Progressive Wars – Let the Battle for Capitalism Begin

As I reflect on the past year I cannot help but see that there is a war a brewing.  What war you ask?  Well… a war against progressivism.  The next three years are going to be a war of ideals as we combat the threats of the progressive movement against our personal liberties and freedoms.  I believe that we have only see the beginning of these battles with the tea parties and town hall protests.

So as Americans who love our freedom, what will be our battle plan?  Well, if we intent to continue to govern ourselves, we must go back to our founding principals.  We need to continue remind people why our great experiment was formed the way it was.  Why our  Founders worked so hard to protect us from a government out of control.  It’s obvious that our educational system will not do it.  The alternative is un-American, the alternative is that someone is going to govern us.

So where are we at as a nation?  Well, we have a massive government.  We have a Congress that delegates much of its authority to unelected bureaucrats. We have an executive that can’t quite control everything going on in his administration.  We have judges that tell us more an more what to do about the most intimate and private questions of our lives. In short, exactly where progressives have wanted to take us for the past 100 years.  Down the road to a failed state, as those that exist in Europe.  Centralized, bureaucratic and weak.

This is not progress, this is decline.  This is not where Americans want to go.  America does not want to turn away from the principals that made us great.

So where do we begin?  What should be the first front line??  I believe that the initial battle that must be waged is the assault against capitalism and the free-market system.  Clearly this is the biggest threat to our liberties.  This is not just about our economy.  It is a battle to save the framework of our Constitution.  The US Constitution creates this wonderful free society.  A society in which we can pursue our happiness and enjoy the fruits of our labors.  A centralized bureaucratic government is a grave threat to our ability to obtain that happiness and enjoy that fruit.

In 1843, 91-year-old Capt. Levi Preston was questioned by a young historian why he had fought in the American Revolution.  “Was it the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, perhaps the treatises of John Locke?” the historian asked.  “No, sirree,” the captain countered.  He had not seen any stamps, sipped any tea, or read anything other than the Bible, the catechism, and Watts’s Psalms.  “What we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had been free, and we meant to be always free. They didn’t mean we should.”

That idea in itself is the nutshell.  We have always been about self government.  We have always governed ourselves and we always mean to govern ourselves.



Let the battle to save capitalisim begin.

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