As if you need more motivation, maybe Bill Ayers will help liight your fire.

Bill Ayers provides us with a window into the political soul of Barack Obama.  Obama began his political career as an Illinois State Senator in the home of Bill Ayers.  Ayers was a domestic terrorist in his younger days,  but now pretends to be more non-confrontation than in his youth.  His history,  including his association with the Weather Underground,  can be found here.   He lives and teaches in Chicago,  but made the following comments (video) last week,  at the University of Oregon.  His association with Obama is without question.  

Like all American Marxist radicals of today,  he sees an America in decline,  an imperialist state that is breathing its last and a classroom full of collegiate's who both know what the heck he is talking about and support his views. I think he is wrong on all counts.  The decline is contrived,  the handiwork of Obama and Company; the US has never been an imperialist state;  and the Oregon student population will forget Bill Ayers within minutes of his return to Chicago Land.     

Point of post: to let you know that this election cycle is critical to more than the Conservative Patriot.  Obama and his more radical "cousins" are aware,  that a conservative tide may be positioned to push radical, old world Marxism back where it came from.  Remind yourself of the fear and heartbreaking concern you have felt as you watched three years of Rogue Rule and a man with his subversive friends successfully working their will against this great nation.   Take that fear and transfer it to the hearts of those are the radicals.  You think we are afraid?  They are more so,  I believe.  Understand that if they have a second "mid-term type" conservative wave election,  their cause will be set back by 20-30 years if not more so. They know the critical importance of the moment.  Because of their fear of losing,  expect to see a campaign season as wild as any on record.  In a sense,  this is our second civil war.  "War is hell" and,  because of the truth of that statement,  expect this election cycle to be the most disturbing in our life-time.  You do not have the option of sitting on your betoot.  "We" need your attention, your vote, your money, your time.  I never give to political campaigns.  This year,  that will change. I never attend political meetings, or put bumper stickers on my cars but I will do so, this year.  I have never canvased a neighborhood or put signs in my well-groomed front yard.  I have never fought in a war or discomforted myself for the cause of freedom.  2012 changes all of this. 

My brother fought in WW II.  Obama wants me to forget about him, but,  in fact,  it is his memory that speaks to me,  today,  and tells me to "get off my arse" and drive the advancing hordes he fought against,  into the next life.   

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Text:  The great challenge for our generation [is] to find a way not just to live differently as individuals, but to find a way to think differently about what work means, to think differently about citizenship means, to think differently about what it means to be a ‘citizen of the world.’  One of the great dangers that we live in right now, is I don‘t think there’s any question, and I don’t think any of you would question, that the American Empire is in decline–that economically, and politically, and in  some ways culturally, that we are in decline.  And yet, the United States remains the most powerful, weaponized military system the Earth has ever known.

That’s a treacherous combination.  A declining economic power, and an expanding military power.  And we are going to have to find ways to re-imagine what it means to live in this coun–in this world.  And here we are 4% of the world’s population, 4.5% of the world’s population, consuming vast amounts of natural resources, consuming vast amounts of finished goods, and no politician will say that the empire is declining and that the game is over. 

It’s over.  Now what?  

And you know, my optimistic friends say: “Oh boy, we’re going to look like Germany, or England, or France,“ and I think ”Jeese.”  I mean, first of all, for England and France and Germany to become non-empires it took the deaths of millions and millions of people, so let’s remember that.

But let’s also remember that as power shifts, and as people feel something changing, they can either embrace it as a possible good thing in the world, or they can hold on to and become more, you know, reactionary.  More racist, more militaristic, and that’s happening too.  So it shouldn’t surprise us to see the Republican primaries.

I don’t know about you but I watch the debates as if watching a train wreck, I mean I was just fascinated with it– my wife is just sickened by it– but, I thought it was interesting and also telling that that is a tendency that we’re going to see more and more of.

And that means, for me that means, that it’s our responsibility to fight here and now for a little more democracy, a little more participation, a little more peace, and keep putting our shoulder on that wheel because the opposition is fighting for– you know, another world is definitely coming, but that doesn‘t mean it’s going to be a better world, and it’s our responsibility to jump in.