For regular readers of this blog, I haven’t written for some time. Yes, moving from Colorado to Virginia probably played a large part of why I haven’t really blogged lately. But another part is that I’ve simply gotten tired of politics in the type of environment America finds itself in today. I could rant about Obama, but I won’t. I could make the case for how wrong the GOP is, but I won’t. I could rail even more about the Democratic socialists in Congress and how they could care less about taking my money; I won’t.

The truth of the matter is this: my freedom is dying. Your freedom is dying. Our children’s freedom, quite possibly, is already dead. Perpetual debt, fiat money, central management of a $14 trillion economy, millions upon millions of pages of regulation, and ultimately, the usurpation of our Constitution, is killing this Republic and the liberty it once protected. For those on left, government and collectivism are the great arbiters in solving humanity’s problems; for those on the right, civic virtue trumps reason and individual rights. No longer are rights and immunities guaranteed to you as a member of the human race, but are given to you by government instead. Complacency brought about by pretended prosperity and an ill-educated populace have transformed the middle and upper classes into slaves of government and the poor. This is our modern America, a far cry from what the founders intended and the good-natured Republic built to perfect our Union.

What I am flabbergasted about are many things, but not so many as this: this Republic will always be a debter nation and will endure the pain and agony of being a slave to the rest of the world. As perpetual debt and unfunded liabilities continue to skyrocket, government will be forced to take drastic measures to pay for what it has already consumed. These measures most obviously, include higher taxes, more “management” of the economy, and a trampling of individual rights. The left call themselves progressives - what is progressive about taking away the fruits of my labor? What is progressive about stomping on my economic freedoms? What is progressive about casting my children’s future into the den of government slavery? The right call themselves conservatives - what is conservative about trampling the Constitution for the sake of security? What is conservative about usurping states’ sovereignty and favoring civic virtue over property and contract rights?

The ramblings of this discontent are of course, normative. They look to the ideal and wish to conform reality to the ideal. I know that is not entirely possible. Nor is it possible to tame human nature, to curb the excesses of those who would wish to control the masses. But perhaps it is quite possible to make small strides to return to the American ideal and what this Union could have been…a more perfect one. Freedom lost is not easily gained, and sometimes it takes a revolution to return it. This is not out of the realm of possibility. Intellect and reason, coupled with constitutional resistance to unconstitutional action can help reverse some of the damage past generations have brought upon this one.

Many states have already enacted resolutions declaring sovereignty under the 10th Amendment; it is now time to take the next step - to nullify unconstitutional federal laws, to reject federal monies, to reassert the power of the state and locality. Central planning and massive debt must be rejected by lawmakers as a means to increase freedom and prosperity. They (and we) must remember this Union did not create the states; the states created this Union. And if necessary, the states may act as sovereign and independent political entities in order to dissolve it.

It is a bittersweet feeling to know the sovereignty of the United States rests with its people. Whether or not the people will act to bring themselves out of slavery is another story. Even the Isrealites wished to go back to Egypt when Moses delivered them out. Time will tell whether the American people have the testicular fortitude to rise to the occasion and accept that exceptionalism that America could portray again.