Is it just coincidence that the Latin word “Dei” translates to the English word “God”? Or is the current drive to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in America also an attempt to eliminate God? Perhaps the goal is to crown new gods, represented by golden idols, for people to worship, obey, and sacrifice to.

It has happened before.

Far-fetched, you say? It can’t happen here? Is that what you think?

Really?

Well, then you may not have heard of the newest edict from the U.S. Department of State (including its overseas embassies), ordering its employees to report any instances of co-workers displaying “anti-Christian bias” — as part of its compliance with the newest executive order supporting those of Christian faith working in the federal government. [Robbie Gramer and Nahal Toosi, Politico, April 11, 2025.]

What constitutes “Christian” values is unclear, though presumably it is meant to denote support for right-wing ultra-conservatism, and not necessarily the elimination of other religions . . . yet.

According to an internal cable, DOS will be working with the Trump administration’s task force to gather information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration,” including collecting examples of such bias through anonymous employee report forms. [Id.]

My first thought was that Pavlik Morozov ** had come back to life and was working at the State Department.

** Pavlik Morozov was a 12-year-old Russian peasant boy — a charter member of the Young Pioneers branch of Stalin’s Komsomol (Communist Youth) — who became famous in 1932 for denouncing his own father to the Soviet authorities for allegedly selling favors to kulaks (wealthier peasants who resisted the collectivization of Russia’s farmlands). He also accused other peasants of hoarding their grain in order to protect it from seizure by the authorities. His father was imprisoned and ultimately executed. And for his misplaced loyalty, Pavlik himself was killed, just shy of his 14th birthday, by those he had turned against.

And I immediately saw this latest executive order for what it truly is: a poorly-disguised attempt to emulate the Stalinist regime of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, when co-workers, neighbors, friends, and even family members turned against each other in a frenzied race to be first to curry favor with the Kremlin . . . and to save their own skins.

And this is what our country — for nearly 250 years the shining example of democracy for the rest of the world, and a beacon of light to the downtrodden of every land — is being reduced to:

— Deportation, not only of illegal immigrants or those guilty of committing serious crimes while here, but of any and all who fail to meet newly-established, onerous standards, or dare to speak openly against administration policy;

— Exclusivity: the exclusion and punishment of all who do not fit a prescribed mold, reminiscent of Hitler’s vision of the so-called “Aryan” man: White, Anglo-Saxon, Christian . . . and straight;

— Intolerance, of any who do not live up to the standards of the autocrat who would be emperor.

And to accelerate the process, we — beginning with those who work in the federal government, at some universities, and even at major law firms — are not simply being encouraged, but actually ordered, to become a nation of snitches and sycophants.

Are we going to let it continue, buying into false promises and ignoring reality, until it is too late to reverse course? The Russians did, when they thought that even Bolshevism would be better than the reign of the Tsar; and the German people fell into the same trap when they took the word of a madman and his brown-shirted thugs.

Aren’t we smarter than that?

Please . . . we can’t let it happen here.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
4/15/25