Middle Ground Not For Us: Time To Be Brave

We’ve not spoken much about faith on this site, but the more we look at solutions to the many problems we’re confronting, we discover we can’t do this alone.

In order to do many of the things that we’ve already done, it’s required additional strength. There is a bit of momentum of late – we need to keep moving. Where will we get the strength?

This song comes to us at just the right time it seems. Considering this past week’s events, those of us who wish to see America return to its foundational principles need to get stronger, and be brave. In addition to blocking the agenda of the Progressive left, we know we need to return the GOP to being the party of limited, constitutional government. The establishment, as has been so vividly displayed this week, is not very willing to relinquish its chokehold on power.

We will all have to step out of our comfort zones if we want our elected officials to stop spending us into oblivion. What time we can give to our efforts must be well-focused and effective. Those who can will have to engage people on a one-on-one basis. It’s not easy work.

On some level or another, especially if we’re effective, we cannot expect to be received “kindly” by either the establishment or those wishing for “transformation” or even the destruction of our system as we know it.

Silence, middle ground, and the comfortable places are not for us. We need to be brave.

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts