Restoring the Republic: The Fight Against Democrat-Socialism and Radical Islam

We inherited a Republic built on seven bedrock principles that our Founding Fathers enshrined in the Constitution itself—popular sovereignty, federalism, republicanism, separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, and individual rights. These were not clever theories or abstract musings conjured up to satisfy some passing political whim. They were deliberate safeguards forged to shield our God-given freedoms and rights from a threat as old as time itself—the type of threat the Declaration of Independence warns us against—tyranny: 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”

These are not just mere words inscribed on parchment, framed, and left hanging in the Rotunda as historical relics of a bygone era. They are the inherent law of the land that our Founding Fathers risked and pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to institute, defend, and protect, so that we could live as Free People in a land and with a government unburdened by kings and tyrants. A government instituted among men that is Of, By, and For the People, and not above the People. A government Entrusted to the People where politicians derive their limited, conditional powers from the Consent of the People—the governed. A government divided into three parts so that no one branch could become destructive to the People's Ends. 

Yet here we are, 250 years later, having wandered dangerously far from that legacy—our inheritance—watching it slip through our fingers. 

How did we get here? Why is this happening to our country? . . . I imagine are questions that have crossed the minds of most rational, freedom-loving Americans on more than one occasion. 

Well, sadly, the answer is far simpler—and more infuriating—than most would care to admit. Of course, setting aside the obvious, the Democrats’ cynical electioneering schemes—open borders, census manipulation, ballot harvesting, and beyond—lies a deeper crisis. For decades, America’s instinctive generosity—that warm-hearted impulse to open our arms, doors, and homes to strangers—once a strength, has curdled into naïve benevolence and unguarded good-faith complacency. Compounding the damage is the Democrats' deliberate abandonment of our Republic’s self-governing free-market Capitalist economy in favor of an ever-more coercive state of government-dependent Socialism laced with elements of Fascism that history has repeatedly shown have inevitably led to economic stagnation and, ultimately, Communist tyranny.

Suffice it to say that injudicious—although well-intentioned—instinctive generosity has, as a matter of natural course, been shamelessly exploited on two fronts:

1)— By legions of brainwashed, college campus ideologues, more specifically, young adults who have been programmed by Progressive professors and politicians—in other words, Democrat-Socialists—into believing they are perpetual victims who are owed and owe nothing to the country that gave them everything. As such, they are now convinced that work itself is optional, that rioting is a legitimate form of protest, that violence is activism, and that the greatest country in the world is irredeemably evil.

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2)— By successive waves of imported zealots—more specifically, those from Islamic-majority countries. The vast majority of these militant visitors or immigrants not only balk at our laws, as though the rules don’t apply to them, refusing to assimilate, but, it seems, they also regard themselves as uniquely special and superior, particularly in the eyes of or according to their almighty pedophile, Allah. As such, they not only feel emboldened to sneer at and mock Americans with open contempt but also behave as though they are entitled to a free ride through life at our expense—looting our wallets and abusing our welfare resources—despite despising our Judeo-Christian principles that gave them a home and made such generosity possible in the first place.

In fact, in recent years, the more they have infiltrated, burrowed deeper into, and taken over communities and/or elected offices—whether at a local, state, or federal level—in an effort to normalize their presence in American society, the more defiant, belligerent, and aggressive they have become . . . even dangerously so. Not only brazenly demanding that we accommodate and become subservient to their Communist theocratic cultish beliefs, laws, wants, and/or needs, but also calling for the fundamental transformation of the United States.

To them, this freedom loving Republic isn’t a treasure to be defended, but an evil empire to be toppled and turned into a playground for their personal ambitions and radical social experiments—slickly marketed as communal equity and moral progress but in truth and by all objectively immoral standards, amounts to nothing more than an elaborate scheme, a lie engineered to trap citizens under their thumbs and in government-dependent poverty, stripping them of their autonomy in the name of power.

You see, for Democrats—the Party with an impressive historical résumé as the architects of the KKK, Jim Crow, and slavery—it has never been about unity, equality, and fixing things . . . community and reform have never been their objectives. Their agenda has always been about dividing to conquer to remake things, about equity of outcomes—equal shares of the scraps and suffering after they have feasted on our children's futures—not equal opportunity, or, as Obama, our preeminent divisive Divider-in-Chief and race-baiting hustler, cheerfully coined it, “Hope and Change.”

