Changes Are Coming

Perhaps you have heard of the WEF, World Economic Forum which was established in 1971 as a non-profit. It consists of a group of over a 1,000 movers and shakers with designs on changing the world into one they imagine it should be.

These politicians, economists and industrial giants are working together to shape a world we will not recognize, nor want. Their goals were listed in 2016 to include these items, making it clear what their agenda will be striving to put into place as the new way of the world. 1. You will own nothing and be happy. 2. The US won’t be the world’s superpower. 3. You won’t die waiting for an organ donor. 4. You’ll eat less meat. 5. A billion people will be displaced by climate change. 6. You could be preparing to go to Mars. 7. Western values will be tested to their breaking point. 8. Fossil fuels will be eliminated. This is how they see the world being by 2023, less than 7 years from today. And this is not a world you will be asked to join, but forced to.

Since then, they have refined these goals to seem more palatable, but the end game is the same. America will be destroyed or replaced and your individual value, worth and liberties will be erased.

For those who think the COVID-19 pandemic was really a “plandemic,” the WEC was ready for it. Charles Schwab, the founder, wrote a book in June 2020, only 3 months into the event even though we did not, as a people, know what the long-term effects of it would be, where it came from, or how it would change our lives. But Schwab wrote, “By itself, the pandemic may not completely transform the world, but it is likely to accelerate many of the changes that were already taking place before it erupted, which will in turn set in motion other changes. The only certainty: the changes won’t be linear and sharp discontinuities will prevail.”

When you think back to the overhanded way many governors and leaders took a hold of their authority and exercised unreasonable power over you and me, erasing liberties and rights, you will understand that they now know what will be tolerated and what they can get away with. If you make a design for your own life, they certainly will.

The WEF knew the crisis was coming before we did and had already made plans to use it to their advantage. Schwab sees a world where religion is outdated and morality subjective and one where the individual’s rights enshrined in the Constitution become part of the dust bin of history. Without God or America’s influence, they see the need to step in and be the world’s saviors. Humanity itself will take on a new meaning.

The WEF’s way of seeing the world is not a prediction, but a goal to be effortlessly striven for and a top priority. Their goals are a mission statement and a plan of action.

It is up to us whether we will reject their designs on our lives or if we will be determined to remain a free people exercising the liberty and freedom that we say we have. Keep God a part of your life. Declare your devotion to the rights given us in our Constitution regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.

Learn to see everything that what world influencers like Charles Schwab, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and others who have surrendered to the ideas of the WEF, have to say is not in your best interest.

Saving the planet? Defending the Constitution? Fighting for you? Not a chance. There is an effort being made to, as Barack Obama proudly boasted, “fundamentally change America.” But it is more global now and it is the entire world they want to control and govern.

Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortune and sacred honor to creating a better world, unlike anything that had ever been built before in all of mankind's history. It looks like it is time we did the same to preserve it.

The Left's Newest Useful Idiot, David Hogg

The Left has made a rock star of David Hogg, as he hogs the spotlight (I couldn't resist) that he has been thrust into, to gain attention for their anti-America and anti-gun agenda. He wants his opinions to be taken seriously and at the same time calls himself a "kid" who is fed up with gun violence. So, which is it? Are you an adult who has legitimate ideas or are you a spoiled kid being used as a puppet for those who need a new voice for their nonsense?

Does anyone really think he would be given all this press and praise and fame if he were AGAINST gun control, or against the trashing of the Constitution? Of course, he wouldn’t have gained any attention, except as perhaps a nut case and then he’d get summarily dismissed with a little patronizing, "Well, bless his little heart."

David Hogg has had his 15 minutes of fame and we have had enough of him too. Get back in class and out of our faces. Take the time to find out what it takes to be a real American who contributes to society instead of trying to manipulate it with clenched fists and tough-sounding sound bites. Take the time to learn the value of the Constitution and why and how it has shaped the greatest country in the history of the civilized world and get a grip on why it must be defended, not attacked or dismantled.

The Left needs new voices to promote their nonsense because the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, and CNN’s talking heads aren't getting the job done. Liberals love a good crisis and a good act of violence. They stand tall on the bodies of dead children and point attention and blame at the NRA and against guns, the inanimate objects they blame for all the violence. That is easier to do that than to address the troubled souls who commit the violence. Guns don't walk into schools, malls or churches and shoot people. They are merely tools and sometimes they are used in atrocious ways, but then so are knives, baseball bats, and speeding vehicles.

