Posted by
James Pruitt on Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:35:34 PM
The USA of 1776, of 1865 and of 1945 is all but gone - except for a few glimmers here and there. Too many of us have benefited from the discipline, commitment, and sacrifice of previous generations but have not responded in kind. Instead our society has grown lazy and apathetic. Our time is consumed not with personal improvement or the improvement of our society but with the lowest common denominator that has now become our pop culture.
If we want to survive and to rebuild our great nation along the lines of the Founding Father, then we have to go back to the ancient paths. We have to rediscover the principles and values that made us great. Ad Fonte - back to the source - was the cry of the Reformation and it should now be the cry of the conservative movement. We should go back to the founding documents and the founding philosophies that worked rather than embracing the progressive experimentation that has never worked.
Mr. Obama and anyone who promotes government as the solution to all of our problems is promoting nothing but a false messiah. Their goal is not the liberation of the individual but the enslavement. Let us not go gentle into the darkness but rage against the dying of the light by rekindling the flames of liberty from the spark and fodder of 1776.