Whenever a new president is inaugurated in America, a period of national unity and relative calm follows. The official term is known as the new president's "honeymoon," where he is able to govern with wide authority and relatively little accountability. Especially this year, as a Democrat takes the big job, there is a major call within the nation to be optimistic and hopeful, to root for our new leader. But as entertaining as it was to see Joe Biden sworn in on a 50-pound Bible, I, in good conscience, cannot.

Barack Obama represents the ideology of liberalism. He represents a big government. The goal of the Obama administration is to manage as mch of your life as possible: your salary, your healthcare, your car, your diet, your energy use. It is pure liberalism which, if unchecked, will eat away at the bedrock of American greatness (as it has every time it has been implemented). For America as we know it to survive this president, he must not succeed.

Liberalism is a lie. It is the greatest threat to America that we face. And it is now the prevailing ideology in Washington.

How is anything liberals say inspiring? Obama speaks well, but if you think about it, what he says is really quite depressing. He is going to send you a check. He will increase unemployment benefits. He will raise taxes on those wealthier than you. Just today, he announced a salary-freeze on his top staffers (as if they were going to get a raise anytime soon anyways). How does any of this inspire you to get up and get a job? How does any of this push Americans to go do great things in the world?

He has plans to tighten the grip of our corporate taxes, and he wants to raise capital gains taxes which will make it harder to invest in companies. He wants to mandate employer-based healthcare, forcing companies' hands through fines and tax levies. The word "incentive" was not mentioned once on Tuesday. How does any of this inspire companies to do business in America and hire our talented and educated workforce?

Now that he is elected, the soaring and positive campaign rhetoric has been reduced to such statements as, "Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land, a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights" (emphasis added). His constant lowering of expectations since November 5 has been greatly demoralizing to anyone that has been paying attention.

In an interview soon after the inauguration, a reporter asked about his ambitions. In the first sentence of his response discussing his next four years as president, he stated his desire to make government work. Government, government, government. That is what it's all about to liberals like this one.

Conservatism is truly inspirational. That is why Reagan's first inaugural was atched by 4 million more people than Obama's, and Sarah Palin's convention speech watched by over a million more. True conservatives, both presidents and commentators alike, talk about we as Americans going out and earning our own keep. While being constantly typified as evil and heartless with a cruel to-the-wolves approach to society, conservatives have generated more economic and personal prosperity than any other ideologies in American history.

When announcing the aforementioned salary-freeze, he told staffers that they are now public servants and mustn't let their own personal ambition interfere with their work. This, too, is a liberal philosophy that only seeks to dampen the individual's ability to prosper. It is personal ambition that will motivate these staffers to do a great job for their country in the public sector, and that ensure the American wokforce does a great job for its clients in the private sector. Greed, in moderation of course, drives America and makes it great.

It doesn't take much to guess what will hapen when a president fills his electorate with the expectation that the government will provide their needs. Luckily we don't have to guess: we have the 60s. That expectation has destroyed a countless number of American families and their lives. Cities didn't have ghettoes and crack-houses before John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson took turns raping the American social fiber. When people, especially the lower classes, expect their needs to be met by the government, they sink further and further into poverty and despair. It was the Great Society and similar liberal programs that have created such an underlying class of lazy and desperate in our cities. In Europe, 28-hour work weeks, strong unions, and a lazy workforce has led to an economically stagnant situtation, causing riots in Greece and serious expatriation to (you guessed it) America. (It has also brought conservative leaders like Sarkozy of France and Merkel of Germany.) These failed European policies are what Obama and other liberals in power seek to emulate.

There is a reason that Barack Obama is only the third Democrat of the past eight presidents. Since the consequences of the modern, liberal Democratic Party have become apparent (after JFK and LBJ), Americans have wisely chosen Republican leaders. Since Reagan was elected, America has witnessed unprecedented economic growth with only two very mild recessions (excluding what we are seeing this year, which is the fault of Democrats). This is in no small part due to the reversal of liberal economic policy by conservative and moderate presidencies. (Under JFK, the top marginal tax rate was 90%. Under Reagan, it was 28%. Power to the people.)

As long as Barack Obama stands for liberalism, and for big government, and for great expectations of that government, he must fail. I am not rooting against America (to the contrary, I'm rooting for America); I am coming out against a malignant ideology that just happens to be embodied in a man that wound up in the White House. He is in a very powerful seat, and he wants to use it to further a liberal agenda. This is scary. Will the United States of America exist in four years? Certainly. But it may be an unrecognizable welfare state. And I will not apologize for using every breath in my lungs to prevent this from happening.