The collective consciousness of people in America is at a state. It is very wanting. We've been liberated of most of the structures of rigid or enforced dogmas, and are free to chose which, or whether at all, ones to subscribe to. Yet this has produced much chaos in the American psyche. What was predicted to give rise to a varied plurality of individual methods for bettering us all, has instead produced a myriad of often opposing views and stances of the world, with some overtly antagonistic to the principles which make up this country, like liberty, justice and freedom, especially in the sense of how it is classically and normatively to be understood, as it being something absolute, and to be absolutely pursued for us all in mutual benefit. Instead, many groups in America now believe things like there being no supreme order, and no duty to benefit all mankind; because what, they argue, constitutes benefitting us all? This line of thinking has dangerously challenged the unity of the country, usually based on an understanding of a great common good, and replaced it with a series of relative stances that have more dogmatic ends at their core. The irony of replacing what was called dogma with more or worse dogma is noted; but this irony has been replaced itself by a set of disparate ironies, many of which lack this one in common.

I fear my brief may have been too abstract. Let me specify. America at one point was united by believing in a common good. Throughout all of America's tension and division, this was acknowledged. But now, people question whether a common good exists, and whether there are only relative goods for various groups. This is the fundamental crisis in America. It is what leads to the fighting and disaster we see. In this sense, America has never been more divided. Even during the Civil War, we still agreed in some common good: we just strongly disagreed on how to achieve it. But now we disagree on the existence of a common good in the first place. It is for this reason that many people warn that the current toxic political climate could be leading to something far worse than has been seen.

People's flaw in America is the desire to benefit themselves, but not in a manner ultimately for the common good, but only as an end of itself. Now, certainly there are many who would desire to benefit all Americans, who acknowledge that can be done. But this cohort is being challenged by such a number never seen before, and it risks being overtaken. The rise of the socialist and Islamist mayor Mamdani in New York, the increasing violence against the right including the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the acceptance of it by the left like a recent Virginia official winning election despite graphically calling for the murder of his political enemies' children, are all examples of this.

This country has always faced violence. There were fights in Congress in its early period. What is different in this century is the nature of the fighting. Before, people would fight but always on the lines of, "This is not best for America," or "You're harming us, you're harming people." But now objections of various groups and factions will argue that, "You are harming me," or "Regardless of what is best for America (or to hell with America, there is no such thing or shouldn't be), we should do this because it helps me and me alone." What is so troubling about this is the refusal to better people at large. It's the denial of America or that it should be valued. While America certainly has faults and to the degree it does always had had them, people's criticisms of America now often stem from things that are untrue, illogical, or wrongly applied. For example, I criticize America for not allowing individual liberty as much it should, by right of the people. However, there are those who justify their actions by criticizing the U.S. for things like selfishness in areas where it is quite generous, for inequality or economic injustice in places where it is very equal and economically fair. Even worse, they argue that these deficiencies demand a disloyalty to the nation at large, rather than an attempt at improving those weaknesses. Instead many wish to place their loyalty only in themselves, to the end of improving their own weakness.

This is extremely dangerous. So I view America as at a dangerous time. We need to recognize that although there are many who view people as one, there is a startlingly large people who do not. These numbers threaten us all. If these people reach a majority, there will no longer be any nation, but a place of total strife and chaos, where we see people warring with each other in factions and groups, with no common tie, and those of us who seek the opposite may find that difficult.

We need to stop this. By we, I mean to say everyone who has the common good of Americans, the people here, at heart. Who oppose the opposite. We need to confront these people and stop them, because they are gaining dangerous traction, corrupting the affairs, and they do this with certain things at heart. They wish to benefit only themselves, and are thus very far from justice. They're very far from us in their betterment. We must keep that in mind in our approach.

Consequently, we might need to be a bit selfish when speaking to them. These people won't listen to reason; they're incapable of hearing it through their own volition. And any attempt at using that to guide them will fail, because that's what they've chosen. We need a very aggressive stance. It's the only logical response to people who only know of that world. A world of selfishness, of refusal to pursue common justice, to be a part of what makes America truly so great, in that sense. At the same time we must remember what we fight for. Yet we cannot let this stand.

Therefore, I make a critical distinction in typical conservative or anti-progressive/radical leftist thought on the subject, because of course the very progressive and radical left is at the heart of all this; as they openly espouse, making it difficult for even moderate leftists to not be denounced in non-trivially egregious ways. Whereas the line of thinking thus far has generally been to guide the left toward justice and goodwill through reason and patience, I diverge by claiming that is not correct. You cannot use justice and goodwill to those who do not hold those as values, and who hold only themselves at their core. Throughout this entire enterprise against them, we have fundamentally been misunderstanding the correct movement. We've made a big mistake. This is the only way to rectify it. Fire can be fought with water when that side allows fire hydrants, but if they deny the utility of them, it must be fought with fire. We must respond against them as brutally and with such fierceness as they use. It needs to have at its core the pursual of common justice and freedom, what makes America good and what unites Americans. It needs to be intended to evoke that. Yet in that enterprise, we need to act as fiercely and ruthlessly as these destructive individuals do to make that happen.

What I'm basically saying is that when a radical or progressive leftist says that we are fascists for holding values of individual liberty and justice dear, we do not calmly explain to them why that is false. They won't bite, because they have as described chosen to be deaf. Instead, we call them a communist for being a radical leftist, for believing in the moral relativism of all individuals, the lack of individual liberty being supreme, and for the wish to use the state to arbitrarily command their own selfish, unjustified will. If they call us Hitler, we call them Stalin, and we tell them their badge reeks of starvation. Through this, they might realize the delusion of their ways, and we might show them how selfish they are. If we can portray like this, through example, how selfish their viewpoints are, then only offer a chance for real American and common justice, we will win.

If they gloat at being a communist, we gloat at being a fascist. If that's the game they want to play, the only way to win is to demonstrate their stupidity like that, and then offer them the path of justice. But we must be so. Yes, they're that far gone.