A Time for Choosing

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

Thus spoke Ronald Reagan some forty-six years ago.  Tragically, today in America it appears the time for choosing may have passed. As each day goes by our debt grows more unsustainable; our security further imperiled; our economy more shackled; our government more tyrannical.

These are symptoms of an America that has chosen the wrong path: the road to serfdom over the road to civilization. This plight is the result of a hundred-plus year campaign by the socialist sophists to slowly but surely undermine the principles that built our nation to its hegemonic place. While the ends of a nation are peace and prosperity, there has always been a difference in opinion as to the means to achieve these ends.  This fundamental tension has rested upon the difference between liberty and tyranny.

Is it too late to right the ship, to turn the bloated behemoth around and guide it to port and out of the storm where we can tear it down, salvage anything useful and rebuild it into a more navigable vessel? Where there is hope, we find determination and, possibly, a passage to self-determination.