Preserving America

Steps for protecting freedom

As we discussed in the last issue, the Left is on the last leg of a 100-year drive to destroy America. Leftists hate America. They hate American values, the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, democratic principles and democratic rule. Their plans to dismantle the U.S. include stacking the Supreme Court, adding more states, and eliminating the electoral college and the filibuster. They push for open borders, weaponized mass migration and the destruction of election integrity. They also promote political violence, riots, fraud and corruption, increased crime and defunding law enforcement. They continually plot to subvert and destroy America by any means possible in their unending quest for total power.¹

What can Americans do to oppose the Left’s devious plans? Here are some suggestions from The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism², an online course from Hillsdale College.

• “Americans must rediscover what equal citizenship under the law means and what republican institutions and virtues are necessary to secure liberty. Americans should look back to their own republican institutions and traditions. And in doing so they need to regain knowledge of the things that secured their liberty.”

• “Christian and natural law traditions should be revived at the local level. Christians need to understand their own traditions and revive their traditions at the local level. And it’s not just a Christian tradition; it’s also a natural rights and natural law tradition. To understand on the side of the Right that certain rights are not subject to negotiation. And there is a right to the protection of those essential liberties.”

• “Conservatives should seek to form local communities with their own institutions so that they are less reliant on the incompetent federal institutions. They should look to empowering themselves at the local level…Conservatives need to focus on forming local communities, close friends. They can focus on creating their own separate institutions—things like charter schools, coops for agriculture and produce, private business, working and networking with one another.”

• “Most importantly, conservatives should stop apologizing for the color of their skin and for their religion and defend the rights of citizenship. They need to reclaim sovereignty from the bureaucracy itself, who has lost all legitimacy and has no basis left to claim the right to rule…They have to negotiate from a position of strength and only then will they be able to secure the rights that they have as American citizens. Americans need to understand that the Western heritage is not some abstraction. It literally exists in them in their own flesh and blood. And they can look back to their own founders to get some good advice as to how they should proceed.”³

I would add the following points:

Tyranny thrives when the people in power get away with lies. Demand transparency and accountability from government officials. Insist on the prosecution of fraud and corruption. Don’t support organizations or political candidates that promote the Left. Boycott corporations and associations that advance identity politics.

Support clean voter registration rolls and the strengthening of voter integrity laws. Use your vote to oppose Leftists and those who align with them. Instead, select candidates who support the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. Exercise your right to vote as an American citizen by choosing candidates that have the best policies for the country.

Make a point of contacting your elected representatives on important issues. Speak up when safe and feasible instead of remaining silent. Finding our courage is key if we are to defend freedom from those who are trying to take it away.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

—Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, to her son John Quincy Adams

1. Slack, Kevin. War on the American Republic. Encounter Books, 2023.

2. The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism. Hillsdale College online courses. hillsdale.edu.

3. See footnote 2.