Anyone else disillusioned with politics?

FreeRepublic ^ | Jan 17 | RandFan

[BiglyCommentary]

They more they pull their crap, the angrier I get and the more resolve I get to fight back. That is the attitude of a winner.

Man up, read the account of the 101st airborne in Bastogne during the battle of Bulge.

https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_19.HTM

[4Liberty]

Cheer up everyone, Chi-den is wildly popular and legitimately won, right?

[Big Red Badger]

Good Words!

[Baldwin77]

About 75,000,000 of your fellow citizens are.

[originalbuckeye]

Unaffiliated myself now.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Inspirational! Thank you.

[nonliberal]

Train. Lift heavy shit. Become proficient with weapons. Read. There will come a time when we will have to defend Trump from the evils of the deep state so start preparing.

[jazzlite]

As soon as I read your post, my heart felt so sad for you because I sense you are a young person. Regardless of age, many of us have felt from time to time just as you do. I am old, so I came to a decision about life after some intense questioning in my 20s about what it all meant and was God really real. Going into my 30s and becoming a mother taught me that yes, God is real and He is personal to me. Did reading the Gospels teach me all of that. No. Personal reflection on my life and miracles too obvious to deny taught me that. So, I was all in for Jesus and have never turned back. Did I have pain and sorrow sometimes. Yes, as my young husband and I returned home from active duty with the Army Reserves under President Kennedy, during the Berlin crisis I rocked my 5 month old son and cried in horror as I watched President Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev debate. Khrushchev banged the table and declared to destroy us from within. Little did we know how close we came to being vaporized by a nuclear bomb from those missiles in Cuba. It took a Russian commander defying orders to launch which we now know saved us. I believe the hand of God was with that man when he made this decision not to destroy America. What do those of us who feel helpless do in the midst of a world where we are bombarded with easily recognizable lies, 24/7, coming through social media and the news media? What is truth and what is opinion and propaganda? We fear we live in a totally pretend world of lies made up to protect the few extremely wealthy among us who are now in control because of money and power, garnered over decades, while we weren't paying attention to laws which were entrenching on our freedoms. So, what do we do? According to one of my favorite authors, Matthew Kelly, we need to ask ourselves four questions: Who am I? What am I here for? What matters most? What matters least? Not one single person born on this earth is without meaning and purpose. We all share the brevity of life and we all grasp at whatever happiness we can find as we pass through this world. All of us are equal in that we are born and we all die. Our success or failure in terms of this world's accomplishments will not change that. However, we are not flesh and blood, we are spiritual beings as well, and our souls will depart for somewhere else when we leave this dimension. The real value for us in this life is to follow the most important commandments of our faith and those are to love the Lord our God with all our soul and mind and our neighbor as ourselves and that includes our enemies. How do we Love Adolf Hitler, Stalin or Mao or those who surround us who seem to want to be them. Well, through prayer and humility and through what Matthew Kelly calls “holy moments,” which are simply day to day kindnesses we can do toward others who cross our path as we work and live. Those who grow old in the Christian faith know that this is not all there is and we know that man without God is likely to be a very self-centered human being who may not have much of a conscience. We know there will always be war and rumors of war. We might have to engage in battle ourselves during those times, but God will never leave us or forsake us. We will have strength for the journey and we know the end of the story for earth and her inhabitants. My advice is to read the Gospels and to read as many Matthew Kelly books as you can. Love that guy!

[RFEngineer]

People who care about America must oppose Republicans and Democrats. There has to be another way.

[equaviator]

I hope that you hope that you are incorrect.

[Mashood]

Bring back the toothbrush mustache!

[nonsporting]

There can be no relief until there is a new epistemology, until the hermetic seal is broken.

we aren't looking for "relief", just some room to fight.

We are throwing off the shackle of lies of the left. They seek to silence us by tossing us from their echo chambers. Hell with them -- we are going to other virtual fora. (The doomers can stuff it.)

[Gen.Blather]

Politics is like arbitration. Nobody wins and everyone feels like they got like they got the shaft.

I’d say the fact that no court even evaluated the evidence of fraud has set America up for some rough times ahead. It feels like somebody had their thumb on the scales and we had to take the results regardless. America is in for some very damaging, hateful policies.

Perhaps this sets us up for a big win in two years. Maybe not.

[Openurmind]

They want to kill the very idea and concept of freedom. It is even more important than ever to not let them kill this most important of ideas my friend.

[SanchoP]

I hope everybody is disgusted with the "D vs R" garbage. EVERYBODY in DC after Jan 20 is guilty of treason. No exceptions.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821

[Iceclimber58]

I enjoyed reading this. Well written and uplifting.

[xenia]

I saw this coming over 40 years ago when as a young person I attended John Birch society meetings. They were right in so many ways. But, Nobody knew the timetable.

We were headed left with Carter and then a miracle....Reagan. Leftism resumed when his term was over. We erroneously trusted the Bushes for awhile. Then another miracle.... Trump. But this time all it was a short pause.

The problem as I see it is that this has been a one sided well planned war. We allowed the propaganda to spread and never really fought back. We listened and watched conservative shows which were basically echo chambers having little effect on the thinking of the majority population.

This has happened before in other countries and for some reason this leftist drift to evil tyranny never seems to get stopped.

We didn’t get our act together and counter the progression of leftist propaganda, ideals and moves. I think our best try was the tea party, which faded. Not much follow thru on our part.

[JoeRender]

My hope is in Christ in the final analysis. Politics is a transient thing at best.

[discostu]

American politics has been the realm of filth pretty much from day 1. Never been illusioned so I can’t be disillusioned.

[GranTorino]

Good advice.