Casualties of the culture war

In every war, there are losses. And the innocent ultimately suffer the consequences. Such is the nature and grim reality of warfare.
The culture war first waged in the 1960s is no different.
Only the casualties of this conflict have continued to mount long after victory had been declared by the political left that waged it in the first place. This is because the tactics used by the left-wing were destined to snow-ball out of control down slippery slopes of dangerous precedent.
Our republic and its culture were undermined from within—chiefly through public education, the media and the legal system. The left infiltrated higher education and infected the minds of impressionable young people, who took what they learned and applied it to society at-large through their own professions: Law, medicine, journalism and K-12 education, among others.
Next thing you know, elementary school students are watching their teacher demonstrate how to put a condom on a cucumber and they grow up thinking that it’s okay to have casual sex with random strangers as long as you wear a condom.
All of a sudden, the perversion of free love has gone from taboo to an accepted norm that permeates even the sanctity of the home. The result has been the systematic destruction of the nuclear family.
Along with the propagation of free love came the insistence on women’s liberation and a sexual revolution, the intent of which was to make casual sex by either gender okay. This was based on a perception that sexual promiscuity by men was tolerated, while that of women was not. A consequence of this effort to equalize the genders by declaring free love for all has been the dissolution of marital commitment and an assault on marriage as a social institution.
Consequently, generations of children have been born out of wedlock to parents who never had any intention of committing themselves to marriage or providing an intact, stable home in which to raise their offspring. Now, the children of the cultural warriors have had children of their own. And those grandchildren are beginning to have children of their own now, too. With each successive generation, the importance of marriage, sexual fidelity and lifelong commitment deteriorates. And it will continue to do so until such virtues disappear completely from the sociological map.
But the family is merely one casualty of the culture war. There are others.
God, most importantly.
Who once was at the very heart of American culture and daily life, and who once inspired great influence in political and government affairs, is now treated as an obscure apparition by the culturally degenerate left, which has succeeded in having vilified the Supreme Being.
In the 1920s, God and Creation came under attack by forces intent on pushing Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution: Man’s—and not God’s—explanation for the origins of life.
The assault has been unceasing ever since.
Secular humanism now rules supreme in popular culture, having been aggressively promoted since the Sixties.
Today, we are taught and told that man is his own Supreme Being. He is the master of his own destiny, and that fate rather than intelligent design is responsible for where we came from and where we are going.
Life, we are told, is chaos, and when we die, there is nothing after that.
In fact, the left-wing degenerates who pushed secular humanism have gone much farther than simply insisting that God doesn’t exist. They’ve managed to convey that a belief in the one, true God of Abraham is unjust, evil and ultimately responsible for all of the political, social and economic ills of the world.
God, and those who believe and trust in Him, is now the enemy.
What is right and good today, in many respects, is unrighteous to God. And that is precisely the point.
The counterculture of the Sixties was meant to be a complete rebellion against everything that American society was build upon and stood for; including and especially God.
Sexual promiscuity of every sort and persuasion is promoted and practiced. A widespread public health problem of pandemic proportions is the consequence. Not only was there an exponential increase in the number of unplanned, unwanted and inconvenient pregnancies to single mothers, but there have also been millions of abortions of unborn children performed in the name of compassion and tolerance.
Further compounding the public health issues surrounding out-of-control sexuality has been the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, which have soared since the Sixties. Newer, more deadly viruses such as HIV, and its terminal end known as AIDS, have also become problematic because of the counterculture’s focus on free love and casual sex.
And yet, we are to believe that the sexual revolution was a good thing?
Further complicating public health has been a subculture, and foundation, of the counterculture: Illicit drugs.
The drug culture has been glorified over the years, resulting in widespread use, abuse and dependence. In fact, drugs have become the new god of secular society; one that we rely on for strength, courage, safety, a sense of self-efficacy, and of belonging. When our resources become depleted, we turn to the needle, the pipe, the straw and the bottle to replenish ourselves, instead of falling to our knees in prayer.
Besides, drugs offer our hedonistic counterculture something that God does not: Instant gratification. It is the ultimate idol, answering our prayers instantaneously with each use.
And a social policy of “do what feels good” has been pushed through the schools in an effort to promote what the left says is individuality; but the result has been generations of people growing up without any clue as to the consequences of their actions.
Thanks to counterculture, America has become a nation of pleasure-seeking hedonists whose selfish pursuits place the needs of others secondary to their own. Instead of helping out our neighbor, we have empowered the government do that for us while we do our own thing.
