These are troubling times. Families are struggling to keep their houses and to put food on the table. They see their paychecks, if they haven’t already lost them, remaining stagnant or decreasing, all the while costs of living are increasing. School children are going hungry because of new school lunch guidelines mandated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the First Lady. Meanwhile, the Middle East is on fire, hatred for America and her freedoms have reached a fever pitch, and even an American Ambassador has been murdered.
There certainly is reason to be worried. With all of this going on, where can we go for the truth? It seems that we cannot watch the news anymore to get accurate information. The American dream seems to be fading, or at least being fundamentally transformed. We are now facing the real threat of losing our country. The United States of America will be here, but no longer as a Constitutional Republic. Not as the America we know and still want to believe we live in. We seem to be losing our freedoms at a startling pace, and we don’t know where to turn.
It has become almost taboo to talk about our founders or the Constitution, as if it is a “here they go again” moment. Yet those who sacrificed everything did it for one cause: freedom. Almost to the day 225 years ago, on September 17, Benjamin Franklin wrote a speech to the delegates of the Constitutional Convention, delivered on the last day of that convention. He wrote that this government “can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Are we to that point? Are we incapable of governing ourselves and do we require a despot, a tyrant, to rule on our behalf? We again find ourselves in a fight for our country. We are not incapable of ruling ourselves and it is time again to take back our freedom and liberty, and regain control of this government; our government. We must remain the beacon of freedom throughout the world, for there is nowhere else to go.
That is the choice this November. Your vote will choose liberty or it will choose tyranny. We must vote for liberty, in order to preserve, and I argue restore, our freedoms. It is again time to pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Stand with me in voting to restore this country to its true potential, found not in the empty promises of one man, but in the American people. We can and we will restore America and will once again be the light of freedom shining throughout the world. That must be our only task this fall. This is our country. Let’s take it back.
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by mike hibbs
\"...found not in the empty promises of one man...\"
I would change that to \"the empty promises of the National political parties:, and then I would be in near total agreement.
I\'d humbly submit the words of George Washington for consideration here, delivered in his Farewell Address of 17 September 1796. In this message Washington specifically mentions political parties as destructive to Government and Liberty:
\"...It (the spirit of party) serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against the other, forments occassionally riot and insurrection...\"
Our Founders were incredibly intelligent people. It serves an American well to truly read and understand their wishes and sentiments as they are, and not filtered through a modern conservative or liberal political interpretation. I highly recommend an online visit to the Avalon project, or the Library of Congress.
Our image around the world, decimated by nearly a decade of reckless and irresponsible wars and interventions, absolutely requires a calm, cooperative, reassuring tone that only one of our presidential candidates seems interested in providing.
Our economic situation, while to some extent out of our control given the larger world economy, is still perilously close to ruin given numbers such as can be found here: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/26/chart-of-the-day-the-long-decline-of-labor/?dlvrit=60132 - and which are the result of decades of irresponsible economic policy pursued by the most narrow-minded policy-makers in our country\'s history. There are certainly steps that can be taken to continue the positive gains that have been been in the last three years, but we need to insist our lawmakers look beyond stonewalling.
Efforts to create sane, fair policies must be vigorously pursued, and as an electorate we bear the responsibility for holding our policy-makers accountable for refusing to enact forward-looking laws that will strengthen our country and our people, instead of blocking those laws at every turn simply because \"the other guy\" supports them (http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/obama-addresses-naleo-slams-gop-on-immigration.php).
For too long our this great country has been in the grip of policy-makers that care little about the environment, the working class, the poor, and common sense, and have focused almost exclusively on the wealthy and corporations.
The cycle must stop. This election is an excellent opportunity to make that first step.