May 13, 2016

The World Turned Upside Down

Tradition has it the English ballad was played during the British surrender at Yorktown. “After six and half years of fighting, the war may be finally over,” proclaimed a newspaper at the time.

Alas, history repeats itself, perhaps with devastating consequences — perhaps with a restoration of balance and position.

The Obama administration, in an unprecedented display of arrogance and tyranny that King George III would envy, now says all American public schools must allow students into bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice — privacy, common sense, and the will of the people be damned.

Few are surprised with this latest “transformation” of our nation, its customs, history, law, culture, and spirit.

There is no rule of law — only decree, whether in the doctors’ office or the bathroom. There is no credible or respected national defense, whether in the strength or moral of our armed forces or diligence at our national borders. There is no economic growth, but a continued descent into the vortex of socialism and dependence through increased taxation, regulation, and collectivism.

There is no tolerance from the left, only usurpations of power and demands that “tolerance” belongs only to them.

Texas and other states are expected to fight this latest move as Obama continues to “flood the zone” with unconstitutional, abhorrent, and half-baked leftist dreams of utopia such as this. We should applaud and support those efforts.

But we should also continue our vigil, for this latest move may only be the magician’s move of misdirection, where we are compelled to watch one hand while the other does even worse mischief.

For several years I have told myself, “It can’t get any worse.” I was wrong, sometimes on a daily basis. With the remaining seven months of the Obama administration, we can expect even more egregious moves that will threaten our very identity as a nation — whether on the economy, security, the immigration invasion, free speech, the right of self-defense, continued cultural rot — perhaps even the literal existence of our country, thanks to the increasing threat of war, whether from nuclear war, EMP attacks, or other “transformational” evils from within.

If we survive — and we should pray fervently in that regard — our mission is huge, difficult, and daunting. But we must pick our targets and continue the quest as our forefathers did at Yorktown.

Some will be called as sharpshooters in the courtroom — others as artillery loaders with commitments of time or resources — others can report as recruiters for the cause — still others can respond as messengers to coordinate efforts.

There is no shortage of work. May there be no shortage of commitment and faith as you find your place. Like Washington, we have lost many battles along the way to Yorktown — but victory is still possible.

But it is possible only if we turn ourselves, and those around us, upright in the world — for the position of the world begins with each of us.

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