When Wolves Are Sheep

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Who are we? Who will we be? Who do we want to be? Now, raise your hand. Who has a nomination for someone to answer these questions for us, so we don’t have to? Who do you trust enough to decide your very nature? Who do you believe is so much better than you, that they should determine your future? Take a few seconds to decide...

It is certainly true that it “takes all kinds to make this ol’ world go ‘round”, so I am sure that there are many out there right now thinking seriously about just who they want to be in that position. For me and mine, I’m saying, “Are you crazy?”. I don’t want someone else to make such a personal and vital decision for me. Who I am, who I’ll be and what I want for myself is a very personal and integral part of my psyche. No one on this earth can possibly know me that intimately. Yet everywhere I look, I find pretenders who believe that they know what is best for me. They think they know what I should think about religion. They think they know what I should think about sex. They seem to be pretentious enough to know what I should think about government. They are even so brazen as to insist through force that they alone know what type of light bulb I need, or how big of a soft drink I should purchase. They wear their Ivy League degrees on their sleeves like illiterates sport pocket protectors full of pens. And so it is that without freedom and free markets; the most undeserving few, become the Lords of the many.

In all of human history there have been two models for human existence; the lone wolf and the hive. There have always been those who kept to themselves, took care of themselves, asked nothing of others and looked upon groups of humans with justifiable skepticism. These ‘Lone Wolves’ indeed gathered into groups but they were mostly family and very tightly regulated. Then you have the people who for a variety of reasons band together in much larger groups. In many cases the driving factor is security, though it is a self fulfilling prophecy is it not? The more large groups there are, the greater the necessity of large groups to defend oneself from large groups. It’s a vicious cycle. In the end these groups become like hives. A large society has a variety of needs. To efficiently provide for the collective, each unit must have a task. Maintaining order and discipline becomes paramount. This of course requires a leader and an enforcement group. A ‘Queen’ must be the utmost giver of life and the ‘Army’ must protect the Queen and keep the ‘Workers’ in line. These two models describe how most of society existed from the beginning of time up until...the year of our Lord 1776.

In the New World, a group of people who had the fortuitous opportunity to live in relative freedom for a while developed a new idea. You see these folks, while part of a hive had, because of their separation from the core and the nature of their existence become quite self-sufficient. As the oppression inherent in any hive began to exert itself upon them they came upon a most wonderful idea. What if Man could combine the two models of society into one? What if a people were educated and virtuous enough to be mostly left to their own lives? What if the tasks inherent to maintain any society were left to the people themselves to determine based upon merit and nothing more? What if these Lone Wolves made a compact with each other that they would allow a core, though very small and very limited in power and purpose, primarily to protect the Lone Wolf status of each? What if these Lone Wolves pledged their lives and their fortunes to the protection of each other? What if...Man could live in freedom, pursue whatever path he/she chose? What if...in fact, this model would produce more prosperity, more security and more benevolence than had ever been known by Man on earth? This is the miraculous blessing of constitutional republicanism.

In this model, each can decide their own fate. Each achieves to the level of their talent and their effort. Each is free to pursue invention and production unfettered by hive restrictions. The desires and dreams of generations are themselves the building blocks of the society. A natural hierarchy of excellence is instituted. Each individual in pursuit of their own greatness and reward, become an integrated part of a well-oiled societal machine that maximizes the outcome for all. Each item purchased on a free market is subject to the scrutiny of the purchaser. Each service provided is necessarily competitive in it’s excellence. Dollars chase efficiency. The system is perfect...almost. It can only be diminished by lack of implementation. It can only be torn down by expansion of the core. It can only fail, by the Lone Wolves willingly giving away their freedom to the core. And Lone Wolves would never do that would they? Well, I suppose if Wolves became Sheep...

I suppose it is true that earthly perfection is not for Man. But dadgummit...we sure came close.

by: Keith D. Rodebush

Fight or Flight or Cowardice?

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We are all familiar with the instinctual protective measure known as 'Fight or Flight'. The concept is that when danger presents itself, we make an instantaneous decision to either fight off the danger, or escape the danger. This 50/50 proposition might mean the difference between life and death. As with most things in life, this concept can be applied to politics as well. Party's and politicians are always surveying the battlefield for support or threat. The modern Republican Party has surveyed that field and found threat. Their instantaneous instinct appears to be flight. Is this a life saving strategy; or simple cowardice?

