Our government is based upon the idea that the centralized federal government will have as little power as possible to infringe on the rights and liberties of the people. With Obama in the White House, and the Dems in the Congress, that system is in serious jeopardy. There will be almost nothing to check the power of either branch of government, and their liberal agenda will almost certainly be passed.  

The conservative movement has to reorganize itself – especially the younger crowd (20-35 year olds) – and realize that it is up to them to get the job done if the country is to be taken care of with conservative values of individual liberty and responsibility once again. I call on all my peers to get involved, and to be the check and balance to the democrat party’s control of government. 

I say this because it had become plain that Obama’s rhetoric is increasingly empty. This was something that I believe that a lot of us knew – I certainly did – but most of the liberal lemmings and so-called ordinary people seemed unable to see through it. All of this, “Change! Change! Change!” malarkey blinded a lot of people who were unhappy (or at least thought they were unhappy) with the Bush administration. Though, if you asked most of them, they wouldn’t be able to tell you what Bush had done to them that was so egregious that they were this dissatisfied. All they knew for sure was that Obama was black, and seemingly articulate, and seemingly charismatic and to them that was just different enough that they wanted to vote for him. Never mind what his policies might be – do we even know that now? Never mind the fact that he has no experience or record to show his ability to accomplish anything. I guess none of that matters as long as he can sound convincingly non-threatening and can make people believe that he will solve all of their problems.

(NOTE: It is worth mentioning that the democrat controlled congress has been a party to the climate of American politics in the last 2 years, and their approval rating was even lower than Bush’s. Why on Earth didn’t Americans seem to want a change from that kind of stagnant cesspool congress?)  

Now post election, I have heard interviews on the news (CNN, MSNBC, FOX) where the reporters have gone to Obama supporters’ neighborhoods and asked why they voted for him. Inevitably the answer is, “Change, and Hope.” Then when asked whether or not they think that Obama can fix the economy, or help them out personally, the answer comes back, “Well, I hope so.” I’m not so sure that that is the kind of hope that they were thinking of when they voted for him. In this case, hope means the ardent wishing for something to happen that is good while not having to really put any effort in yourself or risk any personal responsibility on your success or failure. Real hope involves personal action and responsibility, not waiting for Obama (or any government for that matter) to maybe do something that might possibly help me but might never happen because of the nature of big government bureaucracy. 

And so much for “change!” Is Obama’s idea of change hiring one of the Clinton’s character assassins? Is his idea of change rolling out the same liberal agenda of tax hikes and government programs his party has been touting for the last 50 years? (They still don’t work!!) It looks like his idea of change is more of the same liberal politics. I can’t believe that this many Americans were duped into believing the that Lord Barak the Most Merciful would descend from on high to distribute (or I should say, re-distribute) loaves of bread and fish to the huddled masses of starving middle class Americans who have no other recourse but the rely on a messiah-like figure who they still really don’t even know anything about to save their homes, cars, and lives. What has America come to when our self sufficiency is more reliant on the government than our own ingenuity and drive. That’s the real American dream!       

So, that’s my post election posting. I still call on all young conservatives to unite! Let’s take our country back! Get all your friends to read Locke, and Paine, and Jefferson. Then they will truly understand the nature of our American Democracy, and will want to save it from the European socialist forces at work in our nation.

The only argument I have heard the Obama campaign use to counter any of this is, “It’s not socialist to take money from the rich to give someone a chance.” Or, “We’re trying to build this economy from the bottom up.” So really what’s happening here is that they are disagreeing with the definition of socialism rather than our characterization of what it is that they are actually doing. Ok. Let’s define socialism then.

Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as “a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.”

That is exactly what Obama is proposing! His campaign says that they have refuted these claims that he is a socialist. Well, they have disagreed with them, but that’s not the same thing as refuting. They have offered up no adequate alternate definition for what it is they are trying to do. They have run away from the hard questions like, “How is your plan not Marxist?” – Even refusing to do future interviews with news organizations who ask those tough questions. So if to ‘disagree’ now means to ‘refute’, McCain has refuted all of Obama’s assertions about him. And the next time someone tells me that Obama will be a good president and offers no evidence to support their claim, I will say respectfully, “I disagree.”     

In the past few weeks and months I have been shocked to discover how many republicans are admitting defeat, and if not that, are bemoaning their state of being. If you listen to a lot of talk radio like I do, I am sure that you have heard the same. This phenomenon displays two things to me. First, that the republican party isn’t doing enough to make its members feel actively engaged in victory, and two, that the conservative movement is not as closely tied with the republican party as it used to be.