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What Happens To A Country That Loses Its Mind
Issues & Insights ^ | 11 Apr, 2023 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 04/11/2023 5:04:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber

To see biological males win “woman of the year” awards and others compete against women in sports, and at least one paid to promote sports bras, it’s obvious the American mind has slipped a few gears. But our current troubles are about more than celebrating what is clearly a mental illness that needs to be treated. We have lost our way almost entirely across the board.

The locus of our insanity, one could argue, is Washington, D.C. The federal government developed a habit long ago of spending beyond its means. But the foolishness has reached new levels.

The federal debt is heading to $31.7 trillion like a freight train at full throttle with no brakes. Spending is outpacing revenue by more than $1.5 trillion. Social Security is headed for collapse sooner than its appointed guardians had expected, but the collective vision among our “leaders” on the Potomac doesn’t go beyond the next election. So nothing is done.

Despite the obvious problems, the Democrats want to tax higher and spend more. The supply of vacuity seems endless.

Washington is also at the axis of weaponized government. Free speech is being crushed, dissent from the left’s political agenda is considered an imprisonable offense, and court rulings are to be ignored if they offend progressive sensibilities (yes, we know, two words that don’t belong together). The Democrats see the IRS not as just a revenue collector but also as a truncheon with which to discipline those who refuse to live under their boots. Parents who grouse at school board meetings? They are of course terrorists who must be watched.

It’s no coincidence that we’re living in riotous times. The damage seems to build with every news cycle. But to listen to the Democrats and their communications department, also known as the mainstream media, the only riot in U.S. history was on Jan. 6, 2021. In their twisted minds, rampaging, killing, burning, and looting in the name of George Floyd, or some imagined resistance to fascism, are just benign elements of mostly peaceful protests. Democrats have even contributed money to bail out the “protesters.”....


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To: MtnClimber

It learns to speak Mandarin Chinese


41 posted on 04/11/2023 10:15:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: kabar
Per Pew Research (2020 Election):
Around a third of registered voters in the U.S. (34%) identify as independents, while 33% identify as Democrats and 29% identify as Republicans, according to a Center analysis of Americans’ partisan identification based on surveys of more than 12,000 registered voters in 2018 and 2019.

Though many Democrats are probably becoming radical Left, not all are.

The percentage of Radical Left we call Woke is probably around 25+.

42 posted on 04/11/2023 10:57:41 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: kabar
Democrats, for that matter anyone, who says they prefer socialism probably define socialism as a government (like the one we have) that is loaded with social programs like welfare, social security, etc. It is doubtful that they believe socialism is identical to Marxism (though we at FR know that is the goal of socialism)

Most Democrats think of and define capitalism as Wall St and greed.

Bottom line: When people say they favor socialism, they are NOT saying Marxism (at least not yet). And when they say "capitalism"...they are not thinking of what it really is, and that is, "free markets."

All that said, people, particularly young people, are too effing stupid to know what they are saying or agreeing with.

43 posted on 04/11/2023 11:05:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: kabar
I stand by this statement: "It's that small minority of freaks who have taken over the government, the media, and the schools who have gone bat guano crazy."

I am not disagreeing that more than a small minority favor socialism (though they cannot define it).

The small minority I am talking about consists of the freaks who believe it is okay to perform gender reassignment surgery on extremely young children and to hold drag shows in libraries and teach "white supremacy" to high school kids while preaching that math and science are racist. That is the minority! And it is that minority that is in control of the government, our schools, and the media.

44 posted on 04/11/2023 11:11:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Issues & Insights - What Happens To A Country That Loses Its Mind

Bump!

Thanks - I hadn’t seen this site.

;-)


45 posted on 04/11/2023 1:29:18 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: eartick

What you are seeing is called”reprobation”; it is spiritual psychopathy and the clinical description is found in Rom.1:18-32.

The only way to protect our children and ourselves is to avoid those who manifest this pathology.

(Look up the clinical description of a psychopath/sociopath and compare to Rom. 1:18-32 and II Tim. 3:1-5; the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul had them figured out centuries ago.)


46 posted on 04/11/2023 2:24:37 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: GingisK

The smaller “we” part of 1938 Germany were rounded up and put into camps. Don’t be so sure “we” won’t be among that group in a few years.

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Right. And there will be no brave fighting Americans to come bail anyone out.


47 posted on 04/11/2023 7:59:16 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: IrishBrigade

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance 2Peters 3:9


48 posted on 04/13/2023 3:04:49 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

Thanks


49 posted on 04/13/2023 3:14:36 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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