Some folks would have you believe that 2016 is the key year for elections, given that is the year when we decide to turn over the helm of this sacred ship to either one who can and will correct its course or simply to another who will maintain the destructive heading set and sailed to by the current captain.
All true of course. But there is an earlier call that you, that we all, must hear and heed if we are to begin the catharsis toward what we once were when we followed the original plan our founders fought and thought so hard to establish and grant to those who would, indeed, follow.
That call is now upon us, all of us, who still care to begin to heal.
I am aware of precious few who stand out and stand up within any political party to speak truth to fallacy and fact to fiction. If it does not serve them personally or politically within their party then they tend to give, at most, vacuous words and lip-like service to what it is that concerns us who still believe in the family; God; Christianity but also the right to worship or not as you please as intended in the Constitution; a cleaned-up culture; American strength at home and abroad; the entrepreneurial spirit; the free marketplace of things and ideas; limited and restrained government; a hand up over a handout; much better and honest education for our children; reduced taxation for people and businesses made possible by greatly reduced government spending; significantly reduced public welfare and support programs made possible by much greater personal motivation; a much less regulated statist structure; American exceptionalism even and especially at the exclusion of other nations who want a free piece of our pie; the elimination of racism where it exists in minimal actuality but also the cessation of perturbations from those who continue to make such fallacious claims so as to produce it in maximal falsity; the elimination of foreign aid to any and all countries who support or refuse to denounce radical Islam and other such terrorist evils; the clearing out of the pernicious liberalism that has infested in cockroach-fashion our institutes of higher learning; laws against activist judiciaries and a reinforcement of making sure that their job is done as originally intended by the law, for the law; the right to arm ourselves as prescribed in the Constitution; term limits; the gradual weakening of the never-ending PC leviathan and a return to fair but common sensibilities; simplification of the tax code; elimination of Obamacare and the proper and effective overhauling of our great medical-care system in a way that makes it even better but cheaper and more available, not free or subsidized by others who must foot the bill; smart counseling for our high school grads so that they pursue a life-career that is right for them and not some overly-expensive and government-subsidized college education that simply produces more personal debt along with some useless degree; the reduction of our huge national debt and the return to proper government accountability for the budget and spending, not in the form of some very convenient continuing resolution; exercise, ownership and personal accountability for our youth, troubled or not; a renewed sense and enhancement of parental responsibility; greatly reduced abortions; and, just to finish this incomplete list off, the Constitution of these United States as initially intended, drafted, and enacted all those years ago.
Socialism is bullshit and does not work. It never has and never will. If you disagree then show me where it has been successful. All that it does is to starve the many in order to feed the few who have done nothing but talk their way or be born into positions of power. Talk about an elitist structure.
Why not create and pursue a system that encourages and rewards those who take risks and work hard for years to achieve a goal, to fulfill a dream, to serve a productive purpose? Why not set up everything within such a system to not inhibit or interfere with such unique and lofty ideals? A system where we are all recognized as being equal and are limited almost exclusively by our own capabilities or ambitions. A system where politicians and government do not rule, but serve- no one rules.
Oh, yeah, we did that already. It’s called free market capitalism; it’s called a representative (not ruling!) republic; it’s called the United States of America.
Or, at least, it used to be.
On November 4th you have the chance to join in our journey back by voting for those who come closest to supporting as many of these very same beliefs and initiatives as possible.
2014 can be the beginning of the end or the end of what we have allowed to begin and grow and mutate for far too long.
Go ahead, stand up and be counted and do all that you can for what you believe in.
Don’t vote or vote incorrectly and you will have no one more to blame than yourself. And we will have lost our country as a result. Believe that.