The coming midterm elections – just weeks away – may yet prove to be the most important in the history of the United States, and of the world.
There is a chance – it cannot yet be put any higher than that – that the GOP may recapture control of the Senate. The future of civilization itself may depend upon its succeeding.
No one should underestimate just how much the United States is respected, admired and even loved worldwide as an example and a beacon of freedom. But if the "Democrats" get their way, the flickering torch carried by the Statue of Liberty may yet be snuffed out forever, together with the nation of which it has long been the symbol.
On my first visit to the United States as a lad, I sailed into New York on the liner France. The Statue of Liberty was my first glimpse of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It worked its intended magic on me. The more I visit the United States, the more I admire what your Founding Fathers wrought. Theirs was a grand but kindly vision carried out into the light of the real world.
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By little and little, the "Democrats" have become the implacable enemies of everything for which the Founding Fathers so nobly and so successfully strove. Their increasingly close ideological links with international anti-capitalist, anti-democratic, anti-libertarian Marxism and its sinister bedfellow, pietistic environmental extremism, have become an existential threat to the very survival of the United States as an independent nation.
The threat is real – so real that even to vote "Democrat" comes close to being treason. Lest that statement should sound too extreme, let me explain.
The ideologies of Marxism and its modern disguise, environmentalism, are explicitly internationalist – or, rather, anti-nationalist. The very idea of nation states whose citizens might wish to be free is utterly alien to the totalitarian mind, which considers that on all matters of politics only one opinion – that of Big Brother – has any value. All opinions contrary to the Party Line are not merely anathema: they are punishable, often by death.
Just as the savage brutality of Marxism and its twin, Fascism, killed 100 million people in the 20th century, so the active hatred of Man that is the defining characteristic of that 21st-century species of totalitarianism that lurks behind the fig-leaf of environmentalism is bidding fair to kill 100 million more by denying them affordable electrical power.
See how this murderous hatred of all that is human is the very antithesis of the Founding Fathers' devotion to the idea that each individual soul is of unique value; that, therefore, each individual should have the right to contribute to deciding the future course of his nation by regular secret ballot; and that the State exists to serve the family, which exists to serve its individual members.
The doctrine of the Founding Fathers was and is the doctrine of love. Only those who are fixed on the idea and the ideal of freedom will sufficiently trust and love their fellow citizens to be willing, every few years, to put the fate of the nation in their hands.
It is that doctrine of freedom, and hence of love, that must once again, and visibly, become the sworn purpose and ambition of the Republican Party.
The "Democrats" have doubled the nation's debt within the lifetime of a single administration. For they know there is no surer way to destroy the United States forever.
Having run up the debt, they then turn round and say there must be cuts. So they begin by savagely cutting expenditure on defense and security. For they know there is no surer way to leave the United States unable to exercise her badly needed influence in the Middle East, in Ukraine and in many other hot spots where a well-intentioned global policeman is urgently needed.
They then say the planet will be doomed unless capitalism is destroyed by the simplest of all expedients – denying our industries the affordable energy that is the lifeblood of a free-market economy. For they know there is no surer way to make the bankruptcy of America complete than to choke off her industries and make them internationally uncompetitive.
These three destructive policies – excessive national debt, excessive cuts in the armed forces and excessive regulation and taxation of energy use – have not come together by accident. They are elements in a deliberate strategy, pursued by the international left not only in the United States but worldwide, to destroy the very notion of the nation state – and, in doing so, to overthrow the very notion of democracy and of the individual liberty of which the ballot box is at once the ultimate expression and the ultimate guarantor.
Note Mr. Obama's contempt for the mere voters and for the Congress whose members they have chosen, in his decision to allow the unelected bureaucrats of the Environmental Destruction Agency to issue pointless, costly, intrusive regulations that, under Article I, Section 1, of your Constitution, are the province of Congress alone.
Worse, if he is given a chance, he will sign away America's sovereignty to the unelected United Nations, giving the secretariat of its Framework Convention on Climate Change not only environmental but also economic power over your nation regardless of your will and the will of those whom you elect to Congress.
It is vital, therefore, that the GOP should not merely hold on to the House but take the Senate by storm this November. The lazy leftward drift of the lazy Republican establishment must be halted, and the GOP must once again be seen by all as the vigorous voice of the vision that so many of you – of us – have inherited from the wise men who established your great republic.
God bless America! The world has more need of you than ever. You must not fail.
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