Posted on 04/26/2019 3:41:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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“Nokomis”
Sounds like South Minneapolis
Don’t worry, history will repeat itself and the hard times will hit like a brick in the face. Venezuelans talked themselves from the most prosperous country in South America to the trash bin. I fear our nation is doing the same with AOC leading the way.
i looked it up it seems to be an unicorportaed tiny bit of florida
One thing I've learned from history is that the inhabitants of a golden age who don't know it when they're in it, lose it.
I find socialists to be the most greed driven of all, but this piece is also driven by materialistic values.
This war we are in, is a battle for the moral conscience and soul of a country. Not just how much is in one’s bank account.
It’s about our history.
In France, there is talk of turning Notre Dame into a greenhouse..yet what’s most lamentable is that the world that was capable of creating the beauty and splendor manifested in such cathedrals is so foreign to us. Now all people are told to aspire for is designing the latest ecofriendly, hipster coffee, dating app cell phone thing. Our founders wanted more for us than 401Ks and dollar bills.
One thing I’ve learned from history is that the inhabitants of a golden age who don’t know it when they’re in it, lose it.
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Easy times make weak men.
Weak men make bad times.
Bad times make hard men.
Hard men make easy times.
Easy times make weak men.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most of us are at least 5 or six levels of separation above gritty raw reality. We have clean water...toilets...food.We have clothes made for us. We have people cut our hair...lawns..people make specialty foods for us and deliver it. We walk on paved streets or drive in custom built conveyances...we have insurance....very very few of us mine the minerals...melt, hammer and form the metal needed for such products...we don’t ddesign, or fabricate or assemble or maintain them. We dont prepare the soil...plant the seeds...harvest the crop...prep it...cook it. Most of us would die from starvation and thirst if any of our public systems went down.
None of these socialist clown representatives know how to do any infrastructure work....blind leading the blind.
That’s a fine bit of writing.
Envy. I don’t know what else it could be. It’s not that the ‘rats have such a great love for the “poor” American underclass. Rather, they are driven by envy and hatred for those who are more skilled, and let’s face it, more motivated to provide for their loved ones. It must be the pinnacle of humiliation to have it proven, for all the world to see, that you are a lazy, selfish POS who won’t lift a finger to help your own loved ones. So you deflect.
Pretty little town south of Sarasota Florida on the gulf coast. Beautiful beach and good fishing there.
People are incredibly ungrateful. And take so much for granted.
Thank you for this piece! Passed it along the chain to my peeps.
I think Fyodor was on to something there.
Capitalism produces the wealth that the socialist want to spend. Socialism destroys the concept of wealth creation and as such destroys any future wealth...thus plunging the society into poverty. What little happiness is left over goes to the most ruthless of rulers.
“I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. “
Enjoy it while it lasts, because it is not going to. There is a great reckoning coming for the post-Christian, pagan, decadent West.
Trump is doing his best but after he leaves... le deluge.
” We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it.”
So true.
Their material riches blind them. Associated avarice and envy make them bitter and delusional.
Thanks for turning me on to Alpha News.
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