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The Commitment: Why We Do It
Tom Adkins
CommonConservative.com | June 2, 2000
WE LEAVE OUR REGULAR LIVES, abandon our families, jobs and leisure time.
Some spend hours hunched in front of a computer screen, tapping away for papers and websites. Others trudge off with signs and placards. Maybe it's some unknown researcher at a think tank or a talk-radio host in some town you never heard of. Perhaps a housewife taking a minute to write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
Instead of enjoying the leisure American life, conservatives all across America are becoming soldiers in an obscure war. The counterattack to the liberal assault upon America is finally underway, and we are leading the charge.
As American liberalism evolved into socialism, conservatives have been content with beating the system. When liberals increased taxes, we just worked a few more hours. If they raised them again, we found the loopholes. As liberals ruined our cities, we just moved away. When they ruined education, we used private schools. When liberals sold off our national security, we consoled ourselves with Reagan's Cold War victory. When all those dopey liberal programs failed, we didn't worry about it. After all, it didn't bother us. We were conservatives. We adapt.
But all that has changed. Somewhere in our "leave me the hell alone" stupor, something snapped. The liberals went too far. And now, we are fighting back.
It's hard to say when that line in the sand was crossed. Perhaps Reagan's 1980 election. Or it could have been the 1994 Gingrich Revolution. Or maybe it was the last few years of cynical Clintonism. But somewhere over the last twenty years, conservatives drew the line. And liberals crossed it.
We finally noticed the $6.5-trillion-dollar price our children must pay for the massive failure of the Great Society. We came to understand the looming entanglement of the Social Security Ponzi scheme. And we saw the sacrifice of those who laid down their lives to secure our freedom, now being cynically sold to China for campaign donations. Our kids are growing up in a culture with no heroes, indoctrinated with failure and perversion, to become fodder for the nanny-state. The cost of liberalism is being hung around their necks, and the noose tightens a little more every day.
Above all, we recognize the abdication of the American watchdog, the free press, who have not merely "missed" these issues but have sided with the socialist traitors as they gobbled up power.
We each have our reasons. Moral, social, economic, religious. But we remember the America where we were governed by the same laws. Where right and wrong was a respected concept. Where honor, integrity, honesty and all those great virtues and values distinguished us from the rest of the world, and made us better. And we want them back.
Liberalism has crossed the line. Instead of being merely being inconvenient, it is now a threat. The liberal assault on America has been horribly destructive, and the cost of ignoring the damage has become too high to bear. Conservatives are finally leaving their cocoon of luxury, sacrificing their everyday lives and attacking liberalism head-on.
Strangely, we aren't alone. Even traditional leftists such as Christopher Hitchens, Camille Paglia and even the irascible Jim Trafficant have openly parted with the Democrats and their corrupted, twisted leadership. They have joined us, surrendering hard-earned status within the liberal community. That is, indeed, a magnificent sacrifice.
They understand what's at stake. It is man's nature to dominate others. In a nation founded upon freedom, those rights are fragile and always under attack. The temptation of power is almost irresistible. That is why government attracts those who crave power over others. The most dangerous attacks on our freedom are not from without, but from within.
Thus, the battle to preserve American rights shall be perpetual. But it must be fought, and it must be won. Evil will prosper when the good are idle. Liberals have waged a dirty, despicable war upon America to gain power at the expense of our rights and freedom. Finally, American conservatives have been prodded awake from our long yawn of indifference. We are committed. We are angry. We are motivated. And we are the liberals' worst nightmare. We are the first generation of conservatives who can tell the truth better than liberals can lie.
Our husbands, wives and friends think we are nuts. We miss the fun. We miss our families. We surrender the temptation of American leisure within a nation of shrinking greatness. But we are soldiers of conscience. We are the air raid sirens. We are the Paul Reveres who ride into the night. We fight any traitor who blithely surrenders America to socialist tyranny.
As in every war, the hours stink, the pay is awful and the risks are great.
Who pays the bills? Who watches the kids? Yet we make this sacrifice because we are compelled. We owe it to our children. We owe it to our parents. We owe it to each other. We owe it to our nation. We want to bring back the ideals that made our nation great. We have a commitment to freedom. We have a commitment to America. And that is why we do it. This is indeed, a war. And we are called to battle. No, we are called to victory. Our goal is to utterly defeat liberalism. And we will. Because we must.
Get ready. The revolution is coming.
For some of us, it has arrived.
Tom Adkins is executive publisher of CommonConservative.com.
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Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
"That which binds us together is infinitely greater than that on which we disagree" - Neal Knox
I'll see you at the TFL End Of Summer Meet!
