One nation, divisible!

Like a lot of us here in cyberland, I just got an email from Dr. Ron Paul telling us about the upcoming Obama medical plan. This isn’t going to be a piece about “single payer” health insurance or for that matter any government run scheme of any kind.

What occurred to me as I was reading the email was that Dr. Paul has a bigger following than any one member of congress, either House or Senate, with followers from every state in the USA. His C4L, or Campaign for Liberty is growing in number each day under the stewardship of John Tate, and finally, congress is recognizing the importance of one of his pieces of proposed legislation, HR 1207 calling for an audit on the Federal Reserve, and has agreed with him, with over half of the House of Representatives signing on as co-sponsors. Other pieces of his proposed legislation have largely been ignored, however, finding as few as zero co-sponsors. Since his recent run for the nomination for president some in congress are noticing that the things he has been talking about are starting to happen, and are starting to listen to him. Unfortunately, there are too few members willing to pay attention.

America, that is the American voter, is a lot like those in congress. They hear but they don’t listen. Sometimes, like those in congress, they even refuse to hear.

The point I am trying to make is that throughout our country from Alaska to Texas, from Hawaii to Maine, there are Ron Paul fans. No other member of our government can make that statement, aside from the man who would be king himself, our pretender to the throne, Barry Soetero or Barack Obama, or what ever his real name is. His is more like a cult following than those who follow Ron Paul’s line of thinking.

In fact, cult may be the proper term for those who so admire Obama. Evan Thomas of Newsweek did recently say he was “sort of God”, and there are those who believe he is some sort of messiah.

Unfortunately, this country is divided now about 50/50, with one half leaning left and the other leaning right. Both have fringes or radical elements, with the radical left being led by Barack Obama and the radical right being led by no one in particular. In fact, the entire right seems to be led by no one in particular. Rush Limbaugh is considered by some to be the leader of the conservative movement today, but he is not on the fringe and he refuses to lead anyway.

Today’s Republican party is divided between the true conservatives and the neo-conservatives. The former wants to return to the ideals of Ronald Reagan and the latter want to open up the Republican tent for any and all ideals. One such is former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who endorsed Obama over John McCain and says that Republicans want to pay more taxes and get more government services. Yes, he says he is still a Republican. Draw your own conclusions. He gives a whole new meaning to RINO, a title that used to fit well on the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Arlen “the defector” Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins to name a few. Powell has out RINO’ed the best of the RINOs.

In all candor, however, if Powell were to announce that he were a candidate in 2012, there is a god bet he could get elected by the ignorant apathetic voting public.

This leads me to believe that we as a nation are ripe for division into two distinct nations. I think that separation is the only bloodless solution to our current problems, and it may not be truly bloodless. It would be more bloodless than a revolution, which is the only other rational solution. I don’t think it would be hard to do, if those states that are now fighting government mandates made the move to declare their independence. If one state made the gesture, I am sure there would be others to follow, and I for one would move to one of those states in a heartbeat, as I am sure would many others. I am quite confident that if such a thing happens in the near future, that Texas would be among the first to declare. I still own property there and intend to build on that property with the hope to return to a free state. At last count, I think there are 35 states that are invoking the tenth amendment and telling the fed that those powers not granted to them by the Constitution were not going to be recognized in their states. My only question is;
what’s the matter with the other fifteen states?

Anyway, that’s my rant for now.