Obama can have the Bears, I’ll stick with the constitution

Lately, I’ve contemplated the unthinkable – an act of treason; an act of disloyalty so treacherous that friends and kinfolk may very well cast me out from the bosom of our family.

No, it’s not as bad as you think; I’m not going to start rooting for the Packers. I may, however, stop rooting for the Bears. In fact, I’m thinking about rooting for the Lions. Hey, what do you want from me? I like underdogs.

Not exactly where you thought I was going with this in the opening sentence? Thought I was alluding to something a little more important than team loyalty?

I know someone who is tired of all that is going on in this country and has told me he’s planning to move to Fiji. Now, I think Fiji is probably a nice place to live but I’ll be damned if I’ll let these radical leftist pukes destroy this country. They’ll shovel 6-feet of dirt in my face before I abandon our nation’s children to a life in the shadow of what once was and could continue to be the greatest country the world has ever known.

To get back to the point of this posting, through significant control of our educational system and virtual complete control of the media, liberals have so castigated and maligned our country that many today would find it easier to abandon their country than their favored sports team.

I’ve been a hard-core Bear fan for a long time now. I remember wearing paper bags on our heads in the ‘70s and early ‘80s while watching them consistently lose – and yet my loyalty was firm. I watched the team slowly disintegrate after the 1985 season and yet I stood my ground, you know, for the team.

The straw that finally broke the camel’s back was when the Packers visited the White House last week. I stumbled and figuratively fell on my face when I read, and re-read, the line that Obama welcomed the Packers to the White House even though he’s a devout Bears fan.

That, in and of itself, wasn’t enough to cause me to change my colors but it did start me thinking.

For several years now, the only piece of team-monikered clothing I’ve worn is a hat given to me by a dear friend who didn’t otherwise realize my attitude about such things. I think it’s a tremendous scam professional sports has pulled on the American people, convincing them, not only to wear and market team logos, but to pay, and pay extravagantly, for the privilege to do so.

It also occurred to me that the team I’ve traditionally supported is from Chicago – Chicago, where the only joke about “vote early and vote often” is that we all know it’s true, where political corruption is rampant, where Rahm “Deadfish” Emanuel is now mayor and where liberalism is a disease that has actually gone viral among people who even work for a living.

In other words, the only real connection I have with the Bears, or any other Chicago sports team, is an emotional connection fraudulently nurtured and supported by the sports teams themselves. So, why should I continue to support the Bears?

Now, if the only reason for supporting America and its constitution was out of nostalgia, it might not make any more sense than painting my body blue and orange so I could stand out in the stands at Soldier Field on a frigid, wind-swept, 20-below Sunday afternoon watching grown men play a game.

But, I don’t support the constitution out of a form of nostalgia, though I deeply respect my country’s rich history. I support America because the constitution does one simple thing – it recognizes the inherent need to limit the power of those in government.

A lot of people are willing to abandon that limitation when it’s to their advantage. As I pointed out in an earlier posting today, the constitution is not a shield that we can wear in times of convenience.  We live by it or we don’t. And when we don’t, our ability to draw upon its protections becomes questionable.

As our opponents are quick to point out, the constitution can sometimes seem a heavy and cumbersome shield. There’s no guarantee we can draw it into a defensive position as quickly as threats to our liberties might strike. But, if we’re willing to bear the burden of eternal vigilance, there is no better protection on the planet from those who would stomp on our individual and inalienable rights.

As for professional sports, just to spite Obama, I might even purchase a Lions hat. Yes, it’s inconsistent of me but it’s an inconsistency I can live with, unlike inconsistent adherence to the constitution, which we can’t.