Common Ground Doesn’t Compromise
Common Ground is about building upon where we align. It is about building bridges of commonality so that we might interact and enjoy each other while working together towards a better future. It isn’t to weaken or diminish our resolve to see truth realized.
Truth is freedom. Freedom is the process and the mission. Freedom without Truth… isn’t.
We have become addicted to being coddled into progress; we have been convinced that we can nap our way into fighting shape.
Yes, we need to do all the things highlighted on the page: Common Ground. But not at any price. There must be a shift in our priorities where we elevate our pursuit of the good and true over how nice and accommodating we can be to lies. Our soft collective disposition toward things that do not work (a key component of the definition of evil) is anchoring us to their sinking decay. Without strong convictions about what is true and good, we will remain aimlessly lashed to a ship without sales.
In all sincerity, we should, with the same veracity as Daryl Davis, love people while we dismantle their destructive ideas. Yet, we mustn’t confuse the two.
Common Ground is the grand boulevard we travel together toward what works, toward righteousness, toward goodness. The back alleys of compromise will always try to re-rout us with promises of shortcuts. There is no better example of such a compromise than the Wests open border policies with 3rd world nations.
Brace yourself… let’s start with a fact. 3rd world immigration is destroying Western civilization. Instead of exporting our superior values, we have succumbed to the values that destroyed Rome, we have imported the barbarism of 3rd world nations, we have slapped lipstick on a pig, dressed it up in glitz & glam, called it our beauty queen, put it up on stage, and showered it with BILLION$!
This issue has 0 room for compromise. If you can’t see that, fine, be where you are, strong-minded people will stand in the gap of your weakness and fix this mistake for you. And you, in turn, will hopefully do the same on other issues for us. But again, there isn’t a way to compromise. 3rd world savagery isn’t both good and bad at the same time. We can’t have it both ways. They can’t simultaneously be here and also not here. It’s one or the other. The bridges of our Common Ground must be to build toward something that works.
We have to start with Common Ground like… stoning women for showing their hair in public is bad... Great... we both agree! Tossing the gays off buildings is bad… great we both agree! Free expression and association are good… great we have Common Ground! And so on and so on… from here, we use the Common Ground to decide if we want to import the Middle Ages or not. Our Common Ground includes the thriving of all people of every nation… so, let’s actually help the world by exporting goodness and values that work for everyone. Individual sovereignty and free association, both socially and economically, limited government by the consent of the governed. Nations that form these habits will elevate progress past even our wildest imaginings.
The 2024 EU election results are a huge sign of sensibility awakening in the common man. The sovereign peoples of the ancient European nations have had a belly full of Brussels bullshit. There is no turning back. The time is now; today is the day to take our countries back from immorality and savagery. And, yes, we must say confidently and out loud that evil is evil. Any hesitation in doing so is a cap tip and open door to darkness. Common Ground is how we triangulate the best and right way forward for everyone. Compromise is how we continue in our illiberal, anti-progressive, backtracking ways.
Faux Common Ground, where goodness endlessly compromises its principles in order to get along, is what got us the most volatile shared world we have seen in decades. This is because evil is never willing to compromise. It always takes; it always demands its way. Where goodness is weak, it has always been willing to naively eat the apple of compromise extended to us from smooth-talking evil. This apple is ever before us, extended with accolades and applause… the gallows await. Like a credit card vacation, our weak need to signal our counterfeit virtues of helping the lowly has a bill that comes due. Islam is thee example of this wolf in sheeps clothing. Everywhere they are a minority, despite being thee problem, they endlessly play the victim and stroke the ego of any who defend their vicious ways. Yet, whenever and wherever they gain a majority, they shift to brutality and tyranny.
The only way to help the poor and lowly of the earth is to sow the same seeds of nobility that created these United States, and nations like England, Spain, Japan, France, Canada, Italy, Germany, Poland, Korea, etc. The world becomes a better place for everyone when they become increasingly like us. Full Stop.
This is why we can’t have nice things. We keep giving them keys to a new car we paid for, and in most cases, they can’t even get out of the parking lot before crashing. Worse still, in the West, our response has been to bring them over to our house and put them behind the wheel of our beloved grandfather’s 67 Shelby. If you think it couldn’t get any worse… wrong… we then, with the wreckage still smoking, tell them what great drivers they are and how we want more… all while aggressively punishing any of our children who point out the obvious.
The world will never become better by amplifying the presence of backward values, by injecting what doesn’t work into what works. They must become more like us, and many have been and are willing to freely give what we have. But they have to want it first, and when the institutions of the West consider it their full-time job to convince both their population and ours that their degeneracy is a needed diversity, we have a serious problem on our hands.
Even the most backward nations have many beautiful aspects of culture steeped in proud tradition; their lineage includes nobility, courage, and goodness. We should glorify and magnify this nobility. We should spotlight the Common Ground between those folks and why they want to move to Western nations. We should help them develop systems that respect the individual and governments that protect life, liberty, and property.
Goodness should have the default position of being unmovable. Our pursuit of Common Ground is to wash away the lies that tell us we disagree everywhere. We agree in most places, and it is from this Vast agreement that we can launch our common mission towards flourishing and truth.
Should our founders have been more agreeable with the tyrant King George? Should MLK have been less denigrating towards racism? Should Lincoln have been more compromising towards slavery?
Where our founders did compromise, allowing the evil of slavery to exist in the South in order to include them in the revolt pre-destined the half-million plus deaths that we suffered during the Civil War. THATS WHAT COMPROMISES WITH EVIL GET US. Death, destruction, and lost time towards something better. The economy and prosperity of the South are still suffering from slavery to this day. Because… despite what our dumb-ass “teachers” told us… slavery actually doesn’t work… it didn’t build shit… and it most certainly did not build this country… everywhere slavery was practiced, every good thing was muted and stunted. Slavery and every other evil brings decay and destitution. Evil has the illusion of Win-Lose but is actually Lose-Lose. Goodness alone is Win-Win.
This call goes out to our collective entanglement with goodness.
HOLD THE LINE. BE IMMOVABLE. THIS IS OUR STAND. THE TIME IS NOW.
Retreat is no longer an option. There is nowhere left to retreat to. Therefore, we look to the men of Bastogne, Thermopylae, and the Alamo; we honor them and their legacy. Win or lose, we move not.
THE WEST IS ONE OF THE GREATEST GIFTS TO THIS WORLD.
IT IS TIME TO TAKE THE LAMPSHADE OFF & SHINE.
Hold Tension, Be Vast.
Remember, restoration alone brings victory.