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“If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.” —James Madison
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” –Will Durant
Will Durant and James Madison were both excellent historians who understood historical trends. What they said has occurred repeatedly in the past. Barbarians overran Rome, but it wasn’t until Rome had decayed from within. Read Daniel chapter 5 about what was going on in the highest echelons of the Babylonian Empire the very night it succumbed to Persia. Internal decay usually precedes external oblivion. It’s history.
And it is happening in America. Of course, the Left is deliberately trying to destroy American greatness, and is having great success in doing so. I don’t believe the leaders of Rome, who were largely responsible for the internal rot that led to the empire’s collapse, were intentionally trying to destroy their nation. America might be unique in history in having an oligarchical elite class that hates the country and is bent on forcing it into what they want it to be. If Kamala Harris is elected President this year, they will be just that much farther down their road to success.
But such can only happen if the people themselves have become weak, soft, and pleasure-oriented. America became wealthy, and like every other country in history that rose from poverty to wealth, wanted to enjoy it. When that happens, a nation loses the diligence and hard work that initially built it into a great power. An effeminate society will never be able to stand up against manly, hungrier mouths.
The American Left is actually inviting the barbarians in. Inviting destruction. They think they will be able to control it. They can only do so by force, and they might eventually find out they can’t.
As I have noted in countless articles—and the Left in America continues to prove me right—today’s Leftists have absolutely no conscience, they will do anything—anything—to gain power. They have demonstrated that repeatedly, all over the world, the past 100 years. The hundreds of millions of dead bodies are undeniable evidence. They are godless, they are evil, they will stop at nothing to get what they want.
The Left does not believe in democratic compromise (it never has), they want all power, they want total control, they want you to submit. They demand that you UNCONDITIONALLY obey them. They will allow you the freedoms they want you to have. And if you don’t acquiesce, they will do whatever necessary to make you do so. And if you still refuse, they will torture or kill you. The history of the last 100 years in the world is conclusive proof of that. Why study history if we can’t learn from it?
American Leftists try to tell us they are different, that the Democratic Party won’t do what the Left in the Soviet Union, China, etc. have done. They are lying. Leftism, Marxism, socialism, atheism—this is one great, big international movement; it is not just restricted to non-United States locations. Leftists in America have the same amoral code as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, Castro, the Kims and every other socialist thug who has plagued the planet the past century. We can expect the exact same things from the Democratic Party in America. And we are seeing it, clearly, throughout the country.
And like Hitler and Stalin, it’s not especially for what you’ve done. You’ve never harmed those people. You’ve left them alone and want them to leave you alone. All you ask is freedom.
But, that’s not what the Left wants for you. They don’t want you to have any freedom, except the freedoms THEY will allow you to have. I lived that for ten years in China, I know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s not what you’ve done, it’s what you believe, it’s what you are. A patriotic, God-fearing American who believes in freedom. They can’t abide that. You aren’t one of them. And if you don’t intend to become one of them, then you had better keep your mouth shut, or they will shut it for you.
Today, Donald Trump is envisioned as the greatest threat to Leftism in the world, so the Leftist leadership is trying to find some “useful idiot” to eliminate him—which is what the two would-be assassins tried to do. Or the Left will, of course, do whatever they can get away with to win the election. This is a war, folks, nothing short of it, and the Left is in it to win. And we’d better be, too, or we’ll lose our freedoms. Or our lives. Probably both.
Again, all you need to do is look at what the Left has wrought throughout the world since the communist revolution in Russia began in 1917. Every country where their ideology gained ascendency lost its freedoms; “allowed” freedom is not freedom at all, it is slavery. Even slave owners “allowed” their slaves to do some things (eat, sleep, procreate). But when the people wanted more than the Leftist dictators wanted them to have—freedom of religion, private use of land, raising their children as they desired, the right to choose their own government leaders, the right of self-protection—when the people wanted those things, and pushed too hard for them, then they either spent time in the gulag or ended up in a grave. You obey. That is the only choice the Left gives you.
And it is exactly what the Democratic Party is trying to impose upon America today. It is a country self-destructing, as Durant and Madison warned. It’s just so incredibly sad that too many people can’t, or refuse, to see it. Either that, or they agree with it.
They’ll agree with it until they want a freedom the Left doesn’t want them to have. Then it will be their turn to be shot.
“The one thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”
not sure who said that but it is so true. Humans are stupid!
Springfield Ohio should be a awake-up call for America at what the UN/CFR/Globalists have plans for us
All sadly true. Regarding the statement in the column, “Today, Donald Trump is envisioned as the greatest threat to Leftism in the world, so the Leftist leadership is trying to find some “useful idiot” to eliminate him—which is what the two would-be assassins tried to do,” just the other day Gina Raimondo, Biden’s Secretary of Commerce, said about Trump on Joe Scarborough’s show, “Let’s extinguish him for good.” But don’t worry, the Dems aren’t trying to get him killed and if anyone tries to do so it’s Trump’s own fault. Or so we are instructed.
