Posted on 04/14/2014 9:14:22 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
In an interview with TheBlaze in connection with the release of his new book, “A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred,” we spoke with columnist and author George Will on all things baseball and his unified theory of beer, and then moved on to the arguably more important topic of the state of the union, touching on everything from the American founding, Will’s affinity for the Tea Party, to 2016, to immigration.
Among other explosive comments, Will told us that he is “quite confident that we’re going to rebel against this abusive government…sooner or later arithmetic is going to force realism on us.”
There’s the old cliché that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Is there a time in world history that you think is most analogous to today, and what country do you think in that era represented America? In other words, are we in World War I, and America is the British Empire, or is this World War II, or are we Rome? I’m curious as to your thoughts.
Will: Well ever since at about the time of the American founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” people have been fascinated by the threat that democracies would decay; that history would be cyclical not linear; that decay and decline was inevitable; that the seeds of destruction were in particular regimes and particularly in democracies. And clearly the American founders worried about this. And Lincoln worried about it at Gettysburg, that the question was “Whether we shall long endure this form of government.”
I think that we’re in a period today comparable to the American founding period
So I think that we’re in a period today comparable to the American founding period in two senses:
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Did he just figure this out?
It's already happening on many levels. But like the Bundy ranch events, it's just not being covered by CNN, FOX or their friends in government.
When it happens, I am curious to see on what side George falls.....
Hey George what’s this “we” stuff?
Exactly what is it that you plan on doing? Oh yeah that’s right, you’ll talk about it...
Watt U mean “we”, kemosabi?
Who is “we”, George?
“These are people who uproot themselves, take a risk, come to a strange country and a new culture and a new language in many cases to try and better themselves. And I want this to be a continued infusion of energy into America. And I think immigrants make wonderful patriots because they’re grateful to the country that enables them to help themselves and their families.”
Delusional. He is utterly delusional. THat’s the problem with the golf club backslapping establishment everything is fine republicans Bill Bennett, Byron York, these guys:
However many ‘immigrants’ there are, and that’s a whole other conversation that they refuse to entertain, He needs to spend some time shopping retail in Texas. It has been encroached by enabling shopkeepers who do not demand that they get used to a new culture.
As a veteran, I am surprised that I, my school aged kids have to get used to being in a strange culture, pushed to the back of the line, told to get used to a new language taking over, that scholarships and in state tuition is for Hispanics.
George Will is an idiotic prick for not realizing what it is he is even talking about from his fabulous apartment in DC.
There are combat veterans getting pushed around by illegals out here, and it is not helped by the Chamber of Commerce who wants this mess.
Fox just aired a pretty good piece on the Bundy ranch events.
A lot of the lamestream types are ignoring it, of course.
What is meant by “rebel?”
Strongly worded letters?
They're dumping millions of foreigners, Muslims, illegals, etc., from all over the planet, into places like CA and Texas, entire country. They are completely destroying our homeland and way of life.
Divide the united. One house, one town at a time.
He is a dolt, as if the immigrants who will be chained to the political party of their emancipation will go tea party on the establishment, talk about cognitive dissonance. Heck I even bet Obama could speak in some coded fashion to the solid black vote about putting an end to the Tea Party and a groups of blacks would go Stormtrooper on the gray hairs at a nice Tea Party event. Delusional is a mild word to describe Will.
I’d like to see five million armed citizens show up and surround the District of Criminals and arrest everyone.
Time to purge the collectivists from the roots.
I have no time for fox, cnn, MSM etc....They’re a sad joke.
Save y’alls powder for the bad guys.
Ugh.
Impressive! Within about 10 minutes, 4 posters have surfaced to completely ignore the article and attack the author instead. Any wonder we lose elections?
pretty self evident as to why despots turn off internet and phone service or issue bullshit NOTAM’s and “secure” an area.
They don’t want it to get out what crap they are doing.
Right there Harry Reid?
BLM gestapo’s?
What horse crap.
It's a coordinated TEA Party attack on the Headline writer and GOPer Will, I believe.
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