The Long Road Back - An Open Letter To ALL Americans

I am sad and I am scared. I am deeply disappointed with our parents generation - and with ours. I am angry, and I am troubled. I feel so impotent to affect the directional change this country so desperately needs. I am disgusted with the many politicians who claim they want to represent us, but only because it serves the purpose of furthering their own self serving agenda. But I also feel anxious and impatient. Anxious and impatient to start some sort of change that will return America to what she was. I feel hopeful that if enough Americans understand how far afield we have strayed, enough of us will unite - from all walks of life, from all faiths, from all ethnic backgrounds, from all age groups and from all political ideologies - to change the course of history. For decades upon decades Americans have silently accepted that our government was looking out for our best interest. Under the guise of compassion, individuals - some prominent, some not - with a progressive ideology have worked tirelessly to promote their political ideology and have thrust it upon each of us. They have used the educational system, the judicial system, the legislative system, and the media. While they may have been well intentioned (or maybe not), the result has placed us on a dangerous precipice. For decades Progressives have been ascending the mountain, dragging AMERICA along behind them. Now America finds itself at the pinnacle of the mountain, and she has only two choices she can make. She can climb back down the way she came, or she can go over the mountain top and down the other side. To climb down the way she came will be slow, hard, tiring work. It took years and years to climb that rocky slope. But to go over the mountain down the other side might look to you to be so much easier - it's fresh, pristine and the slope appears to be so gentle. To climb down the way we came, will return us to the republic our founding fathers envisioned. After the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "What have you given us, sir?" He responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it". If You Can Keep It; an interesting choice of words. Because Franklin knew that to keep our Republic the American people would have to work at it. They would have to stay vigilant to the powers that would seek to corrupt America, and actively guard against those forces. Well, we have let her down. Our parents let her down. And now, if we don't actively impact the direction she is headed, we will be guilty of dishonoring our children and our grandchildren, and they will pay a heavy, heavy price. If America chooses to go down the other side of the mountain, we will no longer be a Republic. We will become a socialist state. That's what the progressive ideology is all about. Mark my words, the time of choice has arrived. If you choose to do nothing but continue to stay isolated within your own small world, you will be complicit in what happens to America. But if you choose to act, to gain awareness of what is occurring, to implore others to think and to see, to show others the truth and the proof of America's slide and the progressive movement's rise, then you can hold your head high, and will have earned the right to say "I loved America enough to fight for her." "And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer" - Paul McCartney wrote that. And maybe there's some wisdom there. Maybe, just maybe, if we can find enough people to learn and understand what has occurred, what is occurring, and who can agree that America should not be a socialist state, there will be an answer. And maybe the answer will be - turn around America. Go back down the mountain the way you came. It will be a long road back, and it will be hard. But we will guide you. This time we will not forget our responsibility to remain vigilant. We will guard you against all evil. Together, the America I love and those that choose to guard her, will walk proudly back down the mountainside, and once again America will be that 'Shining city on the hill" that beckons to all who love freedom and liberty. And how, you ask, can we accomplish that? The answer is simple. You need to convince one non-believer of what these truths reveal. You must make time to persuade one non-believer and have them do the same, and so on, and so on, and so on. That is how we will save America. It will be a slow process. It will involve getting to know your representative's and senator's positions, and making sure they know yours. But most of all it will take each one of us to believe once again in the American dream forged by the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and the Constitution in 1787. How far afield we have come. But generations from now, if we are strong enough and active enough, and care enough, the American people of that time will look back at this time and know not only that the foundation of America was built upon the best form of government known, but that she was rescued by the people who comprised that government. They will know that the form of government known as a Republic once again allowed their country, our country, to become the country of self-evident truths and unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. Remember, we the people have power, but only if we exercise it...