Posted on 07/15/2017 5:03:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
You don’t wish the worst for people or nations that you care about. You don’t want your friend who’s driving drunk to crash his car. You don’t want your cousin who has unprotected sex with a prostitute to get a STD. You don’t want your kid who’s pointing a realistic- looking toy gun at a police officer to get shot. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
It’s bad when someone you care about plays those stupid games because it can wreck his life and the lives of the people around him. It’s worse when your country is involved because it can hurt all those same people and their children, along with everyone else in the nation.
That’s exactly the situation we’re in here in our country because the truth we all hate to talk about is that America DESERVES to fail.
I don’t want that to happen. After all, this is the greatest country ever on God’s green earth. We have the most incredible military, the most powerful economy and we’ve done so much for the world. Without us, the bad guys would have won WWI, WWII and the Cold War. We’ve been the indispensable nation.
Are we still?
Today, Americans would rather sit out a war, no matter how important, rather than see our soldiers die as they did during WWI. We weren’t able to deal with less than 4,000 deaths in Iraq while we lost more than 13 times that number in WWI. Our industrial production was the decisive factor in the Allied Victory in WWII. Just to give you one example, when the war started, we had 3,000 planes and by the time it was over, we had produced 300,000. Could we do that again? No. Just no. Do we still have the sort of leadership it took to win the Cold War? The jury is still out on that one, but I doubt it. If the Soviet Union was still around today, half our military secrets would be leaked to it through the New York Times while idiots would laud the leakers improving “transparency in government.” Even while Reagan was taking the steps that brought the Soviets down, Hollywood and the Democrat Party were fighting him every step of the way & we’ve gone even further backwards since then.
Along those same lines, Hoover Dam was built in five years. Today, there would be hashing things out with lawyers and environmental rights wackos for that long and it is doubtful that it could be built at all. Remember when we shocked the world by putting a man on the moon in 1969? Well today, we’re no longer capable of going to get the flag we left there. Instead, we’re obsessing over whether men with mental problems who believe they’re women should be treated like real women. There are more educated people than ever before, but fewer people who seem capable of thinking. We’ve gone so far backwards that as the great Thomas Sowell said, “The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
So what are our politicians doing about these issues? Our country owes trillions of dollars it never intends to pay off; Social Security and Medicare are both in the red and unsustainable; our borders are unsecured; basket-case enemy nations have acquired nuclear weapons; thanks to Obama race relations are at their worst point since the sixties and more Americans hate each other over their political views than any time since the Civil War. So what’s Congress working on? Well, here’s the hot new topic that Congress seems to really care about…
A number of female House Democrats wore sleeveless clothing on Friday, tweeting in support of "Sleeveless Friday." The action was part of the push to modernize the House dress code. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) said, "It's 2017, and women vote, hold office, + choose their own style. Time to update the House rules to reflect the times!"…Pingree's comments were aimed at Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who said he would work with the sergeant-at-arms to modernize the dress code that includes requiring men to wear a suit and tie in both the Speaker's lobby and House chamber.
This sort of trivia is now the rule, not the exception in politics. As America’s problems have gotten bigger and more intractable, our politicians have created phony problems to solve instead of dealing with real issues. They may not care if North Korea can hit America with a nuclear weapon or whether Social Security will still exist in its current form in a decade, but they can talk your ears off about the women’s dress code, civil war statues and the name of the Washington Redskins. Unfortunately, our Congress is a reflection of our culture which prizes celebrity, outrageous behavior, attention whoring and meaningless expressions of how much people claim to care above all other things. There was a time when being a jerk prone to emotional outbursts of nonsense was looked down upon, but today it means you get a reality show at best and a bigger Twitter following at worst.
There are still a lot of good people in this country, but as a nation, we’ve become complacent, decadent and jaded. We’re the trust fund kid living off the money great, great-grandad left us while the family business we don’t understand fails. What we have in America? It’s rare. Historically, there are not a lot of extremely prosperous, free nations that don’t have to fear invasion because of that powerful military. That means we are squandering an inheritance left to us by previous generations of Americans that we may never have again once it’s lost. We foolishly assume it will be this good forever even though we laugh at and impugn many of the ideas, attitudes and principles that were responsible for our success in the first place. America is not on track for a happy ending and as much as I hate to say it, we’re going to richly deserve the pain, misery and disaster our own actions are going to bring down on our heads one day.
First, I disagree that the present-day comparison with history is null and void. At almost every step along the way of this American Experiment, there was a minority of rabble punching above their weight in terms of noise and violence. Ultimately, someone had to push back, and historically the push back won.
