A Call for Unity, Perserverance and Survival

Over the course of several decades, America has seen its share of trouble. Wars, unrest, political division and polarization. Cultural shifts we never thought possible are now mainstream and not only socially acceptable but aggressively promoted.

In a progressive attempt to calm the waters and preemptively halt perceived unrest and chaos before it starts, we have begun to chip away at the very foundation that made America, America.

Traditions that balanced us for over 250 years have been challenged. Our history has aggressively been erased, statutes toppled and time-honored values have been supplanted with relative moralism. Our founding fathers who risked their names, fortunes and lives to create this grand experiment, are now demonized and every conceivable flaw exposed as grounds for their erasure from history itself.

The American home of today pales in comparison to what it once was. Relationships are strained all for the sake of “preserving” tolerance and promoting acceptance of every idea that surfaces on the horizon. The nuclear family is seen as an enemy of progress and the movement of Black Lives Matter publicly states on its website its desire to dismantle it.

To deny this enlightenment is to be labeled racist, intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, or whatever new phobia raises its disingenuous head. Those who have the audacity to think for themselves are labelled dangerous as well as those who search out and express underlying truths, although this used to be considered a virtue worth embracing.

In reality, these terms are not meant to just expose dangerous ideals or the people that espouse them, but to stifle debate and halt discussion and the expression of thoughts that might rock the progressive boat causing, God forbid, one to actually think instead of reacting according to emotion or the shallowness of one’s feelings.

Freedom of religion has been replaced with the desire for freedom from religion, and the erasing of the morality religion has endeavored to bring to the human experience. Instead of a once held commonality, religion has become contentious, mainly because it issues warnings against universal acceptance of every culture, every human proclivity, and every yielding to man’s basest instincts.

We are living in an era when even the mention of rules, especially those grounded on morality, are demonized and campaigned against. Today we not only tolerate perversions of all stripes; we are told we must celebrate and promote them. We have not only lost our moral compass, we no longer remember what it signified or what its purpose was.

Just mention that you love this country and you’ll see faces turn red and eyes begin to bulge. People march in our streets waving foreign flags but a student wearing what resembles an American flag is sent home to change and a home flying our flag is demanded by its HOA that it be removed for fear of offending a foreign national. Patriotism brings condemnation and charges of intolerance, even hatred, against foreigners. Unfounded, but advanced as valid, nevertheless.

No country that hated itself enough that it despised and persecuted its citizens while welcoming outsiders with open arms, no matter who they were or where they were from, has ever survived. America will not be the exception.

All that is being done in the name of avoiding conflict and to advance an enlightened tolerance in order to preserve a mythical Utopia, is having the opposite effect. We are losing a sense of who we are. We are entering into the realization that we are meaningless, having abandoned all that gave us purpose, meaning and identity.

Under the guise of making things better for everyone, we are destroying our own civilization, erasing our identity, and ushering in an era of desperateness. People who feel that they have no identity or purpose tend to become desperate and desperate people don’t usually make the best decisions about their community or their lives, certainly not decisions that have positive influence on future events. They tend to be selfish and without vision for anything past the “now” of their actions.

The most intolerant among us claim to be the most tolerant. The most closed-minded lay claim to open-mindedness. Those most divisive wave the flags of a faux unity. Lies have been truth and truth has become lies. Honesty has been replaced with dishonesty and corruption.

Making value judgments about people, something we all do daily for our own survival and protection, has become a sign of hostility and intolerance. Commonsense has been replaced with Political Correctness, a term we rarely hear any longer because it has been replaced with Wokeness.

We were once a unified people, determined to form this “more perfect union.” Now we are a lost country watching its sovereignty being surrendered to foreign control and its national identity being diluted to the point of unrecognizability.

As long as we are in their fight, it is evident that it is not over yet and victory over annihilation can still be achieved. But make no mistake about it, a fight it is. And one we cannot afford to lose, not to a foreign influence or to the misguided in our own ranks. Ideology must not trump commonsense. There is too much at stake.

Sadly, the reality is that in today’s modern technologically advanced world, we cannot afford these conflicts. Both the technology of social media spawning instant outrage instead of unity and the technology of weapons that threaten mankind’s very existence, prove the point. Going back in this arena is not possible, but I have to believe in the possibility of changing our mindset from destructive hatred to a nurturing desire for our own survival.

We must return to our roots, shore up our foundation and not crush it to sand. We must embrace the principles that we once held up as standards for the entire world to model. We must be as determined to preserve the American way of life as some are determined to destroy it. We must state boldly that we will not go quietly into the darkness that the world surely would become without America in it.