Posted on 11/08/2013 8:12:27 PM PST by Smellin Salt
I can’t believe how far this once great country has devolved In the last twenty years. I feel a great sense of remorse and responsibility that I didn’t do anything to stop the creeping liberalism that gave rise to the America hating radical Marxist that now resides in the White House. The daily news stories about the failures of the Obamacare website, testimonies before Congress, Obama going on television to say how sorry he is that we feel like we got screwed, man I feel like I’m living a nightmare over and over. How the hell did we go from the Ronald Reagan years to the low point we are at currently? And baby,we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
I stopped by the grocery store tonight on my way home. I live in a town just south of Houston, Texas. It was busy, being Friday night. Almost every conversation that I was privy to was in Spanish, the ones that really kill me are the parents talking to their pre-school age children in Spanish. I see it every day, and it makes me sick. I fully understand pride in ones culture, but this is different. The reconquista is here, which leads to a whole other set of questions. Why do you want to come to the land of plenty and not want to make a clean start and assimilate? The answer is, you don’t. You want to conquer.
The labels on the food packages have the Spanish word for the product in almost as large of text as the English word.
There is a stretch of a state highway around here where all the billboards are in Spanish.
When I was a kid, growing up in South Texas, the illegals coming across the border came to work. Many stayed and had families, which were some of the people I grew up with. It was an accepted fact, and those people thrived, and did better than they could ever do where they came from. It led to a mixing of the cultures, which is where Tex-Mex originated. Fajitas, anyone? Then came the radicals. Paint the Whitehouse brown yata yata yata.
I’ll never forget, my grade school principal. He was Hispanic, although we didn’t know that word at the time. When he caught ANYONE speaking Spanish on the school grounds, it was off to his office and harsh punishment ensued.
My sister and BIL live in the same small South Texas town that I grew up in. I could not wait to leave there when I was sixteen, but now I can’t get enough of it. I went off and served my time in the United States Air Force (22 years), and my dream in the last several years was to buy some land in South Texas to retire to, at at lest enjoy on weekends. Well, since I visit there a lot, and reality set in, my wife and I decided to finance a lot in the Florida Panhandle. It breaks my heart, since where I want to be is South Texas, but it is what it is.
As a kid, we left our doors unlocked at night. My sister and her family have storm shutters over every door and window that they close at sundown every night. As children, we played outside until well after sundown. Now they lock the doors and wear a sidearm to go outside to do lawn work. (No I’m not kidding, it’s that bad) They have stories that the media obama/democrat/radical leftist enablers do not repeat. Car chases, bailouts, people dressed in black carrying AK-47’s etc. Routine stuff, right?
I read the news about lgbt whatever the acronym is today, and it makes me sick. This organization nambla (read about it) is gaining traction. California passed a law that says that a person is whatever gender they feel themselves to be. Man, that’s a boon to teenage boys. I’ve got to assume that they all identify as girls now so they can visit the girls bathroom. Have we become this stupid? And the people of California voted for this? I’ve always said our civility, our acceptance and tolerance is going to destroy us. We were at our best when we hung horse thieves upon conviction, and if you were a sexual deviant, you hid it.
Let’s talk a minute about how the Christian faith is being criminalized BY OUR GOVERNMENT, while islam is being praised. We all heard the “clinging to our guns” speech obama gave at a private donor gathering in San Francisco. Really, in this environment of the Republicans “war on women”, the old, children, unicorns, rainbows, whales and all other living things, our president lectures us about how great islam is? And all this while his enablers tell you what kind of great Christian he is? AAARRRGGGGGHHH. I’ve freaking had it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DISCLAIMER: I can assume I speak for most Americans when I say that I don’t give a damn what race, creed, color, sexual identity, hair color, eye color, foot size, etc the president is as long as he upholds the Constitution.
We have not even begun to see the long lasting effects of obamacare. This law was intended to lead to one thing, the government being put in complete control of our health care system, and thusly, our economy.
I’m to the point that when I see an Obama bumper sticker, or an I heart Obamacare sticker, I fly into a rage, pull up beside the person, make my gun finger at them, or say something to them in a parking lot. Yes, I have anger issues. Never had them before, but now that I’m older, and have children that are going to have to live their lives under this tyranny, they’ve suddenly manifested themselves into anger. I don’t know what to do. I’ve severed ties with my liberal acquaintances (notice I didn’t say friends), told them that I now consider them enablers and I hold them personally responsible for the decay of the greatest nation to ever grace this earth, and they better hope the lights don’t go out for good. Oh. I’ve got plans. My God, what have I become?
I live in Texas and will retreat no further.
the answer is we let them own the media, and we were cowed into not saying anything.
Please permit this ole vet to share his thoughts.
I believed it started when prayer was forbidden in our public schools.
Then the killing of babies in the womb.
And now accepting sodomite marriage.
We may be at the point of no return. :-(
My little girl came home from kindergarten this week and sang “My Country Tis of Thee” for me. And she said she needed a picture of Uncle Joey for the display at school because they are honoring the Vets.
