The Oppressed People of America

All young people in America, who believe you are oppressed for whatever reason, please consider that the United States, with its free enterprise, (for-profit) system produces more food, clothing, shelter, and a higher standard of living for more people than any other system, anywhere, anytime on earth.

Also consider in our country, people who are considered to be “poor” suffer the problems of obesity far more than of hunger. I should also mention that almost all of them have cell phones, air conditioning, and cable TV. 

Perhaps your reply is “material things and prosperity isn’t what really matters.  Perhaps you’re more concerned about social justice. Yes, America has had slavery, Jim Crow, and discrimination in its history. But consider that America and England led the global fight against slavery. Also consider that this nation fought a Civil War, adopted three Constitutional Amendments, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and established Equal Opportunity Offices in state and federal governments across the land, all to spot and prosecute unlawful discrimination.

Also consider that a woman, a minority, or a dissenter from the dominant culture, here in the United States, more than anywhere else on earth, you have more chance to pick the life you want.   I hope you’ll accomplish what you want. Solve those problems; right those wrongs. But the odds of you accomplishing that would be much better if you spent more time improving your education, and less time protesting.   

Also consider that maybe your nation, the society your parents, grandparents, and great great grandparents gave you, deserves not your condemnation but your gratitude. Maybe you can try to make things better here while appreciating what you’ve been given, but burning, looting and rioting will do your nation much more harm than good.

I find it very alarming that the Democratic Party and so many of America’s young people today believe that Socialism and/or Communism are the way of the future.  During the Cold War, all conservatives (of both parties) fought communism, but the left fought anti-communism. The left opposed American military buildups and regarded the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union as no win situation with the two parties fighting to the death. They loathed Presidents Nixon and Reagan, but not Communism, which was second only to Nazism, for being the greatest evil in the modern world.  It is a fact that Communism has killed and enslaved far more people than Nazism)

Today, I believe the greatest evil in the world, and America’s greatest threat is totalitarian Islam, or Islamism. The left is doing precisely what it did during the war against communism: It's fighting the anti-Islamists, not the Islamists. Just as it labeled anti-communists "cold warriors" and other derisive epithets, the left labels those fighting Islamism as "Islamophobes" and, of course, "racists." In the moral order as perceived by the left, it is the anti-Islamists who are the enemy of the good.

In this battle, the left fights American conservatives -- and Israel, the country in the front line against Islamism. In a nutshell, rather than fighting evil, the left fights those who fight evil.

When I see America’s young people rioting and openly identifying as Communists or Socialists or Nazis, Islamists, I am deeply concerned about the future of our country.  My message to America’s youth is “if you think you are oppressed under Capitalism, you ain’t seen nothing yet”…

God bless America, and God bless President Trump