This is often seen in decaying empires in terminal decline before their collapse, which is why I wrote this short story, FWIW.
Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.
I read the whole piece in National Review. Given where they are these days, I can’t believe they printed it - or keep Steyn on the roster. There is almost nobody telling the truth about where our country is headed these days, largely because so many “conservatives” want to go there too. It’s a blessing that Mark Steyn is still willing and able to speak out.
I recall seeing what looked like a homemade ‘Obama for president’ bumper sticker in 2005 but that was in Cambridge, MA.
America is liberal. White conservatives are a dying breed in this country. I don’t see any role for the GOP other than to act as a caretaker for future Democratic administrations. We want to be like Europe. The America as we knew it was buried for good in the last presidential election.
Didn’t Breitbart say “Politics is downstream of culture”? Steyn argues that liberals (progressives) spend more energy changing the culture and conservatives more energy on changing officeholders.
Who has control of our culture now?
At a fast-food restaurant today, I ate lunch next to a trio of people who didn’t appear to be employed in an office setting or employed at all. Two women and one man, late twenties or early thirties. One of the women (in language salted with profanity) described her family and her relations with them. “Two of my relatives [cousin? uncle?] became Conservaahhtivvvve” (she drew out that last syllable with a cross between a hiss and a groan). She said they had regular, responsible jobs. Her contempt for them was on full display.
These are BO’s people.
And those others she dismissed so easily are paying her way through life.
Steyn ping.
Andrew Fletcher (1653 - 1716) - “Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
Which is why Mark Levin says they can’t help themselves and that is why we need the Liberty Amendments.
This is often seen in decaying empires in terminal decline before their collapse, which is why I wrote this short story, FWIW.
Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.
When you put it like that, it does seem pretty stupid.
depressing but true..
I used to work sometimes in DC, and had close contact with many high up government types. Would attend a few parties...
By this time in that election cycle, I KNEW Obama would be the nominee, and I was pretty sure he was going to be President. The talk and Buzz was all about him, even from more "conservative" types.
I remember warning people here, whose hatred for Hillary made them prefer the relatively unknown Obama over her. They though surely Whatshisname would be easy to defeat. I had heard and seen otherwise. Watching this debacle slowly unwind was nauseating.
Yes depressing and true. America will party on bros until the money and loans are completely gone. The only unbreakable law is economics, you can’t make gold out of straw. The nation will go bankrupt and fall. What sort of society that emerges after the disorders is unknown. Love your family and pray to God, the rest is the realm of the Devil.
He doesn’t sound like a “Happy Warrior”.
Here’s some good news:
In the last ten years we destroyed most of the race card.
Successfully attacked the credibility of the mainstream media.
Helped a majority of people see global warming as ‘debatable, not settled’...
All but eliminated standard ‘gun control’ myths...
Turned the term ‘liberal’ into something liberals run from...
Told the people of Israel that NOT all Americans think like New York Times staff members...
Helped Europeans see their massive uncontrolled ‘immigration’ was created by their liberal elites to keep wages down - not to ‘help people’...
The above is a beginning... all done by conservatives with the help of people like Mark Steyn, Jim Robinson, Rush Limbaugh, Daniel Greenfield, John Lott, freepers etc. etc... yeah, it’s rough - but we really are winning...
One more - turned the cultural tide on abortion:
CNN poll: 58% now oppose abortion in most or all cases
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3131044/posts
So how do you change a culture?
This is the same conclusions I reached when Obam was elected to a second term. The first term scared the hell out of me and I thought maybe it was a fluke of nature..
But I now know it was a corrupted culture, corrupted courts and corrupted politicians chasing the corrupted culture.. I also know that the 200 year experiment called America, had come to a tipping point and had tipped over..
You can't fix it in the normal way politically. It has to come to it's inevitable conclusions on it's own, like a stinkin drunk who hits the lowest of the low places in his life.
Does that mean we stop trying?
Nope! On the contrary, we keep doing what we do, offering another way forward but we do it with grace and the knowledge that the country is a sick puppy.
But we have to understand what we face and that the drunk has to nearly die if he/she has any chance of recovery. We need to keep our eyes on that goal (and the future) while we preside over the (present) chaos that is sure to come and is already here in fact. The fuse is lit...
In my humble opinion...
NO giving up...accurate, quite likely, but NOT unchangeable (sic)?! This IS “flyover country” over here, and the country “at large” will not stand for this.
I agree. It was a true indictment of “Both” Political Parties.
Ponder the vested control issues in the following example:
“Both” Political Parties of our current Communal Federal Government understand that the purpose of naming a Master/Slave Federal Government Program an “Entitlement” is to deceive the enslaved population into believing that becoming slaves to a Master is something to be desired, and thus reduce the probability of a slave rebellion.
The Master/Slave Entitlement of Obamacare is the most Communal of all of the Federal Government Master/Slave Entitlement Programs, because it can legally collect monies and/or property after death of the Entitled Slave, or from their surviving family members.
FORWARD, the RINOcare RINOS!
FORWARD, the Obamacare Democrats!!
FORWARD !
pinging again for later...