A quick perusal of about 105 blogs (and news and opinion sites – most mornings) doesn’t bode well the answer to this question.
People who support individual, Constitutional liberties over collectivist ‘it’s for the children people sea birds, snail darters et al’ rubbish are scrambling for this very answer.
It’s obvious the Grand Old Party has no backbone, and hasn’t had for some time. Nor does their platform have anything to do with preserving American Freedoms. It’s our government control versus their government control.
And the Democrats Progressives have been completely assimilated by the progressive movement, in the forever-forward effort to ‘fundamentally change’ the nature of this Nation. Brick by bloody brick. Away from its founding documents and principles.
The Libertarians! (you answer.) While they did best this year of any election year, ever, they are still a drop in the bucket. And, as libertarians, they philosophically don’t lust for power and control. It’s against their nature. And the Demopublicans are reluctant to give up any of their monopoly.
The Tea Party(s)? And there’s is a two-fold problem. 1) There are many of them, some with differing views, and 2) The Left has successfully painted them as racists, even though there is scant evidence of that – largely promoted by the (largely Left) media.
Want proof of anti-Constitutional furor? It’s all over the media…
The Second Amendment has Outlived It’s Relevance to America – The Staten Island Advance
Let’s Give Up On The Constitution – The New York Times
Haven’t 95% of all elected federal officials already done that, beginning with denying their Oaths of Office to said Constitution?
And bloggers and commenters abound on the Internet, blustering about how they’ll stand behind every blade of grass with a rifle, and the Three-Percenters will, and the Oath Keepers will refuse to take disarmament action against United States citizens…
All while the TSA, and the FBI and the NSA and a myriad-of-alphabet-soup-other-agencies quietly and consistent erode all of our civil liberties, with the tacit approval of Congress and multiple Presidents!
SO…where DO we go?
It’s for the children, you know…
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. - Thomas Paine (1776)







Whichever course is chosen, it won’t be pretty. On the other hand, “pretty” is over-rated.
Posted by Rev. Paul | January 2, 2013, 8:17 amYeah. It tends to droop with age.
Posted by guffaw1952 | January 2, 2013, 8:19 amBut think about it…. All these women folk involved Janet, Hillary, nazi pelosi, and Janet Reno from the past….
This is ugly going all the way to the bone.
Posted by Matt | January 2, 2013, 11:06 amYikes!
Posted by guffaw1952 | January 2, 2013, 2:05 pmOh my goodness, I can’t believe I left fineswine off my list above.
Posted by Matt | January 2, 2013, 12:10 pmConcur with Rev, and I ‘know’ which direction I’m going…
Posted by Old NFO | January 2, 2013, 10:35 amMe too.
Posted by guffaw1952 | January 2, 2013, 10:36 amBeen thinking about this. And while people are mentioning concepts such as Civil War, most of us are absolutely without the ability to engage in that. We aren’t organized and trained as militia. And if you think those who have such training wouldn’t go along with the government, do some reading on Camp Greyhound after Katrina. We all hope that the National Guard wouldn’t turn on us, but many, having been told that those they are facing are enemies of the state, would, indeed, follow orders.
Posted by ProudHillbilly | January 2, 2013, 12:58 pmAH, a ray of sunshine! (sarcasm font)
So, where DO we go?
Posted by guffaw1952 | January 2, 2013, 2:06 pmStudy the Zionist fight against the Brits in the Mandate?
Posted by ProudHillbilly | January 3, 2013, 8:04 amGreat. A New Year and I get homework…
Posted by guffaw1952 | January 3, 2013, 8:07 am