Don't despair! Time for 'Taking America Back'

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Farah: 2008 election represents historic opportunity for real change
WASHINGTON – While many Americans are wringing their hands about the bad choice they face in the 2008 presidential election WND founder Joseph Farah says most people are missing the historic opportunity confronting voters this year.

"Since 2003, when I wrote 'Taking America Back,' I've been urging Americans who truly want to expand liberty, restore justice, revive morality and renew our contract with the Constitution that it was time to reject political business as usual," said Farah. "I explained we had to start saying 'no.' I explained we had to stop voting for the lesser of two evils. I explained that it was time for a national revolt. Few people heard my warnings back then. But more and more and catching on now."

Farah explains that, back then, most self-described Democrats rejected its principles out of hand, while most Republicans found its agenda too radical. "It was understandable," Farah said. "After all, Republicans controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress Most people who thought of themselves as Republicans believed they were living in the millennial kingdom."
Or, more precisely, as Farah puts it, they believed they had already taken America back. Why would they want to read a book telling them how to achieve what, in their own minds, they already had.

"Only now are many of them awakening to the realization that freedom-loving, moral people have actually lost ground during the last eight years with rudderless Republican in the White House – much of that time with control of both houses of Congress, too," Farah says. "I expected this. I predicted it. In fact, I wrote in 'Taking America Back' that this would happen even if Republicans controlled every seat in the House of Representatives and Senate and the White House."

There are several reasons for this, according to the author:
Most Republican politicians do not honor and revere and abide by the Constitution;
Most Republican politicians are not committed to rolling back the advances of socialism and immorality that have overtaken the country over the last 50 years of American history;
Even if most Republican politicians were committed to such a goal, the courts and America's key cultural institutions are actively pushing another agenda and slowly, inevitably changing the hearts and minds of the people to accept un-American values of collectivism and moral relativism.

In 2008, with the presidential election around the corner, Farah says many more Americans are awakening to his radical prescription for real change.
"Being 'conservative' will not be enough for the challenges we face as a nation," he says. "Conservatism is simply too defensive to make a difference. If conservatism worked, why are we continually losing ground in politics and the culture?" Farah says this is the year for this new movement to arise. He says more and more Americans who previously thought of themselves as "conservatives" are becoming radicalized.

"They're not going to drink the John McCain Kool-Aid," he says. "I believe we will see record numbers of Democrats and Republicans not voting for either of the two major-party candidates – numbers that might even surpass the years in which Ross Perot and the Reform Party were significant factors." And that's a good thing, says the author and media entrepreneur.
"This country is not going to be turned around through the electoral process alone," he says. "Not by a long shot is that going to happen. But the electoral process is a gauge of how serious people are about change. And the best way for us to express our contempt for the direction the politicians of both parties have taken the country is to vote for neither of the two major-party candidates."

Farah is deadly serious about this agenda and says he will have a new book out shortly to explain this "None of the Above" movement. In the meantime, though, Farah says the principles that can turn America around are all there in one of his previous books, "Taking America Back" – now out in paperback. "Most of the work needs to be done outside the political arena – way outside," says Farah. "It needs to be done in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our communities, in our churches and synagogues, in our cultural institutions."

He adds that Americans also need to learn from their Founding Fathers.
"We need to look to their example," he says. "Need I remind you, there was not a 'conservative' among them. These men were risk-takers. They were willing to try something that had never been tried before in the history of mankind. They were truly revolutionaries – not in the subversive way we think of revolutionaries today, but in the best sense of the word, like the prophets of old who were willing to challenge the establishment even if it meant their deaths."