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It’s ‘a miracle’ — Glenn discusses his miraculous recovery

February 23, 2015
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Several weeks ago Glenn revealed severe health issues that he’d been struggling with for years. Glenn posted on Facebook last Friday that doctors declared some amazing news — he was given the medical all clear. They all said it was a “miracle” — Glenn reacts to the great news on radio today.

Start listening below, and scroll down for the rush transcript

GLENN: So I want to talk to you a little bit about miracles. And do you actually believe in miracles? I contend that a lot of people don't. On Friday, I went to the doctor, and I witnessed, and so did my doctor and my wife a full-fledged miracle. In fact, the doctor said to me, there is no way to explain what has just happened.

PAT: Medically. Right?

He has no medical explanation for you.

GLENN: He said, I think we helped. He said, but honestly I was lying to you. He said, I was trying to tell you that, you know, hey, you know, things could get better.

Now, what I wrote on Friday on Facebook: Just got back from a doctor's appointment. Great news. One year ago, I had five different autoimmune disorders. Five autoimmune disorders. I wrote, I had Addison's disease along with a buttload of other things. To be honest with you, I did not have Addison's disease. The reason I wrote that is because the doctor said, I thought you were headed for Addison's disease. You had adrenal fatigue and adrenal failure, and I thought you were headed for Addison's. He said, I thought it was a matter of time before you had Addison's.

He stood there, and he looked at -- I got all my blood tests back. And I've been telling Pat for the last four weeks, I've been coming in in the morning, and there are mornings that I feel like I haven't felt in maybe ten years. And I said to Pat, I think I've been healed. I think I've been healed.

My weight gain is because of all of the medicine that they had me on. All of a sudden my body started working, and so all the medicines they had me on were attacking my body. I didn't need all of that medicine.

So I wrote on Friday: Today, I get my test results back. Zero autoimmune. And adrenal glands, full-force. The doctors told me they've never seen this happen before. I promised God that if he would just heal me to any extent of his will, I would pronounce the miracle.

Last summer, when I got my brain back online, I thought that was a miracle, and I pronounced the miracle. Today, I can rightfully say I have been healed. I want to thank the doctors at Carrick and the Carrick Brain Center, but more importantly, the architect of our body, God.

Believe. God is good. I've spent at least the last four years in hell. I would have given up if it weren't for my wife and my faith. Don't give up. Miracles happen. Life gets better. You're needed in the fight.

That's what I wrote on Friday. 123,000 likes. And how many comments? I don't even know. An absurd amount of comments. 13,000 comments.

But what I noticed in the comments were the number of people that said, this isn't possible. Glenn Beck is lying.

Now --

PAT: About which part? About being sick in the first place? That would have had to have been a lie?

GLENN: Yeah, there were some that came out and said, he didn't have Addison's. There's no way he had Addison's. And I corrected them immediately. I was borderline Addison's. I did not have that. I put that in there. I was writing on the way home in the car. Put that in there because I honestly don't understand what Addison's is.

PAT: I don't know what it is.

GLENN: To the fullest extent. And there is no cure for Addison's. However --

PAT: Except from God.

GLENN: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. If God chooses to heal Addison's, he will heal Addison's. If he chooses to heal anything. There were others that said, he didn't have five autoimmune diseases. Those are impossible to get -- I'll show you the blood tests. I'll show you the tests. For the love of Pete. Well, actually I won't show you the tests, but I could back it up.

PAT: This is kind of interesting. Addison's is a disorder that occurs in your body when your body produces insufficient amounts of certain hormones. Your adrenal glands produce too little cortisol, which you had.

GLENN: Yes.

PAT: And often insufficient levels of aldosterone. I don't know if you had that.

GLENN: I don't know.

PAT: But you definitely had the too little cortisol. That was for sure.

GLENN: It's full-fledged adrenal failure. Your adrenal glands completely shut off.

PAT: It sounds exactly like what you had.

GLENN: No. See, I don't know the difference. I know that John F. Kennedy had Addison's. They were afraid when I first came in that I had Addison's. I didn't have Addison's. They said I was borderline Addison's. It's like your skin even changes color and everything else. It's a really nasty, nasty disease. But I would say adrenal failure is a nasty, nasty disease. Adrenal fatigue is a nasty. When your adrenal glands aren't working, it's nasty.

PAT: We should mention because people will probably ask, is the pain completely gone?

