“Can Western civilization survive without reclaiming those historical markers?”
For the most part, history is offered and remembered by the captured moment, entering into the cultural memory and transmitted to succeeding generations, like ancient Rome’s Caesar crossing the Rubicon or, in modern times, D-Day and the Normandy invasion to liberate Europe from Hitler’s Third Reich.
But the real history of any era is not a single event. It’s in the intricacies and accumulation of seemingly insignificant events and decisions, sometimes unrelated, that apply ever-increasing pressure, for good or ill, that leads to a specific person or event that changes history. This process can take centuries, decades, or mere months to occur.
Perhaps the US and the West are at such a point after seven decades of prosperity, stability, and social comity – even if sometimes a bit wobbly. The waning post-World War II economic and financial dynamics initiated by the US and the steadily increasing incoherence of the neo-Marxist political chokehold – and the debilitating demands of multiculturalism on social institutions – have collided with the reality of individual freedom and the specter of serfhood hiding behind the façade of affluence.
Each adjustment, decision, policy, declaration, discovery, and deliberation has steered the West step by step into a clear fork in the road that history suggests always comes.
One road is the one we’re on, fiercely defended by the globalist apparatchik superstructure in the West. Over the decades, that superstructure has insinuated itself into the whole fabric of the law, courts, and political mechanisms using the power of immense wealth, position, and the naked supremacy of governments no longer responsive to the citizens but only to a system. To maintain that power, they have created a managerial bureaucracy that supplants even politicians and is isolated from public opinion.
The other road is a work in progress, cleared and paved as we go. It is condemned pejoratively by being labeled as populism or nationalism, both characterizations without a precise, singular definition. Its advocates would call it the “freedom movement,” defined as a conservative political and cultural movement to reaffirm and reconnect the foundational material and spiritual legacy of sovereign citizens to live in a consensual and covenantal community promoting individual freedom based on the Judeo-Christian ethos carried across the millennia – the very heart of Western civilization.
The most crucial question is: Can Western civilization survive without reclaiming those historical markers, or will it simply collapse, crushed by logical contradictions to the natural order and moral law, succumbing to the ancient paganism that has always warred against the world?
Average citizens in the US and across the West are reacting politically, faithfully, and vehemently to the new world order that the “ruling class” has planned. It has been a slow process, but many citizens are beginning to see the unmistakable signs of absolute authoritarian tyranny—not from Donald Trump, Geert Wilders, Giorgia Meloni, Nigel Farage, Conor McGregor, and a growing list of leaders and voices who are the modern-day town criers raising the alarm over the immediate peril facing Western civilization and its inheritance.
The real danger is an ossified, collectivist, communitarian mindset that looks out on a world to subdue and bring to a fixed uniformity. It is no different from every tyrant, warlord, general, king, or despot of every age past. Except now, these would-be rulers envision eliminating personal freedom and personal faith, replaced by computerized serfdom, where electronic chains will demand fealty to the algorithms of the new god-man, perhaps named AI.
The tumult is building. So far, nothing has stopped the freedom movement, and the world’s globalist elites are on DEFCON 1. They have tried intimidation, censorship, government collusion with big tech, police power, arrests, lawfare, and mobs like Antifa initiating public violence, outlawing candidates for office, not to mention assassinations.
The full force of the corporate media complex is, once again, in the US and elsewhere in the West, unleashing its hysterics on the freedom movement. In the US every legacy media forum is in full-throated attack mode, not just against President Trump but anyone who supports his policies. Virtually every news story is based on a half-truth or outright lie. They and their Democrat political machine are reduced to supporting violent criminals, terrorists, murderers, and the nation’s foreign adversaries against regular Americans – a strange strategy, to be sure.
In the panic, the organized radical left has even unleashed the never-Trump residue from 2016 and 2024, led by so-called conservative writers, commentators, and “intellectuals” from the New York Times, Washington Post, and New Yorker, among others, calling for “organized resistance” against the freedom movement. Calling them conservative is like calling KFC’s Colonel Sanders a vegetarian, of course. But no matter. It is a media fantasy that actual conservatives and citizens of faith can be conned or cowed into accepting a worldview antithetical to everything they believe in.
Even stranger is that the entirety of the globalist anti-freedom movement always ignores what has happened over the decades that brought the US and the West to this point – like it never happened.
Such as the middle class collapsing as a percentage of the workforce, grinding many into a new soft poverty. Or a dissected manufacturing base disassembled partly by massive tariffs and VAT tax schemes by trading partners, and ever-increasing global dependence on countries that hate us. How about the enormous transfer of American wealth to other countries, never-ending wars, and bloated budgets? Or immigration and work visa scams and mass illegal immigration which have crushed city services, unleashed terrifying public violence and created indentured servitude in some communities. Then there are the failing universities dumbed down with neo-Marxist class warfare and failing secondary schools, in synchromesh with a “moderating” public speech while becoming publically hostile, or worse, towards God and people of faith.
But these events did happen, and ordinary citizens have been impacted and changed by them. Today, the US and the West sit squarely betwixt and between – all the riches and power of the world are on one road, and the global ruling class has come frighteningly close to making it the only road.
Now, a brief window exists again for freedom and a time for renewed faith in a God who is never late. It is another “time for choosing.” For bold colors, no pale pastels.
