Grab a Paddle
Opinion piece by Scott Sidney July 25, 2022 Cedarburg, WI
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.” -George Orwell, 1984
Your Conservative philosophy is holding the line against an assault on every historical, foundational institution in our country. Your further active social participation is essential to turn the tide against a radical attempt to ‘fundamentally change America.’
Hearing again that this is the most important election of our lives seems like so much crying wolf, sky is falling, end-of-world. It can seem overwrought, even downright hyperbolic, and even hysterical. This time, though, there is a wolf. And this and many more successive elections will be the most important in our lives if we want to keep some semblance of America and our Constitution.
Our country has changed dramatically; that’s not unusual; that’s the United States. We constantly change; historically within the parameters of the Constitution. Sometimes bending it; finessing it; many times, ignoring it. Now, there are those who want to distort it beyond any utility for a Democratic Republic.
Changes we’ve experienced recently - the ones having taken place over the last 10 years but most especially since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 - these changes are the culmination of a cultural revolution begun in the 60’s rolling forward virtually unabated with an aim to abolish self-rule and with it, America.
We all swim in the culture - in real time - 24/7/365. Culture is now. But politics is downstream of culture. Voting for candidates who believe in the Conservative philosophy and who affirm the “America First” movement currently is the most effective political tool at our disposal to negate further governmental intrusions into our lives and those of future generations.
But elections alone can’t slow the spread of a nihilistic, predatory, dystopian onslaught brought on by imperious autocrats who have taken over a major political party. They’re rendering language meaningless, castigating dissenters, forcing racist political and sexually radical gender ideology on our children using them as lab rats in social experimentation. Their goals are to remove all vestiges of America’s self governance and usurp any connection to reality.
Political activism can only do so much. Cultural institutions, education, businesses, and even religion have all been co-opted. We must be outraged.
Only a determined, energetic, resolute confrontation with the leaders of organizations who abide the “woke” crusade will vanquish these enemies of our Constitutional Republic.
It is not our nature as Conservatives to rock the boat; ours is a live and let live philosophy. Time to cast off this natural instinct at restraint and engage the authoritarians.
Stand up, speak up, fight back.