America the Great

I'm aware that the election did not go the way anyone who might be reading this wanted. (This is one of the nice things about all your friends being conservative, you can always address a specific audience politically) I just wanted to take a moment to say that it is not the end of the world. The sun is still coming up tomorrow, and it will keep coming up for the next four years. Life moves on.

Obama is not the ideal candidate. Granted. But he does have some things going for him that I can respect in a commander in chief. He is a solid diplomat and an expert negotiator. I agree with most of his foreign policy decisions, even if we stand apart on Israel. He also knows how to manage the military. On this issue, Romney was just wrong. There is absolutely no need to increase the defense budget. Our modern enemies are not nations like Russia or China. They are insurgents, shadow fighters. You can't fight the shadows with a tank, you need spec ops teams. So when Obama backs military reforms that trim the fat and make us a leaner, faster, more mobile and adaptable fighting force, I am 100% behind that.

Heck, if he could get spending under control he might actually make a decent president.

But even if there is nothing he supports that you agree with, even if he stands juxtaposed to your entire core ethos, he isn't going to be able to stop America.

You see, I've been all around the world. I've seen different cultures, experienced different lifestyles. The world can be a beautiful place, but no where holds a candle to the United States of America. This country is the foundation of freedom the world over. Here you can speak your mind, influence the way things run, and live your life the way you want to. You can find more economic opportunity than anywhere else in the world. And you can enjoy it all free from fear, knowing that our country is protected by the mightiest military force assembled in history.

Our system of government was divinely inspired to bring the light of freedom to the world. When it really comes down to it, the government doesn't mean a thing, because our country is run by us. We the people.

Our history is written in blood, but more often than not, that blood was sacrificed in defense of those who could not defend themselves or spilt in the struggle for liberty, protecting the rights that God himself gave to us. We have made mistakes, but we continually improve, learning lessons and becoming more and more a paragon nation that exemplifies humanities potential.

Now can you really picture all of that being toppled by a democratic president with only four years in office?

Think again.

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Victor Frankl