Posted on 10/25/2021 5:18:27 AM PDT by NOBO2012
A season for quiet reflection.
A time to choose the high road,
and stay just a bit above the fray.
The perspective is better there.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
This is just when we need; anesthesia for the restless, sedation for the curious. Let this communist wave sweep over the nation for I am conservative and above the fray!
I certainly appreciate the sentiment, and those are nice pictures.
However, the “fray” is coming for us.
To paraphrase the old communist Trotsky: You may not be interested in Leftism and Politics, but Leftism and Politics is interested in you.
I did some serious soul searching the other day about the direction this Country is headed, the forces at work, and what role I am prepared to play. The net result is I believe there is just shy of a one in three chance I will die of other than natural causes.
I think the spirit in which this thread was posted by NOBO2012 is a good and valid one, and that we all need to step back and take a break.
However, I feel that if we keep stepping back, we will find our backs against a wall.
Nice post.
Autumn has always been my favorite time of year.👍
Well said, sir. At what point does “stepping back” become empty and self-congratulatory virtue signaling?
Honestly, every single day I read things that cause my blood pressure to spike...one of those was a story about the woman raped on a train while people videoed it...
I think every day: “I should just let it go. I should just ignore it all, and live the rest of life allotted to me by God, however long that is, and try and be happy.”
But I can’t. I can’t just surrender, even on my own small individual part, this country that I have loved and fully appreciated my entire life.
It doesn’t mean I can’t find a way to occasionally step back and just ignore it for a period of time to maintain my health and sanity (as I believe Freeper NOBO2012 had in mind when starting this thread) but...I won’t just curl up in a ball like I think many people are doing (or are tempted to do)
Just because someone wants to curl up in a ball and suck their thumb with my eyes closed doesn’t mean the Leftists won’t eventually show up to stick a bayonet in their curled up form.
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