GLENN: No.

PAT: So that's kind of weird. But there's still some lingering symptoms from the neuropathy?

GLENN: I don't know.

PAT: Or whatever that was.

GLENN: I don't know what it is.

PAT: You're making it up. It's all in your head.

GLENN: It's all in my head.

PAT: Maybe you should just stop making it up and then the pain would go away.

GLENN: Don't do this, Pat. Pat is only doing this now as you see because a he knows how much I say, I have to be making this up. This is not happening. I'm sitting curled in a ball and I'm saying, it's not happening. I'm fine. I'm totally fine.

[laughter]

No, that hasn't gone away, but everything else has.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: And all I wanted, I wanted to be able to think straight again. And I got that back.

PAT: You're definitely doing that now. More energy. Just more you.

GLENN: Yeah. Then I needed my energy back. If I could get my energy back. Most people don't know, I was taking like two-hour naps between the show. So I would do the radio show -- and people have seen it. At times, I haven't been able to stay awake on the radio show. Even recently, I have not been able to stay awake on the radio show. And it's been really, really difficult. It's almost like having -- what is that?

PAT: Narcolepsy.

GLENN: My gosh. I don't know how people do it with narcolepsy. I worked way guy with narcolepsy. Have you ever known anybody with it? Besides you? You are close to it.

PAT: Pretty close.

GLENN: You're pretty close to it.

PAT: I haven't.

GLENN: Oh, it's so nasty. So nasty. I worked with a guy, he was a sales manager. And he had narcolepsy. And we would be in the middle of meetings. Just the two of us talking, then all of a sudden [snoring]. And you didn't know what to do. You would just sit in his office for a while, and then you would quietly get up and walk away. And then he would come back in a few minutes, I'm so sorry. It was so bad. I felt so bad for him.

PAT: That would be a hard. That would be hard.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really hard.

PAT: Although, on the latest -- your latest plane travel, you didn't have the pain you normally do.

GLENN: No.

PAT: It might be getting better in that aspect, yes?

GLENN: Yes, might be getting better. I mean, I just --

PAT: Have you had since you've gotten back from Las Vegas?

GLENN: Yes. But the good thing is, my energy is back, my adrenal glands are back. I mean, full-force. My adrenal glands are back full-force.

PAT: And producing the cortisol you need and all that stuff?

GLENN: Yeah. All of my autoimmune disorders are gone.

PAT: Wow. Jeez, so great.

GLENN: Five of them, all gone. The -- a lot of the things that I was having problems with, with the food, a lot of that stuff is cleared up. Still can't have bread. Still can't have a lot of things. But --

PAT: Do they think eventually you'll be able to?

GLENN: No. That's it.

PAT: That kind of sucks.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: Again, did you tell them what I told my wife, bread, staff of life? Sound familiar?

GLENN: I didn't tell them that. What they said is some people are different. He said -- I said, oh, come on. And he said, some people just can't handle it. Not everybody, but just some people can't handle it. I think you're one of those guys that can't handle dairy products and wheat.

PAT: So still no dairy?

GLENN: No. I was really pissed. Goat's milk came out bad. I'm like, aw, no, not the goat's milk. Come on. And you know something else? No Brussels sprouts. Come on. Brussels sprouts and goat's milk I can't have. You're killing me, Doc.

PAT: Did you used to eat those together a lot for dessert?

GLENN: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. What are you having? I'm having Brussels sprouts and goat's milk. That's what I'm having. Just kicking back. Watching the football game. Having a bowl of Brussels sprouts and goat's milk, but no more. It sucks.

PAT: Those days don't come back.

GLENN: So yesterday, and it was so amazing, Pat and I were sitting in church yesterday and the whole thing seemed to be on miracles, didn't it?

PAT: It was.

GLENN: It was all on miracles. And partly because our church is fasting. Our ward -- our single church is fasting because we have a couple of people who are really, really sick in our ward. And amazing people. Just amazing people. And so we've been fasting, and I think either coincidentally or it was planned that we would talk about miracles yesterday. And the miracles that sometimes don't come. Sometimes don't happen.

And, you know, we go to church. We have this -- we're really fortunate. We get to go for three hours on Sunday.

PAT: That's a lot of fortune right there.

GLENN: Can't our many blessings on that one. So in hour two, we were -- it's like the Godfather, except not as good, just longer.

