Authored by William Brooks via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
“The enemies from within are more dangerous to me than the enemies from the outside,” said Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump, at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024.
At a Springfield, Illinois, event, some 20 years before the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered a prophetic message to his fellow citizens: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
The speech is said to be the origin of the popular quote wrongly attributed to Lincoln: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
While these were not Lincoln’s exact words, most Americans understand that the 16th and 45th presidents of the United States were troubled by the same thing—the potential self-destruction of their nation.
History has demonstrated that internal discord can be as dangerous to a sovereign country as a foreign aggressor.
A History of Betrayal
In 2013, American author Diana West published “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.” Her book initiated an important debate about the modern history of the American Republic.
Ms. West contended that Nov. 16, 1933, was the beginning of a long assault on the security of U.S. democracy. This was the date when Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to normalize relations with the murderous communist regime known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. FDR’s fateful decision opened America’s doors to an unprecedented invasion of Marxist militants, communist spies, and domestic fellow-travelers.
In the decades that followed, progressive academics, journalists, novelists, artists, and entertainers all celebrated the socialist ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution. According to Ms. West, even American businessmen were “eager to buy their rope from Lenin.”
Ms. West’s views about the influence of communist ideologues in American politics were ridiculed by some of the most notable literary figures in the United States and Canada.
Other courageous scholars came to her defense.
One was the late Vladimir Bukovsky, a Russian-born writer and human rights activist who spent 12 years in Soviet psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and labor camps during the Brezhnev era. Another was Pavel Stroilov, a Russian Christian exile who fled to the UK after his academic research put his life and liberty in jeopardy.
Writing for Breitbart News in November 2013, Mr. Bukovsky and Mr. Stroilov insisted that Diana West’s book would make history. Both agreed that, despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and the unraveling of the Warsaw Pact in 1989, the United States never really won the Cold War.
Like Ms. West, they asserted that the conflict between the United States and the USSR was more than a military stand-off.
“It was an ideological war waged by the totalitarian utopia of Socialism against our civilization; and on that level, the most optimistic view of it is that it still goes on. The Soviet Union is gone, but Russia is still governed by a junta of Gestapo officers; China is still governed by the Communist Party; and the Western world is governed by closet Marxists and Mensheviks, imposing on us yet another version of the same socialist utopia,” they wrote.
Drawing on copious research and experience, Ms. West, Mr. Bukovsky, and Mr. Stroilov demonstrated that it was an elite American intelligentsia who surrendered the United States to the adversarial socialist culture. The U.S. establishment’s capitulation to the global left led to a complete occupation of U.S. institutions and the ultimate corruption of the free world.
Few scholars have produced better explanations for the precipitous decline of Western democracy in the 21st century.
Treason of the Intellectuals
For more than 150 years after the signing of the U.S. Constitution, Americans regarded their nation as a beacon of liberty and a model for representative democracy.
In the early decades of the 19th century, French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville expressed high praise for the United States, its citizens, and their civic institutions.
After abolishing slavery, Abraham Lincoln identified the U.S. Republic as “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Americans developed civil institutions that were second to none. In 1964, the American Civil Rights Act extended the foundational promises of the United States to all of its citizens.
Today’s woke left is destroying America’s legacy. While they claim to worry about “democracy,” they are really worried about losing their own power. They saw how actual democracy worked in 2016 and they don’t want any more of it.
Ordinary American citizens are victims of what French philosopher Julien Benda once called “La Trahison des Clercs” (The Treason of the Intellectuals).
Benda condemned early 20th-century European elites who were apologists for aggressive imperialism, military power, and racial discrimination. The elites who are betraying America today are proponents of aggressive globalism, technocratic power, and reverse racial discrimination.
Both Benda and Ms. West asserted that free societies can be ruined by a leadership class that rejects objective reasoning and ignores the difference between truth and lies.
From the New Deal to Bidenomics, Soviet show trials to corrupt courts, national sovereignty to open borders, education to indoctrination, free speech to censorship, honest elections to ballot harvesting, and freedom of religion to the suppression of faith, the survival of American democracy is more tenuous than ever.
These are the “dangers from within” that Presidents Lincoln and Trump were speaking about.
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America is never going to recover from what is happening today….sad
‘Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.’ Victor Hugo
America is an idea; the most recent evidence of an evolution toward the ideals of personal freedom/responsibility, property rights and the self-evident truth that there is no such thing as ‘moral authority’ (mind-virus). There have been setbacks (we’re in a massive one right now), but barring some planetary annihilation of the human race ‘the remnant’ will always be there as ‘…an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.’ Giving up is not an option.
