For those of us with Calvinist settler roots, this is the truth of America which a determined group of newcomers have worked hard for the past century or so to extinguish.
America is the expression of the Reformation and the Englightenment, buttressed by the political evolution of Britain especially.
We are now far away from that, and just in the last 50 years as the determined assault on our basic beliefs and culture came to fruition.
At some point, those of us who remember the old America need to ask: are we bound by the attitudes and initiatives of the newcomers? Those who came to disestablish our egalitarian and morally driven nation?
We are told repeatedly that we should extend tolerance to all because that is our creed too. Maybe so, but when the legal and social aspects of our creed are simply snuffed out by their votes, their judicial decrees, their cultural and legal norms....are we still in our nation?
Are we powerless to re-establish that success which attracted them here, only to undermine it?
This is the ascendant question for the Americans...whether our land and nation is still ours...or simply vanished. And do we simply shrug and live with that?
Both sides of my family settled here in the 1660’s. We have fought in every war in this nation’s history. We have lived and died by the decree that we are free and independent people capable of setting our own course. We have been farmers, laborers, ministers, doctors, politicians, teachers, business makers and more.
We offer our way of life for those willing to accept and build on what we have created. We do not accede to those who wish to come and destroy what we have built. We will fight them as we have fought every despot who has tried to take away what we have created.
This current cabal of louts and desperados ruining our country will be stopped. They have no place here and will be thrown out if they continue to insist that we owe them anything more than opportunity to work and build for themselves their own homestead.
Our churches, schools, businesses and government are threatened by interlopers seeking to steal and conscript for themselves. This will not stand. We will do what is necessary to restore the opportunity our fathers and mothers lived and died to secure.