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As Blessed John Paul the Great used to say, quoting St. Paul: Be not afraid!

We have far more in the way of assets than we tend to realize. Did you expect to see the fall of the Iron Curtain and of the Berlin Wall a year before either occurred? Lech Walesa and the Polish Labor Union Solidarity (with assists from Ronaldus Maximus, Margaret Thatcher and JP the Great) and the long-persecuted people of the Warsaw Pact nations had the necessary hope and activism to make that historic change. Obamunism is not as well-entrenched as was Bolshevism.

We still have free elections, badly corrupted but free. We have freedom of speech and of the press (and media) and of assembly and the right to petition governmment for redress of grievances and of freedom of worship and that sticks bitterly in Obambam's craw and those of his sycophants. There are many even among liberals who instinctively recoil here in the US in response to any threat to any 1st Amendment freedom.

We have millions and millions of military veterans who mostly are willing to continue defending freedom in the public square as private citizens. Many are blooded veterans of warfare.

Going back to our first War for Independence and ever since, Americans instinctively and rationally hate, loathe and despise taxation, believe in their individual right to keep and bear arms and have the right to jury trials (after the soap box has failed and before the ammunition box is tried).

Even SCOTUS has come around on the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Gelding the fedgov by use of the 10th Amendment will take a little longer but is no longer unthinkable.

The gummint skewels (PS 666) are still the same old ignorance factories but intellectually it is like Chinese food. It may be entertaining temporarily but does not stick to the ribs.

That is why God invented homeschooling which is effectively protected by a 7-2 decision in 1927 called Pierce vs. the Society if Sisters. The Ku Klux Klan took over the Oregon state government in that era and tried to suppress Catholic parochial schools by REQUIRING all school age children to be in PUBLIC schools during normal school hours. SCOTUS decided then and has never looked back that the content and location of a child's education is entirely up to that child's parents if THEY choose not to use gummint skewels. Protestant academies, Orthodox Jewish schools and homeschooling are all protected by the decision in Pierce vs. the Society of Sisters. Some actions for freedom are taken without fanfare but have quiet and profound effects.

In our area, parents formed their own Catholic school (some students are not Catholic), where teachers like my wife are teaching high quality morality, doctrine, skills, and classic academics. The school (K-12) has purchased and is conducted in an old public school building. There are a modestly disproportionate percentage of black and Hispanic students but the school seems never to have graduated a single kid who can tolerate much less vote for liberalism or worse. The gummint skeweled kids will need leaders and that school will provide them.

Many local priests in our verrry conservative and Catholic diocese come to the school to lecture in spite of the fact that the school has no formal connection to the diocese in spite of the fact that our bishop is a pillar of the old Faith. He is 75 and will not be bishop forever. The parents who run the school will see to its continued conservative Catholicism and choose similar folks to replace them when the time comes. Spirituality is fostered at a church in the city which is fully Catholic, protected and encouraged by the bishop, and where only the Latin or Tridentine Mass is provided by the verrry conservative Institute of Christ the King.

There is positive interfaith cooperation on matters of agreement like pro-life activity, protection of marriage (one man, one woman, no "spouses" who are household pets or space aliens or threesomes), resistance to corrosive lifestyles, etc. Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, conservative Lutherans, Assembly of God, Evangelical Free Church and non-denominational folks on those issues on which we agree and it helps all of us to have a decent respect for one another across denominational lines.

The Tea Party movement which is driving liberals further into their frenzied mental illnesses. Its leadership is too anonymous and too numerous to be treated to the usual libel and slander campaigns of the radical left and other Obamunists.

By January, 2013, we should have the White House back and Obambam in permanent exile. By then, we should have a comfortable and increasingly conservative Senate majority of Republicans. The 2012 election will choose the senators who will hold the seats that are presently 23 Demonrats (including 8 retirees and counting) and only 10 Republicans. Lugar may well be disposed of and maybe Olympia Snowe. The increasingly disappointing Judd Gregg of New Hampshire will be retired in favor of a likely improvement. Scott Brown ain't much but he is not Ted the Blowhard. Etc. The 2014 election has another impacted class of Demonrats and should give the GOP a filibuster-proof majority. We can then, ummmm, reform the fedcourts.

Those are many of the good things happening. Let us turn to the darker side of the ner future.

Bill Buckley's death has left a gaping hole not likely to soon be filled. National Review will be lucky to survive and seems very unlikely to provide the intellectual analysis and leadership and infectious humor that Bill provided. We need a flagship publication NR or otherwise. That publication and its leaders must have the intellectual gravitas to purge the movement of its embarrassing outliers as Bill did to Rand, the Birchers and and anti-Semites. The purge of Ron Paul and the paleos suggests itself as a worthy goal.

We need youth groups serving the purposes formerly served by Young Americans for Freedom, Young Republicans and College Republicans. They promoted economic libertarianism through distribution of the books of von Hayek, von Mises, Hazlitt and others without pacifist foreign policy heresies. They taught young people parliamentary procedure, other political skills, how to write press releases, how to do media events, how to organize grass roots groups, why we despise marxism, nazism and anti-semitism, who we may safely ally with among folks more liberal than we are, a decent respect for Western Civilization how to effectively strategize, how to prioritize issues, etc. My aging generation of New Rightists left the field of battle without adequate organizations that trained us being nourished and replenished after we elected Ronaldus Maximus. That was our mission. We accomplished it but we did not lay enough groundwork to continue the effort after Reagan.

We need effective liaison with non-political but culturally conservative groups. I belong to the Knights of Columbus but am concerned that the Supreme Council leadership is turning towards liberal weakness. We had a brief period of corrosive liberalism in the early 1970s under a rare leftist Supreme Knight. His misbehavior led to his replacement by Virgil Dechant, a Kansas conservative and one of our very best and most conservative leaders who served about 30 years and restored the K of C. A few years ago, Dechant retired and was replaced by Carl Anderson, a former Reagan White House staffer who is moving in numerous liberal directions reminiscent of the bad old days of the early 1970s. The Knights of Columbus is but one of millions of groups in our nation of joiners but, properly considered and utilized, such groups are the infrastructure of potential counter-revolution against Obamunism not by formal political involvement but just by being what hey were founded to be: private sector organizations infused with traditional American and Judaeo-Christian values. The Knights of Columbus has about 2 million members here and in Mexico, the Phillipines, Canada and Poland. When formerly Catholic institutions (Notre Dame University, for example, giving an honorary degree to Obambam and having him as commencement speaker) they hear from the K of C. The Illinois State K of C convention attacked and condemned Notre Dame for violating CHURCH law by inviting a pro-abort such as Comrade O to speak on campus. Think of all the other organizations, Catholic or not, that can similarly bring pressure to bear against the bad guys in their respective venues.

How many Americans belong to the National Rifle Association and to Gun Owners of America and to the Second Amendment Foundation? How many belong to genuinely conservative local, state and national taxpayers' associations? Prayer groups? Bible study groups? Automobile enthusiast groups (liberals despise the internal combustion engine)? Civil War re-enactors? Veterans' groups?

As usual, I run the risk of needlessly prolonging the agony by the length of this post. Hopefully it will be food for thought. God bless you and yours.