The below is an excerpt from my book America’s Last Stand: Will You Vote to Save or Destroy America in 2024?
Santa Claus Isn’t Real
Santa Claus isn’t real. There’s no cheery fat guy with rosacea living at the North Pole with Mrs. Claus in some socialist paradise where an army of elves hangs out for eleven months of the year until December rolls around and they joyfully go to work assembling tens of millions of toys to order as kids submit their lists to satellite Santas at their local shopping malls. It’s absurd. But there was a time when I believed all of that to be true.
Like many of you, I can recall the moment I grew up— the moment I realized Santa Claus was a hoax and I had been deceived. I’d just returned from the grocery store with my mother. We pulled into the garage. Rather than heading inside, I went around to the trunk and found myself staring at the presents I’d put on my Christmas wish list. I was hysterical. “You’re Santa Claus!” I shouted at my mother. The moment was inevitable.
The end of the Santa sham coincides with an important developmental stage in all our lives, at least for those of us who were fortunate enough to believe in the blissful fantasy as children. It’s a sad but necessary and important moment; at which point reason, critical thinking, and healthy skepticism supplant blind, selfish, and ignorant naivety. In retrospect the Santa sham—thorough and elaborate as it was—could never hold up to any basic scrutiny. The belief was dependent upon an intense desire to maintain that belief because I wanted to believe it; after all, I benefitted from it. For a time, I didn’t scrutinize it or question it because I wanted it to be true.
But after the benign Santa game comes to an end and the truth becomes evident to the child, neither the child, nor the parents, who participated in the perpetuation of the deception, insist on the continuation of the fantasy. The child cannot deny the truth and the parents anticipate the inevitable conclusion of the game.
But imagine that a grown man or woman continued to insist that Santa Claus was real; that this adult continued to profess that the fantasy was true to other adults; that this individual was so devoted to maintaining a childhood belief that this man or woman could not be convinced otherwise. What would you make of such a person? Would you call them insane? Would you take them seriously?
Yet this is precisely the situation in which tens of millions of Americans of voting age find themselves. Adults, politicians, and doctors all claim with a straight face that men can have babies, that biological males should compete against biological females in athletic competitions, and that one can choose their gender.
The truth itself is under assault in America and countless Americans are inexplicably willing and eager to play along. The very reason, skepticism, and critical thinking employed at a young age to come to terms with the Santa sham—or Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy—are summarily suppressed to affirm countless other shams in adulthood as they relate to politics.
But while the Santa sham is benign, the political shams are cancerous. We are experiencing the disastrous consequences of our immature devotion to maintaining some bizarre, myopic, and false worldview.
There are only two genders. Masks and COVID vaccines don’t prevent the contraction or transmission of the COVID-19 virus. For tens of millions of Americans, there’s very little interest in the origin of the virus, our own involvement in its creation, or outrage regarding the obvious coverup. The same “experts” who repeatedly lied about everything from the efficacy of the vaccines to the non-existent benefits of draconian lockdowns and compulsory masking are still viewed as paragons of virtue. Ditto the so-called climate experts, who have been caught repeatedly lying about climate data, who have never once been right about a single prediction for the past fifty plus years.
Tens of millions of Americans are likewise unshaken by revelations that the media, the intelligence community, and the Democratic Party colluded to falsely accuse Trump of collusion with Putin to steal the 2016 election or to suppress the Biden bribery scandal in 2020 to interfere in that election. These Americans are still glued to their TVs and smart phones to consume and regurgitate the latest lies from the very “journalists” who have been lying about everything for years—and even decades—as it relates to revisionist history.
America is in peril. The only debate is over why, who is responsible, and what must be done. Ignorance is largely responsible for America’s perilous present circumstance. Americans must shed their naive devotion to the perpetuation of the myths and lies of the past, present, and future and grow up.
This book is America’s red pill—the one you choose to swallow if you’re brave enough to confront the unsettling and life-changing truth. But if you prefer to continue living in ignorance and are content to fly off the cliff with your eyes closed and martini in hand, don’t read this book. But I hope you will, because this is the most important book in America.
While the United States is still presently the greatest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind, we are currently experiencing a period of rapid decline. Our economy is contracting, our cities are decaying, our border is being invaded, our military isn’t prepared for war, our enemies plot against us, and the American dollar is worth less each day. Worse, our government is responsible for all of it. The signs of America’s imminent collapse are numerous and un-ignorable. If we don’t change course, our posterity will observe the ruins of America, as we observe the ruins of the Roman Empire. But our demise is not inevitable.
The Founding Fathers and American revolutionaries went to war with Great Britain to give birth to this nation. Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the Union met the Democrats and the Confederacy on the bloody battlefields of Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and countless others to secure our inheritance. The Greatest Generation sacrificed their lives during World War II so that the American experiment could continue. Today, a new generation must rise up to defend freedom and America and ensure that sacred blessing is secured for our own posterity.
Only the truth can guide us towards that destiny. Will you confront it and restore America or will you deny it and condemn America?
Drew Thomas Allen is the author of "America's Last Stand: Will You Vote to Save or Destroy America in 2024." Allen is a widely published columnist, political analyst, and host of ‘The Drew Allen Show’ podcast. He is also a publicist for many of the most recognizable names in conservative politics. You can follow him at drewallen.substack.com