Would you stand by while a bushfire rages?

Would you? Would you stand by while a bushfire rages? Would you just walk on if you see a robber or a rapist in the middle of their crime? Would you stay home while an army invades your home? Because these are the questions we are being asked right now.

This poster is an Australian propaganda piece from the first world war. It asked that question of the Australian people in regards to the Germans who we were at war against at the time. Every country has been asked a version of this question once in their history. This poster used to hang above the bar on the base where I did my basic training. I used to stare at it during our rare periods of downtime and wonder about it myself. Even though I was in uniform I was very unlikely to deploy to a warzone and the only warzones were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly the equal to the threat that the Germans represented a lifetime ago. I used to wonder if I would have had the courage to do what needed to be done when I meet that kind of enemy. I liked to think that I do, I hope I never have to find out. I hope you don't either.

Instead, much to my horror, I found we were under attack already from the inside. That social justice or cultural Marxism, whatever you want to call it was now the enemy. These ideas had found their way into defence force policy and procedures, I won't go into details but it was everywhere. So I remembered the poster and the brave souls that never came home and I found a little bit of courage. I found the courage to stand in front of my commander and tell him that I disagreed. To be insubordinate. When you wear a uniform, insubordination isn't looked upon kindly. I fully expected to be punished for standing up for what I thought was right but them something unexpected happened. My commander agreed with me. He sat me down, and looked me in the eye and with an exasperated sigh, he described to me his own struggles with his superiors and how he had to play ball with them about it too.

Social Justice is everywhere, it is all pervasive, destructive, stifling and ultimately nihilistic. We are now living in a world where there is no escape from this cancer. Not in gaming, not on TV, not in sports, not in the career you choose, not even the people who guard you while you sleep are free of this.

My commander told me he was proud of me for speaking up but to keep my head down, be a good troop and do what I was told. Basically to shut up and get on with life. He was looking out for me that day. I have a lot of respect for that man still. He left the Defence force not long after our chat, so did a lot of good men, all for similar reasons. Not just in my country and we are all a lot less safe for it. I left eventually too, but I still had an enemy to fight, the bushfire was still raging.

I got active online, joined a political party. Started public activism, writing campaign strategy, attending local meetings. Eventually I worked my way up to being a campaign manager during the federal election. Then the chaos, infighting over policy, inability to cooperate, egos out of control. It was the complete opposite to the ordered hierarchy I had just left. Eventually we uncovered an infiltrator from one of the major parties who was sabotaging us from within. We fell apart. We were too busy fighting each other and the enemy was still out there,  the bushfire was still raging.

We are now presented with a choice. The choice is simple, stand by or fight back. I am calling on all of you who will listen. I am asking you to have courage and humility and conviction. I know it is not an easy thing to ask but our enemy is not as great as that faced by our forebears, yet. Courage to take on this task, publicly and stand up for the things which you believe in and against the people who will gleefully destroy you and yours. To do it shoulder to shoulder with those who will do the same. Humility to know that you can't always be right all of the time. To put aside some of your pride and accept leadership from people with whom you might not agree with all of the time and to lead others the same way. Conviction to stay on the path. You will face awful resistance from the enemy you must find the conviction to hold on.

To achieve this I can think of no better movement in current existence then @Sargon_of_Akkad movement of Liberalism. It has all the potential of being a large well organized large scale army of resistance. In short it might not be what you want but its what we need. So I ask you again, will you stand by while the bushfire rages? Our forebears didn't stand by. But its just us left now, those brave men of yesteryear are all gone now, their ghosts are of Normandy and Flanders and Iwo Jima and the Somme and Gallipoli and Marne and Gettysburg and Lexington and Concord... The bushfire is still raging. Do you hear them?

Regards,

@Molker_301

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