America grew, prospered, came of age, and is now pregnant with socialism. Who planted the seed?
With the water about to break again ('04) we may soon witness a new dynasty of socialism and tyranny that our forefathers would have risen in arms against, and yet, one we will have no sway over.
The only optimistic thing of late that we have to console us is California's recent debunking of socialism.(In time, assuming Iraq fulfills it's role as a democratized nation, it too could build confidence.)
That's not a lot to hang a hat on. The further we get from the 'one that brung us' to the dance(our nation's founders), the more likely we are to find trouble brewing.
The divisions that Dennis speaks of are symptomatic of people's survival instincts which include a tribalism that replaces a sense of nationalism when assimilation is abandoned (and thwarted by the left at every turn).
I just hope that when things hit the fan that the side that I chose to affiliate with will have an appreciation for Scruggs-style five-string-banjo.
In this war, no uniforms are necessary.
It will be those with bumper stickers against those without.
Reduced to a seemingly silly irrelevance, it personifies the seething and real tendency to violence just below the surface.
I am among the "no bumper stickers", for the simple reason that I have no wish to spend my leisure time addressing the physical damage that the "opposition" will inflict.
It is not a trivial issue, since I see no tendency on my part to embrace pacifism when the clueless decide to get more overt about their inability to create their "utopia" out of the cultural mess they have so carefully nurtured for generations.
I, for one, will know instinctively who the enemy is. Metaphorically as well as real. Uniforms or no.