Living on the Edge – it’s no longer business as usual

It’s time for all patriotic Americans to abandon the notion that we are being overwhelmed by the Left and their socialist agenda. We're living on the edge of a new day - a day of new challenges, yet one of new opportunities. The urban.com dictionary defines "living on the edge" as "living a dangerous and/or unusual everyday life."

A destructive agenda is at work in our nation. And while opposing it may have its dangers, it is absolutely necessary for all of us to go beyond a business-as-usual approach to life and begin to live on the edge. Living on the edge does not mean being rash or not caring about the consequences of your actions. It means to live outside the parameters of a settled existence, preparing the way for a future that’s better for those who follow after us than what we lived. Our nation is currently on a course of self-destruction if the controlling political forces aren’t deterred from their course, so we need to push things beyond the standard of mediocrity. There's no place for sitting back and waiting for evil to collapse. It has to be overcome by a concentrated effort to turn back the ongoing dissolution of the things that have made America great. Spread your enthusiasm for political change. It’s not time to circle the ranks and simply prepare for some kind of martial law chaos. As long as the political avenue of change is at all available, we need to make the most of it.

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I am a strong proponent of the American people being able to exercise their 2nd Amendment right to be an armed citizenry. But that doesn't mean I think we are at a point of civil war where Americans are taking up arms against Americans. There are always some on the fringes thinking they need to set off the spark of violence because they think it will start a violent revolution against the government. That, however, is not the way to go. From John Brown to the Weather Underground, whatever the political ideology, that strategy is one of self-destruction. Yet an understanding our government as the Constitution defines it reveals that there are still political options available to us that will bring change and bring hope to this nation's future. The key, as always, to effective political change, is not having the most weapons, it is building a movement that gains the overwhelming support of the citizenry. The seeds of the struggle that gave us freedom as a nation - the War for Independence - did not begin with that overwhelming support. Rather, it was set in place by the work of a relatively few people who put forward the proposition that "all men are created equal" and then began to take the steps to achieve that. Publicly declaring us as an independent nation had put something in motion. Yet it was not the war that set in place what we would become. While winning it was a necessary step to get to what would come next, the plans for how we would govern ourselves once we were free from the colonial system would help determine what we would become. The Constitutional Convention and its final approval would determine that. Since then, elections and the governance by those we have elected determine what course our nation will follow. An informed and involved American citizenry in the process can make sure that course is the correct one. To borrow from a recent ad for the upcoming Atlas Shrugged III movie: “The world you desire can be won…it exists...it is real…it is possible…it is yours.”