Quick, interesting read by a man who loves America and wants to preserve our country and its founding values instead of letting the country be rebuilt with socialism. I appreciated his insights on the history of the Cold War, attempts to get communism to take hold in America (such as dismantling the family, which coincidentally is one of the main goals of the Marxist organization BLM), and excerpts from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
“Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a conservative value. But it has never been a left-wing value. When leftists write or say anything, they do not ask themselves, ‘Is this true?’ They ask, ‘Is this effective in destroying opponents?’” -Dennis Prager, xii-xiii
“The left loathes America. That’s why they want to ‘fundamentally transform’ it, as Barack Obama announced...By definition, one does not love what or whom one seeks to fundamentally transform. If your spouse wants to fundamentally transform you, he or she doesn’t love you.” -Dennis Prager, xiv
“The Left have perfected their tools of indoctrination so as to instill irrational levels of hatred in your people, hatred that they are prepared to act upon. This reality endangers all of us who believe that we live in the greatest nation ever created by man.” -p. Xxvii
“From the targeting of American patriots at home via the IRS, to missile strikes killing Americans abroad without due process before the law, the Obama administration had no qualms -- none-- with using the incredible might of the federal government against those it did not like, or wanted to eliminate. That is how we arrive at the plot to subvert candidate Trump’s campaign through the use of the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA, and NSA, for political purposes.” -p. 7
“... Donald Trump was in fact the nation’s reaction to this ‘managed decline’ piloted by the elite, the antidote to a philosophy of self-loathing which saw America as the problem and not as the greatest experiment in human self-governance.” -p. 42
“America and her allies may have defeated the deadly, totalitarian regimes of national socialism and fascism in World War ii and communism in the Cold War, but neither ideology is dead… the internal threat from those who wish to dismantle our nation from the inside is greater than it has been since the Civil War.” -p. 53
“(Herbert) Marcuse’s genius was the see that the Marxist expectations of a revolution happening in America was a fantasy...In America, the boundless upward mobility afforded by a republic based on the rights of the individual as opposed to the privilege of a special class, are how an autodidact prairie lawyer like Abraham Lincoln could become president, or how Barack Obama, the biracial son of a single mother, could do exactly the same thing… Marcuse found another dividing line that could be exploited to exacerbate social strife and dismantle societal structures-- ‘victim groups.’... Andrew Breitbart so eloquently expresses this approach when he describes Marcuse’s mission ‘to dismantle American society by using diversity and ‘multiculturalism’ as crowbars with which to pry the structure apart, piece by piece.’” -pp. 60-61
“We’re substituting ideas of social justice for the rule of law: if your motives are deemed noble by progressives, then you can do anything… reparations or infanticide or the Green New Deal or the wealth tax or abolishing the electoral college or student debt or ICE or free college for everyone...And I think there’s going to be a pushback.” -p. 95
“Thanks to an obsequious media, their extremist views are parroted openly, including the need to abolish ICE.... as AOC and her subservient colleagues brazenly promote communism under the cover of Environmentalism with a ‘Green New Deal’ that would ban gas-powered cars, air travel, and beef husbandry as we know it today, and require the destruction and reconstruction of all the homes and commercial buildings in America in order to make them ‘environmentally friendly.’ This would require a Communist level of government control-- and that is the level of control over your lives that the Democrat party wants to have. If we let them.” -pp. 107-8
In Nov. 2020, “whether it’s freedom of speech, healthcare, education, the Second Amendment, right to life issues - all of it is on the table...They want to abolish America, and they want to replace our political and economic freedoms, which have made us the greatest country in the world, with the economic and moral failure that is socialism.” -p. 111
“President Obama actually fined, prosecuted, and surveilled journalists, and imprisoned journalists’ sources; you couldn’t have more of a contrast between two presidents…
More charges were brought under the Espionage Act against journalists and their sources by Obama than by any other president.” -p. 130
“All politics boils down to one question: do you believe man is perfectable, and therefore do you believe in social engineering? The Right says, no, man is fallen and cannot be made ‘perfect’, however you define that. ‘Conservatism’ comes from this realistic vision and a desire to ‘conserve’ traditions that have proven their worth. The Left believes the opposite-- that man is like putty, infinitely malleable, and can be reconfigured into homo Sovieticus if you’re in the USSR, or into an androgynous, socialist snowflake if you’re in the West today. Only one of these views is supported by the last six thousand years of human history, and it’s stunning that so few people have learned the lesson of recent millennia: not only is man limited in his capacity to shape and engineer his fellow man, but when he tries to do so, intolerance, tyranny, oppression, and even genocide are the results.” -pp. 147-8
“If you tell someone who doesn’t want the wall that 60 to 80 percent of the women smuggled by human traffickers across Mexico to our border are raped along the way-- that resonates emotionally.” -p. 150
“It will take at least two generations to get us back to the point where colleges are about challenging thought not about funneling thought into one politically approved agenda.” -p. 154
“After the ideology of Karl Marx took the lives of more than one hundred million people in the last century, what are you prepared to do to make sure that doesn’t happen here in America?... Forty countries have tried communism-- and the result has always been economic, social, and human catastrophe.” -p. 157
Warning: brief language