God Did It !

Yep. You heard me, God did it! Let me explain. Each day as I drive to work I get radio boredom and frequently hit the SCAN button and drift between stations 'till something catches my ear. This can be entertaining because I'm never quite sure where I will land next.

Well, this morning I landed on one of the many central Florida conservative talk radio stations (Republican state - big surprise, right?) and was instantly transfixed to the screed of absolute crap this particular person was shoveling. The short and polite version is that Republicans are the saviours of us all and without them and a free business atmosphere America would cease to exist.

For the record I am a "No Party Affiliation" kind of guy (formerly known as "independent" voter) and I will vote, get this, for the person whom I believe can do the elected job best!

Anyway...This radio guy took only five minutes to pigeon-hole just about every Non-Republican group into this camp or that camp. This loser, That idiot, Those freaks. Liberals, Nazi's, Socialists, Anti-Americans, and anything else he could use to classify those who dared to think differently than him.

I thought about just how divisive this guy was being and had a moment of clarity. The Republicans didn't make America great. Nor was it the Democrats, or the Federalists, or the Whigs. It wasn't the Green Party, or the Libertarians, or the National Socialists. It was God!

The founding fathers, regardless of personal motivation or professional interest, all knew one thing. This new nation could not, would not survive unless we "the people" knew it was built on more than the avaricious desires of wealthy white men who would place themselves as Kings over us all. No, they knew that to prevent the tyranny and oppression of the past this new nation MUST be built with the bricks of Freedom, the mortar of Civil Liberties and the stability of Faith.

That is why they came together and for our sake stood before the King of England and declared to the world:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

" We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

They cite eighteen very specific reasons for their declaration and invoke the power of God, saying:

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

So you see We The People are just that, THE PEOPLE. Not this group or that group, THE PEOPLE. And THE PEOPLE built this nation not as individuals but as Free and Equal members of our United States. United States built on "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God". Laws of God that declare, "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and it is that foundation that allowed them to create and perpetuate, "One Nation, Under God, With Liberty And Justice For All".