There is a suffocating feeling of dread in the air — a palpable fear among many Americans that freedom is on its way out. I truly get that. State and corporate authoritarianism has taken over. Little fascists patrol the public square looking for dissent to whatever contrived politically correct nonsense the cultural Marxists conjure up next. Members of Congress malign those who don’t submit to the left’s delusions as Hitler clones reborn, while the news media and tech behemoths goose-step right behind our Big Government overlords, finding new ways to demonize ordinary Americans who want nothing more than just to be left alone. And too many Republican Party officeholders (who were elected to fight the good fight) have hidden under their desks while the socialist monster grew, sprinted in the opposite direction far from the fields of battle, or already submitted their résumés and bona fides to the new Soviet class taking over.
Our tormentors will not leave us alone. Worse, we know that our children and grandchildren will be fighting once again the battles we hoped would stay secured away in the past. To fight for freedom is no easy thing, and we are now painfully reminded that preserving freedom is just as hard.
Some share of the human species always feels compelled to rule over others. Those who chase power are not content until they dominate every other human in body, mind, and spirit. Monarchical dynasties, philosopher-kings, banking oligarchs, proletarian vanguards, or Silicon Valley tech lords — it doesn’t matter what you call them. At the end of the day, they’re just people who desire to rule over other people.
The reason the growing totalitarianism in America feels so unnatural — and the reason why America has always been so exceptional — is that for two and a half centuries, one generation of Americans after the next has fought the human impulse to dominate others by empowering the individual at the tyrant’s expense. Americans possess no better genes than any other nation extant or long dead, but they have built a system that swallowed unchecked power and fortified the spirits of free men. They endured British invasion, civil war, the Industrial Revolution, and a century of world wars and global terrorism while keeping the torch for human freedom lit, even if its light sometimes dimmed more than we would have liked. A nation built from the ground up that advanced both individual freedom and general welfare (and not merely the welfare of an aristocratic class) has succeeded only once, and in doing so, the United States of America has done more to destroy the shackles of class and unleash personal opportunity than any magic dreamt by the likes of Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx.
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See Also:
(1) The River of Forgetfulness
(2) National Review and All its Many Ways of Insulting Conservatives
(3) You Know There Was Industrial-Scale Election Fraud. What Can Be Done?
