Playwright Lillian Hellman wrote The Little Foxes, made into a movie of the same name released in 1941. Beyond human greed, her story’s thesis finally reveals itself in the mind of a young daughter who comes to understand the importance of not standing idly by, watching people do evil. Coming from Hellman, you find that sentiment perplexing, if not bizarre, considering she was alleged both a Communist and Stalinist. How much evil can you stand, Lil? Still, over 80 years have passed and unfortunately her admonition still falls on deaf ears. In fact, Americans are perfecting the art of looking Evil smack-dab in the eye, as they simultaneously concentrate on the merits of blind and passive obedience. As individuals, they line up reverentially, like zealous soldiers, to follow the Federal Government’s Covid 19 yoyo narrative while rejecting any scientific dissent to that narrative. As parents, despite the warning sirens, they eagerly tote their precious tots to the clinics and force them to submit to a speculative, experimental mRNA gene therapy. As parents and grandparents and citizens, they stand by as teachers inject young minds with vile critical race theory — with irrational gender studies — and with the dazzling features of sexual perversion. As small business owners and city officials, they abandon private and public property, allowing left wing thugs to burn, loot and kill. As corporate executives and university presidents, they reduce the shining city on a hill to a pile of rubble called Wokism and sacrifice centuries of human endeavor to the lowest common denominator of post modern despotism. As Presidents, Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices, they tear asunder the most fundamental tenets of The Constitution of the United States, leaving behind the Ship of State bleeding from a thousand stab wounds. As clergy, they hide behind ecclesiastic robes and cite the principle of “inclusion,” allowing them to ignore the decay of common decency. As media professionals, they dropkick the hallowed ethics of journalism into the trash bin; then, as the necessary arm of tyranny, use the microphone as a weapon to mislead, lie and brainwash a nation tormented by treason. As a Department of Justice, on a daily basis, they prove that equality before the law is an absolute myth. Looking Evil in the eye is one thing. Ignoring it is callous indifference. Indulging it is a serious blunder. Endorsing it is the act of the accomplice — as evil as evil itself. In the 20th century alone, the proof was in Germany, the USSR and PRC. In a very real sense, the United States was founded by individuals who had a sole purpose, a single goal — to restrain Evil — specifically to keep a free people from being subjugated — by dictators, by despots, by fascists, by tyrants — by mob rule. The Founders had one weapon — The Constitution of the United States. The Founders could not eliminate Evil, said to be one side of a line that transects every human heart. But, Matilda, they surmised that the concept of individual freedom would infect every human heart and thus would be guarded individually — at all cost. In large measure, they were correct. America’s footprint in history is evidence, despite the frenzied and farcical agitation of the cancel culture gang. But now you must face the truth. Evil occupies many seats of power in America. The specter of Marxism, with a century of abject failure as a resume, stands behind those seats. If you believe what you hear, read, and see every day, a nation is standing idly by, watching people do evil. You want to be wrong. So, should you stop hearing, reading and seeing — and stand idly by? Of such is a conundrum.

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