polling game has blanketed the country with ‘Biden is way ahead’ and ‘It will take a miracle for Trump to win.’  Most of the media does and pollster gurus act like they are the 4th person of the trinity.

There is a reality the middle class needs to deal with:  You are the target of all of the attacks that have occurred since the Kennedy assassination.  The reason you are the target is that an oligarchy like communism, socialism or a monarchy requires a social order made up of two classes:  The elite and the workers.  These forms of government cannot function with a middle class that has upward mobility.

There was a time when Journalism was a sophisticated and respected occupation. Journalists were accurate, made sure the facts were straight and.... were highly respected. If a journalist was your guest at the dinner table, all the neighbors would talk about it. This would have meant you had arrived to have such an important guest at your table.

Gun sales in the U.S. are at all-time highs. There are people who will not give up their firearms without a fight. Some are Veterans with experience equal to and even surpassing that of anyone the federal government can send after them. (How do I know this? Personal correspondence.)

Remember who you are, return to who you really are, and remember what love really is.  Listen to your heart and the still small voice inside.  It will never leave you or abuse you. Your face, your identity, your voice and your life are important aspects of your ‘being.  You should be free to discover who you are.  Don’t let others dictate who that is.  Do not accept abnormality as normality.

If President Trump wins the November election, it will be a miracle. But miracles happen. Former Trump Campaign Deputy Chairman Rick Gates says the “Trump Factor” could be even bigger this year and that the projected “Blue Wave” could end up in ruins.

So, let us count our blessings. Because if we shifted the rest of the way into democracy things would be much worse economically and that would not be the worst of it. The worst would be that we would completely lose our God-given rights to life, liberty, and property.

Who cares that Trump talks real and calls things like they are?  Who cares he calls out criminals, liars and those who are playing the anti – American game?  Trump is the only known commodity for America this election that has proven his courage and brilliant leadership while standing for what is right, even while mostly standing alone.

Throughout the annals of the majority of history, mankind lived either under the brutality of kings or dictators who ruled with an iron fist ready to crush any attempts to seek personal advancement.  Just as tyrannical were backward tribes in Africa, North and south America and elsewhere.

Every major institution in America is under the control of Satan.  A nation clearly founded on Biblical principles has totally rejected them.  In fact, we are witnessing the trial of Amy Barrett before the US Senate where she is being charged with adhering to Biblical beliefs.  This is no longer permissible in this nation.

Recently a group of “pro-life evangelicals, some of them noted biblical scholars” (according to the Christian Post) endorsed abortion-happy Joe Biden for president. We are not given their names, nor told who has “noted” them as, ahem, “biblical scholars.” But we do know that Biden has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood: seems like funny company for “biblical scholars” to be keeping.

How much damage are we doing to Nature?  Today, 75 percent of all land has been severely altered by human actions along with 66 percent of the world’s marine environments.  I’ve reported that we kill 100 million sharks annually and have been since 1990.  Any thought about killing the whales and fish stocks via 20-mile-long drift nets behind massive trawlers?

One of those examples is that of Attorney Katherine Henry, who took on Michigan tyrant Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who likes to dictate at will. Katherine Henry simply reminded this said governor of her place by holding the US Constitution up as straight stick, if you will, in exposing the corruption of that of the crooked governor.

None of this would ever have happened if the American people were paying attention. The people erroneously think that they can live their lives in a protected bubble without regard to the immense power that government holds over them. The people’s total contribution and involvement to the Republic is to vote for the same guy or gal, every election cycle. Because of that, true representative government is dead.

Unbeknownst to the American public, almost since its very creation the CIA has actually been a dual organization. Like the two halves of the Viscount in Italo Calvino’s novel, one of them is the CIA that was the good CIA, allegedly created to protect the interests of the American people, the other one is the evil CIA, the one controlled by the bad guys.

A man called into Rush Limbaugh’s show the other day with an interesting take on why Basement Biden and the DNC are just going through the motions of campaigning and don’t give a damn how bad the ‘optics’ are that people are seeing.

One of those examples is that of Attorney Katherine Henry, who took on Michigan tyrant Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who likes to dictate at will. Katherine Henry simply reminded this said governor of her place by holding the US Constitution up as straight stick, if you will, in exposing the corruption of that of the crooked governor....

A large part of their plan is intensifying Americans’ fear of the Coronavirus, because that's how they entice the U.S. population to vote for their socialist puppets: they use fear and hopelessness.

As California Attorney General, Senator Kamala Harris actually authorized a raid on a pro-life journalist who exposed how abortion has led to the trafficking for profit of aborted baby parts. She has no children of her own but doesn’t want women or men to understand how the abortion industry is an evil institution that specializes in the destruction and sale of human life and human body parts.

