Posted on 11/21/2015 4:46:24 PM PST by blam
I don’t recognize my nation anymore. People in their 20s have told me “we aren’t going back to your Leave it to Beaver 1950s old man”. I know. We have killed the goose that laid the golden egg and are riding the handbasket to socialist oppression, the death of privacy, no control over our lives, heavy restrictions and bureaucratic nightmares in our daily personal lives. It is over. I am glad I was born in the 1950s so at least I can recognize what we lost. I am glad I grew up relatively free in America in the 1960s. by the 70s I knew something was wrong. After Clinton’s second election, I knew we were doomed and it was just a matter of time for the collapse.
I have taken to saying on the 4th of July “Happy Dependence Day” since so many are so deeply dependent on Uncle Sugar, and ALL of us are to some extent or another.
California “Land of Fruits and Nutsâ€
Last week I met a newly arrived couple here in Colorado that came from San Jose. You’re right-they’re nuts. It’s easy to spot a lib and they were very easy to spot.
I live in California, too. It’s to the point where I almost do a double-take if I see a white person, especially a blonde or a redhead. Hard to believe that in my lifetime, the stereotype of a Californian was a blonde beach bunny or surfer dude. That seems like a million years ago.
Also, my ears perk up when I hear English spoken with an American accent. That, too, is getting more and more rare here.
When you have more and more people who have less and less in common, plus the Psychological Terror waged against anyone with an opinion that runs contrary to the PC tyrants.
I’m only 51 and can’t believe how much it’s all changed in my lifetime.
My neighbor was 96 y/o when he passed. It must have felt like a whole nuther planet to him.
He was angry and heartbroken at what’s being done to this country.
He was a small industrial magnate with a lot of land.
He was spitting mad at govt because he couldn’t drill for water without paying thousands every try, couldn’t cut his own lumber, couldn’t build without paying and paying and paying.
It was shocking to me all the restrictions he was under on his own property.
Many of general principles the Constitution was set up to honor have been lawfared around. And thus is the fate of a people that goes from believing something to believing nothing. The Constitution was never purposed to stand in a vacuum.
The last time I visited my family in San Jose, CA we went out to eat at a buffet place. Beside my family, I saw two other white people, and the place was packed with a long line. Everyone was Hispanic.
I find it extremely difficult to go there anymore. I never lived there. They moved there when I was in the Navy. I am definitely a stranger in a strange land there. Most of CA is that way now and it didn’t have to be. Sadly with a majority of dems in both houses and governor; they are ruining the state faster than ever now.
A majority voted for this...twice.
And they called me a racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, teabagger, hatemonger when I didn’t.
They can kiss my ass now.
I try to tell young people how we have lost our freedom. They just demand examples, then they discount every example I give them, then fall back on the standard “gays are more free now, women are more free now, blacks are more free now”.
They have no clue what is coming. None.
I think their definition of freedom differs greatly from ours.
Maybe they’ll grow up.
I used to be one of them and I finally woke up.
Hopefully, it won’t be too late when they do.
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