A good friend had invited me for lunch in the lovely city of Benicia. After a delightful lunch and conversation, I knew I might not be back in this area for some time, as I leave for Italy for two weeks and then move to Wyoming. I determined to visit the State Capitol in Benicia. Vallejo, Benicia, and San Jose had all been state capitols of California before the present-day Sacramento for non-Californians.
As I entered, I noticed a loud tour guide I had talked with four years ago. I remembered our conversation had been tense. He was a young man, not particularly healthy, with a bit of traces of America’s war with obesity on him. But, he was pleasant enough, very genial and outgoing, or so it appeared. The thing about the truth is it’s like the effect hot water has on tea bags. Truth exposes the intellect and attitude of humans like hot water reveals the flavor of tea bags.
He was giving a tour to two young ladies, who were very attentive and appeared to be intently absorbing his pretty detailed overview of California history.
Sensing a likely confrontation and not having the time for it, I decided to avoid his group and explore on my own. Finally, on the third floor, he noticed me and, perhaps because he didn’t recognize me, invited me to join the group, to which I agreed.
Overhearing a few of his remarks, which were generally aimed at “White people are bad” about White immigration to California, and recognizing the Cultural Marxist roots of his thinking, I determined to tactfully drop facts that may cause him to rethink his beliefs.
It was disturbing that the two young ladies were drinking in the indoctrination and had their own misguided attitudes, but unsurprising, as cultural Marxist indoctrination is running wild in the Golden State.
We came to a mural of a tale told by Bret Harte, which I had found fascinating in the past. Little did I know I was to learn something new and that the peaceful atmosphere was about to come to an abrupt end.
The picture of the mural is below, and the caption is in this article.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipmoore/14044290378
The affable (so far) tour guide began discussing it and how the devil in Bret Harte’s tale told the JESUIT priest that the Spanish would be driven out of California by the fair-haired Saxons. Then he dropped a bombshell. “Bret Harte was a Jew,” he casually mentions. You can imagine the effect on my ears:). I’d read Twain, Harte, and other Western writers of the period with fascination, and never had I understood that Harte was a Jew! I expressed surprise, and not wanting to let the moment pass unprofitably since one good turn deserves another, I calmly mentioned, “How interesting, you know, few people know that Leon Trotsky was a Jew.”
This temporarily flummoxed the tour guide, and he immediately tried to challenge me, trying to say, “What does that have to do with Bret Harte.”
One of the young ladies adeptly defused it by saying, “It’s on the topic of famous people you didn’t know were Jews.”
However, this triggered the tour guide, who was beginning to spiral into a severe episode of cognitive dissonance.
The guide moved on to mention that the priest was a Jesuit, and I simply couldn’t help myself. I had to mention that Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was a Jew. The evidence that Loyola was a Jew appears in “The Plot against the Church” by Maurice Pinay and in many other places. Also, one only has to view the first Jesuit Pope, today’s Pope Francis, who is utterly corrupt, to understand that the Jesuit order is corrupted.
https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=pinay&book=plot2&story=jesuit
https://christogenea.org/system/files/resources/PlotAgainstTheChurchComplete.pdf
This remark came close to turning the guide berserk. He exploded, and one of the young ladies cheerfully said, “A duel, how exciting! ” They both sat down to listen to the fireworks. This fired up the motivated guide. For now, he felt he was defending the lady’s honor. He had no idea he was badly blinded. “You are a liar,” he bellowed, coming within inches of my face.
Nonplussed, I said, “What did I lie about?”
He had no answer, and I then went on to say, “Why are you so angry?”
He’s now breathing very heavily, and his face is very red as if he’s ready to fight. I hadn’t thought my tour would be this exciting.
I explained cognitive dissonance, which only made him angrier.
A few minutes later, he told me, “You are a conspiracy theorist, and you think the Jews run the world!” He was now breathing heavily and clearly quite angry. A little shocked, I was still quite calm, as I’ve watched this play out with hundreds of triggered indoctrinated types in the last ten years. It’s a skill millions of Americans need to acquire quickly if we are to persuade millions, and it comes, like all other skills, with practice.
He then storms off and says, “I don’t even talk to people like you,” to which I responded, “That’s because you’ve already lost; you cannot win a debate; you only have anger, emotions, and violence.” This stopped him in his tracks. He raged a bit more, and, finding he no longer had anything intelligent to say, only incoherent sputters and shouts, I offered my website card to the two young ladies, who, sadly, like too many young women, are easily impressed by misguided emotions and not by quiet logic, declined.
With that, I walked downstairs and encountered two White ladies (they could have been Jewish; one never knows, though they are genial listeners) who had to be over 70 and about to go upstairs.
They asked me how the upper floors were, and I told them, “A bit stormy; the tour guide just exploded when he heard some facts he didn’t like,”
Their eyes widened, and I gave a brief overview. Then I told the tour guide, who was in his 70s, far less arrogant, and a far better listener, what happened and gave him my card. I then departed.
We are facing a dire emergency when simple conversations threaten to explode into anger and mayhem with badly deceived people. But this tour guide and these young ladies aren’t alone. At least 100 million Americans think just like them.
