Posted on 08/10/2012 2:18:06 PM PDT by EveningStar
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Hoagland, the county leader of a group of young North Carolina Republicans, is busy trying to ramp up enthusiasm for Mitt Romney at the grass-roots level. So there are a few things he avoids mentioning to prospective young voters he wants to woo, including the hot-button topics like abortion and same-sex marriage, which have dominated campaigns past.
“Social issues are far down the priorities list, and I think that’s the trend,” Mr. Hoagland, 27, said. “That’s where it needs to go if the Republican Party is going to be successful.” ...
Some young conservatives ... continue to oppose abortion and same-sex marriage but say they are playing down their personal views because they have made the calculation that such issues will not be a factor in this year’s races...
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Why? The schools that they attend have indoctrinated them into a mindset of accepting homosexuality as more legitimate than heterosexuality and they have been brainwashed into believing that homosexual rights equate to the Civil Rights era and are one in the same. It is demonic.
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Go right on thinking that, son. You'll lose. Lots of people in this country understand that conservatism without a social base is a conservatism of mere convenience, which blows in the wind and stands for nothing.
In short, it's Mitt Romney.
“VIRTUE is the most important element in a free Republic.”
You are so right. Virtue is a sword given to us by God. Those who can wield the sword are warriors for Him.
Virtue is concomitant with honor. Honor tells a man to stand his ground to protect his family and community because it’s virtuous. Mothers protect their children because they are honorable and virtuous.
You are so obviously 18th century and savior-faire. :-)
Cheers, savagesusie.
Even Rush Limbaugh has no complaints about homosexual marriage.
I'm not casting many dispersions, but WOW..
OK, I get it, you APPOSE ROMNEY AT ALL COSTS..Geeeeze
I'll bite, I've read your last 100 posts, (in less than 30 days), which rank about as vile as I've had the displeasure to read on these boards that haven't caused someone to get ZOTED, but I digress.. Assuming anyone is persuaded to take your advice, what is your plan???
“Virtue is a sword given to us by God.” (worth repeating).
Thanks, again. I mostly read things prior to the 19th century-—unless I want to vomit and figure out what the evil Marxists/Postmodernists/Leftists/homosexualists are up to, as they try to kill God and Virtue.
That idea of the importance of Virtue goes back to Socrates and it is sad that for thousands of years that concept was understood by so many geniuses, especially the Founding Fathers. There is a Culture War-—as W. Chambers stated in his book, Witness-—(1952) God vs. Man and Man is winning. We have to stop this great evil ideology/philosophy of Marx which obliterates the Natural Family and God. It will destroy and enslave billions of more people.
I am always aware of who wins this war in the end, though. :)
Well, the problem remains the little uninformed Republican primary voters, too busy making money to study the political scenario.
As long as Jesse Helms remained in the Senate, he held back singlehandely the liberal floodgates in NC. Since his death, the state has become liberal beyond all expectation. I think the liberalism of NC may be here to stay. Even Asheville, once a Republican town, now has an all-Democrat city council though it is elected on a nonpartisan basis. Wilmington seems certain to stick with Democrats too. Have the Republicans given up on Charlotte? And the Golden Triangle was lost even before Helms. Jesse, the Tar Heels really needed you to give them guidance!
Those two statements are not in conflict.
"The "idiot," I have said, is at times close to that boundary line where every idea and its opposite are recognized as true. That is, he has an intuition that no idea, no law, no character or order exists that is true and right except as seen from one pole – and for every pole there is an opposite pole. Settling upon a pole, adopting a position from which the world is viewed and arranged, this is the first principle of every order, every culture, every society and morality. Whoever feels, if only for an instant, that spirit and nature, good and evil are interchangeable is the most dangerous enemy of all forms of order. For that is where the opposite order is, and there chaos begins.
A way of thought that leads back to the unconscious, to chaos, destroys all forms of human organization. In conversation someone says to the "idiot" that he only speaks the truth, nothing more, and that this is deplorable. So it is. Everything is true, "Yes" can be said to anything. To bring order into the world, to attain goals, to make possible law, society, organization, culture, morality, "No" must be added to the "Yes," the world must be separated into opposites, into good and evil. However arbitrary the first establishment of each "No," each prohibition, may be, it becomes sacrosanct the instant it becomes law, produces results, becomes the foundation for a point of view and system of order.
The highest reality in the eyes of human culture lies in this dividing up of the world into bright and dark, good and evil, permissible and forbidden.
For Myshkin the highest reality, however, is the magical experience of the reversibility of all fixed rules, of the equal justification for the existence of both poles.
The Idiot, thought to its logical conclusion, leads to a matriarchy of the unconscious and annihilates culture. It does not break the tables of the law, it reverses them and shows their opposites written on the back."
--Thoughts on The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
--Hermann Hesse, 1919
http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/hesse/works/idiot.pdf
Are we there yet?
Why? The perverted gay agenda pushers learned long ago that if they could get to the kids early enough, at the kindergarten level and indoctrinate them in the public school system from K-12 and then all through the college years then they have succeeded in bringing down America. The generation of under 35 or so is a lost generation for the most part.
I have personally observed that in general they are Godless, valueless, no scruples, shameless and lack any moral compass to guide them them through life, to know the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Cursing, lying, stealing, cheating are just common everyday occurrences and with no forethought of the consequences. If we are to take back this country back then (Christian) conservatives must regain control of the educational system and do it in a hurry, IMHO.
Good Find—thanks!!!
I knew there was a reason why that book is one of the Great Books worth reading!!!
I have not read it and I should, since such Wisdom is tucked inside it..... but my stack here is so, so high. :(
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