Awaken Every Man to Duty
We need reluctant leaders, true men of character. Not self-aggrandizing character actors.
Children are selfish. The younger they are the more that is true. As their minds and hearts develop, they become more sophisticated. They learn, among other things, empathy and self-awareness. These tools help them to be good members of a productive and caring society.
With the new digital pacifiers that children now use long into their adulthood. The need to be able to function in a society diminishes. Individualism begins to prevail and the next thing you know society is full of selfish people. Unconcerned with anyone else. It is why we see such violent crime on helpless victims. It is why we see institutions falling apart and morals decaying and disappearing? Replaced with a certain selfishness once only found in the youngest children. Now we see it in the teens, twenty’s and far beyond.
It is the reason a woman can walk around a grocery store openly carrying a ten inch kitchen knife for ten minutes before stabbing a 3-year-old boy to death in front of his mother. Prior to the attack people just ignored the woman with the knife in her hand. No one said a word. Rationalizing their cowardice they think to themselves, “She is not bothering me, so I do not care. If I say something I could single myself out to her. Would anyone help me then?” A legitimate question. 30 years ago the answer was yes, people would have stepped in and stopped it.
Instead, today we have a woman charged with murder smiling about it for the cameras in court. Demented in part by the failures in our own society. Lack of parenting. Digital pacifiers. A selfish mentality. Me, me, me. This is all a video game.
My God, when did we stop caring for each other as Americans? When did it change from
being able to disagree respectfully with each other, with the understanding that both of us love America, we just have different visions for it.
To now, where if you disagree on policy, you are labeled a Nazi, a pedophile, a traitor, a homophobe, or another label. Labels created simply to provide a place for them to drive the wedges between the people. You are hated, you are ambushed and pushed into a dark corner where the lefties will try to set you straight. But they run from logic and critical thinking. They do not understand it and they certainly do not know how to use it.
Not anymore. For generations Americans have been conditioned that only our feelings matter. Brought up as an individual, they see nothing wrong with stepping on others to pull themselves up. The “F the other guy, I gotta get mine” mentality is a cancer that rots a society from within. It is a childish behavior that leaves old and pregnant women standing on the subway while a teenager sits lost in the glow of their pacifier. It is not that he doesn’t notice the woman, it is that he doesn’t care. Worse yet, it is becoming the norm and not the exception.
Men. Where have you gone? The absence of fathers has made this shift in society possible, and even helped to accelerate it.
Once the majority of society embraces that kind of selfishness, you have the beginning of the end of that society. No longer will it flourish, rather the only thing that will keep it together is force. So we live at the end of a rifle.
Those who work against the rusty societal machinery are removed one way or another. The government has many tools and endless resources to silence patriotic Americans. Tools to take away our voice, or to just destroy us the old-fashioned way. With a manufactured character assassination. Do not forget the tyrannical government has the power to imprison their enemies. They have even murdered American citizens in public. Over and over the government has put its tyranny on display, and still the American people cannot seem to see. We are living in a police state. The government only wants to control you. They have shown us this over and over. They count on an ignorant public. A public who got that way going through schools the government runs. So they can think the way the government wants them to.
They create problems so they can implement their “solutions.” It is not about global cooling, global warning, or climate change. It was about wanting to impose regulations on the people of the world. SO they created a “crisis” in order that they can implement their “solution.” Most of the time using tax dollars to transfer great sums of U.S. currency from the American people to companies that have donated to campaigns.
“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.” Ronald Reagan - 1964
The government knows they must eliminate the opposing voices before those voices gain too much power. We the people are their enemy. Believe that. Independent media is doing what the press was meant to do but no longer does. The press was to be a check on the government for the people. It is now a check on the people for the government.
The founders warned us. They knew these days would come. They knew we would be tested. So they put the tools in place to defeat tyranny. The left fights to keep our rights hidden from us. Even removing cursive writing from government run schools. Interestingly enough, the constitution is written in cursive.
It is not our right; it is our duty! For the generation coming up now, and the ones yet to come.
We must always remember if we are fighting this fight for ourselves, then we have already lost. We must have the vision to see past ourselves. To see how large this really is. The big picture. We may need to fight so that others may remain free. We must recognize our responsibility and we must accept it. We must practice and teach selflessness.
