Posted on 06/29/2009 4:54:58 AM PDT by Walter Scott Hudson
> Then my friend, I assure you, the Revolution will come.
In my opinion, nope. Won’t happen.
We are at the “Bread and Circuses” stage of degeneracy. There is no turning back from that. Never was, never will be.
Perhaps the ONLY chance we have, THE ONLY CHANCE, is a Christian Revival the likes of which has not been seen since the 19th Century.
See 2nd Chronicles 7:14.
But the “Bread and Circuses”, the general cynicism, the triumph of Materialism, and the drunkeness of Nihilistic Hedonism over the sobriety and diligent work ethic of the Christian Faith based on the Eternal Hope it offers, makes it unlikely that such a thing will happen.
However, with God, all things are possible, so I will continue to pray for the seemingly impossible.
ahh my FRiend.
You give wayyyy too much credit to those who voted for the idiots in this country. The media will SUCCESSFULLY spin it into once again, blaming the long term effects of Bush’s policies for getting us into this mess and how we need MORE spending to get out. Then, yet another trillion dollar stimulous bill will get rammed through each year of O’s presidency as we drown.
I think a revolution will only come after we take a nuclear hit by terrorists.
Hate to be a doom and gloomer, but I’m just so frustrated and fed up. I wish/hope you are right about a revolution, but I see too many lazy idiots sitting on their couches worrying wayyy more about who won American Idol than how much our taxes are going to increase. THen, when their energy bills go up, they will look to the govt. to help instead of looking to the govt. to BLAME!
Looks like the website is stopped. :(
Test post.....FR not “refreshing” for me.
Yep. And don't let the television tell you who is good and bad.
The author is quite correct in calling our current Washington DC establishment an oligarchy. Its inhabitants do not celebrate democracy so much as fear it; specifically, that they can be voted out of the ruling class, although there is a secondary tier of consultants, lobbyists, publicists, and other shills out there to take up the shock until the next election - Al Gore, for example, has found a happy home there.
It's a separate class in a number of ways, and it perpetuates itself by the boundaries it sets - special retirement plans, medical plans, rules that relieve its members from obeying the laws they pass for others, and by the methods it employs to give the incumbent an advantage over a challenger - franking privileges, free air time, travel benefits, the list goes on. The fact that established party mechanisms control who gets the nomination for office nearly as tightly as Iranian imams does not help the issue.
But in the end the people who vote get the people they voted for (ACORN is doing what it can to remediate that, though). We have an incompetent, ignorant, rock-star poltroon in the office of the Presidency because the popular media formed a sensation around him - the author's second point, and it's entirely true. We can vote the media out of office as well with our pocketbooks, but that's a long and very imprecise process. What we're stuck with is a form of government that is steadily, ineluctably being corrupted and trivialized by a ruling class that has discovered that socialism is a shortcut to plunder and permanent rule. Throw them out while we still can peacefully.
Is anyone else having problems with FR? No matter how many times i ‘refresh’, the same things keeps coming up.
Unintended Consequences.
ping
!
Are we their constituents ? If we didn't vote for them, then we are not. A politician is in office because the majority of the people in his district believe in his views. Therefore, he is representing his constituents when he votes. So what good does it do to complain that he's not representing those who didn't vote for him. We need to vote in the guys/gals that represent OUR views in order to have the agenda go our way.
That's how it works....
test
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
— Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE
.......
BTTT
I wonder about this.
The part that made Cap N Tax so irresistable to liberals was the ability to use third parties (manufacturers, energy companies, utilities, etc) to collect the taxes.
It won’t be readily identifiable as a tax, and these third parties will get all the blame from demagogic dems for the added costs.
Socialism is a religious belief. Socialism is the religion taught in our government K-12 schools.
So....If it is socialism that is preached every day in our government schools is it surprising that the people mistook Obama for a god and voted for him?
>>Here’s your solution: Vote out the bad people. Vote in good people.<<
Yeah. How’s that been workin’ for us so far?
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — opening lines of 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe
It is time we called Democrats what they truly are: Marxists
It is time we called Democrats what they truly are: Marxists
Why do you think that the Cap & Trade bill isn't supposed to come into effect until 2012? De-sensitization. [/cynic]
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.