Posted on 09/16/2020 11:58:49 AM PDT by Ancesthntr
Civil Wars also happen when military forces become at odds with one another. We have that as a distinct possibility this time around.You cannot dismiss it.
It’s sad that the youth of today are so ignorant about the horrors of communism.
It’s the Conservatives who get “blacklisted” these days.
And always for telling the truth.
Fortunately for us, the dims didn’t vet obama to find out that he was lazy.
HRC crashed because she was distracted by settling old scores and believed that she would be queen.
bttt
Nice quote and very true
Yeah I’m getting ghosted by some friends too.
Too bad.
:D
Put Diana West’s “Red Thread” on your absolute must read list. She inherited M. Stanton Evans library and notes. “Red Thread” has info tha Evans didn’t have or was unable compile before his death.
You can get a sense from her speaking engagements, a whole slew are available on youtube.
She’s the one that lead me to Evans work, available from Kindle as arecher works.
Over the years I have had great interest in the subject and read many books on it, and “Blacklisted by History” is the best.
The best.
Joseph McCarthy was an American hero, and he purchased our country a couple of decades by making Communism “unfashionable”.
I dislike seeing his name used as an epithet, but I recognize that many use it as shorthand.
Amen.
I disagree. The Democrats haven’t changed at all.
The difference is that now they’re out in the open. They’ve become so desperate to hang onto power, and our tax dollars, that they’re willing to risk everything.
Reminds me of the nobility in the French and Soviet revolutions. They think they’ll be in charge after the chaos starts.
+ 1 million. You’re hired. Kisses and hugs.
Thanks!
My read on the key man issue is this:
Every once in a while, nations get into a heap of trouble - usually because their leaders stray from basic values. When you do that, the average person sees it and, even if they don’t voice it or even think about it in these terms, they decide that their country is no longer such a great place, it’s every man for himself, etc. - and then the nation begins to fall apart.
Then, if the nation is a basically decent one, God sends the key person. He (usually, but Maggie Thatcher was such a person in my belief) kicks ass and takes names, restoring pride and greatness to the nation...for a few years. That lesson - that it CAN be done and SHOULD be done - is supposed to be impressed upon the people so that they then select better leaders on their own. If they succeed, the nation has an extended renaissance and becomes even greater than it once was. If not...well, you had your chance and you blew it.
Just my $0.02. Reagan and Trump in my lifetime were such men. They were/are so completely reviled by the Left (which, in my view, is pretty much evil incarnate no matter what country they’re in or what label they attach to themselves - they are collectivists who do not acknowledge individual responsibility, but judge people based on race, religion, economic status, etc., and you’re either in the favored group, or you are an oppressor), and the Left threw EVERYTHING at them - and they not only survived but prospered. You cannot explain that with conventional logic, there’s something else going on there.
There’s a world of difference between WW2, on the one hand, and Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, on the other. It was how we conducted ourselves. WW2 was viewed (correctly, IMHO) as a literal war for survival. We held back NOTHING, and we went into that war knowing that we were either going to destroy those governments or they would destroy us - there was no other option. As Ike called it in his memoirs, it was a Crusade (in Europe) - and it HAD to be, otherwise we couldn’t have won, because there’s no other way that you get 1 in 10 people in the country into uniform for an indefinite period of time. So, because of that 100% effort, we won - and occupied both nations (and let’s not forget that the Russians took and inflicted several times more casualties from/to the Germans - but I’m discussing our behavior). The reason why they changed to Constitutional republics is not because they loved us - it is because we utterly smashed their prior governments and literally gave them no choice. Only after a few years of operating like that, and getting lots of our aid, and lots of our trade, and seeing the prosperity that they were enjoying - and the security because WE provided it - ONLY THEN did they make the emotional decision that living in a democracy was far better than what they had 10, 15, 20 years earlier.
In our last three wars, it was NOT a fight for our survival. We held back militarily because of domestic political reasons. Yes, we militarily controlled territory within each country, but we made it plain that we weren’t going to do to them what we did to Germany and Japan. Once the other side understood that, they knew that they just had to hang on for a while in order to survive and keep their way of life going. So that determination, combined with a lot of Russian and Chinese (and Iranian, in the case of Iraq) military aid and propaganda support, led to us getting tired of these wars that weren’t, after all, in our vital interest in anything like the way that WW2 was.
Those things, IMHO, account for the vastly different results in those wars.
“It’s sad that the youth of today are so ignorant about the horrors of communism.”
Unbelievable - never in my life did I think that I would see anything like the present situation in this country. We are, this month, 97 years from the time when my grandfather came to this country from the USSR, escaping so that he could be free, and his future children and grandchildren could not only be free, but have unparalleled opportunities. This country was THE refuge, we were untouchable because of the 2 oceans surrounding us, and the firm believe in the hearts of the vast majority of the citizens that we were the best nation on Earth in many respects (even while they recognized that we never were and never will be perfect). Then, 22 years after he came - 75 years ago - we were on top of the world, victorious on all fronts, we barely bled compared to every European and Asian nation, our industry was wholly intact, we had cheap and abundant energy and no competition of any serious kind on the planet. Within the 25 years after that, we had coast-to-coast highways filled with new cars, vast new housing developments across the nation, filled with the latest technology, fleets of aircraft carrying people across continents and oceans FOR PLEASURE, and we landed men on the Moon - we were clearly the richest, most powerful, most successful nation not just of the time, but of ALL time - and no nation or empire ever came close to our level of success. So we went from being astride the globe like no other nation in 1945, to growing our wealth, power and technology for a full 25 years after that...to this wretched state of affairs, in a mere 50-75 years, less than a single lifetime. It makes me want to retch. Worse, it sickens me that I have to be grateful that my grandfather and my father never lived to see our present situation - because it would have shocked and incensed both of them.
Yes, the Leftist assholes (young and old) may get their Communist nation. But if they do, I hope that they bleed and suffer like no other group has - because that’s what they deserve for the misery that they’ve inflicted upon the average person while ruining this nation, let alone what may be done in the future. Obviously, I’d rather see Trump win, and turn the hearts and minds of a lot of those Leftists away from their evil path, and a restoration of this country’s decency and, with it, it’s power to decide it’s own fate...but I’m not terribly optimistic.
That’s why I keep using it - because Cicero was probably one of the greatest observers of the human condition ever (or at least one of the greatest whose writings were preserved). He absolutely nailed that one.
You can add West’s “American Betrayal” to Red Thread. I haven’t read either, but after seeing the descriptions, I’m ordering both.
Thanks for the information.
There’s certainly a large element of truth in what you say - after all, this love of (the idea of) Communism and Socialism that we see among so many of our youth didn’t just spring up out of nowhere - it’s rotten seed was planted in our soil at least 100 years ago (I date the decline of this country as beginning no later than the Wilson Admistration - he was the first out-and-out “Progressive,” though TR was somewhat of one himself before that). But when I refer to Democrats in general, I’m usually speaking of the rank and file of the Party, not those at the top. I also don’t think that Truman, Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn and a host of Dems from the 50s-70s were anything like the current crew, not even deep down in their hearts.
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