So in hour two, we were talking about the blessings that sometimes don't come. And --

PAT: Or at least not in the way you want them to. Not the way you expected. Like healings sometimes don't happen.

GLENN: Right.

PAT: And you lose people. And we had somebody like that in our area of the church, and the person who was relating the story said that after this person died, then all the miracles came, and they've seen a lot of them in their life since. Judge.

GLENN: There's a child that died. The family had been praying for other members of the family for a long time. And maybe the child's point in his life, his mission in life, was to help the family because the family has come together like in a miraculous way that no one thought was possible. Pretty amazing. And remarkable.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: But you could dismiss those miracles, and you could be mad that you didn't get the miracle you wanted.

Other people -- you know, I -- I said to Pat afterwards, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? I mean, even at that moment, the Son of God asked that question. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? He didn't. He just knew that the biggest miracle was the resurrection and the forgiveness of sins, the atonement. That was the miracle. Not to be taken off the cross. Not to be comforted. Not to have the pain taken away. But the real miracle was yet to come. And so here he is, the -- the icon that we all look to saying, why have you abandoned me? How many of us have our faiths tested? How many of us have said that? Maybe we feel God doesn't hear us, God is not responding. We can't hear him. Maybe we start to question our own faith.

How could there be a God? He's letting all this stuff happen. Where is he? I'm good. I've done everything I'm supposed to do. What have I done wrong? Where is he? If he loved me, he'd be here. He'd at least let me hear him. He'd at least show up just to say, hey, everything's going to be okay. I don't hear anything from him. Why? Why have you forsaken me?

Because the biggest miracle of your life is yet to come. It's just not necessarily the miracle you're looking for.

I put up on my Facebook page another post. It was Saturday. I said, I was reading all of the -- the messages, the good and the bad from the posts that I put up on Friday about the miracle in my life. And I said, I was a little dismayed at the number of people that question miracles. Not possible. Isn't that the point of a miracle?

We're questioning the little ones. The earth does not fly into the sun. It makes a revolution around the sun every year. Same revolution. It doesn't spin out of control. The temperature of space, if it changes by one degree, the entire thing collapses. We don't ever question the miracle of life itself. The fact that the sun is providing light and heat, warmth, life, that the temperature of space doesn't change, that the sun is coming up at the right time tomorrow morning. We never question the big miracles that happen every single day. My gosh, if he can do that, why do we question the little ones?

I've said to you before, you're going to see miracles in your lifetime. I believe we'll need part the Red Sea miracles in our lifetime. If we don't expect them, we will never see them. Teach yourself to believe once again in miracles because they're real. I know I've seen it.

The Crisis of Meaning: Searching for truth and purpose

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Anxiety, anger, and chronic dissatisfaction signal a country searching for meaning. Without truth and purpose, politics becomes a dangerous substitute for identity.

We have built a world overflowing with noise, convenience, and endless choice, yet something essential has slipped out of reach. You can sense it in the restless mood of the country, the anxiety among young people who cannot explain why they feel empty, in the angry confusion that dominates our politics.

We have more wealth than any nation in history, but the heart of the culture feels strangely malnourished. Before we can debate debt or elections, we must confront the reality that we created a world of things, but not a world of purpose.

You cannot survive a crisis you refuse to name, and you cannot rebuild a world whose foundations you no longer understand.

What we are living through is not just economic or political dysfunction. It is the vacuum that appears when a civilization mistakes abundance for meaning.

Modern life is stuffed with everything except what the human soul actually needs. We built systems to make life faster, easier, and more efficient — and then wondered why those systems cannot teach our children who they are, why they matter, or what is worth living for.

We tell the next generation to chase success, influence, and wealth, turning childhood into branding. We ask kids what they want to do, not who they want to be. We build a world wired for dopamine rather than dignity, and then we wonder why so many people feel unmoored.

When everything is curated, optimized, and delivered at the push of a button, the question “what is my life for?” gets lost in the static.

The crisis beneath the headlines

It is not just the young who feel this crisis. Every part of our society is straining under the weight of meaninglessness.

Look at the debt cycle — the mathematical fate no civilization has ever escaped once it crosses a threshold that we seem to have already blown by. While ordinary families feel the pressure, our leaders respond with distraction, with denial, or by rewriting the very history that could have warned us.

You cannot survive a crisis you refuse to name, and you cannot rebuild a world whose foundations you no longer understand.

