I agree with Buckalfa. Our country has changed. Recently on freerepublic someone posted a chart/graph regarding the religious nature of the country. There’s been a steady decline in church attendance and a growth in those who are atheist or agnostic with the greatest decline occurring since the late 1980’s forward. Morals make a difference. Christianity is on the wane in our nation and it’s having a negative impact. Remember these quotes:
John Adams - We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Benjamin Rush - The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be NO virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. Noah Webster - [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.
Do you really think this Republic can be saved without the same mind and heart that these men possessed? Can you imagine what it would take to return us as a nation to their same attitudes? In light of these facts, it’s hard to be optimistic about our country. God will not be mocked. What you sow you will reap. Since we don’t want Him involved in our nation any longer we get the communists and the Miley Cyruses of the world. Enjoy them while you can. It’s going to be a very bad harvest America.
All excellent points which should temper the attitudes of anyone who would boldly claim “a solid South” - or any part of the nation. While there may be pockets here and there nationwide that have fairly reliable voting bases the last several election cycles have demonstrated that there are no locks that can (or should) be counted on.
The one element that I haven’t seen articulated yet is the siren song of the “Santa Clause Syndrome”, the leftist tactic of winning votes (and thus control) by giving away free stuff (at taxpayer expense). We’ve seen it played out many times since Øbongo seized the reins - the woman who enthusiastically claimed post-election, “Now we have someone who will take care of me and buy my gasoline!” to the infamous “Øbamaphone” lady to the startling statistics of the flood of people to public assistance.
How can we counter the allure of “free stuff” when all we have to offer is the promise that if you work hard and live clean you’ll eventually be rewarded? I am of the opinion that the only thing that will work in our favor is that the money won’t last forever - that leftist largesse only works as long as they have other people around to pay for it.
Dark days ahead.