By Douglas V. Gibbs
When my website manager told me that my site was being hit harder than any of the others he oversees, targeted by waves of Russian and Chinese bots, I wasn’t surprised. In fact, my first thought was simple: when you’re over the target, you get the most flak.
And what is the “target” I’m over? It isn’t me. It’s the ideas I champion, ideas that authoritarian systems have always feared.
Christianity proclaims that every human being is created in the image of God, endowed with inherent worth, moral agency, and responsibility. That single truth is incompatible with any system – communist, collectivist, or globalist – that seeks to reduce the individual to a cog in a state-managed machine.
- A Christian worldview insists that natural rights come from God, not government.
- It teaches that virtue is cultivated in families, churches, and communities; not engineered by bureaucrats.
- It affirms that truth exists independent of political power.
- God came before government and is sovereign over government.
For regimes built on centralized control, these ideas are not merely inconvenient, they are subversive.
My call for a virtuous society is not a nostalgic slogan, and simply a reference to Benjamin Franklin’s critical quote, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.” It is a direct challenge to the modern technocratic worldview that believes human behavior can be manipulated, nudged, or coerced into compliance.
Virtue is voluntary. Virtue is internal. Virtue is incompatible with state dependency.
A people who govern themselves morally do not need to be governed heavily politically. That is why collectivist systems historically work to erode virtue: the more fragmented and morally confused a society becomes, the easier it is to control.
The Constitution, properly understood based on original intent, places strict limits on government power. It decentralizes authority, divides it, binds it with chains of enumerated powers, and provides checks and balances to ensure it remains in its cage. It assumes a moral, self-governing people. It rejects the idea that elites, committees, or international bodies should dictate the lives of free citizens.
To globalists, this is intolerable.
A nation anchored in constitutional limits cannot be absorbed into a global administrative order.
A people who understand their natural rights cannot be easily manipulated. A society grounded in faith and virtue cannot be remade into a collectivist utopia where the people become faceless autonomous animals in the field pulling a plow.
And that is why voices like mine draw fire. Not because I am powerful; but because the ideas I defend are.
If you were an authoritarian regime, what would you fear?
- A population that believes their rights come from God.
- A culture that values family, faith, and local community over the State.
- A Constitution that limits centralized power.
- A citizenry that understands history and refuses to repeat its mistakes.
- A movement calling for a Great Awakening bringing people back to virtue, responsibility, and liberty.
These are the pillars of a free society. They are also the natural enemies of communism and globalist ideology.
So when bots swarm my site, I don’t see it as harassment. I see it as confirmation.
The ideas I teach, Christian virtue, constitutional originalism, and the dignity of the individual, are precisely the ideas that topple tyrannies. They always have.
And that is why they are afraid.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
