By Capt. Tom Burbage, USN ret, USNA ’69
President, The Calvert Task Group

A wise man once said, “Don’t schedule a meeting without an ask”. Some Asks are tougher than others. Politically, some are easy, some are tough, some are impossible.

“The Spectrum” was once a medical term describing Autism. Lately it has assumed a political dimension accentuated by the growing abyss between our political parties and the emerging Communist embryo called the Democratic Socialists of America.

Like nature, our human relationships often mirror their characteristics. “Nature Abhors a Vacuum” is a tried and true “Law of Nature”.

By all accounts we have created a crack in the Constitutional Republic vessel we call America and the poisonous gas of Socialism and its second order derivative of Communism are expanding into that cavity.

Consider the state of our union today.

Our traditional incredible American ability to pull our nation “back from the brink of the dark abyss” has always preserved the prescient wisdom of our Founding fathers and our heavy anchor chains of Family, Faith, Patriotism and Freedom.

Over time, all anchor chains rust and the adage that we are only as strong as the weakest link in the chain is a life lesson. It is clear that some of our links have clearly rusted through. 

The abyss we have opened to allow the pervasive new gas to enter is tied to the new Political Spectrum. It is not unlike its Autism forerunner.

Step back and look at our political inhuman inability to align even marginally for the best interests of the American ideals. In the past Americans would have dismissed the noxious gas as nothing more than another human biological discomfort that would soon be passed.

Where we are as a nation on the new American Spectrum can no longer be dismissed as an uncomfortable bloat in our gut.

America must wake up and realize that our national leadership challenge is, in stark reality, standing on the edge of that very dark abyss. It may not happen in our remaining lifetime but it will definitely impact the lives of our children, grandchildren and those that come behind.

So, is our nation and the American ideals worth fighting and dying for?

Ask the greatest generation that gave all to protect it. Ask the current generation that also fought to preserve our freedoms. For some reason, those legacies now seem meaningless in this current national debate.

Do not ask the “next generation invasion group” that wasn’t born and raised here, wasn’t assimilated into the American culture and did not invest blood or treasure in our DNA to improve our lot in life to transform us to a better place.

Recognize that this new faction is only the initial “Boots on the Ground” element of a much more insidious cancerous invasion seeking to metastasize in our next generation.

Our greatest national risk is the rapidly changing voter tapestry. It is a continual motion driven by time.

The greatest generation and their patriotic offspring are saluting and exiting.

Those that remain are impacted by the widespread graft with our taxpayer money and the very clear fraud in our most precious asset, our voting rights. The combination has seriously eroded the energy of the value of the Vote.

The next generation, heavily affected by “influencers” coupled with the atrophy of our public-school systems are taking over with heavily distorted images Utopia.

Rise up and recognize that the very noxious gasses entering our ever-widening abyss must be challenged.

Here is my simple Ask: Wake Up America

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Mr. Burbage is a Naval Academy graduate, former Navy Test pilot and industry leader. He is working with a group of like minded individuals concerned with the ongoing movement to fundamentally change the focus of our military and specifically our Service Academies.

First published on Armed Forces Press