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Mr. Utter has written an excellent essay cataloging where we are today in the United States. None of this is new to us, but it is especially distressing to see it all laid out clearly in one article. As we all know, it is not a pretty picture and makes most of us extremely sad.

The author does not, however, address the cornerstone question "What comes next after the United States?" He simply concludes "Sadly, Dr. Franklin, it does not appear that we will be able to keep the republic you and your contemporaries bequeathed to us after all. Thanks for trying."

We have raised two or three extremely "tolerant" generations that accept anything. It's doubtful that that toothpaste is going back into the tube.

1 posted on 06/15/2019 9:05:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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I will fight to not find out...all in.


43 posted on 06/15/2019 10:07:11 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Her Heinous! I am so stealing that.)
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It’s doubtful that that toothpaste is going back into the tube.


Actually if you work the tube so it expands you can actually suck the toothpaste back in.


44 posted on 06/15/2019 10:07:27 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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The answer to “what’s next?” is very simple:TYRANNY!!


45 posted on 06/15/2019 10:09:52 AM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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The gap between the left and right in this nation is far too wide to ever bridge. We must separate peacefully before it ends in a shooting war.


46 posted on 06/15/2019 10:23:39 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
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“Tolerance is not a virtue per se. It can be — and often is — a good thing, but it can be bad as well. It needs to be remembered that we get more of what we tolerate.”

I realized recently that every virtue has a Laffer curve. Every unmoderated virtue becomes a vice.

So with excessive tolerance and freedom comes a collapse followed by tyranny.

Yes, you can have too much of a good thing.


47 posted on 06/15/2019 10:36:28 AM PDT by aquila48
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The author does not, however, address the cornerstone question “What comes next after the United States?”


Heh. Good catch. Headline bait and switch.

If the deviant quotient defines whether a nation/civilization lives or dies, then the survivors will be either Chinese or Muslim. And since the Chinese approach is not religion based, I’d have to go with Muslim.

Of course the way Islam permits/requires women to be treated, the humping of young boys, and predilection to murdering unbelievers, something worse than deviance is at hand.


49 posted on 06/15/2019 10:58:45 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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“What comes next after the United States?”

The destruction of Western Civilization, followed closely by the nightmare of a global, tribal, pre-industrialization dystopia in which the 1% of the 1% of the 1% (~10,000) lives in ultra-secure, ultra luxurious fashion.

Sucks, but truth.


51 posted on 06/15/2019 11:13:48 AM PDT by GOP Congress
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Me. I come after America and restore her to Greatness. America II coming to a county near you.


57 posted on 06/15/2019 11:36:18 AM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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It's ironic, but I think these young socialists are actually rebelling against - without realizing it - the nihilism underlying their own worldview.

By almost any historical measure, they are extremely well-off, and tolerance of varying lifestyles and ethnicities has never been higher. They have gadgets that their great-grandparents could not have foreseen, and they are arguably the most pampered generation in history.

Yet many are filled with rage and resentment, and they flail about searching for a scapegoat - Trump, capitalism, Wall Street, the banks, the NRA, old white men, Civil War monuments, and so forth. But I think this is a spiritual crisis fostered by their own worldview, which is ultimately materialistic and nihilistic.

Ironically, this nihilism is most sharply manifest in three of the issues which have their utmost support: abortion, the LGBTQ movement, and the environment. If babies can be dismembered and killed at any stage of pregnancy, if gender is simply a matter of personal whim, and if human beings are a cancer on the planet, what ultimate purpose can life have?
58 posted on 06/15/2019 11:37:51 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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That war is essentially over. The progressives won.

"NUTS!" -- General McAuliffe

71 posted on 06/15/2019 12:08:22 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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It’s already over though most people don’t know it. Donald Trump is intolorable to the Dems. His winning a 2nd term will probably start the violence.

On the other hand the Dems have demonstrated...let me say thay again...DEMONSTRATED that the Law is what THEY want it to be at any given time. That reality is what they want it to be at any given time. That TRUTH is whatever they want it to be at any given time. Now...how many FReepers can imagine simply going about their lives if these purely Evil Democrats get their hands on the Whitehouse and congress? We won’t have to wait one day for the outrages to the Constitution to begin...Not even one day.


76 posted on 06/15/2019 12:30:57 PM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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Ironically, a Russian defector fro the KGB tried to warn us.

We have not listened to him;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA


77 posted on 06/15/2019 12:32:22 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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The People’s Republic of China. And world chaos.


80 posted on 06/15/2019 1:08:47 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Oh fuck me. STFU and move your feet towards your local militia. If you don't have one, make one.

I am sick and tired of this defeatist shit. We're fucking Americans. Act like it.

83 posted on 06/15/2019 2:02:37 PM PDT by Salvavida
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Drug abuse turned most of them to the left.


86 posted on 06/15/2019 3:39:10 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Another doleful surrender monkey article. What’s that - no. 25 today on FR?

Oh, woe is us.


89 posted on 06/15/2019 6:37:23 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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The Left never gives in, never tires, never wavers, always presses on.

Can't be repeated enough - if we are to win, we need to be unwavering and steadfast and purposeful instead of sitting on our asses and gibber-jabbing as it that will make a big difference...the fact that FR has so much trouble getting the donations to keep the lights on is indicative of how feckless and lazy too many "on our side" are.

95 posted on 06/16/2019 4:40:08 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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