Posted on 02/06/2016 4:55:29 AM PST by Kaslin
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan
When a nation is beset by problems too big or too difficult to solve, it tends to obsess over trivia. Are "Berniebros" sexist for preferring Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton? Does Adele's "Hello" promote sexual harassment? Are wealthy, privileged black liberals being given enough Oscars by wealthy, privileged white liberals?
Meanwhile, when was the last time America decisively WON a war and achieved all of our objectives? If we don't count small excursions like Grenada, that would be WWII. We may have the best military in the world, but our ridiculous rules of engagement and meddling politicians have become more of a problem for our troops than the enemy.
Additionally, the rule of law no longer exists in America in a meaningful way. Well-connected Democrats like Hillary Clinton can break the law with impunity while Republicans like Scott Walker and Rick Perry have to face politically motivated prosecutions. Meanwhile, our government openly encourages illegal aliens to laugh at our laws while liberal judges ignore the Constitution and base every ruling solely on their ideology. Justice is supposed to be blind, not just politics by another means.
Fifteen years after 9/11, our borders are still wide open and we don't have an effective system of tracking people who overstay their VISAs. Even as our economy becomes ever more centered on educated workers, we're welcoming in massive numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal who are uneducated. Approximately half of them end up on government assistance paid for by Americans who are laughed at when they question whether unlimited amounts of illegal immigration help our country.
We keep hearing how wonderful our economy is supposed to be these days, but only 63% of Americans have a job or are looking for one. That's the lowest percentage since 1978. Not only does our government not have any intention of paying off a dime of our debt, any and all serious attempts to cut into our massive deficit are met with howls of outrage. This is despite the fact that our growing debt has the potential to cause an economic collapse in the next decade or two that would likely lead to a Depression and the end of Social Security and Medicare in their current forms.
Christians are portrayed as serial killers, wackos and hypocrites in Hollywood; they're mocked by the mainstream media; the military has become overtly hostile to Christianity and we've now gotten to the point where liberals are trying to make it illegal for Christian businesses to oppose gay marriage or for Christian hospitals to refuse to participate in abortions. Meanwhile, we're the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs and we've murdered 4-5 Holocausts' worth of innocent children since Roe v. Wade while 4 out of 10 children are born out of wedlock. We've become a "if it feels good, do it" society where the only sin is pointing out when someone's sinning.
In liberal-run cities like Detroit, the number of kids who aren't proficient in math or reading tops 90% and nothing of significance is being done about it. Terrorists and communists are openly welcomed as professors at our universities where economic policies that should have died with the Soviet Union are widely promoted. The education of our children has become secondary to propping up teachers unions that have been failing our kids for decades.
Merit has been tossed to the side in politics and we're now told that it's perfectly acceptable to vote for unworthy candidates for political office as long as they're the right race or gender. No matter what their race, gender or political party happens to be, our politicians have become hopelessly corrupt and out-of-touch. Our politicians are more crooked than the mob and less competent than the French military in WWII. Perhaps that's not a surprise given that any random handful of rich donors has more influence on our politicians than tens of millions of voters while our government seems incapable of handling the basic tasks.
Like coddled trust fund babies, Americans today are living on the economic, cultural and militaristic accomplishments of previous generations. They made the ruthless decisions we no longer have the guts to make in order to win wars. They created the Constitution, morals and codes of conduct that served our nation well for so long that we now ignore. They built the roots of a thriving capitalistic system so strong that we've come to believe that there's no amount of socialistic sabotage it can't endure.
We are a decadent nation in deep decline that's content with the status quo because we're borrowing so much money that it hasn't gotten uncomfortable yet. Our politicians, our culture and most Americans don't seem to understand that our country is a ship with a hole in the bottom, an airplane with no landing gear, a car with no brakes. Until they understand the severity of the situation, we will continue to be a nation obsessed with what's on TV while our country burns to the ground around us. There's nothing sadder than watching the country that you love ignore neon signs a thousand feet high warning them of oncoming disaster as they stumble through a minefield, blissfully unaware that they're steps from disaster. Sadly, that's where we are today as a nation.
Whether we like it or not, Reagan was right when he said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction and he was right when he said this, too.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
And what happened to the rotting Lazarus after 4 days?
Warning maybe... about where man can take himself through folly.