We have entered a cultural moment where the noise is so loud that it drowns out the simplest truths. We are living in a country that no longer knows how to hear itself think.

So people go searching. Some drift toward the false promise of socialism, some toward the empty thrill of rebellion. Some simply check out. When a culture forgets what gives life meaning, it becomes vulnerable to every ideology that offers a quick answer.

The quiet return of meaning

And yet, quietly, something else is happening. Beneath the frustration and cynicism, many Americans are recognizing that meaning does not come from what we own, but from what we honor. It does not rise from success, but from virtue. It does not emerge from noise, but from the small, sacred things that modern life has pushed to the margins — the home, the table, the duty you fulfill, the person you help when no one is watching.

The danger is assuming that this rediscovery happens on its own. It does not.

Reorientation requires intention. It requires rebuilding the habits and virtues that once held us together. It requires telling the truth about our history instead of rewriting it to fit today’s narratives. And it requires acknowledging what has been erased: that meaning is inseparable from God’s presence in a nation’s life.

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Where renewal begins

We have built a world without stillness, and then we wondered why no one can hear the questions that matter. Those questions remain, whether we acknowledge them or not. They do not disappear just because we drown them in entertainment or noise. They wait for us, and the longer we ignore them, the more disoriented we become.

Meaning is still available. It is found in rebuilding the smallest, most human spaces — the places that cannot be digitized, globalized, or automated. The home. The family. The community.

These are the daily virtues that do not trend on social media, but that hold a civilization upright. If we want to repair this country, we begin there, exactly where every durable civilization has always begun: one virtue at a time, one tradition at a time, one generation at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The Bubba Effect erupts as America’s power brokers go rogue

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When institutions betray the public’s trust, the country splits, and the spiral is hard to stop.

Something drastic is happening in American life. Headlines that should leave us stunned barely register anymore. Stories that once would have united the country instead dissolve into silence or shrugs.

It is not apathy exactly. It is something deeper — a growing belief that the people in charge either cannot or will not fix what is broken.

When people feel ignored or betrayed, they will align with anyone who appears willing to fight on their behalf.

I call this response the Bubba effect. It describes what happens when institutions lose so much public trust that “Bubba,” the average American minding his own business, finally throws his hands up and says, “Fine. I will handle it myself.” Not because he wants to, but because the system that was supposed to protect him now feels indifferent, corrupt, or openly hostile.

The Bubba effect is not a political movement. It is a survival instinct.

What triggers the Bubba effect

We are watching the triggers unfold in real time. When members of Congress publicly encourage active duty troops to disregard orders from the commander in chief, that is not a political squabble. When a federal judge quietly rewrites the rules so one branch of government can secretly surveil another, that is not normal. That is how republics fall. Yet these stories glided across the news cycle without urgency, without consequence, without explanation.

When the American people see the leadership class shrug, they conclude — correctly — that no one is steering the ship.

This is how the Bubba effect spreads. It is not just individuals resisting authority. It is sheriffs refusing to enforce new policies, school boards ignoring state mandates, entire communities saying, “We do not believe you anymore.” It becomes institutional, cultural, national.

A country cracking from the inside

This effect can be seen in Dearborn, Michigan. In the rise of fringe voices like Nick Fuentes. In the Epstein scandal, where powerful people could not seem to locate a single accountable adult. These stories are different in content but identical in message: The system protects itself, not you.

When people feel ignored or betrayed, they will align with anyone who appears willing to fight on their behalf. That does not mean they suddenly agree with everything that person says. It means they feel abandoned by the institutions that were supposed to be trustworthy.

The Bubba effect is what fills that vacuum.

The dangers of a faithless system

A republic cannot survive without credibility. Congress cannot oversee intelligence agencies if it refuses to discipline its own members. The military cannot remain apolitical if its chain of command becomes optional. The judiciary cannot defend the Constitution while inventing loopholes that erase the separation of powers.

History shows that once a nation militarizes politics, normalizes constitutional shortcuts, or allows government agencies to operate without scrutiny, it does not return to equilibrium peacefully. Something will give.

The question is what — and when.

The responsibility now belongs to us

In a healthy country, this is where the media steps in. This is where universities, pastors, journalists, and cultural leaders pause the outrage machine and explain what is at stake. But today, too many see themselves not as guardians of the republic, but of ideology. Their first loyalty is to narrative, not truth.

