“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln understood something many still refuse to face:
Great nations rarely fall to foreign armies. They collapse when internal discipline, responsibility, and shared standards erode.
The modern ideological left, often labeled “woke”, embodies this internal decay. It rewards grievance over competence, emotion over reason, and identity over merit. A society that trains its citizens to see themselves as victims will eventually volunteer for its own decline.
We need to start taking these woke movements seriously, not dismissing them as harmless cultural noise. They are organized, ideological, and strategic. And they must be confronted, exposed, and shut down through law, culture, and civic resolve before they hollow out the institutions meant to hold the country together.
Ignoring them has proven far more dangerous than opposing them.
Nikita Khrushchev echoed this truth from the outside. Though frequently paraphrased, his warning was unmistakable: America would not need to be invaded, it could be weakened by its own contradictions, softened from within.
Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as the lingering ideological third term of Barack Obama, the United States has drifted closest to that danger.
Open borders, weakened sovereignty, and tolerance for adversarial economic blocs like BRICS attempting to undermine the dollar have accelerated internal vulnerability.
Foreign powers hostile to our way of life are advancing not with armies, but with access, slowly imbedding themselves in our infrastructure, creeping into our backyards, and eroding sovereignty piece by piece.
This is not invasion by force, it is erosion by access.
Under recent national leadership, the United States has drifted closest to that danger. Open borders, weakened sovereignty, and tolerance for adversarial economic blocs attempting to undermine the dollar have accelerated internal vulnerability.
Meanwhile, Trump represents a direct interruption of that trajectory, reasserting borders, national interest, and economic leverage.
At the local level, the same ideological pattern repeats. In New York City, leadership now reflects a soft collectivism, installed not by hardship or merit, but by privilege and ideology, stacking cabinets with officials who view governance as social engineering rather than stewardship.
This is not collapse by invasion.
It is collapse by mental illness redirected.
A free society cannot survive if it refuses to defend the principles that made it free. Borders, merit, accountability, and shared civic standards are not outdated ideas, they are structural necessities. When they are weakened, the nation does not bend. It hollows out.
When people refuse the cost of discipline, they invite control to replace it.
As for freedom, it doesn’t announce its exit. It follows a magician’s rule:
“Now you see it… now you don’t.”
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