A headline from Breitbart to begin this column: "Report: Afghan National Suspect in National Guardsmen Shooting; Came to America on Biden Admin's Operation Allies Welcome; Permission to Stay Expired."
I wasn't aware that Afghans were ever our allies (not since the departure of the USSR from Afghanistan), but maybe there are a couple of people in Afghanistan who like America. Apparently, the guy who shot the National Guardsmen wasn't one of those two. But then, Biden has never known who our allies and enemies are.
The immigrants who came to America (mostly from Europe) in the late 19th-early 20th centuries assimilated into America because they wanted to. They were fleeing tyranny and oppression, and appreciated the freedom America offered them. We have a different cast of immigrants now. Some do want to assimilate and become Americans, but millions hate the country and want to remake it in their own image. The Democrats, of course, are encouraging this because they, too, hate traditional American values. They are socialists, Marxists, atheists, and want to undo the virtuous, limited republic established by our Founders. Thus, they applaud and welcome their new coterie of barbaric comrades who also hate America.
Will it lead to civil war? The Left is hoping to gain power again, of course, and, if a civil war starts, they want MAGA to initiate it. If patriotic Americans cave and give in to the godless, totalitarian socialism of the Left, that would be just fine with the Marxists. They would kill whoever they needed to kill and cower everybody else. Can you say "USSR" and "Communist China"? The 2028 election is going to be very interesting, indeed.
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In the last 100 years, it was very unusual for a Leftist/Marxist/communist group to come to power without a civil war. Allende did it in Chile, I guess, but in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, and Korea, there were civil wars, and in Eastern Europe and Tibet, it required Soviet and Chinese tanks and troops to put communism in power. Can the Left peacefully create a totalitarian dictatorship (it will start with "martial law") in America? We hope we never have to find out, but it is a question worth preparing for. The chances are probably none, and less than none. It would require a lot of deaths.
America, as I've noted before, is teetering on the brink. That's just the lesson of history. American historian and philosopher Will Durant beautifully describes the downfall of the Persian empire in the 4th century B.C. I shall quote him in two parts.
Why Empires Disintegrate
"It is in the nature of an empire to disintegrate soon, for the energy that created it disappears from those who inherit it, at the very time that its subject peoples are gathering strength to fight for their lost liberty."
America, technically, is not, and is not supposed to be, an "empire." We've cheated a little in the past, and we still possess "protectorates," a euphemism for "colony," which is a dirty word in our day. But, honestly, none of America's protectorates (that I can currently recall) have tried to break away from their overlords, as happened in Persia, and the British, French, and Soviet empires in the 20th century. We treat our colonies well. But Durant does make a valuable point. When a country works hard (as America did) and grows rich, fat, and lazy, it tends to lose the values that made it powerful in the first place. That is definitely happening in America, and if we don't regain the principles that made us a great nation, we are finished. The Democrats hope the great America never rises again.
The Role of Diversity in Empire Disintegration
Durant continues, and this is especially brilliant and pertinent:
"Nor is it natural that nations diverse in language, religion, morals, and traditions should long remain united; there is nothing organic in such a union, and compulsion must repeatedly be applied to maintain the artificial bond. In its two hundred years of empire Persia did nothing to lessen this heterogeneity, these centrifugal forces; she was content to rule a mob of nations, and never thought of making them into a state." (Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, 382).
A better description of what Democrats are deliberately doing in current America might be hard to find. The Persians just let it happen, hardly noticing what they had. The Democrats have purposely invited foreign, un-American elements into America, and are making every effort possible to keep these people separate and divided from traditional American values. Different peoples can live together if they create a common bond that is stronger than the differences that define them. Again, this happened to the immigrants 100 years ago. But the Democrats don't want that now. "Diversity is our strength" is one of the biggest piles of cholesterol-laden pig slop the Left has ever fobbed off on America. "Nor is it natural" that people "diverse in language, religion, morals, and traditions should long remain united; there is nothing organic in such a union," and as in the Soviet Union's diverse empire, "compulsion [had to] repeatedly be applied to maintain the artificial bond." As America has "diversified," it is no coincidence that the central government in Washington, D.C., has grown and expanded as well. The Democrats want the totalitarian power that Lenin, Stalin, Khruschev, etc. had in the Soviet Union. First, divide America; then, conquer. It's a strategy that has been successful in the past.
Yes, different peoples can live together if one of two things happen—one, the new ones willingly assimilate into the values, traditions, and cultures of the established communities without trying to destroy them. Again, America's earlier immigrants did that. The second way diverse peoples can live together is if they are held together by a totalitarian force. This is what the Democratic Party is trying to create in America today.
How long can two peoples who hate each other live together?
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