Posted on 11/21/2012 11:33:43 AM PST by Lloyd Marcus
Yeah...but it ain't the same kinda beer. Beer you get near SLC ain't $h!+.
Your post sums up so much of what I have been feeling. I did not have a pepper moment at the store, but the first few days after the election were hard. Fortunately, the assigned scripture lessons for the Sunday after the election and the hymns our pastor had chosen to go with them, made me start to put things in perspective. I have not been in too much of a mood to listen to Beck or Rush lately. Perhaps listening would help.
Thank you, Mr. Marcus.
I feel a lot of that same anger. I have experienced several of those “last straw” moments - things that would be no big deal in isolation, but which added together are just too much. (I suppose technically that if there is more than one, they can’t all be “last” straws. But I’m sure you understand my meaning. The last straw on election day. The last straw from a liberal family member. Etc.)
I see some people posting that they are done. They have fought hard and are now giving up. I respect that and understand it. But I suspect that for most, it is a temporary surrender. I think most of us need time to heal and re-energize. We need time to analyze what went wrong and we need time to find solutions.
Let’s put our anger to a positive use. Let’s use that anger as motivation. Maybe not today while we are still angry and in need of healing. But maybe tomorrow or next week.
I am an angry white woman. Seems everything makes me angry these days. Don’t think I can take four more years.
The left has successfully marched through all our institutions and are trying to destroy our Republic. Before his second term is up, the left will try and permanently consolidate power. Scary times indeed.
We all must put our trust in God and do His will. The road will not be easy, but it must be taken.
My precious brother,
I am PROUD to call you my countryman!
It seemed a kick in the head that with all the obvious displeasure in America with Barack and his works, he still squeaked by rather than getting his clock cleaned.
Thanks, Lloyd. I agree with you and am trying to take the same approach.
It boggles my mind when I wonder why black people won’t listen to you, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, etc. There are so many great black Americans in history for them to look up to and emulate.
Instead they follow Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the like.
Why, Why, Why? These are good black people who I work with everyday. When I was growing up, (I’m 61) black kids were better behaved than whites. Their parents, and especially their grandparents demanded it.
Now, the black young kids run in gangs shooting each other, have babies with both black and white girls and don’t get married, black babies are aborted at 2 or 3 times the rate of others. It is so, so sad.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of lazy goof off white kids, too. I’m just saying something has gone drastically wrong in the black communities over the last 40-50 years.
Sometimes, I wonder if it might be because the civil rights laws forced them to integrate. They had great schools in their neighborhoods and took a lot of pride in it. They were forced to attend white schools where they were not always treated well. I think they rebel against their situation and try to prove their superiority instead of equality. Kids do stuff like that.
I hope my words have not offended anyone. I’m just trying to figure out what’s wrong and why we can’t all just get along.
Is it even possible to get into the heads of these misled (if not something stronger) folks and figure out why they are falling for this balogna in such numbers? There seem to be more chips on black shoulders today than there were during an era (late Jim Crow) when there were still actual reasons to hate the system of Whitey.
The way welfare schemes bribed families into becoming dysfunctional, to in turn crank out more dysfunctional and unhealthily dependent progeny, has to bear some blame.
William Flax
Bumping to the moon, Lloyd! Thank you!
Thank you for your post. We understand. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you, Mr. Marcus, for “speaking truth to power”. It is nice to hear someone who is articulate saying what has to be said in clear, concise language.
I loved the “dumb-down” reference to our youth. It sums up the state of dis-education today.
I know two inner city white conservative teachers (one of whom has quit in frustration), say that “these kids cannot be taught”. That there are a few who will rise above the rest ot a good level of success, but that they rest have already been damaged by the lack of a stable family/home life re single parent, no married father or biological father around; no emphasis on reading and writing; an unsafe neighborhood where gangs and drugs rule, and decent people hide in their homes or apartments in order to avoid being a crime victim; and where the schools are more interesting in being “politically correct” than in teaching the basics of education.
If you look at the educational system for us old foggies from the 50’s, you will see that there was discipline in the classes and in school in general (I polished the bench outside the principal’s office on more than one ocassion). There was Aretha Franklin’s “RESPECT” for both the administrators and teachers, as well as for each other (except the bullies).
Religious tolerance was the norm, not the exception.
We learned to read, write, speak properly, mathematics, science, foreign languages and even had physical ed (including the much feared “DODGEBALL’). Somehow we all survived and prospered.
I attended my 50th high school reunion last month and I met people whom I’ve known for over 60 years (from kindergarten on up). They are teachers, information specialists, financial advisors, clergymen, builders, etc. Some of them are Vietnam veterans.
The one common denominator that united us all after 50 years was pride in our school, our teachers, and the education we got that made it possible for us to advance in life, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background.
Today, races, religions and ethnic origins are pitted against each other by the Obama regime, as well as being forced into typical marxist/Alinskyite/Cloward-Piven “class warfare”.
We have become “Balkanized”, “dumbed-down”, and made into welfare/govt entitlement addicts (and I don’t mean those who have special financial needs through no fault of their own). Instead of drugs, Obama has made many people “government plantation addicts”, a mental disease as much as a financial one which spreads across all types of Americans.
Conservatives may be old-fashioned, but “Old Fashioned” is what made it possible for Americans to succeed. Change is based on certain basic foundations, which we conservatives call “Family, God, and Patriotism”.
Mr. Lloyd has summed up the sad state of America today, including inside his own family (you aren’t alone, brother).
“Now it the time that troubles men’s souls” (paraphrased) as once said by an early patriot. Nothing has changed because the internal and external enemies of America are still hard at work, 24/7, trying to destroy our country.
It ain’t gonna happen. As Mr. Lloyd wrote, it is time to regroup and counterattack. A basic statement of our principles is the first item of order. Then it is “Once more into the breach” (Henry Vth).
I prefer a more modern version of that quote, i.e. “Time to take names and kick ass”, or as Tobey Keith sung, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way.”
“These boots were made for walking... all over you”.
Start walking, America, start walking!
The idiots, self-servers and traitors may very well prevent another Republican from winning the Presidency, but there are still good battles to be fought in Congress and the statehouses.
Lloyd, you are not alone........I am as angry as you and maybe more. I was devastated that the American people were even more stupid than I thought they were and reelected a communist socialist usurper to the highest office of the land. It may have been massive fraud or massive stupidity, probably both.
But God has His hand guiding all things for His purposes, not ours. All we can do is trust in Him and endure whatever the future has in store for us. Have faith and God and He will never desert you. ......
The depravity of that is in the dichotomy...
the commie libs INTENDED the welfare system to work that way, to ensure perpetual power,
and the sheeperals go along with it because they derive their righteousness from the advocacy to “help people”, not actually doing the helping themselves, but just for wanting to.
Good article, LM.
BTTT
Lloyd, you are not my brother, but since we share a LAST name we are truly cousins, and I am proud to declare our relationship.
That “media person” you mentioned is, to me, proof that LIBERALISM is in itself a religion, and those adherents cling to the party line like glue.
Be well, cousin.
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