A view to which I am coming around is that our fight is not just a domestic American fight to retain freedom, it is a global fight which America must lead.
Look at how fast Australia devolved into tyranny. Think about how the PM of America’s Hat just announced people should be penalized for holding “unacceptable views”. Added to that, it appears about half of America agrees with Australia and Canada.
This is the result of being engaged in a world war brought directly to our shores.
Rather than a war of lead, fire, and steel, this is a war of philosophy and ideology – essentially a borderless “soft” war of the mind and spirit rather than of the body. Ideas and philosophies have replaced men and materials, but the war is no less real.
I’ve quoted the Prussian general and military strategist, Carl von Clausewitz before. In his classic tome, “On War”, von Clausewitz states that “War is politics by other means,” and if we accept that as true, one can make the case the converse is also true – that politics is war by other means.
I have no doubt that if a foreign power forced capitulation of another nation through direct attack or invasion rather than by political action, Americans would recognize it as war – largely because it is.
But I have less faith that we can recognize the soft war raging around us and make no mistake, this war and its outcome is as real and a critical as that of WWII’s Battle of the Bulge.
This happens when a society and culture accept the relativist indoctrination that all ideas and philosophies are to be considered equal in worth and validity, when the people succumb to relativisms, when they are no longer willing to recognize good or evil, much less speak in favor of the former and against the latter.
Without that level of discernment, people never know when the fight is required.
America is more important now than at any point in history, more so than even in WWII.
America represents freedom’s last stand.
As goes she, so goes the world.