OPINION
Tis 
Year Givin Thanks Isn’t Enough
I love Thanksgiving. I
always have. I love my home filled with family, I love the food, I love
the football and most of all – I love that we take time to reflect on
what we are thankful for.
I am truly blessed and am thankful
for all of life’s blessings, but I realized this year that being
thankful isn’t enough for me – and it shouldn’t be enough for any
American who cares about the future of this country.
Our country and our culture are under
attack, and if we don’t fight back much of what we are thankful for
today will be lost forever.
This isn’t garden variety policy
differences we are talking about. This isn’t simple political
differences. We have one group of Americans who are fundamentally
committed to the absolute destruction of their opponents.
The days of live and let live libertarianism are long dead. They have given us no choice, we either fight or we surrender.
The left’s efforts to radically
remake our country are in overdrive. No longer content with brainwashing
college and university students, the left is now attempting to turn our
public schools into radical leftwing indoctrination institutions –
pushing divisive critical race theory and science-denying gender policy
on children of all ages.
Parents
who have the temerity to fight back and oppose this indoctrination are
called bigots and now live in fear of a politicized Justice Department
that treats concerned parents like domestic terrorists.
The left has taken full advantage of
the COVID pandemic to trample on almost every single Constitutional
protection we thought we enjoyed. Churches were subject to stricter shut
down rules than liquor stores. Small businesses all across the country
were crippled by senseless regulations, regulations that rarely had any
basis in “science”, and regulations that were imposed by fiat by
Governors and bureaucrats.
As troubling as the Constitution
trampling shutdowns early in the pandemic were, they absolutely pale in
comparison to the almost crypto-fascist efforts underway to punish the
unvaccinated.
They want the unvaccinated to lose
their jobs, be denied the ability to participate in society, be denied
the ability to travel, and they are just getting started.
Just this week, a New York State Assemblymen introduced legislation
that would allow health insurance companies to deny coverage for COVID
related illness if the individual wasn’t vaccinated. The left has gone
from “healthcare is a right” to healthcare as a weapon in record time.
The left has gone from attacking
politicians and policies they disagree with to attacking people they
disagree with. They are using the media, big tech and the government to
silence and punish their opponents.
The idea that the left would support
jailing their political opponents is no longer some crazed conspiracy
theory – it’s a reality. While violent rioters from the Black Lives
Matter movement are given a free pass, January 6th
protestors – many guilty of no other crime than being Trump supporters –
are kept in solitary confinement and denied the right to timely trials.
All of this may make for what seems like the gloomiest Thanksgiving op-ed of all time. But it’s not, all is not lost – not yet.
While I paint a bleak picture of the
state of things this Thanksgiving, the truth is that for the last few
decades this war has been a largely one-sided affair. We conservatives
sat back and allowed the left to become ascendant. We surrendered the
culture war at every turn and we relied on our live and let live
libertarian tendencies to lull us into submission.
The left hasn’t won because their
cause is more righteous or because the majority of Americans support
their efforts – quite the contrary. Indeed, the left has won because we
have let them win.
That must end and it must end now.
It is incumbent upon every single
conservative in this country to fight back and we must take the fight to
every corner of our country and of our culture.
This isn’t simply about winning at
the ballot box – though that will be an important front in this war – we
must win everywhere. We must fight to protect our schools and fight to
take back our colleges and universities. We must fight big tech and
censorship at every turn. We must fight to create a fair media and fight
to build a version of Hollywood that isn’t committed to the demolition
of traditional American values.
We
must channel Winston Churchill and commit to defending our country – no
matter what the cost may be – and we must never surrender!
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