More people around the world are—at
least nominally—free than at any other time in history. Free from monarchs,
dictators, communism, fascism. Free from serfdom, servitude, slavery,
deprivation and extreme oppression. This has ironically led many to take their
freedom for granted. Especially in the West. Perhaps the longer you have had
something the less you cherish it. Because never before in human history have so
many people willingly ceded control of their minds, souls and bodies to others.
Examples of this are legion, perhaps none more illustrative and chilling than the
reaction to government mandates and restrictions put in place during the
coronavirus plandemic pandemic.
Healthy people must stay in their
homes for two weeks a year or more? No problem. We have to cover our
breathing apparatus with masks, indoors or out? Check. My job is
“nonessential?” Yes, sir. I can’t go see my dying grandmother? Okay. Daughter
can’t get married if she wants all her friends and family to attend and share
her joy? Whatever you say. “Experts” say I must inject an unvetted foreign
substance into my body if I wish to attend college or keep my job? Thank you,
sir, I’ll have another! We must keep at least six feet apart from all other
homo sapiens and eat our Thanksgiving
dinner outside? Big Brother knows best!
Whether submitting to hoaxes, obeying
frauds or allowing “educators,” “journalists,” Big Tech tyrants, corporate
charlatans and unelected bureaucrats to tell us what to do, how to speak, how
to think, and what is right, far too many of us have effectively knelt before
the emperor. But the emperor has no clothes. It is time for us to acknowledge
this fact.
(A brief aside: Those who would
enslave us spent four years telling us that President Trump was an emperor, a
tyrant. They opposed everything he did or said simply because he did or said
it. Turns out, most of what he said was correct.
And he was one man fighting, for us, against the vast systemic bigotry of The
Left. He was, in fact, the anti-emperor, the embodiment of a true anti-fascist.)
Too many of us have put up with
exorbitant taxes, punitive regulations, mindless mandates, and policies that
make us less happy, less free and at greater risk of being physically
harmed or killed. Enforced mask mandates for us but not for those burning
down our cities. Protect our borders? No way. Defund the police? You bet. This
madness has to stop. But it can only stop when the vast majority of people no
longer choose to be slaves and victims. When unprecedentedly large numbers of people
effectively willingly enslave themselves, when they outsource their free will
to a government entity, it is a sign of mass insanity, an Age of Delusion. “Voluntary”
slavery is anathema to an individual soul, a free society, and to God Himself.
Leftists don’t want us to remember,
let alone laud, our Founders, old white men that most were. But, though they
were classical liberals—meaning they would be conservatives today-- they were true
progressives. Their knowledge, brilliance, self-sacrifice and courage changed
the world for the better, ushering in an age of freedom, invention and reason. Some
called the results of their endeavors the “5,000
Year Leap.”
And they threw off an oppressive
government, in part, because of a mild tax
on tea.
As we approach Independence Day,
July 4th, 2021, I’ve found myself looking out at the world and in at
my children. “Are we too far gone?” I have asked myself. “Can we still save the
republic?” Has the unique quest for equal opportunity morphed into a demand for
equal outcome, or equity?
Today I received, via regular old
mail, a notice from Hillsdale College, perhaps the last bastion of actual
“higher education” in America. It bid me a “Happy Independence Day,” and
followed that up with a plea to help preserve the only nation ever “conceived
in liberty” by participating in the “Preserve the Declaration Project.”
I humbly ask you to do the same. Simply
go to hillsdaleforliberty.com/declaration and download the free
commemorative copy of the Declaration of Independence. Sign the pledge to read
the Declaration on July 4th, and then read the Declaration to your
family and friends on the Fourth of July during your cookout/party/observance.
That’s it.
As Abraham
Lincoln said, 87 years later, of the hundreds of thousands who were killed
fighting to end slavery and preserve the union: “It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far
so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
158 years later, is it too late to keep government of the people, by
the people, for the people, from perishing from the earth? Is it still possible
to have a new birth of freedom? Can we save the “last, best hope on earth?”
I honestly don’t know. But let us try.
Dear Lord, let us try.
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