Aristotelis
Posted on 03/20/2010 11:19:56 PM PDT by neverdem
Excellent post and great find. I’ve read his stuff before and he’s an excellent thinker.
Why can’t we get him to replace George Will or Charles Krauthamer on television?
Thanks for the ping to this excellent and timely post.
In short, with an unshackled righteous wind behind it, our democracy approaches ..
someone made an, 'Oops'.
(and he was doing so good until there. oh well.)
We need at least one conservative commentator in this country who will stop referring to America as a democracy! It was never called that until world war one. When this nation was founded as a republic the founders looked at democracy the same way we look at fascism, socialism, communism, whichever variant you want to use. Today we are close to real democracy, meaning mob rule with no set standards, no boundaries on what the government can do.
By referring to America as a democracy we have paved the way to a real democracy and it ain’t no pretty sight, folks.
Every conservative and moderate in the country should read this or hear it. Maybe Rush, Beck and the rest will read it to their audiences. The truth is often easy to find. The hard part is believing it.
Bravo & thank you!
Excellent post! I’m bookmarking this baby.
I always seem to hit that button too fast. I have to think & read, add what I need, then post. Apologies to everyone.
Now...
It seems that this country’s fate was determined centuries ago. Too bad all men from all ages are afflicted with the ego & hubris to think they will be different & create a good outcome.
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I read these lines bearing in mind the spectacle I've just seen on TV, of Nancy Pelosi and the House Dems passing through a mass of "Kill the Bill" protesters. I noticed the front ranks of the Dem parade included many people of color, locked arm in arm. One congressman stated the experience of passing through (the passionate but peaceful) gauntlet was like "Bloody Sunday," when he was beaten by police in a race riot.
Hmmmmmmmm.... Would it be fair to say that the Dems are playing the "equality card" here to the hilt? "Equality" being "the righteous wind" that is being invoked to sweep away our constitutional Republic?
Jeepers, you get the impeached former judge, Congressman Alcee Hastings, outright saying that, WRT healthcare "reform," they'll make up the rules as they go along, as needed. Obviously, this guy believes the ends justify the (noxiously corrupt) means.
And none of his colleagues even peeps in protest????
So much for our post-racial "healer, not a divider" president, and his cohorts in Congress.
An ill wind is blowing friends.
Thank you so much, metmom, for the ping to this excellent article!
I know Scripture is silent on much of what will happen in the end times, but I just can’t shake the feeling that if this passes, we’re staring at it right in the face.
It’s not supposed to be a democracy, though frankly I’ve always considered “representative republic” a fudge, but unfortunately it has become a plain old raw democracy.
Hank
Plus a lot of events that Scripture is not silent on are happening; e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity, etc. It's as if the whole of creation were groaning right about now.... But I digress.
If this bill passes, it would unleash chaos in the land. It would further expedite the systematic looting of the American people and their descendants unto the generations; it would destroy jobs and businesses large and small; indeed the American middle class and ultimately our system of free enterprise capitalism would be wiped out. Every American would be at the behest and mercy of the federal government, via the instrumentality of a beefed-up IRS and the inevitable bureaucratic rationing boards; the doctor–patient relationship undermined, indeed the very Hippocratic Oath remorselessly destroyed.
And so forth.
Last summer I wrote to my Congresscrittur Niki Tsongas, and told her that this so-called healthcare reform bill was not fundamentally about healthcare. It was about profound culture change. I implored her not to support it. Evidently, my warning and plea cut no ice with her.
The long-simmering culture war may be about to blow up in our faces.
May God bless America — and may He have mercy on us.
eric hoffer was a self-educated longshoreman who came to fame in the 1950's with the publication of his first book, the true believer. a caustic analysis of the nature of mass movements and those who are driven to join them, the true believer did what few other books of the mid-twentieth century could: it helped expose the hidden causes of the tumultuous events that nearly destroyed our world at that time. hoffer said of the 1930's, "it colors my thinking and shapes my attitude toward events. i can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac."
Thanks for the ping.
Faschinating. This is a remarkable post, and extremely enlightening.
Human nature never changes. I’m not surprised to see that we are repeating history but to see that Aristotle documented it 2500 years before our turn to rise and fall, is somewhat breathtaking.
Astounding post. Great job and thank you for the Civics lesson.
Yep. You nailed it. Our form of government can only exist with an informed, moral electorate. An ignorant electorate steeped in moral relativism can’t enforce the nation’s laws or police the political class.
As a result, I really feel we are doomed. Not because I enjoy thinking our way is over, or because we have been around long enough to fall. I think we are doomed because such a huge portion of the voting public is dumbed down and immoral, and believes they are owed entitlements from the government. We are at a tipping point where the raw numbers of “them” are outnumbering “us”, and the schools are brainwashing more and more of them while the media puts them to sleep regarding the truth.
Great post. Thanks
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