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I did not appreciate the tone of the comment by AndyJackson which I found disrespectful to Christians, and felt that it implied mindless fealty to a single cause. I don’t know if it was meant that negative way, but that is how I took it.

And I agree with PeterPrinciple that the struggle ahead is a “short sword” struggle” which will require up close, dirty work, involve some successes and some failures, one step forward, and two steps back. We are going to have to tack against the wind constantly, and will see little success for any time and effort we put in.

But it is either that or surrender to the Left, and their ultimate goal of tyranny.

Donald Trump is not the end-all-to-be-all. He just isn’t. And he will have only four years in which to work even if he does make it to the White House. So he isn’t a savior.

But he is far, far better, even with his flaws (which we all have) than anyone we could seat in the White House at this time. And that is because he is contentious. He invites strife from his opponents.

Our enemies in this country would prefer to do their evil work in the dark of night, behind the scenes, in obscure back rooms, where their hands cannot be seen by the public turning the faucets that result in the steady drip-drip-drip of their corrosive work.

Donald Trump is the only one who forces them out into the open onto a field of battle.

I am one of the people on FR who live in Massachusetts, and can see closer up what the battlefield looks like before the battle.

I am not sanguine about the battle, as a result.

I don’t have the privilege (and I mean that literally-the “privilege”) of living in an area where you can fully expect others to stand by your side if you venture out to a street corner with a sign. This state is viewed as hopeless in that respect, it is that far gone.

My father, a very conservative man, knew as far back as the early Seventies that winning as a Republican was not possible. He was a plank owner in the Citizens For Limited Taxation, which is anathema to Democrats. He changed his affiliation and ran as a Democrat, and my father was no Democrat even in those days when non-Leftist Democrats still existed.

I have come to the conclusion that there are two different types of people on the Left-Liberals, and Leftists. Some Liberals may be converted to a form of non-Leftist who will consider voting for a non-Democrat or supporting various causes we consider conservative.

But it is my experience that Leftists, barring a personal catastrophe akin to what David Horowitz experienced when his co-worker with the Black Panthers was raped and murdered because she “knew too much”, can be changed. That was what it took for him to make the switch.

So, we can only expect some subset of Liberals to make that change. And we cannot expect too much, unless things get so bad that they are hit over the head to the point of insensibility.

It has been my observation in my life that getting people to change their views without that kind of jarring change described above (especially if those views they hold are glued to their mind with emotion) is one of the most difficult things to do.

Reason will not do it for most of them. Logic will not do it for most of them. They need an events that impact them personally in a major way.

Reason will not do it for most of them. Logic will not do it for most of them. They need an events that impact them personally in a major way.

I think this is very true in many instances, where the human mind clings to something like a Linus blanket which brings them comfort, even though it may be ragged and stinky.

I myself went through a major shock treatment in my stance towards Trump over the last 24 months. I was a somewhat fanatical follower of him, with all kinds of hats I wore everywhere, flying flags for him at my house, and even creating *LIVE* rally threads for him on FR, up until January 6. I felt that day he fostered something very inappropriate, as there was clearly no chance the electoral college vote totals were going to be changed that day, and the electoral college vote is an emblem of America that shouldn’t be attacked without irrefutable, concrete proof of fraud. I felt he allowed the protest to get out of hand by not going to the Capitol building as he promised, and if he was blocked from going, he should have called it off at that point.

But that alone didn’t completely break me out of my spell, though, it was only after I suffered what I firmly believe are vax injuries, that have threatened my very life, that my perspective truly began to change. I come from a family of college scholarship athletes, and my grandfather was drafted into pro baseball, so I am very in tune with my body, and was in perfect health before my injection. Trump had been on TV promoting how great it was, that it stopped the spread which we now know is untrue, etc. However, immediately after the injection, I started having swelling in my feet, and was diagnosed with both a heart condition, and a GI issue that are still causing great discomfort and worry. While these diagnoses for me were going on, and I was dealing with being bounced around from doctor to doctor, Trump had the gall to go on TV and claim the phony vaccine is one of the greatest achievements in the hIstory of mankind!

I don’t blame Trump fully for my health issues, but they are enough to remind me in the starkest terms that we must be very careful in believing what ANY politician tells us. They may even be meaning well, but they are not to be fully trusted, or put on any sort of pedestal anywhere close to the one we should put God on. I think that is the main point the author is attempting to make. If it took a vaccine injury to wake me up from my fanaticism of Trump, and get me back focused on the scripture and Bible study, as I have done, then maybe it was worth it.

Donald Trump is far, far better, even with his flaws (which we all have) than anyone we could seat in the White House at this time. And that is because he is contentious. He invites strife from his opponents.

Our enemies in this country would prefer to do their evil work in the dark of night, behind the scenes, in obscure back rooms...

Donald Trump is the only one who forces them out into the open onto a field of battle...

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Very well said, rlmorel.

I keep going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson, a former Middlesex County resident of the Commonwealth whose wisdom and foresight have completely escaped most of the current generation who live there.

Rush, in his later years, would sometimes talk about Emerson with praise for his essay on Self-Reliance, a philosophical view of what makes America great.

And here is an excerpt from his Essays that gives some hope in our battle against Government tyranny and voter stupidity:

With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but there are limitations, beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go. Things have their laws, as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with.

Property will be protected. Corn will not grow, unless it is planted and manured; but the farmer will not plant or hoe it, unless the chances are a hundred to one, that he will cut and harvest it. Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway.

And the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force, -- if not overtly, then covertly; if not for the law, then against it; with right, or by might.

Politics from Essays: Second Series (1844)