Okay, here goes my first online political blog.

It is a bit strange and definitely scary to be back writing at vicky.com but instead of inputting my truth in spiritual or self-help terms, I am stepping into the world of politics. Nonetheless, here I am and here I go. My friends know how I feel so I guess the world might as well. What the heck, right? Who am I if I am not willing to stand up for what I believe in?

In 2008, while flat on my back for two weeks with tooth problem, I had little to do but watch television. I flipped through the channels and finally landed on one of the history channels doing a series on Hitler. I had never been very interested in history, let alone Hitler, but thought I would watch anyway.

I watched program after program and quite frankly, I was flabbergasted. I was watching Hitler’s rise to power and the horrible consequences but I was just as shocked by what I was seeing as the world conditions and the individual beliefs that enabled him to rise to power. More overly, I couldn’t help but see the modern day parallels in our world today.

That started my search. I became a sponge, not for the dates of events per se, but for the feelings and attitudes of the people and the conditions, not only in Germany, but in the entire world, for decades leading up to Hitler.

I was a child of the 60’s but just escaped the heavy sex, drugs and rock and roll as graduated high school in 1964. I graduated when the Beatles were still singing “She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah…” but not into “Strawberry fields forever.”

If I would have been born just a couple of years earlier I would have probably believed the Cleaver’s were a real family and just a few years later, I would have probably wanted to be at Woodstock.

I grew up in a time when I respected “most” of what my parents said but the world was changing and I was part of the change. I drank too much, had too much sex, but drugs to check out of life and launch into la la land were still a couple of years away.

I had worshipped JFK and was crushed when he was assassinated. I wanted legalized abortion, civil rights and everyone in the world to not only have food on their table but the freedom to have all of their dreams as well. I also believed that everyone should work hard to create those dreams and take care of themselves and their own families. My makeup was a mix of realist and idealist, polar opposites, a mix that would pull my heart and my mind from those high school days right up to the present. That makeup is the exact reason I have so thoroughly explored the metaphysical world, have created so well in the physical world, and am now so involved in exploring the political evolution of America.

In 1964, of course I was a Democrat! Are you kidding me! (I didn’t really know what that meant and couldn’t yet vote but I knew I was one of them.)

A couple of years past and I married. I married a hard working man just back from Viet Nam and thanks to his work ethic and the one I didn’t even know I had, I was thrust into the world of home building, construction, development, architecture, and working my ass off to create a good life. I learned how strong I am, how smart I am, how committed I am and what my values are.

We had created an affluent life and times were good. Then, in 1975, I walked into our real estate company thrilled that I had just voted. One of the agents asked me who I voted for and I told him Jimmy Carter. This huge bulbous man leapt from his chair, pointing his finger and yelling at me. He said; “Lady if Jimmy Carter wins that election, you won’t be building a single GD house a year from now!”

Needless to say, he scared the hell out of me but I paid attention. He was absolutely right and I was shocked. I watched our economy in Seattle tank as well as the rest of the country. My husband and I, who were such conservative, hard working savers came close to losing everything we had worked so hard for.

After the Jimmy Carter years, I decided that it might be a good idea to pay attention to the person, rather than the party, and really dissect what they were saying and not just believe what I hoped was true.

Since that time, I have voted for more Republicans than Democrats but it took watching the Hitler series and then delving deeper into history and the politics of today to truly get that the whole system is way off base in both parties.

In 2009 I found a guy on TV that resonated with what I was learning and believed. He was adamant about his beliefs but he knew his beliefs were his own. He advised over and over not to follow him but rather do our own research and “question with boldness” everyone and everything. He wasn’t someone telling me “THE” truth.” He was someone telling me “his” truth and he knew the difference. This was someone I could listen too.

I could also listen to him because sprinkled in with his history lessons, personal truth and core values, was an outrageous sense of humor, not only regarding the world, but about himself. On many occasions he has cracked me up referring to himself as some sort of chubby marshmallow man.

This man was, and is of course, Glenn Beck and I have watched and DVR his show ever since I first found him on FOX in early 2009. I am traveling a lot these days but no matter where I am in the world, I always try to find Glenn on TV so that I can catch up with what is going on in the United States. It is actually amazing to me that I could be deep in the Amazon jungle or sailing around Yemen and Somalia with armed guards tailing our ship and still be able to watch Glenn Beck on FOX. It is like an injection of American reality into a crazy far off world. God Bless America for creating that technology.

Anyway, back to the chronology…

Soon after he came to FOX in 2009, Glenn started something called the 9-12 Project.
http://www.the912project.com

It was named for the nine principles and 12 values which Glenn believed embodied the spirit of the American people the day after the September 11 attacks. He asked that everyone who subscribed to the principles and values join the 9-12 Project and send in their pictures to be used as the background for a “We The People” mural.

