Sure! We certainly have a problem with COVID-19 in our Nation, but that is not THE AMERICAN VIRUS we want to address in this blog. The COVID-19 virus certainly has been a part of the attempt to disintegrate our Nation. It certainly has been a catalyst, and it has complicated confronting the challenges to preserving our FREEDOM and LIBERTY upon which this Nation was built beginning in 1776. We want to do a deep dive into what really is driving the pursuit to remake our Nation.
This last week most of us were aware of, and made mention of, Columbus Day, celebrated on October 11 (although the 12th of October, 1492 was the actual calendar date of the event). Those in the woke media, cancel culture, and those in the current government and large elite corporations, spent most of the time disparaging Christopher Columbus as a white supremacist, interloper, thief, and down right despicable character, one to be ridiculed, condemned, and erased from history. All of you who have lived a life without one mistake or sin, go ahead and cast your stone in righteous judgement. We believe there are few, if any, of those who are truly honest with themselves, who would be willing to be the first to throw your rock of condemnation. In doing so, you would only in effect be judging and condemning yourself. In contrast, we believe the inspiration, curiosity, and courage displayed by Columbus is one to be admired. He was simply trying to find a new trade route to China. He never did set foot on the continental borders of our Nation on any of his four voyages to the “new world”. What he did do was map and chart out areas never before seen by those who invested in his explorations. He was not English, he was Italian, and had support from Spain as well.
Why are many of Christopher Columbus statues being torn down? This gets to the heart of THE AMERICAN VIRUS. There are groups within our Nation who believe in a “one-world-view”. We call it being a “Globalist”. They are those who seek a utopian civilization where there are no national borders, where all live in peace and harmony. Consider for a moment the English rock singer/song writer of The Beatles, John Lennon and his song, “Imagine”, released in 1971. In his own words, Lennon stated: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.” Lennon’s wife Ono, who had a hand in the song’s creation, described the lyrical statement of “Imagine” as “just what John believed: that we are all one country, one world, one people.” (Wikipedia) When considering the evolution of youth during the 60’s and 70’s (The era of Woodstock and sexual liberation), it is not a far stretch to conclude that there was a growing undercurrent within our Nation of young, impressionable people, who now happen to be in charge of many aspects of our Nation’s government and elite corporations, that have made it their mission in life, whether consciously or not, to see an evolution to a “Globalist” view.
We do not want to be contrarians to a desire for a more perfect world, one in which peace would reign supreme, but we are realists. No two people on this earth see eye-to-eye on every subject. We all have our individual desires, interests, plans, goals, and methods. Often we come in conflict with others who do not agree with us. It can be over the color you prefer, or the way one speaks, or it could be the way you wear your hair, or the how you apply your makeup. It could be over more deeply rooted beliefs like where-in lies one faith, or one’s ethnicity, heritage, or tradition. To be able to de-escalate and completely eliminate any of these potential conflicts is to require one to be neutered to the point of being a mindless clone, an identical copy. Where would this lead? There would be nothing interesting, for everything would always be the same. You would all want to marry the same person. There would be nothing to motivate you to improve upon anything. You would all look alike and act alike. How would you really like it if every restaurant you went to looked identical and served all the same meals, on the same plates? Pretty boring, huh? The point we are trying to make is that part of what makes life interesting and exciting, is variety. It can encourage to improve, do better, expand one’s horizon, leading to a greater degree of happiness and fulfilment. To not recognize the beautiful power in diversity, is to not appreciate differences that have the potential to make the sum of us together, greater than each individual part. This is what made our Nation such a great experiment. Not that we were all of the same ethnicity or belief, from the same traditions with the same histories, but that together we melded our strengths together to be greater than the individual parts. That is why our Nation rose to prominence in less than 300 years. That is something to celebrate, not to tear down.
Those who seek a new world order, are for the most part those who desire to wipe Christopher Columbus off the map of history. They are the ones who claim that those who settled this Nation, beginning with the Pilgrims in 1620. who were seeking religious FREEDOM, were imperialists, white expansionist colonists. This is the basis for what is called “The 1619 Project“, an ideology which aims to reframe this Nation’s history by placing the consequences of slavery at the feet of these Pilgrims who sought simple LIBERTY to worship and live apart from the tyrannical dictates of the Church and Crown of England. Those who claim this Nation was founded upon the backs of blacks who were in servitude, see all whites within our Nation today are imperialists who have stolen the land and lives of indigenous peoples. They seek to draw distinctions between races, contrary to that which has made this country so great, where the blending together of all those who seek FREEDOM and LIBERTY, regardless of race, origin, faith, or any other form of distinction, have been melded together so that we can all prosper, being judged upon the content of our character, not upon the color of our skin (paraphrased from the “I Have A Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963).
