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We Have Awakened.

Americans went to sleep.

Most people are not into politics. They’re into the outdoors, their kids, television shows, home maintenance, movies, fishing, hunting, playing cards, collecting things, or any of the infinite variety of things by which people in a free society occupy themselves.

But some people, we’ll call them liberals, occupy themselves worrying. They worry about the planet. They worry about children not their own. They worry about food additives. They are bent out of shape with the idea of Internet Service Providers prioritizing web surfing over music downloads. They’re intent on giving people who can’t afford it a mortgage to pay. It is in their eyes essential to keep people from eating tasty animals.

In our schools and colleges, liberal professors have been telling receptive little minds that to be a good person is to care about all of that stuff. They’ve been building an alternate and false history of America, in which a group of wealth men, we’ll call them the bourgeois, have used their position to keep power and wealth for themselves, denying the people at the bottom, we’ll call them the proletariat, their “fair share”.

All of this worry, and the hatred and envy of people with money, leads to people motivated to extend their power with politics.

But with the bank bailouts, auto bailouts, and attempts to spend our way out of debt, the vast majority of Americans who believe that America is not a country divided on class lines have awakened. The dream of America, and its exceptional difference, is that here there is opportunity limited only by aptitude and willingness to work.

Your religion doesn’t matter. You skin color doesn’t matter. Your gender, politics, family background — none of that matters. Only your desire and ability matter.

We reject your divisions of us, liberals. We are far more numerous than you are. We are organizing, coming together, and discovering that most of the people we meet think like we do, not like you do.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless. We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.

And we are coming for you.

COMMENTS

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    …you have carried a theme forward and made it resound. I can hear the drum roll now.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • JadedByPolitics

    NEVER again will politicians of either party be able to work as ONE ruling Party against the American public. They are NOT Kings and Queens and WE are not their subjects, WE ARE THEIR EMPLOYERS!

  • Brian Hibbert

    I’ve been doing battle with a sociology professor over this one:
    “We reject your divisions of us, liberals.”

    He just can’t understand why I think that him telling people that whites are racist because they have a “power” over people of other colors is in itself racist. He just can’t quite grasp the concept that he’s spreading racism by spreading the idea of this unseen power that is conferred with skin color.

    Progressives…..

  • tapout

    I accept that my inaction and inattentiveness to things political has played a role in allowing us to get into the situation we are in. But I and millions like me are now waking up and becoming active in the political process. Our country has been hijacked, and now we will fight to restore sanity. I will not leave my kids a country like the one it is on the path of being “transformed” into. I am now an activist on the side of American Exceptionalism and will do everything I can to help restore the principles on which we were founded.

    • http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/blog/loren_heal Socrates

      I’ve been a blogger here at Redstate for over four years now, and was blogging about politics before that.

      But I and those like me discovered that we, too, were sleepwalking. Writing posts to each other, congratulating ourselves on how right we were.

      But we didn’t actually do anything.

      One day Erick (or the site, through him) announced that Redstate was going to take a more overtly political direction, and would go about winning actual elections.

      It drove off some of the old guard, the deep thinkers, to what I’d call calmer waters. I’d fancied myself a deep thinker, and I went inactive for a while, too. I still had Redstate at the top of my RSS reader, and would post diaries and comment now and then.

      But one day a post by Cold Warrior drew me to the Precinct Project, leading me to get plugged in to my county party apparatus and become a Precinct Committeeman.

      Anyone can do that. If you really want to see your labor turn into votes, then you must do it, too.

      A side benefit is the friendship and camaraderie that happens when you connect with people in your area who want the same things for it that you do.

  • joecarrsr

    Usually 99% of what we worry about never happens so you worry for nothing. Let all Americans in November vote on the Politicians and the Issues that matter most to the American public. Let us shrink this Government to a size that we can live with and then be able to go about our business and make our own decisions and Stop/Halt in its tracks the Government from trying to tell us what to do from every angle they can. This is not their job. Most of the jobs they are supposed to be doing does not get done and when it does it is only their way. Just forget the American populace. Things will change drastically in November and they have to change for the better. They have to because it can’t get much worse. I know it is only November 2010 but let us clean the House and Senate for Christmas this year and the American people can really enjoy the Holiday Season. This is my Christmas wish.