Posted by
VBushmills on Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:19:40 AM
In case you didn't know, the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, was designed in the West to coincide with the largest celebration in the rest of the world, which was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's 100th birthday celebration.
Bolshevik!
No really.
It was in all the papers. Just like the Devil, no one speaks unfavorably about Lenin any longer. If you are looking for a pivot point in the popular culture, that's a big one.
April 22, 1970 was the day Lenin became a demi-god, and ironically it was the first day of the end of the Soviet Union...for you see, by making Lenin a god so close to the original Orthodox Easter, those who could still remember, did.
It wasn't Lenin's fault that he was born so close to Easter, but the Soviet leadership made the most of it, turning an April Easter-time celebration into a week long spring vacation, ending with May Day. They produced "li'l baby Lenin" pins, created a "garden of Gethsemene" pilgrimage to the tent camp he stayed before re-entering Russia in 1917, and even threw in Easter lilies.
In 1902 V I Lenin wrote "What Is to Be Done", which I read in 1968. Hence the title.
So, what is to be done?
If you pay much attention to talking heads (just look at the more popular blogs on Town Hall) you will note a great deal of redundancy.
This is because everything than can be said positively about the Constitution, American exceptionalism, the American way of life, "conservatism" has already been said. Theer is nothing new. Everything that can be said about the enemies of these gems of liberty also has been said. We all try to find new and different ways to say these things, in the same way Coca Cola keeps looking for another perfect "I'd like to Teach the World to Sing" jingle, but we're all pretty much repeating ourselves.
So thank God for breaking news each day, for those who do this for a living are indeed grateful that they can find a new backdrtop to whatveer point they've been driving home. Even more than expanding or changing their templates, news provides fodder for restating them...in more and more interesting and new ways.
Still, other than the events of the day, there is that same message.
This is not a bad thing, as we have written here before about the value of repitition (redundancy). After all, that is how the Left has beaten their lies into the pop culture's head for years now. It is our job now to try to make our truths just as cool as their lies, and apply the same 2/4 drum beat. It's our job to make Liberty cool and Statism lame.
For you see, there are some things that simply have to be done or it will all be lost, no matter how much we know.The Information phase is almost dead. The Intelligence phase is about to begin, followed by Plans and Actions.
And there are only a couple of open roads by which these things can be done. If we cannot build a constitutional fire in the hearts of the Republican Party then we will have simply take that fire elsewhere and run the GOP out of our lives...forever. Good riddance. So much for road #1. The GOP has less than a year to decide whether they will try to be easier on the eyes to socialism, or become true standard bearers of the Constitution.
If they chose the former, this will make our job as citizens much harder, and require another generation to reach our goal, which means, much like Washington in 1778, instead of preparing to take back our institutions, we will be fighting rearguard actions while we retrain and re-arm ourselves toward that day when the next generation (or the next) will finally be ready to reclam those things that have been stolen.
But we have to make all these decision very quickly, for those who linger on, hoping against hope that a true man of integrity will rise in the GOP, may be swallowed up. The first date of decision will be November 2010, a mere 18 months away.
Only They know we are coming and will do their best to see that our hopes are dashed. And they have the keys to the state legislatures, secretaries of state, county registrars and billions now to spend on resurrecting dead people who can show up almost anyplace where needed during the election. So don't put all your eggs into the 2010 basket.
We have to have plans ready for the day after 2010, and we have to make those plans now.
VB