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Paul Harvey – “If I were the Devil” appeared in his newspaper column in 1964:

If I Were the Devil If I were the Prince of Darkness I would want to engulf the whole earth in darkness.

I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree.

So I should set about however necessary, to take over the United States.

I would begin with a campaign of whispers.

With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whispers to you as I whispered to Eve, “Do as you please.”

To the young I would whisper “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that “man created God,” instead of the other way around. I would confide that “what is bad is good and what is good is square.”

In the ears of the young married I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be “extreme” in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct.

And the old I would teach to pray — to say after me — “Our father which are in Washington.”

Then I’d get organized.

I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull, uninteresting.

I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies, and vice-versa.

I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing, less work. Idle hands usually work for me.

I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could, I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction, I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions; let those run wild.

I’d designate an atheist to front for me before the highest courts and I’d get preachers to say, “She’s right.”

With flattery and promises of power I would get the courts to vote against God and in favor of pornography.

Thus I would evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, then from the Houses of Congress.

Then in his own churches I’d substitute psychology for religion and deify science.

If I were Satan I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg

And the symbol of Christmas a bottle.

If I were the Devil I’d take from those who have and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. Then my police state would force everybody back to work.

Then I would separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines and objectors in slave-labor camps.

If I were Satan I’d just keep doing what I’m doing and the whole world go to hell as sure as the Devil.

I’m back to posting my political views here. I welcome comments, be they with or against me.

My next post is an article commentator Paul Harvey published in 1964 as well on his radio show. Outlined as follows

“If I Were the Devil” is a form of social criticism, an essay that postulates what steps the devil might take in order to corrupt human civilization (and the United States in particular) and lead it down the path of darkness — before delivering the catch that all the steps listed are phenomena that are already taking place in the world today. It was written and popularized by national radio commentator and syndicated columnist Paul Harvey, who from the mid-1960s onwards featured it in both media many times over the course of his long career, periodically updating it to incorporate current trends:

The current hysteria over COVID 19, and the focus of our government, echos what I wrote in 2019 regarding the then measels outbreak. In fact pretty much everything published from the beginning and on is relevant to todays’ state of the union, but in spades. The idiot is in charge of the asylum, God help us!

The current hysteria over the current measles outbreaks has called for banning unvaccinated children from schools, public places & etc. What we don’t hear is a call to block the thousands of illegal aliens who break into this country every day. It’s a certainty that the vast majority or perhaps all of those illegals are un vaccinated. Just more of the double standard they’ve been spouting that illegals are more important to the left then American citizens and legal residents.

Are we on the brink of another Civil war? The left and the never Trumpers are bringing us precariously close. Conservatives are being accused of doing exactly what the left wing liberals are promoting. We suffered through 8 years of Obama, quietly waiting for the chance to elect a conservative minded, America loving President. We never dreamed of or stooped to the tactics the left is using in an attempt to remove our President and denigrate his supporters, while ignoring the crimes and transgressions committed by defeated Hillary. They call for and commit violence against us, saying we’re white supremacists, misogynists, anti LGBT, racist, and more, comparing us to Hitler, rationalizing said violence with hollow accusations of how evil we are without any facts to back those accusations up, pretending to know what we believe. They’re advocating physical confrontation and attacks on all conservatives especially on Republican Senators and Congressmen. Those calls are rationalized by rhetoric without any substantive proof of actuality, coming not only from those blinded by mainstream medias biased reporting but also from several elected officials of the Democratic party, without a single other party official calling them out! Donald Trump was duly elected while criminal Hillary was defeated, so goes the will of the American people. God hope for a red wave in November!

What are they afraid of, an America where we abide by the Constitution that has made our country a shining beacon of the free world for the past 242 years, or are they wanting us to be another Venezuela where socialism has failed miserably for the masses but those in power have all the power they crave and they’re craving power? Rationalized by claiming it’s too important to stop President Trump and his agenda and anything else they believe will gain them followers when nothing but the opposite is true. Look at the positive effect on our country since Trump took office, economy, jobs, our place as leader of the free world instead of just another country embracing socialism, etc.

Our youth has been indoctrinated by socialist and communist propaganda while those of us believing in American values relied on facts to prevail, however they haven’t. I pray “One Nation Under God, Indivisible with liberty and justice for all ” will survive.

Another issue no one seems to be talking about (via the Huffington Post):

According to the latest available data from the Centers for Disease Control, drug overdoses were responsible for 38,329 deaths in 2010, 30,006 of which were unintentional.That’s a rate of 105 every day.

In comparison, traffic accidents were responsible for 33,687 deaths in 2010. Firearms killed 31,672 people, and 26,852 died as a result of falling.

Here’s what the typical family is reading today:

(9/16/2013)Obamacare’s popularity – a mere 39-percent in a recent CNN – is on the decline. And over the weekend, the negative headlines kept piling in:

• WSB-TV (GA): Georgia Healthcare Company to Lay Off Over 100 Because of Obamacare
• Washington Free Beacon: Medicare Cuts, Obamacare Prompt Hospital Layoffs
• USA Today: Health law offers quandary for youths
• Forbes: Obama To Labor Unions With Multi-Employer Health Plans: Drop Dead

“Ohio health care premiums could increase 40 percent with ObamaCare” (Logan Daily News, 8/7/13)
“S.C. Health Insurance Rates Expected to Go Up 50-70%” (WLTX News, 8/5/13)
“In California … middle-income residents could see individual health premiums increase by an average of 30 percent” (Associated Press, 7/19/13)
“Obamacare in Georgia: Sticker shock” (Savannah Morning News Editorial, 8/1/13)
“National health care overhaul apt to push up costs” (Boston Globe, 7/17/13)
“Florida insurance officials: Rates will rise under Obamacare” (Associated Press, 7/30/13)
“State says Obamacare will force 72 percent increase in individual insurance plan rates” (Indianapolis Star, 7/19/13)

“The bottom line is we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money, it’s just the government doesn’t have it,” said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), “The government has a right, the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing – all these things.”

Over the 4th of July weekend, the city of Chicago had 74 people shot, 12 died. One of the shooting victims was a 5-year-old boy. There’s no ambiguity about that. What was that child’s name? What are any of their names? You don’t know because not only were the suspected shooters black, so were the victims. In the progressive media equation of what constitutes news, black on black crime – a tragic epidemic by any normal unit of measure – doesn’t rate.

To the progressive media, who set the narrative tone, a busty blonde being involved in a crime, either as victim or perp, trumps everything else. After that, it’s black victim with a white perpetrator. The list beyond that fades into insignificance.