- pop culture and the entertainment industry
- corporate industry and the workplace
- most Christian churches, including the Catholic Church
- the traditional news media
- all branches and institutions of the federal government (including the bureaucracies)
- nearly all educational institutions and the textbook industry
- the television networks, public broadcasting, museums and other public depositories of information
- most of the Internet, including all social media
- the Boy Scouts (who, after a long desperate struggle, were the last to fall)
Have I missed anything?
Likely, I did. The power and
influence of the left is nearly without limit.
Thoughtful parents who carry even some small vestige of
traditionalism in their hearts, and a desire to impart it to their children,
are doomed before they begin. When
pressed, most of them are unable even to explain their views, much less defend
them in the face of the withering and ubiquitous ridicule coming from their
brainwashed coworkers, friends, and family, and the onslaught coming from every
corner of the greater smut-culture. The
left's victory has been so thorough, and their scorched earth policy so
complete, that there is no longer any fertile soil anywhere in America where morality
or reason may take root. Things once
considered radical have now long been deemed normal, and anyone who dares
publicly express traditionalist sentiments is branded with a kind of scarlet letter- marginalized and
demonized as a "hater", "racist", "homophobe", "denier",
or some other ad hominem, denigrating misnomer.
Reputations are smeared, fines are levied, careers are destroyed, and
some are arrested, with no recourse to the law or even to once commonly held
decency. America has become a soft
police state, pursuing an ongoing pogrom against traditionalists, capitalists,
and western religionists.
The loss of the culture war in America is analogous to the
loss of a conventional military war. I
am confident in the strength of that simile.
Consider that two sides (American statists and traditionalists) went to
war over disputed territory (our politico-cultural institutions); one side has
routed the other in every major battle (the statists have overcome traditionalist
influence everywhere), the disputed
territory has been forcibly taken and
occupied by the enemy (leftists now control all
politico-cultural institutions). Traditionalists and conservatives eke out
lives of quiet desperation in a country that they barely recognize, waiting for
a hero to lead them out of the wilderness.
That is the very definition of defeat.
Why is it of utmost importance to admit that this war has been lost? Because some of the conservative forces
survived the struggle and have gone to ground; we still have a small, capable
army comprised of some brilliant people.
But no potential future offensive by conservatives can be fought on the
old cultural battlefields, using the old failed tactics and strategies. If we repeat those mistakes, and continue to
engage the enemy on territory that they firmly control, pretending that they do
not control it, the remainder of our forces will be wiped out and we'll lose
this country, possibly forever. The only
alternative open to us, furthering the military simile, is to wage a
political/cultural guerilla war against this enemy, an enemy that has become the
new establishment.
Conservatives must steal several pages out of the enemy's
playbook, and the most essential strategy from those pages is a covert effort
to Infiltrate America's socio-political organizations in order to take them
back, quietly, from the inside. Yes, we must employ similar strategies used
by the leftists to take them from us in the first place. There are many out there who have already
begun to fight back in this vein. From
men like Glen Beck and Mark Levin, to organizations like the Heritage
Foundation and websites like Brietbart.com; these conservative culture warriors
are on the offensive each and every day, employing equal measures of truth and sarcasm
to bombard the enemy and set the record straight.
Another shining example in this insurgency to take back the
culture is the movement to inaugurate an Article V convention of the states, an
effort designed to culminate in amendments to the constitution (bypassing most
of the compromised cultural institutions, and doing an end-run around the feds)
that will reinforce the Founders' intended curtailment of federal powers. A wonderful organization called The Convention Of The States Project has
quietly been providing information and advice to various state legislatures
around the country. Legislatures in
several states have formed exploratory committees to get the ball rolling. Most recently, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has begun a determined
effort to rally support for a convention in the TX legislature, which includes
coordination with legislatures of other states.
Governor Abbott, the articulate former attorney general of TX, is
extraordinarily well-versed in the legal aspects of the process, and we're
blessed to have him fighting for us. The
movement is slowly gaining ground, and I believe it will continue to grow
vigorously, as more Americans begin to reject the overreach of Moscow on the Potomac. I just pray that there are enough of us to
make a difference.
There are precedents in history, during the
final years of the Cold War, for other successful cultural counter-revolutions:
the Solidarity Movement in Poland,
and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.
Both are examples of successful non-conventional efforts at weakening the power
of tyrannical central authority. However,
in the America of 2016, it's become clear that the slide towards chaos is no
mere trend, but a hideous mutation
undergone by the American collective psyche.
I think there's great doubt as to whether or not we can reverse what
we've become and halt the high degree of social entropy that's so deeply imbedded
in our national soul. At this point it
may be as impossible as returning an already fired bullet back into the chamber
of a revolver. Be that as it may, it's
incumbent upon us to try; the alternative is to resign the posterity of the American
Founders to destruction and, as a result, condemning future generations of
Americans to Hell on Earth.
