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MagAmericans.com - Seeing Through the Weeds
Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light?
Can you? It gets harder every day. Sometimes the arrows seem to blot out the sun
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We aren’t all in the trenches and we may not fight for the same reasons. What is important is that we fight together for the same results.
Have you ever noticed the common theme in movies where there is a team of heroes? Whenever they fight the villain, they often attack separately first. The villain is always able to easily fight them off. Then once they get organized and work together, they are victorious. Why do we as patriot movements seem to have such a hard time learning that lesson?
Even the hardest wood splinters.
So there is some drama behind the walls of the D.C. Gulag. Fights between prisoners. Accusations and insults are flying. Wood is splintering.
Sadly wars within movements are something I know a bit about and, once again infighting is damaging a movement I care about. One that is doing important work and finally beginning to gain real traction. And as we often times forget, that is when the demons take notice and begin attacking. We often raise our hands in victory just as a flurry of punches is on its way in to batter us. Pride comes before the fall. Never raise your hands until the battle is won. Seeing Through The Weeds
We should expect turbulence to occur just as success starts to surface.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
As a movement no real attention should be spent on this fight. There is no way to win. For splintered leadership to dedicate their missions’ efforts to this soap opera is a waste of time and will only feed into the division and poison what they have worked so hard to help build.
As a movement we must turn from this sideshow. It will not help us achieve our goals. It will not bring anyone closer together, quite the contrary. The splinters it creates will become infected and poison the movement from the inside. Which is the only way our enemies can win. The whole thing is unfortunate, and I am not saying it doesn’t matter. That these men as individuals do not matter. That their struggles do not matter. Of course they do. However, as a movement this should not hold our focus. It is a fruitless tree.
How can we expect to win the race if we don’t stay focused on the destination? The patriot movement seems easily distracted and easily divided. You can’t win a race that way. You can’t even set a pace that way. Off ramps of drama or background noise only take away from the mission and prevent us from ever being able to win the race. Constantly slowing down and speeding up, patriot movements have no real consistency. We are thrown offtrack to easily.
We must be stronger than this. We have to understand, this is war, and it is ugly. This is a pod in a jail full of strong patriotic men. There will be fights. It is an ugly reality. Someone is going to get punched in the face eventually. Probably a few times. As individuals and as Christians we should care about that situation. However, as a movement, especially one engaged in such a bitter battle for the very soul of our country. One that is finally gaining major traction. We cannot allow ourselves to be weakened or splintered because of circumstances out of our control, that have no way of truly being verified. Which leaves room in the equation for emotions to take you to your decision rather than facts alone. That often ends in a bad place. People will never agree on emotions but facts are things we can gather around and rely on. Choices made based on emotions always allow division. Always.
These men have no time for our bickering and fighting, no time for our hurt feelings. They suffer as we exchange petty arrows with each other. Our enemies know we cannot aim at two targets at once. If our leadership’s focus turns inward, so will the people who follow them. Soon the movement will begin to eat itself.
Patriots are falling all around us and we stand bickering with each other about things that should not surprise us, nor command us. These men had their liberty stolen from them. They are under more stress than they have ever been under. Men who miss their families, who miss their lives. Who have watch the world around them crumble away. Men who are forced to live in horrid conditions and worry about their safety, their health, and their sanity. Of course there will be violence. It isn’t right, but it is the reality. We reluctantly acknowledge it and denounce it without picking sides. We cannot turn the full focus of the mission, not even for one day, to the J6 pod soap opera. It isn’t important to the mission. Leadership must turn the movement’s focus back where it should be and not on this division. Leaders should not be engaging in a fight in the town square with each other.
Ask yourself, what would our enemies want? Public infighting and name calling would be on the list.
Leadership should then re-focus on how to best utilize all of the followers and volunteers. Spend not one more minute addressing this drama as a movement. Allow 3-4 people to peel off and follow the story, helping if possible and reporting back to the leadership. If action or a position must be taken, it will be taken after leadership has had time to discern and come to a measured conclusion.
This allows the leadership to keep the movement effective. Effective movements attract negative attention. Leeches, traitors, and agitators will come to see if they can pick anything from our bones. We must expect it. We can easily defend against it, yet we seem to take the hate bait every time.
We cannot get wrapped up into believing that we have to agree on every issue with the people we patriot with. We will always find wedges. Real or manufactured. We must deal with the real ones and we must defend against the manufactured ones. We cannot continue to drink from every tricky cup that the devil serves up. We weaken the movement. We split resources and help silence our own collective voices.
Anyone in leadership that supports that sort of thing should be purged for insubordination. We are supposed to work for the better of the organization. Not for ourselves.
Taking sides, no matter which, in a fight that we have no way of confirming the details on is dangerous and possibly deadly to a movement. Leadership cannot guide the movement based on how people feel about each other personally.
Everyone is so unwilling to say they don’t know. I do not know, nor do I have any way of confirming exactly what happened behind those D.C. Gulag walls. So I do something that we are taught not to do. I reserve judgement, sometimes indefinitely. I take no personal position because the movement is not a personal thing, it must be a professional thing. It must be run with discernment and choices must be measured. We cannot have our supporters wake up one morning to see an explosion of division and arrows being shot at each other by leadership. That suggests volatility and a movement built on sand rather than on rock.
It is easier to come to a conclusion using emotions than it is using facts. You often have to gather the facts, but you already have the emotions. Why do the work when you can make your choices based on your emotions, and you can validate your choice with those same emotions?
Every rumor, every lie, every scandal will be effective. Every arrow fired at us will find its target. They will do damage and once they do, they will increase in intensity until there are too many to defend against. They seem to blot out the sun. Hiding the path and causing our ranks to panic and make their own choices based on emotion. At that point, the movement may still stand, but it will no longer be effective. It will have been neutered. I’ve been there. I’ve seen it happen.
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