The Truth Simply Is (2005)

Our duty, and our daily task as American citizens, is to shape the larger affairs of state by making our influence felt as widely as possible in the halls of our state legislature and Congress.

If you were to get on a bus with many other passengers, one has to hope you care where you’re going? Would you prefer at least a general consensus of the destination? Is any bus, going anywhere, acceptable to you? Would it better for you to be heard and influence the destination than be “taken for a ride?” The destination of America is no less important.

Presidents come and go, but Congress and the Supreme Court endures.

To understand how the United States became who and what we are as a nation, realize that every government decision, both in this and past generations, has led us to this point in history. We are, as a nation, the cumulative result of decades of judicial decisions and Congressional legislation. Legislation is without exception agenda driven, politically motivated, sometimes self-serving and often ill-conceived. Yesterday's and today’s Congressional legislation eventually becomes cumulative, which when combined with judicial fiats of the Supreme Court, creates the American culture you can expect for the next decade.

The polarization of our culture is the proximate result of too many binding national decisions occurring outside a legitimate democratic process, i.e., imposed on Americans without their vote.

One has only to look closely at each “first family” to accurately assess the culture of the prevailing times during that presidency. Bill and Hillary Clinton, for example, were a frightening reflection of our national self and our decaying society, committing seeming endless felony crimes without accountability, defended by liberals who seemed themselves without faith or value systems, selling everything that wasn’t nailed down including national defense technology, running the White House Motel and looting the place upon their departure. The nation hadn’t seen an act like the Clintons since the Atlantic City Diving Horse. The same mentality pervades both political parties in today's Congress.

As you would expect, every liberal expressed pride in the Clintons and every conservative felt revulsion. In large part, American’s today have never been more polarized on the direction and destination of their bus.

We cannot always expect to agree on solutions to our problems. Some solutions are focused on more liberty (less government), and others on socialist remedies (more government). In the end we shall have to adjust our differences in a minimal spirit of goodwill and subordinate our lesser interests to the general welfare of the majority.

The important thing to do as citizens is to look at our national problems with an open mind in a spirit of fairness. Be willing and eager to listen to all sides, determined to find the truth. To do this, to the extent possible, read and listen endlessly, assemble what is learned into useful information and then make decisions. It is never possible to have all the facts or enough information to make perfect decisions, but more provides a greater opportunity to make the correct decision. "More" often begins with education and never ends in real American citizenship.

Because somebody says something, or it is published in the print media, doesn’t make it either true or a fact. That’s where individual research and “mining for facts” becomes important. It is fair to say that the facts will lead to the truth, which in turn will lead to an answer, or at least a preferred direction. The truth of a matter (as it is without makeup) is what is important. Truth is the converse of spin and obfuscation. Which you choose to believe, truth or spin, or which is truth or spin, is ideological.

Your best course is to be the slave of no man or a blind follower of any man's crusade, liberal or conservative. The better choice would be to "serve" the American people with honor and integrity rather than permitting the self-interest of those attempting to rule. In other words, we should be working for the welfare of all American citizens rather than political self-interest of only a few. Accept and follow the sovereignty of your own mind.

What is in the best interest of the majority of American citizens is most often in the best interest of America! For example, is less crime, better education and immigration control in the best interest of each American citizen? Then those issues should be a national priority and the consuming focus of Congress.

Many Americans derive their social attitudes and political perspective from one newspaper or one radio or television source. The media is well aware of the literacy limitations of many Americans, products of failed government education, who neither speak English nor read. Contemporary media admits their presentations are intentionally biased and that they are pursuing a political agenda. The media goal has become one of targeting and misinforming Americans in the pursuit of socialist ideology, i.e., more government rather than less, with media ensconced as the brain cell of the Democratic Party.

Many citizens, in what could be called "the lost generation," are legitimate victims of the public school system, and/or sadly ignorant by choice. These tragic individuals, of all heritages, have little choice but to make decisions based solely on their own prejudices and emotions, most of which are derived from the media, which has degenerated in recent years to the level of propaganda. Statesmen have become rare. As a result of the main stream media, the Ship of State is torn and threatened by conflicting gales of uninformed public prejudice.

One way we can turn it around is with the truth and a vote.

It is not easy to know the truth, especially if a person denies clear channel access to their intellect and common sense. There is always the possibility that even the most conscientious citizen will make mistakes in judgment. Truth, supported by facts and history, remains an important principle if democracy in America is to survive and adapt itself to the new and changing threats of our time, not the least of which is Islamofascism.

You should be aware that there are many among us to whom truth is irrelevant. They call themselves liberals or centrists. Expect nothing less and be surprised at nothing. Endless falsehoods are necessary to cause you to vote against your own self interest, and in effect to steal your vote.

To a liberal, the end justifies the means; the result justifies the tactics; their power justifies the lies. To a conservative, the truth simply is! Always has and always will be.

Red State Patriot
9-17-2005

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