World
War III is here, so how do we win?
by Scott S. Powell
As I have
written previously, World War III is already here, although it is not yet a
shooting war. Instead, it is for now a battle for the mind and soul—directed
primarily at demoralizing the American people—disconnecting them from reality
and undermining their sense of identity, virtue and belonging—their commitment
to family, their faith in God, and their appreciation for their country. This
stage of battle to demoralize the people has been all but completed and
Americans have lost.
The next
stage of the battle in World War III involves planned actions by internal and
external enemies designed to destabilize American society. This second stage
has also been pretty well completed—through the Covid pandemic of fear in which
supply chains were broken, small businesses were shuttered, the work ethic was
damaged and huge numbers of Americans lost their jobs. Additionally, the Covid
fear pandemic created the conditions that enabled left-wing lawyers and
political activists to change voting protocols in important swing
states—greatly expanding voting by mail and the use of drop boxes. And because of
unverifiable mail-in ballots and the stuffing of those drop boxes the electoral
process was corrupted. We now live under figurehead president, Joe Biden, who
is compromised by his family’s taking $31 million from the Mainland Chinese.
The third
stage of World War III is the crisis stage, which is when armed conflict and
war unfold. That could be a civil war or international war. Since we are at the
threshold of that crisis stage, it’s imperative to have clear priorities.
Mainland China’s PLA Army, Navy, and Airforce massive war games over and around
Taiwan around the time of Speaker of the House Pelosi’s visit, remind us that
our chief rival that threatens democratic and free nations in East Asia has its
military preparedness priorities very much together. What about the United
States?
In
the crisis stage of war, priorities of society obviously need to radically
change to avert armed conflict and to assure survival. A majority of Americans
have already rejected the Great Reset and Green New Deal agenda, which mandates
the reduction of CO2 and methane emissions from burning oil and gas and maintaining
large herds of cattle for beef consumption. In the face of armed conflict and
survival, concern about CO2 and cow farts appear silly and misplaced.
What’s
more, an increasing number of Americans have wised up from recognizing the
inconsistent and harmful policy advice to which they have been subjected by
federal government agencies on Covid-19. Now a bridge too far for many is the
realization that they were put at risk in being guinea pigs for the largely
untested mRNA DNA-altering vaccines. As awareness spreads about the Covid
vaccination program’s unfavorable outcomes with debilitating health
complications and death rates that exceed all other vaccination programs
combined, expect more social unrest.
We
have arrived at a point in history where an unprecedented number of Americans
no longer believe anything the elites and federal government say. People can
see the southern border being overrun by illegal aliens, criminal drug and
human traffickers. People also see that defunding the police and the
politicization of all branches of the military and the FBI are patently bad
policies that are utterly incompatible with maintaining a civil society, let
alone a constitutional republic. What everyone witnessed with the recent FBI
raid on President Trump’s personal residence at Mar-a-Lago was an unparalleled
abuse of Justice Department power that shocked the nation into recognizing that
we really are on a slippery slope of becoming a banana republic. Little wonder
that recent polls show only one in five (20%) Americans trust the federal
government to do what’s right for the people.
The
enemy within and from without wants to distract the American people and to push
destabilization into the crisis stage. We cannot let that happen. America’s
three most important priorities now are military readiness, restoring law and
order, and reestablishing energy independence. With the prospects of war and
runaway inflation, our priority must be to tap into more of the vast gas and
oil deposits in continental America and Alaska that are now readily accessible
with our vertical and horizontal drilling and fracking technologies.
Reestablishing energy independence from increased oil and gas production, which
is far more economic and reliable than the two currently dominant sustainable
alternatives of wind and solar, should be our priority.
Producing
more oil and gas is also the single-most important move to quickly relieve our
inflation problem. Biden’s war on fossil fuels started with the cancellation of
the Keystone XL pipeline on day one of his administration. That was immediately
followed by other policies further restricting oil and gas production, which
accelerated the increase of energy prices and served as the key driver of
inflation in the first year and a half of the Biden administration. Reversing
those restrictions would unleash incentives to produce more oil and gas and
bring energy prices down. That in turn cuts transportation and shipping costs
that lower food and consumer product prices, air fare, and everyday products
derived from petroleum, such as:
plastics, tires, spandex and polyester fabrics, carpeting, solar panels,
boats, refrigerants for a/c, refrigerators and freezers, paints, feedstocks,
fertilizers, Tyvek, roofing, asphalt for road paving, lubricating oils, pvc piping, washers for faucets, artificial
turf, golf balls, basket balls, waxes, aspirin, and lipstick—to name only a few
products that are petroleum-based.
The
fourth priority to survive World War III and rebuild America’s stability and opportunity
is to restore an understanding and appreciation of our constitution and our
unique national heritage. While achieving that is more of a long-term objective
that will take years, we must cease and replace unbalanced history narratives
that are contained in Critical Race Theory and revisionist American history
curriculum in K-12 schools. We should also make federal funding of higher
education contingent on balanced American history curriculums that include
coverage of the background, ideas, and sacrificial lives the founders who
drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which together
provide more guarantees for the people’s rights and freedoms than any other
system in the world.
Whether
from high school or college, every graduate from an American school should
understand that every citizen’s vote has equal value, and the legitimacy of the
U.S. government is derived solely from the consent of the governed. Also, at
the forefront of this necessary initiative to elevate the appreciation of the
U.S. Constitution is the need to understand its Bill of Rights, which starts
with the First Amendment. Mass censorship, blacklisting and cancellation of
people and ideas should have no place in America, for it is the competition of
ideas that leads society closer to truth and enables progress.
In
conclusion, it is not too late to turn America around, avoid conflict, and
bring an end to World War III and win the battle for the American mind and soul.
It’s time for modern-day American patriots committed to the defense of freedom
and the pursuit of truth and equal justice under the law to bring more people from
the sidelines into this great work of restoration and renewal. Voting in
November is essential. It’s time for the American people to be the light that
drives out the darkness.
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Scott S. Powell is
senior fellow at Discovery Institute. His new book, Rediscovering America, has
been #1 Amazon New Release in the history genre for eight weeks. Found here at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
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