It’s not over. It will never be over.
It makes ya feel like you’re taking crazy pills don’t it?
Just hold the line (which starts at your property line), that’s all any of us can do.
Semper Fi.
Very well said.
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
maybe i’m out of line here. if so, i apologize in advance if i’m giving offense.
but if you’re changing the way you drive because you see a stupid bumper sticker. it’s time for you to find a way to give up that anger. i tell my kids to give it up to God.
it helps me to realize that everything that is happening to us, our families, our beloved nation is all part of His plan. We can’t understand it in its glorious complexity and completeness. fortunately, He’s given us a guide on how to play our part, and we can do that for Him.
well, God bless you and all yours.
so what are we gonna do..slit our wrists?
From your keyboard to G_d's monitor.
Don't beat yourself up. You were betrayed by those you trusted to honor and fulfill their oaths of office. While you were working hard and pursuing the American Dream, they slowly became a new ruling class. An oligarchy that quietly chipped away at the foundations of your freedoms and the pillars of the American way of life.
Sure, they openly pissed you off from time to time, but that was no reason to storm the Bastille and overthrow the bastards. Surely, they weren't intentionally selling the store behind our backs! No, we could just vote them out when they went soft, or voted the wrong way too many times. Nothing to be alarmed about.
I'm sure that you (like many of us here) only realized the depth and breadth of their real intentions when the Democrats took over Congress in 2007. It was then that we began to see them push the Socialist pedal to the metal, and sprint toward the finish line.
And with the election of The Won, they turned on the turbo booster in a mad dash to Utopia. That's when we all woke up in horror.
But in a way, it's a good thing. They woke up the sleeping giant, who's now fully awake and on full tactical alert. I think history will show that this is the moment when the leftists blew it.
“How the hell did we go from the Ronald Reagan years to the low point we are at currently? And baby,we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
I’ve thought about this a lot. I think the Reagan years were just a nice bump in the downward trajectoryl that began with Lyndon B Johnson assuming the presidency. Prior to Johnson’s “Great Society” America’s poor constantly moved around the country looking for opportunities - they had no other choice. As they moved they provided cheap labor for growing industries and some found upward mobility. Once the Federal government starting subsidizing poverty this upward mobility stopped. There are numerous poor inner-city communities that have been frozen in place since the mid 1960s. I see this as the reinstatement of slavery, this time to the government dole. Also, after signing the Medicare bill Johnson is reported to have said “they’ll never be able to vote against us again.”
Once part of a society realizes that they can vote themselves a portion of everyone else’s wealth, and a part of the government realizes that they can stay in power and enrich themselves enabling this, it’s only a matter of time before a society collapses.
Reagan was a ray of hope. Unfortunately he chose Bush as his VP, which is what led to where we are now.
All across this beautiful country are people who are going through it with you. Hold on to that and know that you’re not as alone as it sometimes seems.
my whole family of origin is frothing at the mouth libs and I am dreading Thanksgiving
my kids are conservative like me
it is a lonely place to be
I can’t find any conservatives
I relocated my family to Texas from my beloved home state of California because I wanted to raise my kids in America. I also felt that this state (along with a few other red states) is the last bastion of freedom in the country.
I've planted my feet here, and I'm not moving another inch. If it ever comes to it, I'll raise the Gonzales flag and defend what's mine to the last.
It is mind-boggling. That is, how quickly America has gone from the greatest achievement in human history, down to being such a depraved sewer of socialism, faggotry, dope, and abject degeneracy. Everything once regarded as decent and virtuous is attacked and derided, while everything once regarded vile, foul and immoral is now celebrated. The country is a grotesque shell of what it once was.
Winessing America’s ever-more rapid decay has led me to ponder odd potentialities that I never imagined I could conceive of just a few short years ago. Such as, with the country continuing its embrace of evil and tyranny, could there be a scenario in which the whole historical paradigm of America and the rest of the world become entirely reversed? That is, America used to export positive values, in terms of freedom and free markets. What happens when America reaches the rock-bottom of this path, and is (accurately) seen as exporting nothing but poison and evil? Will there be a countervailing global opposition? Oddball things I now find myself pondering.
I too wonder if we are past the point of no return. I agree the church in America seems to have lost its voice and as another commenter posted prayer in schools, abortion, and the absence of a true religious revival in our country for 50 to 100 yrs. is not a good sign. I can’t help but think God is about to judge our nation. This is an old article but worth another read as to Obama’s goals for our nation. http://www.dailypaul.com/303742/a-gorilla-in-the-room-by-wayne-allyn-root
What bothers me most is not Obama but the lack of outrage among our citizens. They no longer have the ability to discern evil when it stares them in the face. If you won’t get concerned now then how bad does it have to get before you act? Another great little video on youtube is also worth a review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH_Izul6J5M America we need to be on our knees in prayer and on our feet at the ballot box.
you are right about Reagan
wrong about Bush
Damn right.
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