Of course, other Progressive propagandists prefer to dress their Communist machinations up as the comforting “Warmth of Collectivism,” all while backhandedly dubbing and demeaning the empowerment of independence under the banner of “Rugged Individualism” as something evil . . . as isolationism when nothing could be further from the truth. 

Which begs the obvious question: why the sleight of hand if their dream of a kumbaya utopia is so much better?

Well, simply put, it isn’t better. That is why bringing their glorious Marxist-Progressive vision to fruition requires industrial-strength gaslighting, complete citizen subservience, and a healthy national addiction to government largesse. 

In short, it’s the quiet redesign of this self-governing Republic into a sleek, Centralized Administrative State—a shiny dystopian paradise where power flows not outward from the people, as the Constitution so inconveniently mandates, but upward to enlightened ideological and theocratic tyrants or zealots, and their ever-growing army of unelected bureaucratic overlords.

Indeed, the irony is thick: The same loud voices who lecture us about “Saving Democracy” are the very same ones actively seeking to destroy the Constitutional safeguards that protect our Republic and freedoms.

Suffice it to say, Democrats play a good game—boy, do they play a good game. They are master manipulators who masquerade as compassionate social justice warriors, playing on people’s emotions, preaching about tolerance and inclusion on one hand, stoking division on the other, as they quietly enact legislation that traps people in government-dependent poverty, while publicly platforming political candidates whose ideals are not only antithetical to our founding principles but that they either claim to oppose or profess to detest.

Off the top of my head, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman, and her flippant “Some people did something” mockery of 9/11—of the approximate 3000 victims who perished that day at the hands of Radical Islamic Terrorists—along with her support for extremist organizations such as CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood, and by proxy, Hamas amongst other Radical Islamic militant groups who not only chant death to America but whose only aspiration in life is to conquer Christendom, the West, and the Big Satan, America.

Or Zohran Mamdani, the Mayor of New York City, a Ugandan-born Islamic Democrat-Socialist who, much like Omar, not only clearly hates the United States but is in open violation of the terms and conditions of his 2018 naturalization, by trafficking in theocratic political ideologies that are fundamentally at odds with the United States Constitution and everything that made this country exceptional and worth defending in the first place.

Amongst other things, it is also worth noting Mamdani’s recent attempt to whitewash history by discriminating against Jews, Irish, and Italians—who have not only been here since the birth of our Republic but who also built New York, unlike Ugandans, whose first entry into this country was in 1972—and in so doing, violating his Oath of Office and hence the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution under the Supreme Court’s ruling in Washington v. Davis (1976) and Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977) in which the justices determined that, while “Pure political speech or personal opinions are often protected, but when officials use discriminatory language while exercising government power (e.g., announcing policies, directing enforcement, allocating funds, or making official decisions), courts treat those statements as evidence of discriminatory intent.”

Indeed, it is almost impressive how thoroughly they have come to despise the country that gave them everything—their hypocrisy would almost be comical if it weren’t so destructive, dangerous, and yes, even deadly.

For far too long, somewhere in the midst of our well-intentioned complacency, we have ceded our power by proxy of our blind silence, witting or otherwise, enabling our government to quietly expand its boundaries of power, not only far beyond any scale and scope ever envisioned or intended by our Founders, but also beyond the strict limitations they established in the Constitution for government in order to protect We the People from the type of tyranny and tyrants we are currently seeing emerge under the banner of “Progressive Collectivism.”

We have tolerated a shallow, transactional way of thinking about our politics, allowing politicians to treat governance as little more than horse-trading, buying votes and selling favors—trading earmarks and regulatory favors for votes, expanding socialist spending programs to secure political support and votes, and pursuing open-border policies that not only jeopardize national security and our sovereignty by inviting enemies of the state to invade and put down roots in America but also inflate census counts in Democrat strongholds, thereby gaining extra seats and hence power in the House and over our lives.

Progressive politicians, intoxicated by their proximity to power, have eagerly embraced this mindset while arrogantly posing, posturing, and playing the make-believe role of virtuous, dutiful, competent leaders who purportedly care about the downtrodden, minorities, and everyday Americans as they surreptitiously burn through billions upon trillions of our taxpayer dollars for their own ends.

