The following is a review by Michael Borich of my pamphlet Heartland Common Sense.
Author of the 2017 thoughtful treatise, The Moral Case for American Freedom, Martin Capages’ new book continues his introspective analysis of how and why America has strayed so far from its foundational principles and Judeo-Christian values. He celebrates common sense and critical thinking in the same way Thomas Paine did and Alexis de Tocqueville and Martin Luther King and today Victor Davis Hansen; the writing in Heartland Common Sense is clear and incisive.
Touching primarily on key topics where common sense has gone off the rails – Climate Change, Renewable Energies (an especially trenchant section on Electric Cars), COVID, Threat of China and America’s Internal Enemies – Capages makes a persuasive case for the vast, increasingly frustrated conservative, hard-working, middle-class, religious population of America, the symbolic Heartland, to become pro-active in reclaiming what the country has been gradually losing (perhaps surrendering) to Progressive Socialists ignorant of Marxism’s legacy.
America’s strength has been its common sense culture, based on six key values: Individual Freedom, Self-Reliance, Equality of Opportunity, Competition, The American Dream and Hard Work. These ideals have been the magnet to draw nationalities from all over the world to create the greatest nation in the history of earth. But our freedoms and open society have led to our current problems because we have failed to recognize our enemies: a propagandistic press; corrupt politicians bought by corporate multi-nationals with no loyalty to America (think NAFTA, the WTO and WHO); our educational institutions which have been infiltrated by arm-chair Marxists (think Critical Race Theory).
A recurring theme is America’s acquiescence to China – economically, politically, now militarily – and how China has infiltrated universities, stolen technology, attacked America twice, first through its COVID-19 bio-weapon and second through its attack on our 2020 election, both cyber-hacking and funneling money clandestinely in numerous ways. China is the premier threat to American and the World. The current administration and the bureaucratic deep state have not and will not mount an adequate defense.
The book ends with a challenge for individuals to become involved locally, such as running for the school board; to challenge the status quo; to seek the truth beyond mainstream and social media; to think critically and with common sense. This may be the times that try men and women’s souls; but it is also the time for the American Heartland to revisit the Declaration of Independence: “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [a just society], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”
Heartland Common Sense is available in paperback and eBook at Amazon and Barnes &Noble.