Posted on 11/05/2020 6:46:33 AM PST by Starman417
Four years ago, just prior to the elections, and I was among the many who believed that Hillary was most likely to win the election, I wrote The Moral Argument for "Let it Burn". It's a somewhat long piece, but in my humble opinion I'd argue was one of my best posts. The quick summary is that if our country is in an inevitable decline (which was slowed down, but hardly stopped by president Trump's election), then we have a moral obligation to rip the band aid off as soon as possible rather than compound the amount of repair needed afterward. Our country has too many people smart enough, patriotic enough, and with the will to ensure that the idea of America endures. So why am I so convinced that we are on borrowed time?
The gang at Right Angle made an excellent video on a Politico piece pointing out that even if Biden wins he's still screwed. I could have written a simple three-word summary, "He has dementia." But of course they laid out may more practical reasons, such as GOP control of the Senate, the fact that Beijing Biden didn't win by the sweeping mandate they promised, etc. Luckily, all the headaches President Trump would face are nothing different from what he's been enduring for four years. And this time he'll have enough DC experience to avoid the growing pains of his first year or two of adjusting from private sector to government. But America's inevitable downfall goes beyond this election.
The Radical Left has overrun education, the media, and entertainment. Crushing American culture is huge, but not the end. Look at the Democratic Party and how far they've radicalized over the last two decades. Five years ago I pointed out that by 2015 standards Bill Clinton would have been branded as a Tea Party radical by Leftists. Since then, they've gone even more off the deep end - getting rid of the police while demanding that citizens disarm, the completely insane Green New Deal, supporting the destruction of predominately black neighborhoods, killing our energy industry, etc. Jim Geraghty offered some constructive criticism yesterday that will come off as hate speech to most Leftists. The flow of history tells us that at some point Democrats will come back into power, as in having the Presidency and both houses of Congress.
Look at what they did the last time they had this power in the first two years of Obama's presidency - Obamacare, Dodd Frank, etc. A decade later Democrats don't even try to hide how much they despise half of this country. And when it comes to pushing their radical agendas, they are smart and disciplined. Us Normals like to crow about the electoral bloodbath that Dems faced in 2010, but so what? They got Obamacare, and the feckless GOP has shown they have no stomach to repeal. The next time they come into power you can look no further than recently turned states like Virginia to see the destruction they're ready to unleash on America. "So Bob," you may be asking, "Are you saying we just give up?"
Oh HELL NO!
America is the greatest country to ever exist on this Earth. Have we been perfect? No. But no country has done more to spread freedom and prosperity in its relatively short existence than the USA.
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Oh indeed it is on borrowed time.
The World Economic Forum are going full speed ahead with their “Global Reset” in 2021 beginning in January.
I would say let California secede. That would relieve a lot of the political pressure.
3) This Quote from Ann Rand that has come true
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.”
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“Atlas Shrugged” was one of the pivotal novels I read in my 20’s. Never thought I’d be living in its world.
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America has been on borrowed time since the day of its founding.
It’s always been a question of how far back we can push the time of its falling.
Exactly
That’s a pessimistic fatalistic approach with no guarantee that you ever recover after letting it burn.
But the point of “The Radical Left has overrun education, the media, and entertainment.”
Trump has started fighting back against education. He’s stopped the indoctrination in Federal government and now promises to get it out of schools. And to teach them to proud of America.
Trump is also mulling building a media network. Probably hard for him to do while he’s president. But we need alternatives, especially now that we have lost Fox. We need to break up big media.
Entertainment is probably a harder nut to crack. Putting the pedofiles in Hollywood behind bars would be a start. Maybe legislation that protects child actors by making it harder to be alone with them could drive some of the worst out.
I noticed the revised US history schools were pushing onto students back in the early 90s so made it a point to correct that with my students.
If Biden holds the office he was not elected he was placed by his crime clan party.
[Whoever Wins the Election – America Is on Borrowed Time]
That’s for certain. A significant number of voters chose a candidate who confuses President Trump with former President Bush, for starters. And supports a party of homosexual marriage and slaughtering the unborn in the womb.
One that casts Christianity aside, has delegates that boo God and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
[ the world is on borrowed time.
The US is just the last straw. ]
Pretty much correct. I think the USA is the last domino to fall before the fourth beast of Daniel 7:23.
And the man of sin is going to lead that fourth beast against Israel, eventually. When he breaks the 7-year covenant of “peace and security” in the middle of the 7 years.
“Never Trumper” Republicans, conservatives, and Christians can go to hell. Those petty sanctimonious short sighted fools were and are responsible in part for our problems.
Aye.
“The Radical Left has overrun education, the media, and entertainment.”
and also pro-sports
I would say civil strife and a constitutional crisis is at hand. We must be string as things get rough. Man up.
I would say civil strife and a constitutional crisis is at hand. We must be strong as things get rough. Man up.
It's already been exposed. This is what fraud looks like to any forensic accountant.
Yes remedies are required, but now that everyone has seen it for what it is that can come.
I agree. I have heard of more businesses closing in this last week. My nephew who flips houses is making money hand over fist for now. But things on the recovery front are not as rosy as they appear. Areas of concern:
Travel, in particular business travel
Events
Retail
Restaurants
commercial real-estate
cruise lines
If you look at that list...that’s a lot of trickle down jobs that really haven’t returned yet. And likely won’t return.
For sure. Let’s just tear down the wall, starve the military, get us some progressive judges, bow to China, kill that there golden goose and party! God, those never-Trumpers make me puke from the bottom of my stomach.
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