| America’s greatest danger is the passivity of its population. For far too long, Americans have enjoyed the good life of freedom and forgotten the hard times. But happening every fifty years or so, those hard times were a benefit. Those toughening experiences gave Americans the wisdom to defend freedom at least for a while. Our enemies have banked on our passivity to take us over from within. They use America’s openness and freedoms as their vehicle. Islamists and Chinese prefer this process because they realize there would be little left for them after a military action that would destroy our country. And they show their confidence in succeeding by becoming more brash in their daily proclamations. The irony is that while our culture is being destroyed, Christians who are likely those with the most to lose seem to be the least willing to confront the threat. They are taught to love their enemies and turn the other cheek in the face of abuse. So they avoid the conflict debates require in our political process by simply not voting to make the choices necessary to save America. And on top of this failure, day by day they are diminishing the necessary place of God in America, and we are becoming less and less a Christian nation. The Left has used many other elements of our culture to destroy America. Marijuana, which destroys human brains, has become a revenue source for too many states. Gambling over the internet has become pervasive throughout America. Budgets for police protection have been reduced in many large cities. Academia, particularly the Ivy League schools, has become a training ground for Socialism if not Communism. Fraud is rampant without control in many Democrat cities. Teachers’ unions control of public education is causing students to be dumbed down to believe Socialism is a good thing. Democrats revile ICE because it is reducing the number of their imported voter base. And virtually all, if not all, of the corrupt mainstream media have simply become an arm of the liberal and Socialist Democrat Party. Adding to this chaos, the Left attempts to confuse each of us by tampering with reality. Two men or two women can marry. A Supreme Court justice up for confirmation cannot define what a woman is. In New York, Jewish voters elected an antisemitic Communist mayor. And men are allowed in women’s sports, which costs them scholarships and creates danger in competition and in their locker rooms. But likely the most daily damage to all is that Democrats have continually attempted to divide Americans. Against each other. Particularly on race. And despite this, most Americans today are colorblind. They too divide us all on wealth. Apparently, they envy those who have achieved wealth through intelligence and hard work, and they want to confiscate it through higher taxes, which benefits them as welfare recipients. Yet this wide-ranging attack is in sync with the greatest immediate threat of all: Islam. The Democratic Party is using Islamists as a vehicle to obtain more power, not realizing that they may be the Useful Idiots who may be the first destroyed by them. The Muslims use the system in whatever country they are in to gain incremental power until they are in control, and then they destroy the host. Today this host is America. Their Sharia law and virtually all of their customs based on the Quran are antithetical to America and its laws and customs. They marry children, they subjugate women and treat them as property, they rape women, which is ok if they are not Muslims, and they kill those who will not submit to their cult or wish to leave it. Their Quran supports all. And they multiply like rabbits, so subjugating America with its electoral system is just a matter of time. Unless we push back. Hard. Thankfully, the pushback on everything is beginning. Bible sales have been up for a decade and now are accelerating rapidly. More and more elected officials are speaking out. School choice is being passed in many states to bypass the political indoctrination implemented by the teachers’ union. Ninety percent of Americans do not support biological men in women’s sports. And Sharia law is being outlawed in an increasing number of states. The true test of America’s progress will be determined on November third when voters will decide if they want Socialists and Communists to gain more than a foothold in the America we love. Above all, for its freedoms and way of life. Please, please vote, and please encourage your friends to do the same to continue the pushback. To keep America free. Vern Wuensche vern@voteforvern.com https:voteforvern.com Vern Wuensche’s opinion pieces have appeared in USA Today and other newspapers. He is a small town Texas farm boy with an MBA and CPA who founded and continuously ran Houston’s oldest residential construction company for forty-three years. He is a lifelong active Republican, a Christian, a veteran, and an early marathoner who ran for President in 2008 and 2012. | 
