Posted on 10/22/2019 4:39:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
A great title can get people to read your book, attend your event or click on your op-ed. I often choose a title before I write a piece to keep me on track when I have too many things to say and too few words in which to say them.
“The War for America’s Soul” is the title of a conservative event sponsored by Salem Media, parent company of Townhall, that is touring the country. The title is borrowed from the latest book by Salem syndicated talk show host Sebastian Gorka.
Is that title accurate or is it just hyperbole to sell a political event? Not only is it disturbingly accurate, but too many elected Republicans are still unwilling to see or admit it.
Shouldn’t we be able to define what America’s soul is before we determine that America is in danger of losing it? I submit that America’s soul is built on the moral imperative of Liberty for every citizen, with free markets and self-government as the best possible means to achieve it.
Today, we have both admitted and hidden socialists serving in elected office who do indeed threaten America’s soul. Just as that little devil Mr. Applegate in the musical "Damn Yankees" enticed Joe Boyd to sell his soul to help the Washington Senators win the pennant, America is being enticed by numerous Mr. Applegates.
The siren song of socialism lures us to sell out our God-given freedoms with endless enticements of free stuff and the promise of not having to work for it. Self-sufficiency and personal responsibility is marketed to the masses as not being all it’s cracked up to be.
Growing government compulsion is further sold to the public by wrapping it up in a pretty bow and calling it, “compassion.” As a result, an unprecedented number of Americans are prepared to vote away their own freedoms and the freedoms of their neighbor. AOC argues that we need more of that government compulsion to guarantee our "freedom," which shows she has no concept of what freedom even means.
The act of restraining oneself from fostering dependency in others is a profound act of generosity. We know this instinctively in our business and personal lives. We see it in the therapist who chooses to help her client terminate therapy rather than extending it as a means of long-term income for herself. We see it in the father who teaches his son or daughter to not be afraid of failure or to make mistakes. We see it in the adult child who honors his aging parent’s wishes to live independently in his home as long as he can.
Self-sufficiency requires that we be free to make our own choices and our own mistakes. Adults learn to welcome the consequences of those choices as a means of learning and self-growth. Without free will, we are limited to nothing more than obedience or rebellion—two sides of the same coin. We remain children and the government becomes our parent.
The value of personal freedom and independence being necessary to happiness is common sense. So, how did conservatives lose so much ground in this argument?
Through a variety of promotion and bias in news reporting, entertainment, education and pop culture, the Left has succeeded in convincing a great number of citizens that it is selfish to want to restrict one’s own power and that of the government —that collective intervention and intrusion into every area of our lives is compassionate.
There is nothing new under the sun. Socialists continue to work toward reducing each of us to nothing more than mindless, collective identities. This is how they justify the need for big, bigger, and biggest government.
More openly than ever, they are marching us towards statism, authoritarianism and the abolishment of every one of our rights.
That is the very definition of “The War for America’s Soul” and it's certainly an apt title for a political tour. Hopefully, it will help us find the way to banish Mr. Applegate and his soulless bribery and convince citizens that even if everything they ever wanted were free, it would never be worth it.
We must counter the marketing, the enticements and media hype by using the strongest means available and do it, as John F. Kennedy said, "with vigor."
Our motto ought to be, God gave us free will. We should never expect less from our government.
Short answer is yes - but the war-zone is not limited to American borders.
No external power could have destroyed the mighty Roman Empire. Rome fell because of internal moral rot and decay.
No external power could destroy the mighty USA. If America falls, it will be because of internal moral rot and decay.
That balm is offered to America by President Trump and his supporters. Pray that the sin sick accept it and heal.
“Is There Really a War for America’s Soul?”
Damn right, and Satan is giving it his best shot working through his proxies the democrats.
Just look down a few threads and you’ll have your answer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3788063/posts
She’s partially right. America’s soul was built on God.
It is the forsaking of God that has led us down this path.
It is spiritual warfare.
Yes, but it’s a pretty one-sided war. The Left has been pushing all kinds of evil for decades, and winning. The Right has been talking about small reductions in the capital gains tax rate for the last 25 years. Conservatism was founded as a movement to oppose international, USSR-backed communism. Once that opponent was defeated, the Right turned to purely economic arguments at home and neocon foreign policy.
All social issues have been abandoned since 1988 (sure, the GOP cares about abortion ... for fundraising purposes). Conservatism has lost on everything except for guns, and that battle will get tougher as we go. Remember that “gay marriage” failed at the ballot box in 2008 in California of all places. Evil has political representation. It has no opposition. Tranny reading hour is a real thing in our country.
This war was lost and our future sealed when homosexual activity was sanctend by the Supreme Court.
This war was lost and our future sealed when homosexual activity was sanctend by the Supreme Court.
It’s the same war for souls that has been raging since the start of time. The globalist left has gleefully chosen to side with the Adversary, while I hope and pray that we can and will stay on God’s side.
The war of words and law may be lost in some aspects but it will eventually turn into a war of violence and physical conflict.
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Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.
= limited government + capitalism VS statism + socialism
Exactly!
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