After careful consideration and some minor tweaks in the page layout, I've settled upon this: The Permanent Revolution. After noting the similarities between the previous title of my page and a popular, upscale clothing store, as well as another blog: Banana Republican, who well deserves the title of her site, I felt the need to change the name of mine.

The origins of the title are from a speech made by Leon Trotsky called Address of the Central Council to the Communist League. It laid out a plan to build up Russia through the Communist system, ever so gradually, but realized the fact that they could never truly attain perfection. It was a tool to keep their public engaged and their base mobilized, as well, to keep up their allegiance to the Communist system. Of course, however, I am not a communist, nor do I support any of their ideals. The place I got the idea from was a West Wing episode where president Jed Bartlet had gotten into a rut and his advisors felt their policies had lost their steam. One suggested that they throw out the idea of a "permanent revolution." As that show's cast and production team are replete with commies [note: Creator and former writer Aaron Sorkin endorsed Gephardt, Martin Sheen, who plays Bartlet, has endorsed 'Nikita Dean'] we can assume their intent was to invoke a 'populist revolution' of economic egalitarianism or some other such liberal drivel.

This revolution I speak of has nothing to do with that. It seeks to rid the world of much of the injustice done to it by Marxist\Stalinist regimes like Saddam Hussein's. This revolution is one of faith in democracy, in a republic as a form of government and rooted in the ideals of Edmund Burke and Straussian philosophy. It is a revolution where old ideas that are the surly bonds which have tied down America and prevented its being the true democratic republic that it is, will be cast off. In the spirit of the Classical Liberalism of John stuart Mill and Thomas Jefferson, we see that "The revolution was a beginning, not a consummation," as Woodrow Wilson put it. So we must strive to be more open and accepting on a social level. Color-blindness is key, as is the idea of expanding the largest middle class in the history of the world, and both are especially important as we reflect today on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the good work he did, as well as watch as the Democrats [the so-called "Party of Change"] begin the process of selecting their de facto leader for the next four years, president or not, who will decide the party's direction and its future viability. And in the spirit of classical Conservative thinking, we must realize that there are millions of people under the repression of terror, brutal dictators and fanatical Imams, and as Edmund Burke pointed out, "The ony thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." So, here we are...to do something.