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You have far too little faith in your fellow Americans. Your defeatist attitude only empowers the very people who seek to destroy you

Like ObamaCare? Like 700 billion taxpayer dollars to Goldman Sachs? Like government takeover of General Motors? Like unending stimuli for more government employment?

I think exactly the opposite, that the reality is there is not enough collective indignation, or courage, or intelligence, in my fellow Americans to counter the sinister agenda's of the selfish, subversive, but highly subtle elitists.

Nobody's giving up, but we all (beyond Free Republic) damn sight better understand the sides here. And the "Republicans" don't even come close.

Didn't the mere election of Barack Obama, clearly documented as one of the most leftist inexperienced politicians in the nation, indicate how much faith one can put in our fellow Americans?

They know they can hammer feckless complicit Americans into anything they want. It has been done for millenia. They can do it transparently, or they can do it ruthlessly, and there is little fight.

Exactly. We didn’t stop Obamacare.

We didn’t stop the Wall Street bailouts.

We didn’t stop the nationalization of GM, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

We didn’t stop Obama’s “stimulus” slush fund for unions and government workers and demoncrat donors.

So how will “the people” stop Obama’s upcoming naturalization and amnesty decree?

Like ObamaCare? Like 700 billion taxpayer dollars to Goldman Sachs? Like government takeover of General Motors? Like unending stimuli for more government employment?

You're assuming the battle against all those unconstitutional acts are over. The final chapter for those issues has not been written. You forget the founding fathers gave the people ultimate authority as to how they will be governed as indicated in the following passage from the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Nobody's giving up, but we all (beyond Free Republic) damn sight better understand the sides here. And the "Republicans" don't even come close

No disagreement here. The OP(formerly the GOP) is also to blame. The Tea Party movement formed because people are disgusted both with the RATs and the OP.

Didn't the mere election of Barack Obama, clearly documented as one of the most leftist inexperienced politicians in the nation, indicate how much faith one can put in our fellow Americans?

The election revealed people were sleeping at the switch but the rise of the Tea party movement with its growing influence in subsequent elections and primaries also reveals people are no longer complacent. This fundamental shift is more than enough reason to have faith in Americans.

They know they can hammer feckless complicit Americans into anything they want. It has been done for millenia. They can do it transparently, or they can do it ruthlessly, and there is little fight.

Oh really? Explain what the h*ll has been happening since February 2009? Why do you assume the socialists are so in lock step with one another even with scenes like Pelosi being ridiculed two weeks ago by her own kind while giving a speech and BO/BS losing support amongst his fellow socialists? Why do you think BO/BS is trying to push amnesty by executive order? These events are happening because they are feeling the heat from Conservatives. They are starting to panic, especially when they know we out number them.