
229: Dreher - Family as an Effective Resistance to Totalitarianism
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The Great Sacrifice
Camilla once received a letter from her husband in prison, in which he said that the government was talking about the possibility of setting him free early if he agreed to emigrate with his family to the west. She wrote back to tell him, no, he would be better off staying in prison to fight for what we believe is true. If you fail to do this, thinking that you are making things easier for your kids, it my backfire in a big way. We knew people who gave in for the sake of their children, says patrick. They wanted their children to have a better education, so they compromised their values and entered the communist party. But in the end, they
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