This will be my last post for a week.  I will be back after a hunting trip to regain a grip on sanity.  I will be back in time to vote.  This year, more than ever, every sane vote counts.

On Tuesday, October 19, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards told a group in Hibbing, Minnesota that he and John Kerry would fight for their right to “go in the national parks and national forests and ride on a snowmobile”.

Meanwhile, on johnkerry.com, it is stated that “John Kerry will reinstate the Clinton Administration’s phase-out of noisy and polluting snowmobiles that have been overrunning some of our most precious lands, including Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. “. 

While not everyone cares about the snowmobile issue, we all should care about integrity.  Northern Minnesota is home to one of the largest snowmobile manufacturers in the country.  Minnesota is home to 200,000 snowmobile riders.  With his pandering to that audience, he showed, once again, his true colors.  Meanwhile, he and Kerry have every intention (as stated on Kerry’s own website) of taking away the right of those same people to sell and ride snowmobiles.  Now think about other issues such as those relating to the first and second amendments of the Constitution. 

John Kerry and John Edwards will do and say everything possible to win this election so that they can begin to carry out their REAL mission.  Many of us already understand that mission.  And if they are elected it will lead to the weakening of this nation and to even greater vulnerability to terrorism.

Source:  Editorial, Senator Norm Coleman Minneapolis StarTribune, October 26.

I am unable to understand exactly how anyone could be undecided one week before THIS presidential election. 

There are two choices. 

One choice is a party that wants to move America toward a communistic political system with a socialistic economy and with a secular system of values.  That party would weaken America’s national sovereignty and would jeopardize the security of our nation as a result.  While the mission of this party has been camouflaged in the rhetoric of social justice, class struggle, and racism, the intent is obvious to even the most casual observer.

The other choice is a party that wants to preserve America’s representative democracy with its capitalist economy and its Judeo-Christian system of values.  That party would maintain America’s national sovereignty and would continue to strengthen the security of our nation.  The mission of this party has been laid out without rhetorical camouflage and its intent is extremely clear to anyone who is listening.

Regardless of which side one takes in the debate, there has rarely been such clarity in a presidential election.  And the choice has never been more important.  This election will determine whether America continues as a grand experiment in values-based, free-market, representative democracy or joins countless others in failed secularly-based socialism. 

There is no excuse for indecision this time.  All Americans must take a stand.  This is our future and it is the future of our children.  WE will decide which direction will be taken by our nation for decades to come.

I think that many of us have missed the point regarding leftist bias within the mainstream media, the universities, and among Hollywood elites.  While some of us have finally come to recognize that bias, we have been misled as to its basis.  Here is what I mean.

The broadcast media has long denied any particular bias to the left.  To a large degree, they still do. Yet, a few media luminaries have started to “confess” to a left leaning bias.  Those confessions are clever. While they admit that there MAY be a small amount of bias, they add that it is just due to the frailty of human nature.  Most importantly, they add that, even if a small amount of bias exists, it is only because people in the media care about our country and believe that the left will best preserve our way of life.  If true this could be seen as admirable.  In reality, I believe it to be a smokescreen.

Many entertainers who are part of the Hollywood elite also demonstrate a bias toward the left.  They too profess that their bias is out of concern for the preservation of America and its values.  They speak of tolerance and political correctness as bases for their beliefs. Again, I believe, just as in the case of the media, that this is nothing more than a smokescreen.

Within the world of academia, the bias toward the left is even more profound.  Again, the professors and instructors in our institutions of higher education rely on the argument that they are simply being politically correct with the deepest concern for American values.  Again, I view this as the crassest of elitist subterfuge. 

In order for people to risk losing multi-million dollar careers in the media or in entertainment, or to place their academic careers at risk, they have to have a very strong reason.  People differ on political viewpoint everyday.  In general, people in a representative democracy simply attend caucuses or vote in primaries and elections as a way of having their voices heard.  Some will actually support specific candidates or run for office themselves.  But most would not put a very lucrative or influential career on the line for a simple difference of political opinion, no matter how firmly held.  Unless underlying that opinion was an agenda of mass proportions.  And that, I believe, is the case.

I believe that the real rationale for bias toward the left held by the media, the universities, and the Hollywood elite is deeper and much more sinister than a simple difference of political opinion.  The rationale is about a complete restructuring of America, changing our country from a representative democracy with a capitalist economic system and a strong Judeo-Christian foundation of values to a communist state with a socialistic economic system and secularized values. 

If we look at the past sixty years through a telescope we can see that this current attempt to change our nation is nothing but a continuation of what has been occurring in different ways since the end of World War II.  Even in the fifties, the Hollywood elite, the media, and even members of our own government were involved in a process of changing America into a communist state.  The universities increasingly offered their voice to the attack.  Patriots who realized what was happening were ridiculed when they took steps to stop the process.  That ridicule continues today and is promulgated by the same groups that did so in the past, specifically the media, the universities, and the Hollywood elite.

Those who want to see America move toward communism mask their mission under the guise of social justice, social welfare, and the good of the people.  And yet, the real world under communism is one of control of people, business, institutions, and religion, redistribution of wealth, and allocation of power to a few.  Through their deception and through our own blindness to the truth, the left is making progress on attaining its goal for the destruction of America as it exists today.

Here is the reality.  We are seeing the movement toward a totalitarian state beginning to speed up, although in steps that many might see as insignificant.  Those steps are NOT insignificant.  In fact, it is their seeming insignificance that has allowed many of us to accept them while in the process becoming desensitized to having our freedoms taken away.  In addition, we are even more prone to accept losses to personal freedom because those whose goal it is to change America avow a concern is for the preservation of our country’s values and profess that our losses are for the greater good.

As a result small freedoms are being taken away at every governmental level, from the right to smoke in public (even outside) to the right to pray, to the right to own and carry firearms, to the right not to wear a helmet, to the right to own and use fireworks, to the right to listen to certain patriotic speakers at Independence Day celebrations, to the right to protect ourselves from personal or national attack.  We are moving closer to having our choice of foods limited by litigation and regulation.  The progress in health care cost-containment made by effective managed care techniques in the nineties has been erased due to sabotage from the left through litigation, legislation, and regulation…all geared toward moving our nation toward a government-run health care system. 

The momentum in most aspects of our lives is AWAY from personal freedom and toward control of behavior by the government.  That is the definition of a totalitarian state.  That is what communists and socialists have been striving for…for more than sixty years.

Clearly the case can be made that the media, the universities, and the Hollywood elite are serving the function of mouthpieces and propagandists for those forces.  Some on the periphery of the movement are being duped and used (i.e., useful idiots).  In fact, many of us from all walks of life have been blinded to the real motivation of those who despise the politics, economy, and values that underlie America.  After all, those in entertainment, education, and the media are trained to speak well and to influence others.  But I do not believe what they say.  I think many other Americans are also starting to see the truth, just as a number of patriots did in the fifties. 

We cannot allow anyone individual or any one group to destroy America and its freedoms.  Regardless of whether it is communists, socialists, Islamic fascists, Hollywood elitists, academicians, media figures, or anti-American propagandists (e.g., Michael Moore), the effect will be the same if we do not recognize the threat and stop it. 

It is time to take action, because NOW it is getting serious.

Presumptuous (adj. displaying excessive self-confidence and taking liberties)