Redeclaration of Independence
Slavery is about to become fashionable again. We need to stop it in its tracks.
No amount of truth will dissuade the Left from its agenda of global serfdom
Good arguments are not enough to stop what is coming
Evil will not stop itself; it must be stopped
Slavery is an intolerable evil that we must be ready to resist by force
Truth is irrelevant to desire
We cannot successfully appeal to someone with truth if he is primarily animated by desire. Infinite facts, crystal-clear logic, and explicit moral prohibitions are all insufficient to dissuade such a man from doing what he wants. The only way to prevent him from carrying out his agenda is through physical force.
This is why we imprison thieves, rapists, murderers, and the like. These are people who, knowing the law, have chosen to disregard it, and any society intent on survival cannot allow such people to run amok. They must be physically stopped.
Leftism doesn’t care about truth
This is where we are on a cultural level today in the US. Roughly half the country subscribes, in varying degrees, to an ideology that knowingly suppresses truth in pursuit of desire. It knows it is wrong, and it doesn’t care.
We have argued with it for decades, repeatedly showing it to be morally, logically, and factually bankrupt. Yet it persists. Faced with its deficiencies, it fights all the harder. Not to be better — not to mend its errant ways — but to silence every voice that exposes them.
At this point, it’s clear that arguing — at least with the leftist faithful — is a fool’s errand. Words have failed. This isn’t because leftists don’t know that they’re wrong, it’s because they don’t care that they are. They’re going to continue their totalitarian pursuits no matter the cost in blood or treasure.
They are going to claim ownership of your children, normalize pedophilia, criminalize Christianity, restrict your movement, restrict your gatherings, restrict your living quarters, control your money, contaminate your food, medically experiment on you, seize your assets, and effectively deny all of your rights. Just to name a few things.
How far will we let evil go?
For this reason, America is once again forced to contend with the issue of slavery. Not as an abstract moral debate, but as an imminent physical reality. So on this Independence Day, it's worth asking whether we, like our forefathers, have the courage and ability to unite against tyranny.
What are the lines that, if crossed, will compel us to take up arms against the coming enslavement? If there is no limit that we agree on — no Rubicon; no point at which we say, "Here, and no farther" — then we are guaranteed to find ourselves either slaves or corpses. Evil does not stop of its own accord; it can only be stopped.
But how and when we take physical measures to stop it is a matter that must be determined before the onset of conflict, not in the heat of the moment. We need to operate as a single, principled entity, standing firm against the rising tide of evil. If we instead wait until shots are fired, until the mass arrests and gun confiscations, it will be too late. As Benjamin Franklin wryly noted when he and his compatriots found themselves in similar circumstances: "We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we will all hang separately." In more modern terms: Leeroy Jenkins cannot defeat the Empire.
We must be clear: slavery warrants death
At some point very soon, we principled patriots need to officially draw a line in the sand and dare our oppressors to cross it. In essence, we need to boldly reassert the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence, thus forcing our would-be slave-masters to make a decision on our timeline and our terms. Either they back down or we step up.
The hope, however remote, is that they back down; that we the people regain majority control of our lives without the need for bloodshed. They won’t back down, of course. They’ve come too far and accomplished too much in their campaign against liberty to just walk away. But we must nevertheless make it clear that an attempt to enslave us will be met with an attempt to kill those who try. Contentious liberty is preferable to peaceful slavery, as noted in the words of Patrick Henry:
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
If we do nothing in the face of such overt malice — if we continue to give these antichrists the benefit of the doubt, acting as if they are well-meaning but mistaken rather than intentionally evil — their agenda of global serfdom will have already succeeded. Unless the current trajectory is changed, we common people (at least those of us not imprisoned or killed for resisting) will own nothing. The elitists at the World Economic Forum have told us as much. They, meanwhile, will own everything. Including us.
We are too fractured, too much individualist, which is usually a good thing but not here. That's why I think we will go to the very brink before action is taken and then hope it isn't too late.