Speaking to Fox News Digital in a statement about his new book, “The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture’s War on the American Family,” which will be released in May, Dr. Ben Carson spoke about how American families are breaking down as their Christian faith dissipates and our national culture lurches ever further in the wrong direction, calling on Americans to change course before it’s too late.
In his comments to that outlet, former Trump Administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke about the cultural forces at work destroying the family in America, and how Americans need to stand up to and fight back against those evil forces. Particularly, he noted that the collapse in the American family is occurring alongside the collapse in American values and respect for tradition.
He said, commenting to Fox News Digital on what America is doing incorrectly and how that is impacting our national identity negatively, “We’re rapidly losing our identity as a nation. We’re doing illogical things. And we’re moving in the opposite direction of our history.”
Continuing, Dr. Carson argued that people in America are often too busy to really take a good look around and try to discern what is going on and why things always seem to be headed in the wrong direction. He added that he hopes the book serves as a wake-up call to those people. Dr. Carson said, “And I don’t think most people are taking enough time to stop and actually see what’s going on… This book is really a wake-up call.”
Explaining why he thinks identity is so important and how it is impacted by how one is raised, ‘Dr. Carson told Fox News Digital, “Being raised in the appropriate environment gives you your identity.” He continued, “And your identity is that thing upon which your beliefs are based. And if you have a solid identity and a solid belief system, then you’re not so vulnerable to every whim that passes by, making people very susceptible to manipulation.”
Further, explaining how the education system impacts such things, Dr. Carson said, “That happens with virtually every society that turns communist or socialist. You dumb down the population first, and that’s happening in our population. Already you can see the results of how our kids are declining and how we share near the bottom, particularly STEM areas in all the international surveys. And that’s very, very harmful to us as a nation.”
Then, calling on people to wake up to the attempts being made to fundamentally change them and how they live and think, Dr. Carson said, “I want people to take away from this that we, the American people, are not each other’s enemies, and we’re being manipulated by forces that want to fundamentally change us.” Continuing, he explained, “It’s not going to be fixed by the government, it can only be fixed by the involvement of the people. And they have to be willing to stand up for what they believe in.”
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