Timothy Daughtry - Waking the Sleeping Giant: How Mainstream Americans Can Beat Liberals at Their Own Game

WAKING THE SLEEPING GIANT

HOW MAINSTREAM AMERICANS CAN BEAT
LIBERALS AT THEIR OWN GAME

TIMOTHY C. DAUGHTRY, PhD
AND
GARY R. CASSELMAN, PhD

Copyright 2012 by Timothy C. Daughtry, PhD and Gary R. Casselman, PhD

FIRST EDITION

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Daughtry, Timothy C.

Waking the sleeping giant : how mainstream Americans can beat liberals at their own game / Timothy C. Daughtry and Gary R. Casselman.1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8253-0679-2 (alk. paper)

1. ConservatismUnited States. 2. LiberalismUnited States. 3. United StatesPolitics and government2009- I. Casselman, Gary R. II. Title.

JC573.2.U6D38 2012

320.520973dc23

2011043229

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TO OUR CHILDREN

EVER SINCE the founding of the greatest nation in history, each successive generation of Americans have enjoyed an increasingly better quality of life in every dimensioneconomic, social, and personal. This occurred because of the decisions made by the preceding generation operating within the parameters of a capitalist economic system and a free and open society, based on the principles laid forth by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution.

As discussed in this book, because of the slow erosion of our liberty over approximately the last hundred years with the long march through the institutions, we are at the precipice of a change that will last forever. For the first time in our history, this generation of baby boomers could very well leave a nation to our children that is less free, less prosperous, and with less opportunity than we enjoyed and, quite frankly, took for granted.

With the horrific policies coming out of Washington, D.C., in the past three years, we have seen an exponential increase in our loss of liberty, in the loss of American exceptionalism, in the loss of the value of the American dollar, in the size of government, in unemployment, and in the size of the welfare state, with its concomitant sense of entitlement.

Part of our purpose in writing this book was to do what we could to create the conditions required, along with millions of other patriotic Americans, to reverse the trends of the past fifty to one hundred years. If we are to avoid being the first generation of Americans who pass on to their children a country that offers lessless freedom, less opportunity, less prosperitywe must stop the progressive, leftist movement.

It is to our children, all of our children, and our childrens children, that we dedicate this book. With guidance from God and with the help of our fellow mainstream Americans, we can return our country to the constitutional republic that was the dream of our Founding Fathers and has been the envy of the world for a hundred years.

If we fail, with the passing of the baby boom generation, perhaps the last generation to enjoy the American dream of our forefathers, this country will reach a tipping point, and the America we love and cherish will be lost forever.

THE AUTHORS gratefully acknowledge the wisdom and guidance of Eric Kampmann and Margot Atwell of Beaufort Books in the production and distribution of this book. Without their help, the book would have remained in draft form for years to come. We also want to thank Sarah Lucie and Oriana Leckert for their painstaking editing in bringing the manuscript to completion.

Ernie and Joanne Wittenborn also deserve special thanks for their tireless work in the grassroots movement to restore the republic and for opening the doors that made publication of this book possible.

Finally, Dr. Daughtry would like to thank Judy and Jacob for their encouragement and patience during this project and for serving as constant inspiration to stay in the struggle to save our country.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

The American republic is teetering on the edge of a precipice. America has faced and survived crises before, but the economic and political crisis that came to a head in 2010 and 2011 is unprecedented in its scope and implications.

We cannot count on politicians to put America back on a sound course. Unless mainstream citizens, the sleeping giant of American politics, wake up and take the helm of this country soon, the current generation will be the last to live in freedom.

If an American collapse seems unthinkable, just remember that the world witnessed something just as unthinkable in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union. For those of us who grew up with the constant threat of a nuclear war with this dark and mysterious entity, the Soviet Union seemed permanenta sinister, monolithic, totalitarian state that contended with the United States in every arena around the globe. And then, within a matter of weeks, the Soviet Union and its centrally controlled economy lay on the ash heap of history.

When the economic and political rot of communism finally caused the evil empire to crumble from within, it was a reminder of something most of us learned from the cradle: Our ideas and our actions have consequences. Centralized control of economic activity, whether by communists in Moscow or leftists in Washington, is as arrogant as it is unworkable. The old Soviet joke that we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us sums up the predictable consequences of economic and political actions that are out of touch with the reality of human nature.

The collapse of the Soviet Union proved once more the wisdom in Rudyard Kiplings poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings:

In the Carboniferous Epoch, we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: If you dont work you die.

With almost half of the electorate paying no income taxes to fund the government that they empower with their votes, the United States is on the verge of learning, as did the Soviet Union, the consequences of robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul. In fact, the damage wrought by leftist policies in much of Europe could have served as a lesson and a warning to Americas political class, if they had been willing to learn.

We can ignore the lessons of nature and of history, but we cannot avoid the consequences of doing so. As Benjamin Franklin warned us, Experience holds a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.