10.  National Debt – Massive deficit spending sucks up domestic capital and invites foreign manipulation of our economy.
9.  Energy –  No energy means no farming, healthcare, housing, transportation, manufacturing, refrigeration, or the Super Bowl; holding ourselves hostage to foreign lunacy is a recipe for suicide.
7.  Russia – New surge of nationalism and centralization of power, and its role as the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, is fueling a new Russian desire to reclaim lost glory
6.  China – It has all the ambition of the Soviet Empire, the economy to support it, and ownership of an exploding percentage of the U.S. economy and our debt which they could use render us impotent.
5.  Islamic terrorism – Hardly a religion of peace, they don’t want to coexist with us—the want us dead; they would subjugate our Constitution to Islamic law.
4.  Illegal Immigration – Twelve to twenty million and counting.  They’re not taking jobs Americans won’t do; they’re taking jobs Americans would do if we didn’t pay them not to work.  Illegal immigrant labor is fool’s gold.
3.  The North American Union – In spite of assurances by proponents, the effective elimination of borders, merging of economies, and uninhibited flow of people from Mexico and Canada will harm the US economy and national security.
2.  Voter ignorance and apathy – 75 years of not watching Congress carefully has led to more loss of freedoms than all the wars we’ve ever fought.

And the #1 threat to our Liberty
 

1.  Our politicians – Our representatives are interested in only one goal:  Re-election.  They ensure this with unceasing meddling in all aspects of society in an effort to pander to voting blocs and solicit campaign funds.  The best interests of society in lost freedom is completely irrelevant to their own self-interested quest for power.
 

Men have been seeking the Holy Grail for two thousand years.  The Republicans sought the American political equivalent—control of the White House and both chambers of Congress—that had eluded them since the first year of the Eisenhower Administration, for almost five decades before they finally solidified it in 2002.
 

Now, in just four short, but alienating years, they have lost it.  Probably for a long time.  And with good reason.  After years and years of arguing for limited government, individual rights, free enterprise, and a strong national defense, they swept into decisive control of Congress in 1994 in a record-setting repudiation of a new President.

 
Then they promptly turned their collective backs to the voters who finally had believed their message.

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Now that another one of those vitriolic, antagonistic, exercises in mutual character assassination that we call an election is past us, it is the perfect opportunity to examine our perceived political polarization.

Elections reveal that we characterize most people or groups today by their view towards government either and by the type or the amount of power they feel government should wield.  It’s impossible to pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news on television without seeing or hearing all kinds of references to “liberals” and “conservatives,” or to a “right wing” and a “left wing.”  From such labels we’re supposed to get the impression that the terms are used to describe opposite sides of an issue or opposite ends of some spectrum of political philosophy, with “moderates” and “centrists” in the middle. 

From another perspective, however, such a spectrum not only doesn’t really provide a very useful description of these groups it actually ignores or obscures what’s really going on.  Forget Democrats versus Republicans, left versus right, liberals versus conservatives, fascists versus communists, or revolutionaries versus reactionaries.  To bring things into the proper focus, we need to rearrange the political spectrum into a more realistic representation: 
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