Posted on 10/18/2015 6:24:32 PM PDT by Kartographer
Here’s the good news: The chaos and upheaval we see all around us have historical precedents and yet America survived. The bad news: Everything likely will get worse before it gets better again. That’s my chief takeaway from “Shattered Consensus,” a meticulously argued analysis of the growing disorder. Author James Piereson persuasively makes the case there is an inevitable “revolution” coming because our politics, culture, education, economics and even philanthropy are so polarized that the country can no longer resolve its differences. To my knowledge, no current book makes more sense about the great unraveling we see in each day’s headlines. Piereson captures and explains the alienation arising from the sense that something important in American life is ending, but that nothing better has emerged to replace it.
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Preppers’ PING!!
Its at the point where I viscerally hate half the population.
I’m from NYC. My idea of prepping is jumping in the East River if things get too bad.
Dont know if the sewage or drowning will get me first.
Only half? You’re a pretty forgiving fella.
I think our political leadership has any clue how close to the edge this country is. They are tap dancing in a minefield.
Thanks for introducing this Great performance -
Upbeat escape!
Time for the Post Man.
Scientist: We have discovered a cure for apathy!
Reporter: That’s great!...but nobody cares...
vat ve NEED at zis Point is a Stronkman!!
a Leader who vill make ze trains run on time...and take care of zose pesky.........
ahem
Worth reading this book just on this examination alone:
“A chapter on the impact of the JFK assassination is so riveting that I insisted on reading portions aloud to my family. How, Piereson wonders, was it possible that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara became heroes to the American left when it was a committed communist who killed the left’s beloved Kennedy?
Piereson also deftly demolishes the myth of Camelot by recounting how a grieving first lady created the legend on a single weekend after the president’s funeral. Jacqueline Kennedy invited famed writer Theodore White to the family compound on Cape Cod so he could interview her for a Life magazine issue devoted to JFK.
There she told White that she and the president went to bed listening to the soundtrack of the then-popular Broadway show “Camelot,” which was based on a novel. She insisted that JFK loved the music and the story because he, too, was a courageous idealist like the fabled King Arthur depicted in the show. “There will be great presidents again, but there will never be another Camelot,” Jackie told White.
White and his editors resisted the grandiose and sentimental story line, but finally relented to the grieving widow. White later expressed regret for helping to create the Camelot myth.”
Our leader is clueless—or evil. Take you pick…….
Which is why “they” are determined to get our guns and “they” are stockpiling weapons and ammo.
I know exactly what you mean.
I want the liars, misfits and greedbags tearing this country apart to get what they deserve so badly it hurts. But they keep winning.
From Rudyard Kipling, a century ago:
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
a) Weakens America/AmericansThere are NO counter examples.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves Islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
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