Monday, November 1, 2010

It's time, son...

I remember when I watched the premier episode of the WB teen superhero drama Smallville.  Poor Clark Kent with all his new, frightening powers.  He sulks, in a fit of confusion and ever-present angst, when his father approaches him and says, "It's time, son."
"Are you telling me I'm an alien?  And you have my spaceship stored in the attic?"
"Actually, it's in the storm cellar."
Well, as unrelated to tomorrow's pivotal election as that story may be -- don't worry, it will all come together, give it time! -- this message is clear:  It's Time.
It's time for traditional America to fight back the hundred year march of the progressive movement to socialism.  It's not exaggeration, it's not hyperbole.  It's actually very apparent when viewed with an open, reasoned mind.
While America was getting jobs, raising families, building businesses and living lives, progressives were entrenching themselves in every elemental facet of the structure of America.  Business, education, the bureaucratic governmental complex, you name it, they dug in.  Stop and think for a moment:  Why do you think the federal government is the largest employer in the country?  Why do you think the tax code is so incredibly, unbelievably, mind-explodingly complex?  Why do you think government employee unions are so powerful and only support Democrats' campaigns?  It's a generational assault in small steps against intrinsic American freedom and individual autonomy.  The parasite comparison is actually pretty appropriate.
It's Time.  The leftists have now removed all pretenses and have shown their intentions.
Shortly after President Obama was inaugurated, in an effort to boost support for his infamous "Stimulus" bill, he chastised his opposition.  A lot of people say that it's just a spending bill, he acknowledged.  Then, with as much smugness as any overly self-important, pretentiously intellectual urbanite could muster, he chided, voice raised to fever pitch, condescension and animus dripping from his razor sharp tongue, "Well what do you think a stimulus is?!"
Personally, I think that's when he lost half the country.  The rest bailed when he suggested a woman should just give her elderly mother a pain pill, rather than the government suffer providing life saving heart surgery.
It's Time.  Remember the tremendous power of We The People.  It's more than just heat vision or the ability to fly.  It's the power to tame a land and change the world.  It's time for this generation to pick itself up, dust itself off and remember that what made this country great is the slogan found on its currency, even if it is just flimsy paper -- E Pluribus Unum.  From many, One.  This country is a nation of empowered individuals, working to achieve greatness separately and together, free to fail and free to succeed. 
This election isn't just about a President and his party, it's about a country remaining free for generations to come.  This is not just a referendum on a man, it is a referendum on an idea he holds -- that America is no longer great and that the concept of a constitutionally limited government is a relic from the past to be discarded.  This should prove to be monumental in its rebuke of Leftism and an optimistic, beautiful affirmation of Americanism. 
It's Time.  Get out there and Vote.

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