Shattering Liberty

The political dialogue in our country has descended into a free-for-all by all parties and is being waged on a rapidly melting polar ice shelf. If Obama says it, half our population is automatically against it. If Limbaugh says it, the other half objects. Even where the interests of both sides appear to converge (as with Afghanistan for example), not much enthusiasm is generated on either side. The general consensus is that government itself is and has been irreparably damaged.

Enter moderates of whom Filliger and Batchelor are two. Ordinarily, moderates would win the day; people who possess the discretion to triangulate; to pick the very best from each and call it a policy. But these are not ordinary times. This is a civil war in which one side will win and the other will lose. The American people have awoken to the conflict. They know that the fight has become existential. The American Left has revealed itself by throwing down its cards in the person of Barack Hussein Obama.

It’s not just happened. It’s been going on for some time. I look at it as a coffee table on which a fine crystal representation of the Statue of Liberty was placed. Every time there was a party, the Left inched the crystal a little bit closer to the edge. Each unanswered challenge; each attack - every concession in the interest of avoiding confrontation and maintaining civility - moved Lady Liberty a bit closer to her doom. The maids in the house neglected their duties which demanded that they clean up and set things right after the guests had gone home.

The penultimate blow came when Obama was invited to these weekend get-togethers. It took all this time for the public to realize what was actually going on. Americans discovered that their elected representatives could no longer be trusted to protect their interests. They understood that passage of any one of Obama’s policy objectives would suffice to push Lady Liberty off the table and shatter the crystal. They would have to fire the help, roll up their sleeves, and take matters into their own hands.

This is what we are seeing now. War has been declared as inevitable by both sides. In a war there is no place for moderation. Every last one of us is required to choose up sides and fight impeccably. Every concession represents a loss; every effective thrust, an advance. No doubt, the Left is better equipped for this kind of conflict. They have long lost any shred of conscience. It took little soul-searching by the Taliban before pushing the Bamyan Buddhas off the table. Neither will the American Left hesitate to shatter Liberty the next go-around.