“Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without
judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing
what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance
beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?
The new alternative culture is in
reality the old traditional culture. The Progressives who were once Fascists
and Communists, have taken what once was commonly shared and historic morality,
values, rights and common sense and made them political . Once they have been
repositioned as such, they have been attacked, compromised, made immoral and
then destroyed.
Mark Steyn makes perhaps the most salient
point of the of our current political situation when he states "you can't have
conservative government in a liberal culture". Steyn is not alone in
understanding that culture drives politics and not the other way around. That's
why the hard left has invested so much time and effort in the subjugation of the
arts, the media and the academy.
These are the gaps in the lines where the
progressive invasion have attacked and laid waste to traditional America even
as the census numbers still reflect a center-right majority. The thrust of the
progressive cultural putsch has been to dismiss and demean the traditional
values of "old" America such as patriotism, free speech, a free press,
religious rights, the nuclear family, the melting pot, the sanctity of
unalienable individual rights, rugged individualism, American exceptionalism, a
free market system, respect for the law, the military and the flag, sobriety,
chastity, the second amendment, equal opportunity not equal outcomes, and
national unity when foreign affairs and national defense takes us to the waters
edge.
In the place of all of this, these new
Gauleiters promote global citizenship, group rights, multiculturalism,
intolerance towards Christianity and Judaism in particular and
unlimited tolerance towards Islam by contrast, an American
history dominated by racism, homophobia, sexism and ethnic bigotry, massive
dependency on the Government, all rights emanating from the Government, income
redistribution and equality of outcomes based on statistical models, nanny state
socialism, disarming the American population, sexualizing our children at the
earliest possible age through public school curricula labled as social justice,
crony capitalism and crony socialism, legalization of drugs, the
emasculation of boys and men, raising unlimited Abortion to the level of a
civil right, selective law enforcement, censorship, hate speech, and vicious
intolerance towards any one, any group or any philosophy that disagrees with
those who dictate to the new Jacobin culture.
The media, entertainment industry and
academia have promoted this new dominant culture for generations. The old
America in the throes of economic decline, uncertainty and weakness at home and
abroad stands like a punch drunk fighter absorbing too many blows to fight
back, dazed and wondering where their world went.
Conservatives, independents, libertarians
and even moderates are still for the most part behind the cultural curve. They
can't defend their historic way of life because it has become so estranged from
what their children have been taught and now believe. The new replacement
culture is edgy, hip and debauched with no edge to the envelope. It has no
boundaries in the name of progress and inclusivity and figuratively tries
to guns down the despised old guard like an ISIS killing squad in a blood
frenzy. At its virulent , poisonous center is the reality that it is a
recipe for chaos and anarchy because a world without stable and fair rules is
nothing more than a jungle. For these hyper-secular libertines with a cult like
devotion to celebrity idolatry, nostalgia means the good old days of the Emperor
Caligula.
Modern progressives like their communist,
fascist, and pagan antecedents always fail in the end because people will revolt
over their repression, lack of a spiritual and moral center and
nonsensical anti-freedom dogma. People who accept the best of western and other
peaceful civilizations as a fact of nature, want to be free and independent. If
they are not, soon or later they will begin to fight back.
The battle at hand is to take back the
culture and that means that simply ignoring the new culture as an aberration
must end. Governor Mike Huckabee reminds us that there are 80 million
Evangelical Christians in America and only half are registered to vote. Only
half of them moreover, do vote. If this demographic is not ready to defend the
old culture than who will be?
It all begins with saying
"no"..."stop"..."no more"...and finally "you have gone too far". We need to
start demanding instead of being the ones under assault. For example, we need
to demand an equal number of conservative academics at state universities where
the taxpayer pay the freight. We need mandatory imprisonment for those who rig
or cheat at elections. We want a balanced teaching of American History and a
solid grounding in civics and how government is supposed to work. Parents need
to be in control of their children's moral education and not the state. We need
to decide not to listen to or watch media or entertainment that mocks, lies
about and ridicules the beliefs and values we love and cherish. People of faith
and our clerics must storm back into the public square and become a major part
of the national conversation. After all is said and done all we want is a
return to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on our terms and not that
of a culture that has corrupted our politics and turned our government into
despotism. We are still the majority and we have had enough! I want the
America my old man left me and so should we all.
ERLANDSSON
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