We’re not done talking about what Senator Lang said in Middletown, Ohio when he was introducing J.D. Vance to the crowd, where even the Biden White House has taken notice and tried to exploit it for their purposes.  When Lang spoke about a civil war in America, he was not talking about a race war or a war between the haves and the have-nots.  He’s talking about a war that has continuously been operating in the background of American life, as a natural production of capitalism, the desire to remain an isolationist nation or part of the collectivist world order.  And that temptation toward globalism was never more alluring than in the last 100 years when thieves from around the world looked toward the wealth of America and wanted a piece of it.  And most of the wars over that same period were to pull America into world affairs, to create a League of Nations, then a United Nations and put all of us into the global room with people we’d rather not deal with, and steal our money through our political sell-outs.  Modern civil war is essentially playing out now, and it is unclear whether America can make itself great again and tend toward its isolationist tendencies or be turned toward collectivism and be part of a global community.  Or, as Bob Iger has said, as the CEO of Disney, part of the global citizen movement.  We’re all in this together; it’s a small world.  These temptations have always been with us, and Americans, at their heart, have always been isolationists, like most people with value are.  A person with a nice, big house does not open their front door to every migrant on the street. Otherwise, something nice will stop being nice.  So our entire society is built around the premise of value and property rights and protecting those rights from the greedy hands of a desperate mob, which is precisely what the world is offering through global collectivism.  The fight is upon us now: Can we protect the value of our property rights, or should we surrender everything to the global citizen movement?

I have some perspective on this that I think about a lot as I travel around the world.  When I go to Japan, there is a hotel I stay at that caters specifically to Western tastes because Japanese culture can be a bit overwhelming, especially for extended stays.  This hotel is very American in that it has big rooms, big beds, huge bathrooms, and access to abundant Western-style food.  It has comforted me to write, read, and think about the differences between the Western world and the vast perspectives of Asia and East Asia, along with Africa and Central and South America, which are overwhelmingly collectivist, when I stay there.  If you walk into a movie theater in America, people will sit as far from others as possible.  However, in other countries, people do not have the same expectations of personal space and possession of individual integrity.  A crowded bus is typical in Asian countries; they do not have precise expectations for personal enjoyment.  And that is what globalism has always been offering, to convert the American range dweller who fled Europe for independence in distant lands, at significant cost to themselves in the process, and to once and for all wrap them up into the parental blanket of global government, removing from those people any sense of isolationism.  It has, after all, been since the war with Mexico with President Polk pushing for ever more expanding US borders southward that this crisis hit a melting point.  America was best when it moved its borders against global collectivism and preserved individual integrity over the village life of shared resources of communist thought.  After the Mexican War for establishing a southern border to the Rio Grande, Marxist ideas began to infect the world with ideas of abolishing private property that could reach all ears in every region of the world.  And they were always eyeing America as a prosperous nation to steal from and rot from the inside out as they have in all their countries of origin.

This is important to know because just as was the case during both World Wars, American presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt did just as Polk had done with Mexico, and that was to push the buttons of other nations, provoking them to attack America, which would make Americans angry, and drag them into the global war effort through a sense of patriotism, to overcome their natural trend toward isolationism.  We have seen this strategy most recently between Ukraine and Russia for much the same purposes.  Then, in the wake, we would all be thrown together with Americans carrying the bills for building the political platform of globalism.  Americans never wanted it, but European-loving politicians who saw no problem with selling out America toward globalism put us in debt to international banking and Marxist interests of all kinds recklessly, leaving us over time in the condition we are in now, with a world telling us we can’t have property rights or a sense of self.  And that we must adopt a more globalist view.  I often think of this with the obvious example of IKEA, where I often meet my family for a meatball lunch.  The products they sell at IKEA can be excellent for an apartment or flat in a busy city with limited space and very constrained incomes.  IKEA is what globalism offers the world: a lack of space, cheap furniture, and a severe loss of personal freedom.  I have always liked the taste of the food at IKEA.  But I am always weary of the cafeteria dining accommodations.  I’d rather have a private room at Jags myself. 

And that’s the Civil War that Senator Lang is talking about; it’s always been in the background of American life, and we have fought every war since the Civil War.  People think that the Civil War was about slavery, and on one level, it was.  But under the economy of it was the European economy that had its hooks in southern cotton and a North that had its industry that was divorcing itself from European aristocracy.  European practices had inherited slavery, and the abolitionists in America from the north were seeking to put an end to all forms of enslavement to individual lives, no matter what color they were.  So, our Civil War in history, just a few years after the war with Mexico, was about establishing American borders, preserving individual rights, and removing foreign fingers from tampering with our daily expectations.  And that is the war we are in now, preserving American isolationism from the plundering of a desperate, hungry world jealous of America’s space and expectations.  Even people with low incomes in America have a much higher standard of living than most of the world.  There will never be enough resources to make everyone in the world happy, so American isolationism is critical to advancing any human culture because wealth, space, and comfort are necessary for productive thought and an independent perspective from the chaos of globalism.  And the world right now expects to have relief by globalism, to take our wealth and plunder it among their needs.  And we are tired of having our country stripped away from us for the efforts of globalism that have long resided in the background of our lives.  And we want to stop it, once and for all.  We are talking about this when we say we are on the brink of another Civil War.  That war is being fought by those who support individual American rights against those who want to steal those rights for collective Marxism and the lack of privacy that comes with being a global citizen infected with plots of doom for the good of nobody.  And that sets the stage for why there must be a Make America Great Again movement, and who is standing in the way, and why.

Rich Hoffman

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