Posted on 10/04/2008 12:29:51 PM PDT by Publius804
Stop Worrying about the Election
Daily Article by Isaac M. Morehouse
As the presidential election nears, I hear more people voicing their fear over the prospect of the other candidate winning. People from both major parties express genuine trepidation at the thought of a world without their candidate as commander in chief. Both sides believe we will lose our freedom if the wrong party wins.
Perhaps surprisingly, I think there's a lesson to be learned in all this from Hollywood.
The 1994 movie Shawshank Redemption is the fictional story of Andy Dufresne, a prisoner at the infamous Shawshank Penitentiary. One of Dufresne's fellow inmates, Brooks Hatlen, has spent nearly his entire life in Shawshank, and has settled in to the routine and become the prison's bookkeeper. After a lifetime in prison, Hatlen is finally freed as an old man. Once on the outside, Hatlen finds life beyond bars too complicated and confusing, too new, too risky. He cannot cope with this newfound freedom after a life of bondage and, tragically, he commits suicide.
Brooks Hatlen forgot how to be free. He became accustomed to bondage and let the yearning for freedom die within him over his long stay in the penitentiary.
Andy Dufresne, on the other hand, never let his freedom die. While locked in Shawshank, despite oppressive and often gruesome circumstances, Dufresne's spirit was unshakable. He constantly cultivated the seeds of freedom in the least free setting imaginable. When Dufresne escaped, unlike Hatlen, he embraced life in the free air and pursued his dreams.
(Excerpt) Read more at mises.org ...
Yep. Sometimes I think we actually spend too much time trying to win elections, and not enough in educating our fellow Americans about our more important ideals.
Agreed, if you can pass this article on to as many people as you can. Despite what happens November 4th it is what we cultivate inside of us that matters most.
Polish communists are one thing; Obama is quite another. Once the America-hating American Marxists solidify their control, they are not going to simply give it up.
The only way we can turn this country around is by changing hearts and minds. Obama has unfortunately become an expression of what America has become. 30 years ago he could not have won the Dem nomination for U.S. Senator much less be on the brink of Presidency. It’s the culture, stupid. Decent, rational people who don’t covet their neighbors’ good do not support Obama. It’s people who are driven by envy, covetousness, jealousy, bitterness who fall for this crap. People whose lifestyle requires the availability of abortions. People who want a court that will force God out of the public arena. Until the culture changes we will continue to head in the same direction no matter who happens this election. Witness the fact that even the Republican candidate is a nitwit that we reluctantly support.
the carnal side of me is pissed at how easily people are fooled ... how easily people want to COVET what you have ... how EAGER they are to be deceived ... how life is less important that socialism ... in fact even infanticide doesn't stop them for voting for a flat our Marxist.
When I've had enough of that, I think about where I'll be spending eternity. I think about NO MORE LIBERALS and their LIES for ETERNITY. Then I realize all the more how silly all this is. What is most important on earth is $$$$ not eternal life. I'm so glad that whatever happens, as fallible as I am, I know that John 3:16 applies to all who wish to be with Him and that's where I'll be - with Him - away from this madness when He determines that should happen.
I would agree except for one HUGE issue. The appointments of at least two Supreme Court justices will echo through possibly the next two decades. This is a much greater issue and far reaching than the election of a President
So many real Americans like me and you will come out of the woodwork they'll have to run home a change their pants.
The only thing we need to watch is if the Dems are able to steal Ohio. I think a lot of these early votes are not eligible voters, either by a lack of residency or felony backgrounds or illegals.
A few million terrorists across the globe who would be emboldened by an Obama presidency make it necessary to worry and thus work, contrary to what the author states.
Yes, eventually Poland got their freedom. But do we really want to wait a few decades like they had to before we get ours back?
A large part of that freedom stemmed from their deep religious faith.
I agree. We are at our Hugo Chavez moment. If BO is elected with a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, we will continue to have elections in America. But there will be as much suspense as in today's Russian elections.
Some holes are too deep for "indominable spirit" to dig out of. Or, more accurately, an Obama election means that, eventually, indominable spirit will only be able to express itself effectively with guns. I think that's some ways off--20 plus years. But it will come to that eventually. The result will depend on whether BO and his socialist successors can raise a generation of American kids who will be willing, as soldiers, to shoot into assemblies of American Christians or Environmental Thought Criminals. If they are, 2008 will be the year that Western Civilization voluntarily surrendered it's hundreds of years of leadership of the world.
This article is a sobering wake-up call for anyone who believes that saying that this election is the most important in our lifetime, is simply emotional hyperbole.
It is incredibly sad, and shocking to read an article that tells Americans to stay free in their hearts and minds.
Tatt
Even with a McCain/Palin victory there is much work to be done. The cause of liberty requires eternal vigilance, and people like us, on this site, are the ones to guard liberty’s existence. The fact that I live in a country where even 30-40% of the people can conceive of an Obama presidency and smile gives me pause but makes me want to work harder to protect freedom.
Permanent Disenfranchisement for All Felony Offenders:
Kentucky Virginia
Permanent Disenfranchisement for at Least Some Offenders: Alabama Arizona Delaware Florida Mississippi Nebraska Nevada Tennessee
If we will lose freedoms we will have fight to win them back. Maybe a period in the wilderness will help us renew ourselves and rediscover who we are. There is an old saying, "Adversity creates heroes." Maybe some adversity is in order.
Please! The real Communists of yore were WAY more scary than Obama and his band of homosexuals and metrosexuals and asexual feminists. And we here in red-state America are WAY more ungovernable than even the Poles.
I predict that Obama, were he to win, would be a single-term President and an abject failure.
But of course, that's not going to happen.
-ccm
“It’s people who are driven by envy, covetousness, jealousy, bitterness who fall for this crap.....”
Conservatives (I place myself in this category) have fallen into the trap of expecting politicians to fix problems that can only be addressed on the moral level.
When McCain wins I will only hold him accountable for nominating strict constructionist judges, reforming the Federal budget and getting his Energy Program enacted. To expect a President to fundamentally change our culture is a bridge too far.
I would ask every Conservative who has been more aggressive in promoting their values on cultural level? It has been the crypto-Communist nihilists.
To change our cultural drift would require a full frontal assault on the culture-making institutions of our society: the media, the Universities and Publishing.
There have been some successes on the cultural side but for the most part vast parts of the cultural terrain have been ceded to the crypto-Marxists.
To fully join the cultural battle it will be helpful to recognize the limits of politics.
Yes, but they can’t solidify their control. They can’t. They can’t compel us to do things contrary to our wishes if we stay united and resist. If they demand community service, refuse to serve and refuse to accommodate their offices. If they decide to make an example out of a protest group, band around and make sure too many are there to fight. Hire lawyers. Spend money on advertisements. And, if peaceful methods fail, there is one right remaining to the American people.
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