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Reigniting Our Core Values: A Deep Dive into Modern America's Challenges and Chances

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Are our core values fading into oblivion, or is there a chance to reignite the flame and protect our nation? Let's explore these questions together as we navigate through some complex issues that surround modern America. Jesse Cope, your host, returns to grace another episode of the American Soul podcast, firing up discussions about the pertinence of turning back to God as a nation and why local defense systems need to be fortified. He also takes time to appreciate you; the listeners, subscribers, and sharers of this podcast, extending his gratitude for your continued support.

As the episode unfolds, Jesse draws a compelling comparison between the downfall of the Roman Empire and the current state of our nation, particularly concerning immigration and assimilation. Analyzing an insightful piece by Victor Davis Hansen, Jesse emphasizes the necessity for immigrants to integrate into the core values of their new home without eradicating their cultural heritage. Furthermore, he discusses how shared core values can contribute to unity, even when political differences persist. So, pull up a chair and join Jesse as he shares his reflections, concerns, and hopes for the future of our great nation.

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Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul podcast. Hope you all are doing well, wherever you all are, whatever part of the day you're in. I sure do appreciate you joining me, giving me a little bit of your time. Hopefully it gets you through your day At least part of it, gives you a little encouragement, gives you a little bit of information, helps us all be able to defend our country just a little bit better in some form or fashion. Hopefully it helps our country just a little bit. We're grateful you all are here while I'm thinking about it. For those of you all that have signed up for the newsletter that share the podcast, tell people about it. Thank you all very much. You all are the reason the podcast grows If it grows, which it is so I'm grateful. So thank you.

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Not a lot on the homestead Still have not done a very good job of getting in the garden. Gardening is not, for I know there's a lot of people out there that kind of hobby garden. I don't know, I don't know how you do it. I feel like if I don't get in the garden every day, the weeds have already won and the bunny rabbits and the deer and everything else. It's just a. It's an uphill battle. You have to enjoy it, considering that most of us don't really have to have a garden to survive right now, although, although I again, I do this every once in a while. I would highly recommend, if you've got any space at all where you are to grow something, have some chickens, if you can in the yard, something. I think that's going to become extremely important.

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Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your son, jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for the people that listened to and share this podcast, the time to record it. Be with those families, lord, guide them, bless them, surround them with your angels. Help us, lord, to turn back to you as a nation, to regain that sense of unity that we had even when we had political differences. Help us to get back to the truth, to get back to the core values, the teachings of your Son that made us great as a nation. Be with those who defend us, keep them safe, bring them home safe to their families. God, my words here, father, please, lord, god, my words and your Son's name. We pray amen. So I mentioned this in the last podcast. There's another article out of Epic Times that just it's really phenomenal. And I want to get back to John Adams too and that 1799 proclamation man. There's just so much to do, so hopefully I can piece this together.

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Some of the core things, core themes, that I try and get across in this podcast are that God is the only hope we have as a nation. There's nothing that we can do as a party or individual person, or foreign or domestic policy. God's the only hope we got and we need to be coordinating, particularly in between conservatives in different cities, communities, schools and states, local level, big time, and we need to increase our defense and really, in particular, because our greatest danger is from within now, from leftist citizens in the country, we need to be increasing our police, sheriffs, state guards, state police, our firefighters and coordinating with those other cities and states around us, and that includes today, just because this is the way we have become strengthening and increasing the backing, the lawyers, the people that back up those different defense sectors judicially. I guess is the way I can think of it right now, and Maybe this isn't one of the core themes that I talk about often, but it's certainly one we've talked about frequently and that is there's got to be a sense of core values in the country. I talk about that often, but if we're going to have immigrants coming in, they've got to assimilate to those core values and they can do that it's been done in the past without losing their cultural heritage. We've bought into this lie that if we require immigrants to assimilate into our culture, that somehow they're going to lose their own native culture, and that's never been true historically. It's just another lie that's been used to divide us more, and so we may spend most of the article on this.

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There's an article by Victor Davis Hansen in the Epic Times from the issue from November 1st to the 7th, so the last one last week and we're just going to read through and talk about it a little. The first thing that really struck me this morning when I was I looked at this yesterday late last night getting ready for this and I didn't notice this really. But there's two pictures on this associated with this article and the negative one. I'll do that first is there's a picture of a border fence and there are I didn't even know how many people at the top of it climbing over, and there's a helicopter Border Patrol helicopter flying above them. And there's a scene from a movie that a lot of y'all may or may not have seen, but I'll just show it to you. Alright, I gotta go get my these, okay, than we can roll're going handle that. Edf seperate these things.

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Chris Pratt movie from a few years ago maybe I think it's called something like the Future War or something like that and there's a scene in it it's a sci-fi movie, folks where this last little base of humanity is being overrun by these aliens, and part of that scene is these helicopters trying to prevent the aliens from overrunning the base. And they can't, of course, because the numbers are just too great. And you see, over the next few minutes, the base, this last base of humanity, this last bastion of hope, one part of it after another falls. And this picture with these illegal immigrants, aliens, climbing over the fence and this one lone helicopter trying to stop them ostensibly Just struck me this morning when I was looking at the picture. We're being overrun by criminals and terrorists and people that have no love for our country. Then the other picture at the top of it, a very encouraging picture, a very positive picture, is a large group of US citizens that are newly sworn in at a naturalization ceremony. It's about 600, it says 633 immigrants in Laos, massachusetts, and this is from 2019. These are a group of people that did it the right way, that came in and got their citizenship legally and the smiles and the different ethnicities, different backgrounds you've got Asians that you can see. You've got European background, you've got African, probably background, definitely maybe Caribbean. You've got them from all over the world and they're all waving American flags and they're all smiling and they've done it the right way. So we're going to read through this article. I'll stop every once in a while and talk about a thing.