As an aside, when you read Lincoln’s quote with the proper etymological awareness of the term government, it makes more sense: ‘a MIND-CONTROL of the people, by the people and for the people.’
Also, we should all (myself especially included) spend as much time and effort trying to bring knowledge to others as we do talking down to and making fun of them for their stupidity.
THE “ANCIENT BEING’S” ALWAYS “UNDERSTOOD” THE “REALITY” OF LIFE…THROUGHOUT THE “UNIVERSE”…THEY ONLY WANTED TO LET THEIR “FIRST-BORN” PEOPLE TO “EXPERIENCE EXTREME EGO AND WHAT IT WILL LEAD TO…UNDERSTAND???
THE “ORIGINAL AMERICA” WILL LIVE ON “FOREVER” BECAUSE THEY WILL FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT “LIVE & LET LIVE” MEANS!!!
NOT intellectuals. Jewish pseudo intellectuals. Much like we have Abrahamic pseudo religion sold under four different name brands. Each promising Armageddon and one world government. Those who question their control of mainstream narratives, or dare thing beyond the pigeonhole of Jewish control of Republican/Democrat, Catholic/Protestant, Islam/Christianity, Communist/Capitalist paradigms are gaslighted and shouted down. Getting in on the act are those who join such aforementioned institutions of indoctrination parroting their Jewish overlords out of a sense and desire of belonging to a group or institution. Such mindless regurgitation is certainly never the product of thoughtfulness or a love of truth and reason. It’s just the lazy way. Like calling Jewish pseudo academics “intellectuals”. Not a good idea to allow the enemy to control the narrative and the language.
Wow, way to avoid the fact that communism is in fact an atheistic creed . Nice rant though . Me ? ” do unto others as you would have them do unto you ” is basically and universally ” the whole of the law ” as well as being perhaps the central tenet behind two out of three Abrahamic religions . Best you can say is adherents of those two Abrahamic religions have failed to embody their own central tenet as you actually use that very same tenet to beat them over the head with .And yeah , we get it we are painfully aware of the fact that we are far from perfect, which is more than I can say for adherents to the atheistic world view who dangerously believe in their own perfectability( can you say utopian ? ) , and we’ve seen the horrors that man has visited upon his fellow man as a result of thinking he is his own God . So get your own dang central tenet . I’ll wait for you to come up with something better( not really ) .
At bottom , you are essentially metaphorically standing on the outboard side of the branch that you are trying to saw off of the trunk that it grows out of .
Behind Communism, Frank Brighton
The so called intellectuals that promote Communism have one glaring commonality…they are products of wealthy families indoctrinated at Ivy League Universities…that have been subverted by the Frankfurt School of Communism. To get rid of cockroach’s you need to find the nest and destroy it if you wish to be free of the vermin.
The Russians learned the hard way from the bolsheviks — they were almost 100% jews … in fact, it has been stated that 90,000 jews repatriated to Russia to take up with the bolsheviks and destroy Russia.
THEY “ARE WHITE PEOPLE”…REMEMBER???
FUNNY…THE RUSSIAN’S DO REMEMBER “WHO” THE FIRST BORN ARE…EVEN HAVE “LOADS” OF PROOF OF THIS FACT!!!
Who are Israeli dual citizens in Govt.? Not from within.
An intellectual is a person who’s only end product/ output consist of idea’s and opinions , and usually untested ones at that for which they pay zero price for being wrong about even though they may actually be implemented to disasterous consequence by otherswho beleiving the self proffesed oracle status of the intellectual . Or something like that , Sowell , Thomas , Intellectuals And Society “
THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH THE “GOD’S” OF CREATION…RE-MEM-BER???
NOTE THE “PLURAL OF THE WORD “GOD”???
THE OLE’ POOPS KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS!
The Americans have made sure (and deliberately positioned) that everyone can rule except themselves. Therefore objectively, treason can come just as easily from antithetical organized intellectuals, the technocracy, scientific elite, communists-secular humanists, military and medical rule/mandates, atheists, satanists, money lenders, religious hierarchies, academics, political authorities, military industrial complex, Big Pharma, and many other entities. It’s counterintuitive and makes no sense that a people of a country professing itself to be a Constitutional Republic gives away all its power. Thereby it is considered as a putrid country that elicits disgust from many of its own people and those abroad alike, as the domestic landscape has been rendered a transient globalist machination at will (likely hastening it’s demise). In many senses askIng why the country has been taken over is already realizable. The American people gave it away.