What you once thought freedom in America looked like is gone forever. Our great America changed ‘overnight’ while everyone ‘slept’ through their responsibility as citizens.

It’s not enough to just show up and vote or to pick teams. We were supposed to hold our chosen political representatives to their responsibilities and to their promises. We were supposed to monitor our government every single day. We were to ensure that they were upholding the Constitution every single day. We were supposed to pass on our great liberty, our grand experiment in freedom, to our future generations. We failed them. We are responsible for what happened.

People did not pay attention as the Democrat party slid further and further left until it became a shill for Marxism. People did not pay attention as the Republican party followed the Democrats trying to pick up voters. That same Republican party, in turn, became a shill for progressivism. This is the bridge of socialism into communism. ‘Overnight’, our two party system morphed into a single-minded body of power-hungry individuals who do not do what they lead you to believe they do.

I routinely watch what happens on the Senate floor and in the House of Representatives. What actually happens there is NOT what you are told from the media outlets, whether in print or televised. Instead of holding our responsibility dear and using the sources available to us to ensure our elected officials do what we elect then to do, we rely on others to editorialize it for us.

Our media has come between us and our government. They are the veil that allowed the parties to deceitfully change our country. People unknowingly go along with things as though it’s business as usual and nothing is out of the normal. We’ve stopped questioning things. We accept what we are told by others in the news media(and social) at face value without ever engaging our own thought process. If it sounds like it reinforces what we think, we accept it.

The hole in that is that what we think our government does is shaped, molded, created by the media. The idea we have in our minds has been placed there by what people in the media told us. We should have been looking around the curtain of media personalities and going straight to the source itself. We should have been watching Congress ourselves with our own eyes and no one telling us what to think about what we’re seeing.

We have all been brainwashed by media sources that have their own angle on what’s happening. Our thoughts were created by others, not by ourselves. We’ve received constant narratives that are not the actual truth. We are being fed agenda based stories to elicit emotions in us.

If you actually took interest in history and read up on the way Hitler was able to rise to power – read about the days and months after the Reichstag fire – you would see the covert nature that government officials work in, when allowed to act behind closed doors. Obviously, many of us did not pay attention to the former USSR and how they used Pravda to ‘inform’ the people what to think.

We have had many lessons through history but we ignored them. We didn’t see the need to to be responsible and to ask questions. We allowed others to fill our minds with revisioned opinions and that go unchallenged. These same people are covering what you’re seeing today on the TV. These same people are feeding your mind with their opinions and informing you what to think about it.

Sure, it would be great if what is happening wasn’t happening. But if these people waited until after the vote tally was completed and Trump loses, then you would hear things like ‘sore losers’ and ‘sour grapes’ and ‘too late’. The only truth there is that it is too late. This is the last effort to try to stop what is happening to America.

This is not simply about a single election, this is about what has happened for decades. This is about where the country is heading because of an out of check government. This may well be the last peaceful check and balance left. The ballot box failed. The judicial box has failed. The soap box is a complete joke. And the only remaining box is one that NO ONE wants to open.

Plenty of people saw this coming. Many of us tried to wake people up. Instead, the consciousness of America fell to becoming ‘woke’ instead. Who spearheaded the ‘woke culture’ and delivered it into your homes? The same people who provided the veil to a corrupt government, that’s who. That is part of the veil. Look here instead of over there where your government is doing bad things that will hurt you later.

Remember images of “mostly peaceful” protests in Minnesota with fires raging out of control in the background? Remember images of violence by “peaceful protestors” using bricks and nails on the end of their sticks to stab with? Those stories were brought to your awareness by the same people telling you that what’s happening today is “violent” and “unAmerican” and directing your thoughts. Your eyes don’t lie. Just ask yourself questions. Seek answers. But don’t let media tell you what to think.

Overnight literally refers to the dark period from one day to the next. But, metaphorically it can mean an indefinite length of time. People believe the election was stolen from President Trump overnight. I do. But, the country was stolen bit by bit over decades…

that’s ‘overnight’ in our lifetime.

 But not this President. WHY?!? We could review all of the scandals – IRS, NSA, Obamacare and the unions, etc – but that isn’t the important connection that SHOULD BE addressed right now!

 We are on the verge of getting involved in a civil war in Syria. This is not our first military involvement under President Obama. This will be our third in the Middle East and that makes it ABSOLUTELY relevant that we analyze his previous efforts. How can we proceed headlong into another war putting our troops into harm’s way without even giving any consideration to what our expectations of success are? We should look at what President Obama has accomplished first and that is the role of the media in America!

