Bet you’re thinking that you know what’s coming here because, by now, you think you know me don’t you?

You don’t.  You only know part of me and that is only revealed in what I have chosen to share through these blurbs that are read by no one.

So I am not going to say what you think about gloom and doom and our country’s conversion to progressivism or socialism or communism.  I am not going to comment about my concerns over our move to despotism or even totalitarianism.  I will not pine away about the old times and how we are becoming a fat and lazy nation that will not be able to hold a medal position for education, economic achievement, military power, or even personal freedom.   And I won’t even comment regarding the sad and most disappointing slide of our national culture.  No, that is not me, not here, and not now at least.

What I would like to suggest is that what could happen here is a conviction to change things.  Our conviction to change things.  What could happen here is that we dedicate ourselves, our lives, and our families to an effort to alter the course of our once-greater nation.  It has been done before, many times, in our rather short but very great history (sorry apologists but you are all dead wrong on that topic) and since I still have great faith that the great American spirit still beats strong if presently subdued in most of us I will not lose faith that it might, it can, be done again.

What does it take to revive that spirit within you?  No one really knows but you. 

Why does it sleep?  Because we let it sleep.  We let it with the quiet afforded by our accepting things that are and things that are not yet but may soon be.  And though we don’t like or agree with many or most of these things we do nothing about it.  Nothing.  Why not?

Make some noise in your heart, shake your soul, revive and awaken your spirit.  It can be done; it needs to be done if we are to change the course of things to come. 

Maybe you think you are too old for it to matter; or maybe you feel that alone your effort will amount to little; or maybe you don’t care about your future.  Maybe you have kids and don’t care about their future.  Can you tell them that?  Or maybe you have kids and do care and you should tell them that.  Or maybe you don’t have kids but care about my kids, or the future of all our kids, or just the future of our country, YOUR country, in general.

Have you done all that you have in life so far just to lead to the future you now see?  Do you really see it?  Do you?  Are you really okay with it or do you just close your eyes and hope it goes away?

I am no one to make a call but I would like to make a call to action- any action, as small or insignificant as it might seem to you.  Just do something good, something right.  But start by waking up and looking around.  Wake up and educate yourself on what is happening.  Make large changes to what you know and small changes to what you do and how you act, get involved in some way to start a move in the right direction. 

And, if you can, try to take a friend or two along. 

I woke up.  I got smart and opened my eyes.  I know that you can do the same and more.  You are an American and this is your country and it is a great and wonderful country, still, easily, the very best in history no matter what some would have you believe. 

Tomorrow, when you arise, ask yourself “what little thing can I do today?”  You might be surprised, after a little while, how far down the right road you have traveled.

Your country needs you.  Are you able to respond?

It could happen here.  It must happen here.