The history of nations that trade freedom for security, that embrace the comfort of mediocrity, and that place equality of outcomes over equality of opportunity is not good.  We became the most productive, prosperous, and powerful nation in history because we're different and, yes I'll say it, exceptional.  If we cease to be the shining city on the hill we'll join the list of nations that rose to greatness on the strengths of a free society and then collapsed under the weight of a bureaucratic welfare state.  And the world will be worse off for it as the ideas and innovations that only a free society can produce will be lost. 

     But it doesn't have to be that way.  We need to keep up the momentum for freedom and speak truth to power.   We need to show up at rallies; we need to tell our elected officials what we think (like in this poll asking the MT Attorney General to join other states to contest the health care takeover), and we have to support people and organizations (like MPI!) whose mission it is to promote individual freedom and responsibility.  There is too much at stake to do anything less.