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America's current state of decline is readily explained, but not irreversible. Our founders established a system which affirmed and relied upon Natural Law to minimize the need for the codified laws of government.

We have abandoned, if not virtually outlawed the notion that there is such a thing as Natural Law. Society has been led to marginalize those that cling to such antiquated notions as moral absolutes. Our founders envisioned a society where the people were self governing and capable of correctly disposing of coarse, offensive, and immoral behavior through its intolerance of such. Now, the intolerance of immorality is the offending behavior that demands exile. During our descent we have been told that we must reject the notion of a higher authority. Now we are told that disbelief is no longer adequate, but fashion demands we act in open defiance of the same higher authority we were told does not exist, and nobody sees the absurdity of this.

As soon as we reject the notion of moral absolutes, we reject the existence of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and undermine the very pilings on which this nations was built.

We have met the enemy and he is us. God save us from ourselves.

Our founders established a system which affirmed and relied upon Natural Law to minimize the need for the codified laws of government.

True, very true.

Many Americans, in an effort to discover how government slipped its leash of servitude, have rediscovered what the Founders inherently knew.

No knowledge is truly lost. It may lie dormant and unnoticed, but it patiently waits for someone seeking it to return it to the light of day.

Knowledge is truth, and truth, like a lion, needn't be defended.

It merely needs to be released from it's cage.

The Scottish Jurist and Historian Sir Alex Fraser Tyler published a collection of lectures in 1801. He advanced a theory of democracy based on historical observation:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

IMHO, our country is very near the edge of the abyss. I hope and pray that with the Republicans controlling the White House and both Houses of Congress we can step away from the edge. But I haven't been heartened much so far.

The Pubies don't seem to understand that to win long term we gotta play hardball. Being "nice" may win a few battles, but it won't win the war. We need to "do what it takes to win."

Is there any doubt what the RATS would be doing if the situation were reversed [shudder].

I would like to expand here, finally. The faith people of America have in their country has been slowly been usurped through fictitious judicial authority. Elections have become meaningless, and the liberals support it. It is no longer our country and that must change immediately. Anyone who agrees must, I stress the importance, must make one's opinion known to congressional representatives who seek reelection in the next term. There is no other recourse, judicial nominees are appointed or we lose.