The American Crisis: What Does It Mean To Be A Nation?
By: Tim Hains
The Crisis we face today goes to the heart of what kind of nation we will be. As in 1776, it is a question of who rules. Is it the globalist tech oligarchs? Hollywood executives beholden to China? The race radicals who dominate our universities? A fundamentally anti-American media? The frail feeble politicians and the Marxist children of the left? Or is it us - the American people - a great people, a free people, who above all care not for money or power, but for the nation that they love?
We must resist the totalitarian secular left. Their recipe for our country is at total odds with the founders America of 1776 fame. They want to overturn God, our culture, our history, monuments, and replace it with crap and propaganda. They basically want a national divorce.
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"Fox News Primetime" host Ben Domenech sounded the alarm of a "new American crisis" during his first show Monday, asking who will lead the nation when the crisis ends.
"Understand it is the totalitarian left that WANTS a national divorce. They want racial strife that burns down your cities. They want envy and segregation and division that pays for their million-dollar homes in Topanga Canyon. They want to demolish Mount Rushmore and force you to pay for abortions. They want to teach your children to hate cops, the anthem, the flag, and everything you were raised to love and respect," he said. "But we’re on to them. We’re not going to let them. And together, we’re going to show them what free people do."
"Understand it is the totalitarian left that WANTS a national divorce. They want racial strife that burns down your cities. They want envy and segregation and division that pays for their million-dollar homes in Topanga Canyon. They want to demolish Mount Rushmore and force you to pay for abortions. They want to teach your children to hate cops, the anthem, the flag, and everything you were raised to love and respect," he said. "But we’re on to them. We’re not going to let them. And together, we’re going to show them what free people do."
BEN DOMENECH: What does it mean to be a nation?
It’s a question we have to ask ourselves in a moment when so many people seem open to the possibility of a national divorce.
A nation isn’t just a random group of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time. It has laws and borders and values. And it isn’t born, it is made.
The people who made America in the first place were a group of a little more than two thousand patriots who crossed an icy Delaware river on Christmas night in 1776. They were down to the end - ravaged by a hard winter, deserted by friends, looking like just one more pathetic colonial rebellion put down by the mightiest Empire in the world.
And then Thomas Paine published “The American Crisis”. You’ll recognize the opening words:
“These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Within a day, George Washington had the message read aloud to his troops. Within a week, they embarked on one of the most daring raids in military history. And what they did changed the world.
I come to you now in the midst of another American Crisis, one where we cannot afford to tolerate summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. They like to call themselves happy warriors. But so often, the only wars they want to fight are for lower capital gains taxes, tech deregulation, and of course, paying for all those pricey ones overseas. As for the wars here at home, the ones that matter over the very culture of the nation? When it comes to those, they fade away. They’ll leave those to you, the people.
The Crisis we face today goes to the heart of what kind of nation we will be. As in 1776, it is a question of who rules. Is it the globalist tech oligarchs? Hollywood executives beholden to China? The race radicals who dominate our universities? A fundamentally anti-American media? The frail feeble politicians and the Marxist children of the left?
Or is it us - the American people - a great people, a free people, who above all care not for money or power, but for the nation that they love?
In 1842 an aged veteran of the American Revolution named Levi Preston was asked why he fought. Was it the Stamp Act, the tax on tea, the philosophical principles? He replied, “Young man, what we meant in going for those redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.”
The same challenge faces us today. The forces arrayed against the survival of the United States of America, foreign and domestic, do not believe you have the capacity, the ability, or the right to govern yourselves. They work every day to scare you into silence, indoctrinate your children, gaslight you with falsehoods, direct your future, and stamp out your freedom.
Understand it is the totalitarian left that WANTS a national divorce. They want racial strife that burns down your cities. They want envy and segregation and division that pays for their million dollar homes in Topanga Canyon. They want to demolish Mount Rushmore and force you to pay for abortions. They want to teach your children to hate cops, the anthem, the flag, and everything you were raised to love and respect. They want to destroy our great American experiment - a thriving capitalist multi-ethnic republic of God-fearing people - for all time.
