Many people today feel as if President Barack Obama has been leading America covertly into the socialism Bernie Sanders is overtly proclaiming. Many feel that they are no longer living in the America of their youth. To understand how we got here, it is necessary to understand how we got here.

I was blessed this week to spend time with patriots in Burns Oregon. The morning after arriving, the encampment at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge came to an end. So that night there were still TV trucks at the building where I was to speak. What sparked all these events is the essential issue of who owns the land.

This last week on my travels, I noticed the American people were happily being violated with a smiles on their faces by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). This is an agency that has no constitutional authority and since its inception has not thwarted one act of “violence” towards the American people.

It has happened again. Another murder of an unarmed citizen took place last Tuesday by entities posing as a government, otherwise known as the FBI and the Oregon State Police. What is happening in the collapse of America is that the civil government is not only wasteful beyond imagination; it violates the Constitution which it swears to uphold at every turn.

The Heritage Foundation has released the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom, and the results are not good for what was once the most free and prosperous nation on earth-in history.

The recent snow storm in Washington D.C. forced the federal government to shut down all its offices; Senate will not be returning until Wednesday; and the House will not return until next week! It appears Divine Providence has given the American people a rest from additional regulations to their liberties.

An iceberg is heading into the path of the United States Constitution. A destructive wave of political thought that appears out of the mainstream on the surface, but which like an iceberg has 90 percent of its mass below the surface.

Americans for Prosperity South Dakota hosted a dinner and a special presentation this evening in Rapid City. The presentation was entitled “The Sordid History of Political Correctness” by the Grassroots Leadership Academy’s Stephanie Maier.

The major media has morphed from a watchdog to a lapdog barking on cue that everything is all right, there’s nothing to see here, move along. The best government money can buy has shown us that they can safely operate on the assumption that American voters choose their leaders based on the philosophy, “I know he’s a liar but I like what he says.”

Immorality, theft, vandalism, Second Amendment violations, and so-called civil rights were not the basis of this Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophies. His mission was to proclaim the Gospel and his basis was God-given rights, and liberty under Law.