Wake Up, America!

Here’s a little thought exercise. Imagine you’re getting ready to take a walk in a new neighborhood because you were curious about it. But someone comes running up to you, yelling, “Stop! Don’t do it! There are bad things there!”

How would you react? I think most of us would certainly think twice about taking another step.

Well, this is actually happening to us right now. Many people are yelling to us, “Stop! Don’t go down this road!”

Who is trying to warn us? 

They’re Cubans who escaped Fidel Castro. 

They’re Chinese Americans who watched their country sink into the hellhole of communism.

They’re Venezuelans who once lived in the most prosperous nation in South America, only to see Marxism destroy it. 

They’re Europeans and others saying the same thing, “Don’t go down the socialist road, America!”

It happens to me frequently after I speak at an event. Someone will come up to me and tell me how they emigrated to America to escape oppression and enjoy freedom. But now they are increasingly fearful of what they are seeing in America today.

What are they desperately trying to warn us about? What do they see that so many Americans don’t?

Growing censorship and threats to free speech. Attacks on churches, Christianity and threats to religious liberty. Open borders, and the loss of national sovereignty. Massive growth in stifling, big government socialism and threats to liberty. 

We’ve seen it just this week. On Sunday, Senate liberals voted for 87,000 more IRS agents!

Monday, we watched the unthinkable -- government agents raiding the home of a former president on the orders of the current administration. That’s the kind of thing that happens in “Banana Republics,” not in free America.

A recent poll found that 79% of Americans believe there are two standards of justice in America, one for powerful elites and another for the common man – just like in foreign dictatorships. 

Wake up, my friends! The warnings are all around us.

But unlike the Cubans, Chinese and Venezuelans, if we lose our freedoms there’s nowhere else to run.