This is Globalism in action, insomuch, they invite in the Third World in a crude form of political prostitution, knowing they will all become future Dem voters , and if a civil war breaks out they will recruit them into street militias and a de facto foreign legion to set them onto trumpsters
Absolutely The Truth!
They’re not being coddled and highly compensated to just come in and lounge around.
“But such can only happen if the people themselves have become weak, soft, and pleasure-oriented. America became wealthy, and like every other country in history that rose from poverty to wealth, wanted to enjoy it. When that happens, a nation loses the diligence and hard work that initially built it into a great power. An effeminate society will never be able to stand up against manly, hungrier mouths.”
There was a lot of backbreaking work in the Soviet dictatorship, there’s a lot of backbreaking work in North Korea. There’s a lot of backbreaking work in every third world country today.
The issue is not effeminacy, or masculinity, or seeking pleasure and happiness (the whole point of life is to achieve happiness and pleasure). What is the alternative to happiness and pleasure? It’s pain and misery and pain and misery are signs of failure to achieve happiness and pleasure.
The issue is that a once predominantly rational society is becoming more and more irrational. There is such a thing as irrational (toxic) masculinity and there is also such a thing as irrational (toxic) effeminacy. The antidote to both is reason and rationality.
“The form in which man experiences the reality of his values is pleasure . . . . A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man’s emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel—until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.” – Ayn Rand
“Leftism, Marxism, socialism, atheism—this is one great, big international movement; it is not just restricted to non-United States locations.”
We should include Objectivism as a sub category of atheism. Although it has lost it’s sheen since the 50’s it is still there, pushed by clowns like THX. They undermine this country and leave it unmoored it from its founding.
Fortunately there are few outlets that tolerate or accept THX’s drivel. He’s here simply because the site will not ban him.
The whole point of life is not just about happiness and pleasure. This is a dress rehearsal for the eternity we will all enter. Contentment, pleasure and happiness have their place, but it is not the end all to life.
“Now in what manner does a human being discover the concept of “value”? By what means does he first become aware of the issue of “good or evil” in its simplest form? By means of the physical sensations of pleasure or pain. Just as sensations are the first step of the development of a human consciousness in the realm of cognition, so they are its first step in the realm of evaluation.
The capacity to experience pleasure or pain is innate in a man’s body; it is part of his nature, part of the kind of entity he is. He has no choice about it, and he has no choice about the standard that determines what will make him experience the physical sensation of pleasure or of pain. What is that standard?* His life*.
The pleasure-pain mechanism in the body of man—and in the bodies of all the living organisms that possess the faculty of consciousness—serves as an automatic guardian of the organism’s life. The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right course of action. The physical sensation of pain is a warning signal of danger, indicating that the organism is pursuing the wrong course of action, that something is impairing the proper function of its body, which requires action to correct it. The best illustration of this can be seen in the rare, freak cases of children who are born without the capacity to experience physical pain; such children do not survive for long; they have no means of discovering what can injure them, no warning signals, and thus a minor cut can develop into a deadly infection, or a major illness can remain undetected until it is too late to fight it.” – Ayn Rand
That’s a very nice copy/paste project. WTF are you talking about?
I thought the article is about the Left letting the dregs of the world.
Great message turn out the faith vote, with 43% of Christian church goers not even registered to vote! Please share far and wide and ASK your friends and family if they’re registered and planning to vote. This unrealized vote bloc could be the Calvary we need, but they’ve got to realize the peril our country is truly facing if they fail to perform their duty as citizens who will seek protection from those that stood up to these tyrants! Thank you.
Calvary is a mountain.
The cavalry sometimes comes to the rescue.
We may be running for Calvary before this is all over. I know what was meant by it’s use..
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within,” Will Durant.
In this case, it’s not real Americans doing it. It’s the deliberate, forced invasion being thrust upon us by our enemies, many of whom are within but also without. They are the Nazi globalists who want nothing more than the destruction of the West, worldwide domination and absolute control. It’s the same playbook they’ve been running for centuries. The last attempt, WWII, was not totally successful. However, it was not a total failure either, They just scattered, hid, regrouped, rebranded and continued with their original plans. They created the UN. They’ve even realigned themselves with their old allies, the Muslim jihadis. We’d better stop pretending this isn’t true and start protecting our country, our rights and our liberties.
Ten minutes ’til the savages come.
Oh, wait, they’re already here.
Can we all just STOP using the word Democratic unless in its proper description?! Democrat is a noun, the ic is a verb. Nothing about the Democrat party is democratic!
Pls think and remind others.
Its usage does impact a statement.