We Shall Fight on the Beaches
And in school board meetings, in town halls, on college campuses and at the ballot box...
On June 4, 1940, Winston Churchill spoke to the British people:
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
I am not a fan of ranked choice voting or non-partisan elections.
Ranked choice voting renders elections into beauty contests.
Supposedly, they promote the selection of the “best” candidates, but typically become a tool based on popularity to lock down positions for the most powerful political forces rather than a contest between opposing positions.
As I have always said, we must ask this question about any policy: "Who benefits?"
Democrats never support anything that does not benefit their political agenda.
Combine ranked choice voting with the Democrats’ war on the suburbs and you have a recipe for perpetual Democrat governments as far and the eye can see.
None of their policies toward the suburbs has anything to do with race, fairness or discrimination, it has to do with winning. Democrats understand the concept of “excess votes” and know that any vote over the 51% needed to win is “excess” or a waste.
Winning 90 to 10 in the cities is not helpful when they are losing the suburbs 54 to 46. If they can move enough of those excess urban votes to the suburbs to overcome the deficit and get to 51%, the electoral map changes significantly.
That is why Democrats are not upset about the flight they are causing in Democrat dominated states of California, Oregon, Washington, and the upper Northeast. They know this outmigration is headed toward red states like Texas, Florida and the states in the Intermountain West and they know these people have packed their ideology and votes in the moving trucks along with their clothes and furniture.
We cannot lose control of this nation to a political party so immersed in postmodernism that they believe anything can be anything if they believe it is. The Democrats have convinced themselves that they literally and figuratively ARE the Constitution, democracy and morality and therefore, any opposition to them is opposition to those three.
Well, spoiler alert, they are not the Constitution, democracy or morality. Possessing no understanding of any of these, they are the anthesis of those things, spending every moment of every day trying to find a way over, under, or through them – and when they cannot, they just make something up. They are little more than a progressive, postmodernist doomsday cult, an amalgamation of the People’s Temple, Heaven’s Gate, and the Manson Family.
The Democrats are promising collective freedom when there is no such thing. F.A. Hayek wrote:
“The worst sufferer in this respect is the word “liberty.” It is a word used as freely in totalitarian states as elsewhere. Indeed, it could almost be said that wherever liberty as we know it has been destroyed, this has been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people. Even among us we have planners who promise us a ‘collective freedom,’ which is as misleading as anything said by totalitarian politicians. ‘Collective freedom’ is not the freedom of the members of society but the unlimited freedom of the planner to do with society that which he pleases. This is the confusion of freedom with power carried to the extreme.”
In his classic tome, “On War”, Carl von Clausewitz, stated “War is politics by other means,” and if true, one can make the case the converse is also true – that politics is war by other means.
In Winston Churchill's famous "Fight on the Beaches" speech, he let the people know that the fight was everywhere. Our battle is much the same and it is already on our doorstep. It is in our homes, our schools, our businesses, and our churches. There is no place for innocent bystanders, no room for people who want to stand on the periphery, film it with their phones and post to Chinese owned Tik-Tok.
It is time for we few patriots to mutually pledge, as the signers of the Declaration of Independence did, “to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Ours is a nation worth saving, worth the fight. On this Independence Day 2021, as I do each day, I thank God for this nation and the people who founded it under Divine inspiration as a bastion of freedom and a force for the eternal good.
Happy Independence Day and may God bestow wisdom upon our leaders (a heavy lift, even for God) and may He continue to bless these United States of America, our military and each and every citizen wherever they may be on this day.
Amen and amen.