After the Election… Now What?

To answer that question, it is important to first identify the key reason why so many liberal/left politicians — including many who openly acknowledge their socialism — are able to get elected in America today.

Not the Reasons Why

It is not because of vote fraud. This is not to say that elections have not been stolen in the past, or that elections are fraud-proof today. Yet to blame vote fraud as the main culprit for November 3’s dismal election results would be to ignore the fact that the country really is sliding down a slippery slope to collectivism because too many of our fellow citizens are swayed by what the socialists are advocating.

It is not because the GOP lacked the financial resources to expose just how far to the left the national Democratic Party has moved, or to get out its own Republican message. Many major Republican campaigns were sufficiently funded to get their message out. Yet oftentimes Republican candidates offered “socialism lite” (without calling it that) as the alternative to the Democrats’ more radical socialism. And many voters, once again, held their noses while voting for “the lesser of two evils.”

It is not because socialism/communism is ideologically superior to freedom. Both common sense and the lessons of history — from the success of America’s great experiment in human liberty to the failure of communism wherever it has been imposed — inform us otherwise.

Nor is it because most Americans prefer slavery over freedom. Undoubtedly, if Americans were asked this question in a national referendum, freedom would win overwhelmingly — even where, in many parts of the country, an avowed “democratic socialist” would also appear on the ballot.

Americans Lack Understanding

So why are the American people voting themselves into slavery? Or, to put it another way, why are socialists/communists actually winning the “battle for democracy” that Karl Marx advocated in The Communist Manifesto for bringing about communism in democratic nations? The answer to that question was perhaps best encapsulated by the prophet Isaiah more than 2,700 years ago: “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge.”

If we want to be truly honest about why we are gradually (though perhaps now more speedily) voting ourselves into slavery, we must face the fact that the key reason is the lack of understanding — dare we say ignorance? — of the American people as a whole. Only by rectifying this problem can we realistically hope to save and restore — with God’s help — our great country and endangered freedoms.

Education Is the Key

Robert Welch founded The John Birch Society in 1958 to rectify what was even then a growing ignorance crisis. At the founding meeting, he explained, “All we must find and build and use, to win, is sufficient understanding. Let’s create that understanding and build that resistance, with everything mortal men can put into the effort — while there still is time.” Skeptics who may dismiss the effectiveness of this program of education should consider what America would be like today if Welch had not created the JBS and many thousands of Americans had not rallied around this epic undertaking. This writer firmly believes that without this educational work being done, America would have been lost long ago. Because of the understanding that has been created over many decades, we still have our Constitution and can still use our freedoms to save our freedoms.

But, and this Welch also recognized, the understanding cannot be created during the heat of political campaigns alone — far from it. It must be created over time, during election years and nonelection years alike.

Shifting Political Winds

Now what? We must resolve to work harder than ever to create the necessary understanding, recognizing that it must be created over time, that it must be created outside as well as inside the political arena, and that there is no short-cut or quick fix. If enough Americans are sufficiently informed, politicians who support socialism/communism will find themselves unelectable, while others who truly champion the Constitution will find themselves electable. It really is that simple!

In fact, as the political winds shift because of the growing currents of understanding, many incumbents who have previously been part of the problem will start moving in the constitutionalist direction to keep themselves viable in the next election. And a growing number of good (constitutionally minded) candidates will throw their hats into the ring with the realization that they will now have a better chance of winning without compromising their support of the Constitution one iota. Rather than voting for the lesser of two evils between the two major-party candidates, or voting for a candidate who does not have a realistic chance of winning, voters instead will increasingly be able to vote for good candidates who will win elections. When sufficient understanding is created, the political process will take care of itself.

It Can Be Done

It can be done, and it must be done. Defeatism is not an option. We encourage everyone of good moral character who loves God, family, and country to work to (to quote our late, longtime President John F. McManus) “wake the town, tell the people, and get them involved” via The John Birch Society. The JBS program works. Through increased numbers we can and will succeed. If you are not already involved, the time to get going is now!

To learn more about the JBS, go to JBS.org.

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