Take a step back, and what you see is that Marxism - or any other totalist worldview - is nothing more than a vehicle for the exercise of absolute power.
Folks, history - particularly that of the last century - is all too clear as to the outcomes produced by those who do manage to acquire total control over the apparatus of the State. You know what I’m talking about.
The Gramscian praxis - chaos and conquer - is playing out before our eyes. The Obama-worshippers have no idea what they are ushering into being. They’re the merely ignorant. The ones who DO know what they’re doing - they are sociopaths at best and unempowered mass murderers looking for their big break at worst.
So what are we to do when it all comes down and the Man On The White Horse rides in to ‘save’ us all? How can we prevent this and in so doing alter the course of history? We do know that individuals can and have determined the flow of history. Where is the inflection point? Where d owe apply the lever? When do we shrug?
And how dearly will we sell our lives?
Sadly so.
I cannot tell you how many people I come across every day -- family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, acquaintances -- who, if I bring up the subject of the election, invariably respond in platitudes -- and, more often than not, platitudes that are merely echoes of television soundbites.
What on earth could be more important than undertstanding the beliefs of the two men who are seeking to run one's country, during an era in which there are more threats to our lives, sovereignty, and very existence than at any other time in our history?
I have said to a handful of people, in utter frustration, 'How can you love your children, and not be willing to expend the energy to understand where our potential leaders want to take us? You are condemning your children to live in a world about which you deliberately choose to exercise no informed input.'
I haven't yet lost any friends as a result, but I suspect that day may be just around the corner. :(
~ joanie
Well stated, with only the unanswered questions remaining.
What can I as an individual do?
How dearly will we sell our lives?
Pray for ourselves our country, and the enlightenment of those who are so overcome with Bush hatred that they can’t see the forest for the trees.
There is so much coming so fast, that it is difficult for the average citizen caught up in the daily grind of supporting a family, to assimilate and digest the issues, like the housing crisis, brought to you by the very names mentioned in this thread.
The energy crisis which subtracts from everyone’s profit margin and threatens the stability of the dollar and our future progress as a nation, at least in the short term.
The Banking crisis, brought to you by the same players previously discussed.
The Border crisis, already eclipsed by the previously mentioned crises, increased unemployment, the dollar crunch and efforts to eject some of the millions, here illegally.
The climate crisis, lurking just under the energy crisis, and for the time being, overcome by events, unless we get another killer hurricane in the near future.
I’m quite sure besides Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, China, Africa, Cuba, etc, there are many more crises waiting in the wings to provide the necessary smoke screen for all political candidates not just on the left side of things.
...and then we might just add the age old crisis of good vs evil to really get things stirred up. Could probably put the abortion debate in that category.
Just what is left for us to do? Other than repent in sack cloth and ashes and beg the good lord above to not open the scuttles on the ship of state just yet. Gives us a chance, or is his idea to put the nation to the test yet again, to see how we survive another attempt at socializing or socialism?
What to do? What to do?
Can’t give up that’s for sure.