Washington's Wake

In the end, the Verucacrats (aka Democrats) are going to get what they want, and we are going to pay.  There really just aren’t enough votes to block it, and I believe the damage of doing nothing will be too great. So, some how, they’re going to push their agenda through, whether by reconciliation or not.

But there is hope for conservatives.

Though this battle might be completely lost, barring a miraculous Leonide’s shot with a thundering spear through the head of Obama’s administration,  the war can be won here and now by standing firm on the principles of freedom.

“Remember us.” As simple an order as a king can give. “Remember why we died.” For he did not wish tribute, nor song, nor monuments nor poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. “Remember us,” he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, “Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie.”

The 300 Spartans are remembered thousands of years later, not for victory, but for courage and principle that won out by the inspiration they gave with their bravery. Perhaps, conservatives will be able to say after the loss, that their point was made. Though vastly outnumbered, they were remembered. They were heard. Their voices were strong and their cause just.

A new age has begun, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

It seems to me, that even in loss, the conservative movement can win by being true, and hard, and strong.

America needs a new age of Freedom, and Emanuel is right – no crisis should go to waste. Though we didn’t create this crisis, though we didn’t want it, the liberalism has forsaken liberty and it is an opportunity to remind the citizens what that means.

Freedom is not free, the cost is blood. Conservatives have the chance to show that their courage and principles can bond us together, that we can be stronger by these actions, and that these choices today can reflect the bravery and sacrifice it takes for freemen to be free. Losing this battle is far less important than losing the point.

It seems to me we forget. We forget not only the 300 Spartans, but the 3million men and women who have given their lives under our banner. That banner that so many forget is not made of woven thread, but instead the fabric of our ideals.  A nation is not the land, a nation is the values, the principles and the customs that make us one people. When conservatives conserve those things that unify us and make us all more free, then they are unbeatable.

So, conservatives must remember that freedom is more valuable than life, that we rally beneath a banner of honor and blood, of truth and justice. As Conservatives we must rally the people to the absolute right to be who we choose, where we choose, what we choose – without any entitlement to success, or station, or property.

If we do not strip down these notions of liberty to their essence, and continue to allow liberals to define the playing field in base Marxist notions of relativism and fairness,  then this loss WILL destroy this society.

So, Conservatives, Remember Sparta.