We Still Have An Historic Lifestyle

The historic [life] style is founded upon accumulated experience of mankind, and in the United States is influenced by our Puritan heritage. It has many characteristics, and those which are most cherished are the ones against which the young rebel with most vigor.  For example, the traditional style is based on a belief in God as manifested through organized churches. It respects authority. It is patriotic and sponsors a deep regard for the military, in which a large proportion of our population has served at one time or another. It believes that men lead happier lives they practice thrift, charity and personal responsibility. It believes that honest work is good for a man and preaches allegiance to the firm for which one works. It believes in the sanctity of the home (unless where divorce is necessary) and respect for elders (unless they become a burden). One of its basic tenets has always been a naive and beautiful faith in universal education, not merely as a tool for getting ahead but as a way to attain a good life. Finally, it has adhered to conservative modes of dress, speech, music and ornamentation.

At least ninety percent of the American population subscribes to this traditional life style and considers it flexible enough to accommodate anyone willing to give it a fair test. It can be summed up in a series of aphorisms: “A man’s word is as good as his bond If a man works he’ll get ahead. America has usually tried to do the right thing. Get an education and you can accomplish anything. God is watching.”

James A. Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why [1971], pg. 63

I would say this is still the traditional lifestyle and those types who rejected this in 1971 are still the same types who reject it now. They want to “rebel against the system” the same way they did in 1971—aggressively and sometimes with violence. They are typically anti-law enforcement. Their sexual morals are about as bad as they can get. That will always be the way the “woke” LEFT operates. They hated the USA then and hate it now.

The Perfidy of Islam

"Deception jihad” entails the use of “concealment, manipulation, and misdirection” to gain the upper hand over infidels. “Political jihad” consists of “the deliberate, organized use of electoral and governmental mechanisms to advance, protect, or normalize Islamic ideological objectives.” (One recent example is Hamtramck, Michigan, where “demographic consolidation produced a Muslim-majority electorate” and an all-Muslim city council.) And “missionary jihad,” a.k.a. proselytizing or da‘wah, has always played a key role in Islamic expansion, serving as “an opening act that softens resistance, secures alliances, and builds legitimacy long before force or policy takes over.” (Nowadays, a common example is interfaith programs, which serve jihad by parroting “grievance narratives,” selectively quoting Islamic scripture, drawing moral equivalencies between Islam and Christianity, and depicting Muslims always as victims, never as aggressors.)

Bruce Bawer, A Taxonomy of Jihad: How Does Islam Conquer?

How Islam Conquers the World

Then there’s a form of jihad that too many Westerners still get wrong – namely, “migration jihad.” If Muslims move West, it’s not just to collect welfare; it’s to do their part in serving the Islamic strategy of hijrah, which Cyrus defines as “a deliberate shifting of populations to create new centers of influence, reshape societies from within, and slowly tilt political power toward Islamic governance.” The very first example of hijrah was Muhammad’s own move from Mecca to Medina, and ever since then, the aggressive stage of Islamic expansion has been preceded by the “soft invasion” of hijrah. 

It’s an old story, yet Western governments still don’t get it. And thanks to their ignorance, many European neighborhoods are now sharia-run enclaves where “police tread lightly, women are harassed for uncovered hair, and dissent against Islam is prosecuted faster than open calls for jihad.” In the U.S., under both Barack Obama and Joe Biden (and with the help of Christian “charities” and “Islamic advocacy organizations”), armies of Muslims were settled in selected cities – Minneapolis, Dearborn, etc. – to form the basis for new Muslim enclaves. “Muhammad’s original migration model,” Cyrus points out, “is still being followed: enter as a guest, grow into a bloc, demand accommodation, then rule by numbers.” 

Bruce Bawer, A Taxonomy of Jihad: How Does Islam Conquer?

Pushing Hate

We are among the biggest fools in history if we keep on paying people to make us hate each other.  Whether it is called by pretty names like “multiculturalism,” “diversity,” or “gender awareness,” that is what it all boils down to.

Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

Being Destroyed by School Indoctrination

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.

Thomas Sowell

Learn a Lot of Science

A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to him.

Louis Pasteur

The Real Motives of Leftists

The real motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people. Instead, they have two related goals—to establish themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people, and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people how they must live their lives.

Thomas Sowell

Europe is Saying, “Uh Oh”

Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.

Thomas Sowell

Why Are Public Schools Failures?

There is really nothing very mysterious about why our public schools are failures. When you select the poorest quality college students to be public school teachers, give them iron-clad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance, why should the results be surprising?

Thomas Sowell

LEFTIST Ignorance

What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.

George Orwell

Western Civilization Going Down Hill

Historically, Western civilization — rooted in Christianity layered atop Greco-Roman thought — held that moral truth is objective, individuals are responsible for cultivating virtue, and justice flows from doing what is right rather than merely equalizing outcomes: first define the good, then pursue justice. Over the last century, that order has steadily reversed. Today, many institutions operate on the assumption that whatever feels equitable or balances group outcomes is therefore moral, even when achieving that “fairness” requires deception, coercion, collective punishment, or the abandonment of long-standing norms.

Trying to frame it a little tighter, the best I can do is to say I believe Western civilization is quietly moving from a moral system grounded in virtue and objective good to one grounded in outcomes and perceived fairness. When fairness is severed from moral truth, it becomes a tool of power rather than justice.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

Philosophy Essentials

When you strip philosophy down to its essentials, it’s really about three things: whether God exists, whether we have souls, and whether we are truly free. Together, they answer the question of how we should live. If we are free, if God exists, and if there is something beyond this life, then our choices carry real weight. Human reason seems built for this purpose — not just to understand the world, but to guide our moral behavior.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass