Hope For Change

Funny how the change we talk about is not the change we get.

Eighteen months ago, the idea of change was very attractive to most of America - we didn't know what change meant but we were all for it. A year ago, the political left set the agenda for change; Obama warned his opponents that it was he who had won the election, and the agenda was his to control. Nine months ago, the TEA parties gained momentum and started to say what change meant to them. Six months ago, the anti-war leftists found that they had been hood-winked; some of the first real change was when they decided that any Obama supported war must be a good war. Three months ago, Obamacare lost the support of the people, yet the democrats couldn't figure that out. Now, TEA supporters set the agenda for change, even while the old symbols of power (congress and the media) oppose it.

Last summer one of my democratic friends crowed that change was upon us. It was just too bad for the rest of us that the change we got was not the change we thought we were voting for. Or maybe he saw the writing on the wall, and was getting used to the idea of real change.

True power isn't political or military. America is in the midst of a peaceful revolution. Let's hope it stays peaceful when the politicians and media wake up.