A disaster of monumental proportions is likely to be ahead for our Country if we don’t take emergency action to get at least a reasonably honest election.  Not only the President’s seat, but also the entire US House, the Houses in the State Legislatures, one/third of the seats in the US Senate, and a proportional number of seats in the State Senates, are all at stake in the upcoming election.

Castro’s Cuba, Mao’s China, Stalin’s Russia, and the Chavez-Maduro wreckage of Venezuela were and are carefully managed to ensure the horrific magnitude of human suffering and death that are the inevitable results of a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist revolution are never seen on mainstream media.

According to Chinese Scientist and Whistleblower, Dr. Li Meng Yan COVID-19 was created in their lab as an ‘unrestricted bioweapon’. “The first thing is the [meat] market in Wuhan … is a smoke screen and this virus is not from nature,” Yan claimed.

Let us be reminded that we have invaluable allies on the ground in Iran. There are some 50 million Iranians who are the best hope of the world in that part of the world. These enlightened Iranians despise the Mullahs and have no animosity toward Israel or the United States. Most of these people are well-educated and smart and have broken away from the slavery and fraud of Islamism.

A Christian wife and mother with pro-family views, federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an example of how light can survive the darkness of America’s decent into demonic corruption so deep that it includes the dismemberment of live babies to harvest their body parts.

When the Founders walked out of Constitution Hall in 1789, a reporter asked Ben Franklin, “What kind of government have you formed for the colonies?” Franklin replied, “A constitutional republic…if you can keep it.” Our form of government possesses several flaws:  1. It requires an educated citizenry with the ability to think critically. We’re losing that in the United States with over 40 million functionally illiterate Americans and growing by millions of illiterate children in our inner cities.

If we want to save the America we grew up in we have to keep the Democrats out of office in 2020.  There was a prophecy given at the first of the year warning the Democrats that if they didn’t back off they would be decimated in November.  They have not backed off.  They have doubled and even tripled down on their efforts to remove Trump.

It’s going to turn the world upside down – you’ll be persecuted and hated of all men for His Names’ sake, it will cause the loss of worldly friendships and even in some cases the breakup of families.  It may cost you children, grandchildren, and some of your dearest loved ones.  Many of you understand and have experienced exactly what I’m talking about.

Do these bought-and-paid for goons not have parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings and friends who work in such businesses; who have spent blood, sweat, tears and often 25-hour days building such businesses; who depend on their work to pay their bills, care for their families?

She was allowed to interrupt, avoid answering numerous important questions, while sneering and mocking Pence with haughty expressions and eye rolling the entire debate.

So, did Biden's handlers screw up, or is it that they too believe in this so-called "plan" to improve our nation's policing operations?  I would venture to say that the Leftist morons who use a couple of chunks of dirt instead of brain cells to do their thinking - actually buy into this idiocy.

Life begins at conception, not at birth. This is a simple, precise fact. When we begin to move away from this very clear, moral law, that is when our rights are lost. And as we have seen, the rights of the unborn have been cast aside and are now at the mercy of the parents involved.

When people think about modern government school education, the name of the God hating John Dewey usually comes to mind.  Of course, it is true that Dewey had a lot to do with the overall decline in the quality of government schools.  But there are others who joined in the effort to literally destroy the quality of education.

In ancient days, a noble and just Persian king, Cyrus the Great, rescued tens of thousands of Jewish people from captivity in a foreign land and empowered them to return home and rebuild their sacred temple. By his action of freeing an entire people from captivity and restoring their rightful dignity and place in history, Cyrus the Great, the author of the First Code of Human Rights, cemented a bond of friendship between Jews and Persians.

I do not believe that there has ever been a more corrupt American politician than Hillary Clinton.  Her public life has been one slimy action after another.  The Demonic Left loves her.  There is no doubt in my mind that she is under control of very dark forces.  Spiritual forces…Demonic forces…gate of hell forces.  Hillary Clinton is a child of the Devil.

Never have SO many E-mails dropped into my mailbox from readers not only in the USA, but all over the world.  It shows the reach of NWV around the globe.  You might want to understand that the same immigration invasion dilemma occurs in Canada, Australia and Europe.  It’s unending and growing.

The media wanted him dead. But for many Trump supporters, the circumstances surrounding the nature and timing of his infection remain a mystery. They are, however, grateful that Trump is back in the White House, ready to fight for his presidency.

Time has propped up the likes of war criminal and pedophile Henry Kissinger, tyrants and mass murderers Adolph Hitler, Joesph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the treasonous foreign sodomite Barack Hussein Obama, as well as others.

