I don't trust Romney, I never supported him, although I do think claims on FR of his record being the same radical leftist as Bambi are fallacious and way overstated.
I do know that Bambi has the most anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-free market administration that I have ever known about. They are pure destruction. I wake up every day to a new outrage asking "how long oh Lord".
As to Mitt, he's not going to have any where near that animus, nowhere near the kind of horrid personnel in his administration, you know, the ones who hate America and viciously use the presidency to maintain power and their Marxist goals.
I've always respected your posts, but in this matter will disagree, I think it's a no brainer and am joining Palin, Cain, Newt, Santorum and a host of others that agree with my tagline.
I feel exactly the same way, dear Lakeshark. And I don't have any problem with your tagline.
Obama is very successfully constructing a "second reality" of America, based on systematic lying. Sane people cannot live in a culture of lies. Lies disorder souls. More to the point, systematic lying as a matter of public policy divides the people — Christian against Christian, conservative against conservative. Which is what we see here. His Satanic Majesty Obama is succeeding in his plan to undermine and destroy the American public order, by using "divide and conquer" strategies group against group, invading even our Churches, thus dividing the Body of Christ, pitting brother against brother in acrimony and discord....
I cannot bear to live in a culture of lies. It is viscerally painful to me. Especially since the ultimate target of the lies is the very idea of the American Experiment and its order, which is premised on the idea that America is a nation under God.
And so I, too, pray and implore God: "How long, O Lord, how long? How long must I bear this??? Where is my relief???"
I actually think that America is now embroiled in the greatest spiritual crisis she has faced since the Civil War. And November 6th will be the day when we learn whether there are enough spiritually oriented people — the remnant — to overcome the materialist, passionate mob that Obama is inculcating as his trusty minions to help him overthrow the very idea of America and what she stands for: a public order premised in individual liberty and equal justice for all — in short, a nation that can only stand "under God."
And yet there is a coterie of people who I have been used to regard as my friends who seem completely blind to what is happening to our nation, under the Obama Administration. It seems they prefer to engage in Quixote-style "tilting against windmills," or riding hobby horses of their own construction....
All such activities go only to the margin of the problems now facing us. This coterie seems not to know that the only way to "kill the snake" is to cut it off "at the head." (There is a Chinese proverb that goes, in effect, that to solve the one biggest problem is to solve many others into the bargain. That's a paraphrase.) It seems to me that they reflect only a sort of spiritual blindness which has been more or less self-imposed. (But why???)
At bottom, I truly believe there are only two types of human beings:
"All human beings live, consciously or unconsciously, in openness toward or in resistance to the ground of being."The ground of Being is God Himself and His Order, which is His Eternal Word, Logos Alpha to Omega.
Obama and everything he stands for, and is trying to implement in our own country, stands in total resistance to the ground of Being. His "new god" and "new order" can only be built when "God is dead."
But the American Experiment lives in openness to that very ground, as the Declaration of Independence makes clear. America — though she respects most if not all religious points of view (we do draw the line at and condemn such religious practices as infant sacrifice, for instance) and, as such, is "secular" in its approach to the foundations of the body politic — has historically understood herself as having been constituted by We the People who understand themselves as living Under God.
Yet this is the very idea that Obama is trying to eradicate from the American consciousness and self-understanding.
Obama wants to destroy any such notion "root and branch." And he is succeeding.
We swim in a poisonous culture of deliberate, systematic lying against the truth that constitutes America. It is not only an attempt to falsify our Constitutional order and history; it is a direct attack on the psyche of individual Americans.
Lies only propagate more and more disorder. The disorder is increasingly evident to anybody with the eyes to see it.
But what of those who do not see it? Again, is this willful blindness, because this truth is so unbearable that it simply cannot be acknowledged? So we tilt at our windmills, and ride our hobby horses, thinking we're actually doing something to reverse the deadly trend being actively promoted by the White House in every action and policy prescription that it is systematically advancing against the American Idea and the well-being of American citizens?
These are the very people who see Mitt Romney as "the problem." Jeepers, it makes me wonder exactly what planet these people are living on....
Well, FWIW.
Thank you for your outstanding essay/post, dear Lakeshark. I subscibe to your insights without reservation.