Oh really now. Shut down the New Deal agencies and their accretions, radically reduce taxes and regulations, cut off the Democrat Nomenklatura and we will bounce right back. Then, with that wind behind us, we can reform the courts and the schools, and build toward a bright future. The road ahead and its obstacles can be met with common sense, sound judgment and noble action. We need not face them with fear or uncertainty. The challenges to not have to have quasi-mystical solutions nor is the proper path that mysterious. The path can be clear if we remain steadfast and resolute–if we cleave toward what is best in ourselves and our traditions we need not stumble and crawl in the dark.

It is a spiritual struggle masked as a political struggle, it is not a true civil war.
It is a crisis of the spirit, sickness of the soul, yet that crisis that can be met and overcome.

It remains to be seen just how powerful a force is behind the Tea Parties. It is too soon to know if this is a broader force, a great sea-change or a momentary and provisional rousing heart and soul of the Republic. But if it is sea-change, the whole progressive project is cast aside and the constant demoralization of our nation ceases, if we can see what decadents we have become and act with strength, faith and hope, and yes, charity too, to reform ourselves, then there is no reason to believe that our best days are not ahead of us.

It took the crucible, carnage and tumult of WW1 to destroy the British Empire. Our modern nation was forged in the great furnace of our Civil War. The shenanigans at Fannie and Freddie, on the Hill and Goldman Sachs are absolutely nothing compared to these great upheavals and conflicts. Our “progressives” will run a the first whack of the cudgel. All it takes is the turning of the national will back to restoration and regeneration, not a salvaging of the New Deal but a reawakening of the American Ideal. As close as the world has come to the abyss these last few year, the rest of the world would heave one big welcoming sigh of relief.

Achieving this restoration will give our young a meaningful task and identity, and an honorable place to stand in our history. It will give the boomers their last chance at redemption.

It can come to pass if we will just allow it.