Posted on 09/07/2020 10:11:03 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To our “friends” in England — we rescued England when all hope was lost. Ungrateful? Don't forget it!
A lot of Americans have family connections to Great Britain and most left the “sh!th0le” that was England. That gave new immigrants to the United States and appreciation for Freedom, Liberty, and “Independence” (a little play on words) and a very strong aversion to government involvement in our lives. The promise of Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness was fulfilled ten fold.
Sadly we Americans have become lazy and complacent.
Explains why this Southerner is looking at Wyoming!
There are places you have no idea of...
You left out Aspen. A direct hit on that town by a large meteor on President’s Day would make the USA a much better country.
Fear the wild FReeper deplorables!
FMCDH! (long-timers, recall that?)
I disagree with some of these conclusions. I grew up in a rural area of a high desert in the Intermountain West. The people are independent, self-reliant and private and don’t take kindly to lazy beggars but if one of their neighbors happens on hard times, these people are the first to mobilize help for them. If a barn burns down, they will help rebuild it. If a man gets seriously ill, neighbors will bring in his harvest. If a tractor breaks down, neighbors will help repair or lend their own machines. If a flood threatens animals, others will pick up and pasture them until the emergency is over.
And not one mention of “The American Redoubt”.
Europeans have always had a obsessive fascination with western individualism to the point of it being almost perverse in the sense they cannot conceive of being that way themselves but are intensely voyeuristic in their consumption of it.
“These are the tourist from back East and California.”
and visiting Europeans.
Pirsig wrote that Americans on the East Coast tended to copy Europeans.
” If a man gets seriously ill, neighbors will bring in his harvest.”
My GF’s family live in a rural area. A few years back a neighbor passed away. His son’s had a hay crop that was needing cutting and baling at the time. The neighbors did if for them without being asked.
LOL. Pseudoscientists treat an attitude of self-reliance and freedom as some sort of disability. Typical of the baaing sheep of Academia.
How bout, they were the ones that survived the hard life.
and they liked the view
“Montani Semper Liberi”
Chuck said that.
Include the N GA mountains in that too.
The FIRST big move most of these people made was to forsake their homelands and cross a wide ocean to get here. Desiring to become Americans and make a life for themselves. Unlike many recent arrivals, who merely want to latch onto a government teat and live off of others.
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