I’ve been thinking along the same lines lately. Politics will not save America.
BTW, you notice that the ping list members aren’t awake yet?
Laz, who talks of intent to be intimate with various women, talking of morals?
I don’t know you personally, but the two ideas seem to be against each other.
Simply put: Behave with ethics, morals, and a reverence to GodRight On! Right On! Right On! Right On!
if everyone had the desire, or even the ability to control their basic instincts of life, we wouldnt need God in the first place...
as such, the stage is set for our basic instincts to always be in a collision course with other people and institutions...facts as old as man, and by Gods Grace that were codified a couple hundred yrs ago in the Constitution...the next day the rot continued and remains growing like a cancer, to where we are today...
oh and please add me to yer list Brother...
Excellent essay, Laz. Thanks for putting it out there.
In the eternal war between the Takers and the Makers, the Takers will always outnumber the Makers.
Sometime, the Makers just need to remember those four magic words..”Get Off My Lawn.” And be willing to back it up at any cost.
Turning inward and remembering God and your faith, and how we got to be the Country we have been is essential for personal survival.
But society survival - as a whole - has been altered, possibly irrevocably, by the left over the decades.
They’ve opened Pandora’s box with the sexual revolution to destroy the morality of people; with no faith or morality basis (not allowed to talk about faith or morality in the public education anymore) - other than “feel-good” and “self-esteem” BS to counter the assault of unrestrained eroticism on young minds, you get sexual assaults, rape, molestation, out of wedlock pregnancies, etc.
With the feminist movement, they destroyed the harmony of the household and poisoned relationships between men and women;
They’ve used every technique possible to emasculate manhood and the authority of “Dad”, and promote their version of “the perfect man” - effeminate, crying at the drop of a dime, overly-sensitive and basically unable to take control of a situation as men have done in the past. Somewhere I have the late Colonel Jeff Cooper’s list of the things a man should be able to do. It’s something that all young men should be taught by their fathers - required reading as it were.
With the abortion movement, they’ve managed to convince mothers to ignore the maternal instinct- arguably one of the strongest instincts next to self-preservation - and to murder their own children and call it a “choice”. How many millions of souls have been slaughtered in THIS Holocaust?
With atheism, with the queer revolution, etc., etc., all the pop culture garbage that has become mainstreamed into the living rooms, headphones, and internet browsers all over the country.
1950s-style American neighborhoods are rare, if they still exist. Hell, we can’t even afford to raise the same size families as our folks did in the 1950s.
I used to drive through my old neighborhood on my way home from work sometimes. One route I drove took me through the rowhome section where I spent a large part part of my youth; there was a church on every other or third corner, no exaggeration - different denominations, but churches nonetheless. I remember Sundays, those places were filled, the bells would ring, and families would be attending services.
Those same churches - Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, a Jewish Synagogue, etc., - are closed up and boarded over now. The local gangsta thugs “tagged” them with graffiti in what looks like a final middle finger of disrespect.
It’s sad to see. I remember a different neighborhood. I also remember when the drug dealers came in from other neighborhoods they’d destroyed, and started in on our neighborhood youngsters; nobody killed them, nobody took them out, the police did nothing, and some of my friends died before the age of 21. People moved out, businesses moved out, and the neighborhood went to hell inside of ten years.
With the drug culture carefully marketed, packaged, handed down and turned into Cheech and Chong “Cool” from the 1960s onwards they’ve destroyed some of our best young minds, and crippled others. And still it continues. We can regulate, control, administer, govern, coerce, and intimidate everything and everyone else, but still the dope flows on.
The other side through stealth, through determination and hatred of all things American, and now through legislation have turned this country on its ear.
So, yes, turning inward to God can save ourselves and our own souls. But the soul of the country may be lost as a whole.
It came back a little bit, for a little while, after 9-11-2001. And within days, the left was moving to erase any shred of patriotism and togetherness the country was exhibiting. I remember watching it happen in front of my eyes - the parade of talking head “experts” coming on TV telling us not to jump to conclusions, this was not the time for flag-waving, etc., Darryl Worley wrote a song called “Have You Forgotten” shortly after that atrocity inflicted on us by Islam and Liberals.
In it, he states “...they took all the footage off our TV, said it was too disturbing for you and me...it’ll just breed anger, that’s what the experts say...”
He nailed it. It was coordinated and carefully orchestrated to erase an event that united the country - however briefly - because that unity threatened the agenda.
I don’t see us being repaired by anything less than a catastrophe and a major purging of the other side. The irony of it is, the other side is PUSHING for that catastrophe - which I truly believe will destroy them ultimately - and there are more than enough people on our side of the aisle who have had enough, who are ithching for a fight, and who are salivating at the thought of finally pushing BACK and not inclined to back off once unleashed.
Hope I’m wrong...But I don’t think so.
Sorry for the long rant.
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear Laz!
Thank you for the post. I agree with what you say; we must recover our ethical and moral compass, or we are lost.
The core of it is that the Feds themselves are a far greater threat to these United States than any 7th century creatures with rags tied around their heads with fanbelts.