Posted on 01/04/2010 11:02:47 AM PST by American Dream 246
Excuse my english - I woke up this morning, thinking whew...holidays finally gone, we can get back to work. I was happy and all excited. Suddenly, for some reason, an image went through my mind - like a flash - an image which had everything in it in one shot and then I got sick to my stomach. I suddenly saw, in one second, all what happened last year in America - banks, auto, all the executive orders, islam invasion even in the government, dictatorial arrogance, rules of engagement, healthcare...all the same than where I escaped from - and I thought: it's too late. It's already too late.
In the 60’s our parents were adults.. Today I don’t see many adults under the age of 80!
I'm no hero, either. Just ordinary folks. I guess people in the past have had to give it all, those who died for their Faith in the days of the Roman Empire, the patriots of the revolution, those who fought all manner of tyrants and despots through the ages. But my sense is that the tipping point will come when sufficient numbers either have lost it all, or feel it is imminent that they will. Unfortunately, the actions born of such circumstances are usually of a desperate, destructive, and disorganized manner, unless marshaled by a charismatic leader, and/or an ideal of sufficient clarity and inspiration to rally the masses.
Our history tells us Americans do not roll over.
Conservatives roll over faster than anybody. We're in this mess because Conservatives rolled over, again & again & again. I don't know if it's because they're too old, too stupid, too lazy, don't have any fight in them, or what. But Conservatives do what they do best -- roll over.
Meanwhile, the Liberals are rolling their Marxist/Socialist/Totalitarian agenda right over us.
So, I appreciate Whittle's pep talk. I hope I am wrong. But seeing the way Obama and the 'Rats are seemingly running wild in the streets, tearing down and crushing those dreams that so captivated me those years ago, well, as he says in his narrative, it is heartbreaking, to say the least.
I've said that, and I believe it to be true. We just don't have the luxury to believe otherwise.
That doesn't mean every one of us will get through it; just that we, the USA will. Some of us may croak at our keyboards; some five miles into a long hike. But some of "we" will be there at the end, and many of "they" will not.
I agree with you, and many others, that this nation has never, ever been in greater danger than now. I also see the left losing their support day by day, and our side gaining support little by little. The whole world is watching this powderkeg.
Yes, exactly. Except socialists always seem to forget there's a necessary economic component to successful rule.
A demoralized & enslaved populace does to make risky investments in new, unproven technologies, nor engage in other the types of activities that generates new wealth.
Thus, the state is forced to maximize the (ever declining) output of the last great investment cycle (before they took over & gained control).
The end of socialists states is always the same: deary (think Detroit), lack of investment/initiative, deeply cynical people who abuse the system, etc.
How is such a system to compete with other, open societies? Even more importantly, how is to pay its bills?
Ultimately, just like any dead-beat, they eventually run out of money and/or people willing them to lend them IOUs.
Eventually, the state simply runs out of money to pay for police, military, etc. Look what happened in the USSR when they could no longer pay salaries - there was a flood of small (and large) arms that hit the black (and not-so-black) markets.
We are getting very close to this stage. The system is way, way beyond correction.
You’re welcome.. I was there in 1964. I was only 8, but remember it vividly. Glad you also enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
What our society has become makes me ill.
Re: “Iran. Honduras. The Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia. The Baltic States. Poland. East Germany. People fighting and yearning to be free.
We are some of the most heavily armed people on the planet. We haven’t exercised any of our options yet. I AM from here. We are still a great people. The govt, on the other hand, needs a complete political enema.
I still believe in America.”
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Yes! Many countries have come back from despair — freedom is everything — this may take a civil war, but we can do it. Don’t give up — we’ve just begun to really fight.
RE: “Revel got it right. But we’re not done and we’re not finished. War is coming. Here. Soon”
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Agree — civil war is coming -— we are getting angrier by the day — we have lots of great spokespersons in our corner —
This current garbage will not stand. Just....wait...
The Zen Master said, “We’ll see”.
I don’t care what anyone say’s. Anything these crooks can do, can be undone.
The pendulum always swings back the other way. When? We’ll see.
We are never more than 2 or three minutes from our 72 hour E&E/combat kits - usually less. Even at work. If it goes down fast, we won’t get caught out.
Socialism’s just another Ponzi scheme. Lie after lie after lie after lie. - just like an endless train of boxcars passing by.
Sooner or later it always fails. But usually not until it leaves a trail of enslavement, mkisery, death and despair in its wake.
Here’s something to consider with respect to the Russo/Slavic mentality. They don’t think like we here in the West do. They never did. I don’t have time to get into the details of this now, but it has to do with the combination of the Norse/Viking two-class system and the corpus of Eastern Orthodox religious and philosophic thought that combined to produce what we now call Russia over 900 years ago. As a peopel and a cultuer, the ynever experienced what we regard as the rule of law. Their outlook tended towards the pessimistic and fatalistic, and the idea of he individual as separate from the state never caught on.
Remember what Machiavelli had to say when it came to conquering those who lived in relative freedom:
“When cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince... they do not know how to live in freedom... and a prince can win them over with greater faculty and establish himself securely. But in republics, there is greater life...they do not and cannot cast aside the memory of their ancient liberty, so that the surest way to conquer them is to lay them waste.”
—This, from Machiavelli’s most famous work, The Prince
We STILL have our memory of liberty - in fact, it still burns bright in many of our countrymens hearts and minds. We were founded as a Republic, and we valued liberty from the start. Our charter was underwritten by philosophical and religious outlooks that valued the individual.
That’s our culture and that’s why the Gramscian, Machivellian Left has tried so hard to destroy it. “Lay it waste,” as Machiavelli prescribed so long ago.
So yes, it’s late in the game, but we’re on to them. They’re intoxicated with the prospect of absolute power. There are, I believe, enough of us willing to stand up to defeat them, by word and by deed, and in a theater of fire and blood. I, for one, will not go quietly.
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