Your post has given me some grounds for optimism.
I still think the majority of Americans have been dumbed down to the point of not even recognizing that their liberties have eroded. And the dependent class wouldn’t even care, as long as the freebies kept on coming.
But perhaps we don’t need the majority to be with us after all.
I'm glad that it did.
We hear so much doom and gloom these days. Much of it is the ravings of frightened souls who've lost their will to resist. Some of it is intentionally planted here by agents provocateurs. Call it psychological warfare. It's debilitating and contagious. If people don't think Free Republic is a prime target for such attacks, they've got another think coming.
In JimRob's mission statement, he declares that he won't allow FR to become a platform for the naysayers and doom and gloomers, but somehow their insidious message creeps through anyway.
He can't be everywhere policing this stuff, so I feel it's incumbent on the rest of us to counter it wherever we can.