What are your responsibilities looking ahead to 2016?

As we put 2015 in our rearview mirror and embark on the journey that will be 2016, we have some important things to keep in mind.

Remember that 2016 is an election year. Judging from the candidates’ stump speeches and debate performances, I see little change regardless of whether a “D” candidate (Kankles Clinton) or an “R” candidate (likely one of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, unless the GOP decides to completely eviscerate itself and install a puppet at the convention) is chosen.

There is no political “savior” on the horizon, and anyone looking for one will be sorely disappointed.

There will be no change in the status quo until there is collapse or revolution — not necessarily a bloody one, though it cannot be ruled out at this point.

The likely revolution will be a ground-up, grass-roots one — one in which principled men and women will be put in office first locally, then statewide. These principled men and women will work to return power to the states by reasserting states’ rights via the 9^th and 10^th amendments, nullification, recalling senators, proposing constitutional amendments and ultimately replacing the fossils, cronies and cubicle-dwelling bureaucratic class currently infesting the District of Criminals.

This will also be the last year in office for the undocumented usurper currently despoiling the People’s House. We must continue to fend off his (and, on his behalf, Congress’) assaults on Christian values, morality, our natural rights and liberty. That is no small order.

To help bolster you for the fight before us this coming year and beyond, I give to you some wisdom from the Founding Fathers:

• Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 6, 1775: “Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”
• Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788: “Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”
• Samuel Adams, in the Boston Gazette, April 16, 1781: “Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”
• John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776: “Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.”
• Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775: “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”
• Samuel Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, November 27, 1780: “If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.”

The responsibility for a free and open society is on you, just as it was on the men quoted above. They did not shirk their responsibility. Neither should you. Never let down your guard.

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