by J.B. Shurk, American Thinker:

There are two great battles dominating Western nations today.  The first is political and involves a contest between freedom-minded citizens and an ever-expanding State.  The second is cultural (or perhaps, more accurately, spiritual) and involves a contest between fear-driven dogma and inspiration-driven ideals.  Globalization, or the secular religion dedicated to the concentration of power into the hands of an elite few, runs on the energy of fear.  Liberty movements that abhor the current trend toward a new-world-order framework intent on micromanaging human activity run instead on human ideals.  Of the two battles now raging, the cultural battle is more significant because its capacity for influencing hearts and minds will drive the future political outcome.  In a real sense, we are in a war between what to fear and what to cherish.