Townhall's Amy Curtis recently published an excellent article entitled, “One of the DSA’s Biggest Influencers Wants to Shred the Declaration of Independence, Too.” Amy discussed Linda Sarsour, a “radical Islamist activist who works with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR),” and who helped Zohran Mamdani win the mayor’s office in New York. She wants to, in effect, dispense with the American Declaration of Independence and “build a document that is our [Islamic] values and principles and bring millions of Americans around it.” In effect, divide America, and conquer the country.

We are being warned. Are we listening? Most Americans aren’t. Free people never do until they are lined up against the wall. And then, their last thought is, “What happened?” Too many of them die never knowing.

Folks, tyranny and slavery are far more common in human history than freedom is. And, frankly, tyranny and slavery are easier; just do what you are told, and let somebody else take care of you. Freedom entails individual responsibility, virtue, and risk, and often blood to defend that freedom. Those are prices too many people, down through history, have not been willing to pay.

The Democratic Party and its offspring, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), are taking advantage of this historical truth to try to enslave as many Americans as possible to dependence upon government, to create a tyrannical, totalitarian system where “government gives us our rights” (Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA))—the very definition of totalitarianism. The movement is large and powerful—though freedom-fighters........

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