And it's happening now. Now, I DO agree that one year ago, it was looking grim. Then Trump won, and now I see an emboldened citizenry pushing back. Yea, yea, I know...we still have MSNBC ratings rising, universities with anti-freedom rules, and the like. But now we have Deplorables staging anti-statist protests. I saw an incredible video of black citizens picketing a Maxine Waters town hall. This was NOT happening until recently. Why? Because it looked like the Thelma and Louise option was all that was left.
As for what I am doing, well, I never surrender my position. Let's just say Operation DoodleBob is up and away and yielding benefits.
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The challenge is that the libs have oozed into all the corners of power: academia, bureaucracies, mass media, even churches. Those are powerful opinion-shapers and the Kardashian set is easily led. The perception is that the libs are far more numerous than they are. Like the shield-beaters of ancient armies, they make a lot of noise and convince the foe that their numbers are legion.
Trump and the Deplorables are challenging that misperception, and reducing the noisemakers to their rightful numbers. Certainly there's hope.
But it's becoming less and less likely that we'll return to a Great America without a cataclysmic upheaval. And once the shooting starts, it's anyone's guess who will emerge the victor.
>>If the liberal “obstructionists” were out of the way, perhaps Pres. Trump could get a good start on draining the swamp that is so badly needed. Problem is even those who are supposed to be on his political side are fighting him tooth and nail which I believe, is because they too are part of the swamp dwellers.
Well and truly stated. The President’s adversaries in his own party are the absolute worst of the swamp dwellers, and until we have another political party to oppose the Uniparty anti-Americans masquerading as Republicans, the swamp will NEVER be drained.
When I see statistics showing low voter turnout, I often wonder if they're counting someone like my friend as one voter and three non-voters even though he's only one person.
>>As for what I am doing, well, I never surrender my position.
Of course, Keep doing what you are DOING—if you are physically doing something. But are you doing things that the other side recognizes as action? As an example, picking up the trash in the park after an Occupy rally is not action. It is submission. It is actually serving them and the government that would not stop them (perhaps by denying a permit because they trashed the park last time and then arresting them for protesting without a permit this time).
The election of Trump does make things look better, but so did the election of GWB. Remember how great it was when he defeated Gore. Progressivism was halted. The AGW scam was stopped. But, no. It inflamed the Progs. It caused the Saudis to launch 9/11. It gave the military-industrial complex an endless war to fight. It led to Obama.
Not saying that the election of GWB was bad, but we just don’t know how to hold ideological ground anymore. We are getting better at it since Trump taught us that its OK to win and its great to get in their faces as we do win. But, even here on FR, I have arguments with people who think that we need to stop with the tweets and name-calling and take that high road again.
We need to hear about the specific successes of Operation DoodleBob and not just vague references to what it is accomplishing. Someone once said something like America is a great friend and fearsome foe. WE need to be that fearsome foe to the Progressives. If we are going to do a counter-protest, it needs to strike fear into them.
>>We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout for a national election for 100+ years, yet the state is involved in our lives more than ever.
The latter follows the former like day follows night.
The purging will be done during the Tribulation and what will emerge will the the Millennial Kingdom.
John Hawkins is probably depressed.
Our Civilization Deserves to Fail
There is a ton of truth to that statement. Look around and one can see the deterioration that exists and the forces that are furthering that deterioration. Both the GOPe and the Anti-American Dems have become so selfish and aristocratic that commoners do not count any more. They are just there to fund the elites. America is FUBAR!
>> They’re rebels in search of a cause and in search of something to give their lives meaning.
The country can easily solve that problem and many others by bringing back the military draft.
Your disagreement with the author is semantical.
Look around. About half the people in this country are bringing our civilization to the brink of failure. If that doesn't change, our civilization will fail.
The decadent Left (a redundancy, of course) deserves to fall and will.
Healthy, ascendant America does not deserve to fall.
The question is whether or not the decadent Left will drag healthy, ascendant America into hell along with itself. This remains to be seen.
President Trump says no; not without a fight. Pray that he succeeds!
At the time of the revolution, the "ballast" people either didn't have any opinion at all or they generally took the opinion of the more involved people, who were as you say 20% Loyalist and 40% Patriots.
Today, the "ballast" people, at election time, fall in line the the Media propaganda.
That's the difference.
An arithmetic argument that some indeterminate number of humans in a population engaging in some amorphous/undefined behavior that doesn't take into account reaction from another part of the population is determinative of civilizational collapse is interesting. I'd like to see you model that. Should be as easy as climate change modeling.
He doesn’t even touch on the real problem - the poison of postmodernism being force fed to our kids at schools.
That’s where the deconstruction of our country and culture started, continues and is spreading at an alarming rate out in the general population.
But the “educators” are doing it “for the children”. The only obvious answer is to send them more money!!!
I for one am not willing to licence even one American combat death to naifs, idiots and fools.
hear hear...
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