The FBI claims more people are killed every year by hands and feet than by assault-style rifles but hands and feet cannot be a target for liberty-haters, but guns and scary-looking “assault rifles” can be. Knives accounted for 1,604 deaths in 2016 while only 374 were attributed to rifles of all sorts. So where is the cry to ban knives? Logic has nothing to do with anti-gun arguments.

Let's get real about this debate and speak to the good guns actually do. When they are used to stop crimes by average citizens, we get silence from the media. Their reporting is all one-sided and we hear only what advances their agenda. They sling their lies, half-truths and misconceptions knowing if they do it often enough, some of it will stick and be taken as gospel. A lie told enough times will eventually be seen by some of the gullible and truly uninformed, as fact. But the truth remains the truth and lies, no matter how fervently they are believed, will still be lies.

No problem can be addressed effectively without taking into consideration the truth and not just the myths surrounding it. Anti-gun organizations twist facts into falsehoods and parade them as the gospel truth, doing a disservice to all Americans, including those that would benefit from the truth but are so adamant in spreading lies that they cannot see they harm themselves too.

Falsehoods serve no one. Include both sides of the story in the conversation and let the chips fall when they may. Stop demonizing everyone who doesn't believe like you do. If that's all you got to fight back with, you have already lost. That is what adults do and what kids will never understand, not even 17-year-olds like David Hogg. The system they are trying to destroy is what makes this country work and what makes it great.

They, like most people, do not like being lied to but somehow, they think it is their duty and right, of course, for the "greater good," to lie to you and I. Imagine the world we would live in if lying was not possible and everyone had to tell the truth. Since it would ever come to that, we have to sort out the lies for the truths and act accordingly. It is on us to declare our side and to remember that the truth will defend itself in the end. Lies will always lose at some point, at least, we must believe that and stand for the truth when we can. Silence sometimes has the same effect as consent.  

As for the flash-in-the-pan wanna-be celebrities who seek to destroy America for the sake of their utopia-style vision of what they think this country should be, just refuse to give them your attention. Let them fade away into irrelevancy. America is too powerful and important to be destroyed by mindless puppets who parrot what they are told, whether true or not.

Sometimes we just need to let the truth out of its cage, and like a lion, it will defend itself. As for the peddlers of lies, myths and uninformed opinions, well, “Bless their little hearts.”

It's Time To Shore Up, Not Neglect, America's Foundational Values

Our Founding Fathers knew that the decision to pledge their lives, liberty and sacred honor for the opportunity to birth the greatest nation in mankind's history, could cost them their lives. To them it was something worth dying for. Those values which spurred them forward are still the foundation of America over 237 years later.

The question we must ask ourselves today is the same one they asked of themselves two centuries ago: Are we willing to pledge our lives, liberty and sacred honor in defense of the country they gave us? The reality is that unless we switch our mentality from one that simply allows us to enjoy the liberties of America, to one which demands we protect those freedoms, we will surely lose them.

No different than the foundation upon which we build any structure, the soundness of that foundation will determine whether the house built on it continues to stand or falls. The cracks we see in America today are the result of stress, strain, and pressure being exerted upon that foundation. Foreign regimes, inhumane philosophies, and corrupt political practices at home are chipping away at it. Its erosion will inevitably affect the nation and influence its ability to survive.

Foundations are built first, before any actually building of the structure can begin. America's foundation is essentially the fundamentals that have shaped the country from the beginning. One can tell much from looking at a foundation, how large and expansive the building will be, how tall it can go and how well and for how long it will be supported.

In 2008, when then Senator Barack Hussein Obama, proudly proclaimed his intention to change those fundamentals, he was declaring his plan to stop building on the foundation and start dismantling America. Changing the foundation changes the final outcome, what is to be built upon it.

Sadly, too many Americans cheered the prospect. Ignorance of those fundamentals by too many voters secured for him the opportunity to begin the demolition process. It still continues today and too often it is not effectively challenged.

America is not the physical structures that dot the landscape or the soil within its boundaries, but the people themselves. "We the people" still defines America and that places the burden of protecting it squarely upon the shoulders of the people, all people, We must resist those who work tirelessly to chip away at all that is good and replace it with a patchwork of defective ideals.

