Time to Decide

I’ll be honest, I don’t know what to think of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. My pride in being an American lies truly with the sentiment and statements of the Declaration. The principles stated therein are worthy of complete devotion, even dedicating one’s life to defending them as I have.

Yet, all around this nation major cities block the celebration of independence (or try to) with flimsy health scares and outright hostility. New York City, now run by a communist Muslim, wrapped its subway trains in the Iranian flag, an intentional slap in the face to the nation in which it’s situated. How egregious does the treachery have to be to get a response? And, I don’t mean a terse letter.

That is the cause of my concern. One can celebrate all they want, shoot fireworks into the sky and wear the flag as a shirt, picnic on the Washington Mall, but if that sort of surface patriotism isn’t backed up by the will to oppose all enemies from whatever quarter, with the exertion of force, the United States will be steamrolled by more fervent devotees to other systems.

This has been true the world over. Communism is full of devoted, violent adherents as is Islam. Still, with all of the violence in their wake, the deaths of millions, the brutality meted out, they are the fastest-growing systems out there. Where is the opposing force of capitalism and Christianity? They aren’t even on the same field of battle. The capitalists are in bed with the Chinese and the Christians can’t wait to turn their churches into mosques.

The rest of us are on the sidelines, staring out at our inevitable destruction, the dismantling of over 300 years of building civilized society on this continent, in abject horror.

The celebration, or lack of it, of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a shot across the bow, a warning that America can fall, that there are those working at undermining the fortifications keeping it safe.

Understand what we have to lose. The United States has reduced poverty all over the globe. All of those who whine about the abolition of USAID were beneficiaries of that alleviation of poverty, who had corrupted the system to enrich themselves at the cost to the poor. And these bureaucrats, senators and the like feel no shame for starving the poor. They’re the guilty, not the taxpayers for having demanded accountability.

As many World Cup visitors have pointed out: America contains one of the most beautifully diverse landscapes and terrains to exist anywhere on earth. In one state, Texas, one might go from beaches to the buffalo plains, from desert to lush forests and the people are as kind and accommodating as will be found anywhere. As is all of America. There are the resort coasts of Florida and California, the forests of Washington and Oregon, a world renown desert not too far outside of Los Angeles.

There are the towering Rocky Mountains stretching from about the middle of Utah all the way to Denver, thousands of peaks, valleys. There’s lush farmland in the San Luis Valley between ranges.

There are great rivers that have succored human existence for thousands of years and powered commerce like the Ohio, the Mississippi and the Missouri There are great lakes almost like inland seas.

And yet, it isn’t just the land that gives America its value, it’s the ideals and principles of freedom that once left to wither will never again be brought back to life. This is the truly important contest. Surface level patriotism cannot be tolerated and have these ideals succeed in a world of “gimmes,” because it was built on self-sufficiency, pride and hard work. One cannot take those principles out of society and have anything left.

In order to devalue America and Americans, these things are called White Privilege (despite the fact that all successful people of whatever race have used the same principles to elevate themselves) and something to be ashamed of. It’s the socialist belief that everything produced by human beings is to serve all others, not the builders and producers alone. Where that is true, there are not builders and producers, because there is no incentive to become one. What’s left is a world of influencers designed to funnel all capital to the state where they will use that capital to purchase elections until there is no longer a need for them, because the people have been replaced by ministers and deputies.

This is not a time to be passively American, or patriotic. It is not a time to be passively Christian. It is not a time to be passively capitalist. It is not a time to be passively Western. All of these things are under direct and open attack. The Islamists and communists have laid out their plan and their goal and if America falls to them, it will soon resemble every other place where these two systems have been in primacy.

While they cry “diversity” everything they propose and pursue is a lack of diversity, total control, absolute adherence. Neither system produces originality or advancement, but a slow dissolution of the progress already made. They are the viruses infecting the world.

America has benefitted from its diversity, not in all ways, but in many, but now that diversity has turned against its host and become the problem, not the solution. There was nothing wrong with traditional Americanism, except that it left tiny cracks through which armies could eventually march.

America has always been a land of diversity from the very beginning. The World History Encyclopedia admits: the original inhabitants of North America believed to have migrated into the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago. That means there were NO “native” Americans, or there is not believed to be a “native” American. We’re all migrants in that sense and coming from all different other nations exert that cultural influence on the whole. What we call “native Americans” were the first migrants and a great deal of respect is due to them. Europe developed to a point where migrants might travel from those areas and brought with them their cultures and influence the whole. But they would have us believe that we are the colonists, when, in fact, we are now the natives and the invaders are the colonists. Their arguments for change make no sense in this context

Part of me, the historical observer part, understands that this is something that has occurred over and over throughout human history on the planet. That being caught in one of these revolutionary surges is no less of a remarkable event than having started one. They are equal, but if we are to survive, if the principles so many have died to defend are to be defended in our age, we must find the strength within our hearts to be strident defenders of all that was once beautiful, safe and productive or give ourselves over to the evil hordes. It is a choice and one that must be made today.

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