Balance of Freedom

Most people want to be free. They definitely say they do. They're quick to give their opinions on how they want to be too. Some want it by simply being left alone, others by being given everything so they don't have to worry about anything. Somewhere in there is an extremely key balance. Somewhere between anarchy and totalitarianism is the answer.

The writers of the Constitution did their best to write it so that it would establish the balance. A democratic republic, where the citizens would have rights that protected them from the government. It was designed to keep the government controlled by not just the people, but the rule of law, so that anarchy would not be able to take over.

Ever since people have done their best to tear at the balance, to get it to fall to their world view. And unfortunately they've been all too successful in making it teeter towards tyranny. The government now has way too much power. It no longer worries about whether it's actually helping it's citizens, if it is doing their will, or even if it is actually following the Constitution. Government simply does things to grow it's own power.

For some the status quo is great. Others think we need more government, more control. To some the answer is to tear it all down, start over, as if a country has a reset button; and they wish to remake it with a government that has no power at all. Others think that simply changing the party which holds office, but not changing the mindset that is there will be the solution. And others wish to make us freer in some ways, but tyrannize other parts of our lives, or that of our neighbors. Very few wish to get us back on the track that the forefathers set, the one of the Constitution.

The storm clouds are coming. The time to decide and act are near. Do you support freedom? Do you support the balance of the Constitution? Do you stand for what this country was founded on?