Alex McFarland Exclusive | A Perfectly Deadly Storm: The Left’s 3-Front Assault on America

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Christians in a darkening culture

Walking around the smoldering ruins of Ground Zero less than two days after 9/11 was not something I would exactly call a “privilege.” But the experiences of those days are times I will never forget. Though sad and sober, it was an honor to be serving as part of a ministry team in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks. We counseled individuals blindsided by grief, prayed with hundreds of New York’s first responders and listened to the stories of people from every imaginable background.

As news outlets commented round the clock on the attacks, many of the stories analyzed the physics of how the World Trade Center Towers fell: The planes crashed into the buildings, instantly spewing thousands of gallons of jet fuel everywhere. Fire engulfed nearly 10 floors in each building on impact, first in the North Tower, and then in the South. Two buildings that had taken eight years to construct lay on the ground in rubble just 56 minutes from impact (South Tower) and after 102 minutes (North Tower).

September 11, 2001

The trifecta of physical destruction began as the hijacked jets breached the Towers’ concrete and metal exterior, weakening the structure overall. Intense heat from burning jet fuel compromised and eventually melted steel support beams throughout several floors. The incalculable weight of floors above points of impact was, tragically, mass enough to crush everything below.

The awful spectacle of the Towers’ fall (and the destruction of entire city blocks of buildings and property nearby) is acutely painful to watch even two decades later. The deaths of more than 2,700 people, the loss of a sense of inherent safety in being on America soil, and the omnipresent sway Islamic terrorism has caused the world to feel ever since 9/11 changed life to a degree that overstatement is near impossible.

At risk of extinction? ‘Endangered species’ lists should include these three things

United States of America Declaration of Independence dated July 4, 1776 lying on an American flag.

Just as multiple contributing factors coalesced into the felling of the Towers, the combination of several detriments is bringing down our blessed America. And the pathological irony in the case of our unraveling nation is that three dynamics key to the preservation of America things that any thinking person would want to shore up and affirm the following three things are being actively suppressed and opposed: The family, morality, and human life itself.

Far too many high-profile influencers could never be counted on to take unflinching stances for marriage and family, objective truth and moral accountability, nor for the sacredness of life and human rights. Elected officials, public educators, and celebrities of all strata prattle endlessly about rights . . . but virtually always from a perspective of moral relativism (“It is my right to marry whomever or whatever I choose;” “It is my right to define/express my gender for myself;” “It is my right to have an abortion”).

And these “rights” are assumed and asserted with meaningful discussion to the contrary only rarely allowed. American public education has been overwhelmingly secularized for several generations. It is hardly mysterious why the majority of Gen X-ers, Y’s, millennials, Z’s, and younger reject Christianity, traditional family structures, morals, patriotism or are clueless about such things altogether. Public education is programmed to crank out masses of compliant little socialists/globalists. We are uploading our kids with vacuous, bankrupt, un-livable philosophies, and this will ultimately mean the loss of our Constitution if it does not stop.

It has been at least four decades since high school diplomas and college degrees represented a type of promise that graduates had been tutored to truly think, live morally, and to cherish our nation. The left fights hard against school choice, because public classrooms have been so successful at shielding young minds from content about morals and patriotism, if not steering them away completely.

Pop media and the entertainment industry pulse out imagery and narrative that captures (or at least greatly influences) the imaginations of every age group. And again, with rare exception, values that contribute to the weakening of our society are repeated and reinforced. From the latest “blockbuster” in theaters, to the uber-liberal pages of Rolling Stone, to the logic-bereft desk of The View, leftist views about sexuality, family, religion, politics are endlessly echoed.

Family, morals, and life matter — and the left knows it

Volumes of data affirm the positive outcomes (long term and short term) of what is often called, “traditional values.” Described favorably or dismissively (depending on who you’re listening to), “traditional values” are at the core of the battle for our nation’s future. Notice, however, an irony regarding those who would have us redefine marriage, relativize morality, reimagine gender, and thoroughly revise America. The very same influencers who reprehend traditional values have a platform and enjoy prosperity because of those values.

The Atlantic published an insightful piece several years ago, titled, “Why is it Hard for Liberals to Talk about ‘Family Values’?” The essay pointed out that for all of the pontification about the oppressiveness of marriage and the need for sexual liberation, “. . . stable marriage and community are the secret sauce of economic well-being that nobody on the left wants to admit to using.”

The left’s stance that traditional social structures are inherently oppressive and “bad” (a presupposition held to, defended, and basically enforced for decades) makes for impassioned talking points. But successful, influential Democrat progressives themselves do not live this way, nor do they encourage their kids (if they have them) to live this way. But they’re quieter about the ways that traditional “family values” are guiding their own choices.

Democrat candidates advocate for leftist/progressive policy positions with lock-step predictability. Ironically, though, the affluence and social standing enjoyed liberal leaders came about in the context of “traditionally married,” two-parent households. In other words, Dems “talk it” but they, themselves don’t “live it.” Volumes of research document that economic success is directly tied to family stability. The Atlantic quotes one sociologist who says, “This public/private divide raises a problem: It’s like stable marriage and community are the secret sauce of economic well-being that nobody on the left wants to admit to using.”

