This is the existential question and for me it is more than of just academic interest. I have six kids, six grandchildren, one great grandchild and I ask you, what should I advise them to do as they make their way at their various ages into the world? Do I tell them to live the life of an open conservative as I have not so subtly encouraged them to do, or should they affiliate themselves with some less distasteful manifestations of the leftist movement to disguise themselves during the time of trials to come?
Anticipating what might come, one in all good conscience has to seriously evaluate whether, for example, to join the NRA, to register a firearm, to register as a Republican, to profess a Christian faith because the downside implications after the deluge are ominous. My assumption is that it can get as bad as Venezuela, certainly careers will be ruined, social standing dashed, property confiscated and access to education, capital, associations will be foreclosed and, inevitably, everyday freedom will evaporate. Should the kids put their own yellow armband on or should they play it smart?
Against the course of all history as you have pointed out, what hope do we have that America will not go the way of Rome or England or any other great nation state? Well, there is the hope of technology. No one can predict where technology will lead us and it might come to pass that technology will prove our salvation. On the other hand, as Churchill put it, we may enter a darker age thanks to the lights of perverted science and it seems that Silicon Valley is rushing headlong to take us there.
We can hope for a spiritual awakening such as occurred in this country prior to the Declaration of Independence and at around the time of the Civil War. Perhaps it would be better to pray for such an awakening because rational hope in this cultural atmosphere is a very thin reed indeed.
You are right, "resist we must" because it is the duty of our generation to soldier on but I am concerned about the kids.
