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columnist: an existentialist

Topic: Super Tuesday
You Want "Straight-Talk?"

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If America wants the truth, they can have the truth.

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by an existentialist
(Libertarian)
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Today is what we all like to call "Super Tuesday." You remember, don't you? Anyone who's anyone has only been talking about it ever since President Bush was re-elected. Today's the day where everyone gets to go out and screw up our nation even more so than it already is. Oh, wait. Did I say, we, the people, are the reason our government is fundamentally broken on every level? Yeah, I think I did.

John McCain is running around, spreading his "straight-talk" as if it were the next best message to the Gospel. And you know what? I actually enjoy his "straight-talk" policy. It's only too bad he doesn't actually practice what he preaches ("What? America isn't heading for a recession!"). It appears, too, that America is warming up to his straight-talk. So let me try it on for size.

Frankly, our government is doing a piss-poor job. A national debt large enough to hurt my grandchildren's grandchildren (and I'm not even a father yet!), a global popularity level of -10,000,000,000 points (but who's keeping track?), and the poorest dollar this side of history has ever seen. These aren't even the beginning of our nation's ailments. But you know something? Whose fault is it, anyway? If your answer was, "Our's," then you'd be correct!

You see, when we fail to act, when we fail to hold our government officials accountable for their actions, when we fail to be morally outraged at the high crimes and misdemeanors committed in our government, it is then that you and I have failed.

Some of you might be reading this and thinking, "Yeah, well schtick happens." You're right, schtick does happen. But you know something? It only happens because you and I let it happen. And when you and I just sit around, complaining about the way things are, nothing is ever going to change.

"But Mr. Existentialist, sir, nothing can change." That's the lie that our government wants you to think! Corrupt Congressmen are simply going to look at you and say, "Go ahead and try to stop me from getting re-elected!" They want you to believe that nothing you ever do is going to matter, but the fact is, it does matter!

Just think if our Founding Fathers had listened to that junk. Washington never would have crossed the Delaware, because he was too convinced that the Revolution was a lost cause. Jefferson never would have written the Declaration of Independence, because it would only be a piece of paper. Henry never would have cried, "Give me liberty or give me death," because he would have known his words to be in vain. But they denied such lies, and in the face of the world's greatest empire, they spat.

Just think if Lincoln had given up hope during the Civil War. His countrymen were devestated, fighting against one another, each for a cause they equally held dear to their hearts. Had someone told the Union, "It is no use. The South is too rebellious to be brought back into fold with the Union," imagine if the Union had listened.

Just think if the Civil Rights Activists had listened to everyone who disagreed with them. Martin Luther King, Jr. never would have marched, never given his famous speeches, never been recognized as a hero. Rosa Parks would have obediently given up her seat to her "superior," Ruby Bridges would have stayed in a run-down school, and Jackie Robinson would have stayed home instead of playing baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

But because all these people, all these people with a vision stood against the lie and acted on principle, they actually changed the status quo, and they made their world better.

And if they can do it, why can't we? Why? There is no honest answer to that question.

So I urge you most solemnly to go out today, on this historic day, and make a vote that counts. Vote for Ron Paul, the only man, dare I say, biologically, committed to restoring the Republic. We have a chance today, people of America, to let the powers that be know we want freedom, we want peace, we want prosperity!

Sure, we may not win. It won't be the first time a just cause was lost. But I think, given our options, that trying a just cause and losing is infinitely better than abandoning a just cause and finding it could have won.

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