I recently ran across an article about the wall on our southern border that was written by a “journalist” who had liberally peppered his story with editorial comments. The editorialist chose to call the border wall a “political prop.” Any conservative would call the border wall an effort to secure the integrity of the United States by securing the integrity of our borders. Unfortunately, the editorialist – masquerading as a journalist – chose to impose his own set of filters on the story in an apparent effort to sway the views of his readers – no matter how mistaken he was about the motives he attributed to conservatives.
This liberal editorialist wrote that the “monsoon rains in Arizona” and the resultant flash floods had left President Trump’s “impenetrable” [used sarcastically in context] border wall rusted and with the gates – intended to be opened to allow such floods to pass through – hanging from their hinges.
But despite the blatant editorializing, the story did have at least a little news value. It did report that the border wall is deteriorating. Not only did Biden stop construction on the wall as soon as he took office, but he also has done nothing toward its maintenance. The ultimate result of failing to maintain something man-made is the decay of that man-made thing.
Conservatives may have assumed that so long as Biden didn’t tear down the wall, the wall would serve its intended purposes in the places where it had been strengthened and lengthened. Obviously, liberals thought differently. They believe that if they do nothing with the wall, the elements and the terrain will take care of the wall’s destruction for them. They are right.
Conservatives have apparently made the same assumptions about our liberties that they made about the wall. They have taken for granted that the liberties that we have held dear throughout the history of this country would always be there. As a result, they have failed to maintain them. The elements of destruction and the enemies of our freedoms knew that if they could just lull conservatives into a false sense of security, conservatives would fail to maintain their freedoms and those freedoms would erode to the point where they fall apart. And though our freedoms have been eroding for decades, conservatives haven’t noticed until recently. It has been a little rust here, a loose bolt there, and eventually our liberties have fallen into a great state of disrepair. If conservatives don’t immediately begin to repair what they can, the entire fabric of our God-ordained freedom will disappear in tatters.
Nehemiah 3 and 4 in the Bible tell the story of how Nehemiah, in great sorrow over the destruction of Jerusalem, set about rousing the citizens of Jerusalem to rebuild the city and particularly the wall that surrounded it for its protection. Nehemiah set each family to rebuild the part of the wall that was in front of their own homes. Then when their enemies threatened to attack them while they were rebuilding, Nehemiah set half of the men to build and half of the men to guard the builders.
Our liberties will not survive if we don’t pay attention to them. Nor will they survive if conservatives only cheer (or complain) about how other people’s efforts are going. Every liberty loving American must attend to the work of freedom in the area right before their own homes. This might be doing the work of preserving our rights and freedoms, or it might be protecting and encouraging those who are doing the work.
More immediately and more specifically, this means getting involved in the efforts to ensure ballot integrity. Whether you do or don’t believe that ballot fraud occurred in November 2020, the point is that it should not occur. Regardless of political leaning, each American should work diligently to make sure the election process is free, fair, and honest. This is one simple, yet incredibly vital step in making this country what it should be.
If Americans don’t pay to devote much effort to rebuilding, maintaining, and guarding our liberties, we will lose them.
More importantly, America used to be a Christian nation, but we let down our guard there as well. False teachers have entered our churches, our schools, our media, and have perverted the foundational faith of America. The bedrock of our freedoms is found in our Christian faith and heritage. That bedrock needs our attention as much or more than any of our other concerns.
You can choose to do nothing and let America erode into a footnote of history, or you can do your part to rebuild liberty for each and every citizen both now and in the future.
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The liberal communists hate this country and everything it stands for. I saw in the news that Biden will issue an executive order to change the term rights into lefts because he is a leftist. The communists want to strip us of our rights so they can use their mind control machines to make us sheep.
One more thing Doc… before we think that Conservative Incorporated represents a great bulwark against the infringement of rights..
Several weeks ago an article by Emerald Robinson addressed how David French and Johah Goldberg were removed from National Cuckservative. National Review for those of you who still think it represents you “CON”servatives (thanks ErictheTroll TM)
It seems if you read the article that Google had those two fine “CON”servatives on their payroll in an effort to stop them and National Cuckview of pointing out to the gullible readers that BIG TECH TM… was censoring conservatives and you know sort of organizing their algorithms to you know push google users to approved search content.. and away from BAD THINK…wink wink… NO censorship here.
Pansy little Rich Lowry was losing readers like Christians in current Kabul… So NR quietly had to move the boys out of the NR family when it came to light that Google was funding its coverup campaign… it wasn’t just NR though… Cato, AEI, and of course Neocon extraordinare Weekly Standard got some dough too! According to this story.
Have no worries about French though.. He’s rebranded himself writing stories about how great CRT is for the country for the NYT.. a corporate liberal indoctrination rag, owned almost half by Carlos Slim.. Mexican telecom king…
You can read about all this in MsRobinson’s article “How the National Review Sold Its Soul to Google”
So… freedom indeed!! You can read what Google wants you to read!!!
If the GOP represents “freedom” it needs to stick Google with anti-trust legislation IF they ever have enough votes to eek out a major win.
