An Existential War Against the West, By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Another hard-hitting piece at the American Conservative.com, makes the case which is becoming common now by conservative critics in the lead up to the US election, that Kamala Harris and Walz are engaged in a war against America. One thing I did not know is that one of Walz's advisors is Brian Lozenski, a professor of "urban and multicultural education" at Macalester College. His big thing, is that everything in America is "racist," made from the perspective of Critical Race Theory (CRT). "America is irreversibly racist…[and] must be overthrown.""You can't be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S." Such is the position of Lozenski. Tim Walz appointed Lozenski to a key curriculum committee to develop "ethnic studies" standards for instruction in every public school in Minnesota, with Ethnic studies being a version of Critical Race Theory. This is what is coming.

"The right must give up the delusion that we are still engaged in politics as usual. We are in a war. But only one side is fighting—their side. You can't win a war if you don't fight. It is well past time that we engage the enemy, prepared to give our last full measure of devotion so that the greatest country in the history of mankind shall not perish from the earth."

It is indeed, an existential war against the West.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/harris-and-walz-declare-war-on-america/

"Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are prepared to wage war on America.

Let me explain. Walz's most important education advisor is Brian Lozenski, a professor of "urban and multicultural education" at Macalester College. Lozenski is a prominent national voice in the world of critical race theory (CRT), and the foremost authority on CRT in Minnesota. CRT holds that everything about American society is racist. Everything—American values, from patriotism and hard work; American institutions, from the traditional family to religion; and American policies, from secure borders to energy independence. Racism, say the critical race theorists, is in America's DNA.

In a recently unearthed video, Brian Lozenski puts it even more directly: "America is irreversibly racist…[and] must be overthrown." In case you missed his meaning, he goes on to say, "You can't be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S."

This is a declaration of war. It could not be any clearer.

Tim Walz appointed Lozenski to a key curriculum committee tasked with developing "ethnic studies" standards for instruction in every grade, in every required class, in every public school in Minnesota. (Ethnic studies is a cousin of CRT and, like CRT, has the "overthrow" of America in its sights.) Under the proposed standards, as described by Katherine Kersten of the Center of the American Experiment:

• "First-graders must 'identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power' and 'use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.'" (Yes, first-graders.)
• "High school students are told to 'develop an analysis of racial capitalism' and 'anti-Blackness' and are taught to view themselves as members of 'racialized hierarchies' based on 'dominant European beauty standards.'"

Ethnic studies is the centerpiece of Walz's education agenda, and Lozenski is the leader of the ethnic studies initiative. Nor is this radical program simply something that has bubbled up from below. According to Kersten, Walz himself "has used both legislation and administrative rulemaking to achieve…radical Ethnic Studies instruction... Between 2021 and 2023, Walz proposed and pushed Ethnic Studies in a series of 'governor's policy and budget bills' at the Minnesota Legislature."

This is the Democrats' nominee for vice president of the United States of America.

Republicans have long failed to realize that they are in a war. Now they should. If someone says they want to destroy you, then you know you are in a war—it's pretty obvious. It's time for Republicans to get on a war footing. They must fight like our democracy depends on it. The destructive left is sure that the former President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy—or at least they say so, and they act as if they believe it. We know this is nonsense. The Lozenski video shows us clearly where the real threat to our democracy lies.

If Lozenski is a revolutionary, and he certainly is, then so is Tim Walz, who entrusted him with the education of Minnesota's children. What about Kamala Harris? Could it be that she didn't know who she was choosing? No, it couldn't be. She knows perfectly well who Tim Walz is and what he believes. After all, she chose him over more qualified candidates precisely because his ideology was the most compatible with hers.

It is sometimes the case that a presidential candidate fails to detect some aspect of their running mate—for example, personal failings or minor policy positions—but a candidate does not choose, say, a Marxist, or in this case, a revolutionary, running mate by accident.

From Kamala's perspective—and we must understand Kamala's perspective—she simply chose a man who wants to improve America in the same way she wants to improve it. But their idea of "improving" is identical to Lozenski's overthrowing."

Trump regularly says, and quite rightly, that the enemy within is "far more dangerous" than China and other enemies without. But we have not had a face for the "enemy within." Now we do. The face of the enemy within is Brian Lozenski.

The right must give up the delusion that we are still engaged in politics as usual. We are in a war. But only one side is fighting—their side. You can't win a war if you don't fight. It is well past time that we engage the enemy, prepared to give our last full measure of devotion so that the greatest country in the history of mankind shall not perish from the earth.

Brian Lozenski is an ignorant child. I doubt he has given 30 seconds of thought to what would happen were he and his fellow revolutionaries to succeed in pulling down this great country. That is beside the point. Lozenski may be ignorant—even a moron—but he is a powerful moron. This is precisely the choice America faces in this election: whether our country is given over fully to the rule of powerful morons—which amounts to "overthrow"—or its patriotic citizens stand up and fight before it is too late.