The war yesterday and the battle today

On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave one of the shortest and greatest speeches of his presidency that we now know as the Gettysburg Address. A part of that speech reflects what is happening in this country today. “Our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty………Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated can long endure”. Today, the battle we are engaged in is not a military conflict but a battle for the minds and hearts of the citizens of this country. A battle to save our constitution from those who want to destroy our way of life and the freedoms we have enjoyed for over 230 years. There is a desire by individuals and certain groups to transform our country into a socialist/Marxist society where all power is placed in the hands of the government, the presidential czars and other appointed personnel. In essence, a dictatorship where the Constitution and Bill of Rights are trampled upon. A battle of two ideologies, one given to us by the Founders and the other by Karl Marx. One that allows citizens to be the best they can be and the other suppresses freedoms and has government control business, industry, speech and dictates to the citizens what they can and cannot do. One has a history of tremendous success and the other a history of human slaughter that has a record of killing over 70 million people.