The Ride is Just About Over

Election year 2016.
One day we may look back and think of it as a bad 'once upon a time' story -
Poorly written and so totally bizarre that it couldn't have possibly happened.




It was at least a life time ago that the Democrats had two candidates and the Republicans had seventeen. Then the Republicans had twelve. Then the Republicans and the Democrats had one. Then, some of the Republicans didn't like the person the people had elected. So, some of the GOP started bashing the Republican candidate, saying they weren't going to support him, calling him such eloquent names, as "buffoon." Being under the delusion that their wisdom was above the people who voted them into office in the first place ...it appeared after a while, that as they ranted,  they just resembled caricatures in Looney Tunes. Then, the Democrat candidate with reports of crime upon crime, including lying about Benghazi (that place far away we are supposed to forget about) continued to be supported. There were leaks and a wiener, like a picnic gone bad, but she kept on running. Republicans, Democrats, sounding like tabloid stories from The National Enquirer or maybe True Confessions, kept campaigning.
In the meantime, major newspapers, and the mega media joined in the tabloid reporting, and it all seemed like a nightmare.
What was true? It was like a bunch of school kids trying to make the other guy look worse than their guy. What to believe was left to the bewildered viewer.  I take that back.
It was worse than school kids - much worse.


The FBI decided they wanted to play and added turmoil and confusion  to the mix by their wishy-washy decisions - such a stalwart organization. Who'd have thought.....




Well, here it is.
The day before this 'once upon a time' story ends and another begins.
Some are saying, "I can't wait till it's over."
I haven't heard a single, "I just don't care," and that is unusual for a presidential election.
However, I have heard, "Well, it's whatever God wants."
That one had me stumped.
I recalled so many stories in the Bible where God wanted one thing and the people wanted another.
They always ended up in a terrible fix (ie slavery for hundreds of years under tyranny.)
No, it wasn't what God wanted. It was what they wanted.
You've heard the saying, "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
-Just saying.


This election is different.
I mean, the whole world seems to be involved in this one.
Have you heard, even Putin is supposedly putting his two cents in on this one.


Well, so it goes.


My feelings are pretty strong, too.
I can't help it.
I'd like to just be quiet and say it doesn't matter, but it does - and for one reason.
Freedom.
That's it.
Our forefathers had wisdom and foresight when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution.
Providence has led our nation.


Life is sacred.
Hard work should supersede entitlement.
Honesty is the best policy.
The more regulations, the more control, the less freedom we will have.
I say, freedom isn't just doing whatever you want - that results in chaos.
Freedom is being responsible, respectful, reliable, resilient.


Really.
I can't help but take this election seriously.
I consider it a privilege to have been born here in America.
I consider freedom a precious gift.
I understand the high price paid for this freedom.
My son is one who sacrificed his life.
Many people have given their lives through the ages
because they believed this freedom was worth dying for.




I leave you with words from President Ronald Reagan:

• We're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.
• You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down —
• If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.
• One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.


I don't want to see that 'once upon a time' in this country.


Look around.
Think about it.