Protecting our children’s Liberty

I was born in raised in Mass­a­chu­setts, not far from where the first shot of the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion was fired.  I grew up learn­ing about the colo­nial times, the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War, Lib­erty, Free­dom, and Patri­o­tism.  Now, look­ing back over my life, I real­ize that I’ve taken Lib­erty for granted.  I sup­pose many of us have, being that it has never been so seri­ously threat­ened before.  When you’ve had it so good for so long, you get used to how things are. You expect things to stay the way they’ve always been.

The real wake-up call came when I started think­ing about what my chil­dren could grow up believ­ing Patri­o­tism to be.  It occurred to me that they may grow up believ­ing that it is the respon­si­bil­ity of the indi­vid­ual to sup­port the needs of the col­lec­tive.  That the pur­pose of the per­son is to con­tribute to the peo­ple.  That one must be care­ful what they think or say, because dis­agree­ing with the col­lec­tive is unpa­tri­otic.  So now I find myself explain­ing what Lib­erty and Patri­o­tism are to my chil­dren, hope­fully fend­ing off unwhole­some left­ist influ­ences from ensnar­ing my chil­dren.  It is a never end­ing strug­gle, left­ist ide­ol­ogy has infil­trated Main­stream Media as well as the pub­lic edu­ca­tion system.

What comes next, how­ever, is what I worry about the most.  Edu­cat­ing my chil­dren about Lib­erty, Patri­o­tism, and the Amer­i­can expe­ri­ence may pro­tect them from falling into the leftist’s ide­o­log­i­cal traps.  But what of the leg­isla­tive assault on their cur­rent, and poten­tial, way of life?  Oba­maCare, Amnesty for Ille­gals, Finan­cial Reform, Edu­ca­tion Reform, and the over­all expan­sion of gov­ern­ment and the taxes required to sus­tain it?  Much of Pres­i­dent Obama’s agenda threat­ens the way of life I grew up to expect, and what my chil­dren deserve!