Posted on 10/24/2014 8:23:24 AM PDT by Abakumov
In 1961, John F. Kennedy said the United States, beaten into space by Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, would put a man on the moon and return him to earth within the decade.
In July 1969, President Nixon, on the deck of the carrier Hornet, welcomed home Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins of Apollo 11.
What ever became of that America? What ever became of that can-do nation? What has happened to us?
This October saw the vaunted Center for Disease Control and Prevention fumbling over basic questions on how to protect Americans from an Ebola epidemic in three small countries of West Africa.
In September, an intruder with a knife climbed the White House fence, trotted across the North lawn, walked through the unlocked front door of the president’s house, barreled over a female officer, and ran around the East Room before being tackled by a Secret Service agent going off duty.
The president had just departed.
(Excerpt) Read more at radixnews.com ...
Obama Administration = hopelessly incompetent .... at EVERYTHING
(except ruining things that previously worked fine)
America has changed.
In many ways, America has changed for the worse in recent decades.
We are told by liberals that America has changed for the better, what with diversity of immigration, homosexual marriage, abortion rights, and other special rights for grievance groups.
Even if, for sake of argument, you want to say that homosexual marriage advances civil rights, we still have seen so many changes in society which have not been positive for anyone.
Well, you see, it started out with this notion of equality
that somehow got reinterpreted to mean that everyone ought to be pretty much the same — well, since you can't raise the lowest in ability to the highest but can lower the highest to the lowest that's what happened. Along the way another ideological force came into play — feminism — and this ideology undermines and devalues anything that is masculine in nature (this is why the legal profession now has little respect for logical arguments, this is why the disproportionate unemployment of young men in this economy is a shrug-worthy event, this is why standing up for what you believe, willing and able to use violence, is so discouraged).
That's how our society changed to a you can't do that!
-society.
Americans have been taught over the years to move away from the “rugged individualism” mindset to “it takes a village.” The heady, bygone days of this country’s dynamism were fueled by intrepid, enterprising people who wanted to break away from the pack and accomplish more than was expected for the good of not only themselves and the country.
After years of forced academic inculcation into an “America sucks” worldview, coupled with relentless multiculturalism and persistent squeals about “inequality,” America has turned from a vibrant, forward-thinking dynamo to a gray mass of needy followers.
Imagine this country, “led” by a pathetic POS like Obama, trying to put together a mission to the moon. The race pimps, lawyers, unions and everyone else wanting a piece of the glory, however undue, would gum up the whole works.
America simply isn’t what it once was anymore... but oh, did we have a great run.
What became of that nation? Democrats, that's what. Democrats via LBJ figured out that they could raid the treasury to buy votes. The nation then morphed into willing victim underclass status that was easily exploited by Democrats.
Democrats continue to exploit people using the US Treasury as their basis of leverage.
Why work? Why produce? Why innovate when people can get paid to have children out of wedlock and have their life expenses (housing, phones, food) paid forevermore. This country has stolen the industry of half the nation and handed it to the other half. The cost of that burden, to continue to provide all of life's expenses, from the Democrat vote buyers, is what is destroying this country.
Simply, our national goal has ow become equality of experiences and "compassionate" freebies for everyone. That is what the elections of the last thirty years have demonstrated.
America has gone from guys like Kennedy and Reagan to guys like Clinton and Obama.
He has turned our country into a ghetto.
Plus “You didn’t build that.” Even those who get something done aren’t honored.
From an inability to squash a horde of subhumans, to guarding the border, to failing to generate a strong employment base, to a collapse of moral traditions and standards, America just.. “can’t”.. anymore.
convinced us we were the bad guys
and
perpetuated the indoctrination via the school system
Saving the snail darter and faggots took precidence over the red, white and blue, apple pie and Chevrolet.
If any comments follow this one denigrating Chevies, or posting their favorite muscle car ... THAT will be the answer to the question ...
"Are you serious, knarf ?"
Yeah .. I am.
I am a veteran (close to becoming a VVAW, but they scared me), survivor of the 60's, SDS participation, and now a late 60's school board director doing what I can to correct the shit I helped cause.
You BETCH'A I'm serious.
Aye — I was going to mention that, but that's relatively recent compared to feminism and forced-equality
, too recent to say it caused the change.
(I think it's a result of the change.)
Remember Pat’s “Culture War” speech at the 1992 GOP convention? He nailed it back then yet he was lambasted as intolerant, narrow-minded, and hate filled. Forward the clock and ask yourself which side of the aisle is filled with intolerant, narrow-minded, hate filled people. Pat said then our values were eroding and the Democrats were leading the charge. He was right. Now look at the moral and economic wasteland America has become.
2) This Quote on the people who elected Obama that says it better than I could ever do
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.
“The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
“The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
3) Demographics
4) Kim Kardashian has over 20 million followers on Twitter. As does Miley Cyrus
5) This Ayn Rand's prophecy that has come true
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged 1957
6) Demographics
7) The ways good people are fighting back: Making jokes about the Amish or where Jesse and Al are, Posting funny cat pictures and forwarding emails around
8) Demographics
9) Demographics
10) Demographics
Are there people out here capable of building highways? Of course there are. The difference in governmental culture is that these are no longer people who need to be encouraged and supported, they are people who need to be controlled. That's where the difference came in.
One word: bureaucracy.
Okay, one more: liberalism.
Why is America failing? Because it's no longer America. It's now a merged entity with Mexico and other third-world permanent-failure zones. So of course the new "America" now failing. How could it not?
Might a partial answer be found in examining the question: What has become of the idea of electing Presidents like those who participated in the founding of America, as well as others across its first two centuries, who acknowledge the role of Divine Providence in the lives of individuals and nations? "I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved. I fear not that any motives of interest may lead me astray; I am sensible of no passion which could seduce me knowingly from the path of justice, but the weaknesses of human nature and the limits of my own understanding will produce errors of judgment sometimes injurious to your interests. I shall need, therefore, all the indulgence which I have heretofore experienced from my constituents; the want of it will certainly not lessen with increasing years. I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations." - Thomas Jefferson, Second InauguralExcerpted last paragraph of Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural:
We might also note that earlier in the same Address, President Jefferson had observed:"In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies." - Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural
I just read the text of Pat Buchanan’s 1992 speech. It was an endorsement of George H.W. Bush for a second term, nothing more or less. A delineation of what makes conservatism better for society than liberalism. The differences between the Republican party platform & that of the Democrats.
The speech contained ONE reference to cultural war, and for that Buchanan has been excoriated as a Neanderthal racist ever since. He only spoke the plain truth about right versus left in American politics.
(And yes, thankfully, he didn’t mention Israel or the Middle East).
We are just in that stage of denial where we have a hard time accepting it.
I'm sure that 4th century Romans didn't know for certain that Rome had fallen. The buildings were still there, people still went through the motions of daily life.
They may have known that things weren't quite the same but it's only from our perspective that we know that Rome fell.
In a hundred years people will remark on the similarities between the fall of Rome and the fall of America. The reign of the alien Barack Obama will be seen as very obvious evidence of that fall, like a barbarian ruling as Caesar.
“Remember Pat’s “Culture War” speech at the 1992 GOP convention? He nailed it back then yet he was lambasted as intolerant, narrow-minded, and hate filled.”
And that was just what was said by the Jack Kemp, George Bush wing of the GOP.
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