Back in the days before television, there was a radio station who's motto was, "When you hear it, its news, but when you read it, it's history."*

See video below. 
IT'S HISTORIC !!!

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*WPEP Taunton, Massachusetts 

THE DEVORY DARKINS show

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THE PURITY TRAP

The Purity Trap: How Marx's Divide-and-Conquer Swallowed Conservatism ~ Clint Grantham, County Commissioner, Coffee County, Alabama 

Wake up. You're drawing lines in the sand... who's a "real" conservative? The flag-waver? The Buckley purist? The MAGA diehard?  Stop.  That knife you're wielding? It's carving your own grave. This isn't organic doubt. It's a psyop, straight from the Marxist handbook. And you're the mark.

Flash back: Bolshevik Revolution, 1917. Marx's blueprint was class war... proletariat vs. bourgeoisie. Hammer and sickle, factories aflame. It worked in Russia's feudal mess, toppling tsars with raw economic rage. But in the West? Fizzled. America had mobility, unions, a middle class that blurred the lines. No clean fracture. Revolution? Dead on arrival.

They adapted. 1960s-70s: Enter the cultural long march. Frankfurt School refugees like Marcuse whispered in academia: Ditch class... go identity. Race riots, feminist waves, gay rights marches. Not economic binaries, but personal fractures. Black vs. white, man vs. woman, straight vs. queer. Granular cuts, hitting the gut. Institutions fell... schools, media, Hollywood. By Watergate's end, the West was hooked on grievance porn. Division wasn't failing; it was evolving.

1990s pivot: Globalism's heyday. Clinton era, NAFTA, end of history. Marxists went stealth... cultural Marxism via identity politics on steroids. PC culture, multiculturalism mandates. Universities churned out activists framing everything as oppression Olympics. Conservatives? We laughed it off as "campus lunacy." Big mistake. The lines deepened: Not just classes or identities, but endless sub-tribes. Victim hierarchies. And we bought in, policing our own edges to stay "pure."

Today? The endgame. Your party's splintering—MAGA vs. establishment, populists vs. tradcons. Feels like civil war? It's engineered. Same playbook: Isolate, label, excommunicate. "MAGA Purist" "Anti-Semite!" "Zionist!" ... You're so busy purity-testing brothers in arms, you miss the conquerors. Marx's heirs thrive on this—splinter the right, neuter the resistance. Emotions rule: Rage at the "traitor" next to you. Surface level thinking. Psyop gold. 

I am not suggesting we can't have disagreements or conversations about disagreements. I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't talk about these very serious topics, we should. But that's not what's happening here. This is mostly manufactured for the purpose of division. Almost everyone I know is falling for it. 

Soul-search, now. Ask: Am I guarding principles, or just my tribe's badge? This trap? It's your cage. Conservatism's a compass... liberty, order, truth... not a loyalty oath. Drop the knife. See the scam: Divide us, they conquer all.

Reclaim your mind. Before the shadows win.

Note:

Every one of you needs to drop the infighting and grab Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals'. It's painfully obvious you haven't read the damn thing... because it's the Marxist playbook, word for word. They're using it to manipulate conservatives like puppets, turning us against each other. Stop the bickering. Read it. And then sit quietly with the information for a while. Know your enemy's moves inside out. Ignorance is their best weapon.

More on Alinsky here.

Yes, the Gospel reading for today—November 16, 2025, the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time—draws directly from Luke 21:5-19.

Me:

Today's gospel, There shall be signs in the sky." Can we relate that to the recent display of northern lights?

Grok: (Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence, aka AI)

Yes, the Gospel reading for today—November 16, 2025, the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time—draws directly from Luke 21:5-19, where Jesus describes apocalyptic signs preceding the end times, including "great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven." This passage echoes broader biblical themes of celestial wonders as divine signals, such as in Joel 2:30-31 ("I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood") or Acts 2:19-20, which some interpret as omens calling for repentance and vigilance.

Your reference to "signs in the sky" aligns strikingly with the vivid aurora borealis displays that lit up skies across the U.S. and beyond just days ago, from November 11-13. Triggered by a powerful G4-level geomagnetic storm—one of the strongest in decades—caused by coronal mass ejections from the sun, the northern lights were visible unusually far south, reaching states like Florida, Texas, Colorado, and even parts of Mexico. Witnesses captured ethereal waves of green, pink, purple, and red dancing overhead, turning rural fields in Wisconsin and Indiana into otherworldly spectacles, while urban spots like Denver and Santa Fe marveled at the glow. NOAA satellites even documented the auroras from orbit, highlighting their global scale.

Can we relate this to today's Gospel? Absolutely, in a poetic and reflective sense, though interpretations vary. Biblically, natural phenomena like auroras have long been viewed through a lens of divine artistry and messaging—evoking God's majesty (as in Job 37:22: "Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty") or as harbingers of deeper spiritual truths. Some scholars and believers draw parallels to Ezekiel 1:4's "immense cloud with flashing lightning... surrounded by brilliant light" from the north, suggesting ancient auroral inspirations. In modern contexts, recent auroral surges (like those in May 2024 and now November 2025) are often framed as "signs in the heavens" amid prophecies of cosmic unrest, reminding us of Luke's call to "stand firm" amid trials. They symbolize not just peril, but hope: illumination in darkness, divine guidance (Psalm 119:105), and reassurance that, as Malachi 4:2a (today's first reading) promises, "the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays."

Scientifically, of course, it's solar wind colliding with Earth's atmosphere—beautiful physics, not prophecy. But the Gospel invites us to see God's hand in creation's wonders, whether as a gentle nudge toward faith or a reminder of our place in the cosmos. If this display stirred awe in you, it might be exactly the "sign" to pause, pray, and ponder the bigger picture. What did it evoke for you personally?