Hope

Where it ends, nobody knows.
But concession is not the answer.
Failure is not an option.

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine. We were having a conversation about fighting terror and he concluded, “I don’t see an end to terrorism, ever, sadly.” This hit me hard. How can there be so little hope? Such a bleak vision of the future? This is not the attitude of freedom. It’s the despair of oppression. Freedom has never come to those who despair. Our country and our ideology were founded on courage and persistence. Both of which underlined by the unifying charter that man longs to be free. So where does my friend’s pessimism come from? Reality? Youth (he just turned 21)? Politics? Some of each, I suppose. Reality is scary and daunting. The future is dark and we cannot see far. But youth has not had the opportunity to see time go by. To look back on long periods in their lives and see the great changes possible when time spins her yarn. Finally, my friend nobly believes in good of humanity. He believes in a world where human helps human helps human. His chosen leadership in this vision, though, is the left side of the Democratic Party. The ideological, socialist left. The entertainment and wealthy influential left. Unfortunately, the strategy of this leadership is to use despair as motivation for their cause. They make people feel that the world is beyond hope. And those responsible are the current leadership. The only hope for the future is to change the leadership. So they use despair en masse as a tool to gain control. But the awful ramification of this technique is that good, smart, people with great futures ahead can fall from the wagon of hope.

Do not despair, for there is hope.
Hope lies in freedom.
Hope lies in courage.