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?
You can’t do anything about the situation unless you can have an effect on the educational system from the “Headstart” program up to and through the decisions about who is to rule the college classroom. Number One is that teachers unions should be tossed out. IMHO
We’ll have a great president again someday. I imagine everyone thought it was over during the 60’s. The only memory I have of Reagan is being scared when I caught my mom crying after the Challenger blew up.
Or we may have already passed it. I do not know.
I feel your pain. I also blame myself for “letting it happen” but truthfully there wasn’t a thing we could do to stop their agenda. They did it slowly & gradually so that we couldn’t see it coming. Patience was and is their greatest attribute, sadly.
All those who moved to Texas in the last decade or so were in for a big ol shock...The never ending conga-line of illegals will eventually own that state by shear numbers alone...Of course, it’s not just Texas...The entire country is going the same way.
You are right on sir!
Yeah. It is really accelerating here.
Yet I do believe a lot of it is media barrage that makes it seem worse than it is and s meant to dispirit us.
Or is it sheer...lol
In any event, it’s done...
BTW, it's the same in CA, AZ, Nevada and much of the rest of the country...It used to be just isolated to the southwest...The rest of the country some years ago thought this was rather cute or humorous since they were somewhat isolated from it.
But now it's in their backyards too...Coast to coast...All the laughter seems to have gone silent.
Hmm. I’m not sure where we’re going. But this hand-basket sure is a comfortable ride!
The bush clan are frauds -- neo-statists pretending to be Conservative.
Let's see a little of their history: the ADA, read my lips, No new taxes (then goes on to raise them), rapid expansion of Head Start; Medicare Part-D, No Child Left Behind (bush let kennedy write the entire bill), bloated highway bills; TARP (destroy the Free Market to save it); ethanol subsidies, expansion of the EPA, hard push for Amnesty in early 07,and so on...
Does anyone think a true Constitutional loving Conservative propose any of those Republic destroying programs?
The bush clan has clearly shown that they worship at the Alter of State Power.
Nice vanity. From here, we go to the second republic which will evolve among the free states. Communist American states will collapse under their own weight and tyranny, just as the USSR did.
Well FRiend, for some of us it came a lot earlier. Having read the link @ post 29, for some it may have been the early 60's.
Point is, the economic destruction of America was my first step toward the smelling salts. In 92, Geo H.W. seemed too establishment for me, B.J. Clinton gained popularity way too fast (no internet then to learn about he and Hillary's past), so I joined the Perot bandwagon (again, mostly on economic terms). If he hadn't of withdrawn late summer of that year, he might have won.
Sure enough, one of the first major pieces of legislation that came up in 93 was NAFTA. Fought tooth and nail against getting that passed. The only way to "communicate" with the masses was Letters to the Editor of the local. I wrote dozens. Wore down the editor too, in a editorial just before the NAFTA vote, he meekly admitted the bill was a "weak patchwork quilt" of new rules and regulations, but hey, we want Mexico's standard of living to raise up....even playing field... world-class competition.... [yeah, where are you now]. Even Rush Windbag was in the NAFTA camp. All opposition silenced by a collective yawn from the electorate, or so I thought.
After the astounding victory of the '94 "Republican Revolution" there was a glimmer of hope. GATT loomed. B.J. Clinton called an "emergency session" of congress after the November election. The ratbastard lame-duck democrats who had been voted out - voted for GATT. Ratified by the Senate. That day, moments after watching the traitors final vote on C-SPAN, I flipped over to the the local ABC affiliate. Within MINUTES, Peter Jennings smirked about the passage of GATT ... but it was far overshadowed by the "news" of the day: Jeffery Dahmer had been beaten to death in prison. That's all the sheeple cared about on that day. We handed over our sovereignty of trade negotiations to a world body, that would never ever find in favor of the U.S. -- say goodbye to tariffs and hello higher taxes. It's been a downward spiral ever since. Macro-economic policies take a good 10 years or so to have an effect on the economy (fast forward to 2004 - empty factories abound).
A good pastor at a church I attended in the late 90's warned of the moral decay that loomed on the horizon [here we are]. By then I found this website. Thank God! Others were awake as well! Then the towers came down. A bittersweet hope that more would awaken. Some did. But at that time I backed off FR as it seemed to become an altar to the Rushbots and anything W.
My hope now is that enough people are finally waking up en masse. This Obamacare is hitting them directly in the pocketbook. Some still can't believe they've been lied to. It's a natural reaction to most any trauma -
first step is denial.
Then anger.
Then bargaining.
Then depression.
Then acceptance. Or, if we're lucky, the people will decide this is NOT the America we want.
And why are we in this handbasket?
We let the commies take baby step after baby step without doing anything but remarking on how something just wasn’t right. They took enough baby steps that they have just about consumed us - see my tag line
http://www.conventionofstates.com/media/mark-mecklers-speech-alec-conference-0
Only the state legislatures have a chance to save our Republic. Washington is toast.
Article V. ping
Thanks for your commentary. I find no fault whatsoever in it.
I hold out little hope for this country unless—and it’s possible but not likely—there is a major purging of the liberals from Congress next year. I say “not likely” because I have little regard for the political acumen of the majority of American voters. A smart electorate would have never voted for Obama and his Congressional supporters.
If the “purge” doesn’t occur, then all of us must go into survival mode, which includes much praying.
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