Our turn. †

The Left Has Been Running the West Into the Ground for 40 Years. Here's the Receipt. I wrote that Milei and Bukele exposed the empire of lies. A lot of you asked: whose empire? Who exactly built the system they're dismantling? Let's name it. When I say "the left," I don't mean a party. I mean an ideology that took over the institutions of the West and stopped needing elections to rule. Some of its members call themselves socialist. Some call themselves centrist. Some, like Macron, say they're "neither left nor right." Merkel was officially center-right. It doesn't matter. Look at what they do, not the label on the jersey. Here is what I call the left. Barack Obama and the Democratic establishment. Emmanuel Macron and the technocracy that runs France from the Inspection des Finances. The European Commission, which produces 10,000 pages of regulation and zero industrial champions. The international bureaucracies: the UN agencies, the WHO, the IMF of the austerity-for-thee era. The philanthropic billionaires who fund all of it, Bill Gates, one of the largest private funders of the WHO, and George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations have poured billions into progressive NGOs, activist networks and media projects around the world. And the professional class that lives off the machine: the NGOs, the think tanks, the consulting firms, the "experts." Different faces, one worldview. Here it is in one sentence: ordinary people can't be trusted, so a credentialed class must manage them. Everything flows from that. Start with September 11, 2001. That day, the West got the clearest warning in its history. Nineteen men, an ideology that openly declared war on our civilization, and 3,000 dead in the most powerful city on earth. The correct response was obvious. Name the enemy. Defend your borders. Defend your culture without apology. What did the left do in the two decades that followed? It decided the real danger was "Islamophobia." It spent twenty years explaining that the problem was us: our history, our foreign policy, our "lack of inclusion." It opened the doors wider. In Libya in 2011, the Obama administration and its European allies helped topple Gaddafi with no plan for the day after, turning the country into an open highway to Europe. In 2015, Merkel declared "we can do this," and over a million people entered Germany in a year with no vetting worth the name. In France, after Charlie Hebdo, after the Bataclan, after Nice, after Samuel Paty, the official response was candles, hashtags, and a lecture about "amalgame." 9/11 should have been the moment the West woke up. The left made sure it went back to sleep. The economic scam. For forty years, the left sold us the same idea: the state can spend without limit, debt doesn't matter, and every problem is solved with a new program, a new agency, a new tax. France is the laboratory. Public spending around 57% of GDP, the highest in the developed world. A debt over 3,000 billion euros. The highest taxes in Europe. And for what? Hospitals in crisis, schools collapsing in the PISA rankings, a police force that can't secure a train station. That's not a failure of the system. That is the system. The money doesn't disappear. It flows to the people who administer it. Every euro of "public action" employs a committee, a consultant, an NGO, a report. The poor never get richer. The managers of poverty do. Milei proved it in Argentina. The moment you cut the machine, inflation collapses. They told us it was impossible because their salaries depended on it being impossible. COVID: the full-scale stress test. If you want to see this class in action, look at 2020. In March, the French government told us masks were useless for the general public. A few months later, they were mandatory outdoors. We signed our own permission slips to leave our homes, like prisoners filling out forms for their guards. Schools closed. Small businesses died while Amazon had its best year ever. Children lost years of education and socialization. Health passes split society into two classes of citizens. In the United States, it came out that the CDC's school reopening guidance had been shaped with input from the teachers' unions. Not from pediatricians. From unions. And who was advising? A "Scientific Council" whose members appeared on TV every night and never paid a price for being wrong. Models predicting millions of deaths that never matched reality. Not one of them ever came back to say "we got it wrong, here's what we learned." These weren't experts. They were experts by title. A diploma, a prestigious institution, a position on a committee. Never a business built, never a product shipped, never a consequence suffered for a bad decision. Consulting firms: the metastasis. And when the experts by title don't know what to do, they call the experts by invoice. In 2021, the French state spent more than one billion euros on consulting firms. McKinsey was brought in to help organize the vaccination campaign. The pension reform, the housing benefit reform, the vaccination strategy: all passed through