Nick Freitas is member of the House of Delegates in Virginia. A former Green Beret, he served two combat tours in Iraq. He is regarded as a rising political star among Republicans in Virginia. He is, in short, a mainstream political figure, no creature of the fringe. His words to me have the ring of truth, and, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, are “like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” Those words were written in the aftermath of the Missouri Compromise and 41 years before our Civil War began. Jefferson could see how events were trending. Is a second Civil War inevitable? No, but the signs are not good and unless the country has a moral awakening, and listens in Lincoln’s phrase, “to the better angels of our nature”, we will settle our differences with bullets and not words. May Christ, in His Mercy, help us and our nation.
Words to Ponder
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
For a long time I’ve been sickened whenever the right side of the aisle has referred to the left side of the aisle as “ gentlemen or gentle ladies”…whenever they advocated for “killing babies in the womb, sterilizing confused children, turning cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness” for votes…. as the left side hurled calumnies of “racist, bigot, sexist, fascist, a ‘threat to democracy’ for even the most innocent of disagreements”..
Good to see that’s finally ended.
The following applies to men and women like Charlie Kirk. Virtue is what our enemies hate, but like Charlie, we must not give in to Satan and be like them.
Epistulae Morales 67:12b, 14b, 16b
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Cape, quantam debes, virtutis pulcherrimae ac magnificentissimae speciem, quae nobis non ture nec sertis, sed sudore et sanguine colenda est.
Nihil habere ad quod exciteris, ad quod te concites, cuius denuntiatione et incursu firmitatem animi tui temptes, sed in otio inconcusso iacere non est tranquillitas: malacia est.
Nihil est virtute praestantius, nihil pulchrius; et bonum est et optabile quidquid ex huius geritur imperio.
Grasp, as you should, the most beautiful and magnificent appearance of virtue, which is to be worshipped by us not with incense nor garlands, but with sweat and blood.
To have nothing to which you are excited, to which you hurl yourself, by the denunciation and assault of which you test the firmness of your mind, but to lie in unshaken rest is not tranquility: it is malaise.
Nothing is more excellent than virtue, nothing more beautiful; and whatever is done under its command is good and desirable.
I agree with Mr. Freitas
It’s not bullets.
It’s bravery that will win the day.
The gain of wheat that just died, will be fruitful and result in bountiful harvests for God.
We need men to step up and continue the work Charlie started. We need strong, courageous and intelligent men with pure conviction to take the microphone back out into college campuses and
“Prove Me Wrong.”
The Endurance tour.
This is how the country turns Red.
With votes.
Not with blood.
This clarion call is now.
Wanted! Good Men.
Charlie was successful.
Let us carry on in his successful campaign.
A sea of Red from coast to coast…
….not by blood, but by votes.
“In 1938 Franklin Roosevelt, facing a political challenge from a resurgent Republican Party, denounced the party’s “fascist” tendencies. It was an early example of how the term could be applied even to conservatives loyal to the framework of a liberal democracy. One might have expected this usage to die out: No major modern political phenomenon has been so thoroughly discredited and obliterated as European fascism was in the 1940s. Yet the f-word was never buried, for it had achieved a demonic status like no other, making it very useful in partisan polemics. Its power to stigmatize remained incomparable, and thus, in 1947, two years after the total destruction of National Socialism, when President Harry Truman found himself in a difficult political struggle, he revived Roosevelt’s rhetorical strategy, warning of “fascist” tendencies among Republicans.
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Related to fascism, but distinct, is the “radical right,” which refers to fringe groups on the right that opposed the postwar system.
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History offers some warnings for our present moment. It is not irresponsible to worry that the search for “domestic terrorists” is functioning much as did the Reichstag Fire and the suppression of communists and many others in Germany in 1933. There was indeed major arson in the Reichstag, and there certainly existed a large-scale and violent communist movement. (It was the biggest in the world outside the Soviet Union, vastly greater in size and influence than all the designated “radical right” groups in the contemporary United States put together.) In Germany, this threat to civic order was exploited to impose a new centralized coercion that had the most extreme and destructive consequences. Is the same thing happening in the United States today?
Two centuries ago, Tocqueville warned about the potential for a “soft despotism” in the United States, a new kind of totalitarianism, which would be the downfall of American freedom. Could this be its first phase—the propagandizing use of “fascism” to disqualify dissent, and so to soften up the American public for illiberal measures? If so, then democracy is indeed in danger, but principally from its own self-proclaimed saviors.”
“The F-Word” – Stanley G. Payne – First Things – December 1, 2022
https://firstthings.com/the-f-word/
Thank you for the find Quotermeister.
Soft despotism. We are there.
The ship we are in will never be crushed.
I’m asking God to bring us 12 good men to Carry On Mr. Kirk’s work. Please pray for them too.
(two typo’s..sorry)
We were there.
-not are-
Grain
-not gain-
🙁
and I love Kevin Sorbo.
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