 Let’s look at Egypt. We helped to depose Mubarak. We suddenly saw him as the worst dictator in the Middle East, yet everything in history showed that to be false. Yes, he was a dictator but he was secularist who maintained stability in a very important part of the region. He was the gatekeeper for peace with Israel. We toppled him and installed a BRUTAL Muslim Brotherhood. That lasted a short time before the world’s largest protests ever helped to remove them from power. Ever since we went into Egypt the country has been immersed in vicious lawlessness with Christians under attack.

 Let’s look at Libya. We got involved in Libya because “rebels” decided to overthrow Qaddafi after being inspired by America’s help in Egypt. These “rebels” (who are al Qaeda) decided that they could appeal to America for our intervention on their behalf. Obama goes to the UN and then takes a back seat, effectively giving himself plausible deniability, and hopes to move his name away from the headlines after bad results. Libya has been mired in absolute turmoil ever since. Qaddafi was a crappy leader who had bad intentions but had been neutered ever since President Reagan dropped a bomb in his backyard – literally. And this does bring into focus another of Obama’s scandals that is relevant to everyone except the media: Benghazi and what happened one year ago. Will we ever find out?

 But here we sit… Syria. Rebels in Syria –>- al Qaeda <— again appeal to America for help overthrowing a “brutal dictator”. Assad has helped maintain a delicate balance of limited peace to the north of Israel and has kept a stable nation during his reign as dictator. Syria is a nation of Muslims and Christians living side-by-side, and despite the tension they had been doing so without much violence. That was until more al Qaeda savages felt inspiration by President Obama’s helping hand.

 So… should we involve ourselves? What will the landscape look like afterwards? Unstable with muslim-controlled acts of genocide? Will we have further stacked the deck against Israel and made an already unstable environment worse? Will we be drawn into a far greater war later on as we defend our true ally, Israel? Will we be an exhausted nation, tired of its wars by then, and reluctant to assist a true friend?

 So… did al Qaeda suddenly have a change of heart from 12 years ago when they flew planes into our Pentagon, into the World Trade Center, and were stopped in Shanksville, PA? How did they become a friend and ally one year after orchestrating the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi and killing our Ambassador?

 So… Where is the media? Is President Obama really on America’s side? Or is he working against our best interests by pretending these conflicts are a threat using short-sighted vision while in the long-run we are creating a massive enemy? When he said that he would stand with the muslims should the political winds shift against them, did he mean that he intended to shift the winds against them in order to be able to stand with them? Is his only acceptable version of a muslim the kind that become rebels, the ones who are the Muslim Brotherhood? Why did he just send them a message saying that his administration is a proud partner? What did he partner with them on?

 Where is the media? Where are the questions?

With the terrible shooting in CT this week, this story got put out with seemingly little to no notice. I’d question whether that was intentional or not, myself. Anyway, remember the Oregon mall shooting less than 2 weeks ago? There is a reason why that shooting ended the way it did and it had NOTHING to do with police intervention!

The shooter took his own life when he was confronted by a man who was a concealed carry holder. This man did not fire a single shot. He merely presented a gun into the situation and the shooter knew he was now up against another armed person.

A lot can be said about this. First, mass shooters are cowards hellbent on trying to run up a death count for noteriety sake. They intend to take their own lives after killing people but they want to leave a legacy first. When they see that their time may be up, they often take their life in a last act of cowardice. Second, they seek out areas that will help facilitate getting that notorious death count that one ups the last story or puts them in the record books. Third, why would anyone think that making guns illegal would stop a person who wants to kill others? Killing is the far worse crime here yet we think that making the possession of a gun harder will somehow prevent someone who wants to do something so much worse. Does making it illegal to break open a locked door prevent burglaries? Does posting a financial penalty make everyone return their books to the library on time? The obvious answers are “NO”.