consulting decks. A French Senate inquiry called the phenomenon "tentacular," and the Paris financial prosecutor opened an investigation into McKinsey's tax situation. Think about what that means. A country with millions of civil servants, the most prestigious administrative schools in the world, and it outsources its thinking to 28-year-old analysts with a PowerPoint template. Steve Jobs saw this decades ago. He said consulting gives you a broad but paper-thin view of companies, like "a picture of a banana." You never own the result. You recommend, you invoice, you leave. If it works, you take credit. If it fails, it's the client's fault. Nassim Taleb gave it a name: no skin in the game. And that is the core disease of the entire system. The people who make the decisions never pay for the consequences. The politician who opened the borders lives in a gated neighborhood. The economist who defended endless debt has a tenured job. The consultant who designed the reform is already on the next mission. The philanthropist who funded the NGO pays no price when the policy blows up. The ones who pay are always the same: the worker, the shop owner, the farmer, the kid in a school where nobody teaches anymore. So what's the common thread? 9/11, uncontrolled immigration, endless debt, catastrophic COVID management, consulting firms running the state. These look like separate problems. They're not. They're five symptoms of the same disease: a class that governs without accountability, protected by titles instead of results, funded by money it didn't earn, and convinced it knows better than the people it rules. Every idea they push follows the same logic. More state, less individual responsibility. More managers, fewer builders. More guilt, less pride. And a civilization that stops building, stops defending itself and stops believing in itself has only one possible destination. The good news. Milei and Bukele proved the machine can be stopped. Not in fifty years. In two. Inflation can be crushed. Gangs can be crushed. Experts can be ignored. And the sky doesn't fall. The sky clears. The left's greatest power was never its ideas. It was the belief that there was no alternative. That belief is dead. Now it's our turn.

DOCTRINES OF DESTRUCTION Accept the Covenant of Life before the midnight cry is heard and the Day begins. The warnings are severe, the results are catastrophic for those that remain indoctrinated by a system. This is very much a salvation issue for the time that we are now in. "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:" —Isaiah 30:8 By the Sword, Famine, and Pestilence The prophets were instructed to write their warnings for a future generation. Their words were not only for ancient Israel, but for "the time to come." The same patterns that brought judgment upon Jerusalem remain as witnesses to every generation that follows. Throughout Scripture, God repeatedly identifies three judgments that follow covenant rebellion: the sword, the famine, and the pestilence. While many view these only as physical judgments, the prophets reveal something deeper. Before the sword entered the land, before famine consumed the harvest, before pestilence spread through the people, there was first a famine of truth. The outward judgments were manifestations of an inward corruption. Isaiah exposed the root of the problem: "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand..." —Isaiah 28:18 This covenant with death was not a political treaty. It was a spiritual condition. The people had embraced false assurances while rejecting God's warnings. They trusted lying prophets who promised peace when judgment was near. Rather than receiving correction, they desired messages that comforted the flesh. Isaiah continues: "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits." —Isaiah 30:9-10 The people did not accidentally fall into deception. They preferred it. The same accusation appears throughout Jeremiah. "They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine..." —Jeremiah 5:12 The false prophets denied that the judgment would touch them. They mocked the warnings and reassured the people that everything would be fine. God's response was severe: "Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them." —Jeremiah 5:14 Again Jeremiah records: "The prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place." —Jeremiah 14:13 The Lord answered: "The prophets prophesy lies in my name... By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed." —Jeremiah 14:15 Notice carefully what God is judging. The issue is not merely error. The issue is the deliberate replacement of truth with deception. False shepherds were leading God's people into spiritual darkness while claiming divine authority. This is why Amos gives one of the most profound warnings in Scripture: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." —Amos 8:11 A famine of truth precedes a famine of bread. When men refuse the Word of God, God eventually removes it. What follows is confusion, blindness, division, and ultimately judgment. Ezekiel confirms the