When we sit idly by and allow fundamental changes to be made to the America God has blessed us with, we indirectly aid in the process. There will always be some in America, a remnant, that still cherishes the values which define us and set us apart from an ever-collapsing world. But the silent rarely make much of a difference in anything, and the silent are ineffective in preserving America as well.

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" still holds true. The ones that demand it are the ones that have their issues addressed. Wishing and hoping doesn't get it done. Wishful thinking is an exercise in futility. Every country in the history of man that eventually fell at the hands of evil designs, had within it a remnant of people who saw the mistakes being made but were made powerless to stop it by their own apathy and/or inaction.

Sometimes corrupt and oppressive regulations or laws made their resistance ineffective and as such should not have been allowed to be implemented in the first place. The confiscation of weapons makes a populace weak and has always preceded the eventual take over of a country by men with evil intentions, whether at that point in their history or one not far into their future.

 Likewise, the erosion of our First Amendment, giving us Freedom of Speech, will limit our ability to confront any corruption while debate is still an effective tool. Remove it and an entire nation of people can be bullied into submission. Civil, honest debate is the first line of defense against evil taking a foothold. Once that is eliminated, defense becomes an uphill battle.

 The job of preserving America lies with those who wish it strongly enough to get their hands dirty, to pitch in and make their voices known, demanding attention be paid to them. America belongs to the ones with the strongest determination to win. There is a battle going on for the soul of America. There will be a winner and there will be a loser. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking.

In almost every sport we have seen a team with the best record going into a game feeling they cannot lose and yet walk off the field two hours later with heads hung in defeat. "It can't happen to us" is not an effective defense and doesn't allow for the implementation of a successful offense. America's survival cannot be left in the hands of an "It can't happen to us" mentality. The history of the world has proved that repeatedly.

A generation grew up knowing the threat Russia imposed upon the United States and it shaped our actions and defined our cautiousness. More recently, Islam brought its Supremacist ideology to our side of the world and in a day we saw landmarks fall and almost 3,000 lives erased. Instead of recognizing that enemy, we embraced their philosophy in the causes of Diversity and Tolerance and became determined to welcome and understand it and we work today within the parameters shaped by that ignorance.

Now we are being assaulted from the inside by an administration eagerly chipping away at the foundation that we have depended upon to exist. More dangerous than that is the mentality that cheerfully placed that leadership in power and continually hides their agenda, defending even their most aggressive attacks upon our liberties. Unless that tide is reversed no one but the disconnected powerful will approve of the result.

President Obama sees his goal of fundamentally changing America more important than the Constitution. He sees it as his duty to go around the Constitutionally empowered law-making body to get his way. It displays his contempt for and a lack of understanding of the very system that put him in power. He will effectively burn the bridge behind him which others will one day seek to cross to be legitimate servants of the people.

He is a game-changer whose first step into politics will forever be a dark day for America, looking back. Whether history will hold him accountable remains to be seen. He certainly hasn't been held accountable for very much in the past four years.

What one doesn't value will eventually leave his/her life. That works the same for countries as it does for personal and business relationships. What we neglect to value and protect will leave, and the door will remain open for other liberties to follow. Once lost, they are rarely given back, a lesson we would do well to never forget. Preventing loss of freedom can be more effective than trying to reinstate it once it has been stripped away.

We cannot solve the massive problems we face using the same people that add to them. The mindset that created many of the challenges we abhor cannot be successful in eliminating them. We need fresh blood. We need fresh ideas. We need a fresh commitment to return to the foundational truths that gave birth to America. We need to replace the politicians in Washington, who call themselves Conservative, that have settled into a lifetime position of ease but do little to advance the cause they were sent to Washington to promote, old men who wake up in the morning closer to the Liberal philosophy than they were when they went to bed.

Becoming governed by the politics of popularity and keeping their jobs, they inch toward the Left to get votes. Compromise is sometimes necessary in politics but it appears that only Republicans submit to compromising. That is little more than betrayal. Soon there will be no telling the parties apart. We don't need another Democratic Party nor do we need to expand upon the existing one by adding members calling themselves Republicans. There must be a clear and distinct difference, obvious to all Americans, between Democrats and Republicans.

