Posted on 01/21/2013 8:08:40 AM PST by Kaslin
When people reminisce about what America used to be like, some act scornfully toward us. They say living in a Donna Reed world was great for a few, but that there were many suffering souls. The way our country is today makes some of us long for those days which seemed so innocent compared to the harsh, cruel, coarse, and sometimes murderous days we exist in today.
Yet most would argue that there were still injustices when we were growing up fifty years ago. Black people who had been freed a century before were still not treated equally in most parts of the country. Many women were limited in their businesses, political, and professional opportunities. And if they did enter any of those careers, they were capped as to what they could achieve. Few would want a return to those aspects of days past. Yet they would seem almost welcome compared to the experiences we have had in Newtown, Aurora and Tucson.
Even though now more than a month has passed, the pain of what happened in Sandy Hook Elementary school stills burns deeply in our hearts. There were some who started assigning blame for what happened within days which was clearly indecent during a national mourning period. Yes, we need to find paths to resolve the deep divisions that trouble this country. But will that really take us back to a simpler time? After all, the residents of Newtown likely lived there to avoid all this cultural degradation and live a “Leave It to Beaver” life where the biggest challenges were errant children chewing gum in class.
A yearning exists for the days when children rode their bikes to schools, which were open with flowing green fields where they frolicked under minimal supervision. Now children are escorted by grownups to their schools, which are fenced in and then locked down. Remember even at Sandy Hook the school was locked down at 9:30 each morning, just as almost all elementary schools are today.
What does it say to the children of our country that they have to be escorted everywhere they go? Are they left to think that wherever they go there are people in uniforms providing security and their parents are on a constant vigil watching them? What kind of country have we passed to them?
That we cannot as the grownups in this society come to some agreement of how to resolve this only makes matters worse. With every single massacre, we instantaneously divide into two camps. There are those who immediately shriek that it was the gun at fault, completely ignoring the other societal factors that brought a deranged madman to execute an unfathomable act. Then there are those who argue that there exists nothing that we can do to keep the means of mass murder out of the hands of these freaks.
Come on folks, we can do something about this, but the suggestion by Wayne LaPierre of the NRA to put armed guards on all campuses seems so distasteful. Already an estimated third of our children go to schools that have armed guards. We should not unreasonably restrict our Second Amendment rights because of these maniacs, but putting our kids on lock down would just make matters so much more obscene.
We have not yet had a coherent conversation about how to move forward. The people who want more gun control lurch into nonsensical talk about bazookas or tanks with very little knowledge of guns or how they function. People like the editor of the Journal News (Westchester area of New York), who listed the names and addresses of local gun owners in the newspaper, display to what extent the left will go to restrict gun ownership. They are scary as their actions are reminiscent of command and control countries that totally restrict gun rights.
Some people do not understand that there is a difference regarding gun owners. It is not like obtaining a driver’s license. That is a privilege. The right to own a gun is embedded in our Constitution. It is there for a reason. The unrepentant Caryn A. McBride, Editor of the Journal News which listed the home addresses of prison guards and district attorneys in her cause to restrict gun ownership, scares us and should scare you. It brings into question the rationale for a federal gun registry when ownership is a right not a privilege.
Yet, there are things that are just not going right. We have lost sight of the faith, family, and community that built this country. Our government has become too big yet cannot even confront the truly mentally ill among us. As Charles Murray taught us in his most recent book, Coming Apart, even our rock solid middle-class communities are falling apart. The amount of children being raised without proper parenting is just appalling. And when people do get married, far too many are getting divorced for their own selfish reasons while thinking their children will be just fine. Boys need fathers and not just as appendages.
Never being a fan of video games, we would just as soon trash them, but that would be a First Amendment problem. Yet, when politicians decry weapons, they should really assault the culture vultures who sell these games that desensitize young males. Our President booted this issue to be studied in his recent proposal. That means zero will happen on this aspect of the problem. Why do we have to hear this nonsense that only protects these products? Moral suasion still works as has been effective with cigarette smoking, so why can’t we do the same with these disgusting games? Why do parents acquiesce to allow the constant devolution of young male minds?
You may wonder why so many people bemoan our current culture and hark back to happier times. Maybe it is not as bucolic as we paint it, but our children certainly lived a more innocent existence. What our goal should be is to bring all children to those wonderful times instead of bringing every child down to the lowest common denominator. The innocence of childhood can never be devalued. It can only be lost. Let’s not have the innocence of another group of youngsters lost like we have at Sandy Hook. Let’s show some leadership.
