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The Sun Is Setting on America as Founded
American Thinker ^ | October 5, 2016 | Steve McCann

Posted on 10/05/2016 12:59:11 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: DiogenesLamp

>>Yeah, the Sun set on America as it was founded back in 1861.<<

Ain’t that the truth.


21 posted on 10/05/2016 1:52:55 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: DiogenesLamp

yep.


22 posted on 10/05/2016 1:54:03 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: MountainWalker

Trump cannot return the Republic unless he is an effective and powerful dictator who can and will abolish the Agencies. And if he can and does that, well, we are probably stuck with an all powerful dictator. I think the best we can rationally hope fore with Trump is a hiatus in the process of totalization of government and a few years of prosperity before the curtain closes down.


23 posted on 10/05/2016 1:55:45 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Kaslin
Yeah, that sun set a long, long time ago. This country changed fundamentally after the Civil War (mostly for the better) and then again after the New Deal (mostly for the worse) and then again after the 1960s (definitely for the worse).

We are in desperate need of a re-birth.
24 posted on 10/05/2016 1:58:27 PM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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To: DiogenesLamp

My wife says granting women the right to vote was a disaster for the Republic. Women in the aggregate vote for security for themselves and their children. Liberty is not terribly important. That said women should not be restricted from running for and occupying office. Those who get elected where no women vote will not be part of that “women in the aggregate.”


25 posted on 10/05/2016 2:00:05 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Kaslin

I think the sun has gone down on America.


26 posted on 10/05/2016 2:00:46 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Believe or not, we R in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! RU saved?)
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To: dfwgator

Setting because close to half of our voters would rather live in a Euro-Social Democratic Welfare State.


27 posted on 10/05/2016 2:04:45 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SkyDancer
Depends on which side of the room the chair was. Was it on the east wall or west wall?

The windows in that room are north exposures. So the sun would have traveled from right to left, casting light on the left side of the room first and later in the day on the right side.


28 posted on 10/05/2016 2:11:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: BRL
If I could go back I would implore them to make laws extremely easy to undo.

I've often thought that an overriding law should be that every new law should have an expiration date and that a bipartisan official should have to monitor any laws due to expire so that national security is not jeopardized by unwitting expirations. This way, ideas can be tested but discarded if they are not working.

29 posted on 10/05/2016 2:16:13 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: SkyDancer

The hymn “Morning Has Broken” was of Christian origin long before Stevens recorded it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Has_Broken


30 posted on 10/05/2016 2:18:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: Kaslin

I just got back last weekend from a trip to Yorktown, Williamsburg and Jamestown. Last time there was our honeymoon 32 years ago. Then I was proud to be an American. This time, I felt profoundly sad. I realized that current generations care nothing for these symbols of the unique American Idea. They are destined to fall into ruin over the next few decades, forgotten relics of “white privilege” and “shock capitalism.”


31 posted on 10/05/2016 2:49:23 PM PDT by mikeus_maximus
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To: Albion Wilde

I know that, I was just adding the lyrics that came up from Cat Stevens. When I searched on it in YouTube it did show several versions. It was the first one I grabbed. This was played at my grand mother’s funeral. That song comes to mind every morning when I go out to the back deck and watch the sun come up.


32 posted on 10/05/2016 3:06:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: arthurus
My wife says granting women the right to vote was a disaster for the Republic. Women in the aggregate vote for security for themselves and their children. Liberty is not terribly important.

I wasn't going to mention that one, but the evidence is telling us "Yeah, that was a bad idea."

That said women should not be restricted from running for and occupying office. Those who get elected where no women vote will not be part of that “women in the aggregate.”

I have no issues with that. We've got some women in elected office that are way better than a lot of men.

33 posted on 10/05/2016 3:06:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Kaslin; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; stephenjohnbanker

It all sounds good and well to return America to its past, but I don’t know how to farm.


34 posted on 10/05/2016 3:07:56 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: SkyDancer

Are you aware Cat Stevens converted to Islam and was banned from the U.S. until the Obama Administration?


35 posted on 10/05/2016 3:11:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: LouAvul

We’ve had some 230 years to correct THEIR mistake.

Article V.


36 posted on 10/05/2016 3:11:47 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: BRL
Neither the 10th Amendment, nor any parchment barriers are failsafe. A senate of the states was to be the structural barrier to unbalanced government. Start with repeal of the 17A and all good things, including the restoration of free government are possible.
37 posted on 10/05/2016 3:15:05 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Worst was 19th imho.


38 posted on 10/05/2016 3:17:57 PM PDT by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: Jacquerie
The system is broken and the USA is too big. We're trying to be encompassing to all faiths, creeds, national origins, etc. We're trying to be all things to all people and, it just doesn't work.

I don't think our founding fathers envisioned muslim, atheist, shinto, pantheism, satanism, etc, as deserving protection under the law and an equal voice. I don't think they intended freedom of speech to mandate pornography forced on us.

The USA needs to break up into smaller countries. The heartland is one. The left coast is another. Etc. Otherwise we're all going to go down the left wing toilet.

39 posted on 10/05/2016 3:23:51 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: MountainWalker

If my reading of the electorate is correct; If Trump loses, the safeties come off.


40 posted on 10/05/2016 3:23:59 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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