Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 7: 31 "A whole fighting force can be robbed of its spirit."

What did we do to the Axis Allies in WWII? Hirohito's entire fight force was robbed of its spirit, first. Then, Hitler's entire fighting force was robbed of its spirit, second. We did the same thing in the Cold War. There is no more Back in the USSR left to go to.

When I was a boy, Native American Indians were still revered as the worst enemy we ever faced, far worse than the Red Coats. Yes, we had indeed robbed them of their entire fighting spirit. Yet, and this is worth pondering, they had the greatest fighting spirit we ever confronted.

Today, through politically correct manipulation, we have stolen from them their former fighting dignity. But ask any American military historian about them and he'll tell you that our plains wars following the Civil War forged our nation's fighting force with lessons that linger.

It's only a theory, but I strongly suspect the following. Just as we always say if Hitler had preceded Napoleon, Napoleon would never have invaded Russia, so also, I suspect that Mao Tse Tung studied our Indian Peoples, and learned from their demise.

It cannot be too strongly emphasized how terrified the American fighting forces were of the Indian Nations, and their warfighting ability respected to the utmost. And this, in spite of our vastly superior numbers and weapons. We've lost the sense of all that.

Thus, my theory is that, studying indigenous warriors and their defeats against greater weaponry and numbers, Mao found the rules - through his study of Master Sun - by which to rob a superior force of its fighting spirit, which he achieved over 25 years of revolution.

Turn with me to the South, during the Civil War. It is quoted that one of their greatest philosopher warriors proposed, "We'd never have lost if we'd only freed the slaves." What a phenomenal thought. How did they lose their fighting spirit? We give credit to Sherman's march.

Yet, it was the rank and file soldier who decided that freeing the slaves was the real purpose of the war. I have always given Lincoln credit for learning that from reading their letters home. Freeing the slaves became the rallying cry of the North.

"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
"With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free!
"While God is marching on."

The hymn is true. The South couldn't defeat that.

It's tempting to follow the trail of robbed spirit through the Vietnam war, and apply it to our current situation. Alas, it's a bit too complex a tale for today. We must contemplate how we let the left win so greatly, how they robbed us of our fighting spirit.

Of all the places where we allowed our entire force to lose its fighting spirit, education is the worst. A new morality was proposed by the Communist movement. It rapidly disproved its benefit and led to millions of deaths. So, it morphed into mere Socialism.

Yet, a truly genius plan was created, looking forward decades and centuries. Honor to our enemy for that. Brilliant. Move ethics away from the family, away from the nation, away from religion, and place all ethics within the great collective.

Over the decades, our parents believing in their ethics as they did, did not know how to protect us from this siren song. Besides, the left was also brilliant at using our own ethics against us and masking lies within the clothing of truth. There certainly were evil capitalists.

They led us from the reality of the existence of evil capitalists and their evil acts and atrocities, to the inversion that capitalism is evil. Do you remember Occupy Wall Street, of recent history? They absolutely succeeded in placing us on the defense.

We surrendered the moral high ground, allowing them their false mercy and hypocritical attacks against us. We lost our moral footing. They robbed us of our fighting spirit. Well, of course as you know, until the arrival of @realDonaldTrump. Yet even still, the fight wages on.

I can't opine yet again about our defeat in 2018, much as I wish to. I can and must target you toward 2020, 2022 and beyond. How will we ultimately take their fighting spirit from them? We surely have not, yet, not by any stretch of the imagination.

In fact, we may state emphatically that this is the problem, the definitive challenge, and clearly the opportunity of our time, of our generation. We must utterly defeat the fighting spirit of the left. We must defeat their multi-generational plan dating back to 1848.

To my eye, elections alone will never get us there, no matter how many we might win. Rather, I think we must reclaim the raising and educating of our children, and that, all the way through higher degrees of education. Is there a Ph.D. offered in a state school that we'd approve?

Or in the Ivy leagues, can you get a Ph.D. in the moral foundations of our Constitution through history? How about, the innovative power of Capitalism as compared to the destructive force of Socialism? Are there such dissertations being written, today? Is there such research?

As many of you know, though, my real passion is for our children, our vulnerable little ones. This goes way past the Pledge of Allegiance, which I fully support. I say again, it cuts to the core of our very ethics and morality. The left stole our fighting spirit right there.

Here is my action plea. Take your fighting spirit back. Stoke it up, well fired and fully empowered. Identify a single child whose upbringing and education you wish to reclaim. Your own. Your grandchild's. Your friend's child; the one child closest to you. Then, get involved.

The greatest action number of all is just 1. If you find power to affect benefit in one instance, you have taken action. What's more, done once, it can be repeated. That's power. Not over classes, but over a child, or those children closest to you. That's righteous action.

Be it my beloved cause to save our children, or any other, please know that our enemy has a plan, and it has been working to perfection these so many decades. Our plan is not four years old yet, and it's not much a plan yet, either. Perhaps I should give honor to the Tea Party.

Perhaps we must give due respect to their efforts from 2010 forward as the basis empowering the #MAGA movement under @ReaDonnaIdTrump's leadership. Even still, I for one don't see the plan, and if there is one, I don't see it leading to the conquest of our enemy's spirit.

Therefore, under Master Sun's dire warning, I believe we must each protect our fighting spirits, and work to protect the fighting spirit of our entire force. We must learn from our past in order to reclaim our future. And we must organize our efforts...better.

184 verses completed, 238 to go.

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