Ongoing Struggle

When an undergraduate dared question the establishment, a firestorm of controversy erupted 61 years ago.

William F. Buckley Jr. wrote in “God and Man at Yale,” in 1951 these two sentences:
“I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.”

In conjunction with various thinkers over time who have echoed my Tea Party philosophy, I believe that government should not do anything which individuals or voluntary associations can more efficiently do for themselves. Capitalist or free-enterprise economics have succeeded very well in the Western World in raising tremendously the volume of production and standard of living. Needless spending beyond other reasonable means of repayment further weakens civilization’s progress.

Where will America be in another 61 years if the advice of Buckley, 61 years ago and me in 2012 continue to be ignored in academe, in our public schools, in our Washington establishment, in our courts, in our general cultural climate? Christianity ( God ) and Man ( individualism as opposed to the State and Socialism) continue in a death struggle early into 2012.