Where Do We Go From Here?

Where is this nation of ours heading? In what direction is it going to ultimately find itself going? Will the noble experiment of our founding fathers continue on the same course or will it deviate from that path and go where it was not intended for it to go?

We've borne witness to an event never before experienced in this country but which was foretold with dire warnings. Warnings that were patently ignored by those it was directed at. Barack Obama is much more interested in remaining in office than in the fiscal solvency of this nation. He is irresponsibly spending funds, with the help of his Democrat allies and bureaucracies that are allied with his ideals and goals. Goals that have seriously hampered the economy of this nation like none has before.

It's quite obvious to many that Obama's aims are to create a large Federal Government which will control practically every aspect of life - the dread of George Orwell's seminal novel 1984. Big Brother and a permanent Democrat majority is only a eye blink away from becoming reality.

Destiny has not always been kind to this nation but in the long scheme of things it has remained basically true to the ideals of those men who framed it's founding documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These were men who placed their faith in Divine Providence and a belief in the contemporary Enlightenment ideas of nature and reason, of progress and the rights of man.

To these ends they they pledged "to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor". I point out the order of this pledge - lives then fortunes and finally their sacred honor. These men were willing to place their own lives on the line above all else to battle tyranny and establish a new paradigm in the world. An idea that quickly spread to France and other nations as revolution spread against the old order of Europe.

Yet even when the American Revolutionary War was brought to it's completion there remained many obstacles that had to be overcome by the North American Colonists as they stumbled in establishing a central government. The Articles of Confederation created a very weak central government with no ability to tax the member states and so it was destined to be replaced because this did not satisfy the so-called Federalists who insisted on a more powerful federal government. Thus was born the assembly that would frame the new Constitution for the United States of America.

Since it's ratification and implementation this country continued to face obstacles, the War of 1812 followed by the War Between the States, The Mexican War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, two World Wars and so on through Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iran and who knows where else.

Generations of young men have gone off to war to fight for a belief that free men must make their own way and elect those who will lead over them instead of being at the whim of tyrants, no matter what name they may give to themselves. Such tyrants will continue to exist as long as people continue to be swayed by promises of a better future they extoll in the hopes of gaining a toehold of authority over them.

Yet, things took a turn away from ethics and personal responsibility when Supreme Court decisions created a world were the label Civil Rights were plastered on things that had absolutely nothing to do with the original concept of the rights of man. Why was this so? What was the reason behind this enormous fraud perpetrated on society?

Simply put it was because lawyers virtually took over and pushed social programs that stressed avoiding error and removing fear and failure from society. Their actions through court decisions solved nothing and only created the chaotic mess that prevails today. Fear and failure cannot be removed from the equation. The events of the past fifty years have shown that the attempt has only lead to the innocent suffering even more and the guilty not being punished at all.

A pendulum swings from one side to another in a mathematically calculated period. The pendulum of common sense is long overdue swinging back to the side of reason and sanity. To put it succinctly the law needs to be removed from the hands of politicians & lawyers and placed back into the hands of the people; and error must not be made on the side of caution but on the side of survival.

Radical? Maybe. Conservative? Some would think so. Does it lead to survival? Only the passage of time will tell but those who are faced with a crisis of any kind must take radical measure to insure survival. This is a solution that may not be satisfactory to everyone but it is a solution and so far there are no other viable ones on the table. Where do we go from here? There are only two roads - one leads to survival - the other leads to destruction. History has shown that large governments invariably lead to destruction.

We the People...

The Constitution of the United States of America begins with the words, "We, the people..." It does not begin with "We, the Democrats", "We, the Republicans", "We, the Congress...", "We the analysts", "We, the lobbyists', or "We, the Special interests." The document is very specific that it is "We, the people" who are agreeing to this covenant.

In our republic that voice of the people is meant to be represented by delegates to Congress called Senators and Representatives. At one time Senators were elected by State Legislatures and thus represented the states. Representatives were elected by the people and represented districts that were supposed to be equally and reasonably divided by population.

Since then Senators have been elected by popular vote in accordance with the 17th amendment passed in 1913, thanks in large part to the muckraking editor William Randolph Hearst among others. This began a slow and steady erosion of the original intent of the framers of the Constitution that have culminated in the crisis we face today.

This brief article is not the place to delve into historical details about the ensuing events that occurred during the 20th century. There are sufficient comprehensive histories that can be consulted that have not been tainted by revisionists and de-constructionists. Suffice it to say that the liberal Democratic experiment that began with Franklin Roosevelt furthered by Lyndon Johnson added to by William Clinton and now being forcibly pushed by Barack Obama has brought this country to the verge of financial collapse and economic catastrophe.

Thankfully, the mid term election of 2010 served as a clarion call from the electorate that the people had endured enough and it was time to call a halt to the proceedings that were going on in Washington City. Even so there are those who still cling to their assumed prerogatives and refuse to further fiscal responsibility and sanity into the federal government. They have become accustomed to dipping into the public till to bribe the electorate into returning them to office ad nauseum.

Self termed Tea Party members of the House of Representatives have inserted into the mix a new agenda - a mandate from "We the People" to hold the line against abusive spending, restrictive regulations and the outright attack on the business community and the so-called "wealthy" all in the name of so-called "fairness". Fairness in the terminology of the current Democratic elites is nothing more than robbing from the productive rich to give to the non productive parasites who have become extremely comfortable living off the government dole.

In many ways those of my generation have seen a geometric rise in technology while there has been an almost equal decline in moral values and beclouding of what is right and what is wrong. No longer is there the black and white of certainty. Instead we have the uncertainty and conflict of various shades of gray that only serve to confuse, allowing the guilty to go free and the innocent to be severely punished, even murdered.

There are those who seek to re-define, re-interpret and deconstruct the long standing principles, ideas and ideals that once held sway in our nation. We have become besieged not with rational thought but with rationalities, false philosophies and downright Sophistries by people who's only thought is personal gain at the expense of society.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Washington City and the once hallowed halls of Congress that are now populated with selfish individuals who truly do not concern themselves with the fate and well being of this nation.

Yet, there remain pockets of moral virtue and adherence to the values of the past. They will eventually 'move the mountain' that faces us all and in time restore our government by removing those who's only interest is in themselves and their own personal survival, often at the expense of the well being of this nation. They have received a few pinpricks that have temporarily stymied them. Those pinpricks must be increased to achieve the final goal. The ballot box is where the voters of this nation can add to those pinpricks.