How did it get to this point.
NO, YOU are not the ONLY one.....there are MILLIONS of us out here......feeling....helpless.....
You are not the only one believe me. Murtha is sickening! the whole damn lot of them are sickening.
Some felt the need to teach the Republican Party a lesson
I will never forget this
OmG. I am sick. This is what we get with the puke liberals in charge.
No not at all. There is at least me and I am sure there are many more than just the two of us.
Because we have become a majority of people within a nation who want the easy way out while denying we want the easy way out. We want it all NOW, we have lost our character, we reflect a nation concerned with "feelings", not with substance. We are weak now, and that's the truth as I see it. There are many good, strong people within our nation, but sadly not enough to make the needed impact here and around the world.
Are the people in Johnstown, PA proud that they have elected this fake hero of VN and now a traitor to the U.S. and the military in Iraq and Aphfaganistan? I would hang my head in shame.
We became this way because of political correctness....not making people responsible for their actions and a bunch of gutless wonders in Washington that turn tail and run.
Murtha is included in the pack that wants to cut and run. Tuck their tails turn and run. Disgusting. Where are the good politicians? Shame on the republicans that joined forces with the dem/libs. Oh shame on them and I hope they can still look themselves in the mirror when more and more of our brave military are killed and...the USA is attacked once more. God forgive them cause I sure can't and will never vote again.
"Am I the only one who is heartsick at what has become of us as a nation..
How did it get to this point."
Just before I left college in the middle of my second year to enlist in the military, I remember asking my fiance (while we were fighting the effects of tear gas as we tried to walk to class), "What will our country be like when the people who are involved in the rioting, destruction and anti-American rhetoric are in positions of power?"
Unfortunately, we are realizing the result of the patient, incremental influx of socialism and anti-American philosophy that has brought us to this pathetic point.
EODGUY
I've long maintained we're dying as a nation. This isn't the killer, of course, but it is another nail in the coffin...
It is worth noting that every generation or so, we apparently have to go through a "democrat revival" so the populace remembers yet again how things are when these guys are at the reins. Although certainly not pretty, the upside is it did happen during an off-year election, so things certainly could be worse.
We need to have bloggers, at the very least, who are there or quite near the action, so as to give us at least one valid source of information that can be used to counter the daily poison that is rationed to us by the MSM.
We need more intellectual activity in the print media, on radio, and yes - even on TV. As was the case in 1980, we must become the people with ideas, and we must argue these ideas quite forcefully and persuasively.
With the daily din the MSM generates, we don't shout over it - we slice through it.
We need a lot more right-wing agitation on college campuses across the nation. It doesn't have to get noticed nationally at first, it just has to get noticed on that campus. That way, we can move from there.
The MSM deigns to ignore us. We must return the favor. We have 2 years (thereabouts). We must embrace the left's old dictum of all politics being local. We must be local everywhere. We must be the ground to the MSM's trees. It is from us that all growth must, and will, ensue.
Obviously, we must organize at all levels. The Right's best thinkers (and their number is legion) must step forward now and begin building the intellectual battering rams that will be successfully employed 12 - 18 months from now.
Pre-election 1980 was an exciting time, for this guy, anyway. True, we had a giant among men emerge for that contest, and that admittedly helped matters along a great deal.
It is not a particularly good strategy to expect the emergence of another such giant this time around, but who is to say it can't, or won't, happen? Still, we must do these things as best we can, and given that we are indeed the backbone of this nation, that effort still oughta be pretty damn good.
CA....
There is no single reason, but inattention to what our schools, both K-12 and Universities, have been teaching in the past 20 years has a lot to do with it.
That and politicians without principle and values....except power.
I'm with ya Dog.
Unfortunately, IMHO, it's gotta get worse, a lot worse, a whole lot worse, before it gets better.
The left has dumbed down our nation so thoroughly that it's gonna take a lot to wake them up.
Sad and deadly.
No, you sure aren't. I'm also pissed off about it.
"Am I the only one who is heartsick at what has become of us as a nation.."
Read Alexander Tyler's quote on "fall of a democracy". I think you'll have a pretty good answer.
No, you are definately NOT the only one who is heartsick (not to mention disgusted). Here in Iowa, our state legislature voted in another meaningless gesture to oppose the troop surge. Combine that with overturning Iowa's ban on human cloning the other day, and the likelihood of gutting our right to work law by allowing the unions to steal from those of us who have no desire to be in their damn unions, and its all going to hell in a handbasket.
You are not alone Dog. The question is what are you, I and others going to actually DO to reclaim this country? I am open to reasoned, logical actions.