“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.
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