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November 22, 2022

Are you preparing for a Thanksgiving holiday feast where everyone has been told “not to discuss politics?” This year, America First MAGAs must stop being afraid to stand patriotically for faith, family, and country. Stop worrying that Progressives sitting at your table will attack you with a turkey leg. And what if they do get angry and don’t talk to you? Maybe you shouldn’t talk to them!

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Throughout our history, Americans have risked losing family, friends, and business partners when refusing to back down from their patriotic beliefs. But many of today’s conservatives are afraid, even as progressives happily share their Marxist “the end justifies the means” views which often include election cheating.

Staying silent can no longer be an option. This is what Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016) said about issues that affect a society’s direction: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

In the 1770s, Colonial America debated whether to seek its independence from Great Britain or remain a colony. Families, friendships, and business relationships were torn apart. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, who represented the colonies for several years while living in London, became a stalwart supporter of independence. His beloved son William was Governor of New Jersey and a steadfast supporter of the Crown. By 1776, father and son were no longer communicating. It broke both their hearts, but just as today, there are times when you must stand up for your beliefs.

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In the 1850s, our young nation could no longer ignore the issue of slavery. Friendships were tattered. Northerners who rightly recognized the immense cruelty of slavery would no longer associate with Southern slave owners, even if the repercussions damaged long-time family, friend, and business associations.

Image: Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom From Want.” Public domain.

Relationships also broke in the years leading up to the Second World War. On February 20, 1939, the German-American Bund, a popular pro-Nazi organization in the United States, held a massive rally in New York’s Madison Square Gardens. More than 20,000 people celebrated George Washington’s birthday with speakers standing on a stage that had American flags on one side and Nazi swastika flags on the other side.

By the early 1940s, Americans watched in horror weekly newsreels that showed Nazis destructively marching across Europe. They saw gruesome scenes of atrocities against Jews as well as Christians who protested Third Reich policies. Once the United States entered the war, few patriotic Americans would share a Thanksgiving meal with family, friends, or business associates who supported Nazi Germany.

During the Vietnam War, during which 58,281 Americans died, how many Gold Star mothers prepared Thanksgiving dinners for guests who burned the American flag during protests and spit on those in uniform?

And what of Thanksgiving 2022?

This year, there might not even be much of a traditional Thanksgiving meal. With Bidenflation, the cost of the traditional dinner has skyrocketed, expected to rise 23 percent according to Wells Fargo analysts.