Posted on 11/07/2012 7:52:37 AM PST by joanie-f
Hoping you all survived last night intact.
Joanie,
I think of Ronald Reagan great speech, a Time for Choosing. In spite of “his side” getting blown out in the 1964 election, he kept fighting the good fight and went on in 1980-1988 to win and win big!
However, please take the time to reflect, meditate and pray about your second to last paragraph. Don't give up. Don't ever give up. 65 is the new 45! You are one of those of whom you speak of in your last paragraph ... whom you have nothing but boundless respect for.
Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and the Muslim Brotherhood expended a lot of ammo in “happy fire” exercises last night, no doubt.
Last night was rough but not as rough as the next four
years+ are going to be.
I pray for you and yours and mine too.
They are going to need all the help they can get
just to survive the changes that are coming and
coming they are if Obama is to “transform” our
great nation into some socialist utopia.
I’m 67 and have only a few years left, socialism
will not be kind to us, it’s not in the plan.
I have no offspring although my sister does and
I struggle to convey to them what this is going
to mean for them but they are a product of the
times and do not listen.
I’ve moved out into the country, not as far as I
would have liked but enough so that maybe I can
live a few years without coming in contact with
overbearing government, an impossibility I realize
but one still has dreams of a comfortable future
even if unrealized.
My best to you, I have always been inspired by
your sharp intellect and ability to put those
thoughts into writing. Never stop, it may mean
all the difference to someone.
God Bless.
Your F3 or FFF Freeper Friend Forever as they say.
Stay in touch we have miles to go yet.
T.
I wholly agree with Ronald Reagan's insight that we will be either a nation under God or a nation going under. It is very clear to me that we are being set up for the latter.
Our divide-and-conquer Community Organizer in Chief very likely holds in contempt the wisdom of Marcus Tullius Cicero, which the Framers held in the highest respect:
...True law is right reason, consonant with nature, spread through all people. It is constant and eternal; it summons to duty by its orders, it deters from crime by its prohibitions. Its orders and prohibitions to good people are never given in vain; but it does not move the wicked by these orders and prohibitions. It is wrong to pass laws obviating this law; it is not permitted to abrogate any of it; it cannot be totally repealed. We cannot be released from this law by the senate or the people, and it needs no exegete or interpreter.... There will not be one law at Rome and another at Athens, one now and another later; but all nations at all times will be bound by this one eternal and unchangeable law, and the god will be the one common master and general (so to speak) of all people. [God] is the author, expounder, and mover of this law; and the person who does not obey it will be in exile from himself. Insofar as he scorns his nature as a human being, by this very fact he will pay the greatest penalty, even if he escapes all the other things that are generally recognized as punishments.... [emphasis added]Progressive thinkers in government, the universities, and the mass media do not even believe that man has a "nature." They believe whatever man is, he is the product of evolution, ever changing, and presumably getting "better" the more he and his social systems "evolve."
The reason We the People rejected the King was because "we" already had one: God Himself. It is the idea that we are "under God" that makes the people sovereign under our constitutional system. Get rid of God and one loses the unalienable rights that our Creator vested in us. For without the Creator, it is "self-evident" that our natural, unalienable rights have no foundation, no guarantor.
This has been the common understanding of some ten generations of Americans, up to now. But today, does the "average" American even understand this anymore? We send our kids off to college for a very costly education in total ignorance; they are cultivated in irrationality; they leave school wholly unable to think rationally, systematically; and they are taught to scorn any idea of a universal moral law — or even a universal natural law, because as the atheists well know, such universal laws can only be grounded in God, Whom they despise.
I am heartsick to see my beloved country systematically destroy herself.
Thank you so very much, dear sister in Christ, for your deeply moving essay/post.
May God's Will be done in all things.
Wow! Just Wow! It’s as if you sat down with me, got a brain dump from me on my every political thought and theory, then put them down into a word essay! You touched on EVERY point that I go over in my mind about what is wrong with our country and it’s slavery to progressive ideology.
Thanks so much. I am going to cut and paste this into a word document to keep for reference, and I may quote you from it, it that is okay with you.
Brilliant and spot on as always, joanie.
Exceptional article. Well said.
No, I did not survive last night and neither did the America our Founders gave to us.
America in the form it has been pre 1950 just ceased to exist. The American experiment is over. We are beyond the tipping point of 50 percent parasites, and the host is in the process of dying off. It will be a lingering death, but a certain one.
We are becoming socialist Britain on our way to socialist Italy, eventually ending at communist China. If we ever see freedom again, it will only come after a long, long gestation.
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependency back into bondage.
As always, a great big THANK YOU to all of the principled Conservatives who sat out the election or voted 3rd party, handing Obama the slim win. A Pox on all of you curs for getting Obama re-elected.
We have been zooming through “apathy” and over the next 4 years, the US populace will be solidly in “dependency”. At 54 years old I had been praying I would be spared seeing the “bondage” phase. I no longer have any illusions I will be spared bondage. It is going to be here much faster than I ever expected.
The day Obamacare was rammed down our throats at midnight on a Saturday night, it was as if the communist onslaught was on full throttle. Last night, they shifted into overdrive. Bondage will be coming very quickly now.
The last two paragraphs describe my feelings, too. As a Christian I must believe this is all part of God’s plan. So I’m gonna’ stay out of His way.
I am not 'giving up'. I am simply choosing to focus on family, friends and work responsibilities, and allowing politics to take a back seat. I will never stop talking with family, friends, neighbors and co-workers in an effort to 'educate' people about the foundations of our beloved republic, and the blessings we have so cavalierly taken for granted, especially over the last fifty years. And I will speak out when afforded the opportunity to do so. My days of political activism are over, though. Our life on earth is a one-time gift, and spending the last years of that life expending significant time and energy in what one finally perceives to be a losing battle is, to put it bluntly, foolish and wasteful.
Best to you and yours in these troubling times ...
~ joanie
It was hearing that Reagan speech as a teenager that originally got me interested in politics, and Ronald Reagan in particular. Oh, how we could use a magnificent man like Reagan now!
God bless you!
In enduring friendship ...
~ joanie
Best --
~ joanie
~ joanie
A sad (beyond description) 'Amen'.
~ joanie
I agree. And I intend to do the same.
~ joanie
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