The Great War.
Killing 10,000 of your best men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years, will do that.
LIBERALISM!!!!!..................
Jimmy Carter!
Hmmmm...Fifty years of decadence and hedonism, that is widespread drug use, fornication, pornography, neo pagan earth worship complete with rituals replacing religious dogma, the canonization of celebrities, a birth rate below replacement due to abortion and birth control, the embrace of homosexuality, pathetic dependence rather than self reliance in whole segments of the population, the “multicultural” acceptance of the alien bizarre and the loss of a common consensus of values. Gee whatever happened to the West?
As per our discussion yesterday. It really does look more and more like it is too late to affect any change that will “fix” the problems. trump was probably our last best hope for a major course correction, but the left has him all tied up in lawsuits and lies.
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Anytime you have idealistic rationalists in charge (read: people divorced from reality who want the rest of the world to resemble the ideas floating around in their heads), you are going to have a crappy unworkable society. We don’t need anymore conveyer-belts from elite colleges to positions of power. Instead, we need more empirical thinkers. That, as simple as it is, is the problem.
120 years of Progressive Leftism
The disruptors of social calm--that is the grievance mongers & "community organizers"--have embraced that mania. We either learn to stand up to them or accept the social chaos they seek.
Really Pat? You know this answer better than any of us. You’ve been battling against them your entire career!
The problem is a simple one to understand, but oh lordy, try to solve it. Trump is an empiricist and you would think it was the end of the world that he is POTUS. Start replacing the rest of them and the media will fairly convulse into the hissing biting cornered rats that they are.
A consequence and related cause is the rise of tribalism, or ethno-nationalism, the search for identity and community with one’s own. Loyalties to family, tribe, neighborhood, culture and country appear paramount, rising above intellectual and political alignments.
Obviously what’s needed now is a threat from outer space.
A printed, fiat, unbacked currency - creating massive debt - courtesy of the Federal Reserve
That debt supports every leftist ideologue and social-engineer in academic, government, business and elsewhere.
secular humanism + marxism + postmodernism = collectivism, subjectivism, relativism, and emotionalism which leads to ends justify the means and might makes right, which leads to force, violations of natural rights, and destruction.
A house divided? More like a house where the crazy uncle in the basement gets loose. Let’s hope the hysterical over-reach that the Dems are about to unleash will be their undoing in 2020.
If it’s so intellectual how come it’s all falling apart (and rightfully so).
Maybe they are all a bunch of high brow, ill-educated, self absorbed idiots.
Socialism
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things.
In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.
Religion in America...must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it. Indeed, it is in this same point of view that the inhabitants of the United States themselves look upon religious belief.
I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion -- for who can search the human heart? But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.
In the United States, the sovereign authority is religious...there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.
In the United States, the influence of religion is not confined to the manners, but it extends to the intelligence of the people...
Christianity, therefore, reigns without obstacle, by universal consent...
I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors...; in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution.
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts -- the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
Alexis de Tocqueville