The encroaching divide of America into “Constitutionalist” and “Socialist” camps, is proceeding apace. At no time in our history has the nation and its culture been so threatened, not even at the time of the secession of the Confederacy. Then both “North” and “South” shared nearly all moral beliefs and religious ones, economic practices, and the honesty in contracts that underpins our ability to cooperate as a civilization. The exception, alone, was on the matters of slavery and racial differences and prejudice.
Wrenchingly, courageously, the slavery error has been solved. During the civil War, reconstruction and segregation, the nation held together and made progress on virtually all fronts, including for the economic success and educational advancement of non-white peoples within the United States. Black families were strong and growing stronger all the way through “Jim Crow” laws and post-war awakening and struggles, as was the nation as a whole. This, only because the moral values and their religious underpinnings were widely shared across all strata of American society.
Today, not so much. The first 60 years of socialist, globalist intrusion had paved a path but few were taking to it… at least until Lyndon Johnson took over from JFK. Under the guise of “fulfilling Kennedy’s dream,” the Great Society was foisted on a relatively balanced government, federalizing welfare for “the poor” and “minorities,” mainly blacks. Johnson’s famous prediction, “…I’ll have those n***ers voting Democrat for 100 years” exposed the cynical plantation-mentality of Johnson’s Democrats, and the base, gutter-snipe qualities of Johnson, himself.
At the same time Johnson plunged the U. S. into a meaningless war… er, U.N.-sanctioned conflict, in Viet-Nam, that split the nation politically and for the first time, split youth from parents. With the advent of drugs and drug-infected music, the revolution was under way: “the Sixties.” Nixon was our last attempt to reign in alien culture, and they got rid of him in the most politically destructive way. Meanwhile, welfare was corroding black families and dissociating old morals from “modernity.” Feminism aggressively began to destroy both manhood and motherhood and education commenced to dissolve Christian thought as rapidly as new socialist-trained and unionized teachers could be installed in supposedly “public” schools. Clever lawyers, psychologists, judges and justices found ways to parse common sense and conscientiousness into never-imagined “constitutional” rights.
Even so, with Ronald Reagan’s election patriotic Americans were renewed in belief in the “American Way:” that together, with right leadership, Americans could restore the nation they loved and pull back from the rot that was slipping past common sense everywhere. We even vanquished Soviet Communism without a nuclear war; “History is over,” pundits declared. Even Bill Clinton seemed rational for a while as his Alinskyite wife plotted “communitarianism” and socialized medicine. Rational people seemed to be back in control of our freedom-loving destiny. But the left never rests.
Gore almost pulled it off. The Democratic party was, haltingly, inquiringly trying not just voting for the temporarily deceased, but here and there, voting for the imaginary. Bush stopped them in Florida and waltzed into the September 11th attacks. For a few hours the congress was unified and appeared to be patriotic. We’ll be damned if some backward Islamists are going to attack us on our home turf! That’s OUR job, after all.
Americans still largely believe that we can “fix” things. Problems are solvable and resolvable in fair and rational ways or, as we’ve shown the world for 300 years, with technical skill and innovation. Along the way we have spread wealth to more poor people than any other society on earth or in history. But, we’re slipping: concerted efforts to change our shared beliefs have taught millions of us to distrust and even hate, our own nation. The most effective poison? Charges of racism… and hateful or just confused racism, itself.
The source of these changes is Marxism-socialism. Those of you who are not willing to correct the flaws of poorly regulated capitalists, and who believe that distorting history and historic figures will somehow make life better in 2020, should step away from the next planned “protest” and consider your own role in the destruction of the best system yet devised for the betterment of the most lives possible. To reach back to the only governing system that has NEVER succeeded to replace the Constitutional democratic republic that always has, is to prove yourself a fool. Please wake up.
Nevertheless, the plan to divide and dissolve the United States is working. States are now practicing what then-future Confederate states employed prior to secession: “nullification.” With “Sanctuary” status being self-declared by cities and states, the federal system is under assault. Politically useful illegal immigration is used as a “humanitarian” reason to disavow proper immigration regulations and restrictions, while still accepting federal welfare payments to even illegal recipients. To date, the political will to stop this trend and restore primacy of federal law over international border control, has not been found. Division.
Covid-19 has played neatly into the hands of socialist control-agents. Economic and religious lock-downs both fit their innate desires to impose superior ways of living and doing than those chosen by free citizens. Dictating how many free citizens can buy the services and products of other free citizens is a reach of executive whim that would seem impossible in an individual-freedom-and-responsibility, Constitutionally limited governance system. Yet we have acquiesced to it rather sheepishly. But, not everyone, by a wide margin. Division is the greatest impact of the 2020 lock-downs. Disease-prevention is a far-distant secondary effect. The United States and China are the only major industrialized nations still hampered by this misguided theory. The United States, ostensibly a “free” nation, is the only one damaged by it. Division.
The tools of division are mostly forms of lying, whether about the efficacy of Covid lockdowns or of switching America’s high-energy-density economy to a low-energy-density one based on sunlight and windmills, or of “systemic” racism or tremendous racial progress and tolerance. Those who would divide us are, practically speaking, anti-Christian and anti-Judaic. Those who would divide our peoples wish most of all to divide us from our past… at least from the good parts. In their views all that came before right now is so rotten as to be worthless, including the people and philosophies that created it. Their Marxism is the only true philosophy (religion) and there shall be no other religions before it.
One wonders if they ever listen to the things they say. Do you?