Revolution Begins In The Home

(I originally posted this 1 year ago on my Wordpress blog)

Today, April 22, 2010, I, John Constitution, signed my personal Declaration of Independence!

I have been a registered Republican ever since I first registered to vote in 1972.  For many years I voted along party lines and was always proud when a Republican was elected over a Democrat.  But for quite a few years now, I have found myself voting for the Republican candidate, not because they represented my beliefs, but because they were the lesser of the two evils.  Have you ever felt that way too?

Once in a long while, I would vote for a third-party candidate who I felt represented my views better, but I always believed that to vote for a third-party was to throw away a vote, or worse, to make it easier for the opposition to win.  Therefore, I saw my occasional third-party vote more as a protest vote than anything meaningful.

So, like so many people of many political persuasions, I usually went to the polls, held my nose, and voted along party lines, knowing full well that my vote made precious little difference as far as the direction of the country was concerned.  Our nation, with both Democrat and Republican majorities, has been tending towards, bigger, more intrusive government for decades.

But, I’m rambling, sorry.

Today, I officially changed my voter registration from the Republican Party to the Constitution Party.  That is what I meant when I said that I signed my personal Declaration of Independence today.

I vow today, never again will I throw my vote away by voting for a candidate that does not represent my views.

I vow today,  never again to believe the lie that a vote for a third-party is a vote for the opposition.

I know, if I’m the only one doing this, then my vote is truly wasted, but at least I will have voted my conscience.  But, what if everyone did it?  What if everyone took the time to learn about those who are running for office, and everyone voted for that candidate who best represented their views rather than voting for the candidate with the proper letter next to their name?

If that happened, then we really would have a revolution in this country!  We would finally break the iron grip of the two-party monopoly, or, duopoly,  that has been threatening our freedom for many years now.

Won’t you join me?  Won’t you declare your independence?  Today?

We Don't Need Another Politician

What America needs now is leaders!

Politicians point to all of the wonderful things they are doing for everyone today, while hiding the fact that they are mortgaging our future and the future of our children and grandchildren.

Leaders take a hard look at the current position of the United States and determine that they are going to do their part to fix her problems, not pass them on for their predecessors.

Politicians want you to believe that they are doing you a favor so that you will elect them to another term.  It doesn't matter teo them what facts they hide, or how radically they color the truth.  From the day of their election, their main focus is the next election cycle, and how they will come out on top.

Leaders are not afraid to tell America the truth.  We truly are in a crisis, and every day that we fail to deal with it, we make it harder to deal with in the future.  For every day we delay, the choices we ultimately make will be more painful, until the day comes when we no longer have a choice.  Leaders do not try to hide these facts, nor do they avoid dealing with them head on.

Politicians make choices for the good of their career as politicians.

Leaders make choices for the good of America and Americans.

Lets kick the politicians out of office in 2012 and elect the leaders that America deserves.

Why "The Final Countdown"?

So, the reason I called this blog "The Final Countdown is because of something that Walter Williams said recently.  Basically, he stated that he believed it may already be too late for America.  He believes it is possible the socialists have already won, that their power is already too well entrenched for conservatives to ever reverse what has become a very troubling trend in America, a trend that is accelerating.

To some extent, I agree with Walter Williams.  Like most conservatives, I believe that our Constitutional Republic, fought and died for by our forefathers, is in grave danger of being overwhelmed by socialist forces, but I don't believe that we have already passed the tipping point beyond which there will be no returning to a constitutional government.

I do believe that time is very short. If we don't manage to gain strong conservative, not Republican, conservative, majorities in both houses and the presidency within two, or at most three, election cycles, it will, in all likelihood, be too late.

But it might be as little as one cycle.  If we do not succeed in 2012, it may indeed be too late, so we can ill afford to spare any effort in brining these things to pass.

When I hear that the government is paying out to individuals and families more that it receives in tax revenues, it scares me to death.  When I hear that there are nearly twice as many government jobs in the U.S. as manufacturing jobs, it scares me to death.  And, when I read that nearly 50% of Americans pay no taxes at all, it scares me to death, as it should scare any conservative who loves the country he or she grew up in, and not the unrecognizable monstrosity it is being transformed into by the current occupant of the White House and his cronies.

I believe that we are at a crossroads in this nation.  We can either sit back and let things continue until the U.S. is indistinguishable from one of the European socialist nations, or, we can do what must be done, quickly

In closing, I would like to quote Ronald Reagan as he talks about what is truly as stake should we fail:

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
    --  Ronald Reagan