The past 18 months, we've been posting here about the nature of Freedom and the nature of Anti-freedom. Now that the results of November 4th are in, those several thousand words can be reduced to a few. And there is a simple math equation which can be written this way:
    If you believe in the US Constitution, and the rights of every human being, as it reveals, to be "self-evident", securing the right to pursue "life, liberty and happiness" (yes I know these word are in the Declaration of Independence), and that this is the essence of not just the American republic, but the essence of all humankind's desire for freedom, then you will have to accept that you are now in the MINORITY in America.
    What to do? What to do?
     Persuade?
     I think not. Even as the average American is no longer in tune with the Constitution, or those liberties, in part due to a narcissistic popular culture, but more so, a cynical education establishment, still we believe the core sentiments of the Constitution to be part of the American soul. I think we are still the majority, although it is very unlikely to show up in a vote for many years to come. Therefore, making more and more people aware of what they have just lost will not bring about a greater voice at the polls. A first rule of socialism is, once in power, you move quickly to cement that power and make sure you are never removed from power by the same methods you used to attain it.
     Without a major sea change in Congress the people will not take back power through the vote. I know most conservative talking heads disagree, but  I think they are looking at protecting their rice bowls more than anything else. I hope they are right, but fear they are wrong, and believe we need to proceed using a worst-case, not best-case scenario.
     A simple truth: The political class is no longer afraid of the People.
     What to do? What to do?
      Go get Ol' Betsy from over the mantle?
      Actually, this is what They would like you to do, and I'm quite sure, a few of you will, sadly influenced more by half a bottle of Jack the Black than the Constitution. They already know who has 80% of the guns in America, and would love nothing more than to have an excuse to come get them, and a few single solitary drunks, standing on their front porch taking pot shots at the first innocent patrol car to drive by may be just that excuse.
      True, it would be nice to be able to go to bed every night for the next four years, knowing that Congress has had to barricade itself in barracks behind the Capitol compound "green zone", going to work each day in underground trams rather than limos, and having to sneak out of town, returning to their home districts on stealth USAF shuttles, as they do in Afghanistan, and do their districts' business in the dead of night in undisclosed locations.
      It would be nice to see all the bureaucrats and "Big" establishments, Education, Labor, even Business, have to sneak to work each day through rear entrances disguised as dock workers, janitors and domestic servants. It would be nice to deprive them of what they want most, which is to parade before us as our betters.
      That's what I mean by fear.
      But, alas, the prescience of Barack Obama is one step ahead of us, for it is "not for nothing" he wants to form a National Security Force. I just don't know which group will be living in a walled and gated community. But there is almost for sure plans for that sort of contingency already. A popular uprising against the political class is already being attended to.
      What to do? What to do?
      Sure, the political class no longer fears the People, and it is clear that we have no direct power to influence the ruling 59% of that class. They will move ahead as if we were not here, no matter how many more of us see the light as the next two years unfold. So Rush Limbaugh and the like hold no answers to this problem. More knowledge won't fix anything. A deeper understanding of just what liberalism, or socialism, really is, won't matter. Just being better people, and clutching our Bibles, or our Constitution, or both, while maybe preserving our souls, will do little to restore these basic rights of Man back to Man.
       Many of you will fall back on the age old question, which (I'm doing this without research today) I believe John Stuart Mill addressed 200 years ago, namely: If a democratic peoples vote out the existence of democracy, is that vote valid?
       The answer is unequivocably "No". The Constitution lays out a set of rights that belong to Man just by being born. While "socialism" may be lawful in the sense that the state can then coerce people to abide by its dictates, it is not lawful in the transcendental sense. Read the "Right and Duty" part of the Declaration. It is a statement as to why it is morally right to break the law. Hundreds of Germans in 1945 were hung because they obeyed the law rather than violated it. 
       We just rarely get to see the stakes so clearly, as they did in Philadelphia. This fight, from 1776 til now, has always been a struggle between absolute Good and absolute Evil in terms of human liberty. There has has always been law. Only which law? Evil has just shown, and will put exclamation marks to this point in the next four years, that there is no middle ground, as so many of you would like there to be. They are now The Law.