SURVIVAL GUIDE how in blue blazes did you ever get that? The cure for worldliness is MORE worldliness?
The survival guide is the same as it has been for millennia. The bible and the Holy Spirit that breathed it.
No, the future of Christianity is simply outside of the public sphere. We will live as Christians do in Muslim countries - a people apart (not by our design, but by that of the larger culture).
It's unfortunately reaching the point where an event man made or otherwise could destroy civilization. Things have been manipulated and controlled for so long now, that when that no longer works, there's no "plan B".
I really believe the global elite will head for their safe havens when it all comes tumbling down. How ready are people to fend for themselves and maintain our civilization?
(don't wind me up on philosophy. It's one of my nerd passions)
“This is Ted Cruz’s message every hour of every single day.”
Too bad he doesn’t live up to that message in deed.
I strongly supported Ted when he ran for the Senate, but he badly broke the deal with me when he voted for TPA and the Corker bill.
He lost my trust, and has done little to gain it back.
“””When we finally go over the cliff financially - there will be a final spasm of cronyism where Americans scramble for the right to take what’s left from other Americans who are less politically favored that they have built and earned and is yet to be confiscated by government.
“Conservatives†will be wearing the jackboots, same as the “Progressivesâ€. We want our free stuff from government, no matter what our political affiliations, and are already slitting the throat of the Republic to keep it. Our children will be ashamed of us for it.””””
Very well said. And, I couldn’t agree more.
Yeah until he changes his mind again.
Dirty little secrets WE ALL KNOW ARE TRUE:
We gotta get RID of the Moslems. They DO NOT mix, or play nice with others. They chop heads, both figuratively and literally.
We gotta get RID of the Mehhicans. They DO NOT mix either, and are a HUGE drag on the economy and hemorrhage $$$ south of the border to boot..
Those two ALONE fix half of our problems.
???- What the heck has Trump have to do with this article...???>p> Donald has already got his....I'll bet a dime against a donut that Trump, like most all of the elites, has absolutely no allegiance to our country what-so-ever...!!
MHO....
We love our little gloom and doom parades here on FR. If you want to change the world, you gotta get off your fat butt and get involved.
That means attending village council, schoolboard and county board meetings and demanding your rights to fair taxation, a proper education for children and give warning that you will not allow your liberties to be usurped.
You need to elect a 2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county. That gives you the legal and armed muscle to take down leftist bureaucrats, abusive police chiefs and lawless prosecutors and judges in your community.
If all you do is sit in front of a computer screen and whine, you will be run over and crushed.
Oh put a sock in it....damned one trick pony trumpeter. Can NO thread go by without one of you fools spouting off (with the same crap youve already said 10,000 times before!)
Perhaps you should consider grania, who has contributed to this thread, supporting her candidate without being a pompous jackass.
This entire article can be condensed into the following statement:
When a people become too civilized to do what’s necessary to survive in an uncivilized world, they won’t survive.
Tell that to John Knox Scotland.
Were TPA and Corker to put this kind of thing in the rearview mirror with lessons learned, it might mean something.
But there doesn’t seem to be any announced plan from Cruz to adjust course.
Also, sometimes these peoples have not dared to be as forward with the gospel as they could be, because their vision was to stay alive on the earth more than it was to spread the kingdom of God.
Discretion is called for in difficult circumstances, but also the good Lord when asked WILL not MIGHT open doors. If we only ask a little of the Lord, only a little we get.
Thank you for presenting the answer to our problems-ALL of them!!
If we DO II Chronicles 7:14 God will do as He said!!
IF Christians, alone, would STUDY the BIBLE vs. look at a thousand channels of nothing on TV, they’d find that thousand by thousand we’d turn back to God and back to godly living....the only way to LIVE!! Changes in USA law would help, but it’s not the answer, it is individuals living with the heart of GOD, my humble opinion!
Even more, elect the good Lord king in your heart.
That doesn’t just mean behave yourself, though it can have that effect. It means you now matter to the God of the Universe. And He’s saying ASK! For the things that please Him and by derivation please the one who is invested in His heart.
God did not propose to be a quintessential joy killer. Satan did.
IT isn’t about “discretion”, but accepting the fact that issues that are important to Christians (families/children, Judeo-Christian morality) are meaningless to an increasing number of people.
Another Chicken Little op ed.
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