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Posted on 08/26/2026 5:30:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
People need meaning in their lives, and the decline in faith and uptick in socialism mark a very dangerous shift in that search.
The West is losing faith in God, individual responsibility, and the institutions that restrain our worst tendencies. In their place, an increasingly secular culture is bending the knee toward collectivist ideas. Collectivism falsely promises to solve problems that neither human beings nor traditional institutions have. In doing so, it completely forgoes history’s lessons.
As a belief in God declines, people are not abandoning a desire to believe in something larger than themselves; instead, they are looking to the collective—in a misguided belief that government, society, or some other institution will magically deliver equality, justice, security, belonging, and moral order.
This ongoing transposition is accompanied by a loss of faith in individualism and institutions built on individual liberty, private property, voluntary association, and personal responsibility. Increasingly, individualism is viewed not as the cornerstone of a free society, but as the source of inequality, injustice, and social disorder. The collective, by contrast, is portrayed as society’s savior.
Western civilization did not achieve its wealth and power accidentally. Our best features—individual liberty, private property, limited government, and the rule of law—are bedrock requisites for a civil society, developed through centuries of painful trial and error. Human beings are imperfect, and the power of the state is an omnipresent danger to our essential freedoms.
Our founders did not assume perfect individuals would lead us. To the contrary, they assumed that leaders would frequently pursue their own self-interest, that governments might become oppressive, and that even the best of us might abuse their position. Our system is not perfect; however, it was designed to be realistic: intended to prevent imperfect people from acquiring too much power over one another.
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The collectivists want to get rid of checks and balances. I believe their elitist leaders view themselves as gods.
The first, and most important of the Commandments, “You shall have no other gods before Me” makes it pretty clear.
Hence, the push to keep it out of our schools and society.
EC
A high trust society is not an easy thing to achieve. By bribing the low trust hordes to invade America you destroy the law and order needed for a prosperious civilization. America worked because the Christian belief in the Golden Rule created that high trust needed. Deporting these invaders has never been more important.
We’re being Balkanized, and we’ll end up like the former Yugoslavia.
BUMP!
Separating the wheat from the chaff...
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