90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Time Magazine now says white superheroes such as Superman and Batman have to go

It looks like we have officially gone from the crazy to the absurd.

The so-called “cancel culture” has already cost Cops and LivePD, had a 30-year-old episode of “The Golden Girls” removed because two of the characters were wearing mud masks, and went after a children’s television program called Paw Patrol.

Now, some people at Time Magazine, referred to as the “Woke Taliban” by John Nolte at Breitbart News says that make-believe superheroes, such as Batman and Superman have to go.

We are in the middle of a pandemic, with millions of people unemployed, we have criminal thugs destroying our cities, and shootings, murder and mayhem are running rampant, yet Time Magazine is concerned about superheroes. You cannot make this stuff up.

Time of course doesn’t want to eliminate ALL superheroes.

Only those who do not fit the agenda. Breitbart notes that such characters as Black Panther, Blade, and the Spider-Man stories, as long as they feature the black kid instead of Peter Parker are fine. It’s the white ones that are the issue.

Time made the following observations:

“In the past several weeks, as calls to defund the police have gone mainstream, pop culture critics and fans have been reconsidering how Hollywood heroizes cops.

Legal procedurals and shoot-em-up action movies have long presented a skewed perception of the justice system in America, in which the police are almost always positioned as the good guys.
These “good cop” narratives are rarely balanced out with stories of systemic racism in the criminal justice system. The “bad guys they pursue are often people of color, their characters undeveloped beyond their criminality.”

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“With a few notable exceptions (more on those later), most superhero stories start straight, white men who either function as an extension of a broken U.S. justice system or as vigilantes without any checks on their posers.

Usually, they have some sort of tentative relationship with the government: The Avengers work for...

I was once told if we’re not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time.

The more I’ve thought about this phrase, the more I believe it. There is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of life. Treason and treachery are rampant and our rule of law and those law enforcement professionals who uphold our laws are under the gun more than at any time in our nation’s history. These passionate 2 percent appear to be winning.

Despite there being countless good people trying to come to grips with everything else on their plates, our silent majority (the indifferent) can no longer be silent.

If the United States wants to survive the onslaught of socialism, if we are to continue to enjoy self-government and the liberty of our hard-fought freedoms, we have to understand there are two opposing forces: One is the “children of light” and the other is the “children of darkness.”

As I recently wrote, the art and exercise of self-governance require active participation by every American. I wasn’t kidding! And voting is only part of that active participation. Time and again, the silent majority have been overwhelmed by the “audacity and resolve” of small, well-organized, passionate groups. It’s now time for us, the silent majority (the indifferent), to demonstrate both.

The trials of our current times, like warfare, are immense and consequences severe and these seem inconquerable.

As a policewoman from Virginia told me, “People don’t feel safe in their homes and our police force is so demoralized we cannot function as we should. In my 23 years with my department, I have never seen morale so low.”

Another woman from Mississippi told me that we need our leaders to “drop a forceful hammer. People are losing patience. It simply must be stopped! Laws MUST be enforced … no one is above the law.”

Don’t fret. Through smart, positive actions of resolute citizen-patriots, we can prevail. Always keep in mind that our enemy (these dark forces) invariably have difficulties of which we are ignorant.

For most Americans, these forces appear to be strong. I sense they are desperate. I also sense that only a slight push on our part is all that is required to defeat these forces. How should that push come?

Prayers help and prayers matter, but action is also a remedy. Our law enforcement professionals, from the dispatcher to the detective and from the cop to the commissioner, are a line of defense against the corrupt and the criminal. It is how we remain (for now) in a state of relatively peaceful existence.

We must support them with all our being. They are not the enemy; they bring light to the darkness of night through their bravery and determination to do their jobs without fanfare and with tremendous sacrifice.

The silent majority (the indifferent) tend to go the way of those leading them. We are not map- or mind-readers; we are humans fraught with all the hopes and fears that flesh is heir to. We must not become lost in this battle. We must resoundingly follow our God-given common sense.

Seek the truth, fight for it in everything that is displayed before you. Don’t trust the fake news or false prophets; trust your instincts and your common sense. Those with a conscience know the difference between...