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The simmering tension between Taiwan and China dramatically escalated after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) controversial visit. For China, the conflict is about retaking control and imposing its communist will over an island that has embraced democratic principles. Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker says the U.S. faces a similar challenge at home. Parker warns that if conservatives don’t fight at the polls in the November midterms, America could see liberal totalitarianism take over.
The news headlines have shifted from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine to China and Taiwan. And it seems that so often when we look for tyranny, we look to the East. We always find ourselves looking to the East. But the battle between China and Taiwan and the contending ideals of freedom and totalitarianism are not just seen in lands far away.
We’re witnessing that very battle here at home. We’re witnessing it in our political processes in our primaries, and we will witness it in November. As is often said, but is not said enough, our founding fathers built our nation on the ideals of liberty. But freedom’s torch has lost too much light to the ensuing darkness of totalitarianism. There are over a hundred progressives that embrace totalitarianism in our current Congress. The voice of capitalism’s fierce rivals — socialism, communism — have continued to grow. Not just in Washington, DC, but all across our country.
Members of Congress and presidential candidates are actively campaigning on these titles, proudly wearing these labels that no one would’ve dared promoted in our free society just 20 years ago. The liberals? Oh no, they love power. They don’t love liberty, and they are letting it be known now. They want to grow the type of government that imposes their values, their worldview, on everyone here in America, in every space in America.
