Bradley Johnson

Play The Long Game President Trump By, Chris Rossini (@chrisrossini) It’s easy to gain weight, but difficult to lose weight. It’s easy to rack up debt, but difficult to pay it off. So it is with freedom. It’s easy to let freedom slip away, but very difficult to get it back. As relieving as it is to see the election results and the overwhelming support for President Trump to change the direction of our nation, we must resist the temptation of believing that this will be easy. It will not. Once the celebrations subside, the reality of 100+ years of damage will be there waiting for us. The resistance to change (even if it’s for the better) will be intense. Human nature is such that we seek to maintain the status quo, even if the status quo is detrimental and destroying us. Fortunately, this goes both ways. If the status quo is to vigilantly guard your faith, family and freedom (as it was in the early years of America’s history) then tyranny has a very difficult time gaining a foothold. But alas, the second 100 years of America’s history have been the opposite of the first. Faith was kicked to the curb, the family was virtually destroyed, and Americans continually succumbed to the seductions of the state. Today, we have the biggest government in the history of the world; and as a consequence, the "land of the free" has become a distant memory. Addiction to government replaced the love of freedom. Being a busybody replaced 'live and let live'. The world's tapestry of nations and cultures was replaced by endless wars and a drive for global conformity. Predictably, this has morally and economically bankrupted America. Other nations no longer seek to replicate us. They don't want to be "woke"; nor do they want to be destroyed in the name of "freedom and democracy." Fortunately for us, the vast majority of America doesn't want to be "woke" either! But change for America will bring anger; on top of the anger that already exists. So, play the long game President Trump. Seek for the results of your actions to outlive all of us. Plant good seeds today. Rip out as many weeds as you can. The Dept. of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), with Elon Musk at the helm, is a brilliant idea! Get us out of the business of miserably attempting to rule the world. We literally can’t be the world’s busybody any longer. We must be a nation that cares for itself, with goodwill and good relations with the rest of the world. A nation that cares for itself will instinctively re-learn and bring back the virtues of faith, family and freedom. When that time arrives (someday in the distant future) Americans will look back at our time with a sense of fondness, in the same way that we look back with fondness on 1776.