Posted on 05/07/2006 10:28:12 AM PDT by NorthEasterner
Been nice knowin' ya, America
By Dimitri Vassilaros TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, May 7, 2006
Will the next generation of U.S. citizens consider themselves Americans or post-Americans? Better still, why wouldn't they consider themselves post-Americans? Considering how quickly this republic is unraveling, is it too late to ask rhetorical questions?
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"42, just had a birthday last week."
You aren't old enough to know when this was a great country.
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You aren't old enough to know when this was a great country.<<
I love this country now - I can't imagine any better time or place to live. Well, OK, I can imagine a better time but I can't find one I'd prefer in the history books.
Democracies not are generally not workings in this new century. The sad, inevitable result of liberalism, declining morals and rampant irresponsibility. Government by the people requires the highest standards of morality and responsibility. Responsibility and morality seem to have largely disappeared in the west. Thus elected governments will disappear.
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Well put.
And, probably, far too true.
For this reason I proclaim the current Democrat Party and their lackey MSM nothing but a bunch of traitors, guilty of treason to these United States of America. How any American that loves America can ever consider voting for a Democrat is beyond me, but they will. So, if we sit on our hands, we are only dooming ourselves. The Democrats are in serious denial, and will willing walk into a nuclear blitz or into a sharp beheading instrument.
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Hideously and horribly true. I hope not very but it appears to be quite very.
The thirty years prior to your birth that I have lived were sure much greater than those since you were born.
We saw this coming by the early 60s and made the decision to not have childern because we didn't want them to have to endure what we saw in the future of this country.
Due to constant fighting by patriot conservatives the ultimate demise that we forsaw by now has been delayed but not by more than 10 years.
This country is garbage compared to what it was in the 30s 40s and 50s and even then wasn't as good as my parents had it.
Not to mention the internet and computers - they empower us as never before.
But the nation will be destroyed "compassionately"...
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Not with Shrillery at the helm--she'll make Hitler look like a wimpy choir boy.
And she'll do it with sadistic glee . . . unless we keep her out . . . if we can.
And pray no one worse shows up . . . though she makes that (someone WORSE, appearing) difficult.
"You preferred the depression and World War 2 to today? Even the 50's had segregation and the daily threat of nuclear war."
Absolutely!!!!!!
Certainly I'm all for doing what can be done.
Optimism has been proven to be much more successful and productive than pessimism. But hope in human effort will not succeed over the coming traumas and challenges.
I'm convinced that human efforts will ultimately prove to be grossly inadequate, at best.
Still, it's important to always do the best, most right thing one can . . . and, I think, to work as though we will succeed more than it appears that we might.
But hope in human effort is doomed to fail big time. The only fruitful, durable, productive hope will be that placed in God and His leading, Power, Spirit, Person.
No, it's an attempted murder.
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But mostly from within by the leaders who have manipulated things behind the scenes for so long . . . and who have enriched themselves often unfairly and who have certainly led and are leading without being honorably elected etc.
Ike was right.
I would love for you to be right.
AT some point, voting will be lain aside or become as meaningful as it now appears to be in Venezuela.
Yep, thank God for entitlements, eh Dane?
Oh but I forgot, those evil American farmers who grow food and have evil people with Spanish surnames hired to help pick and process that food, are the demise of America as we know it, nevermind.
You forgot about the ones who "build buildings".
I understand the concerns and I am not blind to the forces that threaten us, but I am not about to give up on true patriots and on this Great Nation.
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I think it's important to maintain that attitude--but with realism.
I thought the Senate was Republican-controlled at that time.
whoah!
Dude!
A nation and an idea thought not worth defending will, well, not be defended. If I am not mistaken, either Edward Gibbon or Will Durant stated that all civilizations are born Stoic and die Epicurean. We are certainly well beyond the Stoic stage where Oprah, trivialities, pop culture have replaced pride and knowledge of our once great republic.
At the end, there were too few Romans who cared.
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YUP. Sadly. Very sadly.
Mr. Krikorian believes he coined "post-American."Ping! (He neglected to mention: blame the Courts, too)"Somebody for whom the interests of the U.S. are not paramount and no longer feels greater loyalty to his fellow Americans. They have become cosmopolitans," he says.
Blame the defenseless border with Mexico for the 11 million-plus illegal aliens who didn't have to swear allegiance to America, the White House and Wall Street demanding illegals get rubber-stamped citizenship, allowing them to access government programs, school districts allowing them to vote, teachers using patriotism and jingoism interchangeably, forcing callers to push "1" to hear messages in English, allowing foreign companies from hostile nations control of vital parts of American ports -- and that's just since January.
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Most of these kids today don't even know what "romance" is or a great innocent love song.
They just cannot know how it felt back in the 40's and 50's.
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