Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Douglas Murray: "We Are Standing on the Precipice"" video.

Are we in a worse position than Britain was, during the Blitz?? Look to Churchill for words to stiffen your spine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jjhxeHIjvU Or FDR -- "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" -- although I would change that a bit -- "We have no reason to despair, unless we give in to despair".
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"I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic or despair." - Winston Churchill, from his "Their Finest Hour" speech, 18 June 1940
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@endangerdenglish If you'd like to make a distinction between where we are materially (quite well off) and where we are spiritually (near disaster) that's useful to explore. However, is pessimism of our own time, and idealization of previous times, really accurate? Read CS Lewis when he writes about the problems of his time -- the cowardly pacifism, the desire to do what's fashionable over what's right, and you'll see a picture of the past that shows the besetting sins of our own time right there for all to see. Even our existence in an Elysian time is comparable to "the period before 1914". We feel small now. We'll find strength as we go along. England is still populated by hobbits and ents, always has been, always will be. America is still populated by sleeping giants. I don't doubt that we have a chance, which is no more and no less than our forebears had. Our heroes are disguised by their faults. Churchill was seen as a warmongering glory-hound (and were his critics really wrong?) and FDR was seen as a gaudy, self-aggrandizing socialite (were his critics wrong either?) There is reason to fear, as always, but there is reason to hope, as always. We must act with resolve, and in concert -- shoulder-to-shoulder -- with those many allies (real allies, not racial vassals) who will show themselves more and more as the stakes become clear and the false hopes of anonymity or that things will right themselves without firm action by good people, fall away. We won then. We can win now. But it's going to take some work.
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@Captain McDog I'm not entirely certain of that. I think that enough people have the right education -- that skin color is irrelevant -- from a variety of sources. Both the color-blind educational system of the 1980s, and the Christian teachings that hold "there is neither Jew nor Greek, man nor woman, but all are one in Christ" have formed enough minds that we will be able to focus in on the fact that racial distinctions of any sort are evil. Racialists will be defeated, because for the racialists of the Left to win against the racialists of the Right, they inevitably attack racialism itself. "If you [racialist Leftists] are right then they [the racialist Rightists] are right; if they're wrong then you're wrong" is the reasoning that all decent people will use to line up against racialists of all kinds.
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Do not despair that this is the age we find ourselves in, that the forces arrayed against us are so daunting. Instead, feel pride that this generation has found its battle, its calling, its opportunity to protect the cause of FREEDOM that generations of sacrifice have preserved for us, and that our exertions can preserve for our own descendants.
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