The answer is not to form a third party, which would in effect only guarantee future Democratic election wins, but to regain control of the only party that stands between them and total control. Understanding what built America and returning to that foundation is the only hope of saving America from being devoured from the inside out.

Fighting back is the only solution we have to the rising tyranny we see today. For a century there has been the desire by some leaders to move us toward Socialism and they made sure we were creeping in that direction. There exists now, however, politicians not satisfied with watching America creep toward anti-American ideals but who insist we race toward them. It is the new twisted "patriotism" when it is anything but patriotic.

Waiting to win the next election is not a viable option. Watching to see who comes along that can upset the Liberal apple cart is not a definitive strategy. We must live in a state of action, not reaction. We must choose an offensive movement and not simply settle for being on the defensive. Defense is needed to stem off some attacks upon our freedoms but, as in any game, defense doesn't put points on the scoreboard. The desire to win must be greater than just the desire not to lose.  
There are many liberties being assaulted in America today. First and Second Amendments are under attack. Fiscal responsibility is being neglected. Success is being demonized. Religious freedoms are being eroded. All Americans are encouraged to choose one or two freedoms dear to their hearts and get behind efforts to rescue them before the are relegated to the dust bin of history. If the future does indeed belong to the fittest and the strongest, we cannot allow our efforts to come up short.

The time for timidity is past. Apathy is as much an enemy to America's survival as evil agendas are. Failure to resist the destruction of our foundation will result in the collapse of the nation that rests upon it. Cracks need to be repaired and weaknesses shored up. Too much is at stake for us to engage in wishful thinking. Only effective, determined action can guarantee America's survival.

Traveling the Wrong Road at Full Speed

 

Things are changing so rapidly in America these days that it seems to be happening overnight. Actually it has been a slow, gradual process over the past seven or eight decades. We only seem to be moving quickly in the wrong direct because after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, he accelerated the process.

We all know of people who were being destroyed by cancer long before they knew it. America is being eaten alive by a Liberal Progressivism and we only notice it when signs of the disease manifest themselves.

When then-Senator Obama promised we were "five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America", the crowd cheered as if it were a great thing. When the fundamentals of anything are changed, nothing stays the same. The fundamentals of America, the greatest nation God has blessed the planet with, do not need to be changed. Our foundation as a nation needs to be protected from radical change, not eroded by it.

Today we can see a range of policies that we never imagined we'd face. Success has been demonized, profits have been criticized, the job-creating successful have been villainized and their accomplishments penalized.

The very system that created the wonderful example of what a nation could be is attacked at every turn from the inside. The foundation is crumbling and power-grabbing politicians continue to swing sledgehammers at it daily. Sadly, with the Liberal mentality they possess, they do it cheerfully, whistling their way to work like the seven dwarfs.

President Obama was so dead-set on raising taxes on the richest that he didn't care that the added revenues would not run the government for more than a week the way he spends money. That didn't matter. "I won the election" manta playing in his mind meant to him that America gave him a mandate to do whatever he wanted to do and it would approve. Powerful egotism sees little else.

Obama's adding a trillion dollars of debt every year he has been in office costs us $50,000 a second in interest alone. Some working people's salary for a year gone in a single second. Not deterred, he thirsts for more ways to spend like he has a decade-long tax-free holiday.

More revenue means one thing to the federal government, more money to spend. Not to pay toward the debt, but spend. Our financial problem, as we should have learned by now, is a spending problem, not a revenue problem. We can't raise enough cash to cover non-stop increases in spending. It's impossible.

Like the man who knew he was in trouble when his wife ordered a set of house plans that included a three-car garage and a loading dock, America knows there is more spending on the way.

We are headed down the wrong road. The road we choose to travel determines the destination we will eventually arrive at. Commonsense says that if we want to go to New Orleans on vacation and we discover after driving four hours that we are heading north instead of south, only stopping and turning around will get us there. Even then we have to work to recover the time we lost. It takes us longer to get where we want to go but the sooner we make the change, the sooner we arrive where we want to be.

Today's Liberal politicians seem to think that stepping on the gas and moving more rapidly in the wrong direction makes up for the mistake of taking the wrong road. It doesn't.

Congress has been of late the most ineffective Congress in decades but that didn't stop Obama from giving them a raise. In their minds they feel like their vain efforts are being rewarded and rewarded behavior is repeated behavior, so expect more of the same.

