Again, the times that try men's souls

American Thinker ^ | 6 Apr, 2025 | Eric Utter

[MtnClimber]

Civil war is here. It has come to America. For the second time. This one is between those who respect history, tradition, reality, decency, dignity, excellence, and the truth ... and those who utterly despise all of these and instead worship sloth, destruction, entitlement … and themselves.

One group erects stores, buildings, and towers — and manufactures automobiles — the other loots, vandalizes, and burns them.

Members of one group defend America and are willing to lay down their lives if necessary for liberty. The other group spits on them.

One group believes in capitalism, the lone economic system that has lifted billions out of abject poverty and works hard to make the lives of their family — and their fellow citizens — richer and better. The other believes in leftist ideologies such as socialism, Marxism, and communism, social and economic systems that have historically led to deprivation, misery, and the death of hundreds of millions.

One group believes in inalienable natural rights granted by the Creator, the other doesn’t believe in a Creator, and believes only in such limited rights as bestowed by those in government.

One group believes that the two sexes are divinely created for their complementarity and were mandated by God to go forth and multiply. The other believes there are an infinite number of sexes and genders, and that they have nothing whatsoever to do with procreation.

One group is pro-life, the other pro-death. The former doesn’t believe in abortion or assisted suicide, the latter fervently believes in both, the better to spare the earth the burden of more human beings.

[MtnClimber]

We are certainly in a cultural civil war.

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

[PeterPrinciple]

We are certainly in a cultural civil war.

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Folks,

place your bets and by that, I mean put some skin in the game.

[Tommy Revolts]

... and those who utterly despise all of these and instead worship sloth, destruction, entitlement

Well said.

[desertsolitaire]

What is truly different here and now, between us and Maos Chicom cultural revolution, or Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia?

[PeterPrinciple]

What is truly different here and now, between us and Maos Chicom cultural revolution, or Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia?

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We are still writing the story..............................

[marktwain]

What is truly different here and now, between us and Maos Chicom cultural revolution, or Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia?

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Our side (conservatives) have taken control of the White House, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. We have support of 75% of the population, and are well armed.

[MacNaughton]

[mewzilla]

The war we're in is as old as time.

From 1963, on some ancient history...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

[SharpenedEdge]

“What is truly different here and now, between us and Maos Chicom cultural revolution, or Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia?”

The Second Amendment, our personally-owned weapons, and our will to use them to defend our rights. That and only that is what stands between us and the cattle cars and gas chambers the Leftists would gleefully herd us into.

Not happening. “Come and take them!”

[PGalt]

YES

[PGalt]

Thanks. Lessons of history BUMP!

[spankalib]

Paine wrote: “THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

Can you imagine listening to someone who talks that way? Just remarkable.