\u201cFriends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Shakespeare surely could craft a line.\u00a0 A few weeks ago, I was watching Brando\u2019s take on Mark Antony in Julius Caesar.\u00a0 He gave the line a different emphasis.\u00a0 Instead of declaiming it as a sonorous prologue to his eulogy of Caesar he barked it out as a command for silence from an unruly crowd.\u00a0 It came off odd, almost jarring.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t what I expected.\u00a0 But it could work dramatically and it went along with Brando\u2019s portrayal of Antony.<\/p>\n
And it occurred to me that here was a man standing in the center of the Roman Republic surrounded by the common people and willing to stir them up while his murderous enemies were just down the street.\u00a0 He took his chance to wake up the people, to stir them to life.\u00a0 Rome in 44 B.C. was already in the midst of a long series of upheavals as the extreme wealth made possible by the army\u2019s conquests fueled the oligarchs in their systematic destruction of republican life which guaranteed the eventual rise of Augustus and the Empire.<\/p>\n
So, Shakespeare read Plutarch and imagined a late republic demagogue haranguing the Roman street to incite them to mutiny against the Senate in favor of the party and friends of the murdered populist dictator of Rome.\u00a0 And he throws around the words ambitious and honorable and can make the first seem like a lie and the second sound like an epithet.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s very unlikely that what Marcus Antonius actually said to the Roman crowd could be translated into anything like what Shakespeare had him utter but the spirit of the conflict is there.\u00a0 The Roman people were being dispossessed by their ruling class.\u00a0 Citizenship was being diluted by extension to the provinces and the government was ruled exclusively by and for the rich.\u00a0 Staggering number of farm slaves made it impossible for the small citizen farmer to compete with the enormous plantations that the rich senators ran.\u00a0 Army service became an endless and prison-like sentence.\u00a0 Rome was becoming just like any eastern despotism that had preceded it.\u00a0 The only thing lacking was the title of king.<\/p>\n
A careful scholar of Roman and American history would surely tell you that history never repeats itself but merely echoes universal human themes in every age and place.\u00a0 But to be totally honest, it\u2019s close enough for me.\u00a0 We\u2019re watching free men turning into serfs before our eyes.\u00a0 Just as the Roman republic was rotted out by the power of the wealthy to outmaneuver and finally enslave the plebeians, just so, we are being manipulated and disenfranchised by the elites and their globalist minions.\u00a0 We are being propagandized and gaslit and being stripped of our heroes and our history.\u00a0 We are being displaced and disposed of.<\/p>\n
Well, let me try it on for size.\u00a0 My platform isn\u2019t the Roman Forum after the death of Caesar but it\u2019ll have to do.\u00a0 I\u2019m not eulogizing an assassinated leader I\u2019m mourning for the murdered American Dream.<\/p>\n
Friends, Americans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears.<\/p>\n
What is going on now is not America.\u00a0 Even during the Civil War, we had recognizable Americans on both sides fighting over issues of freedom and independence but both sides considered themselves Americans down to their toes.\u00a0 Now we live in a country where almost half of the people living here hate America and all it stands for.\u00a0 All they like about it is its wealth and they are quickly arranging for that to be swallowed up in a paroxysm of violence and destruction.\u00a0 This is not a civil war; this is an invasion.\u00a0 An alien ideology is being fostered and spread by these anti-Americans and the elites are supporting this invasion because they no longer think of themselves as Americans but as citizens of the world, or better, as the rulers of the world.<\/p>\n
So, this harangue is for my countrymen, for those who are proud of America, not for the anti-Americans.\u00a0 They can go to hell.\u00a0 Think of this as an occupation.\u00a0 Many occupied countries have survived and finally thrown off their conquerors.\u00a0 Think of the Russians and the Mongols.\u00a0 What is important is to find a way to protect you and yours from the effects of the occupation.\u00a0 You have to protect your way of life and the things that make life worth living.\u00a0 Take pride in your heritage and history and find others that do too and form a community with them.<\/p>\n
And work to overthrow the invaders.\u00a0 Never cooperate with their anti-American programs.\u00a0 Never support their businesses or leaders.\u00a0 Support anyone who shows pride in America and refuses to knuckle under to their propaganda.\u00a0 Support them financially, politically and personally.<\/p>\n
Pass along traditional values to the next generation.\u00a0 Teach them the true history of the United States and tell it honestly with all the bad along with the good.\u00a0 Let them know that America wasn\u2019t a land of saints.\u00a0 It was a land of free and courageous people that fought and competed in a tough world where there were winners and losers and that they created the greatest country ever seen on God\u2019s green earth. \u00a0Tell them the truth about the subversion of this country and how it works.\u00a0 Protect them from the degenerate and dishonest forces that exist to corrupt the young.\u00a0 Explain to them the dangers of the world around them and how to find the good things in life that have real meaning and then support them in their journey through a world that is difficult for the young.<\/p>\n
And enjoy life.\u00a0 Find good people who believe in the things you believe in and spend as much time as possible with them.\u00a0 Do all the things you enjoy and do it apart from the evil and the stupid.\u00a0 There is no joy in their company only anger and disgust.\u00a0 Let them spend their time among their depraved and insane allies.\u00a0 They hate us but they have no love for each other.\u00a0 Let them consume each other in their rage filled game of intersectional virtue signaling.\u00a0 Depriving them of access to normal people is one of the best punishments you can bestow on them.<\/p>\n
And beware of the moderates.\u00a0 If they claim to be able to see the point of view of both sides of this war as equally valid then keep them out of any community of Americans you want to build.\u00a0 They\u2019re useless and worse than useless.\u00a0 They will turn on you when things get tough to garner favor with their friends on the Left.\u00a0 They will destroy any organization they find.\u00a0 Stick with people that believe what you believe.<\/p>\n
And most importantly don\u2019t despair.\u00a0 The ranks of our enemies are full of the weak and the stupid who have allowed themselves to be hypnotized by awful people who only want to destroy the things that they themselves cannot enjoy.\u00a0 We will win if we show determination.\u00a0 These people will have no legacy.\u00a0 Their values do not support life.\u00a0 They destroy it.\u00a0 We can prosper and grow but they can only blight and wither everything they touch including themselves.\u00a0 So, chin up.\u00a0 You\u2019re part of a nation of millions of people who believe what you believe and love the same good things you do.\u00a0 And they\u2019re too smart and courageous to be kept down forever.\u00a0 We\u2019ll find a way and we\u2019ll get our country back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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