By Les Dunaway
I want to refer you to a well written, upbeat-but-not-rose-colored-glasses piece in todays WSJ “The Future Still Belongs to America“. I want to highlight one paragraph which is, I believe, is key to the conclusion
New ideas disturb the peace of once-stable cultures. Young people grasp the possibilities of change and revolt at the conservatism of their elders. Sacred taboos and ancient hierarchies totter; women demand equality; citizens rise against monarchs. All over the world more tea is thrown into more harbors as more and more people decide that the times demand change.
Our country is suffering, now, from the altogether predictable results of decades of socialist policies and conservative gutlessness. Our chance for a bright future hangs not on new ideas but on ideas we’ve, somehow, lost track of. The founders of our country knew and understood the issues we’d face and designed a framework to carry us through.
For decades, every problem has been used to increase the “hand out rather than hand up” approach – because the proponents knew that every increase in dependency increased their power. Exactly what Benjamin Franklin referred to at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 when a woman asked “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” and Dr Franklin answered “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
With all the stuff we read every day (You do read every day, don’t you?) about problems around the world and with the very consistent theme of how these problems came about, it’s easy to wonder if the American Dream was just that – a dream – perhaps a fading dream.
Well, I spent Friday with a small group, part of a much larger group, who know what the problem is, who know who’s responsible and are working to save our nation and our way of life from the VERY real danger they face. When you attend the Cobb GOP 4th of July BBQ, please admire the really nice table cloths, center-pieces and decorations and take a moment to think about all the similar gatherings taking place this weekend – gatherings where people who love our country and thank God each day for this “shining city upon a hill” that He has empowered us to build through his Grace.
As you give Thanks for our country and our way of life during this celebration of our nations birth, I urge you to remember Isiah 6:8
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
and ask Our Father what YOU can do to preserve and protect this greatest nation in the history of man and when He answers you, go and do it.