Freedom Is on the March

American Thinker ^ | 16 Feb, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

The fight for freedom rarely begins before freedom is nearly snuffed out.

The plan was simple. If Western governments controlled the “narrative” and censored dissent, those with power would retain power forever. If they spied on citizens and threatened uncooperative parties with imprisonment, nobody would dare resist. If they fashioned their labyrinthine bureaucracies into regulatory weapons targeting ideological enemies, opposition leaders with the most to lose would be the first to cower in silence. Own the message. Monopolize the means of messaging. Neutralize competing messengers. This is how totalitarianism rises and freedom dies.

However, as nineteenth-century Prussian military commander Helmuth von Moltke warned, no plan survives contact with the enemy. The globalists did not foresee Brexit. They could not imagine the election of President Donald J. Trump. They underestimated the public support for Bolsonaro, Orbán, Farage, Wilders, and Le Pen. They did not anticipate the return of eloquent defenders of freedom such as Canada’s Pierre Poilievre, Argentina’s Javier Milei, and America’s J.D. Vance. As is true of all ruling classes whose reigns appear unbreakable right before shattering, hubris will be globalism’s undoing.

For many years we’ve watched as the West’s would-be executioners tightened the noose around civilization’s neck. Open borders have dampened wages, strained welfare systems, exacerbated crime, incited cultural conflict, and diluted citizens’ votes. Propaganda has become the only finished good that globalist governments mass-produce. Bureaucrats have seized the authority to decide what is true, and they have used this stolen authority to label dissent as “false,” “dangerous,” or “hateful.” As governments have criminalized “misinformation” and “hate speech,” they have transformed political opponents into “criminals.” This is what the Enlightenment’s descendants have wrought: they have murdered free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience. They have thrown liberty’s corpse on a funeral pyre and set it ablaze.

[MtnClimber]

An example needs to be made of the leftists that did this.

[GonzoII]

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[Redleg Duke]

” However, as nineteenth-century Prussian military commander Helmuth von Moltke warned, no plan survives contact with the enemy. ”

As an S-3, my plans never survived contact with the training area!