Sheep and wolf

The answer to most problems is to return to fundamentals. Get back to basics. This is the suggestion of the author of The 5000 Year Leap. I took his advice, leaving Chicago in 1976 the bi-centennial anniversary of the Declaration of independence, fittingly declaring my independence. Here are some further thoughts from the great book on the founding fathers and our Constitution. David Ramsey suggests that if Americans had not revolted, our frugality, industry and simplicity of manners would have been lost in an imitation of British elegance, luxury and effeminacy. Today America is in thrall to Obama and his ‘spoiled’ elitists. Virtuous people are truly free, but when we are vicious and debauched in our manners, we shall be the most abject slaves. This is noted by Samuel Adams who could not have foreseen the extreme liberal, leftist, uncivil, boorish behavior and speech of supporters of our current President. Of course, this is what happens when religion and freedom travel in opposite directions according to Samuel Adams. As far as we stray from the good, that far we stray from being a great country. Another warning comes from Benjamin Franklin, that when half of America becomes discontented with the oppression of taxes, the greater need the President and his Congressional sycophants will have of money to distribute among their partisans and pay the troops ( Obama’s cadres, ‘community organizers’? ) to suppress all resistance and enable them to plunder in pleasure. Conditions could not be more bifurcated in politics and ideology today. Local self-government is the keystone to the preservation of our freedoms, yet judges and minority advocates often overrule the majority’s will. They recently did so in California with the marriage issue limited to a man and a woman. We are allowing Obama to literally sign away our inalienable freedoms. James Madison continually warned of gradual encroachments that abridge freedoms. Ben Franklin also warns those who make themselves sheep because they will be eaten by wolves. Picture yourself as a sheep, a follower and you must admit that what you will walk through will not be clover.