When something tragic happens in your life, either micro or macro, it is normal to mourn.
Sometimes events leading up to a tragic moment leave you in a state of lethargy, feeling that upcoming events are completely out of your control. This is what happened to me on the lead up to passage of the recent Health Care Reform Act.
- I watched as our government had meetings behind closed doors to consider legislation that will fundamentally change our country.
- Special deals were made to change votes.
- Misinformation was spread about a bill that we knew little to nothing about.
- Misinformation included: ”The bill will decrease our national debt, The bill will decrease our health insurance payments, and There are 33,000,000 U.S. Citizens who do not have health care.”
Then the Bill was passed.
As a dream, I would describe it as finding myself in a professional wrestling ring and being body slammed by a professional wrestler. My breath was knocked out of me and I was left delirious. I was unable to formulate my thoughts. I just tried to figure out how the heck I got there. (Dream Over!)
I now understand it wasn’t just one bill. Not just this one particular bill, although this one bill was bad enough. The real blow was two-fold:
- The realization that, in my life time, our country has been moving away from belief in Liberty, In God We Trust, and From Many One and we have been replacing those with Equality, Sectarianism, and Multiculturalism. The repercussions are too difficult to elaborate on here.
- And the realization that this one bill could be the final nail in what I always believed to be American exceptionalism in an attempt to make sure we are more like France or Holland.
I slept, and people who share my belief’s slept. We didn’t fight for our beliefs, we didn’t explain our beliefs, I’m not sure we even knew exactly what our beliefs were. We were faced with an opponent that knew exactly what their beliefs were and they were not sleeping.
Now, as the country turns sharply and fundamentally toward larger and larger federal government control, even in the face of a constitution that clearly spells out the limited role and authority of the federal government, I see that my beliefs are on the precipice of being extinguished.
I haven’t posted here in some time because I just could not find the words and still can not.
Our founders were wise and created a county with the ability to achieve greatness. It was the wisdom of our founders to give citizens a “mid-term election” and a chance to right the ship.
I don’t have much hope in the upcoming mid-term election because I believe we have gone too far, but voters will be given one last chance to say, “We want to improve America, not fundamentally change America.
The choice, as always, is ours.
CDsailor
