We are approaching the national elections and candidates and pundits are declaring this the most important election in our lifetimes. It well may be. We are at the precipice of our republic sliding into socialism. Our country fought wars and suffered tens of thousands of casualties in an effort to contain socialism and communism and now members of the US Congress and Democrat Presidential nominees now openly espouse Marxism. The BLM movement which has tainted sports events as “woke” athletes disrespect the country with their flag kneeling during opening anthem presentations at NASCAR, NFL, FBS NCAA, and NBA events was founded by a self-proclaimed “trained Marxist”. Their documented goals include the “’disruption (of) the Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another.’ (And) for abolishing all police and all prisons. It also calls for a ‘progressive restructuring of tax codes at the local, state and federal levels to ensure a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.’” (https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/the-agenda-black-lives-matter-far-different-the-slogan) BLM militant socialists and their anarchist Antifa henchmen scream a mantra of racial injustice and systemic racism at “peaceful protests” promoting their drug addicted, drug dealing, rapist heroes on posters plastered on public buildings they set afire even while international corporations make sizeable donations to the organization.
This all seems
unprecedented but as our chaplain has pointed out, the parallels are striking
with past history. Racial tensions in
1860 revolved around the institution of slavery and the abolitionist movement
stoking uprisings and revolts. Today,
the progressives teach our children in schools and universities using a 1619
Project curriculum a doctrine of white privilege and that there should be a
realization of white guilt because of the advantages inherently enjoyed by
Caucasians due to a system of racial prejudice created by them meant to
disenfranchise blacks who should largely have been credited with the development
of the nation from the arrival of the first slave ships to the present. BLM rejects the contrary Christian “All Lives
Matter” argument and instead demand that whites kneel in subject to the raised
black power fist. Many corporations now
are openly advertising their initiatives to hire more minorities apparently in
disregard of a consideration of qualified Caucasian candidates. The governor of
California is sponsoring legislation requiring corporate hiring of management
and executive levels in accordance with affirmative action quotas which have
been proven unconstitutional. Corporations preach the immeasurable importance
of diversity while failing to produce quantifiable measurements of the benefits
to the bottom line. Sure to enhance employee job satisfaction and company
performance or resentment and career limitations?
The Lincoln
Republican platform of raising tariffs to fund industrialization in the New
England and Midwest states with a disproportionate disregard for the
agricultural Southern states was a primary impetus for the secession movement
of 1860. We have unfortunately become
accustomed to the notion of the state and federal government redistributing
private wealth thru a system of taxation and welfare programs but the idea of a
socialist “radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth” as a political
platform should be very disconcerting to us and for our children and
grandchildren. History has proven that
socialist economic systems fail while suppressing the impetus for individual
effort, excellence and success, indeed the bedrock of our nation’s fundamental individual
freedoms and liberty. Taking from the
entrepreneurial wealth creators to give to those who have no desire or drive or
responsibility, unearned and undeserved, deters innovation and investment.
The 1860s
Republican platform sought to bring the western territories into the Union as
free states which threatened to forever shift the balance of power in the
federal government in opposition to the Democrat controlled slave holding
states. The 2020 Senate Democrats have
threatened that if the Republicans pursue their Constitutional duty to nominate
and confirm a Supreme Court Justice before the year end elections that, should
they gain control of the Senate and the Presidential executive office, they
will pursue statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington DC which again threatens
to shift the balance of power in the Senate indefinitely to the Democrats who
are increasingly under the control of radical socialists and their progressive
atheistic one-world-order agenda. In
addition, the Democrats have threatened to stack the Supreme Court with four
additional jurists which would again shift the ideology of the court for
generations to support progressive precedents and make it little more than an
extension of their liberal legislative branch.
The anarchy
and riots in American cities in the name of social and racial justice harkens
to the class warfare espoused by the Communist activist Saul Alinski and his
Rules for Radicals. They are not seeking
an understanding and appreciation of the value of blacks in American society as
they abort black babies by the tens of thousands and assault black police
officers on urban streets. They are
seeking the deconstruction of the American economic and social system of free
enterprise, property and competition and of personal liberty silencing those
who disagree with their extremist fascist philosophy, violating their freedom
of speech and expression. George Floyd,
a worthy martyr? How many times does it
need to be shown that these BLM posterboys are drug users and dealers and
rapists and that the police were justified in apprehending them? There is no racial injustice inherent in the
police and legal systems; unfortunate events and repercussions happen when one
puts oneself in criminal situations and activities. There is no systemic racism in this country
and indeed the affirmative action and welfare initiatives over the past decades
speak to the generosity, benevolence and magnanimity of the American
people. America is not the great nation
it is because its citizens are entitled to reparations or special treatment –
it is because each one of us has the freedom and liberty to pursue our dreams
and become whatever our effort and skills earn us. The election of 1860 and the subsequent
Southern States secession and resultant War Between the States certainly
changed forever the trajectory of the United States of America. The election of
2020 may have similarly dramatic ramifications.
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