When Pascendi Dominici Gregis was written in 1907, it wasn’t merely diagnosing a heresy of the Christian faith—it was exposing a method, a system, of control. Modernism was never just about ideas; it was about infiltration, dissemination, and the weaponization of trust. It was propaganda before propaganda made its name in the current political zeitgeist and before novels like Fahrenheit 451 finally started making sense to high school English students. Its genius lay in training people to confuse reform with repentance.

That confusion is still alive today, most visibly in America’s political theater, where we stage elections not to restore integrity, but to filibuster our own consciences.

And that, perhaps, is the most chilling thing about reading Pascendi today–it shouldn’t apply as well as it does, considering it was written by a pope.

Because when Pascendi warned that Modernists scatter, though not always openly, the seeds of their doctrines, it was perhaps unwittingly describing not merely the Catholic seminaries of its day–but the media state both then and now. What was once whispered in the corridors of theology now echoes through every corporate newsroom, university, and government agency. It was even at that time. The techniques–the systems–that once corrupted seminaries have been steering nations, particularly America, for a long, long time.

See my ongoing work on Pascendi and Modernism, most of which can be found here.

America and Elections

In both Church and State, Modernism’s genius lay not in its open rebellion, but in its subtle masquerade of reform. It never sought to burn Rome; it sought to update her. The same thing is happening in America today–especially in what we call “Conservatism.”

Modernism rebrands the supernatural as symbolic, the miraculous as metaphorical, the authoritative as advisory. Politically, it compromises the moral with false handshakes and continues the futile fight over what we deem “more important” for running a nation–like the economy. The same spirit whispers that truth is ever “evolving,” that progress demands new dogmas, new laws to protect us, that even language must be redefined for the sake of “inclusion.”

The Democrats are doing it as we speak:

The Democratic sweep on Tuesday night delivered a forceful signal that backlash is building against the Trump administration’s policies.

Many voters also sent another message: They’re done with Bidenism.

After the failure of a presidency that promised a return to normalcy, Democrats and plenty of independent voters on Tuesday embraced political disruption instead. Rather than voting to restore conventions sundered by President Donald Trump, these blue-state voters turned to more drastic remedies.

I will not take the position of a Republican pointing the finger at Democrats here, because all of this–all of it–is part of the system itself. The false binary is the technique. It exists to make people “on our side” think Democrats are the only enemy.

The Modernist has become the bureaucrats–working together from both sides.

And the Church, terrified of appearing “irrelevant,” learned to lie like the world, so even well-meaning Christians cannot see what deceptions–spiritual in soul but masking as political–are destroying the individual, the family, and society itself.

Jon Herold had this to say:

Filibuster or not, I have a hard time believing that our “elected” officials are going to be the ones who end up actually fixing the fraudulent election system of which they are the primary beneficiaries.

And Chris Paul in the same brief:

Funny how so many ostensibly patriotic and truth-seeking people are upset this morning because Trump, Q, and the military have not yet saved us while preserving the system. (“We were promised a savior!” they cry, while god-posting.)

If we refuse to learn the lessons, we are asking to get the hose again and again and again.

If we are allowing our power to be conferred to corrupt and compromised, degenerate, Scientific Materialists on the basis of these (knowingly!) fake elections, we will only get the hose forever.

When will we recognize that the unwavering commitment to legitimizing the system’s authority through these self-deluding psyops IS THE PROBLEM?

At least, for honesty’s sake, admit you’re a Statist, and therefore on the left, so we can begin an honest discussion rather than maintain this farce.

Donald Trump himself continues to yell from the rooftops on unlawful and rigged elections–and his supporters believe him. The question should be obvious: why are we trusting or even participating in any election, and worse, squabbling over the results the next morning, if our initial premise is a distrust of said elections?

I believe this must be one adjacent point both Paul and Herold–still 100 percent Trump supporters–would agree with.

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Pascendi‘s description of Modernist propagandism becomes almost prophetic. It speaks of men seizing chairs in seminaries and universities, publishing under false names, flooding the world with articles and reviews to create a conspiracy of silence around anyone who resisted them. Substitute “seminaries” for “search engines,” and “reviews” for “fact-checkers,” and the 1907 encyclical reads like a twenty-first century press briefing–or a small-time blogger just trying to get people to step back and squint their eyes a bit.

The Modernists of that day called it progress.

We today call it the algorithm.

We call it clicks and likes and consensus.

Democracy!

The effect of both time periods–of every time period in which this world government in the shadows holds sway–is identical: silence the orthodox, create and amplify the approved, and baptize the entire process as “scientific” or “democratic.”

Because you all get a vote!

Is it any wonder that both the Right and Left now bow to the same idol of data “integrity”–while the data itself is compromised at the source? It’s a classic case of arguing a false premise. As I’ve written before, we’re no longer dealing with traditional corruption; we’re dealing with an algorithmic counterfeit of discernment. Thought itself is being controlled.

That’s why I am constantly reevaluating every single thing I believe–including my Traditional Catholic Faith as opposed to Novus Ordo beliefs–because no one knows how far, or how deep, the corruption, the system, the techniques go.

Propaganda has gone digital, predictive, and total.

And yet the same people who claim to be fighting this machine continue to serve it.

Am I serving it by writing this very article?

Hm.

Because I am a product of the Modernist mind virus after all–a Modernist system of thinking that should be on trial with every single human being alive.

Whether I’m in the right or wrong–or neither–I write to get people to ask questions, to get serious about the authentically serious things of life.

Because the real and most important filibuster isn’t in Congress, regardless of what Trump says.

It’s in the human conscience.

It’s the delay tactic of a civilization refusing to repent while pretending to reform.

For a long time, I thought Trump and the powers that be miiight be taking us through the darkness of that long process of realization. Some people still believe he is. I myself have chosen to focus on seemingly “other topics” that aren’t other topics at all.

Pascendi proves that.

Because no matter what the truth on Trump is, there is zero question God is revealing–yes, even through the comical world of politics–everything we need to know.