Americans gave birth to freedom, tamed a continent and became the most powerful voice for peace on the planet. None are more generous than Americans, none more creative and industrious. Putting down a few violent nut cases should seem like child’s play, that is of course if Americans haven’t turned to jelly in their bellies.

This is a follow up to my October 5, 2020 column, Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis Came From a Research Tool which covered President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis.  At this time I am not convinced Trump has COVID-19.  How can that be? Because a PCR test was used, which in the case of COVID-19, is a defective product.

While the bikers will all be naked, they will have the good taste and professionalism to wear covid face masks. That is the only article of clothing required for this soiree. While public nudity is prohibited in Portland, call it a "protest" and it covers the riders in the buff.

In 1974, secret CFR agent Albert Wohlstetter, a professor at the University of Chicago and RAND analyst, wrote an article entitled “Is There a Strategic Arms Race?” in which he accused the CIA of systematically underestimating Soviet missile deployment in its National Intelligence Estimates. In his article, Wohlstetter claimed that the United States was allowing the Soviet Union to achieve military superiority.

Pray for our president and his entire family. Pray for his health, that God will touch and heal him quickly of this virus.  Pray for his strength to return.  And pray for his reelection.  We desperately need to keep Donald Trump in our White House for another four years.

The president’s life is still in danger and we know that many people, here and abroad, want him dead. Before it’s too late, we need to uncover what may turn out to be the most diabolical plot in American history. All of those involved in preparing the debate and the debate stage have to be identified and interrogated.

I find it very strange and convenient that so far only Republicans have allegedly come down with COVID-19 as a result of the debate or the Rose Garden reception for Supreme Court nominee, Barrett.  Despite shrieking  from the useful fools out there Trump “deserves it” for not wearing a face diaper at the debate...

But now, quite suddenly and quite chillingly, President Trump is in the hospital fighting Covid-19. Is this the Deep State’s last malevolent attempt to prevent his reelection…and to save themselves from Leavenworth? Sounds about right to me. I only hope the president has several private armed guards and a food taster!

As this series nears an ending, it portends the termination of the United States as a vibrant, viable and sustainable civilization.  Think India!  It too, faces unsolvable problems with irreversible consequences.  Closer to home, think Mexico.  Same nightmare!  Exponential growth cannot be sustained; it always leads to collapse of any civilization.

The physician treating President Trump and first lady Melania Trump, Conley has made some contradictory statements about when the president acquired the disease and was evasive about when Trump started receiving oxygen to help him breathe and avoid some of the lung damage from the China virus.

This is just scratching the surface of the kind of fraud we will see this year.  The Democrats are desperate to retake power in DC.  They are being exposed and if Trump gets another four years, they very well could see all their corruption become exposed.  I only have one thing to say to that, four more years, four more years, four more years.

Friends, what I’m saying is that if we expect to hear those words “Well done, thy good and faithful servant,” then we must prepare our hearts and minds now for persecution we cannot even imagine — because it WILL be worse than we think.  We must determine to lay down our lives for the Lord.

The China plague has infected the president of the United States and his wife, the First Lady, and our media focus on masks. Even worse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is claiming that smoking marijuana is a “therapy” for coronavirus.

Debates will still happen and Trump will win because he is the only one with real love for our country, God and freedom.  Most Americans want the ‘political rule book’ smashed in a million pieces.

The year 2020 has been one of great political testing for the American people. We have seen an alleged pandemic give way to the allowance of governmental “divinity.” And, following closely on its heels, is the recurring issue of racial discrimination and hatred.

After reading the first part of this two-part series on the coming break up of America, you’re probably heartsick or sick to your stomach.  You can feel the invasion quickening in every corner of the country.  It’s not your imagination, either.  This nation-destroying nightmare is happening to you, your friends and your state.

Have you looked around America lately? Do you even recognize the nation that you grew up in?  How could a nation founded on Christian principles so easily yield to the forces of darkness? How has THE CHURCH become so oblivious to what is going on around us?

In the Tuesday night presidential debate, Biden talked about the importance of the Supreme Court, saying, “The point is that the President also is opposed to Roe v. Wade. That’s on the ballot as well and the court…and so that’s also at stake right now.” It was clear from the context that Biden was making a pitch for the votes of those who support abortion on demand

Imagine how upset they’ll be if they lose the election in November. But as joyous an occasion as that would be, it won’t make them go away. Only several decades’ worth of long, hard work can possibly accomplish that. And even then we’ll need God’s blessing—because leftist politics is Original Sin at work.