Jeff, I consider you a very patriotic, truthful and honorable man.... so I will try to be a gentleman in my response.
Whatever the Mormon church is going to do, they need to do it quickly, with strength and make it public, or their brand is going to be changed and significantly damaged by the actions of these sickening perverts.
Regardless of all of that, I would like to be wrong on this, however for today, I do believe that the America I once knew and loved is now dead.
This country is not the America I was brought up in, she is no longer the country that I knew and loved... but regrettably, it is where I must live out my remaining time on this rock.
I am reminded that I have never been one that could run and hide from a storm, rather, I learned to face the storms and dance in the rain. I see a mighty storm coming on the horizon for this country.... and I grow weary of the dance.
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” ~ Ronald Reagan, from his first inaugural speech as governor of California, January 5, 1967
Ronald Reagan’s warning about losing our freedoms echoes down through a generation of lost momentum and squandered opportunity.
We now have the most ignorant electorate in the history of American elections. I believe we have the most corrupt government and media our country has ever seen.
I have never been a democrat and I no longer consider myself a republican, but I am a conservative to the core.
If Romney wins, and I now think he will, I will not celebrate his victory. If Obama loses, and I believe he will, I will buy an expensive bottle of brandy and a piece of apple pie. I will head to the seashore before sunrise, sip brandy spiked coffee (I am not Mormon.. lol ) and enjoy my pie.... while I listen to the roar of the crashing waves, the beautiful singing of the seabirds.... I will smile and watch a new morning in America. One might call that a celebration. ;>)
I long for the morning that I wake up and see Obama out of our lives. Unfortunately, on that day corruption will still not be dead and without a leader that is willing to go through D.C like a crazy man with a meat cleaver, corruption will survive this inconvenience and fight on.
In any case, Americans will get the country it apparently wants and a country it so richly deserves.... and there will be much regret.
Cheers,
Dan
Thanks Dan, for your kind words and your sentiments.
I agree almost 100% with them, accept I do not believe the Republic is dead.
She is sorely injured. She is teetering. She has been beset by the willful perversion of her laws and values by internal enemies intent on bringing her down over many, many decades. The very fact that this effort has continued on, unrelenting, for much longer than I have been alive (I am 56 years old), as taught to be by my own parents who were patriotic, God-fearing, Constitution loving and abiding Americans to the core, tells me that the force behind it is as evil as it is timeless.
Luckily, the force supporting America is equally timeless, but stronger in good than the adversary is in evil.
There are tens of millions of very patriotic Americans left in this country. They showed what they are capable of in 2010. I hope they double down on it in 2012 and show the same again. That will give us all hope.
And Hope is a powerful tool when coupled with faith, and with the Hand of Providance which has smiled on this land in times past, and Whom, I believe, still desires to do so if we give Him the reason.
It is true, there are many reasons not to...but as He showed in times of old, He does not need it to be a super majority...He just needs even a faithful remnant...and I believe we still have that.
We are in fact however staring down the barrel of a loaded and cocked liberal/leftist/perverted/ marxist weapon.
I believe we can stare it down and overcome it. But it is not going to be easy, it is going to take a lot of hard work, and I suspect within our life time or that of our kids or grandkids it is going to lead to very tough imes when their mettle will be tested as our fathers were in the World Wars, and as their grandfathers before them were tested in the great Civil War, and as their grandfathers before them were tested in the Revolution.
I’d prefer oit were us...but ultimately, that decision is not ours to make. Those were very difficult and hard times will be skewed more torwards abject moral depravoty than force of arms...though in the end, it may come down to that anyway, as it has in the past.
I penned an article about how I felt regarding all of this:
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORU
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
God’s speed, and HIs blessings to you and yours.