Posted on 06/26/2013 12:13:06 PM PDT by golux
Attack me if you will.
Yes, yes - check my profile - I am indeed presently living abroad for work but I have always been a flag-waving American.
At the moment some members of this august forum - which I have adored for many years, long before I was "golux" - believe Sarah can beat Hillary... Believe America will come to its senses on homosexual everything... Believe there will be some "push back," believe that for the first time in history (well, sine Appomatox) the Federal government will stop expending exponentially... Believe that Career Congresscritters will once again deign to "represent" their constituents... Believe that our Moslem president and his minions at the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming can somehow use their out-of-control, unaccountable spy agencies to audit conservatives into regaining, for America, some miniscule thread of respect in this world... Believe that if we try - if we really try - hard enough to teach our kids how to F each other up the A in grade school and on Sesame Street, then Americans might have jobs and hope again.
But I'm just not seeing it. I really do believe that our country is sick. Mortally sick.
Yep, I've read Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You should too. It'll take you many months, but it's worth doing. The similarities are uncanny. Shockingly so.
I guess I still love America and that for which she "stood." I have sacrificed much for my patriotism as so many of us have - and I have been blessed by our wonderful society. I love America. I LOVE America.
But the Founders' message is real. Ayn Rand's message is real. The LORD and His Commandments are real. I am not a Christian, but if America were a Church (in my case a synagogue,) I'd leave it.
If the RNC were a Church I would leave it.
I have a family. I am afraid for my children's brains, their sexuality, their knowledge of good and evil, their morality. I have lived in many places and can assure you ours is no longer the land of the free.
I am tired of arguing with European (Jews, mainly) about how America isn't crime-ridden, filled with bums and fags and pedophiles and drug addicts and perverted teachers and communists and obese, immoral, undereducated welfare zombies.
America is. We are. After 9/11 we elected a freakin' guy named (probably) Barack Hussein Obama, about whom we know less than nothing. We did this. Is Satan in charge of America?
Tonight I told the Aesop fable about the dog and the wolf to my kids. I love to draw these stories out with details, sounds, et cetera.
For the first time I realized I was being a hypocrite comparing Americans to the wild, free wolf rather than the enslaved, fat, stupid dog, and it choked me up.
My hope is dead. Even a revolution seems impossible. We have traded all of our liberties for safety, and delight in the process, sucking on Soma and flocking to Wal Mart for more American flag decals stamped by Chinese preteens.
But what to do? Where to go?
I love Free Republic. Would there were one.
I really wish I had learned it as a kid. I think my grandfather could speak it a little.
California. It’s no longer part of the United States.
Actually most of the Polish I pick up comes from listening to Polish music. I have an Internet station I listen to.
It is a blueprint for wholesale poverty and social discord... we won't even talk about the gratuitous class warfare that this ‘President’ has encouraged.
LOL. The leader in abortion rates in hardly a Christian nation. You have fallen for Putin’s lies.
Possibly Switzerland?
A friend of mine checked out Belize, planning on moving there. While there he visited a church and met a number of its members. A young girl who attended the church with her dad was kidnapped and a few days later found dead. The local police barely seemed interested in investigating, and my friend decided Belize wasn’t for them.
Now, far more egregious crimes happen in America daily and there are plenty of corrupt LE departments and agencies, so who’s to say Belize LE is worse than ours?
At any rate, my friend gave up on the idea of Belize and now lives in Costa Rica.
One more thing. No matter where you live on this planet, the IRS has the legal right to claim its share of any money that you make. America is one of the few countries of the world that views its citizens as permanent property.
Russia is dead set against homo rights. Christianity is experiencing a monumental resurgence. Their borders are secure. They do not tolerate mudslime terrorists and call them what they are. They are pretty much energy independent and don’t follow the cult of gorebull warming. They mine minerals and use them to create wealth and opportunity.
Oh, but their government is tyrannical. Ours isn’t?
Life in the owebamanation has become completely upside down and backwards. All I see is dark times coming.
Maybe Ed Snowden has a good idea. I thinks its time to start learning the Russian language and get a visa.
Thanks for the lowdown - I saw some pretty expensive Belize real estate online, and some reasonably priced. We have considered other Central and South American countries as well, my Spanish is pretty good and we are retired. No Mexico, though.
I used to get irritated with the moderates who said Reagan wouldn’t recognize the conservatism of today.
Today I agree with them for the opposite reasons. Reagan was an optimist, a builder, and a fighter. Today’s “conservatives” seem to have nothing but despair, anger, and a desire to destroy. I doubt God will treat them any differently than the liberals.
I’m no expert by any means, but isn’t Australia actually worse with climate/censorship/gun rights/taxes?
If it were only a language thing, Canada or Australia would not present much of a problem. There are a few inconsistencies in the doctrine of self defense (i.e., no equivalent guarantee comparable to the Second Amendment), and there have been some more paralyzing applications of restrictions of speech, association, and to some extent, assembly. There is also the troubling fact that increasingly, their policy in regards to Islamic immigration borders on surrender to an invasion.
The concept of a nation of laws, united behind shared beliefs, and inspiring individual initiative, while recognizing achievement, seems to be fading in the consciousness of a growing number of the human population on this planet. It would not be difficult to envision a dystopia, or a plethora of dystopias, being the future of the world.
The American Experiment was great while it lasted. But extinction looms, and nothing much seems to be there to take up the flame.
My proposal (which seems to have little chance of being put into action) is for the portions of the territory once known as “the United States of America” that were designated as “red” districts on the most recent electoral maps, split off from the “blue” districts. The “red” district has the advantage of being almost contiguous across the territory, while the “blue” districts are badly fragmented. The “blue” districts would be allowed to set up whatever kind of cockamamie set of rules they want to live under, while the “red” district would return to application of the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, with certain of the Amendments deleted (16th, 17th, 18th and 21st).
Then a very firm immigration policy to the “red” district would be set up, and citizenship would have to be reaffirmed upon reaching the age of majority, before being allowed to exercise the franchise of voting.
We could invade Mexico. haha
Nowhere. This is our story and we’re stuck with it.
I agree with you that we are mortally ill, but I don’t think there is another nation on this planet to which we can escape. I prefer to do what Bill Whittle suggests: retreat to the countryside, connect with like-minded people, lead a more simple life, and preserve a knowledge of what was great about America. We can create an entire subculture of conservatives.
The monks of the Middle Ages laboriously wrote to each other, preserving classical scholarship and discussing their faith. Others preserved or advanced art and literature. They kept the knowledge of civilization alive so that when mankind was ready once again to be reborn, the structure was there; no one had to re-invent the wheel of civilization.
We must do the same. Even if America falls into a new Dark Age, we must pass on our knowledge to those who come after us. There were universities and artists and writers and travelers during the Dark Ages, and life went on. We can do the same. Someday another Renaissance may come, unless the Lord returns before then. Let us be ready in either case.
Exactly, its ours and we’re the ones who have to fix it.
I’m no expert by any means, but isn’t Australia actually worse with climate/censorship/gun rights/taxes?
It may be worse with firearms controls,But I don’t think I’ve seen any leaders there trying to turn their country into a third world cesspool either.
Unlike Resident obama.
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