As young people we may have leaned left on many issues or, perhaps, liked some of those ideas but not others. We may have even called a police officer a ‘pig’ thinking it was a cool thing to do or considered an abortion. Today, however, virtually every liberal or leftist viewpoint–from no need for voter ID to restrictions on the First Amendment–is without a doubt harmful to society. This from magainstitute.com.
The now-questionable lockdown over COVID-19 and the willingness to overlook street violence, for example, exacerbate any notion that the left loves the idea of total authority and of imposing its will on all of us, forevermore.
The following is a list of questions we should ask ourselves if ever we become weak and consider, even for a moment, trying to seek common ground with those radicals of the left. For, as pointed out below, common ground “would be cultural and national suicide.”
No. We must continue to fight the good fight of conservatism, if not for ourselves, for our children and for our children’s children.
Not Feasible, Now or Ever
Do you believe, as leftists do, for example, that children may choose their gender? Is it okay to teach children that there are more than 50 genders? Do you think that cross-dressers should be reading to children at story hour? Should mathematics, the sciences, and other core academic disciplines be taught to accommodate ‘politically diverse’ points of view?
Should entire college curricula be redesigned because most of the great works of literature throughout history have been written by white males? Are you fine with colleges holding separate graduation exercises and celebrations for different ethnic minorities?
Are you upset when conservative speakers on campus are disrupted from speaking, or are banned altogether from campus? Should colleges set up safe spaces? Curiously, can a university promise students an unbiased education when 97% of college professors’ political donations go to Democrats? Should all student loan debt be exonerated?
Malarkey Unrestrained
Is late-trimester abortion acceptable? After a baby is born, is it the right of the mother and the doctor to choose whether or not that person will continue to live?
Should Medicare be provided for all and, if so, how do you pay for it? Do you care about the issue, or do you only get riled up when the mainstream media stokes your emotions?
Are illegal immigrants to be given free healthcare the moment they cross the border, as all Democrat presidential contenders stated on live television in 2020? Indeed, should we have open borders and let in anybody who wants to come here? Are sanctuary cities a good idea, and do they support the lives and aspirations of actual American citizens?
When newspaper headlines scream about gun violence, is wringing your hands over the issue any solace for families in Chicago or Baltimore ghetto communities who experience gun violence on a daily basis? Do you care about the issue, or do you only get riled up when the mainstream media stokes your emotions?
Is calling others racist acceptable when, in your own heart, you know that you are biased at times against this group or that? Is a comment made by a movie star or celebrity–or a politician, for that matter–30 or 40 years ago enough to cancel his or her career? Tell me, is virtue-signaling an acceptable form of social participation, or should one actually take appropriate, non-violent action to address a wrong?
Radical Groups
Is the Marxist ideology of BLM acceptable to you? Are the goals and violent tactics of Antifa acceptable to you? If they’re proud of what they stand for and forthright in their actions, why do they wear ski masks? Appearing in selected cities in time to cause trouble, and leading the turmoil following the death of George Floyd, how many of them actually hold jobs?
How many pay for their transportation and housing costs? If they do not pay for themselves, who is paying? Most curiously, why do they often go after the most vulnerable people they can find in any gathering? Is it okay when law enforcement stands down in the face of violence committed by those on the left?
It would be nice to be able to reach consensus in some way with those on the left, however my our cry out and say that would be cultural and national suicide.
The left now embraces mass insanity and it’s getting more absurd by the week. The 14-month lockdown has given us all a taste of what socialism would be like. What’s more, I don’t think that they understand the magnitude and ramifications of many of their political and social views. The left’s agenda would destroy our civilization in less than a year or two.
One Generation Away
Ronald Reagan said it best, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men [and women] were free.”
It would be nice to be able to reach consensus in some way with those on the Left, however, my sensibilities cry out and say that would be cultural and national suicide.
American exceptionalism is the idea that the United States is inherently different from other nations. But this notion is commonly not agreed to by the left. Further, under the definition of “American exceptionalism,” America is seen as being superior to other nations or having a unique mission to transform the world. The left does not agree with this either. In fact, the left believes that American exceptionalism is a delusion. And it is the left that is seeking to bring America to its knees, perhaps to prove we, as a nation, are not exceptional.
Those among us who possess sufficient wisdom are acknowledging our responsibility as a nation for the mess in which we find ourselves–at home and abroad. And, I believe, the first order of business will be for each of us to clean up our own act. Further, I do not believe for a minute that liberal leftist leadership whether it be on the national level, the state level, or the local level can extricate us from the mess we are in.
And as for building consensus or finding common ground, liberals are incapable of bringing to the table of debate a sound avenue for salvaging America or American exceptionalism because they do not believe in America or American exceptionalism. The time for fighting and the time for debate must be over. America, I believe, must be returned to conservative leadership, whether forcefully or by constitutional vote, or we as a nation will not survive into our next generation.
