It's the Constitution, My Friends!!!!

As the electoral season draws nearer Decision Day, I am increasingly concern with our shallow thinking in regard to our choices for who will govern this land. There are a myriad of reasons why individuals here on Sodahead are backing the candidate of their choice. For many, it is the economy and jobs. For others, it is healthcare. Still others look at national security and energy and see these as the most pressing issue of our day. Then we have those who base their voting upon race, gender or religion, simply wanting to break the next "glass ceiling" and for that reason alone! What seems to be lost in the shuffle is, in my opinion the most important element of all, the Constitution of the United States!

You see, if it weren't for the Constitution, all of the above issues and reasons would not exist! Were it not for the liberty guaranteed by the Constitution and especially the first ten amendments, we would be as other nations of the world, seeking to immigrate somewhere where the opportunity to succeed were greater. Americans are not flooding our ports seeking for an exit. (At least not yet) Sure a few desire to go and live abroad in exotic locations, but most Americans are quite content with our economic opportunity, our security, our freedom of speech and the right to believe as our conscience dictates without fear of oppression. We cherish the right to bear arms and defend our homes against those who would intrude upon our domain and hrt our loved ones and steal our goods. The bottom line is that all of the reasons in paragraph one, minus the frivolous "race, gender and religion", are the result of our departure from the precepts set forth in the Constitution.

I do not want the next president or Congress to give me anything. They cannot give me something, without first taking it from me because government produces NOTHING! I want them to take their hands off what is mine and let me once again determine how my money will be spent, how my family will behave, what I will believe and who in this life that is destitute deserves my charity! I want LIBERTY above everything and if they return to me the liberty that was mine in the first place, all the other problems this country has will right themselves! No, we won't have perfection! But, this nation grew from one of the poorest nations on earth to the most abundant based on LIBERTY in just 175 years. Now, as we depart further from it, we are in decline!

Wake up, my friends! It is not the economy, national security, jobs or healthcare. IT IS LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION WHICH CAN AND WILL BRING US TO PROSPERITY AGAIN!