This is the final part of my 3-part essay on “Know Your Enemy.” In this essay, I describe how we win.
In part 1, I described how the murderous, bloody Bolshevik revolution of 1917 in Russia brought into power the same kind of people who rule over us today. And in part 2, I gave you, my readers, a step by step account of how we got here, to the sorry state of the modern West, about how the Frankfurt School and its followers and disciples brought about disintegration, decay, disruption and degeneration from within, of the Christian Civilization the West had inherited over many centuries and a millennium.
The Bolsheviks (i.e. those following the the Russian brand of Communism) have always tried to infiltrate, influence and convert Americans to the Bolshevik and Communist cause. The evangelist Billy Graham once read to his audience a letter that had been handed over to him, written by a young American man who had been engaged to be married.
In the letter, the new, young convert to the Bolshevik communist cause explains why he feels compelled to break off his engagement with the girl he had promised to marry.
In the context of our present world and the Neo-Marxists who now run our Governments, our bureaucracies, our schools and Universities, please remember that the same Bolsheviks who converted this young American recruit to their cause in 1957, are now just as determined, just as fanatically committed to their cause as they were several decades ago. I reproduce this young communist convert’s letter:
“We Communists don't have the time or the money for many movies, or concerts, or T-bone steaks, or decent homes and new cars. We've been described as fanatics.
We are fanatics. Our lives are dominated by one great overshadowing factor, THE STRUGGLE FOR WORLD COMMUNISM.
We Communists have a philosophy of life which no amount of money could buy. We have a cause to fight for, a definite purpose in life. We subordinate our petty personal selves into a great movement of humanity, and if our personal lives seem hard, or our egos appear to suffer through subordination to the party, then we are adequately compensated by the thought that each of us in his small way is contributing to something new and true and better for mankind.
There is one thing in which I am dead earnest and that is the Communist cause. It is my life, my business, my religion, my hobby, my sweetheart, my wife and mistress, my bread and meat. I work at it in the daytime and dream of it at night. Its hold on me grows, not lessens as time goes on.
Therefore I cannot carry on a friend-ship, a love affair, or even a conversation without relating to this force which both drives and guides my life. I evaluate people, books, ideas and actions according to how they effect the Communist cause and by their attitude toward it. I've already been in jail because of my ideas and if necessary, I'm ready to go before a firing squad.”
A member of my own family, is an elementary school teacher in Canada. She tells us that even as they are about to graduate from teacher training programs in our Universities and soon after they are fully trained teachers, several of these newly minted teachers have told her how committed and determined and dedicated they are to bring such things as critical race theory, transgender ideology and elementary school transgender education, to even the most remote schools in rural Canada. They often actively search out rural school communities. The teachers unions are also fully dedicated to sending these “missionary teachers” all over rural (and urban) Canada to propagate their militant, degenerate and evil message. These are the teachers who now teach our children in both the urban and rural West.
This is perhaps the most important attribute of the enemy that we ought to know and which we repeatedly underestimate. The fanaticism of their “dog with a bone” approach to tyranny and woke doctrine sustains, strengthens and informs everything they do. There is no length to which they will not go, no rule they will not break, no sacred trust they will not betray, no hallowed tradition they will not blaspheme, no family bond they will not break, no murderous campaign they will not one day unleash - in order to accomplish their Neo-Marxist agenda and the goals of the Frankfurt School.
Every tyranny has willing foot soldiers. The foot soldiers of the new tyranny are the professionals, bureaucrats, teachers, University professors, politicians and even serving armed forces soldiers, who believe with sincere, evil, infuriating, but deadly dedication in the worthy, lofty nature of their cause. We cannot underestimate them.
Nothing less than an even greater commitment and dedication on our part to the cause of freedom, truth and liberty for all mankind can engage, counter and defeat the forces arraigned against us. The mighty Roman Empire was brought to its knees by just such an insurgent, peaceful, supernaturally endowed, supernaturally empowered and supernaturally determined and dedicated movement by the early Christians - who were not only fully (outsiders would say “fanatically”) dedicated to the cause of Christ and His Kingdom, they were willing to be persecuted and if necessary, to die for their Lord and Saviour. Death held no terrors for them, for they were already in possession of Eternal Life.
