It's Not Kool-Aid We're Drinking

30Dec09
Looking back at 2009, it's been a hard year.

While on a personal level I've done well, really, I feel like it's been such an awful year for our nation.

Ongoing war and threat of terrorist action, deepening recession, an unprecedentedly rapid expansion of government power; have all touched off a kind of ideological civil war in this country. A war between those who place faith in themselves, and those who place faith in the state.

In a sense it's overdue. It's a culmination of political struggle throughout the 20th century, and more people are waking each day to the reality of it. More everyday people are involved today than arguably any other time since the American revolution.

Those on the side of the individual are at a disadvantage, however. The left is far more homogeneous in their opinions and aims. We are more fractured and disparate, railing against any perceived authoritarian overtures even from our own side.

Politically, 2010 must be for me the year of building alliances. I've been involved running a chapter of Liberty on the Rocks for a few months now. It's a grassroots political/social movement in support of less government, lower taxes, and greater personal freedom.

I met on Monday with the national president of the organization, and we discussed at length the need to take a "Big Tent" approach in getting people to the group. Those who support the three plank platform, regardless of what else they believe or what party they come from, are the people I need to reach.

There's a meeting tonight at 5:30 PM at the Ducktail Lounge in Clive, Iowa. Bring a friend.