Took God out of schools and allowed marxist teachers to brainwash the kids who now make up the most illiterate electorate in American history.
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Oh, and exactly what were those expectations?
You can't eat here...you can't use this bathroom...you can't belong to this club or organization...you can't work here...you can't walk here...you can't sit here...you can't live here...and a hundred more everyday things that you can't do...
Yep, the absolutely best circumstances anywhere, anytime for anybody.
Where do people like you come from?
It’s only time before the fiddling starts....
It’s only time before the fiddling starts....
I am not discounting other factors that have contributed to our national decline, but the underlying reason is that we no longer have the same electorate and a national consensus on the rightness of the vision of our Founders. We have become Balkanized along racial, ethnic, and cultural lines.
I doubt that. Provide an exact quotation.
they claim that marijuana is harmless, much less harmful than alcohol.
You do understand that those are two very different statements, right?
They're quite wrong about that. Marijuana is not even a hallucinogen like LSD.
Loss of morality which was derived from living in a Godly manner
Teaching them the Fairness Doctrine and socialistic ideologies in educational institutions
Desensitization / numbing down empathy and sympathy of the youth by letting the them experience everything as a voyeur rather than a participant where they would actually experience it for themselves. Done through TV, video games, YouTube videos, etc....
Polarizing one group of people against another and using them as useful idiots at the polling booths
All in all, a bad combination. But for those parents that raised their children to be respectful and moral, I hope there are enough of them to stand against the evil regimes to come that will have no mercy on them.
Loss of morality which was derived from living in a Godly manner
Teaching them the Fairness Doctrine and socialistic ideologies in educational institutions
Desensitization / numbing down empathy and sympathy of the youth by letting the them experience everything as a voyeur rather than a participant where they would actually experience it for themselves. Done through TV, video games, YouTube videos, etc....
Polarizing one group of people against another and using them as useful idiots at the polling booths
All in all, a bad combination. But for those parents that raised their children to be respectful and moral, I hope there are enough of them to stand against the evil regimes to come that will have no mercy on them.
If voters had been presented with facts and protected from the pro-Obama media, similar to the juries, voters would have never voted for Obama. That was our conclusion, anyway.
The media makes us into emotional idiots, and I'll say it, especially women voters.
40% of all the children born in the US are born out of wedlock.
Seriously, don't believe the hate-America propaganda. Compared to damage done of minorities now days, those were much more “moral” days.
-PJ
Pull up your pants and stop whining.
Exactly. Doesn't exist any more. Hasn't for a long time. So why do we still have special skin color based laws in our society?
I was born in Utah in the 1950’s. I never even saw a black person until I was 12 years old except on television. Whatever opinion I formed was based wholly on TV.
It is sad in a way, but to tell you the truth, I really don’t believe I was prejudiced against blacks, they simply weren’t part of my reality.
America is dead and gone. The final nail in the coffin was the 2008 election of an African communist as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. America had a great run. Remember it fondly for what it was, but there’s no point hanging onto the past.
The United States of America is now little more than a land mass populated by cretins, ingrates, and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors so that it may be “redistributed” to them in exchange for their votes. It is not an America worth defending anymore. That America no longer exists.
The parasites outnumber the hosts now, and there’s no going back. America is dead.
The Democrats have won.
Nothing lasts forever (shrug) and there’s no point crying or whining about it. My recommendation to every decent human left out there is to throw some cold water in your face and proceed to ‘Plan B’. Figure out how to grab every government dime you possibly can before the parasites who comprise the Democrat party “base” gobble it all up. Look for angles. Look for refuge. Hide what you have. Get under the radar and game the system. Every man for himself.
Good luck, everybody.
By the way, some freepers may reply that I’m “quitting”, or “whining and wringing my hands”... I am neither. I will continue to fight if only to keep the scum from fully enjoying the fruits of their efforts. And I am not whining and wringing my hands - - in fact, I’m having a blast! The sooner normal, traditional Americans come to grips with the fact that the America they knew and loved and grew up in is dead and gone, the sooner they can act to hide and secure what they have and take care of their families, and screw the everyday scum who voted away the greatest nation in history. Let them flounder around miserably in their greed, stupidity, and ignorance. Refuse to join in.
Back then, all that stuff happened where Democrats were in charge.
GALLON OF GAS: 1/20/09 — $1.84; 1/21/13 — $3.26...
It's reverse discrimination, plain and simple. 'Gettin' back at whitey', dont'cha know.
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