We are truly living in defining times here in the U.S. While a flamboyant presidential candidate is ridiculed by the press for telling the truth, the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue redefines the word debate almost hourly, leaving many Americans simply exhausted by the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of the most politically correct environment anyone can remember.
It seems the value system which paved the way for the greatest nation in human history is being systematically replaced by a product of the very freedom it was designed to promote and protect. Ironically, many of the Founders and even Lincoln nearly ninety years later wrote of a possible future not unlike that which we’re now living through today, a time to guard against turmoil and danger from within, an age of redefinition that would embrace intolerance and hate disguised as “hope and change”.
My fellow citizens, the battle back for America begins and ends with a fundamental understanding and acceptance of those tenets contained in the Declaration, albeit combined with the hard lessons of the last 240 or so years. Accordingly, if our “educators” are not beginning each classroom day with this truth, then we’ve lost that battle already.