You have followed the maze successfully and wound up right back where you started from, true, but you are better for your hike through the valley of the dead.
I agree with you that the "copy/paste wall-of-text" is that internet persona's best and only defense. Giving credit where due, it is an effective technique for breaking up the flow of thought in a thread and getting readers to move on instead of reading more.
Such personas, whether live or internet, tend to use emotion instead of logic for justification. Your words are not for them, but are for the rest who read and follow along unnoticed.
No matter how well you present the material or digitally perfect your logic, it won't be heard and truth will NOT be recognized once emotion and its justifications get in the way.
Shifting perspective, I find both the psychology involved and the times the most fascinating aspects of what is being done to US from within, both within the nation, but more importantly within our heads and hearts.
I understand history a bit better now while observing how so many are made "useful" when placed in the "right" situation and give the appropriate justifications.
As it is now, I am fascinated with trying to figure out if our tearing down the old standards and this fundamental transformation by redefinition just evolved naturally or was it made to?
The recurring theme for these times:
"it had been said that in these times, many would lose the sense of the Divine and would live in their own way, and would be unable to tell good from evil;""It's on." Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
This post is one of the best I've read on Free Republic and I am grateful to you for your thinking out loud.You have followed the maze successfully and wound up right back where you started from, true, but you are better for your hike through the valley of the dead.
Thanks my FRiend. That is very much appreciated.
You don't know how accurate you were regarding coming full circle with respect to elections of the Office of the President. I have completed a perfect 180° in the past 16 years ( the first 180° occurring during the many years prior ).
In 2000, the year culminating in the infamous Bush v Gore, it was my turn to proclaim 'the best ever opportunity to get a conservative elected', after all, a damaged Clinton and Reno were about to leave town and an unprecedented class of new vulgarians had been swept into Congress ( note the immediate similarity right off the bat ). Cruzers and their spokesmouth Levin are today precisely where I was at that time as evidenced by his speaking those exact same words on the radio, and often.
But my candidate Alan Keyes was an even finer example of a Conservative Constitutionalist and also of a Christian Crusader. No-one yet has come close to his absolute total recall of our most important documents such as the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, not to mention the Old and New testaments. I highly doubt that any of our Founders committed so many of those materials to memory and it led me to describe Alan Keyes as our reincarnated James Madison.
So I can partially relate to what the Cruzers are feeling today because of what I was always told back then. Keyes is unelectable, he is a Bible thumper who can't shut up about abortion and homos, he would nuke Arabs to protect Israel, everything short of Keyes desiring to force Americans to go to Church on Sunday. And I was livid and apoplectic at my friends. It took a long time for that experience to wear off and to shake the quasi-religious zeal I was blinded by. Eventually I got around to examining the returns from that one, the earlier ones, and subsequent elections to zoom out and get a wider viewer of our systematic electoral destruction. But I digress.
I say that I can partially relate to the Cruzers because obviously there was no question of his eligibility unlike the infamous Cubanadian ( and boy, how ironic is it that Keyes would be the person found later at the center of candidate Dumbo's controversy by first becoming the designated Republican loser for that Illinois Senate seat, and later being one of the advocates for his disqualification for lack of natural born citizenship! The Lord truly works in mysterious ways ). However, unlike the Cruz zealots, if Keyes was ineligible, I can say without fear of hypocrisy that I would be the first one to jump ship. And the reason is simple, no man is more important than the Constitution.
Something else needs to be said here. Back in 2000 and ever since, all of the Cruz loving talking heads like Rush and Levin and Hannity and Beck were nowhere to be found with respect to Alan Keyes. They gave him some basic lip service here and there, but he was mostly shut out of the media, and of course discarded by (R)epublicrat GOPers like a man with a communicable disease. Rush was all in for Bush43, and I know exactly why. It was his friend Mary Matalan ( obvious object of Rush's creepy unrequited love ) who pulled him in. His treatment of Keyes was pretty much the same way that Jon Stewart condescends to all conservatives. His treatment from the others was of similar but varying patronization.
The key point here is that our purist conservative talking heads never called him the 'next coming of Reagan' nor the 'best chance ever' nor 'what we need in the oval office' or any of those other things they now spout. Keyes never played the race card and neither did I, although I guarantee that if Cruz were black they would be doing it now. No, in Alan Keyes case it was jealousy of his breadth of knowledge who ran rings around all comers, and it was one more thing ...
... Rush and Levin knew he could not get past the electorate. Thus, the irony today is simply beyond description.
As for the uber-Zealots, some of them may get their own epiphany eventually, the most hardcore ones though probably will not. Let's just hope that no tragic act of fate places Cruz on the ticket. Because his monumental loss that would rival or exceed McCain or Romney is too high a price for us all to pay just to prove the Cruzbots wrong.