Just as we must not underestimate the enemy’s fanatical dedication to control, manipulate and harm us, the even greater error on our part would be to overestimate them.
Again and again, these fanatics, dedicated though they are, have had their petty castles and empires disintegrate and crumble under and around them, victim to their own hubris, arrogance and evil. The sum total of reality is against tyranny and it may have had a terribly evil past - but it has no future. No tyranny lasts forever and all tyrannies have a defined life span. Not so the Kingdom of God, our Kingdom - which lasts forever and is indestructible.
The following then, are some of the most important means by which the enemy has been repeatedly defeated in the past and by which we are defeating and will defeat the enemy in the present time and in the future. We do not need to devise new methods or reinvent the well worn wheel - but simply apply the same rules and the same lessons to our times.
The most important imperative as described above, is utter and complete and total devotion and surrender to Christ and His Kingdom - and to the cause of Truth and liberty and freedom. Those who do not believe in Christ can most certainly also throw all their important might and weight behind this cause, since the quest and striving after freedom and Truth is common to all of us - to all of humanity.
Our commitment and dedication must match and exceed that of the Neo-Marxists. This commitment includes what Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King referred to as the “redemptive power of unmerited suffering.” In Canada, this mighty power has already been unleashed by Tamara Lich, a leader of the Canadian Truckers’ Freedom Convoy - who has gone to prison, simply for standing up for free speech, freedom of conscience and freedom of the press. The Trudeau tyranny does not know what to do with Tamara - she is winning and Trudeau is clearly losing.
The vacuum that is at the heart of Western Civilization must be filled. Elsewhere, I have described how the touch of Christ upon the Western centuries had given Western civilization several crucial, foundational values (including free speech) and advantages. The latter have now been all but completely lost and we are very much a pagan society with a gigantic void at the centre of our rapidly disintegrating Western nations.
Jesus told us a parable about this - and of the empty void that is filled by increasing levels of evil and wicked and unclean spirits: “and when he (the unclean spirt) is come, he findeth the soul empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.”
We must I believe, participate sincerely and enthusiastically in the political process, but put no faith in politicians. For as the prophet Jeremiah exclaimed, “the heart is desperately wicked above all things - who can know it?” Only He who can change the heart of man can bring about true and lasting change. Meanwhile, the Government that is most likely to leave us alone is likely also the best Government for us (i.e a Libertarian type government).
Mocking the tyranny is a powerful tool - it is a weapon the tyranny fears and which makes the tyrant tremble. There is probably nothing more the tyrant hates than being mocked - and when even the state controlled propaganda media starts mocking the dictator, it is usually a sign that the dictator has lost control and that his end is near.
Art, music and literature are equally powerful, since the pen has always been mightier than the sword. Novels and plays that were subversively mocking or exposing the tyranny and showing the people another way, have frequently been the lynchpin of freedom movements - as did the underground theatre in Hungary and the novels of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in communist Russia.
We must realize that unless we infiltrate all levels of society (politics, the bureaucracy, the professions including health care, blue collar jobs, white collar jobs, intellectual jobs, menial jobs), we will forever be playing catch up. The enemy has been infiltrating and occupying all these areas for several decades - but we can play and beat them at their own game. In the last chapter of the epistle to the Romans, the apostle Paul asks the Christian recipients of his letter in Rome, to “greet those of Caesar’s household.” The early Christians had infiltrated even the household of Caesar.
Finally, the years of the covid tyranny has allowed the realization by millions of people that the Governments of the world do not work for our interests, but at the behest of elite individuals and corporations and think tanks who play our leaders like puppets on a string. This awakening has in turn led to the flourishing of an alternate press/media, the beginnings of an alternate barter economy, the establishment of networks of freedom fighters locally, nationally and internationally, and the creation of alternate health networks. This is what the early Christians did; and those who defied the fierce Bolshevik tyranny did - and every other group of people who have defied the tyrant in every age and won. This is what we must continue to do. For “where sin abounded, Grace did much more abound.”
As we move into the Season of Easter, the Cross and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ shows us how the worst possible thing that could have happened to the Son of God, was turned into the best possible thing for mankind, the Resurrection. No matter how fierce our present struggle, Easter morning awaits us and the triumph of the Cross is inevitable.
Thank you, I am turning your essay into prayer
Thank you. Excellent message.