Posted on 05/13/2010 3:57:39 PM PDT by Stoat
In 10 years it won’t. We [The United States], unless we turn things around by no later than 2012, do not even have 80 years.
More and more I am reminded that Conservatives are serving the role of "The Book People" of Fahrenheit 451, who spent their lives memorizing every word of a single book and then teaching the book, verbatim, to their children before they died, thereby retaining the book, all of which were banned, for all time.
Amazon.com- Fahrenheit 451 (9780345342966)- Ray Bradbury- Books
As the giant Red Wheel of the Left rolls onward, crushing everything in its path, so also we must continually fill in the blanks and correct the intentional distortions of the Left as they attempt to rewrite history to suit their agenda.
A bump for a most bumpworthy post.
I am not so optimistic as you! If we don’t turn things around in 2010, we won’t have ten years, unfortunately. If we can’t come up with either a veto-proof Congress or a House with the stones to defund the government, I’m not sure we make it even to 2012.
Thank you so much for your exceptionally gracious and complimentary words :-)
Although there have been many who have questioned PM Cameron's Conservatism as not being pure enough, his election at least indicates that all is not well for the Left in the UK, which is cause enough for some hope and optimism for the future.
I would suggest, however, that here in the USA the spectacle we will witness in November will be an epic bloodbath that will once again cause our dear British Friends to be a bit taken aback by the raucous and unrestrained activities of their Yank cousins.
Never in my lifetime have I seen so many people so palpably ANGRY with our sitting Administration and the Left in general. People don't like to be forced into a position of having to draft a law that says public schools can't teach the overthrow of the Country and can't teach hatred of white people or anyone else for that matter under the guise of 'ethnic studies', and they don't like being called 'racists' merely because they have policy disagreements with a President who happens to be half-black or simply because they want their country's national borders to have some real meaning.
I'm expecting November to be quite glorious ;-)
Hopefully enough of those 16 year olds will wake up and understand what has been done to them by the Left and will rebel, before it's too late.
If they don't, then we'll be acting out an entirely different movie than what most of us would like to see come to pass as reality.
I bet that the same percentage of young people could not tell you what president was military commander of the War In Europe. It is not that history is not taught but that people always forget many important people. How many could tell you who invented the micro chip or the internet? (not the goracle.)
Here's another. See reply #27 for a link to an audio of Churchill speaking to Parliament for the first time after becoming PM.
The proper analogy would be who was the President during WWII. Perhaps given the poor state of our education system, half of young Americans would not know the answer.
Major Finding 3:
Civic Knowledge Increases a Persons Regard for Americas Ideals and Free Institutions
Gaining civic knowledgeas opposed to merely graduating from collegeincreases a persons belief in American ideals and free institutions. If two people otherwise share the same basic characteristics, the one with greater civic knowledge will be more likely to support:
Americas ideals: He or she will be less likely to agree that America corrupts otherwise good people.
Americas Founding documents: He or she will be less likely to agree that the Founding documents are obsolete.
American free enterprise: He or she will be more likely to agree that prosperity depends on entrepreneurs and free markets, and less likely to agree that global capitalism produces few winners and many losers.
The Ten Commandments: He or she will be less likely to agree that the Ten Commandments are irrelevant today.
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