Obama’s rhetoric and present destructive certainly cannot dictate people’s thoughts and responses, even though they can’t presently stop what he’s doing. The nation will pay dearly. We should not assume that the nation will survive.

About 25 years ago, DH and I were members in a healthy and steadily growing Christian church when 3 church leaders and their wives went came home from a weekend seminar with all the answers and a goal to get rid of the well-loved senior pastor.

Because I had a role in both the music and women’s programs, they sent the associate pastor around to try to program me with regard to supporting their destructive leadership.

I let them say their say, and then told them, “Because you presently have the authority to do what you’ve done, no one can stop you. But do not mistake this for support from the people. You can control who is on staff, but you can’t control people’s hearts and feet.”

Within 18 months, that congregation of over 600 had dwindled down to less than 100, and never recovered. They closed up shop for good a couple of years ago, after struggling for over 2 decades.

There’s a question that is sometimes worth asking on a personal level: “How much are you willing to have it cost you to be right?”

In the present situation, Obama’s answer to that would be, “Everything that has ever been invested in the United States of America.”

This really is happening. I’m very afraid that neither CPAC nor a new Republican resurgence after 10 years of goofing around will not be nearly enough to turn it aside. Our willingness to trust the basic motives and political abilities of our Republican/”conservative” leadership has been too abused too often.

Maybe we’ll just have to take things in our own hands, and then we’ll be facing obama’s civil guard.