Daria Novak

The Season of Covid Confounds the Secular World

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The Season of Covid Confounds the Secular World

Daria Novak February 7, 2022

Time for a Renewal of Faith and Reason

As Covid deaths pass 800,000 by government accounts I ask this question… Who is stronger, smarter, and more adaptable to the operational environment – President Biden or nature?

The higher power of nature, AKA God, is the clear winner. Perhaps it is time to rethink the path we are on? This one appears a road filled with many known craters and still more unknown sink holes. So, where do we turn to gather the political wisdom of the ages to make the needed changes and the strength to accomplish the task?

This fall I was privileged to take a political theory class from a wonderful, Irish-born Catholic professor at Catholic University while finishing my PhD. His insight and humor opened doors! We covered the early Western philosophers from Plato and Socrates through St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Christ was actually mentioned in our political science class!

Learning about these early Western thinkers gives me great hope for our nation and new insights into the thoughts of our Founding Fathers. What they read, I read. Given the enormity of their undertaking one can see why they turned to God and the philosophers for guidance. Reading political thought “through the ages” in a short period of time was an incredible experience.

In Philadelphia our Founding Fathers, from all walks of life, discussed the best of ideas transcending time and space. They wrapped them up for us as a gift to future generations of Americans in the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights.

No other people in the history of the world have received such a precious and prescient present. What fascinates me about the early Western philosophers is the evolution in their thought. They understood the failings of individual men, offered ways to protect us from ourselves, and believed fully in our journey toward the transcendental. Our nation adopted these lessons at our founding.

We dismiss them too easily. We overlook teaching their thoughts in our government-run schools. And, we fail to absorb the timeless lessons they offer future generations. Our children must become reacquainted with the potential our Founding Fathers saw in each of us.

Despite fear of the passage these men envisioned a time yet to be fully realized. Let’s recapture it and begin the journey anew….

NYC Elections Open to Non-Citizens

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NYC Elections Open to Non-Citizens

Daria Novak February 7, 2022

“Approximately 808,000 “noncitizens” may vote in future New York City elections, if the City Council welcomes them to do so, as early as December. These potential new members of the electorate would include green card holders and those with certain work permits,” according to a November 29, 2021, Daily Caller story by Deroy Murdock.

If we lose our sovereignty, ALL is lost! There are 3 basic tests that are accepted and used since the start of the modern nation-state system in 1648 (Peace of Westphalia) to determine if a location is a nation-state. We’ve lost one principle and are losing the remaining two. A 3-legged stool can’t stand without all its legs intact and neither can the United States of America.

First, there is recognition of a country by an international legal body such as the UN. Check. We are recognized as a legal nation-state.

Second, the country must have a generally understood common culture… religion, language, etc. that unite the citizens as “one people.” WE ARE LOSING THIS ONE.

Third, there is a recognized physical border that differentiates the “us” from the “them.” WE ARE LOSING THIS ONE, TOO!

Many of our fellow citizens arrived from failed or failing states. None of our legal immigrants want us to become what they escaped from in the past. Yet here we are making big mistakes with the aid of countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and others supporting ideas antithetical to everything this country has stood for since 1776.

I am not proposing taking up arms. I am proposing that each of us, as Ronald Reagan said long ago, has a responsibility to ensure that freedom is preserved for the next generation. It may be uncomfortable to talk about with those who are indoctrinated with a false truth, but we must be active or there will be no country left for the next generation to inherit from us. It is no longer enough to simply raise our families and go to work. We need to move from a passive support of our beliefs to one of active participation.

That means getting out the vote and teaching those among us who lack an understanding of how and why our country was formed and the dangers we face today. Make people aware of what is happening inside the classroom, corporate America, the media, and our government.

We the people have the power to reclaim the nation-state our Founding Fathers designed to serve us – a country governed by the people with certain tasks assigned to government that individuals can’t easily handle. We have lost our way and become slaves to the state instead of citizens of the country!

If those of us who remember don’t speak up, those who never knew will be doomed to a dark future.