"What is Right will Always Eventually Triumph"

Updated

In our essay below, we talked about the need to start calling out this radical leftist agenda for what it is: evil.

Here's Lloyd Marcus, writing in American Thinker April 22, 2010:

The liberal mainstream media and Democrats are attempting to racially divide and conquer our country. They are evil. As long as God gives me strength, I will continue to defend my fellow patriots who are white and fight to take back America.

- Lloyd Marcus, (black) Unhyphenated American

Americans are gasping on a daily basis over what has become of their country and its government. They are witnessing elitism, arrogance, defiance and dishonesty from an administration of people they simply cannot fathom and do not recognize as Americans. The public dimension of this gasping is known as the tea party movement; it is but the tip of the iceberg of what is going on privately in homes of all kinds across the entire nation. There is an increasingly palpable frustration and anger, and in some corners a despair that the America of the founding has indeed been fatally sabotaged and undermined.

The gasping, the frustration, and the anger are justified; the despair is not. The very fact that the gasping, the frustration and the anger are as widespread as they are (and they are far, far more widespread and deeply felt than anyone in the leftist establishment of government, media and academia knows) is the reason despair is not warranted. The spirit of America is alive; the heritage of America is recognized; and most important of all, Americans are reawakening to the power behind the spirit and heritage of America—which is God.

God is not going to be defeated; Americans who know this are not going to be denied; and American ideals are not going to be destroyed. Obama may as well try and revoke 2+2=4. It’s not going to happen. Doesn’t matter if nine Supreme Court Justices, 100 Senators, 435 Congressmen and one President unanimously vote to revoke 2+2=4, and the media splashes news of their historic action across headlines for months and months, they cannot make it so.

God is the Creator; man is the created. Men and women are created equal in God’s eyes; men and women are endowed by God with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These aren’t cool hypotheses; they aren’t hoped for fantasies; they aren’t transitory philosophical musings. They are statements anchored in Truth itself. They aren’t going away.

Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Clinton, Emanuel, Ayers, Wright, et. al., are not the first collection of godless tyrannical leftists who want to dismantle the idea of individual freedom and responsibility under God; they will not be the last. But they will soon join the rest of the totalitarians and fascists and communists in the ash heap of history, not because of their personalities but because their concepts of good and evil and right and wrong are devoid of Truth. In a certain sense, as Jesus once said, ‘they know not what they do’, but that does not make the necessity of removing them from positions of authority any less imperative.

The huge question looming on the minds of patriots everywhere is whether the complete removal of this lawless regime can be accomplished without violence and bloodshed. Most of human history would say that it cannot. But there is one enormous exception in history, and it happens to have been humanity’s most recent war: the Cold War.

American ideals triumphed in the Cold War without firing a shot. It’s worth remembering the key ingredients to that victory—which was a victory for humanity, including especially that portion of humanity living in the Soviet Union. There’s no way to understand victory in the Cold War without understanding Ronald Reagan, yet the most important point was not the personality or charisma of Reagan, but the ideas he understood and espoused. Those were the ingredients of victory. What were they? We’d boil them down this way:

1. Reagan publicly and unflinchingly called the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire’—because it was. He was not calling individual Soviet leaders evil, and indeed later won the personal friendship and admiration of Mikhail Gorbachev, but he was openly calling the godless, soulless, freedom-crushing ideology behind communism exactly what it was: evil. There was no political correctness, confusion or mushy thinking on this point.

2. Reagan spoke confidently that communism would eventually wind up in “the ash heap of history”. He never bought the idea that there were alternatives to God-given individual freedom and responsibility; there was only the demand to live up to the ideals of America. He knew one set of ideals were God-given and right; the other set were godforsaken and wrong. One would win; the other would lose. There was no question as to which was going to win.

3. Reagan would not relinquish his highest, right idea of defending America—the ‘strategic defense initiative’—to secure Gorbachev’s promises of nuclear arms reduction. In economic terms, the inability of the Soviet system to keep up with American freedom meant the Soviet system could never match this initiative without bankrupting itself—and therefore the challenge of keeping pace with America could not be met. The Soviet system and its so-called ‘union’ was soon exposed as having been held together only through force and fear, and when the force dissipated, so did the fear—and so did the Soviet Union.

We think these ingredients are just as applicable to winning the war now being waged against America by the godless left.

First, the agenda, philosophy, tactics and ‘laws’ of the Obama administration need to be identified for exactly what they are: evil. They are not well-intentioned; they are not benign; they are not merely misguided. They are evil. Doesn’t mean we have to call persons or personalities evil, but wrong ideas can be and are evil. We need to say so, and at Brushfires of Freedom, we have been saying so, early and often (check our Essays under “Religion Matters”).

Second, evil is not going to win; it is going to end up in the ash heap of history. Totalitarianism, communism, socialism, statism—whatever names the polite punditry wish to use—are all attempts to defy, as the American founders would say, “Nature and Nature’s God”. They cannot prevail. Men and women will not accept living in subjugation to elitist opinions, mores and values; they will assert and demand their freedom in the name of God, and their moral standards from God. As another President once said, “God is not neutral” in this war—which is why it will be won.

Third, Americans won’t give up their unique and powerful defense system: their Judeo-Christian faith. All the phony promises of a government that claims to be able to give you security, health, a job, a house, a car, etc., etc., if you will just give up your defense system—your faith and trust in God as the source of life and freedom—are not going to be accepted. And the result will be the bankruptcy and collapse of the idea that government can give you these things, and the bankruptcy and collapse of those who peddled this idea—because there is nothing behind this idea, no truth to hold it together.

So we have the outline of how to fight this latest war on America, and to win it without violence. Winning it will be a victory for all Americans; for all humanity.

Which, at last, brings us to the title of this essay. It is taken from the graveside memorial of, fittingly, Ronald Reagan. Here is Reagan’s full quotation:

“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”

These are the words of, as Sean Hannity would say, “a great American”. They may have been written or voiced in this particular way by Ronald Reagan, but the ideas reside in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans, and millions of others around the world. They are aligned with the founding ideals of America, and capture much of the foundation of Americans’ instinctive love for God and their country and its founding and its Constitution. They are the reason for Americans’ massive awakening over the past year; their instinctive repulsion toward what this government is doing; and their now nearly complete distrust and disdain for the lies the leftists are voicing.

Ronald Reagan was right about the Soviet Union, and his willingness to live by his ideas led to the defeat of the Soviet Union. There is, therefore, tremendous power behind his simple conviction “what is right will always eventually triumph”.

So don’t despair, America. What’s going on is evil; we’ve seen it before and know it is destined for collapse; and we know never to give up our special defense system: our faith. Nothing can keep up with faith; nothing can defeat it.

Paul Gable

April 21, 2010