Somewhere in Time

What made America was all done very intentionally. People/communities seeking agency and wielding cultural soft and at times government hard power to do so. America was likewise undone by her domestic enemies very intentionally just the same. America will need to be redone every bit as intentionally. None of this will occur in the abstract. The theoretical does not spontaneously combust. There will not be some cultural Big Bang to save us. It will require the same seeking and wielding of cultural and government power to restore individual God-given rights. And if you don’t believe me, look how far our colonial ancestors were willing to go. We act as if they just declared their independence and it was so. No, what came next were years of what we would nowadays consider savagery inside our contemporary comfort zones. We are no longer within an intact social compact. Our domestic enemies want to end our very way of life, and are making that plain in word and deed. Thus Thatcher’s “first you win the argument then you win the vote” axiom so often quoted on the Right no longer applies. Perhaps some of us haven’t yet noticed, but we are post-argument with our domestic enemies. The only arguments still occurring are among us, Besides, Thatcher’s England is totally lost to the Spirit of the Age now, which only bolsters my point. The creed for this era need to be “first you win the war and then you get to have arguments.” Our Founders earned the right to have internal debates of philosophical depth among themselves because they won the war. We aren’t even close to doing the same. Blaming dispensationalists or integralists is the new neocons or isolationists. Some people within these camps I’m sure intend sincerity of discourse, but if you’re on your 50th post of the week about either our enemies will laugh and just continue urinating on the relics of our past when they’re not just tearing them down altogether. The average Joe doesn’t care about any of this, while too many on platforms like this are so shallow they’ve relegated such terms to mere trope status. Average Joes are just trying to survive, and that’s what we should be trying to collectively do. I propose instead the following ongoing argument — what is your plan for achieving and wielding cultural and government power to reclaim our heritage and secure our birthright? And what are you doing to follow through on such? And there’s just one rule — we can’t do anything the God who grants us our rights says is wrong. That’s it. That’s the only rule. Anyone wearing our uniform proposes or flirts with such, that is when we have internal disciplinary discourse about what to do with them. Otherwise, the discourse should be how we’re gonna do everything we can to defeat our domestic enemies other than what God says we can’t.