The founders never trusted the press more than the public. They trusted citizens who understood their rights, lived their responsibilities, and demanded accountability. That is the antidote to the Bubba effect — not rage, but citizenship.

How to respond without breaking ourselves

Do not riot. Do not withdraw. Do not cheer on destruction just because you dislike the target. That is how nations lose themselves. Instead, demand transparency. Call your representatives. Insist on consequences. Refuse to normalize constitutional violations simply because “everyone does it.” If you expect nothing, you will get nothing.

Do not hand your voice to the loudest warrior simply because he is swinging a bat at the establishment. You do not beat corruption by joining a different version of it. You beat it by modeling the country you want to preserve: principled, accountable, rooted in truth.

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Every republic reaches a moment when historians will later say, “That was the warning.” We are living in ours. But warnings are gifts if they are recognized. Institutions bend. People fail. The Constitution can recover — if enough Americans still know and cherish it.

It does not take a majority. Twenty percent of the country — awake, educated, and courageous — can reset the system. It has happened before. It can happen again.

Wake up. Stand up. Demand integrity — from leaders, from institutions, and from yourself. Because the Bubba effect will not end until Americans reclaim the duty that has always belonged to them: preserving the republic for the next generation.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Grim warning: Bad-faith Israel critics duck REAL questions

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Bad-faith attacks on Israel and AIPAC warp every debate. Real answers emerge only when people set aside scripts and ask what serves America’s long-term interests.

The search for truth has always required something very much in short supply these days: honesty. Not performative questions, not scripted outrage, not whatever happens to be trending on TikTok, but real curiosity.

Some issues, often focused on foreign aid, AIPAC, or Israel, have become hotbeds of debate and disagreement. Before we jump into those debates, however, we must return to a simpler, more important issue: honest questioning. Without it, nothing in these debates matters.

Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

The phrase “just asking questions” has re-entered the zeitgeist, and that’s fine. We should always question power. But too many of those questions feel preloaded with someone else’s answer. If the goal is truth, then the questions should come from a sincere desire to understand, not from a hunt for a villain.

Honest desire for truth is the only foundation that can support a real conversation about these issues.

Truth-seeking is real work

Right now, plenty of people are not seeking the truth at all. They are repeating something they heard from a politician on cable news or from a stranger on TikTok who has never opened a history book. That is not a search for answers. That is simply outsourcing your own thought.

If you want the truth, you need to work for it. You cannot treat the world like a Marvel movie where the good guy appears in a cape and the villain hisses on command. Real life does not give you a neat script with the moral wrapped up in two hours.

But that is how people are approaching politics now. They want the oppressed and the oppressor, the heroic underdog and the cartoon villain. They embrace this fantastical framing because it is easier than wrestling with reality.

This framing took root in the 1960s when the left rebuilt its worldview around colonizers and the colonized. Overnight, Zionism was recast as imperialism. Suddenly, every conflict had to fit the same script. Today’s young activists are just recycling the same narrative with updated graphics. Everything becomes a morality play. No nuance, no context, just the comforting clarity of heroes and villains.

Bad-faith questions

This same mindset is fueling the sudden obsession with Israel, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in particular. You hear it from members of Congress and activists alike: AIPAC pulls the strings, AIPAC controls the government, AIPAC should register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The questions are dramatic, but are they being asked in good faith?

FARA is clear. The standard is whether an individual or group acts under the direction or control of a foreign government. AIPAC simply does not qualify.

Here is a detail conveniently left out of these arguments: Dozens of domestic organizations — Armenian, Cuban, Irish, Turkish — lobby Congress on behalf of other countries. None of them registers under FARA because — like AIPAC — they are independent, domestic organizations.

If someone has a sincere problem with the structure of foreign lobbying, fair enough. Let us have that conversation. But singling out AIPAC alone is not a search for truth. It is bias dressed up as bravery.

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If someone wants to question foreign aid to Israel, fine. Let’s have that debate. But let’s ask the right questions. The issue is not the size of the package but whether the aid advances our interests. What does the United States gain? Does the investment strengthen our position in the region? How does it compare to what we give other nations? And do we examine those countries with the same intensity?

The real target

These questions reflect good-faith scrutiny. But narrowing the entire argument to one country or one dollar amount misses the larger problem. If someone objects to the way America handles foreign aid, the target is not Israel. The target is the system itself — an entrenched bureaucracy, poor transparency, and decades-old commitments that have never been re-examined. Those problems run through programs around the world.

