A Growing Cancer In America

THE CENTURION CHRONICLE
Special Issue – Jul 2010

A GROWING CANCER IN AMERICA
(from the viral infection of an ever expanding Federal authority)

Our American republic faces a potentially terminal cancer, one which grows ever more dangerous to our ideals of personal freedom, un-constricted innovative enterprise, economic mobility and prosperity. It threatens the very structure of the Founders’ finely crafted and delicately balanced system for the separation of powers between State and Federal authority. And that cancer comes from the viral infection of an ever expanding concentration of power into the hands of our Federal establishment, thus upsetting that balanced system of checks against government intrusion into our personal lives.

As that “imbalance” grows, we see the insidious effects of it every day as towns, cities, counties, and states line up, with their begging bowls in hand, to maneuver for Federal handouts to fund their needs, instead of making independent decisions for themselves. Our society is thus drifting more and more towards the reefs of statism and authoritarianism, far removed from the provisions of our Constitution. At the rate that drift is moving, we, the people, may soon find ourselves no longer the land of the free, but, tightly enclosed in a sheepfold of authority where everything that is not forbidden….is strictly compulsory. At that point, America, as we have known it, will be no more, leaving us only with an empty shell of what it once was.

Why is this happening? Well, sadly, it’s because ever since the end of WWII, we’re the ones who’ve allowed it to happen. We’ve been so busy over all those years pursuing “the good life” and “happiness” we ignored and forgot about that more critical part about “liberty”, without which, there can be neither “life” nor “happiness”.

We’re paying for that inattention about that today, having allowed ourselves to be cajoled and conned into believing that collective dependency on Federal largesse, rather than individual effort, is the only way to achieve the American dream. More and more we’ve become conditioned to accept that a Federal program of one kind or another is the only way we can achieve that dream. Not as a need, but as an inalienable right. Is this what we want for the future of our great republic? The answer has to be….absolutely not!

So what can we do about it now? We need to re-focus our collective attentions on that part which concerns “liberty”. And to restore our American definition of what “liberty” means, we now have to make that class of career political elites we’ve allowed to take over our lives, return our system of government back within the balances and constraints prescribed by our Constitution. Of course, these have grown accustomed to their brand of “the good life”, and privileges accrued for themselves, so they’re not likely to quietly give all of that up without resistance. We’ll have to force them to do so, not by the bullet, but with our ballots.

Here’s how: The mid-term election this coming November is a golden opportunity to give them a wake-up call, and shake the foundations of their political world to its core. Let each of us simply decide not to vote for any incumbent or candidate belonging to either of the two major parties. Instead, let’s all just vote for anyone else on our ballots but these. Whether it be for Libertarians, Tea-Partiers, Green Partiers, Independents, the Sons of the Pioneers, or even Lady Ga-Ga, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s anyone other than a Democrat or Republican. If enough of us do that it will send them a very powerful message ….change your ways….or face an even stronger backlash in 2012.

It’s up to us!

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