Every nation that becomes separated from its' own people fails. Every nation that moves too far to the right or the left; too far or radical fails. The only temporary sustainment of that failed policy is one form of dictatorship or aristocracy or another.
This nation will eventually provide it's own course correction and come back to her own ideals and principles. History will look back upon this administration scornfully. And though it will take this nation decades and trillions of dollars to recover from the collapse of moral integrity; from the selflessness that should be leadership and government, she will prevail.
Finally, I look to the signs that this course correction is beginning.
Within Connecticut, we can clearly see the turmoil of the pendulum shift and the clamoring of those attempting to remain in control.
The spasmodic seeming reaction to cultural shifts on the surface seem so distorting.
But they are simply the symptoms of a nation and a politic within a pendulum shift.
It is strange that the shift is first signaled from the Democratic party as a White House proponent is turned out and then spasmodically refuses to accept the will of the People.
Certainly Joe Lieberman loses credibility as he refuses to accept the will of the people. He reveals that he has become a drunk of sorts on the power and trappings of Washington; the same reactionary response as a Duke Cunningham or others who have fallen from favor and grace. And while a handful of those clamoring to define a position and defile those who voted against them as traitors of America; of odd actions including a strange marriage between Vice President Cheney, the Republicans and confirmation of the attacks against Lieberman that he had foregone his responsibility as a Senator to remain objective on behalf of the PEOPLE rather than partisan either way, their machinations are the death throes of the change that is underway.
America is beginning to shift her balance again to the center of gravity of the People.
What has been learned and relearned throughout history is that PEACE is the only weapon and the only seed for growth, but also prosperity.
I am a nutcase. I believed in this nation sufficiently to put her first, even before my family while in her service for 28 years. Obviously those that have called me a nutcase didn't share that resolve.
I am a nutcase. I believe in Democracy.
I further affirm that I share the spirit and details of the June 11, 1776 draft of Thomas Jefferson of the Declaration of Independence when he specifically wrote:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. -
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and happiness."
And for the cause of Declaration the primary finding of the undersigned and those whom they represented was the "absolute Tyranny" caused of the Colonies by the King of Great Britian through "a history of repeated injuries and usurptation" first identified as his refusal to "assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
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