Brian T called "the communists and the media" aligned with them, "enemies of this country."
The American way of life has often been characterized by:
worshiping God on Sunday and spending the day with family, then getting to bed early to be able to work HARD the other six days of the week;
taking advantage of educational opportunities and studying to show one's self approved and capable of benefiting from greater educational opportunities;
aspiring to improve one's standard of living from that of one's parents;
keeping out of trouble and practicing Christian charity, diligence, and thrift;
providing a good quality of life for one's family by taking care of the precious gift of life and by living responsibly and uprightly so that God can justly bless those lives; and
honoring one's parents and ancestors by serving one's country, community, and church, specifically, serving in the armed forces to protect America from the enemies of freedom and those envious of prosperity, who are unable to attain to the liberty and well-being we enjoy in this country, and who want to steal from us the blessings of this life, or, out of jealousy, at least keep us from enjoying the same.
America has had many enemies besides atheistic, militant communism and Is|amist terrorist conquest, but these two have grown in violent force, evolved in nature and operations, and survived as menaces to this day. These component parts fitted together to become those powers:
1) the globalist anti-patriots of their day: the loyalists to the British Empire or to Europe, such as Alexander Hamilton, whose writings during the Revolutionary Period were conciliatory to the Crown, and the Tories, such as U.S. Supreme Court Assoc. Justice Gray in 1898, who derived the majority opinion for Wong Kim Ark from the Common Law and British court decisions and precedents, seemingly leading the wayward, errant Colonists back to the superior justice of Mother England, even though the Shot Heard Around the World was almost 123 years gone by.
2) the ACLU, organized in 1920, not long after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, with much the same agenda, and intending to remake the U.S. by changing her traditions, her Christian heritage, and her Constitution, one clause at a time.
3) the atheists and secularists, whom the pluralists attempted to include in American society by banishing all things Christian from the public square, which in turn excluded many witnessing Christians from that same American society.
4) the Socialist movement, e.g. the IWW union, "the Wobblies," and after WWII, the CPUSA, with many fellow travelers meeting under different banners but with similar goals and principles. Also, the Democratic Socialists, the liberals and the progressives, the left wing and the left overs after conservatives aligned their coalitions, the radicals and revolutionaries who have returned to the fold only because there was no other place for them to go except outside the Beltway, into forsaken flyover territory.
5) the morally deviant and the sexually nonconforming, including the pro-aborts, the homosexual community, and the radical feminazis, enemies of historically proven sexual morés and traditional marriage between a man and a woman until parted by death.
6) the criminal element, including the Chicago Way, banksters such as Goldman Sachs, the Open Borders Lobby, e.g. La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ACORN and the SEIU, CAIR and other Mus|im advocacy groups that together make up "the Mus|im Mafia," the Black Panthers and the New BPP, Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Is|am (as distinguished from Dar al'Is|am, the House of Is|am or Nation of Is|am in a global sense), and the Eric Holder Dept. of InJustice, obstructers of the U.S. Immigration Laws, authors of amnesty for illegal aliens, and initiators of Fast and Furious, which authorized the sale and delivery of about 2500 assault weapons to the Mexican drug cartels, which may fit into this crime syndicate in more ways than we know now.
7) the influence of Is|am, beginning with its attacks upon U.S. ally Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, against the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, against the U.S. in Tehran in 1979, in Beirut in 1983, in New York in 1993, in Riyadh in 1995, in Port Aden, Yemen, in 2000, in New York in 2001, and the coup d'état in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 2008.