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Existentially, America is almost at the end of the line: When one asks the big questions, things don’t look good for America, but one question reveals that we still have a choice that can save us.
American Thinker ^ | 02/11/2023 | Molly Slag

Posted on 02/11/2023 8:19:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Looking at the American political and cultural scene, let us contemplate what I call the “Quintessential Existential Interrogatories”:

(1) Where are we?

(2) How did we get here?

(3) Where are we going?

Many know a slight variant of these questions from Paul Gauguin’s famous painting of the same name: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (“D'ou Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous”), but these three questions crop up all over the place.

I would add a fourth question that is just as important: (4) Is there an alternative?

1. Where Are We?

We are in the age of the irrational hoax. Unlike the Piltdown Man hoax, which was clothed with an aura of credibility and, therefore, was a mere fraud, the hoaxes of Climate Change, Transgenderism, DEI, CRT, Covid Vax, White Supremacy, etc., are not just false; they are also irrational and absurd, utterly lacking any hint of credibility. Moreover, every one of these hoaxes will lead to the destruction of our middle class.

In “The Coup We Never Knew,” Victor Davis Hanson asks: “Did someone or something seize control of the United States?” He then offers the only answer possible: “We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.”

This coup revealed itself plainly in the stolen 2020 election. Many thought that disaster was an outlier, a “one-off” that MAGA could shake off like a dog shaking off a spring shower, but the replication of that same unsavory fact pattern in the 2022 election dashed that hope. Can there be another fair national election? Some have doubts.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: america; donatecheapskate; existential; survival
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Yep. And the other side--the enemy--knows we are waking up. And, knowing their window of opportunity is short, they are going to pick up the pace considerably.

I think we who are for freedom know in our bones that the battle is just about to heat up and move into a crescendo.

21 posted on 02/12/2023 3:34:05 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Deep State has been around a log longer than that...


22 posted on 02/12/2023 3:48:46 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
My local church recently held a meeting to vote for "disaffiliation" with our governing body (United Methodist). The church was packed for the vote and everyone behaved politely.

The vote (basically about changing church doctrine to treat homosexuality as a "not a sin") was in favor of splitting with the UMC. It was a close vote. The decision to withdraw from the UMC won by 2 votes out of about 230+/- people voting.

When it was all over, one liberal who has a lesbian daughter started screaming at us Bible believers...screaming that we were an abomination and were going to hell.

My point in telling this story is to illustrate that those who are aligned with the Marxists are deeply indoctrinated to believe they are in the right. They are angry. They will fight in the streets if they have to.

Civil war (I mean bloody war...in the streets) is coming. There's no way around it because roughly half our population has been brainwashed (and profoundly so).

What amazes me is that many on our side refuse to believe the truth. People from my church who I have spoken with don't see what is going on. They have their heads in the sand.

I emailed some friends suggesting that a two-thirds vote to withdraw means that one-third of the people in our church didn't accept the Bible's definition of sin. I know for a fact that the guy that started screaming has never read the Bible (I have known him since we were kids).

Bottom line: On one side we have passionate, screaming Marxists...and on the other side--our side--we have a bunch of people who don't want to stir the pot (the "go along to get along" crowd).

BTW, I am thinking about finding a new church where there is a passion for the Bible. I don't think there is one in my town, so I am at a loss.

23 posted on 02/12/2023 3:56:34 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: the OlLine Rebel

America’s culture destruction has brought on the Wrath of
God.


24 posted on 02/12/2023 5:47:15 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Can there be another fair national election? Some have doubts.


Any that do not are fools with their heads in the sand.


25 posted on 02/12/2023 5:48:42 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: chopperk

Cultural destruction results from incessant pandering to the unequal riff raff


26 posted on 02/12/2023 5:48:52 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: RoosterRedux

Last summer I started reading the Bible cover-to-cover. I had read parts over the years, but never the whole thing. I got sidetracked with whatnot, and your post reminded me I’ve got to pick that back up.

To be honest, I skimmed a lot of the “begats” and such.


27 posted on 02/12/2023 5:55:43 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"every one of these hoaxes will lead to the destruction of our middle class."

This is fundamental to the plan.

Karl Marx identified the middle class, i.e. the bourgeoisie, as the great impediment to the fulfillment of his great dream (our nightmare), viz. worldwide communist dictatorship (upon which the Soviet Union, North Korea, and the Chinese Communist Party are modeled).

Marx proclaimed that the bourgeoisie must be destroyed, leaving only the proletariat (the working class) to exist--and that communism must be established worldwide--by violent means--in order for his dream of a workers' paradise to function.

Marx recognized the necessity of a ruling dictatorship or oligarchy to establish worldwide communism, but--and here his theories become completely harebrained--he predicted that once communism were established, government and the ruling class would MIRACULOUSLY disappear, leaving the proletariat to work eternally in merry bliss, nobody ever taking advantage of anyone else etc. etc. etc. (and if you fall for that idiocy you're definitely ripe for usefulidiothood and are probably already one!).

The middle class must be destroyed if the Marxist nightmare, i.e. worldwide communism, is to become reality.

The Left--including the Democrat Party, its propaganda machine the news media, the federal agencies which serve as a praetorian guard for the corrupt Washington political establishment, the corrupt political establishment itself, and the entire "woke" movement--are, knowingly or unwittingly, part of the movement to establish the nightmare of Karl Marx and/or George Orwell. They are either perpetrators or useful idiots.

