Bold Solutions Requires Bold Leadership

America is at a crossroads.  We have a national debt that is reaching a record 16 trillion dollars and climbing.  We have political leaders who are either too inept to do what is necessary, or are too corrupt to do the will of the people because they love their power.  America has a radical Islamist enemy that is hell bent on destroying us and establishing a worldwide caliphate, and Secular-Marxists are committed to collapsing our capitalist system and transforming our society into a collective utopia.  We also have a culture that is in shambles, which seems to tell us that everything is good.  That there is no right or wrong, everything is relative.  What are Americans to do?

In years past, we have had great leaders with great solutions to restore America back to her exceptional self.  We have had leaders that put forth pro-growth economic policies to grow America’s economy, with marginal spending and deficit cuts.  As if their strategy was to grow our economy out of our fiscal crisis, and the small spending and deficit cuts would eventually add up and we’d come out of our fiscal mess.  However, the practical and gradual solutions haven’t worked because these strategies have allowed the big government forces to increase spending more than our cuts in spending.  We’re still in a fiscal crisis; in fact, our fiscal crisis is much worse.

When it comes to our radical Islamist enemy, we have had some bold leadership in confronting them head on.  Moreover, I applaud the leaders who have taken bold action against those who want to kill us.  However, we still aren’t really trying to know who these radical Islamists are and why they want to destroy us.  We’re too busy trying to convince the Moderate Muslims that we aren’t against them, we’re against the people who kill innocent life in the name of Islam.  We need some bold solutions to help us understand these radical Islamists and their motivations.  Understanding their motivations will help us anticipate their moves.

We also have another enemy.  However, this second enemy of America’s is an invisible enemy.  By invisible, I mean we have yet to acknowledge them as a credible threat to our way of life.  This enemy wants to destroy our system of free market capitalism and replace it with a collective utopia.  What makes this enemy different from the radical Islamists is that this is a secular enemy that is seeking to erase God out of America’s heritage and history.  I call this enemy Secular-Marxists.  We aren’t really trying to learn about them and understand their motivations either, so that we might be able to anticipate their moves against us too.  Where the radical Islamists are somewhat of a global threat to America and American interests, the Secular-Marxists I see as more of a domestic threat to American society.

Our culture is in the toilet.  What are we doing about it?  In my view, we’re doing nothing about it.  Sure, there are people speaking out about the decline in American culture to moral-relativism with God out of the picture, there are even people who are in positions of power to make a significant difference.  However, those people are few and far between.  Let’s face it the secularists are winning this cultural fight.  They control the media, academia, and the politicians seem not to care as long as they can stay in power.  There are some leaders in our camp, but even those leaders are focused more on what are more visible and understandable threats to American society: a declining economy and foreign enemies.  I’m not saying we should ignore those threats, but if we ignore our declining culture, then fixing our economy and fighting our foreign enemies will be all for nothing.

Maybe it’s time we tried a new strategy.  A strategy of bold solutions.  However, the media and the establishment tell us that bold solutions cannot succeed.  They claim that bold is radical and no one likes radical.  They say if we try too much too fast, the American people will punish us at the next election.  To those Conservatives who believe moderated and gradual solutions is the best strategy to restore America: Have those moderated views succeeded?  Have you ever thought that maybe the people who claim that bold solutions don’t work are the very big government, Secular-Marxists that are trying to collapse our system?  It would be to their benefit to throw out falsehoods about bold solutions never working because they’re too bold to keep us from restoring America to her founding principles.  Why do we let them set the rules of the game?  If the Secular-Marxists succeed in convincing the people that our bold solutions can’t work, then they will eventually succeed with their secular and collective solutions because we weren’t bold enough to fight them.

How do we make our bold solutions to restore America to her great exceptional heritage and history work?  Simple.  We need bold leaders who won’t be afraid to roll up their sleeves and tell the truth about the threats that American society faces.  Those bold leaders also need to have the characteristics that make them fearless to stand up and push hard for bold solutions no matter the pressures that will be pushing against them.  A quality of bold leadership is also the ability to communicate and articulate the bold solutions in such a way that rallies the American people to pressure their representatives to support the bold solutions.  To fundamentally restore America to her founding principles, bold solutions are required.  For bold solutions to succeed, bold leadership is required.