A Time For Cheer

A Time For Cheer
By Adam de Angeli
Published 12/31/10

Politics is tiring work, and sometimes it can be downright depressing. As volunteers, we are motivated more by fear than opportunity. We fear a collapse of the dollar. We fear losing our jobs and our savings. We fear being persecuted by a tyrannical government. Few of us would cite the potential for long-term profit as a major reason for dedicating their time to such a challenge as confronting our rulers.

And at a glance, it's sometimes hard to see the reward for the effort.

It's difficult to look back on 2010 and see progress. Taxes and spending are up; debt and deficit at record highs. No serious economist (read: Austrian school) believes things will get better before they get worse.

Other conditions have not improved. The Middle East is still in shambles. Barbaric new "security" measures at America's airports are a painful reminder that our government is a pervert with a ray gun.

Most of us have friends who are well aware what is becoming of our world, but are too burned out to fight. These sincere patriots have given up. Who can blame them? The list of injustices perpetrated by our government is seemingly endless. Even after a victorious battle, it's hard to forget the battles lost that nobody had the time to fight. How's your state budget look for next year?

But all is not lost. It's important to keep a realistic perspective. The runaway train of state could not possibly have been stopped on a dime, much less sent back the other way. One election cycle, two years, is only a moment. It was only in 2008 that broad swathes of the public noticed where things were going.

Now, at last, we're hitting the the brakes. In the time scale of politics, a full turnaround will take years. But things are happening relatively fast.

A handful of major victories for Liberty this year may not seem like much, but compared with previous years, of NO victories, this is major progress.

Real Progress

When the Tea Party movement evicted Bob Bennett from his plush Senate seat, they stood proud and declared, "that was for the bank bailouts." And then they evicted long-time enemy of Liberty, Mike Castle. And Charlie Crist. And Arlen Specter. Harry Reid survived by the skin of his teeth. The establishment did not see this coming when it declared, "we are all socialists now."

Speaking of socialists, notice that their agenda is falling apart at the foundation. Not one of their planks has public support anymore.

Just a few years ago, the global warming agenda (to control commerce) had overwhelming public support. Newt Gingrich appeared in ads with Nancy Pelosi to feed the hysteria. But then Wikileaks showed the public that the science behind the hysteria was a fraud. The Copenhagen summit failed to produce any action, and the recent Cancun meeting was a joke. Not one major politician attended.

Then there was the debacle in the European Union, where fiscally responsible states (relatively speaking) were forced to bail out the fiscally negligent ones. Political turmoil ensued. The Euro is collapsing. So much for New Europe.

And back home, Ben Bernanke went from a name unknown to most people, to the most hated bureaucrat in the country. A tough contest if there ever was one!

Remember Alex Jones, on the bullhorn about the globalists' "high-tech control grid" watching your every move? Five years since the Real ID Act was signed into law, and states are still unable to implement it. And not for lack of trying. But now cities and states are starting to default on their debts. They don't have the money for Animal Control, much less a police state.

Please don't take this as a belittlement of the threat. The point is, the threat is on the defensive. It is not accustomed to this position.

This not just bad news for the internationalist agenda; this is total disaster.

You might think that all of these little victories are nothing more than bumps on the road to socialism. Yesteryear's promising signs proved to be. But now, there is something much bigger happening, and this is happening under most people's radar: they are losing control over information. They are losing their grip on the public's mind.