One of the things that Glenn often said and that meant so much to me when I was first trying to figure things out was; “you are not alone.” Part of the purpose of the mural was to show us how many people were willing to send in their pictures and be counted. Glenn knew there were millions of us out here who knew the country was way off course but we didn’t yet know it.

Reluctantly, I sent in my picture. I wanted to know there were others out here but as with writing this first blog, I was definitely a bit afraid of being outed, ending up on some anti-American list, having Uncle Sam knocking on my door, and of course just plain looking stupid.

Well, I didn’t die, no one came knocking at my door and most importantly I definitely didn’t feel stupid. Life went on and I became more and more convinced that I was right and this country was headed for even deeper trouble.

I had cried with millions of others as Barack Obama was inaugurated and walked down Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2009 but it didn’t take long to realize that we were in worse shape than we had been with George Bush and we were headed down an even more slippery slope.

As time went by, I felt my security slipping away and the definite possibility that everything I had worked so very hard for all my life going out the door to every lazy American and illegal alien who thought they were “entitled.” I felt my well being threatened by the thought of a government panel coming between me and my doctor and deciding that I was not a viable enough member of society to be able to get the medicine or surgery that I might need someday. I felt the probability of my taxes skyrocketing, a big government takeover and my rights and my freedom being taken away. I was waking up to what this administration was about and I was angry.

I was angry enough and felt supported enough by Glenn to search out others in my area who felt the same as I did. I found a Tea Party forming, went to a couple of meetings, and for the first time in my 61 years, was part of a protest. I proudly stood on the highway in our little village of Kailua-Kona and joined the first Tea Party Tax Day Protest on April 15, 2009.

Once again in my life, I was standing fully in my truth and felt proud of myself.

Not to bemoan the Tea Party in general as I will join another again soon, but our little Tea Party here in Kona was taken over by someone from the Republican Party and I attended only one more meeting after that. I was damned if anyone, from either party, was going to tell me again what my beliefs should be or who I should vote for. I was not going to have my rights taken away by Barrack Obama or anyone else.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the Tea Party Movement and know that it has just scratched the surface of being a real “people” movement. The Tea Party is not simply anti-Obama. Obama just stepped on the accelerator and hurried the public opposition to a government that was out of control.

People have known for a long time that something was missing from our leadership, and now there is an urgency to find that missing piece, that missing integrity, that missing alignment with what America stands for and the principles that we were founded on.

Personally, I am looking for the “Thomas Jeffersons” of the 21st century. Those are the people I am going to help get elected.

Right now, Chris Christie is kicking butt in New Jersey. I like him. I also like Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann. They both seem to understand that we can’t keep spending money we don’t have and survive.

The United States is not a Socialist country and I will be damned if I will let it become one. I have traveled the world and I have seen what Socialism brings with it and I will not let my country fall that way. Socialism has never created a viable society and it never will. Socialist countries are falling all over the world and they will continue to ask us and others to bail them out because their systems just can’t work.

I was in Athens in May, at the time of the strike. It made me sick to see a huge banner hanging from the Parthenon with a hammer and sickle on it. Europe, the US and others bailed Greece out temporarily with a few billion dollars but that was just the beginning. Greece is just starting to go under and there is no way we can rescue them, Spain, or anyone else if we are out of money and don’t take care of ourselves first.

I used to think that we were a Democracy just like so many other free countries in the world. Now, I know that we are not like any other country in the world and more than that, we are not even a Democracy. America is a Republic not a Democracy. If you didn’t know that, check it out for yourself. There is a huge difference and it is what our country was founded on.

I have listened to a lot of people in my travels that were more than willing to tell me ALL about America. They think they know our country but they don’t have a clue. They are worse than the millions of unconscious Americans as they actually believe that they can know what our country is about by simply viewing it from the outside whilst living in their own country’s paradigm. It is impossible.

Even we Americans have lost connection with our roots, our heritage, our values, and our principles. How can anyone else know? I mean just think about it; How in the hell could people living with the very politics we were fleeing from in the first place know anything about our foundational beliefs let alone the struggles our Founding Fathers went through to create the kind of amazing country that we are blessed to live in today?

I have been told by some Europeans how great it is that “Obama finally got healthcare passed” and then experienced their silence as I asked how long it takes for them to get in to see a doctor or have surgery in their country. Those conversations were usually concluded abruptly when I told them how much my health insurance cost me and then asked them what percentage of income taxes they paid.

If you want to research something interesting, try looking into what free speech means in our neighboring country of Canada. It is definitely not our brand.

We are people from the greatest nation ever to walk this planet and we need to get back to the values we were founded on. If you were to listen to me, this would be my advice; study, learn, listen and think for yourself. Don’t be brainwashed. Don’t label yourself a Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian or anything else or you will only find yourself stuck in a label and having to defend it. Study the Founding Fathers. Read the originals of what they wrote. Think like a Founding Father. Be a real American because in the end; your life, your liberty and your future depend on it.

More later,

Vicky

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