Has our Nation made poor decisions in how certain groups of people have been treated through the years? Yes. Many Indian Nations were oppressed and dislodged from lands they had once enjoyed. Many blacks were held in slavery for years. Lands in the south and southwest were fought and won from the Mexicans and Spanish. Our Japanese citizens were placed into internment camps during WWII by the Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. That is history. What is done cannot be undone. But this Nation has matured and improved, correcting many of the mistakes of the past, and has become the most giving Nation in the world. No nation has done more to help struggling people around the world, whether supplying support and funding for nations ravaged by nature or disease, or by giving the blood of our Nation to overcome the threat of tyranny in World Wars I and II. The FREEDOM and LIBERTY experienced today by those who are indigenous, black, and from all ethnicities, is unparalleled in any other nation on earth. Most other nations on this earth are what would be considered fairly ethnically pure, meaning a society unblended with various races, histories, ancestries, and traditions. Our Nation is unique in that most who have come to our shores in times past have decided to become Americans, enjoying the diversity, the opportunities, and the privilege to be a part of such a prosperous Nation, not divided by race or ethnicities, but united in the pursuit of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, where innovation, invention are motivators for success. These ideals were the foundation blocks of this Nation, built upon the belief that all are created equal, and that these ideals were given to us by God, not by man, or through man’s governance.
With the above thoughts in mind, it is not surprising that there are those within our Nation trying to re-make our history, and alter the course ahead to a different type of society. In their vision, all would be welcome into our Nation without exception, since we have been such a flawed nation, riddled with greed, with a superiority complex, and an apparent hatred for others who are “not like us”. One has to wonder why so many people are currently invading our southern border illegally to come to such a terrible nation? Because we have apparently been so bad as a people, the intellectual elites believe we would welcome their leadership, for after all, only they know what is best for us, and would take care of our needs . . . . . as they see fit, and would allow us to live within their gracious reign. In this utopia, you would have no desire to improve yourself, for there would be no purpose in doing so. They would supply only what we would “need” to live, and any of your “wants” would not be important enough to be granted. They would be our benefactors, until we are found unworthy and unwanted, and we would then be ushered quietly out of existence. We really hate to mention it, but this is Communism, a form of Marxism. Those words may be too strong for some, so we will use the word Socialism instead, since many seem to find that concept more palatable. But, as Margaret Thatcher once said, “The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
THE AMERICAN VIRUS then is this wide-spread effort, attacking from many fronts, in many different ways, in an attempt to overcome and remake this great Nation. It is destroying our ancestors, weakening our fathers, breaking down our families, destroying our belief systems, and polluting the minds of our children. What should be clear to all is that the vast majority of those who are light skinned, whether English, Irish, or Spanish, share no responsibility for past National indiscretions, and those who currently have darker skin colors were, for the vast majority, never the direct recipients of those indiscretions committed generations ago. As great wisdom from the ages has taught us: “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the quilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.” (Ezekiel 18:20).The attempts to dredge up selected history, which is often misunderstood and applied, serves only to create division and distrust, with the only purpose of fomenting anger and rage. This is the crux of the Marxist philosophy, to tear down, in order to reform. There is no magic formula or knight in shinning armor coming to the rescue to return our Nation to it’s core principals where equality is heralded. Equal outcomes were never promised, because that is up to the individual’s ingenuity, passion, intellect, and inspiration to achieve. There is only one hope, one method, which can eliminate THE AMERICAN VIRUS, and that is YOU! It will only be through your efforts, standing in the breach (see our blog on June 27, 2021 titled “WHO WILL STAND IN THE BREACH”). You must be active and speak out unashamedly, speaking to your family, friends, and neighbors, being active in attending local school boards, and calling your Representatives and Senators telling them to heed your calls to stop wasteful governmental spending, to stop the tyrannical mask and vaccine mandates, and to once again educate our children, not with the divisive CRT, but with the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. And let’s throw in teaching them all of our American history while we are at it! Remember, our FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake.