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Who’s Winning? Who’s Losing?
For those people who thought there’d be no civil war in this country, I think they’ve been proven wrong. We aren’t fighting with arms, but the discourse is as brutal and vicious as I’ve ever seen. Every day there is a new report of the skirmishes that have taken place, of the people whose lives are being destroyed, or of the reputations that have been wounded. It’s difficult to describe this time in our country as anything but a war.
As we watch new battles erupt, I find myself trying to assess the status of the two sides. When I look at the Left, I see our schools being captured by an insidious curriculum. The project is spearheaded primarily in private schools by NAIS. This WSJ article reveals the true nature of NAIS indoctrination that is embedded in every school subject.
This organization is operating with impunity and threatens our public sector schools by trying to bring this dogma to all schools.
Then I read stories that show signs of sanity seeping into the population. The stories of the governors who are finally yielding to pressures to stop the mask mandates are very encouraging. These actions are happening in spite of the guidelines of the CDC, which still expects people, including children, to wear masks in certain circumstances. And the truckers who have defied the demands of the Canadian Prime Minister and are protesting for freedom, as well as all the people who are supporting them and refusing to comply with the government. In a sense, they are speaking for all of us who are refusing to comply with arbitrary, unscientific government mandates.
Almost every day, we hear and read stories where the Left is “winning,” or the Right is making headway. If you are like me, you experience a mental whiplash, trying to keep track of the status of both sides in this war. It’s like trying to keep track of the score of a football game, when both sides fight for the football, but one side makes up its own rules, while the other side follows the traditional rules.
I finally realized that there is no way to “keep score” in this war; trying to determine if we are making legitimate headway in this conflict is impossible.
Instead, I think we can benefit from maintaining a practical perspective: in this war, any progress we make is its own victory. We know that the Left will continue to try to take us down, try to wear us down, thinking we will tire from fighting their relentless efforts to take over our country. The most important strategy we can follow is to fight: sabotage their Marxist plans wherever and whenever we can. Strengthen our schools’ curriculum to teach children the subjects that, instead of alienating them from others, will engage them in the history of our country, and give them the tools for future success. When we learn about another effort to ruin our country, we should see it as an opportunity to destroy the effort and restore sanity and then act. The more we learn about the damaging efforts of the Left, the more proactive we can be to take back our country.
So for the long term, we must be relentless in our efforts of eliminating their plans and instilling pride and respect for our own country. We must assume that every time we learn about another Leftist project, we are empowered to stop them in their tracks. And we can teach our children how to be good citizens and learn the basic skills they will need to move forward in life.
In this war, there are not battles and skirmishes that we can score along the way. The only goal must be ultimate victory.
We will win back our country.
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Published in Domestic Policy
The Orlando Sentinel is like that. We only get the Sunday paper–for the comics and puzzles.
And who wants to work with, hire or be friends with Haters?
I certainly agree that the categorization is changing…but I don’t think we should call them the Socialist Party, for two reasons:
–First of all, they aren’t. Socialists, at least in their classic, Marxist incarnation, want the government to control the Means of Production. These ‘progressives’, for the most part, aren’t looking to do this. They want to leave the factories, stores, airlines, etc privately-operated but to control them tightly. If you think about it, this approach is very beneficial to politicians, because there’s always someone to blame. It would have been hard for Biden to blame the oil companies for increasing gas prices if there weren’t any oil companies!
Proper name for this model is economic Fascism, or Corporatism.
–Second, a quite significant % of the American population has positive feelings about Socialism. Few have such feelings about Fascism.
The word maybe. But the concept that their side gets to tell the other side and corporations what to do, not so much.
We live in a time where words meaning is very fluid. You can not be sure what political words mean day to day.
I’ll say it again. We can’t take the country back unless there is a reasonably honest election. I have no idea how likely that is. But if not we have to be prepared to immediately form a separate nation. We are too big, diverse, distracted, centralized and bureaucratic for Washington to govern. The original design worked and can still work. Centralization cannot and we have all human history to show us how and why it doesn’t work. If we’re allowed to win we have to dump most of the state and national bureaucracies which will have to take place in the first year. And we have to extract China as rapidly and thoroughly as conceivable. If the Democrats are allowed win, the Chinese will be very dangerous. If not they’ll be very cautious.
People who avoid hope to avoid disappointment are not interested in living through the realities of life that give us a largesse of soul, a capacity to give of ourselves, and a deeply trusting knowledge of God. They are missing out on experiencing their true self. It is through suffering and sacrifice that we become persons of great substance.
I agree, GLW. It’s tempting every now and then to hide in a cave, but it is so soul-stultifying when we do.