This is the July Fourth weekend, our yearly celebration of an Independence Day that has been unique in human history. It has always been a joyous occasion with parades, picnics, and patriotic speeches punctuated by fireworks after dark, although there are some who can’t wait, and start as soon as they can find a pack of matches. This can be annoying to humans, but terrifying to dogs especially when the blasts of sound last so long. This year, even more than last year during the pandemic, our celebrations have been tainted by controversy from organizations which have sprung up with hate for our country, its citizens, its flag and its history. Most of us sit back and observe what is happening and comment to ourselves about how destructive and stupid is most everything we see on the news and then go about our lives. This has been normal from a conservative point of view, but this time there is a difference. We are being held hostage to some ideologies that are destructive ultimately, but seemingly innocuous as we live our lives. If there ever was a time to wake up and check the wind direction, this is it. Poisons have been inserted into our daily lives, and since they are initially subtle, we have been slow to recognize that the freedom we have long enjoyed is now under full-scale attack. We need to come to the aid of our country. Now. There is no time to waste.
The poisonous organizations that are attacking are all rooted in Marxism from the writings and examples of Mao, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Lenin, etc. These have all coalesced into a movement that threatens our very existence as a nation. What is happening now is heavily funded and deeply rooted in a new and more evil playbook that has appeared in our society as Critical Theory (CT), and Critical Race Theory (CRT). These poisons are extremely divisive, and have infected our educational system, our media, our military, and our government itself. They, and Politically Correctness (PC), have made free speech problematic, even impossible in some cases. They are purposeful traps for the unsuspecting to fall into and face the ruination of their careers and sometimes their very lives. The 1619 Project published by the New York Times is evil in its racism and divisiveness. It seeks to rewrite our history by starting anew, and poison the minds of our youth with propaganda. The 1776 Project is an attempt to counter the foregoing lies with facts that are not now being taught in our schools. Obviously those who are in charge and teach are also infected.
Given the above, it is not difficult to realize that those following the Marxist playbook are right on track. 1. Take control of the education system of the young and indoctrinate them. 2. Take control of the news media. 3. Take control of law enforcement and the military. 4. Under the guise of equality, promote racism in order to cause instability and hate. 5. Destroy property with rioting and burning to show impunity and the neutering of law enforcement. 6. Turn all common sense situations and thinking around and upside down with re-writing and re-naming. All of this has been happening. But are we awake to the extent of the poison yet? Even more importantly, have these evils progressed to the point of no return? Is it possible to stop the infection? How close are we to the rot of the French (or Russian or Chinese) Revolutions where a citizen may just point a finger and have another jailed or tortured or even executed? How close do we have to get for this to happen? Indoctrination can cause mob rule which can erupt instantaneously and decimate sections of any society, e.g. anti-Semitism in the 40s. Life becomes cheap.
On the other hand, if we think of all of the above evils and poisons as feces or manure being spread everywhere in our culture, we can also reasonably think that beautiful flowers and plants and common sense and love of our country and its flag and principles are going to grow even stronger than before. This is a law of nature that has existed as long as the earth. We see it happen in growth every Spring and through every growing season. Why not in our lives and in our political system? Let us put the purveyors of hate, fire and destruction on notice as of now. We prepare for you. We will come for you. You will be defeated as always when you awaken the sleeping giant of righteousness. We will continue to build rather than destroy. We will educate rather than indoctrinate. We will enforce our laws rather than defund. We will turn our arts and music toward the beautiful and lofty rather than the superficial and meaningless. We will no longer live in a parody of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” The elephant will no longer be standing in the middle of the room.
Missing for too long in our society has been a pervasive “Honor” and “Responsibility” for our own actions. God has been hidden behind curtains of falsehood and mendacity. Faith, family, friends and freedom are not based on skin color or politics, but on kindness and humility and love. Let us awaken anew to the principles stated in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Let us sing daily of our America and her beauty; songs of freedom and true unity. Let us continue to sing “God Bless America.”