There's only one.
"THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS,FREEDOM & THE AMERICAN DREAM."
Seems you have the right to pursue it, doesn't say anywhere you are going to get it or are due to get it handed to you. :-)
I don't get it. Sorry.
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That was the 70's mantra by a bunch of drugged out hippies, not a message.
Example:the last 2 elections,no one said anything & we need to.
What are you talking about? Over 62 million people spoke out loud and clear in the last election.
ALL people never agree, so you've already lost me.
I would have loved to see RESPONSIBILITY, DUTY and HONOR among those words. Just my opinion.
The American Dream is dead? OMG! Quick, someone better get the torches and destroy all those businesses that keep popping up and becoming successful.
The American Dream is alive and well, thank you very much. The sky is still up above us, the sun still shines upon our fertile lands (abet with more fertilizers than there used to be) and people still go out and work hard and get ahead.
The folks who don't work hard, sit around on their rumps, and try to troll Free Republic.. Well, those folks aren't having such a sweet time of it.
"Two cars in every garage"
"Peace in our time"
"I am not a crook"
"I did not have sexual realtions with that woman. Monica Lewinsky"
Did I miss anything significant?
Our future lies in the past.
That past has been/is being obscured by the smallest fractions of "all people" within our borders who are not willing to sacrifice the blatant practice of their particular and often unnatural vices for that future and instead pursue their personal agendae toward a cultural precipice unmatched in modern times, and ultimately, the abyss.
To facillitate those ends, those who daily engage in the destruction of this great Republic willfully obfusticate the language thereof, demean its cultural roots by the promotion of aspects which made relatively minor contributions to the initial framework at the expense of extoling the virtues of that framework, and daily demean those who would rectify those shortfalls in the education of not only our young, but the public in general.
The cultural war must befought, not so much by massed trops, but by the seemingly insignificant contributions of a multitude, behind closed doors, quietly teaching their grandchildren and children right from wrong, about God, about the founders and their wonderful insight and design. The sense of outrage must be instilled, quietly, softly, and the ability emplaced which will permit them to someday rise and take back the battlements of virtue in a war of idealogy, while developing in them the raw skills and physical and moral strength to endure the physical deprivations which may be necessary if the culture war leaves the printed page and becomes more imminently manifest.
The need to do this transcends boundaries of race and creed, for if we wish to retain the freedoms of this grand experiment, as they once were, in the future for all our citizens, we had best all work together and overcome the divisiveness emplaced by those who profit from fragmentation and disarray, and avoid the sirens song of individual gain at the expense of the just rule of law.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!
I sense something in your message that I used to believe and perhaps, in my bummed out moments over certain things, believe still--that happiness is unattainable (and this can go for the other conditions above). But happiness is not some place you get to and live in, it comes and goes, and hopefully we don't have pain in between. But you have to make yourself happy, the government isn't going to have ANY part in that. People talk about "The Clinton Years" or "The Reagan Years" or whenever as a time when we were ALL one thing or another. That's BS, bigtime. In the worst periods in our nation's history, my grandparents had a child--I think they were happy, even though that was during the Depression. During Vietnam, my parents had my brother--they were happy, though we were "collapsing" or whatever. The worst periods of my life were during the "Clinton Years" when supposedly we were all whooping it up.
My point is that thinking there is some general condition of happiness to be had is a crack pipe dream. Love and happiness are in YOUR court, dude, no one else's.
Freedom, well, we have it, all the naysayers and lunatic court decisions notwithstanding. We have flaws and problems, and they have to be confronted. And changes must be made--so get to work on those changes, don't bitch about there no longer being any freedom. That you can express that here without a second though proves we have quite a bit.
And peace is another word for stagnation. ;) The history of humanity is violent, but also exploding with new positive energy, too. Peace--you mean during the time of The Greatest Generation, or the time when people were talking about "peace" all the time, aka The Vietnam Era?
Be realistic about what you've got, what you can get if you get off your emotional butt, so to speak, and the nature of the world, as opposed to silly folk music dreams.
Your first post here on FreeRepublic.com. Congratulations.
Definite zot bait.
Wow. Like wow. Your brillant intellect is so great, is it any wonder why people think you are a troll?
Say hello to the viking kitties!
Yes.
We must all call the ASPCA as soon as possible.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
