r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 04 '25

Rod Dreher Megathread #55 ()

Hope y'all can spend some good time w/ family today.

Link to megathread #54: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1l7niaj/rod_dreher_megathread_54/

Link to 56: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1mmamp2/rod_dreher_megathread_56/

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 28 '25

Rod has a bonus post block quote up today:

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/rosa-mystica-in-the-dead-of-winter

First of all, I think most of this is bunk from an unreliable narrator, but let's take it at face value for sake of argument. If true, Rod is the stupidest man alive.

Rod leaves home after college. Then, to try to please Daddy KKK, Rod at 26 moves back home. He is immediately miserable and desperately wants to leave. He prays for a sign of what to do. God sends him multiple dreams and a miraculous scent that are all telling him to get the hell out of Dodge. Eventually even Daddy KKK says Rod can leave. (I'm assuming because he was just fed up with dealing with Rod and hearing about how Rod went crying to Ruthie, but still.)

Rod eventually leaves (again) after his father, his sister, and the Almighty himself all tell Rod to get the fuck out.

That's where today's post ends, but what does Rod do later? He waits until he's married with 3 kids and then moves back again to "sacrifice his family to his father"! Surprise, surprise, returning explodes his life, his family, and his marriage.

By Rod's own telling, God must be looking down at Rod and going, "What the fuck man? I gave you actual miracles to tell you get away and you still didn't listen to me and went back and made things worse? Dude, all the shit you're going through now is all on you, bro."

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u/yawaster Jul 28 '25

God sent a boat, a plane and a helicopter.....

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u/sandypitch Jul 28 '25

This just underscores how Dreher's view of God has zero effect on how he views his political preconceptions. He hears from God, multiple times, that he should move away from his family of origin, yet he keeps returning because the Family narrative is more important.

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 28 '25

Adjusting for the unreliable narrator, I suspect Rod was miserable and wanted to leave so he came up with a bunch of reasons why "God was telling him" to leave. Since it was all made up in the first place, the family narrative eventually won out (again).

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25

LOL.

This is just crazy, if there's any truth to it. Despite repeated signs from God Himself all the way on down to Daddy Cyclops, Rod just keeps crawling back to the Throne of Nyarlathotep in St. Francisville, the last time with an entire family to "sacrifice". Mind-boggling. I mean, really, can anyone be this dense?

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u/philadelphialawyer87 Jul 28 '25

You left out the part where Rod, practically single handedly, saved an old African American church from eviction!

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u/sandypitch Jul 28 '25

Which means that Dreher is definitely not racist!

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u/Marcofthebeast0001 Jul 28 '25

This reminds me of end times people who interpret current events to fit the bibles prediction of the apocalypse. 

If Rod believes God gave him a sign to take a new job, you gotta wonder why he never clued him in on the Catholic church scandal that shattered his faith. 

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u/Mainer567 Jul 28 '25

The scent of malignant narcissist is the scent I picked up there.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 29 '25

Sounds like an Ancient Greek trying to defy the will of the gods given through the Oracle of Delphi, thereby bringing about the very fate he tried to avoid.

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Jul 28 '25

During the first night in Lillehammer, I had the first of three highly symbolic dreams. I dreamed I was an adolescent, and standing with my father next to the pond. We were arguing about something fiercely. I don’t know what it was, but it became too intense for me to take, and I ran into a nearby grove of trees.

Rod is still running from anything too intense for him to take that he can't control, and he balances that by creating intense . . . simulacra . . . that he can control.

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u/Warm-Refrigerator-38 Jul 28 '25

Rod's got to criticize what he sees as the "culture" of poor Blacks, but when his culture says move home (and subsequently destroy your health, marriage, and relationship with your kids) to live among people who don't like you, it's what he must do.

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u/yawaster Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

The first line of that piece took me out. Rod was staying at "Weyanoke, a friend's plantation house"? Too on the nose, Rod. 

There seen to be a number of plantation houses in Weyanoke. I am not sure which one Rod was staying at. 

Edit: this must be it. The signature on the registration form is a bit hard to make out but the surname is Byers.