The coronavirus has stopped us in our tracks. Who would have believed that in a matter of days, our entire country and the entire world would screech to a halt?

The “Giant” has finally awakened, and he is not happy.

No, I am not talking about left, liberal issues of climate change, sanctuaries and free stuff.

No, I am not talking about fake Republican efforts to reduce the budget deficits or solve immigration.

I am talking about most Americans who finally see what is important, what is nonsense and what needs to happen.

The coronavirus has stopped us in our tracks. Who would have believed that in a matter of days, our entire country and the entire world would screech to a halt?

We see the continuing and ultimate threat of a contagious bio-germ unleashed on all humanity and the resulting cataclysmic costs for life, liberty and economy.

Imagine being able to take out our most advanced aircraft carriers without firing a shot.

In many ways, the genesis of this threat to the “World Order” was the acceptance of Communist China into the World Trade Organization. It was our magnanimous attempt to bring China into the world community to avoid China’s goal for world domination.

It was good intentions gone bad.

We allowed China to get away with outright criminality for decades that resulted in disassembling our manufacturing industry, stealing our intellectual property, forcing technology transfer, import bans and high tariffs against our products, cyber intrusion, and espionage, currency manipulations, outrageous propaganda and more.

Our media appears to be under the direct influence of communist propaganda. The media is silent on China’s continued oppression of Uighurs in camps, imprisonment of Falun Gong members, fight against citizens of Hong Kong, building islands in the South China Sea for military purposes, harvesting organs from prisoners, defending North Korea’s nuclear threats, and on and on.

Oh, yes, and the epicenter of the coronavirus resulted in the first doctors to sound the alarm to be imprisoned and some dying. They failed to alert the world to the crisis. They lied. Incredibly, after worldwide deaths of over 100,000 and climbing, China reopened the Wet Wild Animal Markets of Wuhan in a most reckless, irresponsible act of defiance.

China’s coronavirus is the new “shot heard ’round the world.”

No surprise, In the book by Dr. Michael Pillsbury, “The Hundred-Year Marathon,” he documents the progress and timeline of China’s “Mercantilism Strategy” to dominate the world by non-military means and our total ignorance and incompetence in supporting it at our expense.

By having China as the world’s supplier of goods, it can gain control over the world’s economies. We have enabled this strategy through the surrender of our capitalistic prowess.

Obvious examples include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computer components, communications gear and all types of technology. Threats to withhold vital medicines and medical equipment in a pandemic is tantamount to war or surrender.

We cannot follow a flawed, reckless and very dangerous globalist strategy.

Now, with a cliff before us, all Americans must rethink the direction we are following.

We have had to suffer through the nonsense of identity politics, fears of xenophobia, racism, misogyny, and other vituperating accusations used to spread fear, division and conflict by politicians and the media with parochial agendas.

The media is the electric prod that sustains a charged atmosphere of acrimony, shock and negativity. It is time to stop the self-flagellation, loathing and criticism, ad nauseum.

We do not have to save the world from all ills. We must serve America first for a change.

To do that requires control of our borders and the protection of our sovereignty.

We need to stop actions that disrespect our rule of law. Sanctuary cities and states are intentions gone wrong.

“Made in America” will help ensure the health, safety and welfare of Americans.

We must not be held hostage by anyone and we must be prepared for future pandemics.

When America is strong and prepared, we can then help others.

If we are broken, who can we trust? China? Russia? The EU? Asia? Who?

None of them will fill the void except those totalitarians who have a plan for domination. Communist China has revealed the real dangers of the globalist ideology.

And the threat comes from within as much as from the outside. Ignoring, avoiding or procrastinating from obvious threats is to imperil our way of life.

It means refuting failed models of governance over the proven success of our Constitution, our free-market capitalism and our freedoms.

We must reinforce our values of self-reliance, optimism, creativity and resilience.

We must stop idealizing counterproductive efforts to expand government interference in our lives, reduce individual freedom of choice, seek more entitlements and government dependency, and disrespect the rule of law.

Instead, we must reinforce the original mission of the government to protect us from harm rather than be a source of dependency inside, especially as external forces try to create dependency from outside.

Nothing should stop our pursuit of freedom, faith and happiness.

This is our re-awakening.

Source: https://www.timesonline.com/opinion/20200421/john-shoemaker-americas-wake-up-call