Informed Citizenry

When the Tea Parties were in full swing last year, the mainstream news media would search for a few signs that were not deemed proper and highlighted them on their newscasts. For the past two weeks we have seen the opposition's version of Tea Parties. There have been reporters assaulted and their reporting literally prohibited through harassments and there have been numerous other instances that were far more like mob rule than petition for redress of grievances...yet the media saw no problem in them but the average American who raises the banner of Liberalism must recoil at the tactics and the immaturity, let alone the self-centeredness and deception that our media cannot hide.  Democracy without law is fertile ground for anarchy. We lost an election on 2008, an election that in itself was more a product of a supportive news media than the result of votes cast after open and honest debate. Yet we sat back and worked for the next election, and were successful. How does the opposition react...obfuscation and in your face tactics. The situation is serious. As long as the Charlie Sheens' of this nation continue to be of more interest to Americans than the George Soros's, we will remain vulnerable to agitation from outside our borders. Thomas Jefferson wrote on the necessity of an informed citizenry and warned against the expectation of being ignorant and remaining free but it is hard for a citizenry to become informed without a full functioning journalistic profession, and even with one, the lures of this culture offers everything imaginable but leaves despondency in its wake. Nietzsche is not dead. The battle for America is being defended in prayer on our knees, on conservative talk radio, in libraries and Barnes and Noble bookstores, in peaceable rallies at courthouses, in legislatures, on school boards and around lunch tables but the war against us is being planned, not only in caves in mountainous settings and within mosaic tiled walls, but around long tables in lavish Alpine resorts. Chaos is what they want and a mobocracy can deliver this. Order is what we need and that, along with precision, is a tenet of Conservatism.