Apparently, we'll also continue to have a certain contingent of honest conservatives who are so beaten and demoralized, that they don't believe that there is any possible way for we Americans to restore our country to its former greatness.
I call them "doomers". No matter what gains or progress we make toward our goal of a restored America, the doomers are always there to remind us that, "It's all in vain. There is no hope."
Democrats have used the law, the legal system, education, the media, and Hollywood to build their empire. They have inculcated a system of entitlement where someone now serves a few years in the military and says they are a “veteran”, expecting the same benefits and job preferences of those that fought wars and served twenty years in previous eras. That's the people on our side, not even addressing the true parasites of the Democrats. Entitlement is rampant.
People will vote to trim the edges off other people's government checks, but that is all. Jacques Ellul once wrote of the certainties of political life; that the left is the agent of true power because of the government purse, that the right may only rule as the left allows, and that true federalism can never completely triumph in the age of bureaucracy and arbitrary justice from the ruling class. Federalism and individualism are too frightening to too many people.
Live your life. God bless.
Such “Woe is us - all is lost” mentality is one of the reasons we have come to this sorry pass.
Courage is needed - not hopelessness!
I just posted this comment on another thread:
Sex Toys on Display at the World Youth Conference
Life Site News ^ | Friday September 3, 2010 | Terrence McKeegan, J.D.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2582832/posts?page=3
I take this and other like events as symptoms that things cannot get too much worse. Either some natural cataclysm will occur, or man-made catastrophic event/s, or maybe both.
It is time for conservatives of every religion to take heart - read my tagline! - take shelter in God, and stand up in whatever way each of us can for His truth. Come what may. The body is perishable, the soul - who we really are inside - is eternal. We should not fear death, we should fear evil and any accomodating evil. That is the only thing to fear. And with God’s help within, we can live free of fear, no matter what the world does.
It’s getting close to the time (IMHO) where we may need to do civil disobedience, national strikes, whatever.
When this stuff starts happening in public schools (just a trickle here and there so far, I pinged an article about one school the other day) people in the communities need to go en masse and protest - get in the schools and rip the crap out. Cops can’t arrest a crowd of 2000 people cleaning the filth out of the public school. I mean the books and condoms, nothing violent.
Sitting back and taking has gotten us where we are today.