May 15, 2023

If you’re like me, the news cycle is one smack to the face after the next.  It’s not even a “cycle” at this point; it feels more like crawling out of bed under relentless machine-gun fire of bad news and trying to survive the day without getting hit.  

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In this sense, getting “hit” is letting the bastards get you down (excuse my French).  It’s not easy, and it’s not for the faint of heart.  I look at it as a special challenge that all normal, non-woke, patriotic Americans must accept as part of living through this period of great change.

Can you witness all the cultural chaos and national hara-kiri, take a deep breath, give an affirmative nod to the Almighty, and say, “Lay it on me; let’s have it; I can take more”?  Because, at the end of the day, this spiritual contest for the West’s future will not be won by those with the most money, power, or spy toys at their disposal.  It will be won by those who take everything in stride and continue to stand.  In a battle of wills, strength of character alone determines who will prevail.

Now, that’s a pretty simple truth that we all often ignore, is it not?  It is easy to look at the vast array of forces set against us — a corrupt central government dedicated to censorship, political persecution, and open borders; a corporate oligarchy intent on eliminating private property for all but the reigning few; a new world order where Marxist globalism trades freedom for servitude — and conclude that there is little else to do but grab the nearest cardboard sign and scrawl a final, lamentable warning: “The End Is Nigh.”

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To surrender and accept defeat just as things get tough, though, is almost like giving away our principles for free.  Surely, that doesn’t make sense.  Let me ask you this: “Who are more committed to their beliefs — faithful servants of God who know that family, friends, fellowship, and freedom are worth the cost of any fight, or an army of woke foot soldiers who just learned yesterday what they claim to believe today and will decide tomorrow that what they believe today should be outlawed?”  Beliefs made from sand soon blow away; those toughened through pressure and time become as resilient as diamond.  Should that answer change just because the woke foot soldiers are backed by central bank thieves, corporate propagandists, Machiavellian politicians, and an ocean of Marxist bureaucrats?  Or do those social pressures only further strengthen time-tested truths?  I would say that the more concern you have for your immortal soul, the less worried you need to be about those who sold their souls long ago.

From that standpoint, this ensuing cultural struggle is important because it allows those who know the difference to once again separate the wheat from the chaff.  The more highly we value our principles, the more vexed those with great wealth and power but no principles will become.  The more we embrace struggle as a necessary part of life, the more astounded those who choose physical comfort over spiritual salvation will be.  The more we dedicate ourselves to the preservation of truth and virtue, the more invulnerable we become to the machine-gun fire of State-sanctioned lies.

The vital thing to remember is this: don’t panic.  Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.  This world has a funny way of pulling the rug from underneath your feet just when you feel most secure and throwing you a lifeline just as you begin to sink.  History is imbued with the same effervescence.  Few expected the American colonies to subdue the eighteenth century’s undisputed global superpower…until they did.  Few expected the Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain to collapse…until it did.  Few expected America’s Cold War victory to take us down a thirty-year march toward Marxist globalism and a deepening loss of personal freedom…until it did.  Few expected the World Economic Forum’s New World Order to go belly-up…until it did? 

Strange things happen when people with character and perseverance stand in the road and tell History, “This is where you will fork.”  The beneficiaries of those salubrious course corrections tend to look back at great epochal shifts and think, “That was to be expected.”  But for the people who lived through those moments of volatile change, the only thing certain was that a growing tide of people chose to stand in History’s way.  In hindsight, those present consistently record that they did not know what would happen but that they did have faith.

It is faith that steadies the doubters.  It is faith that readies the strong.  It is faith that shields against dangers.  It is faith that settles past wrongs.  In the end, one thing remains indubitably true: faith wins the day.

So we won’t panic.  We will keep our faith.  And when enough of us choose to stand in History’s way, any mountains before us will move.  I believe that, and I hope you do, too.