This current balance of power in America is unsustainable and will not hold much longer. We just slinked past the 245th anniversary of the "shot heard round the world," and most Americans were too busy hunkering down and obeying government directives to remember how heavy the price for liberty always is. There is a rumbling right now below our feet, though, and these tremors may well split the earth around us if our elected leadership do not yield to common sense and shared American purpose.
This moment in history is opening up before us two paths — one in which we reclaim for ourselves the truth that all legitimate power begins with individual consent and another that deviates sharply from our shared past by giving to the State the ultimate authority for determining what rights each one of us may freely call our own. Down the path of freedom we must take solid steps, for the other path promises to swallow us whole.
I have no illusion that American liberty is destined to prevail over this new breed of socialism and government-by-fiat. Life gives us no certainties — only choices and opportunities. It's the other side that denies the existence of God while insisting that our historical fate is predetermined. Our side has always cherished human freedom precisely because we know how rare it is. History is replete with men dominating other men; what has always made America "exceptional," and what the other side has long forgotten or ignored, is that ours is a country that chose to end the cycle of domination by empowering the weakest among us to have an equal voice. For 245 years, we have lumbered down this difficult path with eyes wide open and confident in our inherited wisdom that to do otherwise would unleash the cycles of domination we worked so hard to tame. And while many of us have watched apprehensively for many years now the encroaching tyranny of the State disguised under the cloak of the "common will" or the "collective good," it is only now that the advocates camped on the other side of freedom so boldly declare their intention to rule over us as they will.
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J.B.Shurk had his article published in "American Thinker" but I don't think he thought it through at all. This is happening now, and on our watch. People will, and do, give up freedom and liberty for security. And it is happening right now, just as it always has, and always will.
There is a cause for the effect we are now experiencing. The cause needs to be addressed openly and honestly if we are to prevent another like it. This virus was unleashed by evil people and that needs explanation by those who know the facts.
WE BEST PRAY TO GOD IT DOES NOT. IF AMERICANS ARE THAT STUPID PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY THE COUNTRY FOR ALL MOVE TO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY AND GOOD RIDDANS. WHY WOULD THIS HAPPEN ? ANS. OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN BRAINWASHING OUR KIDS FOR YEARS. WE SEE MANY AMERICANS RESISTING THE PUSH AND WE HAVE TO KEEP IT UP. THIS MAY BE THE LAST CHANCE WE HAVE GOD HELP US. PRES TRUMP IS BEING BOMBARDED AND WE MUST GET HIM BK IN OFFICE IN 2020.