Something occurred to us today, skewed as everything is through a cinematic lens, as we’re all Children of the 80s who grew up with TV and movies as our go-to analogies and references.

What we are seeing in American politics today is very much like the Lord of the Rings Trilogy; we’re talking about the Peter Jackson movies, as we have never read Tolkien’s books.

In the films, the first installment set  up the opportunity for the forces of good and darkness to have the ultimate clash that had been building for years.  Sauron, the leader of all things dark and destructive, had at last rebuilt his fortress of Mordor, where he began to assemble his forces for his takeover of the world.  A ragtag collection of heroes, some of whom have never gotten along, came together to stand against this tide of darkness.  A fellowship was born, with the ultimate goal of defeating Sauron and his minions once and for all.

Part Two, the Two Towers, further challenged the band of heroes, as it increasingly became more evident the Battle of the Ages was drawing near, with stakes never higher.  The world as everyone knew it was about to end, as darkness rose to maximum strength and prepared to descend across the land.

In The Return of the King, the final installment, the great Fellowship had expanded to included millions — everyone who believed evil must be defeated, coming together, working hard, and in many cases sacrificing everything to save the world they loved.  The Battle was fierce.  For most of it, things worked against the heroes.  The powers of darkness got in many good licks, and seemed unstoppable, but through raw courage and determination the Fellowship prevailed, Sauron was defeated, and a new age was born free (for the moment) from any further assaults from Mordor.

Great Merciful Zeus, we’re using Lord of the Rings analogies, but swear we’ve never been to a Renaissance Fair in our lives.

But, we really do feel like the nation’s at the opening credits of that Return of the King movie.  The period of 2010-2012 is going to be a major tipping point in American history — the likes of which we have not seen in generations.  Honestly, we hate that we are alive in this moment.  We would much rather be our parents’ or grandparents’ ages, or be dead and buried already.  Routinely, we keep thinking about our grandmothers, in particular, and how relieved we are they died years ago and don’t have to witness what the current administration is doing to this country.  They would be heartbroken by what the Liberals are up to.

Liberals are doing to American what Hitler, Stalin, Khomeini, Hussein, Castro, the Kims of North Korea, and the Emperor of Japan could never do — they are destroying this country, from the inside, with the current president gleefully playing Romulus Augustus, achieving the goals our worst foreign threats could never realize.

We are laying on the melodrama thick, we know.  But, we can’t help writing from a place of deep emotion here.  It is a trying, taxing, soul-killing time for us.

There are no words to tell you how agonizing it is for us to watch moderate Democrats in the Senate vote for the Healthcare Rationing Bill, with all of its unconstitutional and un-American provisions.  It reminds us of all the previously good characters in Lord of the Rings who were zombiefied by dark magic and turned against their own people by the seductive evil of Sauron. We are realizing this week that people we’ve supported for years are people we now need to boot from office at the first available opportunity.  It’s like finding out your brother is a serial killer; you can’t look at him the same way ever again, you can’t in good faith allow him to remain positioned to do more of the same. Whatever you feel for him on a personal level is in direct opposition to the reality that he must be stopped.  And this is how we feel about all 60 Democrats in the Senate.

There is no such thing as a good Democrat in Washington right now.  There is no one standing up for the Constitution or the American people.  There is not a single Democrat standing tall and firm demanding this legislation be properly debated, be conducted in broad daylight and not the cover of darkness, and be put before the American people to let Americans properly weigh in on what’s going on.

Instead of Sauron, we have Soros at the root of all of this.  Somewhere, in one of his palaces, the evil he’s been plotting against this country for decades is finally coming to pass.  He is close to reaching his endgame. It is more terrifying than any horror movie known to man. Our long-held hope that Mossad or MI5 would one day have the guts to do what the CIA seems prevented from doing itself has faded: there is no real-life James Bond in place to handle supervillains like Soros.  This is Lex Luthor, Blofeld, Goldfinger, and Sauron on steroids.  He is currently succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.

In a sick and perverse way, everything that is happening now is actually a good thing.  Remember the movies.  In Return of the King, the good guys got pummeled to within an inch of their lives.  Sauron’s armies seemed unstoppable, and laid seige to everything good and just.  Centuries of tradition were smashed…everything people had worked so hard for was destroyed…people’s lives were ruined.  Sauron seemed close to final victory…but the forces of good stood firm, never gave up, didn’t surrender.

The pluck and courage of the smallest of heroes saved the day.

The little guy, the weak, meek, and humble.

That’s who brought down Sauron and his minions.

Two little hobbits.

Well, folks, we’re all hobbits today. Here in Chicago, we have no idea what the future holds for any of us.  On many a day, we’ve wondered how much better life would be to never think about any of this stuff.  We see people out in Boystown who never read the news, do not follow Washington, and seem to have an awful lot of fun rocking out to Lady GaGa while looking at the pictures in (but never reading) People magazine.  Our blood pressure would sure be lower if we were in that crowd.  We’d have a lot more free time if we didn’t spend all waking hours on politics.

But, America is worth fighting for, as we’ve noted in other posts today.  It feels like this is, indeed, our hour to serve.  Like it or not, it’s your time to step up to the plate as well.  What we THINK is happening, quietly, without the MSM even noticing, is that Americans are slowly organizing to take back this country from the Liberals.  The GOP is not doing this.  The RNC is not behind it.  It’s coming from the PEOPLE.  We would not be at all surprised if sometime in late 2010, early 2011, there’s a march on Washington in the millions and Congress is actually overtaken and occupied by the people.  The military will not fire on American citizens.  It seemed an impossibility just a few months ago, but we are starting to believe there’s a real chance the government could be dissolved in the next two years if public anger grows enough.  The government only has the power it wields because the people have granted it that power.

When elected officials pass legislation in secret, in the dead of night, against the will of their consituents in efforts to deprive them of their rights and force them to buy things they do not want to while enriching the Senators themselves, that’s tyranny — and possibly treason.

We pledge to find some way in 2010 to work even harder than we do now, researching, writing, organizing, and revving Americans up to take back our government from the Liberals hellbent to destroy it on George Soros’ orders.  This is definitely not what we want to be doing with our lives right now.  But, it sure looks like it needs to be done.

Go watch Return of the King and be inspired.  We’re going to play it tonight when we get home.

Things are bad.  They will get worse in 2010.  But something’s going to happen, we can feel it, where the country rises up at large and sets things right again.  Soros will fail like Sauron before him, and heroes will arise to save this country from the fools who seek to destroy it.

We hope many of you out there are in the ranks of those heroes.