Fight On!
Posted on 02/22/2017 10:57:15 AM PST by Art in Idaho
Fight On!
In 1954, my Air Force Father was transferred to Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. I attended grade school in Billerica MA. Every morning at school we pledged the Flag, said the Our Father Prayer and sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Absolutely right!
I wonder if the person who wrote this is aware there was an election last November and what has happened since?
“Women dressed modestly and a revealed lower leg was considered provocative and exciting.
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Nonsense!
How old is this guy-———125?
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I assume he wrote it to encourage Trump to continue to "get our country back" by MAGA! It's really deteriorated, imho, since 92 and Bill Clinton. Obama descended it further and yes, if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the coup de grâce.
Probably in his 70s. lol :)
Rush is reading an article by Fred Barnes over Texas voting stats ..the very blue BIG cities are dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso are YUGELY DemonRATS and how my republicans lost and booted a lot of sitting judges etc...Hitlery won Harris county by 13%...WOW!! Hispanic make up 41, caucasians I believe he said 35, black 25, and Asians 7%! If we do not get a grip on immigration and anchor babies and the DACA... I have been screaming at the top of my lungs that Texas next presidential election will definitely turn Blue! We are losing Texas little by little and any Republican down the road will have a difficult time successfully capturing Texas! Colorado WAS red...because of immigration it has turned blue...NEXT state to drop AZ!! The rats wet dream is going to happen in the near future...patriotic baby boomers are getting older..we are the glue that’s keeping this country together!
What happened was a group of individuals who first called themselves Liberals (not to be confused with "classical liberalism"), and that group's ideology now dominates the current Progressive movement.
So-called "progressives," (those another writer calls "the protected class"), wherever they are found, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they appear to be totally bereft of real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.
Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia, Hollywood, and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players who, though rejected by freedom-loving citizens, simply refuse to leave the stage, as if reality is outside their universe of thought.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who just left the White House, are entrenched in the so-called "mainstream" media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seemed to be the goal of the Far Left, which recently had control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.
Such politicians rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous claims. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
The libtards will not release their grip on this country over something as silly as an election. Force, unfortunately, is ultimately gonna need to be applied.
bkmk
That's right. Didn't know the rate was that high in Harris County. You're absolutely right, we have to get a handle on the illegals here, build the wall, get back to strictly enforcing our current immigration laws and stop the Muslim immigration.
It's survival time. If we want to salvage our Sacred Republic, this is what we have to do. Look at Europe. It's just a plain fact. If we fall, all of Western Civilization follows.
It's your call America!
Let's hope Trump realizes the seriousness of this.
I want my America back where the journalists are not shills for the DNC.
5.56mm
Especially liked: So-called "progressives," (those another writer calls "the protected class"), wherever they are found, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they appear to be totally bereft of real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of America's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.
and Yes, the pseudointellectuals who just left the White House, are entrenched in the so-called "mainstream" media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
Most of today's dems have absolutely no understanding of the greatness of our Founding and the Age of Enlightenment. A smattering of Marxism and rewritten American History has been their brainwashing. Thank God there has been a turn. Hopefully we can recover in time.
Since “under God” was added to the Pledge in 1954, probably not quite 125 - if he remembers it as a child.
But yeah, that one sounds like 1910 or so.
May I suggest a few excerpted essays from a Bicentennial of the Constitution volume entitled, Our Ageless Constitution for your reading pleasure.
They are reprinted here.
From the site: "The Constitution, it has been said, was “not formed upon abstraction,” but upon practicality. Its philosophy and principles, among others, incorporated these practical aspects:
Recognition that love of liberty is inherent in the human spirit.
Recognition of Creator-endowed, unalienable, individual rights.
Recognition that meaningful liberty is possible only in the company of order and justice. In the words of Burke: “Liberty must be limited to be possessed.”
Recognition that in order for a people to be free, they must be governed by fixed laws that apply alike to the governed and the government.
Recognition that the Creator has not preferred one person or group of persons as rulers over the others and that any government, in order to be just, must be from among the great body of the people and by their consent – that the people have a right to self-government.
Recognition of human weakness and the human tendency to abuse power; therefore, of the need to divide and to separate the power granted to government; to provide a system of checks and balances; and to make government accountable to people at frequent intervals.
Recognition that laws, to be valid, must have their basis and limit in natural law – that law which, as Cicero wrote, “is the highest reason, implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”
Recognition of the need for structuring a government of laws, not of men, based on enduring principles and suitable not only to the age in which it is formed, but amendable to different circumstances and times, without sacrificing any of the three great concepts of Order, justice, or Liberty.
Recognition that the right to ownership of property is a right so compelling as to provide a primary reason for individuals to form a government for securing that right.
Recognition of the need for protecting the individual rights of each citizen, rich or poor, majority or minority, and of not allowing the coercive power of government to be used to do collectively that which the individual could not do without committing a crime.
Recognition of necessity for incentive and reward as impetus for achievement and growth.
Recognition of the need for a “Supreme Law of the land” a written constitution which, consistent with its idea of the sovereignty of the people, would provide its own prescribed amendment process, thereby circumventing any potential unconstitutional changes by any of the branches of government without the people’s consent."
Tammany Hall, The U.S. Customs House...etc, etc. The America of yesteryear was plenty corrupt. Yesterday wasn't idyllic and tomorrow is not going to be a train wreck. America self corrects as we are seeing now.
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