I have since come to realize two things. The first is that there is a huge chunk of the world that, barring a massive awakening and conversion, will never see the light, and that is the chunk that embraces Islam.
The second is hidden in a quote from John Adams in a letter he wrote to his wife: "I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."
What he doesn't state is, what happens to the generation whose parents study "painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain"? The answer--and I say this as a man whose doctorate was in musicology--is that they must either rise up and study politics and war to defend the land from those who see it as weakened by all the painters, poets, musicians, architects, sculptors, weavers, and ceramicists, or they must roll over and allow the barbarians to conquer them.
Globalism, like all idealist enterprises, stumbles because it refuses to accept the obvious condition of humans, as steeped in self-centered sin and wanting for themselves what others have worked for, without cost. America can be the shining city on a hill, and some of the world might say conclude it wants to be like us in some ways, but the rest are like Christ's thief, who only know how to steal, kill, and destroy, and we must guard against them at all times, with borders and with military and LEO who combine the rule of law with the necessities of defense.
That is one outstanding post, FRiend.
Globalism is doomed to failure by God.
And, in our case, America was founded as a Judeo-Christian nation and our Constitution and systems of governance and law established and based on Judeo-Christian principles; and true Americans have fought and will continue fighting to keep it that way.