I tend to agree with the original poster. Quite often on FreeRepublic there is pseudo brinksmanship that gets played that centers around the thought that we are just a step away from “The Next American Revolution”. Fact of the matter is we are not that close to a revolution and no state or groups of states are anywhere close to seceding from the country.
The people, even those of us who are more conservative, have shown themselves willing to put with quite a lot of crap with no actual threat of sweeping change. While we see the inklings of a party willing to persecute those of us who are more conservative, we have not yet reached the point of day to day persecution that results in actual revolution. Fact is we are far from it, so any talk of the next American Revolution, civil war, secession, is less than worthless. If we talk in those terms, we have actually given up the fight to change things through the changing of minds, which ought not be willing to do.
“If we talk in those terms, we have actually given up the fight to change things through the changing of minds, which ought not be willing to do.”
Interesting idea, but here is the problem with your analysis: the takers aren’t interested. They aren’t interested in opportunity. They aren’t interested in jobs. They aren’t interested in self sufficiency. They aren’t interested in what we’re selling. What they’re interested in is a welfare check. Bread and circuses. And absent a complete breakdown in the society, they’re not going to change their tune.
The mistake that conservatives are continuing to make is in thinking that Sodom and Gomorrah can be convinced to mend the error of their ways. That they can somehow be dragged along in an American revival that they want nothing to do with. Our responsibility is to our own. Or to quote Stonewall Jackson: “ duty is ours, consequences are Gods.”