Bumper Sticker Patriots

My Grandpa would tell me that ‘Talk don’t mean squat! It’s what you do that matters’.  And as time has gone by I realize just how right he really was and I understand the real importance of his words in today’s America.

You see…it’s real easy to talk and we have all kinds of methods for talking today don’t we? In fact we have an over-abundance of social networking sites and blogs etc. etc. Practically anyone can talk about anything they want to talk about. But like my Grandpa said, talk don’t mean squat.

Our Founding Fathers were eloquent speakers, wrote great speeches, and gave great speeches but they were also doers, men of energy who backed up their words with action.

I have always appreciated the words of Thomas Paine when he said, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

We have not been doing a very good job of supporting freedom and liberty in the USA. We often talk a big one. In my area of the nation folks, drive big trucks with Molon Labe and other patriotic statements on their bumper stickers while their own state is being invaded daily by Mexico and other foreign nations. So, when it comes to real action are we too just bumper-sticker patriots? On the other hand, are we standing up and speaking out, and are we being moved to action?

Have you ever wondered why we have allowed our nation to spiral down to the pitiful point that it is at currently? And yes friends, this started long before the current White House occupier, he is just the latest in a long line of Presidents that have shown no regard for our Constitution and our American way of life. Nevertheless, we have allowed all this to happen because of our own lack of action…we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Another Founder said this, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.  If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” — James Madison

Men and Women are not angels. So therefore, we must be responsible and be active in supporting our Constitution and our way of life because we are losing it.

If you believe that voting for another politician is all that is meant by action then please go back to the chair go back and sit on the couch, you have done enough. What we need today is a revival… a revival of patriotic spirit and fervor like our Founding Fathers had…one that is not easily diminished and one that does not give up when the going gets tough.

 I can only imagine what true patriotic Americans could do if we only had the same resolve as our American ancestors and would get out there, march, and demand that our voices are heard loud and clear. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”–Thomas Jefferson 

So are you a Patriot in the same manner as our Founders or are you bumper sticker patriot? Only you can answer that question but whatever the case may be….we don’t have much time left to save the Republic. And the choice is ours (yours)…we can stay on the chair and talk or we can get out there and make real change happen.

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say ‘what should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”  Samuel Adams