If you want answers, you need to broaden the lens. You have to be willing to put aside the movie script and confront reality. You have to hold yourself to a simple rule: Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

That is the only way this country ever gets clarity on foreign aid, influence, alliances, and our place in the world. Questioning is not just allowed. It is essential. But only if it is honest.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The melting pot fails when we stop agreeing to melt

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Texas now hosts Quran-first academies, Sharia-compliant housing schemes, and rapidly multiplying mosques — all part of a movement building a self-contained society apart from the country around it.

It is time to talk honestly about what is happening inside America’s rapidly growing Muslim communities. In city after city, large pockets of newcomers are choosing to build insulated enclaves rather than enter the broader American culture.

That trend is accelerating, and the longer we ignore it, the harder it becomes to address.

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world.

America has always welcomed people of every faith and people from every corner of the world, but the deal has never changed: You come here and you join the American family. You are free to honor your traditions, keep your faith, but you must embrace the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. You melt into the shared culture that allows all of us to live side by side.

Across the country, this bargain is being rejected by Islamist communities that insist on building a parallel society with its own rules, its own boundaries, and its own vision for how life should be lived.

Texas illustrates the trend. The state now has roughly 330 mosques. At least 48 of them were built in just the last 24 months. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone has around 200 Islamic centers. Houston has another hundred or so. Many of these communities have no interest in blending into American life.

This is not the same as past waves of immigration. Irish, Italian, Korean, Mexican, and every other group arrived with pride in their heritage. Still, they also raised American flags and wanted their children to be part of the country’s future. They became doctors, small-business owners, teachers, and soldiers. They wanted to be Americans.

What we are watching now is not the melting pot. It is isolation by design.

Parallel societies do not end well

More than 300 fundamentalist Islamic schools now operate full-time across the country. Many use Quran-first curricula that require students to spend hours memorizing religious texts before they ever reach math or science. In Dallas, Brighter Horizons Academy enrolls more than 1,700 students and draws federal support while operating on a social model that keeps children culturally isolated.

Then there is the Epic City project in Collin and Hunt counties — 402 acres originally designated only for Muslim buyers, with Sharia-compliant financing and a mega-mosque at the center. After public outcry and state investigations, the developers renamed it “The Meadows,” but a new sign does not erase the original intent. It is not a neighborhood. It is a parallel society.

Americans should not hesitate to say that parallel societies are dangerous. Europe tried this experiment, and the results could not be clearer. In Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, entire neighborhoods now operate under their own cultural rules, some openly hostile to Western norms. When citizens speak up, they are branded bigots for asserting a basic right: the ability to live safely in their own communities.

A crisis of confidence

While this separation widens, another crisis is unfolding at home. A recent Gallup survey shows that about 40% of American women ages 18 to 39 would leave the country permanently if given the chance. Nearly half of a rising generation — daughters, sisters, soon-to-be mothers — no longer believe this nation is worth building a future in.

And who shapes the worldview of young boys? Their mothers. If a mother no longer believes America is home, why would her child grow up ready to defend it?

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world. If we lose confidence in our own national identity at the same time that we allow separatist enclaves to spread unchecked, the outcome is predictable. Europe is already showing us what comes next: cultural fracture, political radicalization, and the slow death of national unity.

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Stand up and tell the truth

America welcomes Muslims. America defends their right to worship freely. A Muslim who loves the Constitution, respects the rule of law, and wants to raise a family in peace is more than welcome in America.

But an Islamist movement that rejects assimilation, builds enclaves governed by its own religious framework, and treats American law as optional is not simply another participant in our melting pot. It is a direct challenge to it. If we refuse to call this problem out out of fear of being called names, we will bear the consequences.

Europe is already feeling those consequences — rising conflict and a political class too paralyzed to admit the obvious. When people feel their culture, safety, and freedoms slipping away, they will follow anyone who promises to defend them. History has shown that over and over again.

Stand up. Speak plainly. Be unafraid. You can practice any faith in this country, but the supremacy of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian moral framework that shaped it is non-negotiable. It is what guarantees your freedom in the first place.

If you come here and honor that foundation, welcome. If you come here to undermine it, you do not belong here.

Wake up to what is unfolding before the consequences arrive. Because when a nation refuses to say what is true, the truth eventually forces its way in — and by then, it is always too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.