TWAA: The West Is Worth Defending—and People Are Ready to Join
Across the world, people are waking up to what is at stake—and are ready to defend the civilization that made freedom possible.
This week has been encouraging and uplifting for our team, as Restoring the West has jumped out to a strong start. Every new subscriber has confirmed what I have been feeling in my heart for decades: people around the world—and especially those raised under Western civilizations—are hungry for a strong, articulate defense of why our cultural heritage is worth preserving. Restoring the West aims to give them exactly that, and the organic numbers and comments we’ve seen so far tell me we’re on the right track.
What I’m Thinking About
Of course, ours is not the only time and people are faced with what seem like insurmountable odds. We in the West may be fighting against cultural and religious forces bent on destroying us, but countless others have done so in centuries past. Think of World War II-era Nazis hellbent on the genocide of not only Jews, but also Romanis, Slavs, the disabled, gays, and political dissidents. Sometimes I think about how different would our world be today if some of the major players in WWII—Allied troops, those who hid and assisted Jews, Nazi resistance groups—had decided to stay out of the fight. It is a sobering thought.
Acquiescence to Nazi ideologies would have almost certainly have been an easier route for many. But plenty rejected that ease, rebelling instead. Countless perished so that others could be free. Think of French The Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, American bandleader Glenn Miller, members of the famous ten Boom family in Holland, and British Gone With the Wind actor Leslie Howard. Had they not sacrificed, the entire world would be wildly different today. I believe this line of thought is highly applicable to what is currently happening in Iran and other Islamist-centric nations. Humans can only take tyranny for so long, and the West’s Judeo-Christian heritage has produced systems of governance that have proven to be the least tyrannical in human history.
If we in America, the U.K. and other Western nations do not take our places in the annals of those who say, “Yes, we will fight to keep our cultural heritage,” how different will our grandchildren’s futures be?
