Much at stake in the 2012 election
The 2012 presidential election is upon us. This election is like none other since 1913 when the federal government was given unfettered access to revenue sources, the constitutional balance of power between the federal government and the sovereign states was destroyed and the federal treasury was given unlimited access to credit through the creation of the Federal Reserve.
A president’s words on a November afternoon now well into history are no less profound today than they were when Abraham Lincoln spoke them in 1863 at the dedication of the cemetery on the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa. It took the former lawyer from Illinois but two minutes to articulate the essence of that day: "… that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth."
In this election, the person of the candidate is not important.
What is important is that the electorate appreciate the issue at hand.
The Occupy Wall Street protesters correctly made the point, not well articulated, that today we are a people ruled by an elite financial-political oligarchy.
This election is not about the election of a president. It is about the character of a nation.
The topics of jobs, debt, health care, conservative or liberal are distractions designed by the elite to hide the underlying issue: Will we cleave to that November challenge and be a free and self-responsible people or will we quietly sit beside Winston Smith and Julia.
BOB DEWEY Wintergreen
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