Posted on 11/27/2008 8:35:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
As we allow our Country to be downgraded like some worthless stock in meltdown mode, it might behoove us to just take a few moments glancing back at what we will be leaving behind. No Nation has ever been perfect; none ever will be. But destroying the best one to date without a tested plan for a replacement is nothing more than the work of fools.
As I watch It's a Wonderful Life this year, as is our custom on Thanksgiving Day, I'm going to put America in the place of George Bailey, for we are now at our bleakest hour and see ourselves as Bailey did, as an abject failure without ever having fulfilled our original promise. And just as George Bailey saw what his world would have been like without his simple good deeds and honest striving, so I will imagine a world without there ever having been an America.
As I see this scenario in my minds eye, I know that I'll once again be joyful in the American experiment's successes and will rejoice at her magnificent contributions to the health, happiness and prosperity for not only ourselves, but in truth, for the whole world.
Happy Thanksgiving, America! You deserve it.
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Happy Thanksgiving Freepers!
I’d be more concerned about the government’s running the money printing presses. It will eventually lead to hyperinflation. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s not to pleased wit our funny-moneying around.
I think the liberal mindset does severe damage to our country.
To the liberal, they focus on everything that is wrong with America, rather than ever giving any praise for all that is right with America. Whatever the cause, somehow America and its established institutions and government are at fault.
To the radical homosexuals, America is an evil dark country because we have resisted same-sex marriage. They don’t stop to think that living conditions for homosexuals have never been better and more open for them than they are right now. To listen to their rhetoric, they still have to live in the closet. To listen to them, they are subject to harrassment and intimidation constantly, all because they can’t get married.
To the race baiters, America has never lived up to its promise to give full equality to minorities. Even though the everyday life, political connections, education, etc. conditions are better for black people in the year 2008 than ever before in our history, their rhetoric suggests that we still live in the Jim Crow era. And the most radical suggest that since we have never done reparations for slavery, that nothing that we have done in the area of civil rights matters because of that one alleged oversight.
To the enviro nazis, the fact that our air and water are much cleaner now than 50 years ago means nothing. The fact that we have made great strides in cleaning up industrial pollution, air pollution, and water pollution is not considered good enough. Now we have to fight that bogeyman, global warming, in order to prove that we truly care about Mother Earth.
To the socialized medicine crowd, the fact that we have the best and most innovative health care system in the world is meaningless. To them, none of the life saving treatments and drugs developed in recent years matter, because we don’t have socialized medicine.
And on and on it goes. Whatever the cause, America has not done enough, is not compassionate enough, is not living up to our ideals enought to suit these people.
They think it’s wrong to compare America to any other culture or society on earth. The comparisons would be favorable, but they say you can’t compare America to other countries. Instead you have to compare America to some utopian ideal that we haven’t achieved, and by that standard, American falls short.
The politically correct crowd can’t even celebrate Thanksgiving without listing all of America’s sins regarding American Indians and our alleged despoiling of the North American continent.
When we consider the following I think we have lost our country to socialism/marxism:
1. Recent nationalizations.
2. Communist/marxist incoming president.
3. Corrurpt leaders in both parties who are not held accountable.
4. ACORN and campaign funding from overseas.
5. Soon to be enacted immigration reform.
We have seen our last free election, actually it was in 2004.
The O’s COLB issue is our last hope.
If this isssue is true then they have commited treason ans should be tried and hung. ALL OF THEM!
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