When the Soviet Union fell, all the little
commies didn't wake up the next morning and say, "You know, those wacky
Americans were right all along! Let's go do some freedom and liberty
stuff!"
No, they woke up bitter and
furious...spreading out among the intelligentsia of western Europe; Great
Britain; and, to a lesser extent, the United States. They were welcomed
by their fellow travelers: first and foremost, the misfit toys inhabiting the
islands of academia – who were already busily nurturing bitterness and envy
among their charges with the care of a master gardener.
They threw themselves into plotting and
agitating, insinuating themselves into every possible position of influence
they could manage – all to keep the flame of statist oppression lit, though
necessarily hidden.
They found suitable vehicles in the
international environmentalist movement and newly created issues that could be
weaponized for use against that evil hegemon of economic and individual
liberty, the dreaded victor of the Cold War, the United States.
The "crisis creation" machine
went into high gear, fueled by alarmist junk science and billions of federal
research dollars.
Eisenhower's famous warning about the
military-industrial complex was soon greatly overshadowed by his lesser known
warning from the same speech about the potential of a
"scientific-technological elite" dominating policy, creating a
"rule of experts" who derive both their funding and their marching
orders from government.
Case in point: "climate change,"
née "global warming," née "global cooling," etc. When
a nation's institutions of higher learning derive upwards of 75% of their total
research budgets from government, it is an impossible task to prevent the
creation of a vast echo chamber, crafted to suit the whims of the funders.
This is precisely the danger of which
Eisenhower spoke.
After years of pruning, fertilizing, and
watering their post-secondary gardens, the left has reaped a bountiful harvest
of indoctrinated political automatons, gleefully tightening its hold on the
generations destined to govern our future with each passing graduation
ceremony.
These first fruits of statist insinuation
naturally gravitated toward public employment, in agencies where their
misbegotten fantasies of a static climate and unspoilt wilderness could be
realized. They have risen through the ranks, hiring like-minded graduates
in their wake – until today, the left lies resplendent in the glory of
dominance in both the social and natural sciences, waving
wands made of tax dollars in furtherance of their transformative ideas of how
we all ought to live.
They felt their oats fully with the
election of one of their own in 2008. They abandoned all pretense and
threw open the doors to their diseased inner sanctum...baring their storehouse
of wilted values and stunted virtues.
The insults came more rapidly then.
Men became women, or even little girls, merely by saying so, and those of
us who dared to reproach the deviant for wishing to toilet with our children
were derided as bigots and threatened with the full force of government if we
didn't acquiesce.
Foreign enemies of all we believe were
imported to our cities under the flag of tolerance and rescue, and those who
stood against this suicidal tide were soon awash in recriminations from our
well-meaning but ill-informed neighbors, who hammered their narrative in our
churches and our schools.
When we finally turned away in disgust,
they unleashed their most potent weapon – our own children – whom they had
taught to worship at the altar of a gray, formless morality, where rights are
derived from acceptance into the collective, and justice is a relative concept
subject to the whim of government.
We sent our offspring to them for an
education, and they sent them back to us, spitting with hatred for the way of
life that enabled their ease. "You dare defy us? Our soldiers
are your own flesh and blood!"
They threw them at us like grenades –
warped, misguided and misinformed, filled with explosive fury and lit by an
impossibly short fuse. Wave after wave, they sent them into the streets
to burn, to riot, and to cloak their debauchery of liberty with the fresh face
of a new generation.
And we backed down, knowing we had been
gravely molested but unwilling to challenge the perpetrators for fear of
ensnaring our own children in the fray.
We held elections. We elected
majorities who then refused to fight. We listened to our
"leaders," who told us to appease the gnashing beast because the
world was changing and we had to remain "relevant."
Now, after a great while and innumerable
offenses, we have elected someone who sees no value in the bureaucrat's mantra
of "that's the way we've always done it." We explored
unfamiliar electoral terrain and found someone who respects the origin of our
ideals as embodied in our founding documents. A man who brusquely (and
entertainingly!) dismissed the circus-mirror image of America peddled by the
left and their fawning, complicit media. Tired of being beaten about the
head and shoulders while those we elected to defend us stood by holding the
coats of our abusers, we elected a brawler of our own.
Those repudiated on November 8, 2016 have
not yet fully realized that voters hadn't failed to understand what we saw when
they revealed their inmost desires to us. Rather, we understood all too
well, and we turned away, revolted by the sight.
When they fully comprehend the
enormousness of their rejection, we had better be prepared, because these are
people who would see the whole nation brought to ruin before permitting it to
succeed despite them.
This election was a modern-day Fort Sumter
– the first shots of a long and brutal struggle to come.
The left will stop at nothing. They
will riot at the slightest provocation. They will use our children as
suicide bombers, blowing families apart over made up differences. They
will abuse the court system, the regulatory agencies, and every damn little
ordinance in the tiniest of backwater towns to harass and beleaguer our efforts.
We must fight for our children as we fight
for our future.
There are those who will counsel
appeasement, as they always have. Reject their advice without hesitation.
Compromise is possible only when both parties agree on an outcome, merely
debating the best method to achieve it. Despite what the quisling class
tells you, traveling together is an impossibility when you are going in
opposite directions.
The last eight years have been a dumpster
fire, with the foundational timbers of our republic as fuel. You can't
leave glowing embers behind. By debating the demonstrable fantasies of
the left, we grant them legitimacy, leaving them as glowing embers in the minds
of successive generations.
It won't be easy, and the left will ensure
that it won't be bloodless, but it's as necessary as food and water to the
health of the body. Prime the fire hoses and disperse the rioters.
There can never be such a thing as "space to destroy."
I tell you this not to depress you, but to
alert you, so you aren't caught off guard by the ferocity of the coming
counter-attack. History teaches that the leftist leviathan of November 9
is the same leftist leviathan of November 7.
The author writes from Omaha, Nebraska and
welcomes visitors to his site, www.readmorejoe.com.
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