Reclaiming the American Vision of Freedom and Prosperity

Regardless of our political affiliation, Republican, Democrat, or Independent, most of us would agree America faces serious issues with regard to the economy, healthcare, poverty, morality, education, and the aging population. Further, many of us, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, share a similar vision for our country. It is a vision of America with a strong and sustainable economy in which individuals and families can be secure in their ability to provide for themselves. It is a vision of America based on economic and personal freedoms, allowing individuals to decide what sacrifices they will make, education they will pursue, opportunities and talents they will use, and risks they will assume to succeed. It is a vision of America with the ability and commitment to make us secure from those within and outside our country who would do us great harm. It is a vision of America as a shining model of individual freedom, economic and societal success for the rest of the world. It is a vision of a compassionate America that provides a safety net of basic housing, education, and healthcare. It is a vision of America of our generation passing on not only a better society, economy, and environment to the next generation but also the opportunity for our children and grandchildren to be able to choose how to live out their American dream. Most importantly, it is a vision of American government that fosters, rather than impedes this vision.

There is another vision, that of President Obama and the far left. Theirs is a vision of government taking over more of our economy and lives to provide a “fairer” society. Theirs is a vision of government limiting individual decisions and opportunities and instead providing “equality” of economic outcome, of healthcare, of education, of standard of living. Theirs is a vision of America being just another country, renouncing and even apologizing for the principles of individual and economic freedoms that have made our country great. Theirs is a vision of government abandoning the traditional American virtues and morality and instead espousing broad societal moral tolerance based, not on an absolute standard, but rather on the “enlightened” morality agreed upon by contemporary “intelligent” society. Most importantly it is a vision of American government (tyranny) that imposes this vision on us.

We must recognize the current political upheaval is not simply a debate between the Republican perspective and Democrat perspective within the traditional American economic and political society but rather a well-veiled effort to overthrow our traditional American society. In actuality, it is a struggle between those of us (Republican, Democrat, or Independent) who believe in the goodness and efficacy of traditional American economic principles, individual freedoms, and moral values, and those who would renounce those principles, freedoms, and values and remake America into a European-style social democracy.

Without a doubt, at this time in our country’s history, we find ourselves with significant economic break down and social difficulties. Yet these troubles are not a result of the failure of traditional American free market principles and personal freedoms in a more complex modern world, but instead the result of the erosion and corruption of those principles. Our economic and societal troubles can only be successfully addressed by again embracing the traditional American free market principles, traditional American individual freedoms, and traditional American morality that made our country the greatest of the modern world, the shining light on the hill of liberty, freedom, and prosperity.

Our country has come to a defining moment. We (Republican, Democrat, or Independent), who love freedom and liberty, must recognize the stakes. We must pick sides. We must join the fight. Our children’s and their children’s futures depend on what we do now. Though it may initially strike you as hyperbole, the “Great Generation” fought and died to protect the very liberties and freedom that we risk losing because of a well-organized “progressive” minority and a corrupted political process.

Every individual can make a difference. We must fight those who would denounce and remake traditional America. We must take back the corrupted political system through historic grass roots pressure to force transparency and accountability on the politicians and bureaucrats. Write your congressman and senators (contact info found at http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm); and join and contribute your time, energy, and money as you are able to grass root organizations such as the American’s for Prosperity http://americansforprosperity.org/national-site, American Liberty Alliance http://americanlibertyalliance.com/, and other free market based grass roots organizations.