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Charlie Daniels: Another Inconvenient Truth
cnsnews.com ^ | 3/12/2018 | charlie daniels

Posted on 03/12/2018 8:52:06 AM PDT by rktman

When World War II ended, America was about to swing into the most affluent, progressive and prosperous period of our history, and the pie was big enough for everybody to have a piece.

But our nation had a cancer rapidly metastasizing on its underbelly.

Some of the same soldiers who fought against the Germans on D-Day, Guadalcanal and the Battle of Berlin came home to find that risking their lives fighting America's battles did not elevate them above the second-rate citizenship they left behind when they went off to war.

Looking back and remembering those days quite well from my earlier youth, it all seems so silly, it seems such a waste, the implacable psyche that perpetuated this evil, tacitly denying a whole race of people the equal rights they were guaranteed in every federal paper our constitutional founders ever issued

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: racerelations; southerners
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To: rktman

It’s a checkered view. Some will ask what’s good about progressive and the answer first requires another question: progressing towards what, and in what way? For we have long been wallowing in rhetorical legerdemain, where liberal means illiberal and conservative means issue bigotry and thus forth. While the ultimate answer — God — is being danced around and avoided by all.


21 posted on 03/12/2018 2:12:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Lazamataz

Until conservatives can see why even today’s liberals have a point, though approaching a good thing (social harmony) in a wrong way (government nannydom) we probably cannot agree on Christian faith either. At the very least old grudges must be cast in the dustbin.


22 posted on 03/12/2018 2:19:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Until conservatives can see why even today’s liberals have a point, though approaching a good thing (social harmony) in a wrong way (government nannydom)

I respectfully reject your hypothesis.

C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

23 posted on 03/12/2018 2:26:24 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Lazamataz

Good quote by C.S. Lewis there Laz.


24 posted on 03/12/2018 2:29:37 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Lazamataz

Nay, I think you misread it.

Illiberal “liberals” want social harmony. That’s an admirable end. But they also want Lewis’ “tyranny” to do it. That’s an abominable means, a cure worse than the disease. And so the result is a crying oxymoron.

What we really hunger for is for God to be back.


25 posted on 03/12/2018 2:30:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
What we really hunger for is for God to be back.

Agreed. At least He's back in *my* life. I guess that will have to do.

26 posted on 03/12/2018 2:42:49 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Lazamataz

Well He wants us to at least put our hearts into knocking on the doors of other hearts. That might require as little as a frank mention of gospel operation in your life. It doesn’t always have to be a full on Billy Graham pitch.


27 posted on 03/12/2018 2:59:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: sargon

So this guy never heard of the G.I. Bill? If you went back to a menial life that was your choice. People like Fredrick Douglass and Booker T. Washington were the heros to look to look to to find a way out.


28 posted on 03/12/2018 3:01:50 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: rktman
Bttt - I've been a Freeper since before our "March for Justice" on the Mall in DC during the Bill Clinton administration, and I've read many a fine article. This article by Charlie Daniels is amongst the best I've seen. And if you agree with his emphasis on what I've come to call America's Principles, you certainly CAN help change the way politics is done. I urge you to evaluate candidates well before the primaries, and see if any meet your minimum standard of acceptability. For example, do you see abortion as depriving a person of their unalienable right to life? Do any of the existing candidates talk about abortion in this way? If not, you can raise up someone as a candidate who does meet your minimum standard. And if you can't find someone else to run, how about doing it yourself? To see what I support as a minimum standard, check out the platform at SelfGovernment.us
29 posted on 03/16/2018 9:01:07 PM PDT by Steve Schulin (Cheap electricity gives your average Joe a life better than kings used to enjoy)
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