It boils down to understanding and Respect for the US Constitution and Bill of rights. Too few people have read these centrally important documents, let alone the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist papers, to understand the role of government . This ignorance leads them to accept government officials increasingly operating outside their Constitutional authority while blatantly ignoring their Constitutional obligations.
I commend Conservatives for their fight to keep current debate within the Constitutional framework. I expect we will lose the fight as we see more and more people choose goodies over Constitutional fidelity and self-discipline. The Founding Fathers predicted it.
We’re following Europe into the abyss. They are quite a bit ahead of us. But it’s the same path. John McCain will walk us down it. Hillary would have us jog. And Obama would have us sprint. The ‘Moderates’ who meet the leftists half way are indeed cause for alarm. Four years of bi-partisanship’ and you’re left with 1/16th of what you started with. John McCain merely represents a slower net loss, but a net loss just the same.
Admirers of the Founding Fathers are absolutely correct to be dismayed and alarmed by the encroaching nanny-state, continued erosion of individual liberties, and leadership that is more passionate about taxpayer funded sports stadiums, bike paths, and well manicured lawns than the proliferation of gangs like MS-13 or Chinese espionage, or public education’s attempts to marginalize the parent and turn out underachievers.
We do have a few good politicians that we need to support. Sessions, Kyl, Pence, Cline, Bachman, Cornyn, and DeMint are a few names we need to start piling sandbags around and defending. They are the few remaining voices of common sense in an increasingly dysfunctional government – and an increasingly dysfunctional society.
