Needed: An "Outside the Box" Solution by Edward B. Sutton

Dear Gadfly,

          Thanks for a great article (Where to Begin?) and for the education on the history of Communism. I am hopeful many will read this article and your following articles on the history of communism, which you document is alive and well in the USA.

          Your article begs the question “Where to Begin”. I suggest we begin outside “the Box”.

          If we are teaching lies to our students, how is it that we expect them to know the truth? If we are teaching nothing of value to our students, how is it that we expect them to have knowledge (including the lessons of history)?

          For informed millennials, the description you provide of the horrific torture, mutilation and murder of Russians by their own government during the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin’s reign are passed off as an attribute of Communism and are no longer a problem because most Americans believe Communism is dead. They will place this information in their junk mail box along with the millions murdered by Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and other leaders of anti-America isms with the belief that modern government has reformed and no longer tortures and murders its citizens. Anti-liberty Isms, including Communism, must purge their countries of Judeo Christian religion and principles and have government control of the media and a compliant citizenry before they can assume absolute power. Due to an excellent brain washing job by our popular American media and a failed education system, millennials do not know history and do not associate Communism with Progressivism.

          The current actions of our modern Progressives in America, as demonstrated by their rejection of the 2016 Presidential election and their further rejection of attempts by President Trump to restore governance by the Constitution and our founding principles, are as rabid as the early acts of the Bolsheviks (as described in your article) when they went after the Mensheviks. As Hitler assumed more power, we saw this advance of violence in the acts by his Brown Shirts. It was only when they could assume full power that whole sale murder and torture began. 

          Are common values the glue that makes a successful society? Modern education teaches its students that Progressivism, Socialism, Communism and Islamism want to live in harmony with Judeo Christian values and our Constitution – even when these isms directly state their goal is total domination and the eradication of all beliefs other than their own.  Where is it that history tells us that America can have a large contingent of their population that have beliefs that are antithetical to our Constitution and yet we can remain a Republic? Of course, history tells us this is not possible.

          “Where to Begin”?  We are at the point in America that the arriving generation, now a large urban minority of whom is admitted socialists, will soon be a socialist majority and who will vote and govern our Republic accordingly. I challenge and urge you, and writers like you who know history and understand and write of the American dilemma, to think outside “the box” and describe solutions that take into consideration the glaring social and economic data that tells us a Constitutional Republic for our 50-state union is not sustainable. If there is a solution, it must be articulated in writing. This, I believe, is “Where to Begin”?

What is “the box”?

The box is believing that our problems in America are cyclical and can be solved by the next election. (Our problems are structural and require fundamental changes to restore Constitutional governance. America’s problems will not be solved by the “next” election).

The box is believing we are governed by the Constitution. (We are no longer governed by the Constitution, we are governed by the Administrative State).

The box is believing solutions can be provided by a political savior(s) who will solve our problems. (There are no political saviors).

The box is believing Progressives must follow the Constitution and abide by the “law”. (Progressives have no intention of abiding by the Constitution - they despise it).

The box is believing we have a lot of time to solve our problems. (Demographics are destiny and are irrefutable. Europe and California are examples).

The box is believing education alone can solve our problems. (Plato, Aristotle and Jefferson told us we cannot have a Republic without patriots-are we making Patriots in our public schools and universities?).

The box is believing somehow “right will win out”.  (Our founding fathers did not negotiate with the Crown. They used their Judeo-Christian principles as an inspiration, and not a refuge, and they acted upon them.)

          Today our Constitutional Republic, called America and the United States, exists in the hearts and minds of citizens mostly in our red states but is absent in the halls of Congress and classrooms of our public schools and universities. I an earlier private response to Gadfly, I said “our 50-state union is not sustainable.” This is an uncomfortable thought at best. I am continually searching for proof that my statement is not true; however, economic, cultural, social and data documenting America’s decline is difficult to ignore.

          Restoring our Republic, if it is a Constitutional Republic we want, will be a disruptive process and one most Americans do not have the stomach for. If you are interested, I will comment more on this, and how to restore Constitutional governance in on-going correspondence with you.

Regards,

Ed