There is an unbridgeable gap in the United States right now between two people with polar opposite views of the world, its purpose, man’s place in it, and what the country should be in the future. And nobody can sit on the fence; you are on one side or another. “You are either for me or against me,” Jesus said, and that is the situation every American faces right now, regarding the future and destiny of the nation.

The Left isn’t going to change, folks. They are, for the foreseeable and indefinite future, rooted in their beliefs and ideology, and they aren’t going to be converted. Just like Xi Jinping will never change from his communist dogma, Leftist Americans are too convinced in their religion to ever swing over to the “other side”—traditional, virtuous, conservative American values. As James Madison said, America’s success and future are in the laws of God. Xi Jinping has rejected that for China, and Nancy Pelosi, Tim Walz, AOC, Gavin Newsom and every Democrat have rejected it for America as well. They will never be transformed, en masse.

But they never will convert me, either. And countless millions of Americans stand with me on that, and will never sacrifice the truths they believe in. But therein lies the divide. We aren’t going to change; they aren’t going to change. The current beliefs of the Right and Left are 180 degrees opposite. Can America keep going like this when it appears that 50 percent of the people want some form of traditional American values of virtuous freedom and equality before the law, and 50 percent of the people want to remake the country into a licentious, Marxist, barbarian totalitarian state where the federal government has all power and, as in all communist countries, the people suffer and are oppressed, become wards and dependents of the state, and slaves of the few, the fat cat nomenklatura who enjoy their special privileges until they destroy their nation. How long can America vacillate between these two world views?

We are at a very crucial turning point in the 250 th year of our existence. If the Democrats win control of one or both houses of Congress this year—which is distinctly possible—then Trump’s presidency will effectively be over. Congress won’t be able to do anything on Trump’s agenda, and any executive orders he issues will be immediately overturned the next time a Democrat becomes President. That makes 2028 an incredibly significant election year.

If the Democrats win the Presidency in 2028 and both houses of Congress, they will feel like the country has rejected Trumpian populism and traditional American values, and that they have been given carte blanche to do whatever they please. They will put the pedal to the metal, and it will make Joe Biden’s four years of horror look like a Sunday picnic on the beach. They will try to silence us, and it will be far worse than anything they tried under Biden. They will be feeling their Wheaties, and they won’t be in the least hesitant to enact their radical agenda.

If, horror of horrors, that scenario comes to pass—a Democratic Party sweep in 2028—what are we “conservatives” going to do? Are we finally going to take to the streets and tear things up if we don’t get our way, as the thugs and babies of the Left do? Are we going to just continue to write our articles and do our podcasts (if allowed) in the absolutely vain hope that we can convert Leftists, or perhaps persuade enough fence-sitters to vote for true America? Or are we going to be like the typical Chinese citizen in China, just cower in our homes, keep our mouths shut and heads down, and accept that the government knows all and will solve our problems and “take care of us,” and eat the few crumbs they throw to us?

What are we conservatives going to do the next time the Democrats come to power? We had better be thinking about that and planning for it—just in case it happens.

The Left isn’t going to keep playing ping-pong with us, batting the government back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, letting us have it for a while and do what we want if we’ll let them have it for a while and do what they want. We believe in freedom, in allowing people the right to believe what they want to, as long as they don’t harm others or trample on our God-given rights. I really couldn’t care less if some sissy, mind-degenerate male wants to claim he is a woman—as long as he doesn’t deprive true women of the right to compete fairly against their own sex, and keeps his perversion out of schools and female locker rooms and restrooms. Freedom means the freedom to be perverted, stupid, obnoxious, and an utterly licentious barbarian—but not infringe on others’ rights. Jesus never forced anyone to believe and practice what He taught, and we shouldn’t either.

The problem is that it isn’t what the Left believes. They don’t believe in freedom; they believe in tyranny, which means they get to practice whatever they want to, and they get to ram it down our throats and we must approve of it, not condemn it, and pay for it. They want to control the government forever, and they demand we either cower into accepting their decadence and tyranny, or they’ll imprison or kill us if we cause too much trouble. And if you don’t believe that is what they want, go live in communist China for 10 years as I did and see what Leftism really is and what the Leftist Democratic Party in America really wants. If Americans don’t wake up to that, then the country will eventually endure it.

The gap is unbridgeable. What can we do about it?

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