Sarah Palin and the 5th American Revolution

Of the four past and the one current American Revolutions, the first and third are the most well know.  The first of course was the war for independence from Great Britain.  

The second American Revolution ended in 1800 with the election of Thomas Jefferson as President.  Some American leaders were trying to push statism onto the US.  Among the statists were John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.  Other American leaders were pushing for limited government.  Among that group was Thomas Jefferson.  The election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency was a mandate from the American people for limited government. 

The third revolution was the Civil War.  Lincoln changed our form of government.  He returned to the principles in the Declaration of Independence, namely Natural Law, to hold the Union together.  Lincoln made Natural Law, not the Constitution, the highest law of the land.  Natural Law is essentially natural truths and some important principles.  Among those principles is the necessity for nations to prevent their own demise by forbidding states to separate from the Union at will. 

The fourth revolution was a negative one.  This would be the Roosevelt socialist revolution.  Franklin Roosevelt and his supporters introduced large amounts of socialism into American government. 

The Reagan revolution was a minor revolution, but I won’t count it because even though it fixed some contemporary problems and laid a groundwork of principles for today’s revolution, Reagan did not introduce deep and longstanding changes to American government, so I won’t count the Reagan revolution as a major revolution.  The Reagan revolution was more of a cultural revolution than a major change in government.

The fifth revolution is the one we are going through today.  Another group of leftists, led by President Barack Obama and leftists in government, is trying to transform America into another failed leftist state.  They are trying to change the character of American government completely against the will of the American people.  The American people are rejecting the attempts at usurpation and sedition. 

The next two federal elections, the one in 2010 and the one in 2012, are the medium for the revolution.  The Tea Party movement is a major part of the revolution.  The political fight to prevent the leftist wannabe leaders from putting into place a leftist government is also a part of the revolution. 

Today we are faced with a repeat of the choice we faced at the end of the Second revolution in the 1700’s.  Today’s revolution is our fight between push for a statist transformation which will reduce the freedoms found in America and replace our freedom with powerful state control, or a conservative transformation which will limit the power of government by putting in place measures to minimize the kinds of statism that are being forced upon us .

The medium for the revolution is education.  The American leftists have gotten away with a lot of legal and moral crimes.  They have been able to do that because the American people are not fully knowledgeable about principles of American government.  As time passes and people are brought to suffering by a leftist government, the people are beginning to remember and care again.  Again, as we are coming face-to-face with the horrors of a statist government, we are being reminded of the meaning of liberty and happiness and the associated values of limited government.

Sarah Palin is fast becoming a leader in the Fifth Revolution.  She is not a political genius along the lines of Jefferson or Lincoln.  She is not a dominant political figure, coming from what, by political standards, are humble origins.  Rather, she represents something more important; Sarah is simply a common sense American and she represents the common sense of the American people.  There is nothing special about her.  Sarah’s genius is not a personal greatness.  To the contrary, her genius is simply the genius of everyday common sense.  Which is something the politicians in Washington DC seem to have lost.  

The Fifth American Revolution is the revolution of common sense in government.  Sarah Palin is the leading voice of the revolution.  

Vive la Révolution!