This election, as any election is, is based on sustainable freedom. You won't hear that as a platform from any side. The most basic premise underlying all the rhetoric is this: Which choice gives us the best chance at sustainable freedom. Our founding fathers knew they had put in place a brand new ideal for freedom and maintaining our freedom. An ideal that had thus far in history, never been achieved for the long term. There were many free societies before us but none were sustained, all giving into that trap of freedom where freedom became it's own worst enemy. What do I mean by this?
The founders of America understood the main hurdles to maintaining freedom. One was of course others who wanted to take it from us but with two oceans separating us from our nearest known enemies and the state of travel in those days, they didn't worry too much about that. It has become more of an issue today. But by far they recognized the number one enemy to freedom was freedom itself. That being when a people is free to make choices they will sometimes make choices based on what's good for themselves instead of what's good for all. Pat Paulsen was a comedian in the 60's and made a career out of running for president... as a joke. In one interview on The Smother's Brothers show, he was asked what he thought about Manifest Destiny to which he replied, "Well what's in it for me?" This was poking fun at our leaders of the time as most people realized our society had turned into a "what's in it for me" mentality. President Kennedy urged us all to ask not what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country. That dream has been sadly lost today. Why?
We have failed to understand what it was our founding fathers knew, that each generation is a new people group and needs to be educated on freedom and what it means to them. Civic liberty is not taught in our schools. Freedom is not free contrary to many opinions out there. It comes with a price and that main price is sacrifice. We must all sacrifice what we have or be willing to in order to maintain freedom. It is a mindset of: what can I give and not what can I get. My father understood this and passed it down to me and I passed it down to my children. I watched my father take his failing business due to union squeezing and sudden spikes in oil prices into liquidation. His life long work was failing due to unmitigated circumstances. What I saw though was a man who took the time and effort to find other work for each and every employee who worked for him for any length of time. He found many of them better paying jobs than they had and the very least is he found them something comparable. Many of these men weren't literate as I saw them sign for their checks every Friday with their mark. This is lost today. We need to revive our original dream of what freedom means.
That is what this and every election should come down to. I hear more and more people spouting what the commercials say about a candidate and they speak to the emotions of what you will lose if you vote for the other candidate. We need a leader who will work for the best outcome that essentially sustains our freedom. I see a very clear choice in this election and not just in the presidential race.
Remember one thing, history is not on our side. Neither candidate is perfect, nor will they provide us everything we want. What we need to choose is which path is more about sustaining the American freedoms we were founded on. We can all see we are on a track to ruin at our present pace. I urge you to remember one thing this election, we are all God's children, whether you believe in Him or not, He made us in His image, He breathed His breath into each and every one of us and we carry Him with us into that polling place. We all need to search His heart, which IS our heart and make that decision.
And lastly, do not waste that right that was given to you and came with a very steep price. A revolutionary war soldier was interviewed by a college student back in the mid 1800's when he was in his ninties. He fought at Concord and The Battle of Bunker Hill. The student kept asking him why he went to fight, was it because of the Stamp Act? The Tea tax? All the other smothering laws of the British rule? No he said to all of them. Was it Common Sense by Tom Paine? No, the only books he had were the Bible and a dictionary. He said he went because he had always lived free and he always wanted to be free. Simple isn't it? Freedom is worth fighting for because without it we're just subjects of somebody else's tyranny. GO VOTE!
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