We're Not Losing God—We're Losing the Lie Part Three: The Weaponization of Nostalgia
By Will Blaze, Ana Lytical, Artie Phischel, & Al Gorithm
This is Part 3 of a 5-part series calling out the weaponization of faith, the hijacking of truth, and the illusion of moral authority in America. Each piece builds toward a spiritual reckoning and a refusal to stay silent.
Inspired by Ben Stein's viral commentary and everything it represents; this series doesn't pull punches. It speaks from the soul. Read them all or just one—just don't stay quiet.
We've all heard it.
"Back in my day…" "When America was still good…" "When people respected the flag, the cops, and their elders…"
Nostalgia used to be a soft ache for home. Now it's a political weapon. And it's being used to wage war on the present.
When Ben Stein and others like him speak of the "America they grew up in," they want you to imagine a Norman Rockwell painting—but they never show you what was outside the frame. The segregated drinking fountains. The women silenced in kitchens. The queer kids hiding who they were. The immigrants called "invaders." The factory workers told to shut up and be grateful.
That America never had a soul. It had a script.
And now that script is falling apart—and they can't handle it.
Nostalgia Is a Marketing Tool for Authoritarianism Trump's return was sold not as a leap forward, but as a reset. "We're going to restore American greatness." "We're going to bring back law and order." "We're going to make men strong again and women traditional again."
Every word of that is code for: We want control back.
They miss the days when truth was censored at the dinner table. When corporate greed was cloaked in morality. When oppression was called "order."
And now, in 2025, we're seeing what happens when nostalgia is policy:
Books banned.
Trans youth erased.
Protest labeled terrorism.
Dissent equated with treason.
Billionaires writing laws while calling it "liberty."
Religion taught like science.
History rewritten for white comfort.
It's not a return to greatness. It's a return to obedience.
Nostalgia Is the Drug of the Privileged For the oppressed, the past was survival. For the powerful, it was "the good old days."
And now they want to drag us back through the rearview mirror—because if we're looking back, we're not paying attention to what they're doing right now.
They don't want unity. They want uniformity. They don't want progress. They want control disguised as tradition.
And every time someone like Ben Stein cries about the "loss of God in America," what they're really mourning is their fading monopoly on the story.
But I'm not here for your golden memories. I'm here for the truth.
God isn't in your Norman Rockwell fantasy. God isn't in your calls for the good ol' days. God isn't stuck in 1955.
God is now. And God is not nostalgic. God is just.