We have individuals living amongst us (citizens and non-citizens) fomenting violence, committing seditious acts, breaking our laws, knowingly furthering false narratives intended to harm us—bolstering our enemies. They are led by people employed by foreign governments or homegrown groups whose actions intend to overthrow our way of life, sow discord, alter our essential narratives, and disrupt our economic and political systems—effectively laying siege to our institutions; they are at war against us.
Then and Now:-
We’ve been here before. Before WWII, there were other anti-American groups and malicious narratives similar to what we are experiencing today. Then, as now, America faced an uncertain future with war warnings and economic calamity omnipresent. Americans in the 1930s were worried about Bolshevism, anarchists, unlawful immigration, and a rising fear of “fifth columnists” perceived to be almost everywhere. Communists and Fascists commanded the national airwaves, trumpeting the evils of American-style democracy and its failed economic system that had not yet recovered from the Great Depression. Americans were looking for answers in all the wrong places. Unfortunately, then, as now, there was no shortage of malcontents and bomb throwers who were ready to stoke the mayhem.
The drumbeats of war demanded that Congress act, and they did so with what is commonly termed the “Smith Act.” Formerly termed the Alien Registration Act, it was enacted on June 28, 1940. The Act provided for:
Criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence and requiring all non-citizen adult residents to register with the federal government
Eighty-five years ago, circumstances were eerily similar to today’s assault on our foundational systems. Organized and well-financed organizations and foreign governments acted against ordinary Americans, delivering divisive and untruthful narratives of brotherly love and master races.
Then, as now, our courts looked with disfavor on solutions like the Smith Act which some legal minds believed were unconstitutional. While over 200 people have been tried under the Act, the law, still on the books, has fallen into disuse over First Amendment issues, highlighting the complexity of such rights and leading to a quandary:
How do we protect our country against those seeking to destroy it without destroying the very essence that separates us from most other nations?
Evidence that we are under stress can be observed everywhere. Today, seditious acts abound, with NGOs participating in facilitating millions of illegal aliens invading our country, thereby breaking our laws. Organizations on our campuses fund violence and lawbreaking as a means to force the government to change its policies. Transgenerism is pushed by a small number of groups in America primarily to create a wedge issue promoting progressive causes. Soft money from foreign groups is used to influence key elections and to support organizations and individuals with money to continue organizing, leading, and directing “spontaneous” demonstrations nationwide.
The evidence of foreign malign influence is readily visible
President Trump’s administration faces over 200 lawsuits over the policies he is attempting to implement, for which he was given a mandate. In the majority of cases, three issues are at play:
- Immigration Policies: The divide between the due process obstructionists and the necessity to return millions of illegal aliens
- Education and Funding: Lawsuits from institutions like HarvardUniversity over federal funding cuts tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs
- Civil Rights and Discrimination: mainly tied to issues of sexuality and transgenderism.
The central question is how to thread the needle of preserving essential rights while not losing our Republic through legal and bureaucratic constraints.
Realistically, the facts are not in dispute. Progressives have corrupted our children, corrupted concepts like fair play, patriotism, individualism, self-sufficiency, hard work, God, and even the central importance of morality and family.
Truth vs. Tolerance: The Cost of Respecting Every Viewpoint:-
It took a generation or two, but they’ve done it; today, everyone’s opinion must be respected, no matter how absurd or in conflict with reason and facts. The issue of fake moral equivalencies on any number of subjects has tied us up in knots and left our system of democracy barely functioning. We must now defend absurd ideas like illegal immigrants having the right to full access to our legal systems, our educational systems run like Stalinist retraining centers, government growing faster than the private sector, and capitalism being blamed endlessly for every social ill the left can come up with; hiding behind cultural relativism.
In Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Robert Bork postulated that we face real enemies pushing false narratives. Change is coming at us fast and furious, with many of us not understanding how this is happening but frightened by what we observe. We must confront our legal systems, which have allowed reason to become corrupted by process sacrificing justice and sanity. The inability to control our borders and punish lawbreakers has left us in a continually tightening death spiral. Pushing back comes at a cost…most of us have too much to lose and fear the consequences of standing up against the mob.
If January 6 taught us anything, it’s that the government is ruthless in protecting itself, whether average Joe citizens, grandma, or simply principled individuals standing up to thugs and bullies. If we ever had the stomach for it, most of us have seen that we would likely face similar consequences if we did.
Two hundred fifty years after Concord and Lexington began our journey to independence, we’ve seen that traitors are now held high by progressives while patriots are criminalized. We’ve lost our way, and few are willing to risk it all.
In time, a match will be struck over something so terrible, pervasive, and detestable that out-of-proportion pushback is inevitable. Dems largely still can’t understand why they lost the last election. They promoted it as a messaging issue instead of the substance that is so evident to the rest of us.
Republicans, like them or hate them, are the only ones in a position to put forward laws and regulations that can turn this sinking ship around. We must elect more conservative judges and presidents loyal to the Constitution who can be relied on to see the big picture that is determinate.
Allan J. Feifer—Patriot
Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com. Read additional great writers here.
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