Books
Perilous Fight
to Save America’s Families
We risk losing this country and everything it stands for, warns Dr. Ben Carson’s new bestseller.
D BY DAVID A. PATTEN
r. ben carson’s new book, The Perilous Fight, warns that Americans must fight to defend the American
family and the traditional values that promote it — or lose them forever. Among the forces that his book
warns are undermining U.S. families: globalism, neo-Marxism masquerad- ing as socialism, and unionized ideo- logues ensconced at every level of the educational system who appear more interested in indoctrinating young minds than in educating them. The former secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Donald Trump is famous for his gracious, soft-spoken demeanor. Carson can afford to speak softly, however, thanks to an intellect that enabled him to pioneer new brain surgery techniques as the youngest division director in the his- tory of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Just one highlight on his extraordi-
nary resume: the Presidential Medal of Freedom he received from Presi-
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dent George W. Bush in 2008. Despite his genteel reputation,
Carson pulls no punches in the new book he’s co-written with his wife, Candy Carson. The systematic, inten- tional destruction of the American family now underway, he says, could bring a once-great nation to its knees. In an exclusive Newsmax interview,
Carson pulled back the veil on what he describes as a bold globalist campaign to remove the family as the stabilizing pillar of human freedom, replacing it with a radical Marxist agenda.
Newsmax: By many measures, fami- lies have not fared well for several decades now. We have broken fami- lies, drug abuse, depression, and suicide. Why isn’t this getting more attention? Dr. Ben Carson: It’s unpopular to
say anything because then you’re say- ing there is a correct way to do things that’s superior to all other ways. We’ve reached a point where we
don’t want to say anything is better than anything else. You don’t want
to be called a nasty name; you don’t want to get canceled. And yet, studies from both the con-
servative and the liberal study groups show children raised in a traditional two-parent family do better on virtu- ally every level, and by any measure- ment that you can take. We know that, and yet we are still unwilling to say it. So, courage is part of the issue. That’s
one of the things that I emphasize in the book. We’ve got to be courageous. We’ve got to be willing to speak up.
It seems whenever social conserva- tives defend their values, they’re scolded to just keep their beliefs inside the four walls of their church and not to talk about politics. Well, Marxists and leftists in gen-
eral rely on intimidation. You just intimidate people to the point where they will sit in the corner and shut their mouths, and then you can fun- damentally change their society in the way that you want to. That’s been a tactic that they’ve employed
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