>> As a reminder, please join us in our [daily Rosary Novena](https://2020nationalnovena.com/optin1598968688164). >> *[Church Militant](https://www.churchmilitantaction.org/) (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary.* If you also seek the truth, then please consider joining Church Militant today by supporting our work. Sign up for a [Church Militant Premium account](https://www.churchmilitant.com/gopremium) or simply [make a donation](https://www.churchmilitant.com/donate). And now, let's begin with today's Vortex... >> **It's been on this track for the past century-plus.** >> A stolen election, an unelected leader, a cultural collapse, a declining population, a falling away from faith, a growing embrace of socialism (even if there is a small dip in its approval, this is America and that even 30% would accept it speaks volumes), and a rejection and smearing of patriotism as evil: These are the hallmarks of today's America, and there is not one sign of hope among any of it. >> Every one of those speaks to a destruction of Christian — and specifically Catholic — values. How did this happen? How did Marxism makes such inroads in such a short amount of time into the culture and essentially destroy it? >> Marxism is a system of government that, at its core, replaces God with the State. For all its lies about equal citizenship and everyone being the same, that's all baloney. Marxism merely shifts the ruling dynamic from a God-centered worldview to an elitist-centered worldview. >> Someone has to be in charge. That's how humanity works. It's actually how the entire universe works. There are governing principles and governing institutions, all of which ensure order. The goal of Marxism is to shift all of that (not destroy it) into the hands of a powerful few. >> The idea took solid political form with Marx and Engels in the mid-19th century, and here we are, a little more than a century later with their ideology having conquered and overthrown Western civilization. Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-christ-and-communism