Will Cain: We Condemn Ourselves And Our History Through "Cultural Denial" And The "Institutional Canceling" Of America
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FOX News host Will Cain's October 7th opening monologue on history, Western civilization, and the attacks on them:

WILL CAIN, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Good afternoon and live from Texas via New York City, this is "The Will Cain Show," where we begin with a FOX News Alert.

Terror attack thwarted, the FBI arresting suspected ISIS sympathizer in a terror plot, targeting the Mall of America in Minnesota. The 18-year-old suspect, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, had been under investigation for nearly two years. He's been trading messages with a confidential informant before he was arrested yesterday.

That's when he paid $600 to an undercover FBI employee posing as a member of ISIS. He paid that in exchange for an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition. Now, the criminal complaint stating the suspect repeatedly affirmed his intent to kill non-Muslims.

In his text message with the FBI source, he confirmed those details. Now, it's a relief to say the least to have this story in the way it did, but it's also a reminder that we can't let our guard down to threats of any kind. But let this also serve as a reminder that this is not just a threat to lives, but to civilization.

That message was one that Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered earlier today in Greece.

MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Today, we find ourselves at a crossroads, because the next decade and the decisions we make will write the story of the next century. The course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline.

We will either choose to act now or lose the choice to act.

CAIN: Maintaining dominance or a future of servitude and decline, stark, heck of a choice.

And it's a choice that too many have obviously already made, choosing self- hatred.

RUBIO: Over time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world. Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. The word nationalism became a dirty word.

And so we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, we condemned our own history, and in too many places we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process, we opened our borders and outsourced our industry and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.

CAIN: There might be no better example of what he's talking about than the scenes playing out on the streets of France, revolt under the guise of student protests.

These don't look like students. You don't exercise reverence or ask for new textbooks by disrespecting your history, disrespecting your culture, destroying your cities. But it's also part of the same thing we're seeing here at home.

And Rubio is right. Part of the prelude to where we are, as he mentioned, open borders, mass migration, cultural denial, and then destruction. And he's also right to highlight that, in many places in the U.S., the call is coming from inside the house.

We showed you yesterday from the soapbox of Bernie Sanders.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): What we have got to do is move this country as soon as possible to comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship.

CAIN: Illegal immigrants turned citizens. To quote Rubio once again, nationalism has become a dirty word, and so it's condemned. And in the process, we condemn ourselves and our own history.

So where does that lead us? Well, cancel culture, wokeness, but colleges, politicians, the institutional canceling of America.