The U.S. Is Over, Get Used To It

Creative Minority Reporta ^ | October 8, 2014 | Patrick Archbold

[NYer]

Many people are understandably dismayed by the the Supreme Court's refusal to hear several gay marriage cases effectively codifying gay marriage in several states.

While it is certainly disappointing, it isn't really unexpected.

I hate to break this news to you, especially if you are one of these people who think that this country, a country founded with limited government, separation of powers, and federalism, is still recoverable by normal means, it isn't.

The U.S. as we knew it and understood it is gone and it isn't coming back, at least not by regular constitutional means. Nope.

Federalism, limited government, checks and balances, all gone. We now have a rapidly increasing federal behemoth with unlimited powers granted to itself rapidly centralizing power in the person of the president (I don't say office, but person). All of which is hell bent on running every part of your life including your morality, all aided and abetted by an unelected black-robed oligarchy.

You can elect all the Republicans you want, do you really think they will change anything? Not a chance.

Nope the U.S. is done. And you know what? That may be a good thing. Such government, even one founded on the principles of limited constitutional powers and federalism, can only work for a people for whom Christ is their King. That isn't us.

I don't know where we go from here, but I suspect that it is bad. I continue to believe I have a moral obligation to behave in a lawful way, but I no longer consider myself bound in loyalty to a government that has has moved beyond the powers granted to it. Morality, decency, and legitimate freedom will not be restored to Americans through election, it will take other means. I believe the world will undergo a crisis incomprehensible to most and what will emerge from the other side is a different people. That different people will choose a different government.

Until then, we have chosen tyranny and tyranny is what we will get.

[NYer]

Ping!

[freedumb2003]

Should this not be in f-bloggers?

[no-to-illegals]

This author types as though the author wishes for chaos. Bet the author panicked a long time ago.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

This post is correct. Maybe B-chan was prescient. Israel in the OT often treated the true prophets of the Lord similarly.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Left knew what it was doing when it set its sights on taking over the legal system decades ago.

[CyberAnt]

When donkeys fly ..!!!!!!!

[cuban leaf]

The U.S. Is Over, Get Used To It

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Dog bites man.

Our nation became what it is because at a time when we had true free markets we got rich rebuilding the entire world, and we were willing to go spectacularly in debt.

The party’s over. The world is rebuilt and can do fine on its own. It’s even competing with us. We are like a family with a really good income, going in debt that matches our income, and then our income permanently declines significantly.

Yeah, we’re gonna lose the house and the boat. Probably the Porsche too. But we still have the Chevy and there’s a nice double wide that we can get pretty reasonable after the bankruptcy is done.

[cuban leaf]

I hate to break this news to you, especially if you are one of these people who think that this country, a country founded with limited government, separation of powers, and federalism, is still recoverable by normal means, it isn’t.

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This is why I bought the small farm in central KY where I now live back in 2008, just two weeks before the election - AND I THOUGHT MCCAIN WAS GOING TO WIN.

There is no human solution to our dilemma. And make no mistake, it’s not the US that is in trouble, it is western civilization as we know it.

[no-to-illegals]

Wonder why this author believes that this author is not part and parcel of the government? Never understood people believing such. Author, of this piece, must never have learned the truth. The are segments of all governments. One segment is the elected or appointed. One segment is all the people not elected or appointed. Last time I counted the number of people not elected or appointed we outnumbered the elected and appointed. Guess the author does not understand that truth. Why not work to unite the people not elected or appointed, dear author? It might not work but what if it does work? Why surrender, Patrick Archbold?

[Da Coyote]

“...at least not by regular constitutional means. ...”

Indeed.

And the first soldier that comes back with Ebola will perhaps cause us to consider a different ending to “Seven Days in May”.

[Resettozero]

The U.S. Is Over, Get Used To It

No thanks. Think I'll hang around a little longer to see if there is an encore.

[Deathtomarxists]

they sure did - and when a nation starts down that path there isn’t a darn thing the people can do to stop it. Especially in today’s gimmegimme culture. Best thing is to save your money and when you reach a sufficient amount, the sale everything you have and bug out to some remote country where they will let you live you life in peace. Aussie? Thailand? Liberia???

[Alex Murphy]

....the U.S. is done. And you know what? That may be a good thing. Such government, even one founded on the principles of limited constitutional powers and federalism, can only work for a people for whom Christ is their King. That isn't us. I don't know where we go from here, but I suspect that it is bad. I continue to believe I have a moral obligation to behave in a lawful way, but I no longer consider myself bound in loyalty to a government that has has moved beyond the powers granted to it....

....Calvinism isn't a religion of subservience to any government. The great national myths of Calvinist cultures are all of wars against imperialist oppressors: the Dutch against the Spanish, the Scots against the English; the Americans against the British. So when the Chinese house churches first emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution in the 80s and 90s "They began to search what theology will support and inform [them]. They read Luther and said, 'not him'. So they read Calvin, and they said 'him, because he has a theology of resistance.' Luther can't teach them or inform them how to deal with a government that is opposition."
-- from the thread Chinese Calvinism flourishes

[Olog-hai]

Nope the U.S. is done. And you know what? That may be a good thing …

No, because “the times of the gentiles” is not a thing to embrace.

[ecomcon]

I agree. All of it stems from this:

Such government, even one founded on the principles of limited constitutional powers and federalism, can only work for a people for whom Christ is their King. That isn't us.

The people are corrupt and depraved, yet are self satisfied. The Judges of Sodom rule.

[longfellowsmuse]

evil wins when good people do nothing, same can be said for communist and socialist ideals.

If we give up we will certainly lose, thankfully the residents of Lexington and Concord didn’t feel this way.

[cuban leaf]

No thanks. Think I’ll hang around a little longer to see if there is an encore.

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Unless this is biblical prophesy unfolding (which I believe is, in fact, the case), those that survive the dropping of the curtain can participate in the encore. But it’s never as good as the main event.

[cuban leaf]

One segment is all the people not elected or appointed.

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I look at it more this way, and I started feeling this way back in the mid-1990’s:

I feel like a jew in mid-1930’s Germany.

The smart ones are the ones that caught a boat to England.

The bible teaches me to choose my battles.

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

The moment Stonewall died, IT died.

Stonewall wanted to found a true Christian nation in the South after the war and said if that was not the result of a Southern victory, then the entire struggle was for naught.

IT was for naught, and 150 years later the patient has died.

Issues we wouldn’t even bring up in polite society is now codified into law.

God’s judgement is real and over due.