[plsjr]

Real US Citizens take responsibility for their actions, take care of their families, work for a living, and are good stewards of their assets and abilities. We trusted the electoral processes to select representatives and officials that would have the same values carrying out their governmental responsibilities.

Unfortunately, we've not paid sufficient attention to what they did after elected.

Now we have an education industry that focuses on leftist propaganda, the majority of the news industry, ditto and of course, the progressives/liberals/leftists/socialists/statists/marxists/fascists have completely co-opted one of the political parties and the other is too focused on perqs and re-election to be responsible. The normal, hard working, US Citizen needs to realize the left owns entire industries that are dedicated to the destruction of our country by whatever means available. Responsible US Citizens need to dedicate the time necessary to counter the leftists if we don't want to find ourselves being another banana republic, or worse: another point in the line that includes Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro, ...

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[21twelve]

Here’s an old thread, with an even older (1938) conservative booklet called “The Revolution Was”, written about FDR and the New Deal. Similar points, and almost EXACTLY what we see happening 70 years later.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

THE REVOLUTION WAS, By Garet Garrett (written in 1938)

Excerpt:

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, “Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don’t watch out.” These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words.....

Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.

But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base......

....Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic.....The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.

The end held constantly in view was power.....

[GOP Poet]

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[A Navy Vet]

"...is that when it's over a country has changed not merely its leaders and its laws, but its operating system.

I'm getting so weary of metaphors. Let's be blunt, our "operating system" is a societal contract called the Constitution of the United States of America. This is not an "operating system", it is a written contract and has been abused and ignored that it is no longer recognizable. Okay, so I'm splitting hairs.

So what? What are you going to do about it? Nothing, most likely. You're going to talk and talk about it all; give it new names; and do nothing while our contract is ripped to shreds.

You will write your representatives; join your demonstrations (as I used to do); bitch on the Web; occasionally talk with relatives and friends; and then watch your "op system" go to hell.

I don't mean you, personally. I mean the American populace in general. There are movements growing for States' rights. There are movements growing otherwise - take that as you will.

Just stop giving metaphors for the Constitution of the United States of America. You and everyone else should use the word, CONSTITUTION, every time you speak of the abuses of the Fedgov. End rant.

[mtnjimmi]

much of our problem today is that we have discovered we can vote our/friends from the public trough, and we do in large amounts.

[broncobilly]

I think this is an extremely important article.
Having this issue in mind, to me tops promoting any other single issue. If we can keep our “operating system” we can work the other issues out in a democratic way.
That is why I am so distressed by those who want to stir dissention among those who could be supportive in this cause. There is so much slandering of imperfect people, as if we aren't all imperfect. We need the support of every one who wants to preserve the republic.
The author says we still outnumber them. But I wonder if that will still be true if amnesty is allowed.
It is so important to hold the line until the next election and increase our representation drastically in 2010.

[mapmaker77]

I think you make a good point. I keep thinking that what zero and the left are really trying to do is pick a fight that will spark a fire that will spread, and this will give him the excuse to send in the acorn brownshirts.

But, This isn’t Germany or Russia decades ago. Americans, if pushed far enough, will fight back and the last thing you want after you is a pissed off yanqui.

[Lexinom]

This is a rare, plain-speak essay of what is happening. So many of us are confused, and this essay provides not only clarity but direction. Want to know what to do? It's in there.

[FreedomPoster]

CWII Ping.

Click through and read the whole article, this guy gets it.

[wintertime]

This will include city council members, county commissioners, school board members, judges, sheriffs and even members of the local parks commission.

Great article until I came to this line. Wow! This author just doesn't "get it".

The school board is the very first step in my state in working your way into the political pipeline. So?...Who controls who get elected to the school board? Answer: Our corrupt Marxist dominated teachers union. Without their support it is impossible to get elected.

What's needed here is a complete dismantling of government education.

Marxism is our nation's **most** serious threat. SCHOOLS are the Marxist's most powerful weapon. The government schools must be shut down and conservatives must set up private alternatives.

[redgolum]

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[Does so]

The latest "American Rifleman" magazine has an account of the end of British fighting during the Revolution. Just two fatal shots from one sharpshooter so demoralized British officers, they gave up the war shortly afterwards.

Likewise, we've been demoralized ourselves, with successes in forcing Socialism and Gay Marriage on us, the end could be in sight.

Short term, we need a "Star" as a candidate, and a change of party name.

[DuncanWaring]

(Yes, of course I realize it's explosive to keep bringing up the Nazis and the Bolsheviks in an essay about the Democrats. I'm not doing this to be incendiary; I'm doing this to be accurate.)

With this line, the author puts himself into the league of Mark Steyn and Ann Coulter.

[Kozak]

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the Plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader the barbarians enter Rome.... Mine was a lovely world till the parasites took over.

Robert Heinlein

[Centurion2000]

bttt

[Dead Corpse]

Yes. We know where we are going. We know how we are getting there. We even know why this is a very, very, very bad thing.

Now...

What are we going to do about it?

[ctdonath2]

True. People are often confused as to who is on what side.

WE are the ones trying to preserve our government as established by our Constitution. We are not revolutionaries.

[bert]

BS.....to stop the coup there must be people and probably blood in the streets. There can be no peaceful solution in America just as in Israel. It is now all or nothing

[cpforlife.org]

I implore everyone to read this article, share it with family and friends and forward it as much as possible.

Also we should overload this into the emails of our favorite patriot talkers: Rush Beck Levin Ingraham Hannity et al.

Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

ONE NATION UNDER GOD

[ezo4]

marker for later read