Since elections are often described as battle, we will analyze this situation from a military perspective. There are three reasons to choose flight as a protective measure in battle.

1. Being overwhelmed in the moment, one escapes the immediate threat to re-group and return with renewed energy and resources to achieve victory. This only works if a viable escape route is assured.

2. Having a larger goal or specific strategy one allows a small battle to be won by the enemy; preserving energy and resources to pursue the greater victory.

3. Having planned a strategy of entrapment, one retreats in the heat of battle to lure the enemy into a vulnerable position, then attacks with overwhelming ferocity. This strategy in fact, triggers the enemies flight response often leading to annihilation.

There are of course other reasons to run. The most apparent is simple loss of nerve. Cowardice. When heavily engaged one might feel impending defeat, causing either a renewed spate of energy for the fight, or a sense of inevitability and acceptance. Individually, this often spells death. Collectively, this spells capitulation. In other words, when an army as a whole, or the people supporting said army, lose the will to fight; they are in fact conceding that what they are fighting for is not worth the price of fighting. It is for this reason that all moral & prudent military strategists have always warned that war is the last resort, should be entered into rarely and only if willing to pursue it to victory or death.

Now of course we are speaking rhetorically. This is politics not war. But the stakes are just as high. The morals, traditions and respect for individual liberty that made this nation the greatest nation on earth are at stake. As it stands there are only two viable Parties; but for the purpose of saving this nation there is in fact only one. The modern Democrat Party is nothing more than a front group for the Marxists who are determined to take over this nation and change it drastically from it's founding. In many ways, they are winning this war decisively. As we are being defeated, we must make that instinctual choice of 'Fight or Flight'. The GOP has chosen flight.

Has the GOP leadership chosen flight for one of the three strategic reasons above? Or; are they simply cowards who are capitulating? In the end each person will have to decide for themselves. For me, I make the following observations:

• When the GOP votes to allow higher taxes in the face of overwhelmingly unconstitutional government, bordering on tyrannical; they have given up fighting for a constitutionally limited federal government
• When the GOP funds ObamaCare; they have given up fighting for limited government, religious liberty, free commerce and individual rights. These things are no longer important enough for them to fight for.
• The GOP by engaging in political moves intended to weaken opposition to Marxism; they not only have given up on tradition and morality, but they have completely forgotten how these things are preserved; through individual liberty. Government has no right or role in determining who can marry. That is a religious issue. Religions must be free to exercise their belief that marriage is a sacred vow between a man and a woman. By engaging in a public fight that ultimately has the GOP siding with one group pitted against another, they are giving up on fighting the real battle; rights of the People and the Several States to determine how their communities will practice their religion. In the end they will lose, for by granting government the right to define marriage, they set the stage for it to be defined in opposition to the Scriptures. This not only allows for government intervention into the home, but into businesses and churches as well.
• If one cannot defend Life itself, then they cannot defend any right of the individual. Without the right to life, there are no other rights to defend. By allowing the slaughter of the most innocent amongst us, the GOP has given up on fighting for any individual rights at all. Any and all stated attempts to protect rights is simply an avenue to election whereby the politician gains and the People lose. No one can pretend to fight for rights while allowing wholesale murder of innocents. Compromising on life is death. No bill should ever pass nor receive one vote from a GOP member that does not call for the abolition of the murder of innocent babies. The GOP has long ago determined that this is not worth fighting for.

I could go on but the point is made. The modern Republican Party has determined that many of the values, traditions and ideals that make America a great nation are not worth dying for. They have not retreated strategically to re-group and fight for these things with more fervor. No, they have capitulated to the enemy. They have turned over many of their own to be slaughtered in order to save themselves. They have sold their souls for temporary respite. Which is worse; the man who fights for tyranny because he ignorantly believes in it? Or the man who pretends to fight against it but turns his friends over to the enemy to be shot?

The current Republican Party leadership are cowards and their troops will not long fight for them. Temporarily this will lead to more pain for America. However, with the Grace of God it may lead to a new and revived Party that will unabashedly fight for Life, Liberty and Property. Win or lose, fair and square, never fight but for right. And then fight to victory or death.

by: Keith D. Rodebush