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So if the establishment republicans are not going to repeal it, and they were the ones that assured Romney of the nomination, what does that say about Romney?

As in all things, we shall know our leaders by their actions, not their words.

Romney’s actions were not the actions of a conservative. Mitch McConnell’s words and actions are not the actions of a conservative.

I have no person for whom I can vote for President. Fortunately for my feelings of guilt, a vote for a President in Minnesota is a wasted vote anyway, because it always goes for the candidate closest to the socialist view of the world. The only votes that matter are down ticket.

The court and the Congress and the President are not on our side. That leaves my inalienable right to vote quite meaningless, in my opinion.

I will try to vote as best I can, but it will be with the understanding that events are no longer controlled by the people, but by the power brokers in banking, industry, law, the press, big agriculture, and energy and in so many other arenas.

When obvious solutions to our problems are met with such derision by so many in society, all that is left is to write about the glorious cause, the ineffable challenges and successes of the early republic, and the freedoms we one had. The administration started by talking of the glories of space travel when it retired the Shuttle - how fitting.

We are like the waning days of the empire of ancient Rome, when the Romans neither remembered whom they once were, nor had any vision about whom they could become again. Those that remembered, hated the idea of Rome, and lived from hand to mouth to satisfy their basic needs.

Before there can be a new enlightenment, we must first enter another dark age.

I fear we have done so, now merely awaiting the inevitable wars which temporarily buoy our sense of community, but which bleed us dry fighting over the remnants of what was once the greatest nation on Earth, to which every person on the globe looked for hope and inspiration. They will no longer be wars of liberation, but of hegemony and conquest.

The peoples of the world no longer look to us for inspiration, or as a guide to how freedom can be the guiding principle of an entire society. We offer nothing.

Now they all look to us for largess, and as a scapegoat for all that is evil in the world. We are the sacrificial lamb for all that they have done wrong. We are lead by a President who is holding our necks for the blade.

The best we can do now, is follow the example of the monks in the dark ages. We must preserve the knowledge, the writings, the symbols of the freedom we once had. We must light the wick to keep the fire burning in the still small places in the Earth, we must keep the faith, and hope that when the world is once again fed up with empty promises, the recovery may be made shorter by those who have kept the faith, followed in in the paths of intellectual honesty and integrity, and preserved the flame.

The enlightened few must band together.

We are again entering an epochal cycle that we can only hope is made shorter by the faithful.