But we’re on to them. We’re not going to let them. And together, we’re going to show them what free people do.
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"Care not for money or power..."
Well, that counts Trump and McConnell out. Those two couldn't care less about anything but their own bank accounts.
"High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life . Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family."
Then why are you constantly complaining ?
Good question. Although Eric Kaufmann gives some weight to white evangelicals spilling their seed in the 'right places' he pins more hope on more folks coming in from the third world ... those famous "shitholes".
Because democrats are violating American sovereignty as well as the Constitution.
The border is wide open for the most obvious example.
Yes, the border with Canada has almost no wall at all, what a shame... /s
Tex, America used to "Take note" and we did what we could to help... Till trump
w.bing.com/search?q=trump+ends+help+to+south+
I don't think its our "responsibility" its just a way to lessen the appeal to their people not to try to come here.
Most people probably really don't want to leave their homeland, they do so because their homeland is a such a mess.
Us helping their homeland helps our homeland as well.
Understandable Tex, looking at the big picture though spending money to alleviate or even to reduce an American problem of being overran by outsiders takes many forms.
Squelching part of the problem before it gets to our border lessens the problem and resources it takes at our border and in our interior to reduce the problems of too much immigration at one time.
Sadly its like helping your hungry neighbor with giving him some water for his apple tree before he's so desperate he starts getting into your yard to take apples from your apple tree just to survive.
We are not an island those around us, affect us. For good or bad. Trying to go it alone or with others, we're still going to have problems. But many problems are easier to solve when we have help and give help where and when we can.
My main bitchs about immigration and the border are, first, lack of planning of every change and secondly the lack of cooperation between parties to actually solve these problems. Over and over ! By Both parties.
It really is Insanity !
Christianity is in decline.
In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace
Not among the newcomers and they will one day be the US population.
Can't you make the font BIGGER ?
Awww ... look at that, you picked up on my comment 3.1.1. You are welcome.
LOL. Conservatives in America have been on the wrong side of history with every cultural issue since the Salem witch trials.
Much of that list involves liberal democrats vs southern democrats.
I can guarantee you that progressives and their "critical race theory" are not only on the wrong side of history, but are about to take a terrible fall.
It mentions nothing about political parties, Vic. Stick to the ideologies and refute it or not.
But throwing out party names is the only deflection they've got. If they can't try and link conservative Southern Democrats from 60 years ago who flew confederate flags, defended confederate monuments, supported bans on interracial and gay marriage and fought liberals tooth and nail to modern Democrats because they share one word, Democrat, then there isn't anything to differentiate them from current conservative Republicans who fly confederate flags, defend confederate monuments, are trying to reinstate bans on gay marriage and fight liberals tooth and nail. They desperately need to use party names to make any sort of coherent deflection even if the deflection is weak and full of holes, but I guess anything is better than being exposed as the useless conservative bigots they really are.
I couldn't agree more, DP..
Time after time after time right wingers go back to 1776, as if their minds and spirits are trapped there in a fantasy. The seeded article is just another page on that theme. What is so psychically special about 1776 to the right ? White men ruled the roost. Property owners decided what was right or wrong. Women were secondary citizens. Ethnicities other than caucasian were oddities to be gawked at or made to serve masters.
I admire the founding fathers and am glad they created this great country, but i do not revere them as minor deities. Nor do I think we should model the 2020's on "what would George Washington do?". George Washington was a wealthy white plantation owner who has little personally in common with the issues of the 21st century.
This seed is a sad example of what is fueling the division in this country. The "us vs them" mentality being pushed by right wing media is straight out of a Goebbels playbook.
Bottom line is we are all Americans and as such we should be looking at middle ground where those on the right and left can meet to address the issues that plague out country. There will always be fringe elements on both sides and they should be dismissed as such.