The Culture War is Over

It is cut-and-dried, straightforward: the Culture War is over! We lost. It took over half a century. We lost. Cultural liberalism is firmly in control of virtually the entire superstructure of our society: ALL the powerful, influencial institutions and agencies are in its grip. It is pervasive and profound, systemic and systematic. All of the traditional arenas of freedom, of rest from the political...art, entertainment, academia, religion, athletics...are now incorporated into a totalistic, totalitarian system. It is "soft" but all the more systemic and perverse. The final straw has been the incorporation of global capitalism, including professional sports, into the dynasty. Am I overreacting to the current post-Trump, Biden-euphoria of the Left as they spike the football and do their victory laps? Possibly. The pendulum will swing back. And we do have the Judge Amy Barrett Court as well as lots of red states and conservative activity. But the conservative movement is fractured and incoherent. I was strangely saddened by Sunday's NY Times Piece by Ross Douthat. He argued what Catholics on the left and right have said for decades: a coherent pro-life, anti-abortion policy requires a strong, enduring safety net for mothers facing stressful pregnancies. The DNC is irrevocably wed to legal abortion; and the RNC is incapable of mounting a real crusade to support mothers-and-infants at risk. This realization discouraged me. Perhaps it is that I am old and tired. I am now entirely pessimistic about our society and indeed our world. Globally things are worse! Communism in China is surging with the energy from hell that exploded in Hitler and Stalin at their worst. Jihadist Islam, in both Shiite and Sunni forms, is entirely repressive of human freedom and is inhibited mostly by its own rivalry. It is inconceivable that Biden and his people are capable of the moral character to confront Communism in the way our parents did. Worst of all, The (Catholic) Church and the Churches are divided and incapable of a clear resistance to the Empires of Darkness. Pope Francis has installed a Quisling column that colludes with the totalitariams of Western Liberalism and Chinese Communism even as he assumes the pose of a crusader for the causes so dear to the cosmopolitan elites (death penalty, climate, immigration.) Does this mean that we surrender? Absolutely Not! That is unthinkable! No! Like Churchill, "...we will go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and grwoing strength, in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the filelds and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender." We shall never surrender! Our faith and values are more precious than life itself. But the war has shifted to a new phase. It is time to go into hiding; to go small; to go underground; to switch to guerrila warfare; to swim among the underclass, quiet and anonymous, where we have support. It is time to cherish and safeguard our legacy and resources. It is time to detach. It is time to draw closer to our God and to each other in truth, in holiness, in courage. It is time to wait, to wait for this leaden, lifeless regime to fall under its own weight, as did Nazism, Soviet Communism, Rome and all the arrogant empires. It is time to attend to our own souls; to our families; to our Churches; and to those closest to us. Above all, it is time to protect our young from the lies that pervade; to hand on our legacy; and to Hope in the midst of a chiaracuro of light amidst the prevalent darkness.