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?
Well for me it’s about the natural world here being a wilderness boy at heart and a mountain biker for my sanity
My dear wife is a lib as are all my friends and I have just learned that it , politics, doesn’t really matter a hill of beans for the most part
What does matter is character. Honor and diligence
I got my sons in Boy Scouts and am basically taking it over and making it
Just like it was in the 20s. Where boys are boys. Period
Actually got the wife to acqueiese to guns and everything ; )
She was happy when my sux year old outshot a bunch of 10 yr olds
Hee hee
That's an unusual orientation for a Freeper. Allow me to share my perspective on that.
Politics is merely what results when two or more opposing cultural ideologies compete in the arena of government. It's the ideologies that are important. Not the partisan political alignments.
Free Republic is a gathering of people whose cultural orientation is conservative. We may be very engaged and interested with partisan politics, but that's actually secondary to who we are as people. Our ideals are primary. They're the glue that binds us together.
You may have noticed in your short time here that liberals are expressly unwelcome at FR. It's because we find their ideology to be reprehensible and destructive to those things we hold most dear. For the most part, liberals are fundamentally opposed to the precepts and principles laid down in our founding documents.
In that wise, they're opposed to our very existence as a people. Most of us elect not to break bread with people who reject the fundamental, timeless concepts that gave birth to the freest, most successful nation in world history. People who embrace an ideology that leads to slavery and ruin for the individual and the nation.
So yes, politics does matter. It matters a great deal.
Oh, I think most of us realized decades ago that the Democrat party was slowly moving toward some form of ideology that resembled Communism.
For me, the realization that they were headed in that direction, came during Carter’s term in office, although it still took me a while to realize that they were never going to stop ratcheting left until they achieved a fundamental and complete transformation into full blown Socialists, untethered to our founding precepts, our history, or even our country.
As a young twenty-something Democrat, I’d voted for Carter out of a knee jerk allegiance to the party I’d been raised with. After his one and only term in office, I was left baffled and disillusioned the party, and politics in general. When he ran against Reagan in 1980, I didn’t even bother to vote.
Over the next eight years, I witnessed the great Ronaldus Magnus bring this country out of the doldrums, and reignite something in our people that I hadn’t seen since I was a small child. I had to admit that everyone seemed to be doing better, and that there seemed to be a sure hand at the wheel, which provided a deep sense of security and stability. My lot, and the lot of everyone I knew improved during his time in office.
Still, I remained fundamentally uneducated about the true ideological differences between the major parties, so I didn’t run right out and register as a Republican. I didn’t bother to vote in 1988, and was perfectly happy for Reagan’s VP to (hopefully) keep the country on the same comforting course.
In 1992, I had decided that there was no way I could give my vote to the Democrat nominee. I was thoroughly unimpressed with Bill Clinton, but still wasn’t quite ready to vote for the (gasp!) Republican. Ross Perot was speaking my language, and I threw right in with him. When he later backed out of the campaign, only to try to get back in it, I was done with him too. I wound up sitting out the presidential election yet again.
The next several years of the Bubba & Hildy show caused me to withdraw permanently from the Democrat party. I became very open to a new direction. Sometime during Clinton’s second term, I found talk radio, and thus began my emancipation and eventual reunion with my true political brethren.
Therein lies hope as well. I live in an entrenched D area - unions and the like (GM still has a plant open nearby). So many vote D because that's how they were raised. The old mantra "democrats for the working people, republicans for the rich ..." has been the challenge. Perhaps now, the hard-working, decent, and America-loving democrats (there are many) will begin to examine the policies not so much the parties.
I hope I never lose hope.
;^)
The Bush family was and is the epitome of Eastern Liberal Elitist RINO’S.
They are all Liberals witness the Bills they pushed and signed into Law.
Thank you. Rush even stole it a time or two :-)
Also....At their best government socialist-entitlement schooling was never more than generically and lukewarmly Protestant. The Progs have **always** pushed for greater and greater secularization and by the 60’s it was merely a nod to God in the morning. After that it was a purely godless worldview.
I have to give a lot credit to the Marxist Progs. They are a persistent lot.
Little attention is given to this verse, but it has a lot of answers for questions that are rarely asked.
wrong about Bush
Silver is right on both issues, you are just wrong on one.
New World Order
I am too tired to do so but I will say all you Bush lovers sound like Low Information Voters to me.
School Consolidation was just as damaging as removal of school prayer. Neighborhood control was given up to the bureaucratic district commands, where monumental building are erected for the elitists that rule over you.
The foreign children who melt into America and speak with no accent or little accent will be able to go to college successfully, get a degree, get a job that pays a decent wage and live a good life.
It doesn't TAKE that much in this country. Mexicans are ready, will and able to work...and they do. But without ingles they are dead meat who can't compete with the English speakers, readers and writers.
SO SIMPLE!! And SO MUCH easier to learn a foreign language when young. Stupid, near-sighted, selfish parenting.
I railed at the kids who wouldn't learn. I spoke better Spanish than they did and they knew it. Their parents have too much hold on them. They won't learn. SO, we have a build-in group of people to wash toilets and dishes, clean houses and mop floors. Oh well.
You are absolutely right, and I had that in mind when I composed my comment. It would be like allocating to the federal executive branch to appoint the governors of the states, rather than have them elected by those governed. An irresistible consolidation of power, thus answered only by a dictator as The Government. Which is what we have getting very close to the end result of yessing legislators and judges.
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