I bet that Google will pay them off though. If you think Turtle McConnell or any of his ilk don’t like big Tech Money… you got another think coming.
what liberties have been lost? He doesn’t mention any from what I see
Doc… As I was saying to TBE’s own resident Troll Eric (as approved by Jeanine Martin)…
The problem to your freedom in the US now… isn’t Bernie Saunders or AOC and her squad. They are just silly twits who can be used for the Democrats to hold down simple minded people’s votes.
Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the real brains (if you can call it that given the record of the Swamp for thirty years) are plenty fine with globalist billionaires and corporations imposing their world onto you..
Big Pharma is jabbing you against your will, right? Big Tech censors and bans and deplatforms you right? Go ahead and question that election and see if you have a platform of free speech… or worse yet… say the virus came from a Chinese lab, or the jab is not 100 percent effective… Say you are a Christian an oppose homosexual marriage… You are branded a Nazi that must be removed!!
These scumbags have nothing to do with socialism…
They work hand in hand with turdbirds like Pelosi and to be honest… the GOP Inc… to monopolize everything in sight… and these great patriots as I pointed out to Eric… in the interest of greater profit moved entire industries to China or the far east…
A lot of the readers of TBE live in or near the swamp so they haven’t seen the devastation of these globalists polices on the rest of the country.
As I said below go look at the video of a drive down the third world country of Philly…
So in sum Doc… proponents of Freedom better stop concentrating on AOC and start concentrating on Amazon… Big Tech Big Pharma… the Deep State of the career politicians and their bureaucrats and the globalist agenda…
“Say you are a Christian an oppose homosexual marriage… You are branded a Nazi that must be removed!!”
So what Conservatives really wish for bid Consequence-free Speech… which has never been a right (God-given or otherwise)… just ask Colin Kaepernick…
Right Eric.. Kaepernick is a multimillnaire who keeps making more and more money from Nike and other corporations…
He doesn’t even want to play in the NFL… he got try outs but would only do so on his own terms. The last try out offered, his agent insisted on holding it not in the NFL teams facilities but in a high school stadium…
Bet you like the Washingon Redskins right? Oh that’s right it’s woke now… the “Washington” team.
This example you truck out every time is asinine, Eric.
Do you still work? You know damn well what would happen to you if you questioned the LGBT Imperial directives at a corporation.
Ugh.. you need to get some new material…
New material…? When there is such a rich history of Conservative cancel culture… Kathy Griffin, Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift, even Major League Baseball…
“More importantly, America used to be a Christian nation…”
False…. and you know what your bible says about lying… right…?
Ah Eric… what does it matter? You guys get all whipped up over Doc and his religion while you impose your religion on the country.
Doc and his religion are my friend… dying off… See the census?
I’m sure you read Jenni Rubin… get this Eric… she is a “CON”servative that writes for Jeffy Bezos’ corporate Newsletter… aka The Washington Post.
I’m giving you 100 percent credit for the introduction of that term here at TBE my friend!
I digress… Jenni was celebrating the death of Whitey a few weeks ago… I’m sure you get that bird cage liner so go read it if you haven’t,
So enjoy your victory over Doc and his ilk Eric… there’s much for globalists like yourself to do… Wealth to accumulate.. pushing your social agenda to cover your asses onto the country so useful idiots can put up BLM signs or Hate has no Home here in their yards.
It would be good if you globalists types would actually be competent though… you have thirty years of abject failure starting with your creation of a monster called China… couldn’t be where it is without Davos… and it’s scum politicians like the Clintons and Bushes…
You know Eric.. China is essentially telling you globalists to Go F Yourselves.. the latest pronouncements from Xi indicate that they aren’t going to cowtow themselves to your bankers..
This isn’t good Eric for you guys… I don’t know if you can bring them to heel… you are too stupid to see what a country that thinks in centuries is going to do… You are busy making Jeffy Bezos rich enough to buy rockets..
Stay well Eric your magic Fauci shot is wearing off amigo..
If you think there is any hope for this polyglot boardinghouse horrorshow… I suggest you take a drive down Kensington Avenue in Philly.
You can do so virtually as many youtube channels feature this Third world city scene.
An amazing feature of the films are the zombie like creatures bobbing and weaving and doing their own little dances on the streets of this town. I am not sure which is the drug of choice in this nightmarish city, but whatever drug they are on, makes them do this sort of shuffle.
You would think that the Dawn of the Dead has occurred there.
And this is a city that gave you Biden…the machine there can deliver 1100 percent of the registered voters!!!
One thing that some Republican advocates of illegal immigration point to, is that at least the hordes entering the country are better than the native populations. They want to work… unlike the crap that is floating on the cesspools of cities like Philly,
I used to want to defend the US… but at this point… what are you defending. Do the zombies of Philly really want a job anyway?
As a side note.. Progressives… This stupid country is in so much debt and led by such imbeciles, grifters, or cynical Wall St Multinational corporations who give a rat’s ass about it… the time of its collapse is drawing neigh…
When the US government can’t hand out EMT cards, the next George Flloyd Riots will be for real…