Rick Green
2017 has tremendous potential to be a pivot year for America.
What a difference a year can make! Just 18 months ago, I was trying to keep my conservative friends from giving up and running for the hills (which even I wanted to do after those back to back dreadful days in June 2015 when the Supreme Court shredded our Constitution with the Obamacare and Marriage decisions).
Now here we are in January 2017 with a chance to not only halt the socialist slide, but actually reverse course and once again embrace the bedrock principles of liberty upon which American Exceptionalism was built.
This will not happen automatically because we dodged the Hillary bullet.
Slavery did not end with the election of Lincoln. Reversing that tyranny took years of an awful civil war, three Constitutional Amendments, and decades of hard fought political battles.
Liberty minded citizens must not act as if one presidential election solves the problem. Now is not the time to leave the battlefield, but rather it is the time to press our advantage and charge!
While I am overall extremely pleased with the appointments and legislative agenda of our new president, these only crack open the door for opportunity to make positive gains. The hard work is yet to come. The table has been set, but actually restoring our Constitution and beginning to reverse the damage of the last decade of socialist policies is going to require every single one of us to do our duty as citizens.
The action items have not changed since my response to the court in the summer of 2015:
We are not even in the late rounds, let alone to the final bell! We are in the early rounds of a championship bout in which the prize will be the heart and soul of the greatest nation in history.
Liberty lovers of the 1800’s found a way to fight on every front and their courage not only preserved America, but made us a far more perfect union.
It did not come easy.
It did not happen in one election.
It took an entire generation, a Civil War, and sacrifice on a level we cannot even begin to comprehend from our luxurious living rooms and modern comforts.
The same was true for the patriots of the Founding Era. Launching the most successful nation in history took decades of hard work, war, political trial and error, and nearly as much failure as success.
Our challenges today are first year tee ball compared to the Major League battles our ancestors faced in 1857, or 1776, or 1941.
With only 10% of the effort those generations put forth, we could right the ship of today’s America in less than ten years if we stop operating out of fear and start marching forward like the warriors of previous generations.
PART II
History illuminates a clear path if we will just pay attention. Here are a few quick lessons to start:
- The Only Easy Day was Yesterday.
To borrow from the Navy Seals, quit whining and start getting wet and sandy!
In other words, get in the fight!
If you are not willing to give up some television or other pleasures so you can invest a few hours a week into saving our nation, then you deserve the tyranny under which you will live as a result of your inaction.
Our forefathers grabbed a musket, left their families, and died on the battlefield for freedom. Will you at least devote a few hours to the basic, peaceful activities of good citizenship?
Patriot Pastor and Revolutionary War hero John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg said “…shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Continent is spilling? …I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duty I owe to God and my country.”
- Get Salty
What good is the salt if it has lost its flavor? The church is irrelevant when it is no longer the conscience of the nation. It was the positive influence of Christianity that ended tyranny, ended slavery, launched Civil Rights, and in so many other ways stopped evil in it’s tracks. Get in the Word and learn Biblical truth and then go apply it in every area of the culture.
Use smart strategy and tactics to speak truth in love and win over those within your realm of influence. For years, Lincoln engaged in civil discourse and debate to advocate for right principles (end of slavery) before he was in a position to actually do so with the law.
What are you doing on a weekly basis to discover truth, learn to articulate that truth, and then influence those around you with that truth? If you need a place to start, attend the Citizen Track of Patriot Academy, or join our online webinars, or host one of our Constitution Classes in your home or Sunday school.
And as a side-note: Let’s stop pouring our entertainment dollars into an industry that has indoctrinated a generation with anti-American, anti-Biblical propaganda while doing everything they can to silence anyone with a Biblical worldview. How about using our dollars and our talents to produce and support entertainment that actually reinforces truth and moves the culture in a positive direction? Don’t know where to start? Try ChristianCinema.com or ChasingAmericanLegends.com.
- Stop Being Fearful
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Peter 1:7). We know the truth, we have the weapons (free speech, voting rights, convention of states process, etc.) and manpower to win the war, yet we run from the battle!
It literally makes me nauseous when people of faith say “my one vote will not help” or “there are no good candidates” or “what if there is a runaway convention.” They choose inaction and watch America burn.
Let’s start taking action every day in the right direction. Let’s start making big, bold moves to put this nation back on track. Do the small things like engaging in online discussions, and hosting voter registration drives and giving out voter guides at your church. But also do the big things like helping to call for a Convention of States and use the Article V constitutional tool given to us by the Founders to put an out of control government back into its proper place.
There were many in the Civil War and even during the fledgling American Revolution that often thought it was over for America. They faced even worse odds than we do today and they were wrong.
Let’s prove the naysayers of today wrong and let’s have a revolution with ballots, not bullets.
It is time to come back to reality and join me and millions of other red-blooded, God-fearing, patriotic Americans in taking simple, practical, meaningful, constitutional steps to restore our republic and win the future!
