How Are You Likin' That "Build Back Better" Lie?

The article below is circulating on the internet and is well worth reading. Perhaps it's true and was actually written by "Miss Schaal." On the other hand, it reads like something out of Chicken Soup for the Soul, so perhaps it's apocryphal. At any rate, it's a real lesson in how dictators take over a country. We are well on the way to that terrifying reality in the U.S. under this wicked administration.

The article reminds me of James Clavell's chilling short novel, The Children's Story, about how Communists begin to indoctrinate a class of children after they win a war against the U.S. Will that happen here? Certainly China would be happy to be the tyrant country running things. They already are buying up our companies (Smithfield, AMC, GE appliance division, etc.) and land. China is the biggest foreign investor in U.S. real estate and, as of 2019, owned 191,000 acres of U.S. farmland. 

Sounds like a national security issue to me! 

Trump was putting the brakes on sale of our country to China during his administration. The Democrats, on the other hand, are in bed with the Chicoms, in some cases literally.

The country is in serious trouble, but we have a dumbed down citizenry many of whom don't know enough about the birds and bees to differentiate between a man and a woman. They're groomed for tyranny and, perhaps, as Bill Gates tells us, they'll love owning nothing, eating fake food, and being restricted to places to which they can walk or bike.

Welcome to the "build back better" banana republic of the Biden/Democrat tyranny: empty grocery store shelves, long lines for just about everything, drug deaths and suicides skyrocketing, proliferating mindless mandates, etc. And, of course, gas rising faster than a hot air balloon.

Time to fight if you aren't already. Begin by speaking the truth even when it brings persecution!

And now the story.

Subject: Great lesson

When I was a HS sophomore – decades ago! – my World History teacher was Mrs. Holloway, but we all called her Granny Holloway. She was a slight woman, scarcely 5 feet tall, seemingly fragile, but full of vim and vinegar….you know the type. She could speak for hours about the Fall of the Roman Empire, the Inquisition, the Industrial Revolution, and the World Wars. She never sat while she lectured, never stood at a lectern, but moved around the room making eye contact with all of her students. She was demanding too, and I can’t remember how many papers were sent back to me because she would note “you can do better than this, Miss Schaal.”

One day during class, an office aid interrupted her lecture to hand her a note. She read it silently, apologized, and said she needed to leave the room. We knew it had to be important because Granny Holloway stopped lectures for no one.

We sat in the room talking to one another when the door opened, and in walked Mrs. Abels, another teacher in our HS. She explained to us that Granny had been faced with an emergency, a serious one, and it was questionable if she would even be returning to finish out the semester. We were stunned. Would we get a chance to tell her goodbye? Would we get updates, so we would know she was ok? Mrs. Abels assured us that we need not worry, that Granny was safe but needed time away, and that the best thing we could do for her, and the best way we could show our devotion to her, was to be cooperative with her replacement. Mrs. Abels confirmed that she had been asked and had agreed to step in as Granny’s replacement.

Cheer up, she told us, this could be a good thing. Other teachers still believed in endless homework and projects with deadlines and hard work. She would not bring that into our class. She believed in clean slates. If there were grades that we did not like, she could give us a chance to bring them up. She asked us what suggestions we had to make the semester a better learning experience. Someone mentioned that lectures were boring and we wanted more films. Done, she said. Someone else mentioned that a free day now and then would help us if we needed to catch up on work in other classes. She didn’t see a problem with that. She asked us how we felt about an end-of-semester party. Um, yeah, sounded very good to us. And on and on. Mrs. Abels listened intently and agreed to all of our suggestions, continually emphasizing that her concern was that we have a good learning experience and enjoy the semester. She also reminded us that we were lucky to not be sent out to other classes where we would be working to catch up, and that of course this was all for Granny.

Near the end of the period, shortly before the bell rang, the door opened and Granny sauntered in with her usual Granny Holloway attitude. “How did they do?,” she asked. “Marvelous,” said Mrs. Abels. “They were completely in my hands.”

Granny then faced us and said “And that, my students, is how a dictator takes over a nation. Not with guns or tanks or laws or mandates. They do it using a poster child and promises and gifts and protection from an enemy.”

I can’t remember a lesson all through 12 years of public school that made such an impression on me, and has stayed with me.

We are among wolves in sheep clothing, many are being deceived with a false light! I was falling for it myself until the Lord opened my eyes to see and my ears to hear.

Stay awake! And buckle up. Put on the FULL armor of God, we are going to need it in the days to come, NO man is going to “Save the World”! Jesus Christ is the only Way, Truth and the Light!