On the Threshold of a Dream or a Disaster?

An Open Call to My Students and all Young Americans

(Under the Age of Thirty- or maybe Sixty)

If you are of voting age, about to be of voting age or will be of voting age within the next four years, you had better listen up. Your life is about to change and you can either be in charge of that change or you can plug you ears with iPod headphones, immerse yourself in a vicarious video non-reality and let the old farts be in charge of the change for you.

Recent conversations, with my daughter (a recent college graduate), a young medical student friend (who identified himself as an apathetic socialist) and my high school students, have revealed a preponderance of youthful ignorance and appalling apathy when it comes to the current political landscape in the United States. This lack of interest and subsequent lack of voting may very well help bring about a change in American government that none of us want to experience.

With the Democrats' propensity toward increasingly socialist philosophies (I have been a life long Democrat but have recently left the party for these very reasons) and the loss of Constitutional rights that have occurred during the Bush administration, the United States teeters on the threshold of a disaster. If the trend is allowed to go unchecked we may very well be living in a socialist state within the next eight years. (More on this in an upcoming blog.)

If this should occur all of the niceties of your young lives will go away. Everything will change. Maybe not all at once, but change it will. Your ability to chose your doctor will be one of the first things to go. Then it will be your choice of schools; there will be only one choice, the government school (the Dems are decidedly against School of Choice). Then, your choice of whether to go to college or a vocational school. Eventually you will loose the right to decide what you do for a living, where you work and, maybe, even where you live. And I'm quite sure your Bibles will disappear along the way. In a socialist society, the government makes all your decisions for you.

Yeah, the initial presentation looks and sounds great: Every American will be able to have adequate health care; Oil companies huge profits will be used to do research into alternative energy sources and so on. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. For further reading check out Lenin's takeover of Russia.

My point young folks is this: America is at a critical juncture, you may be the force that keeps us free. You, my young friends, stand to be the Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons and Ben Franklins of your generation. Never since the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have we needed such political creativity and courage as we do now. Do the research, check deeply into every candidate, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and Independent alike. Check out what they say they stand for now and compare it to their records then make your decision based upon your values – not anyone else's!

Register and VOTE.

Mr. Rick