Resist actively and the counterculture will thrive



We pause to consider the cultural war being fought in America and the West, and we learn why, how and where it's being fought, its origins in the teachings of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, and the successes cultural Marxists have scored in education, the judiciary, the media and in other arenas. We may rightly ask whether we are making any progress.

Despite the New World Order priorities of many in the Bush Administration, we can be thankful for the boldness of President Bush in advancing his agenda and ignoring the media.

Americans have started to realize they can do likewise. Excluding the media from our lives helps us awaken from the nightmare of cultural Marxism imposed on us over the past 40 years. As we do, we realize how to reassert our primary values of faith, family, patriotism and liberty, and reclaim our hijacked national culture: it is to be absolutely as bold as those who have tried to remove those pillars of American society.

Nobody should be ashamed of having a strong faith in God, pride in our nation, and a belief in the sanctity of the family. Those who order their lives around a set of moral and cultural imperatives are the real foundations of America. Those are not values of which anyone should be ashamed, yet over the past 40 years, many good people have been marginalized and shamed precisely because they believe those things.

However, the expansion of liberalism has now reached such ridiculous extremes that surely a counterbalance must soon come into play. Let's follow their logic to its conclusion.

At Christmas time, liberals claim that, despite the practice of the past 2000 years or so, celebrating Christmas this year might offend those who do not celebrate. Let's say a few hundred people choose to be offended. So what? Are we now going to abolish every religious or subcultural festival because others might feel excluded? If so, let's start with Ramadan, Kwanzza, Gay Pride Day and Martin Luther King Day. We must ask why these people feel so offended in the first place. Is that their problem or ours? I know this much: I am not a mother, but I don't feel at all excluded when people celebrate Mothers' Day.

The choice of religion has consequences, from which liberals assume people need to be protected. This is unnatural and absurd. If I order steak in a restaurant, might I feel deprived of fish? Maybe, but that's part of the deal. In any case, who cares? When I choose to be a Christian, that means, for example, that I will probably not be celebrating Ramadan, Diwali or, say, Jewish New Year. Do I feel left out? Well, no, but if I do, I can always light some candles, blow a ram's horn and join in! Because America has freedom of religion, obviously we cannot all follow all of them. And that's precisely the idea.

Liberals also say a man should now be able to marry another man. Well, why stop there? Why not two other men? Why not half a dozen? Why not toss in a few of each gender for the sake of diversity? Why not marry your dog? But then the parrot might feel excluded. Let's marry him too, and let the hamster and the rabbit join in for good measure. Come to think of it, I've always been pretty fond of my dining room table as well. Ah, but you can't marry a table. How would you reproduce? Exactly! So when will these nutcases be satisfied? This nonsense devalues the sanctity of marriage - but only if we allow it to do so.

Some may accuse me of being intolerant. Do I care? Not in the slightest, and you shouldn't care either. The lefties in our culture have bullied their way into our culture for too long. They are tolerant of nobody else, but despite the prevailing insanity in the culture, courts and education system, let's be clear about one thing: they are the ones who belong in the asylum, not those who believe in God, country and family.

As we become bolder, let's take courage. This battle can be won! If you really believe that, let me suggest you act accordingly. Aside from the sports which interest you, switch off the TV and reflect on America. Gather your sense of boldness, discover your mission, and why you are here. What role can you play? And don't be afraid you're going to miss something. I haven't watched TV in almost a decade. The news is nauseating; the rest is garbage. It's liberating to switch it off!

Though no mainstream media outlet seems to have the guts to tell the real truth, Fox News has overtaken CNN in popularity, the liberal media are seeing their ratings fall dramatically, and conservative talk radio has never had more listeners. The emerging counterculture is a natural reaction to the dramatic leftward shift of the past decades.

We have given too much weight to the opinions of liberal elite and network anchors, which are of zero importance to anyone except themselves. Moreover, it is hardly a sign of professionalism to allow those prejudices to color their reporting.

We must stay away from such contamination and concentrate instead on what we know to be truthful: the Bible, the constitution and the vision of our nation's founders. In other words, "whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things. (Philippians 4:8)

Dale Carnegie put it succinctly: "Your life is what your thoughts make it." Think defeat and you'll be defeated. Realize that the corner has been turned, and you're well on the way to victory! But why would you want to think defeat in the first place? You think we've come this far as a nation to give up now and hand over a free nation to a handful of Marxist globalists?

Some people take the position that it's too late because our freedoms have been largely confiscated. They have a point. Some liberties have vanished. Do we care enough to reclaim them?

If we want America's nascent counterculture to thrive, is it enough to be convinced that we are heading in the wrong direction? No, that's only a start. Let me remind you of the scripture "resist the devil and he will flee from you" (James 4:7). The verb "resist" is an active one, not a passive one. It's not enough to vote against the devil, or to be in favor of all things good. "Resist" means we must do something. Let's roll! May God bless you and may God bless America. Steve Myers © 2003, 2006