Saving Western Civilization from Itself
Posted by Fred Scheibl on January 20, 2019 · 2 Comments
“Rational Centrists”, the term our speaker Ken Abramowitz uses for the third of western society that thinks like “us”, are surrounded by the dark forces of Big Government, Isolationists, Political Islam and the United Nations. Although still a minority, we have improved our market share since the time of Abraham when the ratio was more like 1%.
Describing the threats to Israel as a precursor of threats to the west, he sees many of the same forces at work. Iran (who would like to wipe out the US as well as Israel), the Muslim Brotherhood and other Radical Islamists (Hezbollah, Al Queda/Daesh, etc), Globalist world organizations who reject national sovereignty (UN, EU, NGOs, etc), all figure prominently.
In order to prevail and maintain our way of life, Ken sees three key solutions.
We must maximize economic growth (happiness), protect the people intellectually, culturally and legally (liberty), and protect the people physically (life). Although Ken’s handouts went into some depth in these solution areas, he did not dwell on specifics in his talk.
Asked to grade President Trump on the defense of the west, most in the room gave all “A”s. Ken leans more towards a “B” grade though, as he objects to some specifics of the Trump agenda. While no one would argue that the economy is not booming, he faults the President for not taking on entitlements. While generally supporting the culture, he could do more on resisting aspects of Sharia in the US. On protecting physically, while the border fight is good, Ken believes pulling troops out of Syria is a big mistake. President Trump is a major improvement over his predecessor though, as he gives Obama three “F” grades.
Ken is the Chairman of “Citizens for National Security.” CFNS is a group of academic, scientific, intelligence, counter terrorism and defense experts who were involved in their respective fields decades before the 9/11 attacks on America.
Present at the meeting were County Commissioner Hal Valeche and PBG Councilman Matt Lane.
Great club Great Meeting. This club is a pleasure to belong too. Republicans state wide should follow this model.
I was rather hoping for more of an explanation of why Abramowitz chose the label ‘centrist’ to describe it. That name has often gotten used to describe Democrats.
Conservatives have used the term before as a person who believes in rights and rule of law both.
Some background of why the term centrist was Abramowitz choice would be helpful, and Happy New Year.