By Dennis Jamison ——Bio and Archives--January 5, 2024

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As we enter the new year of 2024, those who love the Republic, and who are willing to fight for it, need to “Be strong and courageous! ...not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Joshua 31:6

In the midst of the winter of ‘23 - ‘24, it may be hard to consider that what “We the People” do or do not do this year may shape the future of America for a long time to come. The year of 2024 is an election year, and both those who love the Republic and those who hate it will be contesting in unrelenting strife, not only at the ballot box, but also in the traditional ways of messaging, as well as untraditional ways of stifling free communication, free expression and freedom of one’s voice via voting in fair and honest elections.

Seven years ago, during the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the one who is now in the White House stated a “dark winter” would set in across America. Biden was referencing the COVID time and the vaccines that the government had been attempting to force upon everyone – even those in our armed forces. Yet, America survived the Biden Administration’s dark winter.

It is possible that Americans have suffered through several dark winters lately, but if one sees beyond our current circumstances, Americans have suffered through many deeply tragic and dark winters. America still stands. In my humble opinion, it is because of the American citizens that America still stands. It is because of the American citizens that America still exists and ever came into existence. The courageous men and women of this country seek ways to take action to preserve the Republic; and those who cannot take action, will donate to help those who are unafraid of exercising their God-given rights. But, for those who have been paying attention to the current government actions – both on the national level and the state levels, the government of the people, by the people, and for the people is disappearing.

Historian Victor Davis Hanson relates a similar perception in this book, The Dying Citizen. The good professor sees the future of America linked to the choices before the American citizen – whether "We the People”........

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