Posted on 02/06/2016 4:55:29 AM PST by Kaslin
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan
When a nation is beset by problems too big or too difficult to solve, it tends to obsess over trivia. Are "Berniebros" sexist for preferring Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton? Does Adele's "Hello" promote sexual harassment? Are wealthy, privileged black liberals being given enough Oscars by wealthy, privileged white liberals?
Meanwhile, when was the last time America decisively WON a war and achieved all of our objectives? If we don't count small excursions like Grenada, that would be WWII. We may have the best military in the world, but our ridiculous rules of engagement and meddling politicians have become more of a problem for our troops than the enemy.
Additionally, the rule of law no longer exists in America in a meaningful way. Well-connected Democrats like Hillary Clinton can break the law with impunity while Republicans like Scott Walker and Rick Perry have to face politically motivated prosecutions. Meanwhile, our government openly encourages illegal aliens to laugh at our laws while liberal judges ignore the Constitution and base every ruling solely on their ideology. Justice is supposed to be blind, not just politics by another means.
Fifteen years after 9/11, our borders are still wide open and we don't have an effective system of tracking people who overstay their VISAs. Even as our economy becomes ever more centered on educated workers, we're welcoming in massive numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal who are uneducated. Approximately half of them end up on government assistance paid for by Americans who are laughed at when they question whether unlimited amounts of illegal immigration help our country.
We keep hearing how wonderful our economy is supposed to be these days, but only 63% of Americans have a job or are looking for one. That's the lowest percentage since 1978. Not only does our government not have any intention of paying off a dime of our debt, any and all serious attempts to cut into our massive deficit are met with howls of outrage. This is despite the fact that our growing debt has the potential to cause an economic collapse in the next decade or two that would likely lead to a Depression and the end of Social Security and Medicare in their current forms.
Christians are portrayed as serial killers, wackos and hypocrites in Hollywood; they're mocked by the mainstream media; the military has become overtly hostile to Christianity and we've now gotten to the point where liberals are trying to make it illegal for Christian businesses to oppose gay marriage or for Christian hospitals to refuse to participate in abortions. Meanwhile, we're the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs and we've murdered 4-5 Holocausts' worth of innocent children since Roe v. Wade while 4 out of 10 children are born out of wedlock. We've become a "if it feels good, do it" society where the only sin is pointing out when someone's sinning.
In liberal-run cities like Detroit, the number of kids who aren't proficient in math or reading tops 90% and nothing of significance is being done about it. Terrorists and communists are openly welcomed as professors at our universities where economic policies that should have died with the Soviet Union are widely promoted. The education of our children has become secondary to propping up teachers unions that have been failing our kids for decades.
Merit has been tossed to the side in politics and we're now told that it's perfectly acceptable to vote for unworthy candidates for political office as long as they're the right race or gender. No matter what their race, gender or political party happens to be, our politicians have become hopelessly corrupt and out-of-touch. Our politicians are more crooked than the mob and less competent than the French military in WWII. Perhaps that's not a surprise given that any random handful of rich donors has more influence on our politicians than tens of millions of voters while our government seems incapable of handling the basic tasks.
Like coddled trust fund babies, Americans today are living on the economic, cultural and militaristic accomplishments of previous generations. They made the ruthless decisions we no longer have the guts to make in order to win wars. They created the Constitution, morals and codes of conduct that served our nation well for so long that we now ignore. They built the roots of a thriving capitalistic system so strong that we've come to believe that there's no amount of socialistic sabotage it can't endure.
We are a decadent nation in deep decline that's content with the status quo because we're borrowing so much money that it hasn't gotten uncomfortable yet. Our politicians, our culture and most Americans don't seem to understand that our country is a ship with a hole in the bottom, an airplane with no landing gear, a car with no brakes. Until they understand the severity of the situation, we will continue to be a nation obsessed with what's on TV while our country burns to the ground around us. There's nothing sadder than watching the country that you love ignore neon signs a thousand feet high warning them of oncoming disaster as they stumble through a minefield, blissfully unaware that they're steps from disaster. Sadly, that's where we are today as a nation.
Whether we like it or not, Reagan was right when he said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction and he was right when he said this, too.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Yet maybe God looks at Cruz and what he has learned about God and says... Ted, this isn’t enough. I taught you more than I taught Donald Trump. What are you doing with it, Ted? Are you looking more like My Son than Donald Trump does? Or even more than you did yesterday? Are you rising above the world with its all-excusing mores?