Our country began with the knowledge that the government was the responsibility of the people. Today, we have surrendered that power and the people have become the responsibility of the government, to control, regulate, oppress and enslave.

Once given power, the powerful rarely relinquish that power. It must be taken from them. Our votes never have been so important and too many lately have been wasted. It is time for a revolution, not a violent one hopefully, but one of accountability, commonsense, honor, integrity and a return to the values that America was built upon.

Unless that happens we will soon be painfully reminded how traveling the wrong road never gets us where we need to be.

As human beings in control of our destinies, history shows that we forget what made us great and we begin to penalize instead of honoring those things and people. We seek to destroy the successful contributors, the only ones who can solve the very problems those in power create. No problem can be solved with the same mentality that created it, but politicians seldom take responsibility for their short-comings and instead double-down on losing bets.

This current administration has nationalized the healthcare industry, the automobile industry, the housing system, the student loan sector with more to follow. More government jobs have been created in the past four years than private ones, the very ones that fund the insatiable, always eating, federal government.

The people who pay the bills, whose industrial enterprise built this nation, are being stripped of their ability to rescue us. That leads only to continued failures and ultimate collapse.

The logic is simple and sound. If private businesses fails to be productive, operate efficiently and profitably, they goes under. It is a matter of life and death and they take it seriously.

When government fails from poor leadership and bad decisions, it just takes more of our money to keep it afloat. It is a losing proposition, as we saw when Obama sent millions of our tax dollars to a dozen "green" energy companies that later folded, flushing the money down the drain.

I still have hope in America, but unless the hands of the individuals who can pull us out of this economic chaos are untied and individuals are encourage to do what only they do best, without unreasonable regulations and hindrances, all hope will be lost.

We may one day recover from the disastrous state that the inexperienced and misguided President Obama has led us into. But we still have a greater challenge, that of dealing with the mindset of the millions that put him in power in the first place.

Socialism has never worked anywhere in the world and America will not be an exception. Individual ingenuity built America. The power of the individual, with their dedication, commitment and innovation, will preserve it. That is unless the entitlement "give-me" state becomes the norm and we are coming dangerously close to that.

Freedom Of Speech - An Endangered Idea?

Huey Long is credited to having said, “Fascism will come to America, but likely under another name, perhaps anti-fascism.”

Today those that oppose jihad are labeled fascists. By merely speaking a concern in America of the threat of Islamic Extremism, one is labeled “Islamophobic” or a preacher of hate and promoter of hate speech. It seems that in the country that claims to be the most free of all, calling a spade a spade is no long the correct thing to do.

Freedom of speech means to allow expressions of ideals that one does not believe in. It is no exercise of freedom of speech to allow vocal expression of ideals in which you adhere to. It is the allowing of words that promote differing opinions or beliefs that is the true exercise of freedom of speech.

In America’s attempt to be more tolerant, it is becoming less tolerant of ideas that are in opposition of those in power. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls “Teas Party” goers anti-American, unpatriotic, and “Astroturf” instead of a true grass roots movement. She is proudly expressing the opinion of many politicians in power that only those who follow their lead have the right to express their beliefs. All others are labeled fascists, “Right-wing extremists” and even compared to Nazis.

Freedom of speech in America is guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution but it is a right that many are told they do not have, all in the name of defining what freedom if speech is. This is done of course according to their new liberal guidelines.

Radio talk show hosts that espouse a Conservative point of view and expose a liberal agenda that is contrary to what the Constitution states is the law of the land, are lambasted daily from the hill. TV commentators such as Glenn Beck, who have the courage to shed light on things this administration would rather have kept in the dark, are attacked openly and shamelessly by the White House itself.

Honest debate on an issue is forbidden if that debate would expose flaws and a hidden agenda. The Climate Change agenda is threatened by those who do not believe the debate has reached a solid conclusion. That is why those that seek to monopolize on the idea of man-made global warming for profit continuously shout that “the debate is over” when in fact it has barely begun.

Few broadcast outlets have the courage to question the agenda of powerful politicians and they do so at their own peril. They are demonized and berated for simply exercising their First Amendment right of free speech. Their silencing is a top priority for Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and even President Barack Obama.

In targeting those who dare expose this administration’s socialistic agenda and unconstitutional methods and intentions, those same people who swore to protect the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic” become enemies of the Constitution themselves and promoters of hindering free speech.

