A reader writes:

Watching the Biden “acceptance speech” is what put me over the edge.  All of Biden’s talk of “tolerance” and acceptance of conservatives, it’s just…not my experience.

Well. This past week, at my place of employment (a local university, dominated by liberals), my coworkers were fretting over the election, and I casually mentioned my concern of voter fraud among Democrats. I didn’t call anyone names, didn’t say ANYthing disrespectful, but when the conversation shifted to “Republican voter suppression” and then (of course, as it always does) to “black lives matter” and “systemic racism” I did register a very vanilla critique of BLM’s motives.

Two of my coworkers, (both women, both hard left feminists, one black, one loudly identifies as  “queer”) started shouting at me. Really shouting.  Telling me I was making them “unsafe.” One of them even told me my CROSS that I wear around my neck made her feel “unsafe.” I have had interactions with these two before that have not been pleasant, but this was taking it up a notch.

I was pretty upset by this interaction, but in the interest of being charitable I  chalked it up to election week stress, and went back to work, hoping to forget about it. Instead, I was greeted with a call from our HR office, and told that one of them had filed a complaint against me.

My punishment? Diversity training. Just me, no one else. I’ve been told I must be more “tolerant.” It starts next week. I could cry.

So you’ll forgive me if the presidents’ words ring hollow.

Yes, it’s starting all over — the things that I write about in Live Not By Lies. We are now seeing a quickening. It’s only going to get worse from here. A lot worse. Look:

This is wild. Facebook, Mailchimp, and now Eventbrite all de-platformed a pro-Trump march, labeling it “misinformation.”

Woke corporate power, colluding against “wrong think.” Remember when it was just Alex Jones? The slope, it is so slippery. https://t.co/QyoQygzvNm

— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) November 10, 2020

These kinds of headlines basically mirror the way authoritarian governments engage in censorship or repression of dissenting speech, without a transparent process or rule of law. pic.twitter.com/PVC355aHjK

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) November 11, 2020

Don’t you know that this is a sophisticated form of war? That this is how it’s going to be from now on for dissenters on the Right? You know who has seen this coming for a while: American citizens who grew up in the Soviet bloc. We need to listen to them and do what they tell us to do. This is a Kolakovic Moment for America.

To be clear, I am not one of those people who believe that this election is being stolen from Trump. I tend to disbelieve that, but I’m not 100 percent sure. What worries me is the attempt to silence dissent from the official story. Yet let’s be aware that we on the Right do ourselves no favor when we choose to believe things not because of evidence, but because it suits our ideological preferences.

A reader sent me this news that in the UK, Barclays bank decided to close the bank account of a Christian ministry because Barclays disagrees with its stance on homosexuality. Absent legislation to prevent this, we can expect the same thing to happen in the US, using the rationale of preventing “hate” — of LGBTs, of racial minorities, and the usual protected classes — and “misinformation.” If you disagree, it’s off to diversity training for you. Or you will lose access to the economy.

Please, read Live Not By Lies, and read it with your church friends and other small groups. Here is a link to the free study guide. 

My friends at the influential Issues, Etc. radio show forwarded me this letter from a listener:

Your book is having a huge impact!  I have friends reading your book who never ever read, and they’re buying copies for their friends and family.  One of my buddies said his sister is starting a small group Bible study and using your book.

The scales are falling from my Lutheran pastor’s eyes.