Our government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.

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What our Founding Fathers had to say about government--
the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence:

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

For the rest, see here: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/Declaration.html

Even with an Obama victory in November, this country, this government cannot remain the same and stumble on and along the same path on which it is going because that road leads us to become a second rate nation whose main claim to fame is that we are able to destroy the earth. Unless we say "ENOUGH", the rest of the world will say enough to us and then we will be left to reminisce about our glory days.

My family came to this country in 1628, 380 years ago. I have ancestors who fought for the American Revolution and witnessed the birth of this nation. I feel as much of an American as I can possibly be and I don't want to be in the generation of my family that sees the dream die because it is not dying a natural death--it is being murdered.