Classical Liberalism versus Globalist Marxisms and Tribalist Nationalisms

The free society our U. S. Founders secured by God’s blessing with their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” is under withering assault today on the Left and Right. Some critics believe the Founding basis (including its indisputably Protestant distinctive) has outlived its usefulness. Others argue the nation was a botched experiment from the start. Still others simply hate and wish to destroy our common heritage, which ironically provides these ingrates the freedom to criticize it in the first place.

Globalist Marxisms have captured huge swaths of the U. S. Left and the Democratic Party. Usually this is Cultural Marxism, which sees the Founding as inherently oppressive: white supremacy, heteronormativity, self-centered individualism, enslaving patriarchy, greedy capitalism, Western imperialism, and the last residue of Christian culture are entrenched, retrograde oppressions that must be overthrown to pave the way for the revolutionary, just (egalitarian) society ruled by a bureaucratic Leftist elite. The goal, as in all other Culturally Marxist societies, is to harness the state to marginalize and emasculate the family, church, and business. This is how Globalist Marxism destroys the glorious and God-glorifying American Dream. This destruction is unfolding before our eyes.

Tribalist nationalisms, on the other side, have transformed generous sectors of the American Right into a European-style, blood-and-soul conservatism the U. S. Founders were intent to abandon. Their war on economic liberty, their identity-politics collectivism, their centralizing nanny statism, their institution-destroying nihilism, their lust for a Great Leader to enforce their will (all often sprinkled with racism) poison the American Right and the Republican Party. I denote specifically some National Conservatives, the Integralists, the New Right, “Christian” Nationalists, and the Bronze Age Mindset new masculinity (the “Lost Boys of Conservatism”) — all ideas not merely “post-liberal” but also post-Christian in practice.

Two factors unite both globalist Marxisms and tribalist nationalisms, despite fierce, unbridgeable disagreements: (1) a numbing, base ingratitude for the United States of America; and (2) an eagerness to employ the sledgehammer of the state to enforce their “common good” will on society.

CCL will stand for neither, and opposes both equally.

Why has CCL been so vocal on this topic? Because for 23 years we’ve stood unapologetically for liberty: religious, political, and economic, and where liberty is under assault, we’re there to defend it. Few Christian ministries have taken up the battle. Many we might have expected to come to the aid of the free society of Christian culture in its besieged hour have bought into the premises either of the patronizing egalitarian elitists on the Left or the coarse, undereducated, cynical, carnival barkers on the Right.

Honoring and reviving our forefathers’ Christian-shaped and liberty-drenched vision is the objective of CCL’s 2023 symposium. It will be December 2 at a 4-star hotel in the San Francisco Bay area. The day (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) includes a catered gourmet lunch and the chance to renew friendships and converse with likeminded, intelligent, culturally attune Christians. This is a highlight of the year, and if you want to know CCL in an intimate setting, this is the place for you.

There is no charge for registration, but this event is by invitation only. Please contact CCL for an invitation: private Facebook message, email sandlin[at]saber[dot]net, or call or text 831-420-7230.

We were full last year, and despite an expanded venue, we expect the same this year.