Needless to say, the consequences have been disastrous: more than thirty-one trillion dollars in debt, a bloated deficit and a festering edifice of structural power that is the bureaucracy, atop a mountain of red ink and tape, as these same Democrats spend, splurge, and squander our money and our childrens futures on, and amongst other things, frivolous, so-called do-gooder causes, projects, and programs around the world that they profess to have implemented on our behalf and for the betterment of society, but that, in reality, have never benefited us, much less bettered society—except, of course, but to line their pockets and their Party’s coffers through, and amongst other schemes, an intricate web of taxpayer-funded NGO kickbacks funneled through a monstrous money laundering apparatus known to most as USAID.

Adding to that, the Democrats' open-border electioneering schemes. The mass importation of and ever-expanding entitlements for illegal aliens, wrapped in the oh-so-noble, tear-stained guise of compassion, as they not only thwart the Constitution, obstruct and violate Immigration and Deportation Laws, but also refuse to address issues that command the support of roughly 80% of the American people. Of course, all while they prioritize illegal aliens over the safety and well-being of American citizens, national security, and the sovereignty of our Republic.

This pattern of betrayal and failure is not isolated. It reveals something far more aggressive, sinister, and dangerous than mere political dysfunction and incompetence. It is a symptom of a much deeper illness—of the necrotic rot of Socialism and Radical Islam, which have already begun metastasizing and consuming the Republic from within.

The more invasive it is allowed to become through the Democrats' hunger for power and the electorate's blind complacency, implanting and implementing itself throughout major urban centers and across the heartland, the more it is and will continue to strangle the very founding principles upon which this Republic stands, until, one day, those very principles will cease to exist, having lost the strength to survive in the land where they were meant to free.

We have permitted layer upon layer of bureaucracy to accumulate without restraint and allowed emergency powers—real or contrived—to become routine tools of control. Each invocation has been used to demand that we surrender even more of our rights and liberties to Washington or Blue State legislatures in the name of the Collective, for the betterment of society, for the greater good, for our own sake—so Progressive politicians allege, or as Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, once said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

The fallout: poverty, coercion, the withering of human existence, and the whittling away of our self-governing Republic that was meant to define us, distinguish us, and safeguard our freedoms for generations to come.

As such and as a matter of obvious course, we find ourselves standing at a dangerous precipice, and the question that confronts us now is no longer whether we have drifted far from our moorings, but moreover, whether we have the spine to fight back and reclaim our Republic before it becomes something unrecognizable . . . something far removed from the nation our Founders fought, bled, and sacrificed to create.

While America has produced—and continues to produce—generations of truly remarkable men and women, and while we still hold immense opportunities to become an even greater force for good, the fact still remains that those opportunities are no longer guaranteed to us without a struggle. We can no longer afford to sit idly by, celebrating the best of America when the enemy is no longer at the gate but inside our home, determined to weaken, dismantle, and destroy her foundations from within.

To truly love America, to want to secure her next 250 years, some hard truths must be spoken. Dangerous forces are at work in our nation—forces that desperately need correction . . . that demand we stand up and be counted. Patriotism is not blind cheerleading. It is the courage to face both our greatness and our failings, diagnose what ails us, and become instruments of healing.

This nation did not come into being because no one was willing to fight. It was born because a few brave men were willing to risk everything, to take up arms against the world’s strongest military power, declaring that America was worth fighting for . . . worth defending against all enemies, whether foreign or domestic.

Thanks to those few brave men, We the People are neither legally obligated nor should we ever feel compelled to sit quietly by while the Democrats’ abuses and usurpations become ever more destructive to our ends and to the sovereignty of this Republic—“It is our right, it is our duty, to throw off such Government.”

We remain—under both the Declaration and the United States Constitution—a  self-governing Republic of free people who must never relinquish the power vested in us by our Creator as affirmed by our Founding Fathers over our own destiny to any transient political whim, and/or theocratic Islamic or ideological Marxist movement, politician, or persons, but must always preserve it as our sacred birthright, to be exercised by ourselves and no other.

This is not the time to hide like cowards behind concerns of decorum or false notions of respectability for our body politic, not when we are in the fight of our lifetimes . . . for the survival of this Republic.

Linda Genzel. Editor @WECU News.

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