       We have a duty to respond and take it back. Majority rule can never remove or alter our unalienable rights. Just remember, fewer than 25% of the American people fought for, and handed Liberty over to the rest of the people by running John Bull and George III from these shores. It is a law of nature that the majority, in almost any fight, will stand by and wait to see who is winning before choosing sides. America is a nation of shop keepers and this is what shopkeepers do. It is in their nature. 25% will have to do.
       What to do? What to do?
       We've already written that we need to make the political class afraid of us once again. Although cauldrons of boiling tar, feathers, even keel-hauling are an appetizing picture, I don't think we can make that work these day. (Damn!)
        We have already posted that we need to be looking to the long view, making local and state legislators fearful of us, thence, sending off a new class of politician to replace the old. New leadership all around, that's what a real sea change is all about.
        But we also know this grass roots counter revolution will not go on unnoticed for very long. The feds can be relied upon to reduce the powers of the states (the Constitution be damned...hell, it already has been for years in this regard), and the states can be relied upon to reduce the power of local counties and cities...all with a view to reduce the power of the people to "trickle up" that change at the top.
        What to do? What to do?
        Today I add (and these are my thoughts, not necessarily those of my colleagues) that we need to "convince" CONSERVATIVE members of Congress to change the tone. While I hold George W Bush to be a fine Christian man, his "change in tone" has allowed the taste for the Constitution and human liberty to be slapped clean out of our mouths. I have not quite figured out whether, or how, I can forgive such a vanity...but when honor and Christian belief are used to destroy such a fine thing as human liberty and the Constitution, it is indeed a vanity, not a virtue. Dante put it at Circle Four of his Inferno. God will judge. Insha'allah.
        For instance, a few days ago, I watched Tom Price, (R-GA 6) interviewed on Fox News about the stimulus package being floated by the incoming Obama administration and the Democrat congressional leadership. Dr Price was right on in his factual analysis...drearily so. I wrote him and asked to to pep it up a bit. After all, being right on the numbers, the issues, the philosophy, hasn't seemed to matter the past few years. While being right, conservatism has lost considerable ground. So has the GOP. And no, it ain't just the economy.
        Maybe it's in the delivery? Maybe, instead of sounding like an Episcopalian Sunday School teacher, more people might sit up straight if conservative legislator's came off more like Hell-fire-and-damnation Constitution-thumpers.
       In Price's interview I didn't hear a single "corrupt", "criminal" or "stupid"...God, how Lefties hate being called stupid. Is "wrong" the toughest word these guys know?
       The next day, Sen Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) said almost the same thing, again, almost the same way. To me it is inconceivable to be in the same chamber as a Harry Reid, or Chuck Schumer, just to name only two, and let the opportunity pass to publicly state what smarmy sonsabitches they are, at least once a day. Talk about building a better mousetrap, the media would be rushing to my door every day, just to see what new cuss words I've come up with. (I have a thousand at least).
        In my view, conservatives in Congress need to get a 100 emails, faxes, phone calls and letters per day, not asking, but demanding that they up the ante and change the tone. Moses Sands had a term "putting the skunk eye", or mark of anathema, on a person. Tell them, we'd better not see you on the golf course, or at a black tie function, in the same camera shot with Harry Reid. If you want to hang out with prostitutes, we'll be happy to send along an extra $100 a week so you can drive over to Baltimore for a couple of hours. 
        I already know what Mitch will say. And most of the others. Gotta go along to get along. Hold the lines, hold the lines. No matter, just keep repeating it. It may take awhile, but it will sink in. If not, let them know, if this new tone is really against their nature, we'll get someone else. You don't carry nice to a knife fight. Their rice bowl is really yours. Let them know that.
         What to do? What to do?

         What I have just written...and you can judge yourself its value...is right out of the Sol Alinsky playbook, as amended for modern, internet-based "community action." It is what had the Democrat leadership streaming to the dailyKos Convention in 2006. It is what got Bush "impeached" dozens of times over around the country. It is what turned many Americans (a majority?) against the war in Iraq...and against their own heritage of liberating oppressed people. It is what caused a few Marines to be called mass-murderers...by an ex-Marine (Semper F-U!).
          At the beginning I stated the only way we can win back Congress through the vote is with a sea change. The Republican Congress will not do it on their own volition. They will not do it without a cattle prod.
          There is a small window of 2-4 years, who knows?, but if these things are to occur...you have to be the ones who makes the "Red Sea" part.
Vassar Bushmills.