Posted on 08/03/2022 8:20:47 AM PDT by rktman
This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return -- a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.
If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration, it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying "You won't know what hit you!"
There have always been irresponsible demagogues. But there was once a time when anyone who shouted threats to a Supreme Court Justice would see the end of his own political career, and could not show his face in decent society again.
You either believe in laws or you believe in mob rule. It doesn't matter whether you agree with the law or agree with the mob on some particular issue. If threats of violence against judges -- and publishing where a judge's children go to school -- is the way to settle issues, then there is not much point in having elections or laws.
There is also not much point in expecting to have freedom. Threats and violence were the way the Nazis came to power in Germany. Freedom is not free. If you can't be bothered to vote against storm-trooper tactics -- regardless of who engages in them, or over what issue -- then you can forfeit your freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Sowell is brilliant, I love him.
What he said about “unelected” judges making law can be equally applied to unelected bureaucrats in government agencies. That is, indeed, the swamp that must be drained.
The problem now is no matter how we vote, the manufacture and counting of ballots in the dead of night in certain key districts or states renders our vote irrelevant. We haven’t so much forfeited our freedom, it’s been wrested from us by traitors.
WE Christians love to claim that promise, but are you aware that is only HALF of the promise? Here is What God ALSO said in 2 Chron 7, 19-22:
“19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.”
Please see the Tree of Liberty quote. :-(
Thank you for posting this. Dr. Sowell Is a national treasure and he is exactly right. I see some hope but time is short and we are behind. They stole at least 5-6 points from Ward in AZ last night and her win is by no means safe. To use a cliche we are in knife fight in phone both, we are both old enough to know what that means.
Both fortunately and unfortunately, John Moses Browning eliminated the phrase “point of no return” for such a turn of events.
Bttt.
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The other problem is that the GOP is going to work against our candidates.
I believe we are reliving Isaiah 59. (There is nothing new under the sun. History repeats itself.)
See, the LORD’s hand is not so short that it cannot save, and His ear is not closed that it cannot hear. But your wrongdoings have kept you away from your God. Your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
For your hands are sinful with blood, your fingers with wrongdoing, your lips have lied, and your tongue talks about sin. No one wants what is right and fair in court. And no one argues his cause with the truth. They trust in what is false and speak lies. They plan to make trouble and do what is sinful.
They bring young ones from the eggs of deadly snakes and make traps as a spider does. He who eats of their eggs dies, and a snake comes out of the egg that is crushed. Clothing cannot be made from the work of the spider, so they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of sin. They hurt others with their hands. And they are quick to sin and to kill people who are not guilty. Their thoughts are thoughts of sin. Wherever they go, they destroy and cause suffering. They know nothing about peace, and there is nothing fair in their paths. Their roads are not straight. Whoever walks on them does not know peace.
So, what is right, and fair is far from us. What is right and good does not come to us. We hope for light but see darkness. We hope for bright light, but we walk in the dark. We feel for the wall like blind men. We feel our way like those who have no eyes. We trip at noon as in the night. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
All of us make noise like bears, and cry inside ourselves like doves. We hope for what is right and fair, but it is not there. We hope to be saved, but it is far from us. For we have done much wrong before You, and our sins speak against us. Our wrongdoing is with us, and we know our sins. We have gone against the Lord and have acted as if we do not know Him. We have turned away from our GOD. We have made it hard for others. We have thought and spoken lying words from the heart. What is right and fair is turned back. What is right and good stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and what is right cannot come in. Yes, truth is not there. And he who turns away from sin comes under the anger of sinners.
Now the LORD saw this, and it did not please Him to see that what is right and fair was not being done. He saw and wondered that there was no man to speak up for what is right. Then His own arm brought saving power, and what is right with Him gave Him strength. Being right and good was His covering for His breast, saving power was His head covering, clothing of anger was his covering, and His strong desires were like a coat.
He will pay them back for their works. He will send anger upon those who are against Him and will punish those who hate Him. He will send punishment on the islands. They will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His shining-greatness from the rising of the sun. When the one who hates us comes in like a flood, the SPIRIT of the LORD will lift up a wall against him.
“The One Who saves from the punishment of sin will come to Zion, and He will come to those of Jacob who turn from their sinful ways,” says the LORD. “And as for Me, this is My agreement with them,” says the LORD. “My SPIRIT which is upon you, and My WORDS which I have put in your mouth, will not leave your mouth, or the mouth of your children, or the mouth of your children’s children,” say the LORD, “from now and forever.” - ISAIAH 59
THe GOP will work against us until they are rid of MAGA and America First. They would just as soon let the RATs win the midterms with no fight if it rids them of MAGA.
Exactly. That’s why I never believed all that “Red Wave” stuff.
We’ll be lucky to take the House, much less the Senate.
And make no mistake, The GOP “Civil War” just got hot.
Oh it will be red wave despite the GOPe trying to throw it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5P85gjCRTc
Roundtable discussion of the U.S. provocations with China and Russia under the policy of “containing them.” All participants think the U.S. wants a war and that China has decided there will have to be one and is currently preparing for it.
Hosted by Gonzalo Lira
Alexander Mercouris, The Duran
Brian Berletic, New Atlas
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
Commentator: “What an all-star team! THIS is what the internet is for.”
But don’t act like it, assume we’re losing.
From an “everyday perspective,” the unelected bureaucratic/administrative “branch” of government is clearly far more powerful than the three true Constitutional branches of government. Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College discusses this in brilliant detail in his profoundly deep book, “The Founders Key”. Cheers!
The Repulive-can’ts could run a ham sandwich and win in November. I think gas will be $7 or $8 per gallon by then.
Imagine that — scripture was predictive.
“No one wants what is right and fair in court. And no one argues his cause with the truth. They trust in what is false and speak lies. They plan to make trouble and do what is sinful.”
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