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Going with the Flow ... Mark Steyn
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| 2 July 2015
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 07/02/2015 12:28:33 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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posted on
07/02/2015 12:28:33 AM PDT
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Rummyfan
To: JLS
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posted on
07/02/2015 12:36:22 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong X Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: Rummyfan
I spent about and hour and a half with my Congressman this afternoon. He was always known as very conservative and religious. Very pro-life, very pro-traditional everything.
He’s only been in DC 6 months. He’s gained about 100 lbs and looks totally stressed. Sleeping in his office; showering in the house gym; eating out every meal.
I asked him what can be done about the gay marriage problem, and he point blank said that his constituency doesn’t care about it. He says that he has long dreamed of finding a billionaire, conservative backer who could mount a campaign to put the moral fiber back in America — to counter the brainwashing of the children in our schools.
He says there is nobody, and his wealthy backers say up front that none of them care about gay marriage. I’m discouraged.
To: Rummyfan
Instead of launching another radio show or news aggregator or think-tank, never mind obsessing over whether Jeb or Jindal or Christie will play better in Iowa, we need to make like the Islamic mullahs and the sex mullahs and start competing for the space where people actually live. Sounds good, but I'm not sure what that would mean in practice.
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posted on
07/02/2015 1:12:26 AM PDT
by
TChad
To: Rummyfan
Nathan Bedford's third Maxim of American politics:
culture trumps politics and bottom-up beats top-down.
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:09:21 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: Rummyfan
Nathan Bedford's third Maxim of American politics:
culture trumps politics and bottom-up beats top-down.
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:09:21 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: Rummyfan
Rise with the tide
go with the flow
get your head battered
and sink like a stone..
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:12:39 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
To: Rummyfan
“....conservatives have spent the supposed “end of history” winning a zillion elections, and losing everything that matters.”
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posted on
07/02/2015 3:25:32 AM PDT
by
John W
(Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
To: Rummyfan
Law of the land! Law of the land! Move on! Bipartisan! Squawk!
To: Rummyfan
there are no conservatives, only liberals of varying degrees of political allegiance, liberal right-wing, liberal-centralists and liberal left-wing
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posted on
07/02/2015 3:36:43 AM PDT
by
B212
To: Rummyfan
Steyn ‘gets it’ like no one else!
Oh, there are plenty of us who, in good conscience, can not, will not go with the flow.
Corrie ten Boom is one (of many) of my spiritual mentors.
I never met her.....I’ve only read and heard about her....
But if I can only have an ounce of her courage, passion and faith, I would consider myself blessed indeed.
The time is coming.......actually is now here....when all of us need to decide where we stand.
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posted on
07/02/2015 3:37:56 AM PDT
by
Guenevere
(If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
To: B212
To: Rummyfan
I don't want to wind up with a choice between the twin totalitarianisms of soulless state-regulated hyper-sexualized semi-tyranny and sharia - because, if that's what it comes down to, I know who'll win. But conservatives have spent the supposed "end of history" winning a zillion elections, and losing everything that matters. To most of the so-called millennials, conservatism is entirely invisible except as a Jon Stewart punchline - and that invisibility was largely our choice. Instead of launching another radio show or news aggregator or think-tank, never mind obsessing over whether Jeb or Jindal or Christie will play better in Iowa, we need to make like the Islamic mullahs and the sex mullahs and start competing for the space where people actually live.
To: afraidfortherepublic
He says there is nobody, and his wealthy backers say up front that none of them care about gay marriage. Im discouraged.
...
When he says his “constituency”, does he mean the rank and file or his wealthy backers?
Big corporations could care less about morality and what’s best for America.
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posted on
07/02/2015 3:57:03 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Rummyfan
Jonah Goldberg was on before me, and advanced the proposition, after the Supreme Court's almighty constitutional bender last week, that it wasn't so bad; conservatives who just pottered around in their own world and tended to their families would still be able to lead lives largely unbattered by the forces of "progress".
Jonah Goldberg said this.
JONAH GOLDBERG.
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posted on
07/02/2015 4:07:01 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: Moonman62
If his wealthy backers “don’t care”, why not vote with his constituents who do care?
Again, we see people asking the left for permission. That has never worked and never will. Pre-emptive surrender is not a viable strategy.
I am convinced that we are at the stage where we are at least going to need to face the fire hoses of the Bull Connors of the left. Instead we mewl about “law of the land” and go on feeding the monster.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Profile in cowardice. He’s no leader.
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posted on
07/02/2015 4:14:12 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Rummyfan
it’s telling you that these guys mean it - and they’ve figured out that you don’t.
That’s really it in a nutshell.
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posted on
07/02/2015 4:49:02 AM PDT
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Steyn pointed out that the Left destroyed the Boy Scouts, THE BOY SCOUTS, in less than twenty years.
Several Christian denominations are going with the fag marriage flow.
Businesses are making accommodations for muzzie worship during the work day. Maybe one or two percent participate now. If the European experience is our future, most of the office goes muzzie very soon.
Despite what people say, most want to be accepted in their group.
Since God and teaching His Commandments as well as our constitution have been banned from schools and the public square, slavery is our future.
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posted on
07/02/2015 4:54:59 AM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(Article V. If not now, when?)
To: TChad
we need to ... start competing for the space where people actually live.Sounds good, but I'm not sure what that would mean in practice.
This is true and it will be something that is a work in process that needs to be continually refined and improved upon. I came across this article (long) at NR this morning. I think this is a part of competing in 'the space where people actually live' ...
The Unlikely Traditionalism of Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger
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