July 4, 2020. Several hundred people gathered at a governmental plaza. Patriotic music echoed off the walls of surrounding buildings. Flags flew. Patriots came. They came to celebrate Liberty. They came to celebrate heroes of yesterday and today. They came to protest against the dictatorial behavior of a North Carolina Governor who, like a self-appointed King, picks winners and losers. They came to protest against sweeping domestic terrorism. They came to protest against elected officials who abdicate their responsibilities to uphold the law. And they came to condemn Washington’s treasonous federal officials and demand they face “equal justice for all.” As America burns and as historical monuments crumble, you wonder why only 300 citizens showed up. Why not 500, or 1000 or 5000? You wonder — how bad does something have to be before good people act? Americans by the hundreds of thousands fought and died on foreign soil to set free continents. Now the enemy is in your living room, literally tearing down American history. Sitting legislators and other elected officials colluded to hijack an American election. Out and out Marxism, camouflaged as Black Lives Matter, has invaded mass communication, professional sport, boardrooms and government. Consider this — the NBA is preparing to print Black Live Matter on team uniforms. ESPN is producing a docu-series on Colin Kaepernick. You wonder — what does it take to provoke Americans to step up? What hold does apathy have on America’s majority? A stranglehold? Good people sit at home, shaking their heads at TV news and political commentary. They wail at the onset of government tyranny and corruption. They complain about lawlessness, about children shot down in the streets. Both in private and on social media, they express fear that their country is at existential risk. They offer a wealth of opinion about what could or should be done by people in power, conveniently forgetting that, constitutionally, they themselves are the people with power. But they sit and wait. Doing nothing. They do not venture from their caves. They do not visit or call an elected official to state a view or demand an action. They do not write letters. Nor do they “sacrifice” two precious hours to celebrate the birth of their country and make a statement in Her honor. Apathy is the cancer in a free land. Affluence is her handmaiden. Dictators and despots love apathy — and ignorance. In a single century they put both to good use in the genocidal conduct of Germany, China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Korea and many other “civilized” nations. In America, in the passing of a few decades, that history is just a forgotten footnote; but its ideological virus is alive and well, walking down your streets, occupying your schools, kidnapping the news media, infiltrating the halls of Congress and contaminating the Deep State. As America’s foundation trembles, you must imagine that people believe She is too free to fail. So they sit and wait. Hoping, Wishing, Expecting. What?

Two years ago you plowed this same ground:

As your country creeps methodically into socialism — regardless of who is president and what party has power — over 80% of the American people are fat, clueless and indifferent. Something like cattle. No, exactly like cattle. They chew their cuds and watch as the Federal Government mandates the education of their children, the regulation of business, the labor of people, the housing of people, the health of people, the marriage of people, the birth of people, the transportation of people and the energy and climate of a nation. It turns out The Constitution gave those jurisdictions to the States. Now States are custodians. Irrelevant. Jumping when their Federal Master says, “Jump.” So — you ask — why don’t the States exercise absolute power and convene the Convention of States and chop the Federal Government at its knees, restoring it to its Constitutional limits? It’s a fair question. You can only surmise an opinion. State Governments are smaller versions of the Federal Government — hostile to change. Their leaders? Terrified to rock the boat and accept responsibility. Even so, 15 courageous states think it’s time to act. You can only hope, too. That finally something will incite the cattle to stampede.

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