Many of us have heard this quote from Thomas Paine “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day so that my children may have peace.” However it leaves out the most important part. The ending. The full quote reads as follows.
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”
The goal of attaining peace for our children should be enough to awaken every man to duty.
It is only when we are willing to fight for others that we will endure the personal trouble and pain long enough to gain victory. Victory against those who openly oppose us, as well as those who secretly work for their own gain. They usually expose themselves. Sadly, I have seen it up close more times than I care to admit.
I have seen many fall who were in it for themselves, their brand, their opportunities. Sometimes it is status that they chase. They wanted to be respected. They wanted their name at the top of flyers. Up in lights for so-called patriotic events. Events where nothing gets done but patriotic back patting. In a recent Substack article I accurately referred to it as a patriotic circle jerk.
Personally, after attending many patriotic events and even being a part of a few. I do not see the point. I acknowledge that fellowship, creating community, bringing people together with similar values and goals is always a good idea. I have just heard one too many promises. Paid one too many cover charges, to hear one too many speeches. Reruns meant to fire up a crowd for the speaker’s political race, their website, their merch, their benefit.
Where are the reluctant patriots? Those are the ones I will follow into the fire of war. The ones who know the cost. The ones willing to pay it with their sweat and if necessary, their blood.
We need reluctant leaders, true men of character. Not self-aggrandizing character actors. Not arrogant sponsors who prefer to purchase loyalty rather than earn it. It is not the same anyway.
True loyalty is not something you can buy. They are things that must be earned over time. They cannot be created by throwing money around. It is not something you can purchase. It is something that is built with consistent upright behavior, integrity, and grit.
They can have their smiling face posing as a patriot on a flyer, and that is just what some are doing, posing. The ones who do not know will find out eventually. False idols waste the time of willing patriots. The same thing The People’s Convoy and countless other movements did by keeping supporters occupied with a house of cards. While they capitalized on the generosity and desperation of the American patriot. Patriots who were sick of watching America slip away into the ash heap of History.
A man’s character reflects his heart. It cannot be changed like a sports jersey. What we need are leaders who build their houses on rock. Patriots willing to lose everything, not summer soldiers eager to start a fight of which they will not participate. Principled people willing to do their duty because it is their duty. Not because of what they might gain.
Reluctant patriots. Not eager opportunists. No more summer soldiers or sunshine patriots. Weak in their principles that they cannot or will not withstand the inevitable fire. Good character makes us fireproof. Preventing us from being taken down with evil tactics perpetrated by useful idiots. Or leftist trolls looking to capitalize on any weaknesses we may have. Everyone has weaknesses.
We fight with principles. They fight with personals.
Eventually you have two sides fighting with each other for attention. Sometimes even working together behind the scenes to orchestrate a fictional fight that they can both benefit from. It is a game for them. Something they play in order to gain followers, money, or respect. These sunshine patriots are lightweights that blow over in the wind.
Character matters. Principles matter. Honor matters. Possessing these traits make us strong soldiers who can withstand the immoral attacks of the left. Their accusations and character assassination attempts bounce off of the principled patriot. Strong character is a powerful defense against the attacks of the left. But it is also a great offense. People often forget that strong character and a good reputation can be wielded like a broadsword to cut the head off of the snake that spews the venom of lies and propaganda.
Venom that used to control the American people so well. Until the internet unleashed and amplified the power of the American citizen’s voice. Feeding the rise of independent media. We were finally able to fight the narratives of the nightly news.
There are millions of us out here, people of good character are not extinct. Although there certainly seem to be fewer today than in the past. That is understandable, I guess. I do not accept it, but I understand it. It has become harder to do the right things. We face more temptations, more distractions, more evil than ever before in History. Those of us who stand are attacked. I have seen it over and over. It happens to me almost daily. The useful idiots of the left are relentless.
To nullify their attacks we do not need to attack them back, we need only to strengthen our armor. Walk that narrow path. Trust each other enough to keep each other accountable.
Eventually the Devil takes all of us to the top of the temple. Will you jump as the Devil requests and test God?