Make no mistake about it, when it comes to the
importance of the next election every single one of us who refers to our self
as being an American needs to be aware of the big picture. We must each force ourselves into realizing
that there is only one truly over-riding concern on which we should all base
our decision when it comes to whom to vote for in 2016. And just this once, whether you’re a Democrat
or Republican, we need to come together for the sake of the country and to vote
for that one candidate, regardless of party affiliation, who offers the very
best chance of achieving some measurable amount of success in addressing that
very pressing concern.
And I’m here to tell you that that concern is not
the national debt, not income inequality, gay marriage, Islamic terrorism, racism,
illegal immigration, border security, national defense, who can promise to make
the biggest tax cuts or even Obamacare.
What should be of primary interest to everyone trooping off to the polls
in 2106 is a sum total of all those things.
What needs to be of primary concern for everyone in this country is to
make sure that we are able to maintain those few freedoms that we still have
left so that we have something to pass down to our children. We are squandering, and rather badly, what
was handed down to us.
Now I am very well aware that many of the issues listed
above are far more important to some of us than they are to others. But we need to make this next election about
much more than what is simply in our own self-interest. We can no longer afford to be that petty. And we should not waste our time listening to
those trying to convince us to do so. What
should be most important to each and every one of us is to make sure that our children will be able to live in
freedom long after we ourselves are long gone.
And as I look around today it terrifies me that that is becoming less
likely with each passing day. We are
dooming our children to a future spent in darkness.
And what we are going to have to do, and I mean
every single one of us, is to stop all of the petty bickering and focus, truly
focus, on that which is truly most important.
And it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to figure
out that which should be considered as being commonsense. We simply can no longer afford the luxury of
buying into the rhetoric that is really nothing more than what many of those
now running for office think is what we want to hear. Now I know many will likely say that I’m
living in a fool’s paradise if I actually think that enough of the ‘American’ people
can come together to save their country.
And maybe they’re right.
Government is not the answer. And if the last 50 years have not made that
fact clear enough, one would think the last 7 most definitely would have. And yet, many, far too many in fact, refuse
to recognize that which is taking place right before their eyes. Most likely because they themselves have been
very willing accomplices in what has been going on. And while I’m not sure how to convince them of
the error of their ways, you would think that the very simple act of looking into
the eyes of their children, and knowing what it is that likely lies in store
for them, would be more than sufficient to do the trick. And yet, apparently, it is not.
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