Posted on 11/23/2014 7:05:37 PM PST by upchuck
America is on the edge of a second revolutionary war.
It may not be bloody like the first one, but it will be hugely important.
Some might suggest its more a civil war, but with liberty and the constitution hanging in the balance, revolution seems a more appropriate comparison.
There are no British troops or monarchy to fight this time.
The shot heard around the world wasnt fired from a musket, it came from the ballot box.
Americans have taken a long hard look at the kind of fundamental transformation promised by Barack Obama and the Democrat party and they want nothing to do with it.
The Republican victory suggests Americans are more than just unhappy with the direction the country is headed.
Such was the devastating scope of the electoral debacle for the Democrats that it appears Americans are mobilizing for war against the Obama agenda.
They are only now truly beginning to understand the threat to liberty he presents.
Whats so deeply troubling, albeit not entirely unexpected, is the disdain, arrogance and contempt with which this president dismissed the results.
So to everyone who voted, I want you to know I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too, he said.
Meaning what?
He seems to be suggesting that by not voting, the majority of Americans agree with what hes doing.
Terrifying? You bet.
Its taken six years, but the ugly truth about Obamas contemptuous attitudes toward the people who elected him twice is becoming all too evident.
Lame duck? Guess again.
The man probably realizes that a chance to remake the U.S. according to his far left view of the world may not come around again.
His time is running out. Obamas nuclear option is amnesty for millions of illegals.
He expects those illegals will become dependents of the state, thus stacking the electoral deck in favour of Democrats by promising the new wards of the state a suite of entitlements.
The depth of this destructive agenda is clear, rip off trillions in wealth (which Obama believes was stolen anyway) and give it to those whom he considers victims of capitalism.
The beneficiaries will naturally reward the progressive left with voter support into perpetuity. Viola, the progressive dream of a one-party state is realized.
This has been decades in the making. The left has infiltrated, corrupted, and subverted the institutions that had, up to now, served as pillars supporting freedom, democracy, and prosperity.
The bulk of what was once a free and independent media has been reduced to little more than an arm of the Democrats.
That tens of millions of Americans are flocking to Fox News, Conservative talk radio and online news sites is heartening but doesnt change the fact most TV, print media outlets are in an advanced state of putrid, cancerous liberal rot.
The same cancer has undermined the school system, big labour,' the environmental movement, and the Hollywood culture machine.
Even capitalism itself has succumbed to the lure of easy government money, power and cronyism.
So who is left to fight for freedom? The rest of America.
Obama will attempt to ram through amnesty, climate change, wealth redistribution and he will ignore the constitution to do it.
Republicans have assured Obama impeachment is off the table. And so the battle lines are drawn.
Fasten your seatbelts Canada, were about to get a front-row seat to the battle for the soul of America and indeed the free world.
Lets hope that, as in the first revolutionary war, that the right side wins.
If it doesnt, we all lose.
I wondered the same thing. I think my old auntie played viola in the school orchestra in the '50s.
If the general tone of this forum is any indicator, I believe you!
“Led by Field Marshal Mitch McConnell and General John Boehner?”
Secret identity: Lieutenant Fuzz and Private Zero.
PING!
And half of us will be sneaking into Mexico to get away from it all. :-D
We have all paid so explain how one class becomes more deserving than another.
I accept your kind offer.
I waive any claim to SS/M’care benefits in return for the “contributions” extorted from me for the past 50+ years.
To compensate me for the lost time value of money, I request you deliver a proxy punch in the chops to FDR in the lobby of Hell.
Once upon a time. we did elect the Newt Gingrich congress who did much to reform social security and put it on a sound fiscal footing, but thanks to the ruinous spending of the democrats and this massive immigration of unskilled illegal aliens pushing up the amount of transfer payments hugely it is gone. It is a sad sad situation. When I was young, pensions were common, in fact they were vested. You were promised that no matter what, you would have this pension, and then for most of us who worked in the private sector, this income we had planned on for our retirement, was all taken away us when we were 40 or so, and facing the fact we were going to have to start over trying to prepare for our retirement, just when our college-bound children needed our incomes the most. Then thanks to the destructive policies of the federal govt, our stocks deperated, interest rates and housing prices fell, prices rose, our annuities we paid so much into just began to disappear, for many of us our wages and hours cut. And then, our grown children, unable to find jobs, began to need our support further depleting what savings we had set aside.
It is so hard to be old, my young friend, after a life time of working, paying high taxes (many of those years taxes were higher than yours by the way.) We have been hurt too, it is so very very hard to be old and sick, knowing what little income you are given comes from young people who have every right to resent you. You are asking so much from the “old” patriots, more than you can imagine, you ask us to be utterly impoverished, utterly dependent on the charity of those who like you resent us so, no longer able work after we have stood on our own two feet for all of our lives, and provided for children as best we could. Many of us old people will probably choose to live destitute, sick, starving, cold, and homeless after a life of toil, to help you, but it is a terrible sacrifice, and you should not resent and hate us so much for fearing this.
“Whoda thunk 20 years ago that the time would come when Canadians are telling us to man up......”
Man up and put Obama in the Penalty Box?
I would imagine that it is a humorous twist on the French word “Voila”, which generally means “here is”. And so, viola...it’s voila.
WTH are you talking about?
You called a bunch of seniors out for collecting SS.
Is that really a problem for you or does your new post presuppose a dilution of what you said, so you can further qualify your original?
and your passport up to date
Bought a KSG off the grid yesterday. Then, by golly, the darned thing fell overboard this morning. Seems unfortunate, but I feel better and better each time that happens.
We don't know that for sure either.
I see you only post every week or two, so let this be a reminder:
You are a Jackass to impune someone’s integrity and further, their patriotism, for taking Social Security.
You are also a blowhard and probably on Social Security while pretending to be some morally superior whack job.
That you would do so demonstrates, in bold letters and vivid colors your lack of integrity.
Surprised only two other posters caught your BS.
And to think the scam that is Social Security was foisted by the reasoning that folks were not saving enough of their own to provide for themselves in their declining years. Turns out this is just one more thing the feral gummint couldn’t do, either!
Ceaucescu
Go awol, and let your countrymen suffer.
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