The Commitment: Why We Do It
Tom Adkins
CommonConservative.com | June 2, 2000
WE LEAVE OUR REGULAR LIVES, abandon our families, jobs and leisure time.
Some spend hours hunched in front of a computer screen, tapping away for papers and websites. Others trudge off with signs and placards. Maybe it's some unknown researcher at a think tank or a talk-radio host in some town you never heard of. Perhaps a housewife taking a minute to write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
Instead of enjoying the leisure American life, conservatives all across America are becoming soldiers in an obscure war. The counterattack to the liberal assault upon America is finally underway, and we are leading the charge.
As American liberalism evolved into socialism, conservatives have been content with beating the system. When liberals increased taxes, we just worked a few more hours. If they raised them again, we found the loopholes. As liberals ruined our cities, we just moved away. When they ruined education, we used private schools. When liberals sold off our national security, we consoled ourselves with Reagan's Cold War victory. When all those dopey liberal programs failed, we didn't worry about it. After all, it didn't bother us. We were conservatives. We adapt.
But all that has changed. Somewhere in our "leave me the hell alone" stupor, something snapped. The liberals went too far. And now, we are fighting back.
It's hard to say when that line in the sand was crossed. Perhaps Reagan's 1980 election. Or it could have been the 1994 Gingrich Revolution. Or maybe it was the last few years of cynical Clintonism. But somewhere over the last twenty years, conservatives drew the line. And liberals crossed it.
We finally noticed the $6.5-trillion-dollar price our children must pay for the massive failure of the Great Society. We came to understand the looming entanglement of the Social Security Ponzi scheme. And we saw the sacrifice of those who laid down their lives to secure our freedom, now being cynically sold to China for campaign donations. Our kids are growing up in a culture with no heroes, indoctrinated with failure and perversion, to become fodder for the nanny-state. The cost of liberalism is being hung around their necks, and the noose tightens a little more every day.
Above all, we recognize the abdication of the American watchdog, the free press, who have not merely "missed" these issues but have sided with the socialist traitors as they gobbled up power.
We each have our reasons. Moral, social, economic, religious. But we remember the America where we were governed by the same laws. Where right and wrong was a respected concept. Where honor, integrity, honesty and all those great virtues and values distinguished us from the rest of the world, and made us better. And we want them back.
Liberalism has crossed the line. Instead of being merely being inconvenient, it is now a threat. The liberal assault on America has been horribly destructive, and the cost of ignoring the damage has become too high to bear. Conservatives are finally leaving their cocoon of luxury, sacrificing their everyday lives and attacking liberalism head-on.
Strangely, we aren't alone. Even traditional leftists such as Christopher Hitchens, Camille Paglia and even the irascible Jim Trafficant have openly parted with the Democrats and their corrupted, twisted leadership. They have joined us, surrendering hard-earned status within the liberal community. That is, indeed, a magnificent sacrifice.
They understand what's at stake. It is man's nature to dominate others. In a nation founded upon freedom, those rights are fragile and always under attack. The temptation of power is almost irresistible. That is why government attracts those who crave power over others. The most dangerous attacks on our freedom are not from without, but from within.
Thus, the battle to preserve American rights shall be perpetual. But it must be fought, and it must be won. Evil will prosper when the good are idle. Liberals have waged a dirty, despicable war upon America to gain power at the expense of our rights and freedom. Finally, American conservatives have been prodded awake from our long yawn of indifference. We are committed. We are angry. We are motivated. And we are the liberals' worst nightmare. We are the first generation of conservatives who can tell the truth better than liberals can lie.
Our husbands, wives and friends think we are nuts. We miss the fun. We miss our families. We surrender the temptation of American leisure within a nation of shrinking greatness. But we are soldiers of conscience. We are the air raid sirens. We are the Paul Reveres who ride into the night. We fight any traitor who blithely surrenders America to socialist tyranny.
As in every war, the hours stink, the pay is awful and the risks are great.
Who pays the bills? Who watches the kids? Yet we make this sacrifice because we are compelled. We owe it to our children. We owe it to our parents. We owe it to each other. We owe it to our nation. We want to bring back the ideals that made our nation great. We have a commitment to freedom. We have a commitment to America. And that is why we do it. This is indeed, a war. And we are called to battle. No, we are called to victory. Our goal is to utterly defeat liberalism. And we will. Because we must.
Get ready. The revolution is coming.
For some of us, it has arrived.
Tom Adkins is executive publisher of CommonConservative.com.
E N D
------------------
Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
"That which binds us together is infinitely greater than that on which we disagree" - Neal Knox
I'll see you at the TFL End Of Summer Meet!