This is in regards to Scott’s Right Angle asking about immigration reform and how to fix things over there so they don’t come over here, which I agree is what needs to be done. I might turn this into a video later, but wanted to get this out now for him to read.
America is an idea, not an address.
Just as we teach our own children to love liberty and free enterprise, and just as the postmodernists try to teach our kids that everything is racist and we should all hate ourselves … ultimately, society will come to hold whatever values we teach our children. It’s a tired cliche at this point, but it’s also a fact that the children are our future.
I am a big believer in the idea that “If people knew better, they’d do better.” There are those that say, “In an age of information, ignorance is no excuse,” but I put it to you that some people are in such bad straights that even if all the resources and information to solve their problems is out there, they still might need help learning it exists and learning how and where to find it. And also in learning how to discern good from bad.
Rather than importing people, we should be exporting the idea of America. Politics is downstream of culture and so, just as we must work on the hearts and minds of people in this country, so too must we wirk on them abroad.
The history of America is turning our enemies into our best friends. We have done this nearly everywhere we go, from France and Great Britain to Germany, to Japan, and soon to be elsewhere. In our history, we have at least three examples of countries split down the middle – controlling for language, culture, geography, and demographics – wherein one half adopted authoritarianism, the other something closer to what we have in America. I am, of course, talking about Germany, Korea, and Hong Kong.
We know our story, our values, are better and that they have been tried and withstood the test of time. They are rich seeds needing only fertile soil to grow, and the most fertile soil is often made of compost and crap. Of garbage and rot, so these countries are ripe for planting, if only someone would come along with the seed.
Scott used to be a pastor, and surely knows of the concept of missionaries. Even now, he preaches the ministry of liberty online, but we know how Big Tech works against us. I think what we need right now, and what might work in these countries, are courageous ambassadors and missionaries – not of Christ, but of the American Dream. People who will go out into the world and make Americans of all nations. To preach the good news of the right to free speech and to own the fruits of your labor. Who will administer the sacrament of due process and chant “praise the Lord, and pass thr ammunition.”
And to teach the children there as we would teach our children here, such that new generations grow up to desire freedom, and who will fight for it themselves so we don’t have to. That, in my humble opinion, is how we change the world.