Perhaps we truly are exceptional. Perhaps the idea of American exceptionalism is true. In that case perhaps we can come back from this, take back the country, and continue to live in prosperity and freedom with a better life bequethed to our children. It will take sacrifice, risk, and hard work. This is the time.
If we do not succeed in taking back the nation, future historians will read these stories of Rangel, and Barney Frank, and Clinton, and Obama, in the same way and with the same attitude that we today read about Nero, Caligula and Tiberius and the panoply of Senators and the Roman elite of their eras.
I keep coming back to this quote from Mike Vanderboegh:
This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.
But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.
And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.