We are at a crossroads as two dominant Worldviews are presented before us and struggle to control America. "One empowers and protects the individual: one surrenders power to the State. We the People must understand this battle of worldviews if individual liberty is to survive." We as a people have strayed from our responsibility for to long, as Noah Webster said, "If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted..." and sadly today the result is two parties that have their own interests and power as their greatest concern. We the People have ceased being their concern as we have slumbered through this responsibility living our lives and assuming those in governmental positions had our best interest at hart. We need to change that by electing principled, honorable men and women to office and with term limits - they need to come back to the working world and live under the laws and rules they have put on the people. So we have to ask ourselves tough questions, real questions, not argue over this fodder the politicians and their party's throw out via the media because they don't want us to think about the real issues of the day - such as, where are we headed as a country, and as a culture?
In the following I am going to pull parts of a paragraph with its appropriate questions from a book entitled, "The Battle for America's Soul" to set as a premise what I think we should be asking and most importantly, answering individually and as a country. So here goes.
Do you or better stated do We the People, still accept the fundamentals of the Declaration of Independence? Can we stand with our founders and claim that Americans can "assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them?" Do We the People still "hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator (not the Government) with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" Do We the People still believe in God? Do We the People believe a fixed Truth (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights) and a higher moral code (God) that constrains or limits the Government? Or do we believe that the Government is free to do what it wants in the name of serving the "greater good" of society as it sees fit? Does God endow humans with certain unalienable rights as claimed in the Declaration of Independence? Or does the Government grant rights to the people? Is God in fact real making it both rational and necessary to take the "laws of nature and of nature's God" into account in our thoughts and deeds? Or are those right who say God does not exist? And if that is the case then is man left to determine and define "Truth" for himself?
America is the LAST bastion of individual freedom and liberty and as George Soros complains, we are precluding the birth of "the new world order...one world government" - I for one am OK with supplying the birth control to prevent that. So is it our station in life after 230+ years of freedom and liberty to be the generation that oversees the fall of our constitutional republican principals into form of Government that controls and plans everything for the people, ruled by an elite group that hands out rights, healthcare, homes, jobs, etc. at their discretion? I hope not. However, the laws (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Dodd/Frank) and regulations (80,000 pages in the past 3 years) are all in place, the people are in place (current administration) and the time is at hand (people unaware and thus believe it is an us verses them problem) where this vote, this time in history, and these two candidates will make the choices and decisions that take us down one path or the other. Once we make our choice it will affect the U.S. and the world and we can never get it back - so what is it to be - time for each of us to decide and vote accordingly as we are at the precipice of forever changing life in America as we know it.
"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained." George Washington
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