It’s Monday and we’re off to the races. Mine’s a little shorter this week because Thanksgiving is Thursday and I get Friday off, too. The “Daily Broadside” will be published both Thursday and Friday.
I hope you get some time off from your regular routine.
When we look at the history of our nation, one of the things we notice is that there were times in which we had to fight for it. Some of our forebears literally had to take up arms and wade into battle with enemies both foreign (the British) and domestic (the Civil War). That meant that some of them were killed in either fighting for freedom or fighting to keep our country together.
I can tell you that no one wants to go fight, much less lose their lives. Some of our men (and women) have fallen in god-forsaken places here at home and overseas. I’m sure many of them wondered, at that moment, what good it did for them to die face down on a beach 3,000 miles away from home (World War II) or to die in a swamp or creek just a hundred miles from their family (the Revolutionary War).
But they did it for the sake of passing along freedom and preserving the union, trusting that their sacrifice would ultimately pay off for current and future generations. So far, their gamble has paid off.
Both 2 Samuel 5 and 1 Chronicles 14 describe King David fighting the Philistines.
18 Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; 19 so David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?”
The Lord answered him, “Go, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands.”
20 So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them.
2 Samuel 5: 18-20
In the margin of my Bible I wrote, “God guarantees victory, but David still has to fight.” Even with a guaranteed victory, David still has to armor up, mount his horse and chariot, lead his troops, engage the enemy and swing his sword. He had to physically suit up and go fight.
I’ve been saying for several years now that unless something changes, we in the U.S. are on a trajectory toward a second civil war. We are all but two nations, divided not by Democrat and Republican or North and South, but by radical progressives who want to turn us into a socialist state versus freedom-loving Americans who don’t buy the identity politics peddled by the Left. The 2020 election has all but hardened us into our separate factions, not withstanding Biden’s call “to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation.”
That isn’t going to happen. Not after the vilification of conservatives, Trump supporters, Christians and the persistent and treacherous attempts to subvert Trump’s presidency over the last five years; the unhinged riots and destruction of cities and statues throughout our country; the unlawful and irrational Coronavirus lockdowns, sometimes targeting the church and synagogues while destroying businesses; and the massive voter fraud in this election. It’s especially not going to happen with those who perpetrated these acts offering a bloody hand of “friendship.”
My fear is that with the decades-long feminization of manhood and the Marxist indoctrination of the youngest generations, we are rotted from the inside. Are there enough of us who are willing to fight for our eroding freedoms? To keep the country together? To die if necessary? Can the surging cultural and economic Marxists be overcome?
At least one family business is willing to offer some resistance by swinging a rhetorical sword.
This is a good start and bully for them, but it’s going to take millions of us to defy those in power who are operating outside the law. And some of us are going to have to “swing the sword” when it morphs into literally going to war with the subversive left, as I believe it will. I don’t want to—nobody does—but if we’re going to preserve freedom and keep the country together for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and their children, I’m afraid that’s what it’s going to take.
Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Listen to him yourself:
The great unknown is, do we have what it takes to fight for it?
[Image credit: Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]