free.alive
02-09-2008, 03:22 AM
Tomorrow I go to my caucus...to vote....for RON PAUL!!!!
After months of spreading the message, plotting, planning, and mostly teaching others how to spread the message and recruit others, well, it's all come down to tomorrow - Saturday Feb 9th 1pm is almost here.
Yes, I'm excited. But in everything I have done, in all the help I've given, I can only think of every missed opportunity and every wasted, selfish moment. What was I thinking?
Even still, a sort of solemn calm has come over me. After a long discussion with some newer members to the Revolution tonight after a Tacoma caucus training event, the gravity of this movement hit me once again - what we're standing for and what we've achieved already, even in our 25+ losses. In our disappointments there were still victories to be found; in everyone we couldn't convert we were still able to reach them with a message they otherwise will have never heard, and will continue to hear more of in the future.
Our conversation dragged on tonight, and we discussed our money, our freedom, our individual sovereignty, Michael Badnarik, 9/11, Bush's first campaign for POTUS, naturopathy, vaccines, government lies, the list goes on...
But, besides the fact that I could listen to myself discussing things I had little understanding of 1 year ago, I noticed something different.
First, there was hope. For the first time in my adult life I can honestly say that I can look into the future and I expect things to be better, I expect to have more freedom and be more engaged with others in the practice of self-rule.
Second, there was a strategy. The knowledge of the political process I've gained from being part of this outsider movement has shown myself and others, that if we make good on our claim to be the Revolution we say we are, there is a way we can change at least one party from the inside out. Actually, since the last Constitutionalist POTUS was a Democrat - Grover Cleveland - we shouldn't limit our coup to Republicans. (more on this in another post)
So, while an absolutely amazing chapter in my life will be ending in just a few short hours, I can look out into the future with a hope that I've never had and I can see how the dream of true freedom can come alive.
Thank you all for playing a part in this wonderful, life-affirming experience!
After months of spreading the message, plotting, planning, and mostly teaching others how to spread the message and recruit others, well, it's all come down to tomorrow - Saturday Feb 9th 1pm is almost here.
Yes, I'm excited. But in everything I have done, in all the help I've given, I can only think of every missed opportunity and every wasted, selfish moment. What was I thinking?
Even still, a sort of solemn calm has come over me. After a long discussion with some newer members to the Revolution tonight after a Tacoma caucus training event, the gravity of this movement hit me once again - what we're standing for and what we've achieved already, even in our 25+ losses. In our disappointments there were still victories to be found; in everyone we couldn't convert we were still able to reach them with a message they otherwise will have never heard, and will continue to hear more of in the future.
Our conversation dragged on tonight, and we discussed our money, our freedom, our individual sovereignty, Michael Badnarik, 9/11, Bush's first campaign for POTUS, naturopathy, vaccines, government lies, the list goes on...
But, besides the fact that I could listen to myself discussing things I had little understanding of 1 year ago, I noticed something different.
First, there was hope. For the first time in my adult life I can honestly say that I can look into the future and I expect things to be better, I expect to have more freedom and be more engaged with others in the practice of self-rule.
Second, there was a strategy. The knowledge of the political process I've gained from being part of this outsider movement has shown myself and others, that if we make good on our claim to be the Revolution we say we are, there is a way we can change at least one party from the inside out. Actually, since the last Constitutionalist POTUS was a Democrat - Grover Cleveland - we shouldn't limit our coup to Republicans. (more on this in another post)
So, while an absolutely amazing chapter in my life will be ending in just a few short hours, I can look out into the future with a hope that I've never had and I can see how the dream of true freedom can come alive.
Thank you all for playing a part in this wonderful, life-affirming experience!