Get It Off Your Chest – And then Get to Work!

I’ve not written in a while, as is clear from the date-gap in my posts here.  The daily parade of politicians in front of the news-room cameras and radio mics reveal a disgustingly partisan, hopelessly out-of-touch, and deliberately deceitful group of insiders who will say and do anything to stay in power.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about the left, the right, or the upside down, the double-speak, flip-flopping and pandering is enough to make you pull your hair out.  What in the world are LiberPhiles supposed to do to 1) keep their sanity and 2) make this a better place to live?

I’ve not written because I’ve been frustrated.  Frustrated as mess.  The same things that frustrate you and drive you up one wall and down the other frustrate me and countless other Americans.  We’re tired of the endless lies, and the endless spending.  We’re tired of failing schools, failing government policies, and failing bureaucracy.

When was the last time that you looked at the news (no, that cable news network isn’t really news, get real and find an alternative source) and thought: “Damn! They’ve actually done something right this time!”

I can’t remember the last time it happened for me, and frankly, I’m not really expecting it anytime soon.

But I’ve decided that I’m not going to go out of my mind watching liberty spiral into the abyss of dependency.  And you don’t have to either.  This election is not all that it’s cracked up to be.  The next P.O.T.U.S isn’t going to save the world or destroy it either.  The top-down commands that come from the White House are obviously a big deal – but they’re not all that’s going on.

You and I have to reform from the ground up, below the grass roots, in the soil!  Start in your community and your local government.  Talk to people, and find the patriots and liberty-lovers.  Start looking for ways to advance the cause of liberty and personal responsibility.  Run for local office on a platform of real substance and real values – not a platform of empty promises and painted-on morals.

Alexis de Tocqueville said “America is great because she is good.  If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

America needs good men in power now, more than ever.