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"We are facing the prospect of a sharp drop not merely in America's role in the world, but also in America's standard of living," according to Dinesh D'Souza. He cites Abraham Lincoln's prediction that if America ever failed, it would be from internal causes. The downward spiral, which many warn against and some say has begun, is part of a calculated plan by those who believe that only the decline of the U.S. will allow less successful nations to rise. Their aim is to make all nations equal.
D'Souza says, "Obama is simply part of a fifty-year scheme for the undoing and remaking of America...." The plan is based on the "theft" theory of the founding of America (we stole it from natives) and the idea that capitalism is "plunder."
D'Souza notes that many 1960s radicals, like terrorist-turned-professor Bill Ayers, became teachers and have had great influence on education. They have used Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States to successfully spread the idea that America's success was built on others' suffering.
Democrats like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are followers of Saul Alinsky, who "developed a comprehensive strategy for social transformation." Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is a guide for "have-nots" to take power away from those who have it.
Progressives portray America as evil and conclude that the only way to improve conditions is through centralized government. But, in reality, centralized control is the problem and local control is the solution. Federal intrusion includes confiscatory taxation and irrational regulations.
America's current tax rates "impose basically the same terms on successful citizens as those imposed on the medieval serf," according to D'Souza. Yet, liberals say the rich aren't paying their "fair share." D'Souza says both progressive taxation and Obamacare are theft. The progressive argument is that this theft is okay because it's correcting previous theft. Similar rationale is used when the government spies on people and abuses the Constitution.
There's hope that citizens will heed D'Souza's call and change course in order to halt this gradual decline or to prevent a precipitous failure caused by potential economic collapse. (Regnery Publishing, 2014, 289 pp., $29.99) |
America did not rise to dominance due to "acquisitiveness and power," as many progressives claim, but rather through insistence on liberty. D'Souza explains inconsistencies that liberals use to attack America, such as why the Founders believed "all men are created equal" but allowed slavery. He says progressives create envy and take advantage of a fragmented society.
