What makes America the superlative nation, superior to even the rest of Western Civilization, hasn’t been lost, at least not truly. Despite the attempt by many to fundamentally transform it, there is a certain vital essence that still pervades American society and culture. We should seek to renew this, for it can only exist with constant renewal, not from some Earthly savior or great government scheme, but by the shared values and ways of the individuals who make up the American people.
More importantly, no one can “restore” what America never truly was, but some with it had been and could be in the future. This “restoration” is more European in spirit, regardless of the superficial American characteristics. Less a restoration than the draping of a skinsuit. One such new organization with plenty of tells that they are supportive of more foreign ways of structuring society is a group called the “American Restoration Project”.
One of the hallmarks of American civilization, and the broader Anglospheric one before that, was the rejection of the “Norman Yoke” and a recognition that the people and their rulers were not only separate and distinct, but in opposition to each other, and that either the government, be it a king or a parliament, must be yoked lest the people themselves become yoked. This is the very nature of the relationship, and not the outcome of a particular leadership class, nor is it fixable by selected a set of leaders to rule over the hoi polloi. Yet, this is the very attitude of this so-called restoration project, and it is a dead give-away when they talk not of leaders running government, but of society itself. This is socialism of the non-Marxist vein that has rotten Europe since America severed itself from the Old World.
But this social democracy mindset is not limited to that, and is quite collectivist. They claim that a “healthy society gives its people more than services. It gives them identity, shared purpose, and the conviction that their community is worth belonging to”. Except whence does society get these things from? Society is but a grouping of individual with individual wills and individual rights that share these things in common. It must come organically from the individual within society, for it can not be provided by some Volonte Generale or other such false god, since “society” created and produces nothing not stemming from the individual people themselves. We are not mere appendages of a “society” that some leadership elite can control and manipulate, as the history of socialism has aptly shown; nor is society “built” by a leadership class either by their own superiority or by channeling the Volonte Generale as if the people had a singular and motive will. When the very meaning of your life must be granted by your ruling overlords via “society”, then you are spiritually nothing more than a slave.