No matter what the gun control advocates are trying to do with legislation, they are addressing the wrong side of the problem. They are relying on your emotions to guide your decisions rather than your sound reasoning based on thoughtful discussion. Both real-life situations as well as logical thought should tell you that the problem with these shooters goes WAY beyond access to guns. They are ALL mentally disturbed. Instead of worrying about guns, legislators need to address the problems at their root, not at the fruit that it bears. As America transcends into a quagmire of ideological battles heated up by continuous rhetoric of class inequality and socially irrelevant issues that dominate our headlines, we are pushing people to their breaking point. Some folks in America just are not equipped with the tools necessary to function with a shifting society and they decide to throw it all away in a grand statement of their disgust. It is this issue that we MUST focus on. We are raising our kids without the fundamental building blocks to deal with life’s problems and no compass with which to help them find the rightful solutions to their worries.

On top of this, we are promoting all sorts of issues that are far less important as though they are the end-all of America’s problems. These desperate folks need help, help dealing with their real-world problems. They have mental health problems that only professional help can address. The sources of their problems come from the pressures we all are experiencing as we tune in to see what is happening in the news today.

Instead of fixing America, our politicians are too busy trying to push legislative measures that divide America. Instead of helping heal the chasm that they have created in the soul of America, they are trying to build greater roadblocks. So long as they focus on band aids instead of removing the cancers, Americans will be tuning in to see who one-upped who this time.

We have a new and horrifying version of “keeping up with the Joneses” and no one seems to want to really address it because it just isn’t politically expedient.

Consider this… if, in response to this terrible situation, someone tells you to personally go buy a gun and to get a permit to carry it, are they telling you to shoot up some public place? Do you suddenly envision yourself carrying out that kind of act all of the sudden, just because they suggested for you to start carrying a gun? Ask yourself this: Why don’t you see yourself killing people just because you have a gun? The answer is because you are a stable and balanced person without any fantasies of violence against your fellow man. You value life and respect the right for others to live as well, am I right? THAT is what separates you from these depraved people. You are not like them and they are not like you.

You must now begin to realize that the problem is not the gun rather, it is the human condition. The societal influences combined with the pressures of everyday life while lacking a proper foundation for a healthy value of life is where we need to place blame. We have come to a place in our society where we are not taking the time to raise our children ourselves. We don’t step in and teach them about life and how beautiful it is. We are too busy trying to keep up with the Joneses and working in the modern rat race, while our precious children are left behind to fend for themselves. They lose that sense of love that we all need because, so often, people don’t make the time necessary to show their children what love is anymore.

We are so quick to blame guns… yet guns don’t know what love is or understand how to hate. People do, though. All of these sick people who shoot up movie theaters, schools, college campuses, and malls are all old enough to know what their actions are. But how quick do we forget that, at one point, all of these people were children once. We blame guns because it is easy to blame an inanimate object. We categorically proclaim these murderers as monsters, thereby devaluing them and ignoring that somewhere along the way they were innocent, young, impressionable minds. When they were young, they were in need of guidance and somehow, somewhere, the message was lost. The message never made it to them because we are all looking to get ahead, or just get by, or just stay afloat. The prospect of falling behind is too personally frightening and it causes us all to work harder and put in more time at work. We press harder to earn more and to buy more. But our children don’t need that. They simply need to know that we care about them. They need to understand what life is all about and why we value a family more than we value our possessions.

We are so caught up in the “worldly” and forget what really matters. We keep forgetting to turn back to where we all started because we are too busy with the distractions of where we are trying to go. Our children are not being brought along the path in our journey so they don’t see what it is that has so many of us distracted. We don’t stop to see how they’re looking but not seeing, nor do we even realize that we are looking but not seeing either.

We are so busy trying to figure out how to get whatever it is that we think we need or whatever it is that we are missing out on. Does anyone seem to know what we are missing out on? Does anyone know what we need but aren’t finding? The answer is Him. The answer is that we must follow His lead and keep Him in our sight. We should all step back and think about the innocence of youth. We should all remember that we were once young and in need of compassion and understanding. We all wanted to be a part of something special. Today, we forget how “being part of something special” really means being a part of Him. We’ve lost that focus because we forgot the part of the Bible that talks about being like children… To love life like children and to see things with the innocence of a child.

In today’s fast-paced life, we are made to be so busy that we don’t even realize that our children are emulating our own behaviors without them even understanding what it is that they are seeing. When they are finally on their own, they don’t know how or why they are doing things and they quickly find themselves lost. We are hurrying our children to grow up and not giving them the fundamental building blocks of morality. It is time for us all to stop blaming inanimate objects and to place the blame squarely upon those with free will, humans.

Find the cause and fix it or forever be at the mercy of inanimate objects that will unexpectedly go crazy and shoot up the place.