[Windflier]

...we are screwed.

Bart. Go read some history on the American Revolution for a while. It'll rekindle your sense of fighting spirit and hope for our future.

That's what we need right now. Not defeatism. There would never have been an America, if the colonists had succumbed to your mindset.

Do it. It'll really help you get over this.

[blackbart.223]

"That's what we need right now. Not defeatism. There would never have been an America, if the colonists had succumbed to your mindset."

Quite the contrary. They faced reality and acted accordingly.

[blackbart.223]

You should have put the whole quote up. As long as there are blithering morons out there, and there are many, it is going to be tough row to hoe. You don't win a fight until you understand the enemy. In this case it is ignorance. How do you defeat years of it?

Bart.

[fightinJAG]

Leave the guy alone—for all our sakes.

He expressed his opinion. It got under your skin for some inscrutable reason.

Now it’s your constant haranging that is weighing down the thread.

Please. Post on something besides the fact that you don’t like the tone of someone else’s posts.

[Centurion2000]

Bart. Go read some history on the American Revolution for a while. It'll rekindle your sense of fighting spirit and hope for our future.

Re-reading Unintended Consequences at the moment. Good uplifting read.

[LibLieSlayer]

For those in Rio Linda... watch Gibson in the Patriot.

LLS

[Star Traveler]

You said — “There would never have been an America, if the colonists had succumbed to your mindset.”

There would never be an America if the issues for those colonists all *happened in our generation*, versus happening in the generation that it did. And that’s why he’s saying that he doesn’t hold out much hope...

I don’t either. Remember, Obama *was elected* by a very large margin. That should be proof enough... LOL...