The Idea of The United States of America

I say go ahead and pass health care. Go ahead and pass an amnesty bill, it's coming next. Go ahead and put future generations of Americans in debt. By all means spend more, borrow more, print more money. Take us down that road to socialism, that middle ground that all progressives long to see.

Write bills so long and incomprehensible that no one has time to read them or make heads or tails out of them if they can. Go ahead tax us to death and then tax us again. Take away thirty, forty, ninety percent of our hard earned money. Redistribute it! Give it to someone that doesn't know what hard work is. "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." Go ahead and gerrymander our districts. Keep growing your power Congress, Mr. President, destroy our courts.

Go ahead and "regulate" the free market system and capitalism. Punish those evil executives. Punish hard work and bad mouth the best and brightest among us. Promote a janitor to run a company. Go ahead so you can bail it out and federalize it when the time comes, as it will. Punish growth and freedom, reward the shriveling and tyranny. "Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard -- the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money -- the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law -- men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims -- then money becomes its creators' avenger... Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter."

"Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing -when you see that money is flowing from men who deal, not in goods, but in favors -- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you -- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -- you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."
(Francisco d' Anconia - Atlas Shrugged)

This is the progressive end-game. This run towards communism, fascism, total government we will not stand for. You can destroy this America but we will destroy those that stomp out freedom. This country does not make its people great. We the people make this country great. We are not Europe! We have never lived as serfs to a king. We are not Russia, we have no need for czars, of any kind. We are not Africa, we put an end to slavery here a long time ago and no American shall live in bondage again, under any form of ruler.

No we are Americans, citizens of the United States, Freemen under God. We were founded by people who were escaping the kind of persecution we now find ourselves fighting. We were founded by people that risked death just for the chance, just for the opportunity to live their lives as they saw fit. Freemen!!!

It may be too late, this america may soon die, but if this is His will let it be. A new America will sprout, Freedom will root itself into the ground and grow back stronger, prouder, more robust than before. People who still love this country "honor the vision of the men who wrote your Constitution. Respect the most sublime document of its kind ever drafted by human intelligence" (Daniel Hannan). Out of the ashes our Constitution will be restored. We will struggle, our backs will ache, we will fight, and our hands will bleed, but in the end we will clear this land of the pestilence of progressivism. Liberty will pick up her lamp, she will hold it high as it shines like never before and she will remind us that here, here in the United States of America is the golden door. That we, We The People can and will live in a free America like never before.