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They Can’t Win if We Won’t Surrender
American Thinker.com ^ | October 4, 2021 | John Green

Posted on 10/04/2021 2:24:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

I get a fair number of emails along the lines of: We’ve had our last fair election, it’s hopeless, America is lost. These disturb me because they represent a faction of conservatism that’s ready to surrender.

The simple fact is that we are at war for the soul of America -- though for now, it’s a cold war. What we are experiencing is not politics as usual. The two political sides do not share common objectives while differing in their approaches to achieve those objectives. They have diametrically opposed objectives. The Left has said that they intend to transform America. We didn’t want to believe them, but they meant it, and have been acting on it.

One of my mentors in the business world was a retired Army colonel. He gave me two important tidbits of wisdom that are applicable in our current time. First: The objective of war is not to kill people and break things, but to break the enemy’s will to resist. That is precisely what the Left has been doing to us -- attempting to break our will. Second: War is only ended by the loser, not the winner. That’s why the pessimist faction of conservatism bothers me the most. They’re ready to concede, and they’re playing into the Left’s hands.

The Left has been working towards the elimination of our will to resist for many years. They’ve leveraged the pandemic to curtail our freedoms. Censorship and deplatforming have been used under the guise of preventing “misinformation.” Freedom of assembly (churches and political rallies) have been restricted in the name of “social distancing.” Even property rights have been suspended with forced business closures and eviction moratoriums.

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1 posted on 10/04/2021 2:24:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

We are what they fear the most.


2 posted on 10/04/2021 2:27:07 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife )
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To: Kaslin
It isn't that, like in the past, the two political sides do not share common objectives while differing in their approaches to achieve those objectives. Rather, they now have diametrically opposed objectives.

That would have been a bit clearer.

Regards,

3 posted on 10/04/2021 2:32:38 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kaslin

I utterly loath the surrender monkey losers. Losers in a fight always focus on what the enemy will do. Winners focus on what they are going to do to the enemy.

Reagan’s EPIC SPEECH, “A Time for Choosing”, was given at the time when Goldwater and the GOO was about to get wiped out by LBJ and the rats. Reagan laid out what needed to be done and why.

“A Time for Choosing” excerpts:

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.”

We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

Read the entire speech. It is timeless and profound and could have been given yesterday.
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964


4 posted on 10/04/2021 2:56:22 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Kaslin

Depends on the definition of surrender. If the author believes effective fighting means continuing to bow down to what anyone with a pulse can now see as the worthless alter of the ballot box, then he has surrendered already.

We will never vote our way out of this mess. Way past the time of that working. Way past.


5 posted on 10/04/2021 3:02:41 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: Kaslin
The article doesn't mention the demasculinization/neutering of our military.

This isn't being done without reason.

China is waiting in the wings to help the American Left finish the job.

That said, I agree that we can take America back from the Left. But we need to clearly define our enemy.

6 posted on 10/04/2021 3:04:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: BiglyCommentary
I utterly loath the surrender monkey losers.

Me too.

"Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

Josie Wales


7 posted on 10/04/2021 3:19:43 AM PDT by nonsporting (communistii delendi sunt)
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To: Kaslin

“In the end, you shall lose every thing you hold of value in this world, your wealth, your possessions, your freedoms, your friends, your family, your youth, even your life itself. But before you surrender them, make those who try to take them from you pay an extreme price for every little scrap they grasp for.”


8 posted on 10/04/2021 3:29:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Kaslin
I like this article.


9 posted on 10/04/2021 3:31:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Kaslin
From the author, John Green in the article: They’ve been lying to us, and now we know it. Propaganda only works as long as it’s credible, and theirs no longer is.

Well, you're a little late to the party. Smarter people than you have known the Democrats have been lying to us for decades already. Sheesh. Catch the eff up.

10 posted on 10/04/2021 3:35:44 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
We are what they fear the most.

Damn' right, and as well they should!

11 posted on 10/04/2021 3:37:14 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: BiglyCommentary

“I utterly loath the surrender monkey losers.”

Until the test comes, one’s actual courage can only be guessed at. But I find it disturbing that people so easily start whinging and cowering on the damned INTERNET, where you’d think it would be easier to put on a bold face, at least for morale’s sake.


12 posted on 10/04/2021 3:47:31 AM PDT by avenir
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To: BiglyCommentary

The left? 2020 was indeed a “time for choosing.” The stolen election was certified in the GOP controlled Senate by a vote of 93-7. There is no bigger “surrender” than continuing to support a political party that disenfranchises us all.


13 posted on 10/04/2021 3:51:33 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: avenir

You can tell a lot before the actual time comes by how people talk. Losers always focus on how and why something won’t work. Winners focus on all the ways to make it happen, get it done.


14 posted on 10/04/2021 4:14:05 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Kaslin

I don’t care if they Left DESTROYS this country, and I’ll even help them. All that matters to me is that my RINO Senator loses his job in the process!!! I’ll let my kids deal the nightmare that follows.

(basically paraphrasing some people here)


15 posted on 10/04/2021 4:23:58 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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All that matters to me is that my RINO Senator loses his job in the process!!!

Wow, did Liz Chaney help with that post?

16 posted on 10/04/2021 4:26:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Green as usual is an idiot. No one is surrendering or wants to surrender.

Accurately assessing a situation is not surrendering.

But it is easier to make false accusations against people rather than address their assessment.


17 posted on 10/04/2021 4:43:45 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: lodi90

The only thing to do is to vote out as many rinos and leftist state sos’s as possible, not take your ball and run home to mommy because the other team didn’t play fair.


18 posted on 10/04/2021 4:53:03 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Kaslin

Happy talk is useless unless we fix the broken electorial system!


19 posted on 10/04/2021 4:54:23 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Kaslin
"The Left has said that they intend to transform America. We didn't want to believe them, but they meant it, and have been acting on it."

Sure, like stopping truth from getting to the public's ears.. NEWSMAX has been removed from youtube.. :(

20 posted on 10/04/2021 4:59:38 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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