The Broken Alliance
How the Modern Left Reflects the Rebellion of Romans 1
The Broken Alliance
How the Modern Left Reflects the Rebellion of Romans 1
A widely shared meme presents four left‑leaning voter caricatures. The meme labels them in deliberately derogatory terms: "TV boomers," "hand‑out minorities," "pill‑popping feminists," and "gender goblins” to shock viewers into noticing the pattern: a television‑fixated older man, an economically dependent minority, a weary feminist holding prescription bottles, and an androgynous activist waving a rainbow flag. The image is crude, yet the stereotypes sting because they mirror real patterns.
Christians cannot dismiss the meme as mere mockery. Romans chapter one shows how suppression of truth invites divine judgment, yielding dishonor and confusion. The four caricatures illustrate such decline, each revealing a distinct form of rebellion against God's design.
The modern political Left is not united by wisdom or virtue. It is a coalition held together by shared opposition to what is good, true, and orderly. Scripture shows that when truth is rejected, rebellion rushes in to fill the vacuum. Romans 1 does not describe a neutral drift away from God. It reveals the judicial response of a righteous God to persistent rebellion. The passage outlines a descent into dishonor, confusion, and depravity. It begins with suppressing the truth (Romans 1:18). It moves to exchanging the glory of the incorruptible God for images (Romans 1:23) and finally results in God giving them up to uncleanness, vile affections, and a reprobate mind (Romans 1:24, 26, 28). We are witnessing that descent in real time.
Four Groups Bound by Rebellion
1. The Institutionalists
The first group consists of aging institutionalists addicted to legacy media. These are the "TV boomers" pictured in the meme, older men who trust the screen more than the Scriptures. They trust what they hear because they fear what they do not understand. They were taught to believe the experts, and they cling to familiar voices on television with religious fervor. They are not reading scripture to test the spirits. I spoke with an older man who wept because television reports convinced him that leaving his house would prove fatal, even though public data placed the COVID‑19 survival rate above ninety‑nine percent. The Word warns, "The fearful... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire" (Revelation 21:8). Media‑bred panic replaced sober faith in God’s providence. When was the last time they opened a Bible before turning on the news? Shaped by curated headlines, they are no Bereans. They are consumers who want comfort, not confrontation.
2. The Dependent Voters
The second group is made up of politically dependent voters; in the United States, about forty‑seven percent of SNAP recipients are minorities (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native, or other) compared to thirty‑seven percent who are White, making the welfare‑dependent voter base anything but predominantly White and male. In urban centers, welfare dependency joined to machine‑style politics reinforces one‑party loyalty. The meme characterizes them with racial overtones and economic stereotype, portraying a minority who votes for entitlements and dependency. These individuals are not encouraged to build, grow, or take ownership of their future. They trade votes for bread and resent the ones who bake it. The Dependent Voter demographic are slaves. There are two ways to enslave people: pay them without working them or work them without paying them. As Proverbs teaches, "In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury" (Proverbs 14:23). Personal agency is replaced with grievance, and welfare removes fathers from the home, leaving boys to idolize gangster‑rap caricatures instead of godly role models. Those who preach hard work, biblical order, and family structure are framed as oppressors. But Scripture is clear: "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender" (Proverbs 22:7); and "No man can serve two masters" (Matthew 6:24). Allegiance bought with subsidies is not real liberty.
3. The Disoriented Women
The third group is filled with women who were sold a lie. In the meme, they are reduced to caricature: purple-haired, glassy-eyed, and clutching prescription bottles. They were told that marriage is bondage, motherhood is a waste, and fulfillment is found in autonomy and prescription bottles. But peace does not come through rebellion against design, and these women feel drained and disoriented. The script they were handed promised empowerment. They were told, "You can have it all," "You don’t need a man," and "Career is fulfillment." But scripture paints a different picture: that a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised, and that guiding the house and loving one’s children is honorable. Biblical womanhood is not about suppression; modern culture teaches women to honor a boss who sees them as a number yet withhold respect from a husband who would lay down his life for them. It is about glory, purpose, and peace.
The virtuous woman of Proverbs 31:10–31 is not oppressed. She is honored, capable, diligent, and praised. Her life blesses her household and brings glory to God. That portrait stands in stark contrast to what modern culture celebrates. Culture mocked what God declared good. What it delivered was loneliness, exhaustion, and a spiritual void. And yet, even now, the call to return remains open. What God built for their protection, they were told to abandon. The end result is a generation of women who are spiritually displaced and emotionally scattered.
4. The Gender Revolutionaries
The fourth group is the loudest and most hostile. In the meme, they are portrayed as androgynous, angry, and utterly detached from reality. They reject the most basic truth of all, God created male and female. As Paul wrote, "Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" (Romans 9:20). They demand that identity be self-defined and that language submit to their delusion. This is not confusion. It is rebellion. It is evidence of those "given over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient" (Romans 1:28). It is the natural outcome of a culture that exchanged the truth of God for a lie. When the creature is worshipped above the Creator, what follows is dishonor, debasement, and unrestrained folly. We are not looking at a mistake or a phase. We are looking at a people who have been given up to their own corruption.
No Shared Vision, Only Shared Rejection
These four groups do not belong together by design. They are not marching toward a shared vision. They are clawing at the foundation while calling it justice, united not in hope but in hostility toward order, truth, and the God who established both; history warns that when a civilization destroys its own pillars, militant Islam often steps in to fill the vacuum, enforcing Sharia where Judeo‑Christian order once stood. As the prophet asked, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3). They are clinging to one another in mutual rejection of God. Their alliance is not a movement; it is a mob. Romans 1 begins with personal immorality but does not end there; it advances to cultural breakdown. The passage describes people who become "filled with all unrighteousness" and continue in envy, murder, deceit, and malice. Social trust collapses, institutions decay, and relationships unravel. What begins as personal rebellion metastasizes into national ruin. The coalition does not merely behave badly; it hastens cultural collapse. While the current focus is on the political Left, it must be said that rebellion against God is not exclusive to any one ideology. All who suppress the truth, whether conservative or progressive, fall under the same judgment described in Romans 1. It does not produce righteousness. It produces chaos, and the widening gulf between left and right now mirrors the timeless divide between good and evil. And its end is destruction.
A Call to Clarity and Courage
Christians must stop pretending this is just a difference of opinion; Jesus died for truth. It is a spiritual war with eternal stakes. But even now, the door to repentance is not closed. The same gospel that Paul writes of in Romans is still available to all who will believe. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Romans 1:16). There is mercy for the institutionalist, the dependent, the disoriented, and the deluded. Open the Scriptures, seek faithful fellowship, and commit to repentance and obedience under Christ. Truth remains available through faithful preaching, diligent study, and humble repentance. Lives can still be restored. But it must begin with acknowledging the lie, turning from it, and submitting to the truth of God’s Word. The answer is not silence. The answer is not accommodation. The answer is to speak the truth plainly, live it boldly, and refuse to bow to madness. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. That is what we are seeing. That is what we must confront.