Posted on 07/30/2021 3:40:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The vision for the future of America seems so very different today between the red states and blue states.
With proper credit given to Mr. Charles Dickens, for many Americans living today in America, "these are the worst of times." A time period that many of us have never lived in. A time period that many of us had never thought would happen in America. A time period where we shudder to think what our children and children's children might live under. Certainly, the worst of times that we have known.
What is becoming increasingly clear is that America is disintegrating into two warring factions. For most of the 20th century, Americans had about 35% of the voters voting conservative/Republican and 35% voting liberal/Democrat, with a healthy 30% in the middle. This 30% in the middle kept us from tearing apart. Kept us sane and balanced. But since 2000, voters and voting patterns began to change dramatically. Now, in 2021, about 48% of the voters view themselves as RedState Patriots, and about 48% of the voters view themselves as BlueState Progressives. This leaves a slim 4% (if that much) in the middle.
Americans need to start asking themselves, "Is this what we really want?" Is the country being so deeply divided and fractured what we really desire? Or is it basically okay because we just don't have that much in common anymore? Some have stated that maybe it is time for a peaceful, nonviolent dissolution from each other. But is this what we really want?
Imagine the two separate belief systems. Notice how diametrically different Side A is from Side B. Be aware of just how different the cultures, customs, and norms are. Notice that the two sides do not resemble each other at all
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The state-run education system and parents too busy to see what their children are being taught is a big part of the problem.
It all stems from a spiritual chasm. The Left have embraced a Godless society.
We don’t need them. They need us.
Who will pay the bills when America loses the productive conservative class? It sure as hell isn’t going to be the democrat welfare parasites and their enabler billionaire oligarchs.
Without conservatives, the leftist society disintegrates. They run out of other peoples money.
Ben Franklin had his Join or Die flag, We need a Split or Die movement. Reconciliation is impossible.
Yes, I notice that every day.
But remember, we are supposed to be the guys who say, “reality is what remains after you don’t believe in it”
Creating your own COVID biology out of thin air is like changing your gender.
YOU believe it. AND, to make it better, some very bad people believe the opposite, or say they do.
But what you believe, or what they believe, DOES NOT ALTER THE FACTS ONE LITTLE BIT.
Try to learn as much as you can. True things are out there.
East is East, and West is West, never the twain shall meet.
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
And he has lifted the Colonel’s mare that is the Colonel’s pride.
He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and day
And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away.
Then up and spoke the Colonel’s son that led a troop of the Guides
Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides? “
Then up and spoke Mohammed Khan, the son of the Ressaldar:
“If ye know the track of the morning-mist, ye know where his pickets are.
“At dusk he harries the Abazai - at dawn he is into Bonair,
“But he must go by Fort Bukloh to his own place to fare.
“So if ye gallop to Fort Bukloh as fast as a bird can fly,
“By the favour of God ye may cut him off ere he win to the Tongue of Jagai.
“But if he be past the Tongue of Jagai, right swiftly turn ye then,
“For the length and the breadth of that grisly plain is sown with Kamal’s men.
“There is rock to the left, and rock to the right, and low lean thorn between,
“And ye may hear a breech-bolt snick where never a man is seen.”
The Colonel’s son has taken horse, and a raw rough dun was he,
With the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell and the head of a gallows-tree.
The Colonel’s son to the Fort has won, they bid him stay to eat
Who rides at the tail of a Border thief, he sits not long at his meat.
He’s up and away from Fort Bukloh as fast as he can fly,
Till he was aware of his father’s mare in the gut of the Tongue of Jagai,
Till he was aware of his father’s mare with Kamal upon her back,
And when he could spy the white of her eye, he made the Pistol crack.
He has fired once, he has fired twice, but the whistling ball went wide.
Ye shoot like a soldier,” Kamal said. “ Show now if ye can ride!
It’s up and over the Tongue of Jagai, as blown dust-devils go
The dun he fled like a stag of ten, but the mare like a barren doe.
The dun he leaned against the bit and slugged his head above,
But the red mare played with the snaffle-bars, as a maiden plays with a glove.
There was rock to the left and rock to the right, and low lean thorn between,
And thrice he heard a breech-bolt snick tho’ never a man was seen.
They have ridden the low moon out of the sky, their hoofs drum up the dawn,
The dun he went like a wounded bull, but the mare like a new-roused fawn.
The dun he fell at a water-course - in a woeful heap fell he,
And Kamal has turned the red mare back, and pulled the rider free.
He has knocked the pistol out of his hand - small room was there to strive,
‘Twas only by favour of mine,” quoth he, “ ye rode so long alive:
“There was not a rock for twenty mile, there was not a clump of tree,
“But covered a man of my own men with his rifle cocked on his knee.
“If I had raised my bridle-hand, as I have held it low,
“The little jackals that flee so fast were feasting all in a row.
“If I had bowed my head on my breast, as I have held it high,
“The kite that whistles above us now were gorged till she could not fly.”
Lightly answered the Colonel’s son: “Do good to bird and beast,
“But count who come for the broken meats before thou makest a feast.
