Posted on 02/23/2024 9:28:44 AM PST by Redleg Duke
These are personal opinions based on my love of reading and love of country.
When I was still in high school, I read a recent novel about the destruction of America caused by socialism, corruption of power and the economic destruction. The novel? “Atlas Shrugged”
I read another novel about the abuse of power by the government. The novel? “1984”.
It is obvious that the left and the DC UniParty (Establishment GOP and DNC) have taken “1984” as an instruction manual, and the result is “Atlas Shrugged”.
What triggered this epiphany in my mind was reading about the relocation of the Remington Arms factory from Iliom, NY to Georgia and how the people of New York are complaining about this action. It made me think about the chapter in “Atlas Shrugged” where the businessman was observing how many factories on the east coast were relocating to Colorado and how it wasn’t fair and the government ought to do something about it.
There is much evidence of the behavior of the ruling class today that was predicted by these two novels. What we must realize is that those two novels were not written as entertainment, but as a warning.
The question is, how are we going to get our Republic back? I know that the “boo-birds” on FR will jump on this to bemoan that all is lost. If you have nothing substantive to add, just save the bandwidth. We need problem solvers, not victims.
Just my opinion. Abraham Lincoln warned us back in the mid-1860s that the death of our nation could only be by suicide. George Orwell told us how and Ayn Rand foretold the result.
I would say that we need to “Saddle-Up”!
WE TOOK A LONG TIME TO GET TO THIS STATUS...
WILL take a long time to repair or rebuild.
Children, I have lived 90 years. Think of all the wars I’ve endured, and all the forms of government that I’ve adjusted to, and worked through. I’ve seen all the parts of America. The current condition of said country feels harder than even WW2 when we had rationing stamps for everything including food, and we lived under the airplanes flew low over our house and my parents both worked at Huntsville Arsenal and
Red Red Stone in Huntsville, Ala. We are hanging closer to dest4ruction in THIS WAR. All I can do now is pray.
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Print some Bibles with the title of ‘How to Send People to Hell’
Put warnings on them - NOT for CONSERVATIVES -and- DEVIL’S HANDBOOK - and - DO NOT READ THIS.
Double Reverse Psychology - Maybe they will read it and do what it says, like when they implement 1984???
Pray, that’s what I’m doing. Praying to Jesus because the last bastion of freedom in the world, though short lived is not on the edge of a word wide leader prophesied of old.
Still reading John Galt’s speech?
Exactly =) Not a man of few words.
My FR tag sums it pretty well.
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