American society today is controlled by several “me” generations, beginning with the baby-boomer hippie types that were behind the very thrust of the sixties counterculture revolution. These “me first” generations have succeeded in casting God out of the public eye. They have succeeded in replacing Him with the idols of drugs, entertainment and popular culture.
The average counterculturist tends to care more about renting a movie on Friday night than doing his duty as an American citizen on election Tuesday. His most important decision is no longer who or what he should vote for or against, but rather choosing which movie to rent. He no longer cares about how his neighbor is doing, because he’s too busy getting his jollies from visual eroticism.
The average counterculturist will complain about the price of gasoline and how he can’t afford it, but still somehow manage to scrape up a few extra bucks to buy himself a six-pack of beer. He will complain about the cost of heating or cooling his home, but will pay $75 a seat to go watch his favorite professional sports team play.
And he would just as soon keep up with his fantasy sports leagues as keep up with national, regional or local politics.
This leads me to the final casualty of the counterculture war: Sovereignty.
I am talking about individual sovereignty, of course; the kind written about by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence and the kind protected and preserved by the Bill of Rights.
We have given up our individual sovereignty because of apathy and complacency. We delegated tough decision making to the decision-makers in government; whether or not they have our best interests at heart.
Counterculturists leave leadership up to our elected leaders rather than become leaders themselves. And when one of them gets elected into a leadership position, they become more concerned about preserving and protecting themselves and their own interests than defending those of the people who elected them.
Americans have all but relinquished individual sovereignty to the state in exchange for personal safety, security and contentment.
The result is government acting on behalf of, but separate from and independent of the people. The progressive counterculturists in political power have succeeded in distracting the electorate with drugs and entertainment so that they can pursue their objectives and advance their political agendas without fear of opposition from the people, who are either too high, too complacent and apathetic with their entertainment to care, or both.
America has been hijacked by counterculture revolutionaries who preached hedonism, but whose dark, underlying objective has been the take-over of power in government.
They’ve destroyed the nuclear family and diluted or minimized its importance. They have destroyed God and wiped His importance clear off the map by replacing Him with idols; human-generated and created gods that give us what we want, when we want it.
They have succeeded in turning individual pursuits of pleasure into political apathy and complacency, which have allowed them to subvert the system and entrench themselves into positions of sociopolitical power, turning America from a nation that values individual sovereignty into one that favors state or government sovereignty instead.
That is a true progressive vision, one that could only be achieved by a revolt of America’s traditional values and the substitution of its own values in our daily lives. Progressives have understood for years that the way to defeat American values is not to compete against them, but rather simply replace them through social activism, referendums, and, most important, distractions that prevent people from seeing the truth.
Progressives have known for years that to challenge individual liberty and freedom by advocating government sovereignty over that of the individual would never be accepted by a majority of the people unless they appeal to liberty and freedom via our carnal nature.
Now people equate liberty and freedom as being able to do whatever one wants, whenever one wants and in whatever way one wants. They see freedom as doing their own thing in spite of others. They think liberty means living in whatever way pleases them regardless of how it may affect or offend others.
What gets conveniently ignored is the truth about freedom and liberty, which can only truly exist with personal responsibility and accountability toward one’s actions and words. Liberty and freedom can only exist when people are able to police their own behavior, thereby eliminating the need for laws and government policy to do the policing for them. Otherwise, when people live only for themselves and ignore others around them, liberty and freedom can only superficially exist.
If the United States of America is ever to return to the age of individual sovereignty, I’m afraid it will take another cultural revolution: This time a war against the counterculture that has destroyed the very notion and existence of individual sovereignty. And it must be waged by we who hold true to the American Establishment of traditional values supporting individual liberty and freedom through self-governance and personal discipline.
The reality is that the culture war rages on in spite of claims to the contrary by the victors, who are now the ones in the seats of power making policy over the rest of us. The reason the war continues is because of people who still hold true to traditional American values, the Establishment, and are willing to fight for them. They have refused to give up or give in.
I know the road is long and hard, the task daunting, but we can reclaim America again from those who have ravaged her and stolen her virtues. We can instill individual responsibility again, the same that has been taken from us by the counterculture. And once that accountability returns, America in her true form can return again, too.
The war isn’t over. But it could easily be if we decide to simply give up. I urge you to continue the fight to the bitter end, because America is worth the effort.