The most difficult step, it seems to me, for conservatives....is to recognize that the Bush administration and the Republican party is an enemy of our Republic & the Constitution & Declaration of Independence on which the Republic is founded....that the party is just as Collectivist as the Socialists, though the Collectivism takes a different form.

And the most difficult step, in my opinion, for progressives/liberals, is to recognize that the Obama administration and the Democratic party is an enemy of our Republic & the Constitution & Declaration of Independence on which the Republic is founded....that it embraces the socialist model of Collectivism, and this model is equally subversive to the cause of Liberty, as envisioned & understood by our Founding Fathers & embedded in their documents & debates.

Americans on both the "Left" and the "Right" must come to grips with the fact that both parties reject the principles upon which this nation was founded. And they must turn back to those principles, and rediscover them. Those principles are the hope not only for America, but for the world....not that we can force these principles on anyone or that a One World Republic is desirable, but that the principles themselves are the hope of humanity, for each nation of people to discover & implement for themselves....us being the great Beacon.

The wisdom of our forefathers has been abandoned. It took me a long time to understand just how wise they were, and I am still learning. America truly was the Great Experiment, as expressed in The Federalist #1:

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."

As of this moment, the Great Experiment is failing. We need new Patriots to rise to the occasion.