The above claims made very recently are not about Ukraine's proxy war with Russia. It's not about our continued military action against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Strictly speaking, it is not a worldly matter such as the US still being at war with North Korea. Rather, this is a story about an ongoing war of survival against our most dangerous enemy: ourselves.
Or, more accurately, it may be the enemy within, and good Americans who are unwittingly aiding that enemy.
Tom Klingenstein, president of the Claremont Institute, warns in many words in an essay titled “We are still at war.''
battle and war
What's in the news is that Elon Musk announced on X Sunday that “cancel culture is canceled.” Musk, who will be joining President Donald Trump's administration, is, of course, talking about how the Republican landslide victory in the Nov. 5 election means there's a new sheriff in town. And Mr. Musk has indeed canceled cancel culture on the X platform. (I use this, so I can attest that the left-wing thought police are dead.) Still, there is a big difference between social media organizations and the federal government.
If Musk had to run for office against the former owner of Twitter (Company X) within two years, he would likely lose. This means it's back to (monkey) business as usual. But Mr. Musk owns Company X, so that won't happen.
Of course politics is different. First, the Trump administration will be tasked with fighting the deep state. Second, not all Republicans support the MAGA agenda, and given the glacial nature of the Senate, there is no guarantee that Congressional aid in the fight against wokeness will be strong. (Plus, Republicans could conceivably lose Congress in 2026.) Third, let's assume Trump and his team are successful in purging federal agencies of politically correct corrupt actors. What will happen if the Republicans lose executive power in 2028?
The awakened mind virus will return with a vengeance.
The reason is that, to put it bluntly, removing wakefulness from the federal government is not the same as eliminating wakefulness. Its main hub is our cultural facility. As long as it is popular, it will be the default. Moreover, it is primarily the culture, not the government, that enforces cancel culture.
So while Election Day's victory was an uplifting victory on the battlefield, it was only part of a broader conflict: the culture wars.
invisible hand of darkness
But there's a problem here. “America is at war and we don't know it,” Klingenstein wrote. “You can't win a war if you don't know you're in a war.”
To illustrate this invisible conflict, Klingenstein introduces Brian Rozenski, associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rozenski should have been one of the biggest stories of this campaign (but was ignored). Klingenstein explains the reason as follows:
(Rozensky) is a national leader in the CRT (Critical Race Theory) movement, the leading authority on CRT in Minnesota, and most importantly, Tim Walz's most important educational advisor. There is also. Mr. Rozensky is not on the periphery of the Walz administration, but at its very center. Rozensky was the de facto leader of Waltz's so-called “ethnic studies” curriculum (“ethnic studies” is effectively the new name for CRT), the centerpiece of Waltz's educational program.
Mr. Walz has worked diligently for years to incorporate ethnic studies into the curriculum of every required course and every grade in every public school in Minnesota. According to Kathryn Kirsten, a senior policy fellow at the Minnesota Center for American Experimentation, Walz has “used both legislation and administrative rulemaking…to achieve his radical ethnic studies leadership.” … From 2021 to 2023, Walz proposed and promoted ethnic studies in a series of “Governor's policy and budget proposals'' in the Minnesota Legislature.
devilish details
Waltz and Rozenski are also trying to rejuvenate them. Klingenstein continues:
Under the new ethnic learning standards, first-graders must “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation, and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings of terms,” Kersten reported. are. Fourth-grade students must “examine how discrimination and oppression against various racial and ethnic groups has generated movements of resistance.” High school students are taught to think of themselves as members of a “racialized class” based on “dominant European standards of beauty.” It is abundantly clear that these standards, no matter how “technical” they may be, are intended to lead students to despise America and become complicit in their own subversion.
“Overthrow” is a word Rozenski uses often. In fact, according to Klingenstein, Rozensky went so far as to say that “Harris/Waltz wants to overthrow America.'' (Note: I can't find the original source for this remark.) And with the Democratic election loss, Harris will likely retreat into the bottle — but Walz will sneak back to Minnesota, where she will raise her children. It will continue to corrupt.
But the bigger problem is that Waltz and Rozensky are just two cogs in a civilization-wide machine of destruction. (I have reported on this educational deterioration here , here , here , here , here , here , and here ). Furthermore, the left does not only dominate the academic world that shapes culture. It has also permeated mainstream media, entertainment, and most corporate America and Big Tech.
Is there a solution?
The good news is that for the first time, patriotic Americans have made significant inroads into the cultural axis. Mainstream media is rapidly declining due to the rise of alternative media (such as podcasters). You can no longer characterize Big Tech as “GoogTwitFace” because Twitter is now X and X is ideologically no longer X-rated. (Thanks to Mr. Musk for his ownership.) And the Peterson Academy and Hillsdale College, under distinguished professor Jordan Peterson, represent an effort to renew academia. But as I wrote earlier in “The Most Important Vote Is Yet to Be Taken,” the fate of this movement largely depends on us. Good can only prevail if we, the market, empower the market through our purchasing decisions and neutralize evil.
But Klingenstein also offers another suggestion. He said that once President Trump takes office, he will ensure he says he is “the president for all Americans, including those who didn't vote for me.” However, commentators recommend a different approach. In other words:
Trump might say, “I'm the president of all but the 10 to 20 percent of Americans who want to destroy America.”
The important thing is that “cancel culture” can only be your own cancel culture. Goodwill will only prevail when we despise and ostracize the destroyers of civilization more effectively than they despise and ostracize us. The culture war is a zero-sum game.
So it's not enough to be happy that we dodged a bullet on November 5th. The guns that fired are still there, still being wielded by the same dark hands, and their magazines are still full. Only when that gun is removed from its hands will we know that our civilization can survive until tomorrow.
