Mission Impossible Themes

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”

How many times in the last century has this quote been used or abused to define the current situation in America? I’ve used it several times myself.

Here’s a different thought on it. What if this vivid description was only the natural, intended state for America — to be in a frictional state striving for better angels among us?

Only now it seems the angels who are influencing things most are not the good, better angels. They are instead the dark sinister ones, bent on leading us into darkness with no means of return.

So it is only appropriate to think of all this as the mission impossible, in these times. Maybe we are meant to be in this state of flux to solve the trivial disputes, to add color and life to the times? Just saying maybe that is the point to it all?

I’m not saying this is all purposeful but maybe there is a greater purpose in taking on current radicalism in the correct way? Winning. Not to just laugh at it and mock it, but in beating and ultimately marginalizing toxic radicalism. Maybe it is our cross to bear?

Is it too much to overcome? That is what we are about to find out. Are we up to the challenge coming from practically every corner of the world, new or old? We should be.

It does surprise me how many people I speak to, young or old, say that America is at the point of breaking. I.e. finished. Few seem to see the roadmap for a return to the good old days. And those good old days are being attacked more and more. In fact, it is just in your imagination that America was ever good at all, or that times were better in the past. All that is being questioned, litigated and undermined by the Left today.

But no one, including me, is confident that it can be turned around easily. Anyone who says so is way over simplifying our predicament. Can it all be turned around, at any effort? We don’t know yet but I see very few of us being optimistic about that possibility. We would like to think it possible even if there is no evidence. Now winning means fixing.

We need more confidence than a faith-based belief to actually achieve the goal. This is why I am dubbing this the mission impossible. If we cannot save the greatest country man has known, then what is the potential for comfort against the rest of our woes?

I do think there is something to the idea of seeing America as a perpetual challenge. In the Left’s view, we are more than halfway down the road to socialism. And they see no value in returning to virtue on any scale.

We don’t have to accept the canard that America is a perfect country, or the very idealistic vision that America is always right. One idea doesn’t require the other. However, accepting the wrong idea about America can eliminate the potential for future victory.

Too bad the Left doesn’t care as much about saving the country as it does saving a fish.
I am very concerned about the number of people who believe this is the last election. True, it is all on the line in 2024. The fate of the country is on the line. But we still must win, or it is already over.

We spent far too much time in the past saying this or that(socialism or communism) could never happen. We’ve seen how wrong that was. We were too dismissive, for too long, about what the capability of the radical left was. We were in denial.

Now we are in this uphill battle just to save our beloved country from destruction. The world certainly does not want to save us. But if we do not have the will even in our own country, then we are doomed.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2023