Posted on 06/21/2018 2:31:09 PM PDT by Mafe
Close your eyes and imagine holding someone’s scalp in your hands. I don’t mean cradling his skull as you thousand-yard-stare at his lifeless face. I mean a real scalp, Indian-style, of some enemy you just killed on the battlefield; somebody you hated and who hated you back.
You killed him, won the day, carved off the top of his skull, and now you’re standing over him victorious on the now-quiet field of battle, with a quiet breeze blowing through your hair. Your adrenaline is still pumping with that primal feeling of victory and the elation of having survived when others didn’t.
I’m not naive enough to think that less than 5 percent of those reading this are the only ones not cringing at that mental image. Amid our wealth and privilege, most Americans cannot even relate to that kind of violence, and they sure don’t want to fantasize about it. That whole thing feels barbaric, violent, and repugnant. Maybe you even wish now you hadn’t read it.
But maybe, for just a moment, would you consider it? No, not a real scalping, but a metaphorical one. We’ll come back to this in a minute.
Look, Guys, America Is Simply Going Down First, we all have to accept certain realities about where we are as a nation. Rains will come and go. The stock market will rise and fall. The sky is blue. Water is wet. And government in America will just never stop getting bigger. This is simply a fact of life.
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Not sure what point the author is trying to make, but he sure is delicate, and assumes far too much.
“Jobs are coming back.
People are getting off welfare.”
I had to navigate through some roadwork today on my way to the store. The surprising thing that caught my attention was that all the road workers, 20 or more of them, were all young black men. All of them. Not a mexican in the bunch. Somebody had to ditch all the low-pay illegals and hired more expensive American workers.
Right then and there I thought, “wow, Trump’s policies are working and you can really see it happening.”
Repeal all stupid Amendments to the Constitution.
Reinstate fatherhood.
Ban abortion.
Privatize education.
That would put the proverbial genie back into the proverbial bottle.
Did you mean to say moved Left or Right over the last 70 years?
In reality we have been moving Left due to Progressive Leftist Politics the last 100 years. With few real speed bumps along the road here we are.
Reagan slowed things down some, but not much. Trump is doing his best to move the pendulum back toward the middle but it is a tough situation.
The Progressive Leftists want total Statism, they want Open Borders and Unlimited Immigration. What I want to know is do they understand the total consequences of this?
As Dr. Murray Rothbard, one of the leading Austrian School of Economics said, and he wasn’t the only one:
“You can have Open Borders, You can have a Social Welfare State, You just can’t have both”
The Western States in Europe are already finding this out the hard way. These people coming in don’t want jobs they want only the Benefits and that will Bankrupt them and us in the long run.
We will end up breaking up in regional sections. Those in Blue will be on their own and will not be able to make it without the South and other places.
You are quite right. One can debate exactly when the United States as created died, but the Supreme Court’s approval of ACA was certainly the official coroner’s report.
My wife and I often discuss that. What happened? The WW I II and Boomer generations Fd the country up
The Xers and Millennials just pile on. They don’t know any better.
All the fedzilla has to do is inflate the currency ala Venezuela, the people will be brought to their knees. On the other hand all those people that used to be too busy working to protest and vote may then have the time.
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
-Rudyard Kipling
The 1965 Immigration Bill was the wound that killed us.
Take away the immigrants & their spawn from that bill and the Democrats would be a small regional party.
I think in the long run America will survive. The United States will be abolished, fully in accord with the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. The Founders would have not one atom of approval for the statist monstrosity we see today.
When the economic house of cards collapses, it is all over for Versailles on the Potomac.
But yes, I agree with the heart of what you say.
“Demographics are destiny.”
Demographics are mutable. Rather like landscaping.
Exodus 14
8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the people of Israel; and the people of Israel went out with a high hand:
9. But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-Zephon:
10. And when Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were very afraid; and the people of Israel cried out to the Lord:
11. And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt:
12. Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness:
13. And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again:
14. The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace:
How many times did Moses have to talk them off the ledge anyway.
History repeats.
President *Trump*. The 70-year Establishment [along with its riders] has already been thrown into the sea.
The pervasive darkness mentality needs a "crisis intervention", stat.
In some places you can go to jail for killing these park rats, same for pigeons.
Matthew 13:24-25 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Eucatastrophe is a term coined by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien which refers to the sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom.[1] Tolkien formed the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe, the word traditionally used in classically inspired literary criticism to refer to the "unraveling" or conclusion of a drama's plot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe
I see a lot of city based incompetents in one location who have to be fed. That is not a massing of force. That is an infestation of parasites their masters must carry.
Gothic war, Belisarius.
Some beasts are too large and inept to survive.
We have moved always Leftward. Always left.
If The Republic is to survive, and what historically known as “mans best hope for Liberty” is to continue, it will not be because of a positive attitude. It will be because our Creator God, saves us. It isn’t that the world is falling to pieces, it is that human corruption is rampant.
The only chance this world and nation has, is to be redeemed. I find the idea of going out with guns blazing, and the sounds of battle in my ears very appealing. It will not happen though. The battles that are to come will be skirmishes. The real fight will be personal. It is ordained, that is all that matters.
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