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America’s Degradation Is No Accident
American Thinker ^ | 20 Jul, 2023 | Molly Slag

Posted on 07/20/2023 4:56:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Our nation has suffered a cultural hijacking, and we have a moral obligation to fight back.

Do you remember the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles? In the closing scene, sailor Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) is killed by two rifle shots fired by soldiers during the Chinese Nationalist Northern Expedition. The two shots are a few seconds apart. After receiving the shock of the first bullet, the disoriented and moribund Holman mutters, “What happened?” Then, realizing his life is rapidly ebbing away, he shouts to the universe, “What the hell happened?!” With these words comes the crack of the second shot.

Many of us are asking that same question as the full panoply of woke hoaxes comes more and more to dominate our life.

What happened? In a single word, the answer to the question “What happened” is “Hijacked.” The government we inherited from the American Founders has been hijacked and turned against us.

George Washington characterized America as “an experiment in ordered liberty.” The experiment promotes liberty, but liberty requires order. Every society has a criminal element. Supplying the order sufficient to suppress this criminal element calls forth the police power of the state. To fulfill its purpose, this police power must be considerable. Washington accurately described this power when he stated, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Mindful of this reality, the American Founders created a governmental form that they believed would yield the maximum political liberty consistent with sufficient order to render a free state sustainable.

This further illuminates the meaning John Adams intended in his well-known “morals” dictum; to wit, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: change; communism; destruction; hope; marxisttyranny; obamanation

1 posted on 07/20/2023 4:56:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left wants a corrupted society because that is the way a corrupted government can survive.


2 posted on 07/20/2023 4:56:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

My work here is done - Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama


3 posted on 07/20/2023 5:04:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

That pic is required here

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4168971/posts?page=34#27

I can’t post an image at the moment


4 posted on 07/20/2023 5:06:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: shooter223

That pic is required here

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4168971/posts?page=34#27

I can’t post an image at the moment

Oops browser reset and changed the name back


5 posted on 07/20/2023 5:09:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Depravity..not diversity.. is their strength.


6 posted on 07/20/2023 5:11:37 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: Leep

The Manchurian candidate is Vivek.


7 posted on 07/20/2023 5:12:17 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: MtnClimber
The 1958 book by Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist, set forth 45 goals communists need to achieve to take over the United States without firing a shot. On January 10, 1963 those goals were read into the Congressional Record by Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. In 1984, a KGB defector named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov reiterated those goals in an extensive interview. He stated that there were agents in the United States in leadership positions who were bringing those goals to fruition.

The band played on. People rearranged the deck chairs.

8 posted on 07/20/2023 5:49:06 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: MtnClimber

I just assume that a bunch of folks at a gay bar one night got together and decided to get government jobs.


9 posted on 07/20/2023 5:52:19 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: The Duke

That’s pretty much it.


10 posted on 07/20/2023 5:53:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaveFerris

11 posted on 07/20/2023 7:26:02 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: MtnClimber

A good article. Better math or better editing would have made it a great article. ‘Rats would turn this into an object of ridicule for that alone.


12 posted on 07/20/2023 8:01:33 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: MtnClimber

“America’s Degradation Is No Accident”

absolutely correct!

Reminds me of this from the BOOK Doctor Zhivago...

Yurii’s talk with Pogorevshikh on the train to Moscow...
Part 2, chapter 5: 16

Imperturbable as an oracle, he prophesied disastrous
upheavals in the near future. Yurii Andreievich inwardly agreed
that this was not unlikely, but the calm, authoritative tone in
which this unpleasant boy was making his forecasts angered
him.

“Just a moment,” he said hesitantly. “True, all this may happen.
But it seems to me that with all that’s going on — the chaos, the
disintegration, the pressure from the enemy — this is not the
moment to start dangerous experiments. The country must be
allowed to recover from one upheaval before plunging into
another. We must wait till at least relative peace and order are
restored.”

“That’s naive,” said Pogorevshikh. “What you call disorder is
just as normal a state of things as the order you’re so keen
about. All this destruction — it’s a natural and preliminary stage
of a broad creative plan. Society has not yet disintegrated
sufficiently. It must fall to pieces completely then a genuinely
revolutionary government will put the pieces together and build
on completely new foundations.”


13 posted on 07/20/2023 8:43:21 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: shooter223

Thank you

If only half of the American public wasn’t so stupid to believe in him

🙄🙄🙄


14 posted on 07/20/2023 2:44:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

“Government is not eloquence. It is force, like fire a troublesome servant and a fearful master and as such should never be put into the hands of the incompetent’’.- George Washington.

We were told we had won a country- if we could keep it.

We’re losing it.


15 posted on 07/20/2023 5:23:42 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SaveFerris

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pnyoKeVPOek


16 posted on 07/20/2023 5:30:28 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Danie_2023; null and void; Diogenesis; Red Badger; Travis McGee; rxsid; rx

Where did he get that on Obama? I’ve never seen that before.


17 posted on 07/21/2023 1:48:15 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

You know or remember how Obama ironically actually told the truth a few times... in a twisted way, of course? Like when he mentioned that “fundamental transformation” bit? Obama also pontificated about “misinformation” which is really leftist propaganda...and which the leftist Democrats are experts at spreading... yet another irony.

Supposedly, according to this splainer, Obama was only “”warning”” about disinformation (like coming only from the right, of course)... being a threat to “our democracy” (heard that from them before).

The truth is... the only real threat is coming from the Marxist left, of which Obama is the current leader, as Soros pulls his strings.

Anyway, here’s an Obama-splainer trying to justify that clip.... which exactly demonstrates how the left has followed their agenda plan and how the left is destroying America from within. That clip is a game plan video that they have followed.... to a “T”.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/obama-was-warning-about-disinformation-not-endorsing-it/


18 posted on 07/21/2023 6:46:20 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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