The renaissance plan outline is simple and straight forward. It has a reasonable chance of success. The risk of failure is that the plan will not be tried. Ronald Reagan said, "We have come to a time for choosing; we will preserve for our children this the last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.....history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening." Compare Reagan's words, "..history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening," with the quote at the top of the page, "those who can, will not; and those who will, cannot."
The Koch brothers and conservative talk show hosts can change the composition of Congress, but don't know how to do it. Our small group who developed the plan knows how to change the composition of Congress, but can't do it alone. Freepers and Free Republic provide the forum where this knowledge can be shared with those who have the ability and hopefully united into a common plan of action. Hubble's Red Shift changed how we see the universe. Our Red Shift can change how Americans live their lives. Free Republic can sit on the sidelines allowing the Blue States to preserve their political power or Free Republic can become the key to making the Red Shift and the renaissance it will foster a reality.
By changing a few details in how we elect the members of Congress, what works for defeating one incumbent can be repeated hundreds of times. And in only a few election cycles, WE the people can change the entire United States Congress. And our new Congress can change the entire body of bad US law that has been accumulating for two centuries. It is this "HOUSE" cleaning that can make an American Renaissance possible. It is just as true today as it was in 1776 when Thomas Paine said,
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I don’t really give a damn about the “moderates” or “independents” for that matter. A “moderate” is someone who has no core beliefs or principles. They wait until they see what side the majority is in then they jump on the babdwagon. An “independent” is just someone that is telling both sides that they are for sale to whoever will do the most for them. An “independent”, like the “moderate” has no core beliefs or principles either. In time of crises,neither can be depended on and both will stab you in the back at first opportunity.
Liberalism is a form of perpetual adolescence that our society is more and more willing to tolerate.
Interesting, but wrong. At non-relativistic speeds, the percentage change in wavelength is equal to the object's speed divided by the speed of light. Thus galaxy receding at 1,000,000 m/s would have a shift of 1,000,000/300,000,000 = 0.0033 or 0.33%. PBS was off by a factor of 100.
I think an important lesson can be learned from how a single woman saved an empire, and the rather peculiar parallels that exist with America today.
In the 6th Century, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, ruled over by a wise administrator, Justinian I, and his Queen Theodora, who had been a commoner with street smarts before she became queen.
Constantinople had four political factions, which were also somewhat sports teams and gangs, each of which had a representational color: the blues, the reds, the greens and the whites. Today, I suppose these colors would represent the Democrat party, the Republican party, the radical left and the conservative right, respectively.
Justinian tended to support the blues, but after a major chariot race, some of the leaders of the blues and greens went on a rampage and were arrested for murder. The arrests enraged these two factions, who started riots with the intent of overthrowing the emperor and his queen, called the Nika riots. They soon had killed hundreds.
Likewise, the senators from these two factions, the blues and the greens, decided to use the opportunity to betray their emperor as well, wanting to proclaim another emperor in his place.
At first terrified, Justinian planned to flee the city, but Theodora put her foot down and refused. She was made of sterner stuff. So the two conceived a plan.
With the confidence of only a trusted, non-partisan eunuch, and two generals, the eunuch was sent with a bag of gold into the hippodrome where the blues and the greens were planning to crown a new emperor. The eunuch gave the gold to the leaders of the blues, and reminded them that Justinian had always favored them.
They got the message, and as a group, the blues stood up and left the stadium. Then the two generals, who had brought their armies with them, surrounded the stadium and proceeded to kill some 30,000 radical greens, sparing none.
While later in their reign, the Byzantine empire was rattled by the plague, which even sickened the emperor, the massacre of radicals, fanatics, freaks and ne’er-do-wells of the capital of their empire resulted in at least 200 years of peace and tranquility, with little else needed.
For her part in this, Empress Theodora was made a saint of the Orthodox church.
As a last thought, imagine how different America would be with the absence of the Moonbat left, full of radicals, freaks and ne’er-do-wells? No longer having to suffer their fanatical ideas, oppressive and irrational trouble making, and continual threats of violence and civic disorder?