With the naming of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as running mate of John McCain, there's a lot to appreciate in how America may change and for the better.
Will America become more mature and less adolescent in the next four years? Will this become a greater dependability on self in self-rule instead of dependency on government . . . and losing self-rule?
Americans need to appreciate how teenage their thinking is when it's gimme, gimme and ignoring what's good for the country as uppermost in our concerns. When the country runs well, the rest will take care of itself. .. and there is little need for liberalism and demagoguery.
Here is the Conservative and Libertarian take on values in America, and I wonder if more people agree with this than they themselves may know. The significance of what McCain and Palin represent is the very thing adolescents do not want in this country, and that is personal dependability over dependency.
It's been put a dozen different ways, hasn't it? ...Self-reliance . . . "Quit voting for 'take care of me' ". . . "Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps". . It's all basically nothing more than one thing: Growing Up. In short, we do not have Leaders in this country, who feed on this in demagoguery, we have Executives in a nation of self-rule, and America does much better without the supervision, the mandated dependency, and interference which grow these.
This has been at the core of my syndicated feature
Good For The Country. Everything I have written in the last four years has pointed to threats to our sovereignty by way of breeding more and more dependency on officials and to the exclusion of the citizen as part of that formula. Many of the adverse policies in this country cannot exist without freezing the citizen out of both policy formation and its execution. Crime and Disaster Recovery are two prime examples.
This is why I have such a heavy emphasis on carrying personal weapons, though I have written over the years against National ID Card (utter dependency on permission for food and fuel) RFID tracking of citizens worldwide (supervision of people) and other intrusions claiming to fight crime, but which keep it alive instead of really meeting it.
I write in favor of drilling here in America because the objective is not to get off oil so much as it is to get off dependency on foreign oil. Use American petroleum for our various petroleum products from fuel to plastics and we will have Independence from foreign sources. We have enough of the stuff here to give us the luxury of time to find other energy sources without the slightest discomfort. Drill here and open more refineries and we'll have that time we need from having fuel in abundance, and probably see much lower prices to go with them. I'd realistically expect a per gallon retail price below $2 within several months of opening those refineries and holding. We can access these resources around the nation sooner than most have said. That means jobs and more jobs. [$4 Billion every quarter from selling more fuel at $2 a gallon at the pump is just as good as making $4 Billion for selling less fuel at $4 a gallon at the pump.] And did I mention jobs? From refineries hardhats to computer wonks to drives to marketing to PR to revenues.
Governor Palin has experience at working the problem to the benefit of only one concept: constituents. If we drill more in Alaska, we need to be sure the state is protected from foreign interests and their forces from the start. The location of Alaska's oil in that hemisphere is most tempting, and a few bases may not be enough. A real presence is necessary.
This is only the beginning of promoting Independence over dependency. A ticket which is pro-gun is actually one which is pro Independence, and I expect a marked consistency in this values system in personal safety, in energy, in surveillance and other vexations of person freedoms under some crisis or other.
It is this which you see making grumblings around the media. They don't like the idea of Independence. It's that which they hate, the idea that other ideas of Liberty in self-rule work better than dependency not only when it comes to energy, but dependency on the mainstream media. Dependency in general is to their glee. Freedom impeaches their policies.
As I said earlier, John McCain is not an oil man, he is his own man. And that's going to be a refreshing difference. Independence on so many levels will deliver more freedom than anything the liberals have promised in fifty years.
And the Honorable Sarah Palin is not an oil woman, she is her own woman, she has shown that, and in a campaign with such a heavy emphasis on Change, it might be the better ticket to do just that: change. Change things back, that is.
Change back to Independence.
John Longenecker——
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John Longenecker is an author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns – Meeting Dependency And Violent Crime With American Spirit, Independence, And Citizen Authority [CONTRAST MEDIA PRESS]. Safer Streets Newsletter.
