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Schizophrenic America
Algemeiner ^ | 1-24-17 | Shmuley Boteach

Posted on 01/24/2017 6:39:44 PM PST by SJackson

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1 posted on 01/24/2017 6:39:44 PM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 01/24/2017 6:41:40 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SJackson

“Can we not see the political Right and Left in the same light?”

No


3 posted on 01/24/2017 6:41:49 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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The only realistic means to raise values among the people is religion. And by far the best religions for that purpose are Judaism and Christianity.

“Social justice” is NOT something that can ever be achieved by the communist inspired leftists. It inevitably fails, and turns into dictatorship of the masses by one sort of politburo or another.

We need to work together, Christians and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, agreeing to disagree on many matters but united on such matters as the right to life, family values, real marriage, and so forth.


4 posted on 01/24/2017 6:49:18 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SJackson

I work on a major military base and I have a guy that is constantly in my face about this election because he knows how I voted. (Trump)

He’s a hardcore lefty and I think becoming unhinged

Its getting weird this guy is off in far left field


5 posted on 01/24/2017 6:49:54 PM PST by ezo4
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This guy is stupid....this nation was NOT even united by the horror of 9/11! There were plenty of lefties ( especially in the MSM ), who claimed that we deserved to be bombed and die and worse.

As evidenced by the past almost two years, more openly than EVER BEFORE, this nation is extremely divided and only a complete catastrophe ( something like the crazed Muslims taking over this nation and killing ALL of those whom they hate and completely subjugating the rest ) will unify use as we once were.

6 posted on 01/24/2017 7:08:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ezoeni

Report him to the highest power you can, but leave out WHO you voted for.


7 posted on 01/24/2017 7:10:50 PM PST by nopardons
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To: SJackson

Let’s face it. We’re Americans. We love to fight. So, no.


8 posted on 01/24/2017 7:14:32 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Document. Maintain your situational awareness. Watch yourself going to and fro and leaving the base. Know his license plate number.


9 posted on 01/24/2017 7:16:27 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: SJackson

I know Shmueli Boteach personally, and I will attest — he is off the wall. His heart is in the right place, but he needs to have his head examined.

He tends to contradict himself while talking at you. Unity of values — what values do these liberals have? They basically want total freedom from any moral or civic responsibility. They want to do their own thing and have everyone accommodate them.

Only in a faith-based culture can people have the same values. It may not have to be the exact same religion, but at least an acknowledgment of moral authority.

This is impossible with liberals, each of whom has created his/her/its (tranny) own mini-world that would put STAR WARS to shame.


10 posted on 01/24/2017 7:16:47 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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Unity of values — what values do these liberals have?

I tell my family that whenever someone starts spouting off 'values' as if this is some worthy and admirable quest to devote oneself to, start walking away. It's not values we need, it's virtues. I love this quote by Archbishop Charles Chaput... "Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant; then it tries to silence good."

11 posted on 01/24/2017 7:48:46 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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“Archbishop Charles Chaput... “Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant; then it tries to silence good.”

I love that guy. I wish DJT would start spending an hour a week with him.


12 posted on 01/24/2017 7:57:41 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: SJackson

“Is it religion? No. Not just yet.” Wrong. The correct answer is Yes, religion, the Christian religion where the Lord rises from the dead and renews the face of the earth, something that atheists reject.

The “division” between the millions of patriots who love American and the few crazies who love abortion is shallow. A few years of Trump and a few weeks away from Obama and Clinton will clean up the culture and chill out the crazies who just want to see cool fireworks on July 4th anyway.


13 posted on 01/24/2017 10:28:04 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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Will it take tragedy to bring us together, as it did at 9/11?

That togetherness lasted less than 2 weeks and within a few months Hillary Rotten Clinton was shouting on the floor of the Senate that "Bush KNEW!".

Conspiracy theories about Jews, explosives, and remote control planes went on and on.

Bill Maher said the hijackers weren't cowards.

14 posted on 01/25/2017 12:57:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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The feminazi marchers last weekend were united by a pro-Sharia Islamist who believed Saudi Arabia offered a better way for women than the USA.

If anything unites their position it is anti-Westernism, don’t bother debating or discussing issues with them. The outrage is the message.


15 posted on 01/25/2017 1:01:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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We could have respectful and even productive disagreements if we held the same premises and were just arguing over conclusions. The problem is socialism and classical liberalism (aka American conservatism) are built on opposite premises, which makes compromise and mutual respect nearly impossible.

What’s really galling about the whole thing is that it never should have been this way. Socialism is an alien ideology that should never have been able to take root here. The Declaration is all about natural rights and the Constitution is about limited government. Combined they amount to a neon sign saying “No Socialism Here”. Yet here we are up to our gills in a struggle against friggin socialism.


16 posted on 01/25/2017 1:39:11 AM PST by Yardstick
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>> Author: I am personally wounded by the deep divisions in our country,

I appreciate his sentiment.


17 posted on 01/25/2017 2:05:46 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Cicero

Exactly right. He says that “values” rather than religion can unite Americans, and then he goes on to give a list of principles that are essentially religious.


18 posted on 01/25/2017 2:34:00 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The feelings business is very profitable, and the thinkings business is not.")
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I love you and miss you. Please come home. All is forgiven.


19 posted on 01/25/2017 2:34:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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Thank you, dear. Have some coffee!


20 posted on 01/25/2017 2:36:10 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The feelings business is very profitable, and the thinkings business is not.")
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