Recently, President Putin of Russia indicated, more or less, that there’s a new Cold War taking place. Doesn’t it figure? Reagan takes down the Soviet Empire, much to the dismay of righteous socialists everywhere, and now, less than a generation later, we have an opportunistic Russian Czar – ah, er, President – making an alliance with the radical Iranian regime against the interests of the West (read the U.S.) and Israel. There’s always something.

In the last 100 years or so, Western democracies have led the world in industrial, medical and technological innovation. We’ve cured hideous diseases, overwhelmed the global populace with enhanced life styles brought about by chemistry and technology, and now these very improvements are being used as bludgeons against us. We’ve defended the rights of the down-trodden everywhere, not perfectly, but with a kind of innocent optimism, thinking that we’re doing a good and noble thing, and what happens? We’re accused of arrogant exploitation and imperialism. (If you really want to get a good look at Imperialism, take a look at Ahmadinejad’s plans for a nuclear Caliphate.)

Against all odds, Israel, established as a nation state a mere 60 years ago, transforms its arid desert topology into a fecund horticultural and agricultural paradise, defeats its manifold enemies who far outnumber them, creates and maintains the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, and what happens? This tiny U.S.-supported nation is viewed as one of the central cause of global hostilities. The reason: an irrational, pervasive and ancient hatred of Jews by a vast majority of the rest of the world. What are the odds that a place roughly the size of the U.S. State of New Jersey would have such earth-shaking impact? What are the odds that a people group of a few tens of million, who have been the target of innumerable attempts at genocide throughout history, surviving into the nuclear age and being reconstituted as a “cup of trembling” to the whole planet? There’s always something.

Petroleum, the single most prevalent source of energy fueling the Western economy sits underneath a consortium of nations known for their seething mass of anti-Western hatred. Talk about ironic. Our supposed Middle Eastern partner, good old Saudi Arabia, is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year undermining the very fabric of U.S. culture and society, through funding of terrorists, engendering jihadist mentality in the young, and generally performing the most duplicitous fence-straddling of any nation in history. Its purported purpose is peace. The actual goal: preservation and expansion of the anti-democratic Islamic state.

In this country, it is more than a little bizarre that the vituperative, infantile, leftist fanatics that inhabit the blogosphere use the very liberties that they so take for granted to besmirch, denigrate, and disparage the very system (U.S.-style representative democracy) that enables them to freely spew their despicable diatribes (foul language warning) onto an unsuspecting nation. How weird is that?

In the drive for multiculturalism and diversity, this nation (the U.S.) is welcoming into its propaganda machine all sorts of diversity swallowing sources. The end result is that the “multiculti movement” is destroying the very foundation of strength and tolerance that made this country a force for good in the world. It has now become a thought-crime to be unapologetically supportive of the effects this country has had on world history (despite its many missteps and tragedies). It has become a faux pas along the lines of wearing polyester suits, or worse.

Educationally, the globalist agenda of Western public education, the foundational system that has enabled the industrial, medical and technological innovations of the West, is being gutted. Actively rewriting recent history, and shamelessly promoting anti-nationalism and anti-democracy, the leftist, liberal, socialist plan for overtaking the world is alive and well and living in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. If it weren’t so perniciously disastrous, it would be funny.

Now don’t get me wrong. I am all for multicultural tolerance, providing the culture I hold near and dear is not relegated to the so-called “vast right-wing conspiracy” that is treated like a cesspool that must be drained. I am all for a liberal education, providing all the facts are presented as objectively as possible, enabling the student to independently decide where he or she stands, and not be brain-washed into loony, leftist groupthink. And I am all for people in the boundaries of their sovereign nations living in whatever way they feel right and appropriate (within the bounds of instinctive human decency), provided they do not, like Nazi Germany, or the Shari’a Caliphate, insist on forcing other sovereign nations to toe their line.

The bottom line is that as soon as there’s any hint of an effective one-world government, we are all doomed. And that, oddly enough, includes a one-world democratic government. Why? Simply because wherever there is monolithic human power, there is inevitable corruption and eventual exploitation of the weak. Until such time as the Lord sees fit, there will always be something in the way of attaining that kind of global unity, for which we should all be humbly thankful. But beware. A time is fast-approaching, when all these pesky obstacles to world unity will be taken out of the way. When that happens... duck, cover and pray.