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Few Romans, in the late decades of their fifth century empire, celebrated their newfound diversity quote unquote diversity of marauding gulfs, austra gulfs, visigoths, huns and vandals. These tribes in mass had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization they overran rather than peacefully integrating into it and perpetuating the empire. Ironically, rome's prior greatness had been due to the extension of citizenship to diverse people throughout Europe, north Africa and Asia. Millions had been assimilated, integrated and intermarried, and often superseded the original Italians of the early Roman Republic. Such fractious diversity led to unity around the idea of Rome. New citizens learned to enjoy the advantages of habeas corpus, sophisticated roads, aqueducts, public architecture and the security offered by the legions. The unity of these diverse peoples fused into a single culture that empowered Rome. In contrast, the later disunity of hundreds of thousands of tribal people flooding into and dividing Rome doomed it.

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So you see the parallels, today for sure, between Rome. One thing that's glaringly missing in this article by Victor Davis Hansen is the acknowledgement that the core culture that's been created here in America today is based on the teachings of Christ. It's completely centered on God and the Bible. Without that, there's no solution that you can talk about that's going to fix anything. But you see the parallels.

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Rome was invaded by all of these Germanic tribes and we are being invaded predominantly by the Epic like Christians, at least originally predominantly over the last 20 years, by Central and South Mexico, mexico, central and South America, mexico. They all come through Mexico, but they're from countries all over the place. They're from countries everywhere. They just happen to come across the border there. But they're not coming here with the intent of integrating and helping strengthen the country. They're coming here with the intent of what can I get out of it. What's in it for me? They're coming here with the intent to take everything they can take to truly rape, pillage and plunder, many of them sending it back to their true country, their motherland or fatherland. They have no intention of assimilating, no desire to assimilate, no desire to intermarry, to integrate into our culture, certainly no desire to follow the founding faith and principles based on the teachings of Christ that set up our country. And we have enablers here, as I'm sure Rome did.

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We have the American Left that has no desire to remain moored to our founding principles based on the teachings of Christ, and so they see this flood of tribes today as the ability to disconnect from our foundation, to destroy those ties with our foundation, and so they take advantage of it and they encourage it, and they have convinced a number of people that do actually care about America that they're somehow cruel when they don't support illegal immigration. They throw the. Well, what about the women and children? What about the Americans that we have a first responsibility to take care of? You can't take care of those in your own house by opening the doors to criminals and terrorists and people that just want to come in and take everything and you can't help them. You have to maintain your home strength first, which ties back in to one of these core themes again, folks, that we need to be doing everything we can to start to coordinate on a regular basis with other cities, schools, communities, churches in particular Church is huge first and foremost, and to increasing our defense in these communities and states and schools, our police, sheriff's office, state guards, everything you can do and the lawyers that support those people, everything you can do to increase that, to defend against the left that has taken over the federal government, until we can get back in control of that.

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To meet the challenges of a multiracial society, the only viable pathway to a stable civilization of racially and ethnically different people is a single shared culture. Some nations can find collective success as a single homogeneous people, like Japan or Switzerland, or equally, but with more difficulty, nations can prosper with heterodox peoples, but only if united by a single inclusive culture, as the American melting pot once attested. But a baleful third option of multicultural society of diverse, unassimilated and often rival tribes historically is a prescription for collective suicide. We are beginning to see just that in America as it sheds the melting pot and adopts the solid bowl of unassimilated and warring tribes. We've talked about this and I'm going to run out of time today. I can already tell, because this article is quite lengthy. But we're not a melting pot anymore, folks. We're the solid bowl analogy, where everybody stays in their own little culture.

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If you don't want to come to America and assimilate into the culture that we have, based on the teachings of Christ, those core values, or if you're already here and you don't want to remain assimilated, you need to leave, and we can do that. There's ways to do that. In fact, there's a perfect example again in the epic times that I just read in Afghanistan, which I've been to and seen what a debacle that is, and yet they're able to do this. They're packing up 1.7 million undocumented foreigners, have been told to leave the country or be deported, and they're serious about it and they're executing it. And we have a precedent here recently, within the last 50, 60 years, with Eisenhower. My brain isn't working as far as dates, right this second, but we've done this before.

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Folks, it doesn't matter if there's 20 million illegals or whatever it is, we can deport them, and if we make it bad enough, a lot of them are going to self-deport and we can do the same thing with individuals who are citizens that choose to despise and destroy our founding principles and try and spread mischief and misery. As we read in the proclamation from John Adams on the last podcast, you don't have a right to be here in America if you are trying to destroy the country, and we can't survive it. It's suicide. Like Mr Hansen said here, this is historically a recipe for suicide. The hyphenation that the left has demanded through education and culture and the demand for open borders, again from the left, serves the political purposes of leftism, socialism, communism, marxism, maoism, fascism, nazism, islam, whatever, whichever one you want to pick, which is ironic because when you go over to those places, when you actually get to that point, right, they allow no diversity. Try being a Christian in Iran or North Korea or China. It doesn't work. It's great article, folks. If you get a chance, highly recommend it. Epic Times, victor Davis Hansen. There's quite a bit more there that we didn't get to. The point is that our immigration. Today we're just destroying ourselves, and that's just one piece of the puzzle.

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