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The Political Gap That Divides Generations
by Faith ^ | July 2009 | Susan Fikse

Posted on 07/10/2009 12:05:10 PM PDT by Theophilus

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To: Theophilus
Let me suggest that there is serious moral guilt involved in what this reflects, and it is that of older generations of Americans. We have not passed on the ethos of Americans to the younger generations, and that is a terrible failure.

The Obama campaign was a deliberate, calculated attack on the American heritage. It is no excuse that the Schools have been corrupted--often turned into indoctrination labs, for changing traditional American values. We should never have let that happen, of course. That but emphasizes the moral guilt. But a primary responsibility of each generation of a people is to pass on their values to their posterity.

We would go one step further. Part of the damage was accomplished by a Stalinist type maneuver in the 1960s, when our immigration policy was deliberately turned upside down--when we started to give greater preference for peoples with little or no ties to the roots of America, over the peoples who had contributed the most. This undermined not only a sense of continuity, but of social cohesion. It was the same maneuver that Stalin adopted to break down the resistance to Communist rule in the Ukraine and Baltic States, after World War II, when he deliberately moved millions of ethnic Russians in to break down any ethnic cohesion, which helped the resistance.

This breakdown in a sense of who we were, was reflected in the campaign--in the faces of young women chanting like Nazi automatons, "Yes, We Can" at Obama rallies, where the very subject was not just changing leadership, but changing America! (The difference between chanting "Sieg Heil" & "Yes We Can," in this sort of a format, is a matter of language, only. The intent in each case, is a demonstration of the desire for a mental lockstep, the pursuit of a New Order, by a frenetic abdication of individual thought processes, of analytic function; the acceptance of a single will, a single leader, etc..) There can be no excuse for my generation, ever letting this happen, in America.

21 posted on 07/10/2009 1:12:41 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Theophilus
Kim has developed a passion for the poor and perceives that Democrats have traditionally been more active in providing for their needs

We need to understand how "Kim" has been inculcated with these views in order to help her see the light. I consider her a "hijacked conservative". Democrats are truly the party of the poor - They want to make all of us poor so that they can be our socialist masters. Kim needs more experience with life and input from the more experienced to understand this.

22 posted on 07/10/2009 1:20:27 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Califreak
I think there’s a whole bunch of goats on the loose in the churches.

No doubt about it!

Matthew 13
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

23 posted on 07/10/2009 2:14:22 PM PDT by Theophilus (Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
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To: Luke21
This is globalist propaganda.

Propaganda? Very likely!

The article goes from:
Survey data shows that while fewer than a quarter of white evangelicals between 30 and 64 supported Obama, that number increased to a third for white evangelicals under 30.

to, in the next sentence:

Kim’s reasons for gravitating toward Obama reflect those of a generation of young believers.

So if the "Survey data" is to be believed 1/3 of self proclaimed or survey labeled "evangelicals" who voted, voted for abortion defender Obama and that Kim's (who is of that 1/3) "reasons reflect" a whole generation of young so-called "believers". How does 1/3 represent the whole group? In propaganda, that's how!

24 posted on 07/10/2009 2:26:50 PM PDT by Theophilus (Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
“Kim” is going to go bananas thinking that she can end all of the poverty in the world.

No, it's worse than that. She thinks that she can vote it out of existence. She apparently does not recognize:

1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

or this

Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

or this, in which we learn that God makes the poor to advance His kingdom by making the same poor people rich in faith for His Providence though the love of rich brothers in Christ who must disperse their blessings directly:

James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

2 Corinthians 9
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

25 posted on 07/10/2009 2:50:33 PM PDT by Theophilus (Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
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