Greg, your essay reminds me that a free republic must rest on the rock of virtue. It cannot for the foundation we have chosen: resting on a desire for material prosperity, with any moral issues swept under the rug. Now that we're in the middle of multiple, impoverishing crises, we see just how sandy that foundation is.
So what virtues are we taking about? Let's just focus with the classic cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude. A prudent people does not fight unjust wars, while at the same time being alert to the machinations of real enemies. A temperate people doesn't do drugs: that's just one aspect of this virtue, but think of the enormous benefit to the republic fro this alone. The cardinal virtue of justice includes honesty: just think how so many political evils would have been avoided if people were committed to the truth rather than their own biases. And then there's fortitude, which includes courage. Think if we had the courage to nip so many pernicious trends in the bud ("resist the beginnings" being a tenet of wisdom), armed with the truth. Instead we gave our intelligence over to rationalizations of every kind.
Our schools need to inculcate the cardinal virtues, so that young people can make proper use of the facts of history and the facts of science. (Church-based schools should also teach the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.) I believe that a virtuous young generation would be able to live independently by their late teens and to begin to establish families by their early 20s at the latest.
It's my hope that the anti-woke liberals and the anti-woke conservatives have enough virtues in common--like a commitment to the truth--that they will forge a viable coalition.
So true Greg, but there is no sufficient resistance now, in light of the left’s complete subversion of the educational system, the media, and the deep state throughout government, rather than at some point when the time is right; counter revolution with arms. We need to cut to the chase, as most likely the next election will be decided by the voting machines again, as in our last national election and the Georgia senate election, and as in Venezuela, which when Chavez instituted the dominion machines, the left never lost another election; this is our fate if we don’t act soon.
It's a difficult path either way. Measures are supposedly being taken to ensure election integrity, and Dominion has been dropped in many places (which is why they're suing S Powell and others like mad). So there may still exist path, if a very narrow and improbable one, through "constitutional" means. Counter revolution with arms has its own difficulties as well. FBI informants are rife in the militia movement, and with drones even cowards can fight and kill.
Your points are well taken Greg. This next election cycle will tell the entire story of whether or not the left has completely infiltrated and subverted our electoral process, or whether the right has been intelligent enough in their efforts to reverse that and bring us back to democratic function. Should we lose in what logically would be another historic landslide victory for the right, it will signify that the time has arrived to completely and quickly pivot to a new strategy or face extinction.
Greg, your essay reminds me that a free republic must rest on the rock of virtue. It cannot for the foundation we have chosen: resting on a desire for material prosperity, with any moral issues swept under the rug. Now that we're in the middle of multiple, impoverishing crises, we see just how sandy that foundation is.
So what virtues are we taking about? Let's just focus with the classic cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude. A prudent people does not fight unjust wars, while at the same time being alert to the machinations of real enemies. A temperate people doesn't do drugs: that's just one aspect of this virtue, but think of the enormous benefit to the republic fro this alone. The cardinal virtue of justice includes honesty: just think how so many political evils would have been avoided if people were committed to the truth rather than their own biases. And then there's fortitude, which includes courage. Think if we had the courage to nip so many pernicious trends in the bud ("resist the beginnings" being a tenet of wisdom), armed with the truth. Instead we gave our intelligence over to rationalizations of every kind.
Our schools need to inculcate the cardinal virtues, so that young people can make proper use of the facts of history and the facts of science. (Church-based schools should also teach the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.) I believe that a virtuous young generation would be able to live independently by their late teens and to begin to establish families by their early 20s at the latest.
It's my hope that the anti-woke liberals and the anti-woke conservatives have enough virtues in common--like a commitment to the truth--that they will forge a viable coalition.
So true Greg, but there is no sufficient resistance now, in light of the left’s complete subversion of the educational system, the media, and the deep state throughout government, rather than at some point when the time is right; counter revolution with arms. We need to cut to the chase, as most likely the next election will be decided by the voting machines again, as in our last national election and the Georgia senate election, and as in Venezuela, which when Chavez instituted the dominion machines, the left never lost another election; this is our fate if we don’t act soon.
It's a difficult path either way. Measures are supposedly being taken to ensure election integrity, and Dominion has been dropped in many places (which is why they're suing S Powell and others like mad). So there may still exist path, if a very narrow and improbable one, through "constitutional" means. Counter revolution with arms has its own difficulties as well. FBI informants are rife in the militia movement, and with drones even cowards can fight and kill.
Your points are well taken Greg. This next election cycle will tell the entire story of whether or not the left has completely infiltrated and subverted our electoral process, or whether the right has been intelligent enough in their efforts to reverse that and bring us back to democratic function. Should we lose in what logically would be another historic landslide victory for the right, it will signify that the time has arrived to completely and quickly pivot to a new strategy or face extinction.