The priorities of life, of marriage, and morals: Our Founders knew

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Ronald Reagan famously said that government programs, once enacted, never “die.” Our 40th President joked that government programs and agencies are “the closest thing to eternal life” seen on this planet. Perhaps that is why the left so tenaciously continues to build its platforms of demonstrably flawed planks.

Though career politicians on the left would hardly admit it, responsible government really does have a vested interest in promoting what our Founders (and those who influenced them) would call, “the virtues.” According to Federalist writer Alexander Hamilton, true social justice is experienced only when objective morality (commonly referred to as, our “Judeo-Christian heritage,” or simply called, “the 10 Commandments”) is assumed. Over time, our pervasive belief in God, morality and personal accountability, and consistently a high view of human life has resulted in what philosophers call, “the good.”

But God, family, personal accountability, sexual abstinence until marriage, self-restraint, patriotism, absolute morality these are all things that the left incites each new generation to assume against. And they have successfully imparted their viewpoints to millions. Yet is impossible to argue that morally and socially our nation is better off for the left’s decades-long campaign of “progressivism.”

Nearly two centuries ago Alexis de Tocqueville chronicled his observations of this land in the two-volume work, Democracy In America. He repeatedly noted that family was at the core of America’s strength. It is ironic that our government and educators would so gravely undermine something so fundamental to the health of any society. Political analyst Michael Ledeen addressed how the aforementioned 19th century diplomat might respond: “That the very word “family” is regularly conjoined with other words like “single parent” and “same sex,” Tocqueville would find preposterous, since he knew that the strength of the family, and the character of future generations, rests upon the contributions from both father and mother.”

Some 30 years after Tocqueville wrote Democracy In America, published works coming from the man who would become our 26th President consistently demonstrated a keen understanding of what made for the success of this nation. In Theodore Roosevelt’s analysis of America he contrasted our history with that of another, not-so-fortunate people, the French during the time period leading up to their revolution. Roosevelt noted that France, in the years that would coalesce into social and political overthrow, was a place of great impiety. “They did not believe anything,” Roosevelt wrote.

He cites American revolutionary Gouverneur Morris (who had written to General Washington regarding the conditions in 18th century France): “ . . . There is an utter prostration of morals, but this general proposition can never convey to an American mind the degree of depravity. . . The great mass of common people have no religion but their priests, no law but their superiors, no morals but their interest.”

In chronicling the birth of America, documenting parts of its early history, and championing what he saw as its superiority to other nations, Roosevelt frequently warned of things that he saw as threats to the country: Loss of God, loss of morality, loss of national spirit, absence of decisiveness and conviction Roosevelt saw these deficiencies for the threats that they are. He spoke forcefully against atheism (and against atheists like Thomas Paine, in particular): “I have no patience with those who attack, who would destroy, a man’s belief in religion . . . they succeed only in destroying something they take something real away and give nothing in return, leaving the victim bankrupt.”

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What would Roosevelt say about college professors today, that majority of whom identify as politically liberal and spiritually agnostic? What would he think of the Democrats “booing” the mention of God at their 2012 convention in my home state of North Carolina? Loss of morals, loss of family, and loss of reverence for human life has been the undoing of cultures ancient and modern (read The Victory of Reason by twice-Pulitzer nominated scholar Rodney Stark).

Knowing this, why are Dems, influencers, and other leaders doggedly hanging on to policies that are (and will) contribute to further national erosion? Leaders who care about this country should advocate for traditional marriage, for moral truth and personal accountability, and for a high view of life. Political correctness be damned; we’re talking about America’s survival and human thriving, here.

Liberal/progressive ideas are contributing to the weakening of our culture, and the tide must turn if our Constitution (and the liberties enumerated therein) are to be preserved. Leftist powers have held majority sway in politics, education, and culture for decades now. Dare we hope that someone within the ranks of Democrat leadership has the moral courage to ask, “Why are we continuing down this toxic path?”

Whether or not hope for a moral awakening among Democrats would be justified, only God knows. But since we’re on the subject of God anyway, let’s pray to Him that liberal demagogues will not only experience an epiphany, but would also turn back from their systematic demolition of America.

Alex McFarland is an author, evangelist, and hosts “Exploring the Word,” heard daily on the American Family Radio Network. Alex is a frequent spokesperson on Fox News, and has been interviewed by other media outlets including Fox and Friends, the Alan Colmes Show, “The Strategy Room”, Billy Graham’s Decision radio broadcast, Focus On The Family radio, NPR’s All Things Considered, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint broadcast, BBC, CBN, Bible Broadcast Network, La Vie (France), and news outlets including CBS, FOX, NBC, CSPAN, SRN, and the Associated Press (AP) wire service. Learn more at www.alexmcfarland.com

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