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October 6, 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster is a symptom of a much broader malaise.  

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Given Republicans’ inability to save our country through legitimate means, i.e., working through the system, will this firing be enough? 

I hope my readers believe in the moral application of the Rule of Law as I do.  But will this ouster work, or have we come a point where the political state has exceeded that marker? 

I will make the case that the America of bygone years is gone and not likely to return except through divine intervention or extra-legal actions.  So what is to be done? Why we have allowed this to happen despite how much we have lost and will continue to lose if we play the same zero-sum game?

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America has been on the precipice for a long time.  Freedom today depends as much on how much money one has as on the God-given rights we were told we all possessed.  Inflation has ripped the bandage off for most of us, who now realize how close to losing our freedoms we are.  Freedom is inexorably tied to our personal and property rights. When our money is destroyed by inflation, we do not feel free.  

I liken where we are today to France in 1940. 

On the third of September 1939, France declared war on Germany.  The mindset of French citizens was moody but strangely upbeat.  The French created the Maginot Line in the 1930s due to the persistent threat of a revitalized Germany.  France believed their Maginot Line was impenetrable and would deter Germany or at least slow them down enough until Britain could bolster their defense. 

As a result, French leadership and its people felt secure and could indulge in non-essential activities, living as though they were any normal country. 

The problem was that France was not safe. It was about to find all its fundamental beliefs, heritage, and freedom would be betrayed by its flawed thinking.

Over the years, I’ve met with or spoken to senior-level military strategists and graduates of the Army’s Military War College.    No one ever expressed to me that we might see combat operations today fought between sophisticated armies fighting World War I-style trench warfare.  All opined that Maneuver Warfare and Combined Arms Warfare had replaced it at least a generation or two ago.