As a voter I’ve had my Damascus Road experience, the
scales have fallen from my eyes, and I have reached the point where I would rather throw away my
vote voting
for someone who might actually try to find a different way to operate our
government besides taxing like the Sun King and spending like a drunken
sailor. (By the way, do you know the difference between how a drunken sailor
spends and how the Republicrats spend? The drunken sailor is spending his own money.)
And what might this different way be? How about this for
radical:
let’s return to constitutional government? WOW! what a concept.
How did we arrive at the current situation? James Madison in his speech to the
Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788 said, “There are more instances of the abridgement of
the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in
power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” We didn’t get here all in one jump. First
the camel said, “Can I just stick my nose in your tent to stay warm?” and finally the
generous man found himself out in the cold as the camel settled down for a nice
warm nap, one inch at a time.
The compassion of our people built a safety net for
those who needed help, and the greed of the lazy have turned it into a hammock. America,
the Land
of the Free has turned into America, from each according to their abilities to each
according to their need. The willingness to share our heritage has led
America to welcome more
immigrants each year than the rest of the world combined, and the abuse of our
generosity has turned into a migration invasion that threatens to overwhelm us
and destroy the future of our children. Taxes imposed to meet the
ever-swelling demands of government have turned into a blatant wealth re-distribution
program that makes most pyramid schemes look fair. Sometimes I think our
government looks at a productive citizen as merely a source of residual
income. Or as the ads promise, our leaders lay on the beach of self-importance
and our checks just keep pouring in. We are no longer respected as Citizens.
Instead, we are coveted as consumers, or human capital.
Albert Einstein said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.”
If
we want a different world we have to start at the only place we have the absolute
sovereign ability to make a change, we must start with ourselves.
I quit the Republican Party once it was obvious that the
Republican majority in Congress I had spent my entire adult life working for
was just a change in leadership and not a change in direction. I quit
calling myself a conservative after the second Bush debacle made it obvious
that the conservative movement had been hijacked by the neocons and I realized
that you can’t defend a captured position. You can’t conserve what has
already been lost. I realized that we as a people, we as a
federation of States need to find a different way.
One thing I know, no one person can do this alone. No one group can do
it. To make any headway in the face of the electoral monopoly held by the
party of power the many third party groups are going to have to coalesce into
en effective opposition. We can’t let divisions divide us any more, egos
will have to be suppressed, and we will have to bond together with
everyone dedicated to limited government, personal liberty, and economic
freedom.
None of us can roll this big rock up this steep hill by
ourselves. However, together we can.
Winston Churchill said, "If you will not fight for the right when you
can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will
be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to
fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival.
There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of
victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Looking at the increasing speed with which the Progressive regime
is building its command and control structure, the future is invading the present at an ever
accelerating pace. Their living document has made the Constitution a dead
letter. Their mixed economy has as many people on the dole as on the job.
The Fed’s printing press is burying us, our children, and their grandchildren taking out a mortgage
on lives that haven’t been lived and spending money from taxes on work that
hasn’t been done.
We must unite if these United States are to once again become the
land of the free and the home of the brave instead of the land of the free
lunch and the home of the knave.
Quoting Ben Franklin, "We must hang together, gentlemen...else,
we shall most assuredly hang separately."
Dr. Owens
teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2013 Robert R.
Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr.
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