A Darkling Plain

"And we are here, as on a darkling plain, ....where ignorant armies clash by night."  Matthew Arnold 

Philips Koenig: Panoramic River Landscape, 1664

A darkling plain. This is it, this is all we have. A dark plain where we have lost our way. Stumbling in the dark, we fumble fearfully, hoping things will change. It will not. How have we come to this place? We who write have given examples. That is not enough. We can talk, write, complain, but not until we assemble together will we change this country. We need more than a handful of people--Tea Party, conservative unions--it will take those who remember and taught their children what life was before the day the sun went out. Sun meaning our freedoms that we took for granted. We were Americans! It was as if we were so special that nothing could change; it was our God-given right to live life freely without consent from a President. We did not think about the global community. We were a world unto ourselves.

I know many of you have instructed your children and their children about communism. Now we have to find a way to keep it out of our lives and theirs. The darkness, like the year without a summer in 1816, has arrived. Our seeds of truth can not be nurtured in the dark. Until we learn how to push out the dark from our lives we will not accomplish anything. The dark being the hidden agendas and lies told to us by this administration. It goes deeper than that, but it is a start. We need to rip out the weeds choking out the seedlings threatening to kill them. Daily we must fight to keep alive the freedoms we have.

As many know, this is how it begins, like slicing baloney as, Hitler stated. How will you take Europe, Herr Hitler? Simple--one slice at a time.” He did it, too. So many were fooled, including England, the Pope, France, not to mention the Jews of Europe. We are in desperate times, similar to Germany, out of work, hungry, struggling from one paycheck to the next, counting under our breath how much is affordable at the grocery store. Yet Hitler came like the Sun, like Obama's first message to the people: he was a centrist, pragmatic, post-partisan, and transparent. He was the Sun to liberals, but disguised as the “Audacity of Hope”, a sermon he stole from Rev. Wright and his Black Liberation Church. Many of us knew that there was no real information on him; instead the media hid what they knew. Many of you did your own research. You knew, you spoke against it.

Now as we watch the liberals come unraveled over taxes on people who make $30,000 (and some will pay more than those who make $400,000 a year), we are not shocked. But many will realize as their paychecks go down again that the Dark of Obama has shown his narcissistic self. They know he goes on vacations that cost more than many can imagine. In a time when we the people can barely make ends meet, he spends our taxes on his leisure. We are his own personal bank account. He ignores poverty in this country, creating more by overspending on bloated government and handouts to his favored cronies like Solyndra and G.E., redistributing what Americans have worked hard for all their lives—security. He will chip and whittle for the next four years until we will not recognize this country. We do not have time! Daily we have to organize our local political parties. Never, never, never give up!