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Friday, April 16, 2021

The Crisis of American Civilization

Woke CEOs who refuse to condemn genocide and police state tyranny in China are quick to attack Georgia

- Wednesday, April 14, 2021  

We are now in a crisis of American civilization fully as dangerous and real as the crisis of the U.S. Civil War or World War II. During both those crises, if America had lost, it would have ceased to be America — and the cause of freedom around the world would have been dramatically weakened. Today, we face combined internal and external threats which are as great or greater. 

Internationally, we face a surging China whose economic, scientific, and technological power is now fully competitive with the United States. The recent aggressiveness in the South China Sea, against Taiwan, and in domestic repression (including concentration camps and genocide against the Uighurs, crushing Tibetan Buddhist culture, and repressing the freedom movement in Hong Kong) are all signs of the Chinese Communist Party’s self-confidence.  

The announcement of a joint China-Russia moon project is an example of the collective authoritarian challenge to the American-led freedom coalition. Russia’s movement of military forces around the border of Ukraine is another signal of the potential aggressiveness of the authoritarian states.

 However dangerous the foreign challenges are they fade away when compared with the domestic threats to American civilization.  Consider these indicators that our civilization is beginning to fall apart.  Several days of looting and rioting in Minnesota have occurred even as a trial of a former policeman is underway proving the rule of law works. 

A policeman is killed during a car stop in New Mexico, and our elites ignore the murder. In fact, Mayor Mike Elliott of Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis said in the middle of the rioting: “I don’t believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons, you know, every time they — they’re — they’re making traffic stop or engaged in situations that don’t necessarily call for weapons.”  .......To Read More....

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