(OPINION) CBN – Now that Joe Biden has been sworn in as the nation’s 46th president, what may lie ahead for the United States? Will Americans experience greater freedom and prosperity, or might Big Tech help government impose more restrictions that help to create a new totalitarian normal?
It was a rare display of force – one normally seen only in third-world, totalitarian countries. 25,000 National Guard troops in the nation’s capital were on a massive security mission: protecting Joe Biden and those attending his swearing-in ceremony. Yet, this was not a first for an American inaugural.
In 1861, the U.S. Cavalry stationed sharpshooters on rooftops and troops along the inaugural route to protect then unpopular president-elect Abraham Lincoln as his carriage traveled down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Five weeks later, the first shots of the Civil War rang out over Fort Sumter.
Now, 160 years later, some people believe a divided America is on the precipice of a second civil war. But the Senior Editor of The American Conservative, author Rod Dreher, believes the country may be on the brink of what he calls a “Father Kolakovic moment.” In his book, Live Not by Lies Dreher tells of an anti-Nazi priest who taught at Slovakia’s Catholic University during World War II. Father Stjepan Tomislav Kolakovic warned his students about coming persecution.
“He told his students, ‘the good news is the Germans are going to lose this war. The bad news is the communists are going to be ruling this country when the war is over,'” Dreher explained. “‘The first thing they’re going to do is come after the church. We have got to be ready for it.'” READ MORE
