Will election fraud, coming after years of an unrelenting assault against the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump, succeed in installing a Harris-Biden administration in January? While the answer is not clear, the moral necessity of defending the principle of fair elections is undeniable. Consider the susceptibilities of people not just in the United States, but around the world, not only to be sucked into the efforts to demonize Trump, but to be pulled in to the policies and outlooks against which he has the potential to fight — a potential that has brought the onslaught against him.
What are the deep problems in thinking that allow the Green religion of Malthusianism to take hold? How do human beings, all made in the image of their Creator and endowed with reason, come to consider others (and themselves) as animals, against which they must battle to secure their share of nature’s scarce bounty? While immediate fights must be waged, the longer-term work of developing a deepened sense of history, science, economics, and culture must nourish, sustain, and inform the sense of victory that animates us.
A beautiful yet martial sense of this vision will unfold at this weekend’s Schiller Institute conference, which will bring together speakers and thoughts from across the world and from different disciplines, to deliberate — with the active participation of the assembled audience — on the economic policies necessary for humanity to thrive, the basis for cooperation among the countries of the world, the means of resolving contradictory senses of self-interest through the discovery of a common destiny, and the texture of the cultural framework needed to nurture discovery.
Taking time to “sharpen the saw” through active contemplation of such far-reaching concepts serves to focus and clarify the waging of immediate battles. And such battles are many!
Every day brings explosive new developments in the fight to prevent the U.S. presidential election from being stolen. On Monday, Texas Attorney General Paxton filed suit in the Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Texas against Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin, arguing that “the 2020 election suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities in the Defendant States,” which had violated the constitutional requirement that it be state legislatures that determine the manner of holding elections, among other problems. The Texas filing says “All these flaws – even the violations of state election law – violate one or more of the federal requirements for elections (i.e., equal protection, due process, and the Electors Clause) and thus arise under federal law.” Texas calls for the court to prevent electors from these states from voting for President, to “conduct a special election to appoint presidential electors,” or even to “direct such States’ legislatures … to appoint a new set of presidential electors.” As of Tuesday evening, the Attorneys General of Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana made statements of their support for the effort.
Consider the great achievements of Operation Warp Speed, which brought together researchers, manufacturers, and distributors to achieve what had seemed impossible in the spring. Despite nay-saying “experts” over the past year, the audacious goal of a proven, safe vaccine by years-end is in sight, and will provide the means to end the pandemic. When efforts are marshalled to achieve great things, what seems impossible becomes reality.
It is that sort of audacious, bold approach that is needed to create the economic and science renaissance the world needs, led by enormous investments into advanced, long-term infrastructure platforms and into the most thrilling frontiers of knowledge and space exploration.
Achieving these goals means recognizing a higher conception of statecraft, in which the United States, Russia, China, and India, among other great nations, are able to collaborate, free of the repressive and cynical outlook promoted by the efforts of the military-industrial-financial-intelligence agency complex that represents the latest expression of the method of the British Empire.