“Did someone or something seize control of the United States?” “We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.”

Yes, and some of us did know. When Obama was elected to the Presidency, I knew that a coup d'état had taken place in the USA and said so here on FR in those words.

And BTW, we have not awakened from a nightmare. The American People are awakening to a nightmare and the horrifying realization that it is reality.

George Orwell predicted this nightmare. So did Karl Marx.

Some of us awakened to it several years ago. Some are just awakening. Many are still asleep.

"This coup revealed itself plainly in the stolen 2020 election."

Yes, it became more obvious then, but it was recognizable before that.

28 posted on 02/12/2023 6:05:19 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Truth never comes to the closed mind.")
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To: SeekAndFind

They will also steal the elections they want in 2024, 2028, 2030,.... They have no desire to steal every election. Only the elections that will keep them in Power.


29 posted on 02/12/2023 6:06:26 AM PST by sport
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To: SeekAndFind

Some people knew a long time ago where we were headed.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-devils-advocate_taylor-caldwell/371017/#edition=2867131&idiq=775682

Her books were removed from libraries by liberals.


30 posted on 02/12/2023 6:06:48 AM PST by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

There are still many good, honest, and patriotic people throughout America. The problem is that they are not concentrated enough to escape from the juggernaut of the federal and state governments that are steamrolling our rights and elections for the sake of this new Wokeism. We might see a shifting of people to places like Florida and Texas that seem to still have some control and resistance to the government. Crjeating a few strong, conservative states is probably the best solution in the short term. I am fortunate to live in Missouri, which has some very good people running things. Of course, we also hav we to deal with the urban areas of KC and St. Louis. If not for them, Missouri would be a mostly safe and sane haven from the chaos we have today.


31 posted on 02/12/2023 6:10:39 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: SeekAndFind
" Is There An Alternative?"

Yes: The awakening of the American People to the nightmare and to the realization that it is reality.

There is still time. But time is not on the side of the wise, benevolent, and truthful.

The more time elapses, the less chance there is of saving the greatest nation in history from destruction and the American People--indeed the people of the world--from a nightmare more horrifying than anything even the visionary George Orwell could imagine.

Whether or not enough Americans will awaken to reality in time to save America remains to be seen.

About all we can do is pray for the awakening of the unawakened and do what we can to awaken them before the nightmare, in its full force, becomes reality.

32 posted on 02/12/2023 6:15:31 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Truth never comes to the closed mind.")
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To: P.O.E.
Check this out. I listen to the Bible every night when I wake up and can't get back to sleep (I have the same Bible at the link on Audible):
The Complete Holy Bible - NIVUK Audio Bible (youtube, read by David Suchet)
I use my Kindle, but an iPhone works just as well.
33 posted on 02/12/2023 6:15:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I have to agree with you. There were elements of a move to the left before that. but it really started picking up steam in the 60s.

“Make love, not war”, If it feels good, do it”.

One of my favorite lines in a movie is in “Field of Dreams”, where Ray Kinsella meets Terence Mann, and Mann exclaims “Oh my God, you’re from the 60s. Peace love dope, now GET THE HELL OUTA HERE!”

Cracks me up every time!


34 posted on 02/12/2023 6:23:42 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: familyop

Deliberate murder of America and western civilization by our very own.


35 posted on 02/12/2023 6:24:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: PerConPat
"Can a population largely overfed, dangerously distracted by addictions to leisure and luxury maintain their freedom and national security in a dangerous world?"

That is decadence.

We have been experiencing the Decadence of Western Civilization since it erupted into overtness as the counter-culture movement of the 1960's.

It existed before then, but few (including me recognized it for what it was.

Some of us recognized it in the 1960's, but most didn't. Many are still blind to what's going on.

Can decadence be reversed once it has afflicted a civilization? Who knows?

Donald Trump believed that it could be. So convinced was he that he risked everything--a considerable amount in his case--to snatch is beloved America from the brink of decadence. The viciousness of the attacks on him and his attempts to rescue America are a measure of the entrenchment of decadence in America and the extent to which his attackers have allowed themselves to be afflicted with the disease of decadence.

Can America be saved? Will the American People awaken to reality in time to save America--and themselves and their children? Only time will tell.

36 posted on 02/12/2023 6:30:07 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Truth never comes to the closed mind.")
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To: dforest

I’m gonna have to get a copy. She has quite a body of work, and they all look interesting!


37 posted on 02/12/2023 6:37:47 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: telescope115

She was a conservative author way ahead of her time.


38 posted on 02/12/2023 6:40:39 AM PST by dforest
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

we also hav we to deal with the urban areas of KC and St. Louis. If not for them, Missouri would be a mostly safe and sane haven from the chaos we have today
_____________

I’m in Illinois, 90 miles from Chicago. We also have Springfield,St. Louis, and a democrat ruling party. I know what you mean…


39 posted on 02/12/2023 6:43:43 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Thanks - I bookmarked the linked link.

I loved Suchet’s Poirot series.

I will probably only use it once in a while - audiobooks usually move too slowly for me, and I like to stop and contemplate every now again. But thanks - it seems like a decent version.


40 posted on 02/12/2023 7:02:46 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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