I would think it is even more shocking to young people how many things middle-aged people attained (or are struggling to hold onto) that are beyond any hope for them: Homes, families/children, relative job stability and career advancement...
God works this kind of pressure upon a people that has forgotten that their blessings were due to Him. If they are not utterly committed to hard hearts, at some point their need will result in prayer, which He, being gracious and merciful and forgiving, will grant. As the prodigal son who chose to came back to his father instead of joining some robber band and dying for vanity.
Psalm 33:12-22
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD...
We kill our unborn; praise homesexuality, 'schools' mock GOD publically and abuse His believers...
"Without Trump's ability to get his messages out, his ability to form a narrative using our media, the message would be permanently stuck reaching about 25% of America."
IS
imo
The reality of the election cycle this time
We may NEVER have another bicameral election in America again
I've lamented many times the exclusiveness of FR (and others) in that ... we are really, a minority of commentators to the common man
Our spiritual problems will NEVER be solved by political means.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
“We did all that could be done.”
I doubt that neither most Americans, nor most Conservatives, nor most folks on this board would be in favor of doing what was required to return our country to its former freedoms or it’s founding Constitutional principles.
It would require eliminating government checks, benefits, and controls.
Nowadays folks would fight to the death for their social security, medicare, and other government checks. They won’t fight for quaint concepts like “liberty” and “freedom”.
When we finally go over the cliff financially - there will be a final spasm of cronyism where Americans scramble for the right to take what’s left from other Americans who are less politically favored that they have built and earned and is yet to be confiscated by government.
“Conservatives” will be wearing the jackboots, same as the “Progressives”. We want our free stuff from government, no matter what our political affiliations, and are already slitting the throat of the Republic to keep it. Our children will be ashamed of us for it.
That wind came from the devil.
The Lord who stills the storm can yet be of avail. A whirlwind does not have to utterly consume us who are of His church. The Cross is by no wise in vain. But it is our choice whether to humbly beg for His mercy in the face of our foolishness, or to keep right on pridefully going with fractional measures.
woodlawn?
Who goes to see the many dystopian movies these days?
We’ve got one going on right now in plain view.
I see little reason for God to intervene for people who have no use for Him; when you look at Muslim crazies squaring off against US troops that now represent a showpiece of “gay marriage”, abortion, and broken families, who do you think God favors?
This has been my feeling for quite some time and if anything it is becoming more pronounced. It does not appear to apply just to America as it seems to be a worldwide malaise and a common problem, Unfortunately more often than not it may take a destructive event, such as a war to straighten things out. And I am afraid we may not be too far off for one.
Yes, YOU do see little reason for that.
But happily God isn’t you, and He works to a different spiritual cycle.
He did not approach mankind with the notion of their earning anything. That is the notion that THEY embraced in the folly of Eden. His idea was from the beginning, and still is (because it is truth) the entire affair runs on His grace.
Do not let false despair keep you away from a gospel breakthrough, or it may happen and just leave you out.
I think this issue is the "canary in the mineshaft" for American culture. It is an issue that touches the very heart of what is wrong in America.
Under political correctness we are unable to discuss the issues that lie under the failure of inner city schools: Dysfunctional parenting, lack of discipline, low IQ's, low expectations and dishonest curriculums that rewrite history and reality.
Fixing inner city schools would require hard decisions that will of necessity abandon a segment of the population that is destroying everything around it. Hard decisions are not popular and don't "buy votes", so they will never be made.
Meanwhile, schools in out-state areas away from the inner cities continue to do a passable job of educating our children. That's why the left is pushing Common Core and Obama is expanding Section 8 Housing into rural areas. Uncontrolled immigration is the final piece of the puzzle. The elements are in place to complete the destruction of education in America. With education destroyed, American culture will quickly fall.
Sin ultimately brings about its own punishing circumstances.
It is childishly simple: you want the devil? Okay, you get him.
At some point a choice may occur after a lot of heartache and grief has transpired. Or a permanent rebellion may occur.
The appearance of concerted grace on the scene (as it did with Jesus’ personal visit) can hasten the choice to the good if the people are otherwise poised to accept..
Excellent write-up, although still probably a more positive take on things than I’d serve up. I see the country as having passed a point of no return, and has fully entered its death-spiral. Once faggot-marriage was pushed through without backlash, it was the symbolic line-in-the-sand that showed me that America has fully embraced evil and depravity, and has for all practical purposes rotted to the very core.
You can falsify earthly history. But God insists on knocking on our doors anyhow.
How is the calculus of the heart? That’s the thing that is going to lead to all the rest.
Young people should see them - as both a warning and a survival guide...
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