“If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away.
“Belike the price of a jackal’s meal were more than a thief could pay.
“They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain.
“The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain.
“But if thou thinkest the price be fair - thy brethren wait to sup,
“The hound is kin to the jackal-spawn - howl, dog, and call them up!
“And if thou thinkest the price be high, in steer and gear and stack,
“Give me my father’s mare again, and I’ll fight my own way back! “
Kamal has gripped him by the hand and set him upon his feet.
“No talk shall be of dogs,” said he, “when wolf and grey wolf meet.
“May I eat dirt if thou hast hurt of me in deed or breath;
“What dam of lances brought thee forth to jest at the dawn with Death?”
Lightly answered the Colonel’s son: “ I hold by the blood of my clan:
Take up the mare for my father’s gift - by God, she has carried a man!”
The red mare ran to the Colonel’s son, and nuzzled against his breast;
“We be two strong men,” said Kamal then, “ but she loveth the younger best.
“So she shall go with a lifter’s dower, my turquoise-studded rein,
“My ‘broidered saddle and saddle-cloth, and silver stirrup twain.”
The Colonel’s son a pistol drew, and held it muzzle-end,
“Ye have taken the one from a foe,” said he. “ Will ye take the mate from a friend? “
“A gift for a gift,” said Kamal straight; “a limb for the risk of a limb.
“Thy father has sent his son to me, I’ll send my son to him!”
With that he whistled his only son, that dropped from a mountain-crest
He trod the ling like a buck in spring, and he looked like a lance in rest.
“Now here is thy master,” Kamal said, “who leads a troop of the Guides,
“And thou must ride at his left side as shield on shoulder rides.
“Till Death or I cut loose the tie, at camp and board and bed,
“Thy life is his - thy fate it is to guard him with thy head.
“So, thou must eat the White Queen’s meat, and all her foes are thine,
“And thou must harry thy father’s hold for the peace of the Border-line.
“And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power
“Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur! “
They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault.
They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt:
They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod,
On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God.
The Colonel’s son he rides the mare and Kamal’s boy the dun,
And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one.
And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear
There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer.
Ha’ done! ha’ done! “ said the Colonel’s son. “ Put up the steel at your sides!
Last night ye had struck at a Border thief - to-night ‘t is a man of the Guides! “
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling, Ballad of East and West
In the article, the author indicates that it is “ominous” that the split seems so apparent. My question is why is that ominous?... What is the downside to a split?
Logistics nightmares abound but what would be “ominous”?
Those who bend a knee to God will be free.
Those who bed a knee to men will be slaves.
BS. Those in the middle should have been conservative and wanted freedom. I ain't buying this Rovian crap on how great the "middle" has been. F them.
The problem isn’t “Red and Blue” states. It 95% of the country’s land mass is Red with Blue enclaves in just about every state. In Texas we have Dallas, Houston, Austin (of course) San Antonio, and El Paso. How do you in Wind that? Every state is the same.
Un-wind that? Damn phone....
The vision for the future of America seems so very different
today between the red states and blue states.
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The vision for America has changed/evolve every since Columbus
sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
What did the newcomers do? They rounded up the Native Americans
and put then on reservations. A little later on they went to Africa
and brought in the Black people to work as slaves both in the house
and in the fields.
The future of America is ever evolving for good or bad we don’t know.
There it is.
I've been focused on the Satanic aspect of too much in our political realm and just never put it together that it wasn't people acting Satanically .... they actually believe in Satan over God.
The question is;
How did that happen?
IMO, it all begins in public school with the system that hires teachers out of leftist schools that stand in front of thirty kids at a time, for 6-7 hours a day, five days a week for ten months out of the year for at least twelve years.
Those of us that remember Ding Dong School or Romper Room BEFORE Sesame Street Socialism, AND remember our own 1950's era education and teachers, remember kindly (usually older) ladies that treated us like they were our mama and actually TAUGHT us weird stuff like, read'n, write'n, n' 'rithmetic.
We never learned what to think .... just how.
Unlike what the American public school system started turning into around the mid to late 1960's.
Two entirely different belief systems.
And the most insidious part of it all is .... when "they" first began the assault on America via the minds of children, they had to be good and clever enough to win over enough that had come through a relatively Christian indoctrination/background/belief system and utilize THOSE sprouting Socialists to further their education into a socialist mind set, get elected and get hired in key positions ...
Boys being boys and girls being ghirls, they found each other, and had kids (I intentionally left out the marry part).
So here we are with two belief systems.
It took one generation to destroy Venezuela and

We've been warned.
Yes, the anti-religion fanatics on the left are really anti-competition fanatics except that islam is similar enough that they don't hate it.
Exactly!!! How do squishes in the middle keep us sane? It makes no sense.
That usually means a wrecked economy, chaos, and massacres.
What would be ominous? Endless checkpoints. Civil War. Chaos. A China-dominated world. And probably it wouldn’t solve anything. The country is divided more on urban/rural than on regional lines, and corporations are already global rather than local or national.
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