Braunstein Speaks

The New American Revolution

“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.” – Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776.

Since World War II, we’ve had it too easy. The last time that the United States was invaded by a foreign power was in 1814, when the British burned Washington—nothing any modern American would shed a tear over.

Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all those others that had been tried.” For the last 65 years, we have been asleep at the switch, ignoring the little alarm bells sounding to warn us that things were not well.

“This is the United States,” we told ourselves. “This is the richest, most advanced country in the world.”

Television and air travel destroyed whatever regionalism we had left. In one generation, we went from a Union of 50 individual states, to a strong central government—something the Founders never envisioned.

We absorbed all these changes with nary a murmur. Our Republic had a stability that would overcome whichever party controlled Congress or the presidency. The Framers designed a government with divided powers so that none could come forth and seize unfettered control.

And then came Obama. Barack Obama recited the same blather that we have come to expect from all presidential candidates on the campaign: He spoke in utterly meaningless slogans like “Hope” and “Change,” except that the Communist Obama really meant it.

In just one year, Obama, with the help of two fools like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, tried to fundamentally change the government of the United States—not only without popular support—but in secret meetings which locked the minority Republican Party out.

We were already used to a corrupt press before the 2008 Campaign, but the majority of news agencies acted as agents of the Democratic Party during the last election.

Even in the light of three special elections that were overwhelming messages to the Democrats, and the very public death of the myth of “man-made global warming,” Obama and the Democrats are still trying to resuscitate healthcare “reform.”

Despite media and Democratic—the same thing, really—attempts to disparage and ridicule the Tea Party Movement, it is a growing political phenomenon that seeks to rejuvenate the feelings of alienation of the American people towards a government that no longer represents them.

The Election of 2010, which will see 36 Senate seats and all 435 House seats up for contention, will tell us a lot about the future direction of this nation—either as a Democratic Republic—or as another Marxist experiment—doomed to failure.

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