What will the result of such arrogance be? It reshapes America into a country that cites freedom of speech as a virtue all the while seeking to deprive this country of that virtue. In their way of thinking, exposing a lie is worse than the telling of it.

In our War on Terror, (which I still prefer to call it rather than the sissified “Overseas Contingency” of this administration), is hindered at every turn and prevents us from becoming effective in this fight. And when the fight is being brought home to us, right here on our soil, it becomes evident that freedom of speech will be a causality of that fight too.

To speak out against the 35 training centers known to be here in America that preach jihad and Wahabbism, a very strict and violent form of Islam, is considered unprotected speech. To draw attention to the 200+ mosques in this country that are a threat to our security is considered “hate speech” and called “Islamophobia”. We can actually be accused of “inciting violence” against Muslims simply by stating the truth about issues that concern us. How can we directly and effectively confront an enemy we are not allowed to speak against? We cannot.

Often C.A.I.R. (the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations) has said that true statements about Islam and jihad should be classified as hateful or “hate speech”. This ploy effectively forbids discussion of the reality of jihad and this gives the advantage of continuing to operate in the dark, unabated and without legitimate criticism.

What happens when we are not allowed to speak against an enemy and expose his agenda? We give aid and comfort to that enemy and actually help them in promoting their aggression. By twisting the meaning of free speech, we are denied freedom of speech.

In this vein of thinking, one who dared to speak out against the atrocities of Hitler’s Germany would be considered by that government as a purveyor of hate speech. Such a person today would be charged and possibly persecuted for hate crimes simply because they pointed out something that was wrong, even inhumane. Since when does exposing an evil become evil?

Still today to point out wrongs in the government is considered more evil that those who seek to promote those wrong policies. President Obama accused Republicans recently of spreading fear because they had the guts to speak out about issues they have with the health care proposition. It is as if everyone should keep quiet about shady deals, corrupt methods, closed-door meetings, special interest arrangements and flaws in their agenda because if people know about them they’ll become afraid.

I do not think Obama is as afraid of people becoming fearful as he is of them becoming adamant that they do not want and will not tolerate such changes to the way America operates. Why do you think the health care legislation is being done in the dark, behind closed doors especially after Obama promised that such things would be done openly for the sake of transparency? Because evil always works in the dark and shedding light on anything exposes the flaws. After all, he took office to “fundamentally change the United States of America” and to that end he is working tirelessly.

In ancient times when someone was in a pottery shop to buy a vessel for holding water for instance, they would take the clay pot outside into the daylight. Holding it up to the sun caused tiny cracks to become apparent as the sunlight would seep through the cracks and expose the flaw. That is where the phrase to “shed some light” on a matter came from. The light of day always exposes faults. The faulty vessel was then returned to the shelf and a more fitting one was chosen. Sadly this administration loves the darkness rather than the light.

Our Constitution is under attack by those sworn to protect it. Our freedom of speech guarantee is threatened. Our right to keep and bear arms, a right recognized by the founding fathers as a means by which the people could keep a corrupt government in check, is under attack. Our right to own and protect our property is often trampled upon by a government seeking to confiscate it for the “common good” by corrupt politicians who think they have better uses in mind for your property than you do.

The Constitution of the United States is more than a piece of paper. It is the guideline for a way of life that has blessed us and in turn blessed the world. It does not need to be apologized for. It does not need to be dismissed as out-dated. It certainly does not need to be re-written to fit our changing times. We are supposed to operate within the confines of that document, to conform to the guidelines found there, and not to change it to conform to us.

If every piece of legislation considered by Congress was held to the standard of “does this conform to the Constitution”, many laws would never be written and America would not have lost the image it once held before the world and before its own people.

The elections of 2010 will be an opportunity for Americans to show their distaste for corruption and replace guilty representatives. It is a right they have yet to take away, although some desire to see it restricted. It is a right we had better use before our complacency causes that liberty to become eroded as well.

Just as walking from a dark theater into the bright light of the afternoon sun causes us to flinch and squint, so does exposing corruption to the light causes it to flinch as well. And as for the politicians who prefer to operate in the dark, it is time to “shed some light” on them too. As we see them for who they are, with their corrupt flaws, we can choose to make better choices. Put them back on the shelf and choose fitting vessels into which we can pour our trust and confidence.