Mark Levin shares the Epilogue of his book, Ameritopia

Conservatives who allow temporary polls, good and bad, to affect their mood and outlook on the election would be well-served to read Mark Levin’s Ameritopia, or at least read the epilogue, which Mark linked to last night via his facebook and twitter accounts. He’s giving it away to share his thoughtful and prescient answers to the questions swirling in our minds. Is America over? Can we overcome and correct this decline? Are there more takers than makers who will vote this election? Will America choose utopianism or individualism?

These are just some of the passages I have highlighted in my book at home.

“Tyranny, broadly defined, is the use of power to
dehumanize the individual and delegitimize his nature. Political
utopianism is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even
paradisiacal governing ideology.”

“To condemn individualism as the utopians do is to condemn the very foundation
of the civil society and the American founding and endorse, wittingly or unwittingly, oppression.”

“It seems unimaginable that a people so endowed by Providence, and the beneficiaries of such unparalleled human excellence, would choose or
tolerate a course that ensures their own decline and enslavement,
for a government unleashed on the civil society is a government
that destroys the nature of man.”

“”Franklin said that the Constitution “is likely to be well administered for a
Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms
have done before it, when the People shall become corrupt as to
need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. . . .”
Have we “become corrupt”? Are we in need of “despotic government”?”

“Lest we ignore history, the no-less-eminent American revolutionary and founder Thomas Jefferson explained, “On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out
of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.””

“It is neither prudential nor virtuous to downplay or dismiss the
obvious—that America has already transformed into Ameritopia.
The centralization and consolidation of power in a political class
that insulates its agenda in entrenched experts and administrators,
whose authority is also self-perpetuating, is apparent all around us
and growing more formidable. The issue is whether the ongoing
transformation can be restrained and then reversed, or whether it
will continue with increasing zeal, passing from a soft tyranny to
something more oppressive.”

“The best that can be said is that all that really stands between the individual
and tyranny is a resolute and sober people. It is the people, after
all, around whom the civil society has grown and governmental
institutions have been established. At last, the people are responsible for upholding the civil society and republican government, to which their fate is moored.”

“The essential question is whether, in America, the people’s
psychology has been so successfully warped, the individual’s spirit
so thoroughly trounced, and the civil society’s institutions so effectively overwhelmed that revival is possible.”

“No society is guaranteed perpetual existence. But I have to believe that the American people are not ready for servitude, for if this is our destiny, and the destiny of our children, I cannot conceive that any people, now or in the future, will successfully resist it for long. I have to believe that this generation of Americans will not condemn future generations to centuries of misery and darkness.”

Read the whole epilogue.

Levin’s bottom line is that there are many questions as to the outcome of this election, and if you have enough knowledge of history, it cuts both ways. On the one hand, the founders knew that the new government would ultimately turn into despotism if the people lost sight of the founding. On the other hand, the history of America is that we are a firm and resilient people, strong and powerful, and are to this day as evidenced by the tea party movement. All complicated by the question of whether or not we have too many people who are willing to hand their lives over to a despotic government.

Yet polls taken by outfits, one against another, all different, can put us on a path of manic depression. Knowing the history of other societies, and the beauty of the founding, we depend on ourselves to do what we can to win the election, no matter what the snapshots of time tell us.

And then, to realize that winning this election is just the start to “restrain and reverse” the course our nation has taken.

Only the people can do this. Politicians are what they are, Republicans and Democrats swear to uphold the Constitution, and must be held to account. Nothing should stand in our way of our main focus, which is a long, arduous, daunting task. Taking control of those who would, if left to their own lust for power, control us.

Levin commented last night on these matters in the opening of his show. Here is some of that monologue.