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We are capable of winning this fight.
When I write about threats to Western civilization, I struggle to find the sweet spot between describing the myriad problems we face and my firm belief that we are capable of winning this fight. I do not think all is lost. I do, however, think that it is important for as many people as possible to recognize what our enemies are doing.
When we are being attacked from all sides — culturally, politically, economically, socially, parentally, morally, religiously, psychologically — it is sometimes difficult to recognize that these attacks are all connected. Those who wish to destroy Western civilization use every available weapon to hurt us. When we concentrate on nothing but “bad news,” though, we talk ourselves into premature defeat. We psych ourselves out. We give our enemies greater power over us than they have.
We cannot bury our heads in the sand and ignore what is happening. We also cannot allow what is happening to intimidate us into silence or cow us into submission. Ideally, we will become more vocal in articulating exactly what our enemies are doing, find comfort in the growing chorus of voices urging resistance, and become only more confident in our defense of Western civilization.
Sounding the alarm is not a call for surrender. Nor should hearing the alarm cause us to tremble. This is the time for courage and determination. When our Western ancestors faced similar dangers in the past, they did not hide or run away. They prepared themselves for hardship. They prayed. They retrieved hidden swords from thatched roofs, straw beds, and bales of hay.
In broad strokes, we know what’s happening. Open borders policies in North America and Europe are sabotaging social cohesion. Christianity is under attack. Reason, rationality, and scientific inquiry have been abandoned. Our shared history is continuously rewritten in ways that turn our ancestors into villains. Enlightenment ideals fostering individual sovereignty, personal freedom, and maximum liberty have been eroded by the pernicious encroachments of collectivism, Marxism, socialism, and communism. Virtue is mocked, while sin is celebrated. Unchecked desire, envy, and instant gratification have supplanted temperance, humility, and self-restraint. The indulgence of personal fantasy has superseded the pursuit of eternal truth. Schools, governments, and cultural institutions preach a false and destructive religion requiring Westerners to repent for their “climate change sins” and embrace the doctrines of “multiculturalism” and “diversity” as tenets of leftism’s “faith.”
Those are the various arrows being shot at us daily. The damage caused from such sustained onslaught is immense. Last week, conservative publications around the world carried the sad news of a twenty-five-year-old Barcelona woman named Noelia Castillo Ramos who chose to end her own life with the help of Spanish authorities. Ramos spent her childhood in Spain’s broken foster system, being moved from one facility to the next. Spain also uses these facilities to house unaccompanied foreign minors. A group of these foreign minors brutally gang raped Ramos when she was a teenager. Suffering physically and psychologically, Ramos attempted suicide by leaping from a fifth-floor window four years ago. She survived but was left paraplegic. Spanish authorities deemed her “severe mental suffering” sufficient grounds to grant her plea for State-assisted death.