Ok, he might have a point.

After reading this, I decided to ponder the matter. A little re-evaluation was in order. Housecleaning, I suppose.

When I considered the future, freedom, the recent past, history, and a few other odd variables and topics, I kept arriving at a depressing notion. I kept arriving at a conclusion which indicated an end to our, and the only real, revolution (in millennia). Oh, sure, there was the French Revolution, Castro’s thing, Mao’s thing, Lenin’s thing, sure. In each of those cases, however, power was just shifted from somewhat poor governors to homicidal governors. In our revolution, the power was split and shifted, decentralized as it where. The people, lets be clear, do not, cannot, and should not rule completely. An absolute anarchy is even worse than an absolute monarchy, dictatorship, or totalitarian state. No, our founding fathers saw clearly, thought well, and planned accordingly. The powers, the power to control assets, the power to make war, the power to choose allowed and disallowed behavior and then how that was to be handled, and the other real powers, could not be trusted purely to “We the People”, states, or states in combination. So, they split that power, delineated who and how the powers where to be used, and in so doing, set the shareholders of power against one another in a purely genius ‘house of cards’ trick. The gravity and lay of the powers has kept the house in tact for centuries. The state against the people, the state against the federal government, the people against the federal government, etc. No single entity can quite square the circle and corner the power market. Sometimes, often actually, no one wins! This has been being tinkered with and demented, in time, and more quickly and wrongly more recently.

In so doing, the fathers drafted then implemented a government that is as sleek, quick, pretty, and tight as a barge. Yes, you read that correctly. They set the government up to fail, to be slow, to be stupid, and to be complicated. Why, you might ask? There is a rather simple answer. A fully functioning, well regulated, singularly minded, and powerful government will fail it’s purpose, that being us, every time. A government that moves forward slowly, gets bogged down easily, and can be manipulated, tugged, and pulled until it is stuck in the mud, can do no real harm. In our personal lives, doing nothing can be wrong, that is not always true with the government. As well, if one side pulls in a dangerous direction, guess who gets hurt first? It is the dolts leading the charge. Try to pull the government off a cliff, and they will fall first, no matter how many on that side, that side will lose. In a worst case scenario, the government will just crash down the cliff on top of any survivors, probably not sustaining much damage even then. The current problem is that too many people believe a barge can help them. Not only can it not prevent their medical costs from increasing, provide medicine, money, or food, it cannot be trusted not to abuse those who go to it for these things.

Oh, yes, there were risks in this system. How many could die because of the foolish pull of the uninformed many before a proper reaction, or how much slop in the system in the way of human life? Well, I cannot say with absolute surety, however, I know right around 3,000 dead in a day will indeed get the mechanisms going. What has happened since that time is profound. Aside from the wars that have raged, the number of enemies killed in spite of being nearly invisible most of the time, and the changes in nations as close as France and as far as Libya, other social issues have been impacted. Gun control, for obvious reasons, is in critical condition. The United Nations has been put on a shelf for the most part, along with many other toys. Many other bad ideas are being ground down to the point of losing any power, because their developers have lost face and continue to do so. Even odd, seemingly unassociated notions are changing. My liberal friends fear that abortion will again be outlawed, they fear it and sense it. I am a bit dubious, but see that pro-life as law is becoming more possible than ever before. The multi-culturalists pulled too far. The liberals tugged and fell. Those still pulling that way are considered fringe, lunatic perhaps. Many of those who were there pulling, even if they still believe, are not willing to die to believe and are now tugging in such as way as to confuse and slow that movement. Though too, the opposition has not yet collected. Time will tell.

The world of American politics is still not right-of-center. As a fact, not only the location but the movement of American politics is still left and moving further toward the left. However, the momentum is not leftward. The American heartbeat, a nearly flatline pulse, is now growing stronger. The American mind is waking, coming out of the fog, and beginning to ask what all these bureaucratic wires and tangles trying to keep it down and controlled are about, having seemingly slept through the various surgeries and disenfranchisements. I’m not sure it will fully awaken, perhaps another good jolt is needed. But I am sure it now has a chance. Though I would hate to see New York (despicable as it is), Paris, London, Berlin, or some other major city destroyed, it might be like the amputation that saves the body, though not by losing infection, more by gaining the will to survive. And, in the final analysis, and should there be no complicity in the slightest, it will be worth the price. As it sits, we are bordering on becoming wards of the state. To those who do not understand, that means slaves of the state. This American liberalism is what all other nations call conservativism (which means the ‘powers that be’ are corrupt and in control, that things do not change once they go this way and are only changed from this despot to that genocidal despot). A brief pause in the downward spiral, a chance to change, a time for real liberals (conservatives) to win is at hand.

In the end, even if we succeed, it will be piecemeal, bit-by-bit, tooth-and-nail. The war will never be over, the struggle will never be done, and we can never win. And certainly, it will not be done overnight, in one election, or singularly in any way. We can be on more solid ground. We can be more sure of our lot. We can take back our share of power. We can revolt for the rest of our lives, and should, in the slow fashion our founding fathers (for the most part) intended. There is hope, more so today than in a very long time.