[Jim Robinson]

My whole purpose for starting Free Republic in the first place was because I was fed up with the left. I was and am totally disgusted and outraged at the communist/marxist/socialist/liberal takeover of America.

I was fed up with their tyranny and corruption and their relentless march on destroying our society and our freedoms. Their continued and wanton destruction of morality and our religious freedom. Their misuse of the military. Their abandonment of our national sovereignty to world bodies. Their constant erosion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Their liberal activists judges legislating their evil will from the bench. Their brainwashing of our children. Their shoving homosexualism into our faces and down our children's throats in government schools. Their government sanctioned wholesale slaughter of innocent unborn children.

How much evil and tyranny should a free man be expected to stomach before he becomes enraged and decides to rebel against it?

Hey I was fed up and outraged at the Party of Darkness, Corruption and Evil (ie, the Democrat Party) with Clinton at the helm, and I'm still just as fed up and outraged today. I want not only to destroy their evil party, I want to drive a stake through its Marxist heart so it can never rise again!

This is my whole purpose for FR in a nutshell.

As far as I'm concerned. those who cannot live with this, or who do not believe that the elimination of marxism as a major political force from America is a good idea or who have some other agenda in mind might as well take it elsewhere. You are on the wrong forum.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Jim,
thank you for Free Republic!

[Kryptonite]

That oughtta leave a mark.

[middie]

Thanks for the invitation but I've been here since 1998 and enjoy what usually is healthy give-and-take of differing perspectives. I would anticipate staying. If the idea is to merely echo each other than the value of any forum, especially this one, has been reduced to merely a chorus of me-too-ism.

I doubt that you really want an empty, meaningless exchange among posters whose primary purpose is to see who can make the most henious and pejorative remarks, scream the loudest about how much he/she hates the left and the Democrats, or who can raise the most vociferous articulation of the evil that lurks across the aisle and in the country's majority party.

FR applaudes itself as a forum for the exchange of such wisdom as the posters may possess or wish the share and as a place where the issues de jour can be explored and dissected while being subjected to a high degree of critical analysis.

To be sure, that elevated goal was within reach a couple of years ago but somehow slipped away. Unfortunately the level of insight and applied knowledgeable exploration has too often devolved into a dark cheering section that places greater value on strict adherence to the harshest, most pejorative expression of devotion to whatever rational is this week's explanation of fault, failure or weakness. It's the same sort of ill-conceived loyalty and unwillingness to point out our own defects that brought down armies in history that refused to change to correct their faults, governments that ignored the realities and hewed only to their most fervent wishes, and the defeat of nations, like WW II Germany, whose General Staff was either too fearful of the boss to tell him the truth or too secure in their comfortable position to risk demotion (or worse).

Your purpose is a worthy one which I support. But to castigate those who disagree with your every wish, whim and opinion is contrary to your expressed goal. Regretably, I suggest that such a policy is a gilded invitation to obscurity and irrelevancy.

My best to you...........Middie

[hoosiermama]

"As far as I'm concerned. those who cannot live with this, or who do not believe that the elimination of Marxism as a major political force from America is a good idea or who have some other agenda in mind might as well take it elsewhere. You are on the wrong forum"

YES! Please say it "early and often"!

[prairiebreeze]

BTTT and thank you for your vision on the need for a mechanism to be able to fight the marxists.

Prairie