pattern. "When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it..." —Ezekiel 14:13 Later the Lord names His four sore judgments: "The sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence." —Ezekiel 14:21 The pattern is unmistakable. Spiritual rebellion produces physical consequences. This same progression appears again in Revelation. The Black Horse is commonly viewed as economic collapse and food shortages. Certainly, literal famine will be included. Yet the prophets teach us that famine is never merely about food. Throughout Scripture, famine is consistently linked to rebellion against God's Word and the rise of false prophets. John sees a rider holding balances in his hand. Balances measure scarcity. Weights indicate rationing. Something valuable has become difficult to obtain. The Black Horse represents not only a scarcity of food, but a scarcity of truth. We live in an age overflowing with religious voices. Prophecies multiply daily. Teachers abound. Information is limitless. Pride is at the forefront, it becomes their destruction. “For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak. Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be” —Psalm 59:12-13 Yet genuine truth appears increasingly rare. Paul warned that before the revelation of the man of sin there would come a great falling away. The apostasy is not the world acting like the world. The apostasy is truth being abandoned within the visible house of God. Jesus repeatedly warned His disciples concerning deception. More than war. More than famine. More than persecution. More than death. His continual warning was: "Take heed that no man deceive you." The greatest danger of the last days is not simply outward persecution, but inward corruption. This explains why judgment begins at the house of God. The warnings of Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Amos were directed primarily toward God's people and their leaders. The false prophets assured everyone that they were safe and would escape while the nation moved steadily toward destruction. The same spirit remains today. Many teach peace without repentance. Blessing without holiness. Salvation without surrender. Kingdom without judgment. Escape without righteousness. Removal without devotion. They comfort those whom God is calling to awaken, they teach escape through removal, that the coming judgments shall not come near them. Yet the Lord declares that every covenant with death will fail, and every agreement with hell shall not stand. Every lie will be exposed. Every false shepherd will be judged. The sword, famine, and pestilence that follow are not random acts of wrath. They are the fruit of generations that rejected truth. Yet there is another side to the prophecy. In the middle of the Black Horse judgment comes a remarkable command: "See thou hurt not the oil and the wine." Judgment is limited. A boundary is established. God preserves what belongs to Him. Throughout Scripture, while judgment falls upon the rebellious, the remnant is protected. Noah was preserved. Lot was removed. Elijah was fed during famine. The faithful in Jerusalem survived. The woman in the wilderness is nourished. The pattern never changes. Even in Ezekiel's prophecy, after announcing sword, famine, pestilence, and beasts, God immediately speaks of a remnant that remains. The oil and the wine cannot be touched. Though the famine of truth spreads across the land, God continues feeding His people. Though false shepherds multiply, the Good Shepherd still speaks. Though deception increases, His sheep still hear His voice. This is the significance of the call: "Come out of her, my people." God has always separated His remnant from the systems He is preparing to judge. The wilderness is not merely a place. It is a condition of dependence upon God alone. There He becomes their teacher. There human traditions lose their authority. There false shepherds lose their influence. There the remnant learns to hear His voice directly through His Word. The world enters a famine of truth. The remnant is fed. The world trusts false prophets. The remnant follows the Shepherd. The world embraces a covenant with death. The remnant abides in the covenant of life. The message of the prophets has never changed. The greatest danger before judgment is deception. And the greatest protection during judgment is truth. Therefore let every believer examine what voice he is following. For the sword, famine, and pestilence do not begin with a lack of bread. They begin with a rejection of the Word of God. The Black Horse rides because truth has become scarce. The Pale Horse follows because judgment has arrived. But the oil and the wine remain untouched. For the Lord knows those who are His, and even in the darkest hour He continues gathering, feeding, and preserving His remnant.

There are people out there that know full well what's going to happen in this world long before it actually happens. And I think they're laughing at us because we can't see what's coming until after it's already here. They want you trapped and scared, so you'll never try to escape.