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Thoughts on present day politics....
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   ....or, you get what you vote for.
   I've read a lot of complaining recently about who will most likely win
   the nominations in both parties, how awful the superdelegate setup on
   the Democrat side is, what a travesty the failure to pass the FISA
   reforms was and on and on and on.
   If you sit back and reflect on the events that have occurred in my
   lifetime, there is one constant. We the people have done this to
   ourselves. Oh, you can rant and rave at the politicians all you want
   (and there's plenty there to complain about), but the fact is, we
   elected them.
   There's an old saw that everybody hates Congress but loves their
   representative. It's pretty much true. The thing is, you have no
   control over who Massachusetts elects any more than they do over who
   you elect. So, you can complain about Ted Kennedy until you turn blue,
   but it isn't going to do a bit of good unless you change the thinking
   patterns of the people in Massachusetts.
   In the final analysis, politicians are who they are and behave as they
   do because they know they can and still be elected. The problem isn't
   them. It's us. Most Americans are completely oblivious to what we
   activists in the blogosphere find incredibly outrageous. (A good
   friend, Vietnam vet and proud Marine, was completely unaware of what
   went on in Berkeley until I told him. Even then, he shrugged his
   shoulders and said, "Well, they're idiots, but that's their right.")
   Most Americans are perfectly happy to go on with their lives, driving
   their SUVs, watching their 60 inch plasma TVs and enjoying the good
   live -- blissfully unaware that the life that they love is being
   sucked out from under them and will collapse on them or their children
   some day.
   In some ways Osama bin Laden is right. We Americans are spoiled
   rotten, used to living a life that to others is unattainable luxury
   all the while complaining about what we don't have and what some other
   guy does have. We think that the USA will go on forever and didn't pay
   enough attention in class to realize that the greatest countries in
   the world have disappeared because their citizens lost touch with
   reality, not because they were defeated by an enemy.
   Elections aren't won in the primaries or the general elections.
   They're won in the hallways where you work, in the churches you
   attend, at the events you participate in and the neighbors you talk
   to. They're won by the arguments you present to your friends with the
   facts that you've marshalled that show that the liberal, socialist,
   communist form of government is a betrayal of our founding documents
   and will steal their freedoms. They're won by living a life that
   reflects the principles you claim to stand for.
   They're won by men and women who take freedom seriously and refuse to
   budge an inch on principle. America isn't about compromise, as many
   have tried to argue to convince others to vote for John McCain.
   America is about freedom, and we've lost far too much of it already
   because we have compromised on principle.
   You should vote for John McCain not because you are settling for the
   lesser of two evils but because he most closely represents the
   principles you stand for. And you should continue to fight for those
   principles to be upheld, not just by John McCain, but by every person
   you know and meet.
   For those of you who are considering voting for Hillary or Barrack
   Obama, you should know that you will be voting for the destruction of
   the very freedoms you claim to hold dear. No, your freedom won't be
   destroyed in four years. Rust doesn't destroy iron overnight. But as
   surely as the iron will disappear if rust is not removed, your
   freedoms will disappear if socialism and big government continues in
   America.
   This election, like every election, is about choice. It's about
   choosing to live your life the way you see fit or ceding control of
   those decisions to an all-powerful government. You've already given up
   a great deal. How much more will you forfeit before you stand up and
   fight?
   Tags: [1]election [2]nomination [3]politics [4]freedom [5]socialism

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