America's current trajectory:
Posted on 01/03/2016 10:23:53 AM PST by Kaslin
In a column entitled "Which Party Loves the U.S.A.?," the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, Jr. presents an interesting formulation. Democrats love their country more than Republicans, because Democrats love it the way it is right now (with burgeoning non-white immigration, altering the demography), while Republicans (above all, Mr. Trump and Senator Cruz) "yearn for the United States of Then."
It appears that Mr. Dionne has in mind more than a mere change in color among our people when he observes, "Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley all stand for the rights of a younger America today's country that is less white, more Latino and Asian (and yes, more Muslim) than was the U.S. of the past. " For, he continues, "[t]he cultural changes that have reshaped us are welcomed as part of our historical trajectory toward justice and inclusion."
And so it appears that there was something good about the America of Then: it had an admirable historical trajectory. The problem, we venture to suppose, was that Americans of old did not realize that this trajectory of justice and inclusion pointed in the direction of making the white race the minority. Some of them may have thought that in the case of slavery, justice consisted in the end of the slave trade, followed by emancipation, followed by civil and voting rights. Others may have thought it good to have people come here from around the world, but perhaps not that justice dictated turning the country into Africa, Latin America, or Asia. Why is that the target of the historical trajectory for Dionne? Do justice and inclusion dictate against there being any white-majority countries? Is that a punishment justly meted out to the guilty white race because of its transgressions at the beginning of the historical trajectory?
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Conservatives were not looking to “fundamentally change” America because we loved it.
A substantial number of people cheered when O.J. Simpson walked free from a murder conviction.
Getting one over on ‘the man’ excuses a lot of wrongs, including this presidency.
At this point I'd settle for 1987.
To leftists their lord is the state. They love to see the state used against those who work to make the U.S.A. great. So, while the left loves big government, they hate the U.S.A.
America's current trajectory:
No, not even this brings success.
People who philosophized this forgot the milieu in which they lived. It was a revival minded milieu.
This is like fish vainly talking about being able to swim in the air.
In it’s most base and accurate form, Democrats hate any group that will not vote them into power. All the others are mere useful idiots they use to consolidate power.
If you understand this, you understand the core Democrat. Everything else is just a mask to this reality.
Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Democrats, they’re all the same at their very core.
Loved it too much, perhaps. God got talked up (viz. Reagan) but it’s like He was expected to stay in the box of preserving a status quo. The God that got the gospel shoes of transforming love walking on the streets didn’t get mentioned by Reagan. This has consequences!! This meme got left to illiberal “liberals” who of course muffed it royally by casting the government as this God.
If the Democrats are supposed to “love” America so much more than Republicans, it is a very different American than the one in which I had lived so many years.
That territory that was once known as “the United States of America” is such a stunted and mutated version of the original concept, it cannot be said to even be the same country any more, no more than Imperial Rome was anything like Republican Rome.
The original versions of the Declaration of Independence and the versions of the US constitution before the adoption of the 16th, 17th, the 18th and its repeal, the 21st, and the 26th (which lowered the age of majority from 21 to 18), all ill-advised moves at the time and ones which even today do not augur well for the good of America.
If the Democrats didn’t have the media shilling for them 24/7/365, they would have self-destructed long ago. It’s so blatant when you see them trying to make old, tahhhrd Hillary Clinton appear somehow FRESH! and NEW!
It’s just ridiculous, really.
One can wax nostalgic about the remodeling history of the building in which loose living is now taking place, or one can do something about the attitude of its occupants, that they use it to the good.
The latter is wiser. The idea that an environment alone will shape a destiny is actually taken from our dear illiberal liberals, folks. Where is the power to rise above every sling and arrow? It’s found in God. When claimed, then the architecture will begin to follow. But always, horse goes before cart.
LOL, 1987 was when I started my rant on government overreach - banning three wheelers and then Suzuki Samurais (I didn’t own either.)
Is this the same bunch of scumbags that booed the American flag and God in their convention? I’ve been at events and seen Democrats trying to fake patriotism and I know they can’t because it’s not in their heart.
FWIW, Donald Trump has come to offer some kind of change that doesn’t have to be the old tired ideas of our government-solves-everything illiberal liberals. And that although ironically his own heritage was that of the illiberal liberals... could it be he learned something from having tried to make success mix with that, and seeing pushback at every turn?
Perfect, no, but when you have perfect please ring my bell. Jesus Christ just returned, then.
It was the beginning of a soft, then hardening despair. That somehow we had to architect worldly control solutions to every problem, that “nothing else” was present to meet the day. Right on there, Duchess.
Demographics is Destiny and it’s not on our side.
Theographics (yeah I coined a word, so sue me) is destiny which even beats demographics.
For libtards, justice ia a code word for social justice and is not the same as genuine justice. And inclusion is how parasites and losers play the victim card, the oppression card, and the inequality card. The purpose of both is to get more "free" stuff, and to punish the producers and achievers.
And theographics can be on your side any time you wish. “Just believe”
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