The Need for a New American Revolution

By Kenneth D. Ericksen
July 5, 2008

Over the past several years I have watched the country I love lose more and more of its greatness and beauty. For me it began on election night 2000. I should have seen it coming eight years before when Ross Perot gave Bill Clinton the presidency by splitting the conservative vote. Although George Bush the first did his own part by not being a true conservative. Bill Clinton disgraced the Presidency like no other president before him, not even Nixon. I am not dumb enough to think that Clinton was first unethical president, but he, his party, and the main stream media made it an acceptable norm. His presidency did more to destroy the moral fiber in this nation than any other presidency before or since. Clinton opened the door to the current downfall but election night 2000 opened the flood gates.

Going back to election night 2000, I could feel bitterness and divisiveness and knew there would be a long a bitter fight. I knew the democrats would not let go or forget no matter what the outcome. I saw our Constitution being put to one of its greatest test in over a hundred years. The Constitution passed the test with flying colors but the current political and main stream media systems got a big fat ‘F’.

Then came 9-11, and it looked for a moment that the nation would heal and rally around the flag. But again, the current political and media systems got a big fat ‘F’. The divisiveness and self importance of both political parties and the main stream media kept the country from uniting and facing the true evils facing our nation. Now instead of just fighting terrorism we must also fight socialism.

I am not a historian or historical expert but I do enjoy history and believe we can learn a lot from those that have gone before. In that vein, I was reading the “Declaration of Independence” recently and found something that seamed to parallel our times. We are all familiar with first sentence of the second paragraph:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.

Many may even be aware of the first part of the second sentence:

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed…”

But I wonder how many people are aware of the rest of that sentence and the rest of the paragraph? :

“…That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

I have no doubt that the “Declaration of Independence” and “The Constitution of the United States of America” are inspired documents and should be revered and held in the highest of respect. I also see the time is coming or will shortly come when the good people of this nation will no longer be willing to suffer the evils imposed on them by their government. “We the People…” have given the power to govern to the leaders in Washington and “We the People…” can demand a change to leadership in Washington. I do not, for a moment, suggest a new form of government, but a return to the foundation as set forth by the founding fathers. “We the People…” have, through our complacency, let Washington control more and more of our lives. We have become a welfare state. What once was a free market economy is rapidly becoming a government controlled economy (socialism). If left unchecked we will give up our freedoms for a communistic type of government.

This nation is great not because of the leaders in Washington but because of its people. We are what make this nation work. We are the power that moves its forward. We determine our destiny, “WE THE PEOPLE…” not “THEM THE GOVERNMENT”.

There is one other power that makes this country great. For the last forty to fifty years there has been long a deliberate attack on this power. There has been a movement within our government to remove this power from the conscience of the American people and to undermine its real and true power. That power is GOD. This is “One Nation under God”. Our government will never put a name on God or tell us how to worship him or her, but our nation is founded on the love and believe of God. It was by his hand that a miracle took place in Philadelphia in September 1787 that we call the Constitution of the United States of America. May we never forget to give thanks to God for the blessings we have as citizens of the United States of America.