ROOKE: Smells Like Civil War

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Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision and how we are going to fight against it.

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I’m still processing the U.S. Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling. I, like millions of Americans, saw their decision to uphold the idea that an illegal immigrant or a birth tourist could deliver a baby on U.S. soil and that magically gave them citizenship and all the rights granted to them by it.

Birthright citizenship is a suicidal idea that should never have been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution in the first place. And it was obvious to anyone who doesn’t hold hate for America that the 14th Amendment intended to help alleviate the tensions of the Civil War, not to open our land up to anyone who stepped foot on our shores. This was a terrible ruling in a long list of Supreme Court decisions that have hurt our nation.

In the aftermath, Americans were rightly angered by the supposedly conservative justices who sided with the left on this issue. Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh exposed where their allegiance lies, and it’s not with their fellow citizens.

It hurts even more knowing that on Saturday we are celebrating our 250th anniversary as a free and sovereign nation. Instead of feeling hopeful about the future of our country, every bit of fireworks and jubilation sits in front of a backdrop of reality that illegal immigrants and con artists have unfettered access to our ancestral homeland.

Birthright citizenship doesn’t just grant American rights to the children of these people who abuse our Constitution. It gives it to them as well through chain migration. Once these children reach 21, they can sponsor their parents. The U.S. doesn’t even track the number of visas or citizenships granted this way each year, but one can assume it’s in the hundreds of thousands.

I can trace my heritage back to before the American Revolution. We don’t do third-world caste systems in the U.S., for good reason. Still, there should be some acknowledgment that my family’s claim to this land is much stronger than theirs. But I am told to grit my teeth and bear the pain of losing my country to people who have no love or affection for its beauty, heritage, and customs. I am told they are just as American as you and me.

This is a black pill if there ever was one. The Supreme Court decision is going to keep allowing the destruction of my country, and there seems to be no system in place to prevent it from happening. If we do nothing, my children will not inherit the land of their forefathers.

I’ve seen a lot of talk, particularly from the older generations, threatening and sometimes promising to bring about another civil war. It’s been centuries since all-out war has happened on U.S. soil, and people forget the devastation it will bring. It won’t be like what happened in 1861. It’s going to be much, much worse than that. General Sherman’s burning of the South will look like civilized warfare compared to what will happen now. There will be no place to hide as our society breaks down into chaos and people start to see the truly awful things people are capable of doing to each other.

It will not be what you think it will be. Our nation will be set back centuries as our infrastructure crumbles. It will be a dystopian nightmare, leaving thousands, if not millions, of people dead. We cannot accept this as our fate.

Because while it might be exciting to envision securing your land and fighting off the enemy, that won’t be your reality. So I am going to ask that you quit larping as minutemen or militias and instead ask yourself what my responsibility is as an American to keep my nation whole.

Luckily, there is another way. As the dust settles on the Supreme Court decision, remember that there is always hope in the Lord. I keep coming back to the promise God made in Joshua: not to be fearful or dismayed, but to be strong and steadfast. Victory comes to those who never give up. And that is our mission now.

Our immediate job is to get more heavily involved in the system. This won’t be easy because every time we turn around, it seems we find another way it has been rigged against regular Americans. For those of us who live in red states, the primary season is the most important part of the election cycle. It is our responsibility to block the wolves in sheep’s clothing from ever gaining power.

While the second Trump administration has been a bit of a let-down for most of us, it is still miles better than anything we could have hoped for under a Harris presidency. We have to keep winning elections. Change happens slowly over time. I never thought in 2008 that 20 years later there would be elected officials openly talking about the left’s war on white Christians. Or that they would be openly calling for mass deportations and denaturalizations.

These ideas were considered so far to the right back then that no one in the mainstream electoral process dared touch them with a ten-foot pole, much less acknowledge them as real, and now entire campaigns are built around ending the foreign invasion and far-left ideologies.

Our responsibility to our homeland is to fight for it by continuing to win elections. Bit by bit, every success brings us that much closer to re-securing our sovereignty. The only way out is through. Our children are deserving of our land, and it’s not out of reach yet. Never give up hope.

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