The election is over but little is settled. Socialist mayors and governors permit hired criminals to destroy their cities and then expect a federal government bail-out. It is up to God-fearing, law-abiding and Constitution-loving Americans to now fight for their future or lose it all.
An American writes from Cambodia this past week saying, “I was in Laos from 1968-1971. I was a contract employee of the US Embassy in Laos. I watched as Laos went from a constitutional monarchy to a communist state. I witnessed the major destruction of this country, through infiltration, fear, dissemination of propaganda via rumor and print, developing slogans like ‘jackapot,’ meaning roughly ‘colonialist slave master.’ There were demonstrations against the government, village leaders and police were routinely assaulted and assassinated, eventually leading to open civil war.
I not only lived through this in Laos, but I observed Cambodia, as I was stationed on the border of Laos and Cambodia and was part of daily CIA/USAID briefings.
Cambodia was the envy of Southeast Asia in the 1960's. Lee Kaun Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore came to see Phnom Penh and gasped, "I hope someday my country can look this good!”(Singapore is now a leading world class nation.) Cambodia maintained neutrality until the overthrow of Prime Minister Sihanouk in 1970 by a pro-American general named Lon Nol.
I thought Sihanouk was the wisest leader in the world; he'd kept his country out of war, but then the coup occurred when Lon Nol came into power. Nixon ordered 30,000 US troops across the Cambodian/Vietnam border to destroy munitions supplies for the Viet Kong.
There was much political pressure at home (U.S.) and Nixon pulled the troops back replacing them with B-52 carpet bombing. That gave the struggling Khmer Rouge communists a propaganda foothold that was the beginning of the end for Cambodia.
By 1975, Phnom Penh, the capital, was destroyed. (The Khmer Rouge killed nearly 2 million Cambodians). If you think that can't happen in America, you need to pray. Just look at where we are now versus Christmas last year.”
Just before November 3, some were portraying our election as not just between two candidates but between two political ways, freedom versus socialism / communism.
C.S. Lewis in his 1958 essay ‘Willing Slaves of the Welfare State’ said, “To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labor, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death—these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilized man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.”
While advocates for the welfare state argue that government programs produce happiness and security, Lewis insists they are deceived and mistaken. Freedom is the path to achieve these ends.
Lewis writes, “I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has ‘the freeborn mind.’ But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who needs and asks nothing of Government who can criticize its acts and snap his fingers at its ideology. Read Montaigne; that’s the voice of a man with his legs under his own table, eating the mutton and turnips raised on his own land. Who will talk like that when the State is everyone’s schoolmaster and employer?”
Tyrants or rulers treat their subjects like domesticated animals.
In ‘The Abolition of Man’, Lewis says: “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
America is beyond a fix by changing officeholders. Our Founding Fathers did not believe the nation or the Constitution could survive a people that rejected God and His moral way.
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