Posted on 01/28/2016 8:38:56 AM PST by Theo
I'm not one to pander to my audience. You might hate my guts -- and maybe you'll hate it even more after you read this -- but hopefully you can at least give me that much.
And although I run the risk of alienating literally everyone with this piece, I hope you'll give it a read anyway, because I'm trying to put into words something I've wanted to say for a longtime.
I think it's time for accountability. I think it's time we stop blaming the decline of our country on shadowy, vague, abstract groups of people, and start analyzing our own role. Here's the reality: if we were better -- if we made good choices (especially in the voting booth), if we paid attention, if we were more rational, wise, prudent and thoughtful -- we wouldn't be in this mess. Our culture is being destroyed not by outside forces, but by us. We have been in the process of committing a very drawn out act of mass suicide, and our final blow to ourselves might be this next presidential election.
The sad and horrifying reality is that we may well be looking at a Trump-Sanders or Trump-Clinton election. Out of all the available match ups, as it stands right now, we are on target to select the absolute worst ones for ourselves. We are on a path to give ourselves a choice only between one tyrant or another.
But, frustratingly, many people insist this isn't our fault. Even folks who aren't Trump/Sanders/Clinton supporters will often rationalize for those who are. They'll say "people are angry" and "the establishment is corrupt" and "DC is blah blah whatever" as if any of these statements actually qualify as an excuse for people who would CHOOSE to vote for the most corrupt, tyrannical, anti-freedom, anti-Constitution candidates in the whole race. But this is how it always goes. I remember having the same conversations back in 2008. "You can't blame Obama voters, they're just fed up with politics as usual and yadda yadda blabber blabber."
They're fed up with politics as usual so they vote in one of the worst politicians in the history of this country? Stop acting like that makes sense. Stop acting like American voters are children who can't be expected to think rationally. Stop excusing what is inexcusable.
There is no excuse. We do this to ourselves
Seems like the anti-Trumps are in a race for the most over-the-top utterances. And I am not anti-Cruz in saying that. Just that I see us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. We have the GOP-E on the ropes for a change, and what are we doing? Raining body blows on each other instead of delivering a finishing punch to the GOP-E.
I heard a lot of complaining. I heard no solution.
I could have written this myself. The problem isn’t Washington or some conspiracy. The problem is with the citizenry at large, including all of us to lesser or greater extent.
If it ends up Clinton vs Trump or Sanders vs Trump, we will be assured of a liberal in the White House. All three are quite different but all are liberals.
Speak for yourself. Some of us have a rational morality and are willing to pronounce objective moral judgment, such as against all aspects of libtardism, illegal immigrantion, and mohammedumism.
That is because there is no human solution. We’re way past that. It just has to play out.
Yeah, nothing in this screed about who the author favors.
This one, you get a total pass on. KILL KILL KILL THE UPPITY BLOGGER, he really DOES think he’s better than us.
I wish I was a follower of this blog, so I could unsubscribe.
Trump is a result of conservatism not working for conservatives. Now we are starting to look for something else to at least salvage something from what appears to be lost.
Apathy kills republics dead and the progressives have been playing right into that o9ver the last 100 years.
They first de-powered the states as an entity in the fed gov by removing senators as “state ambassadors” this removed a LOT of citizen involvement in the state level side of things towards a more national bent.
Why vote for state reps and state senators if they can be overruled anyways????
Then they put in the National Income Tax which moved the majority of government money from state level to FEDERAL level... and where money goes... power will follow...
Then the 19th suffrage amendment instantly put a lot of non-working women on the voter roles who could now increase the demand for “benefits” and emotional plays for power into play for the progressives. While giving women voting rights in my opinion wasn’t a bad thing ( I do like to vote) , at the time the immediate influx of a new and manipulable voting base helped cement in a LOT of progressive policies that plague us today. I think only those who contribute to funding the government should be the only ones that get to vote as anyone who doesn’t pay taxes will always vote for money they never earn nor deserve.
It also caused a lot of inter-familiar conflict as the husband the breadwinner would be forced to vote against his wife and vice versa... So some breadwinners stopped voting to help preserve the family peace...
This Citizen apathy is both NATURALLY inherent and in the last 100 years BY DESIGN...
We have a system where supposedly the dumbest 10% of the 50-60% of eligible voters who bother to vote decide national elections. The swing voters are who all the campaign propaganda is meant to sway, because they are dumb enough to be swayed by things like that. And the real kicker is that if we had higher turnout things would no doubt be even worse, because one has to think a higher % of the ones who don’t vote now are going to be also dumb and swayable.
Freegards
He can't offer a solution, because he doesn't understand the problem. Not all individuals, but "We, the People" have become reprobate and set against God. Our problems, as a people, are not political in nature and will not be solved by politics. Our problems are spiritual in nature, and will be solved only by repentance and conversion and turning ourselves and our society back to God.
I have asked Fed folks if they know how upset people are. The answer was yes. So, the saga continues...
LOL! :-)
Same here.
...And public education.
Another half wit blog pimp heard from. Thanks for wasted bandwidth, Theo.
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