Posted on 01/05/2021 7:35:30 AM PST by Kaslin
2020 punctuated the generations-long decline of our republic. Will that half of America that sent Trump to drain the swamp care anymore after believing themselves disenfranchised in 2020?
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Never has there been a non-divine cadence more beautiful to the human ear. But some 200 years later, a death-knell to our great country seems to be sounding its deafening toll instead.
With 2020 punctuating the generations-long decline of our republic, one must ponder if America is too big to save. Are Americans too weak, too soft, too ignorant, too indoctrinated, and too compliant to seek her restoration?
Is there any hope for a country when political machines control large swaths of voters? When politicians can become so inoculated from the consequences of their actions that they can ignore the plight of suffering Americans for months, only to then insult the struggling populace with a COVID spending bill so filled with pork and foreign spending that it diverts more tax dollars to non-pandemic spending than to family pocketbooks?
Can a country survive when it funds a sprawling federal bureaucracy so large decisions are detached from the needs of everyday Americans? When self-interest governs decisions and politicians become profiteers, when public service serves only to swell the offshore accounts of government officials and their families? Is reform possible when the bureaucrats rule and a revolving door of political appointees exits with one administration, only to return with the next, proclaiming to know more, know better, and not care what Americans want or need?
Can a country survive a federal bureaucracy so sprawling, so corrupt (or so indifferent) that 19 months proved insufficient for the seasoned U.S. Attorney (now Special Counsel) John Durham to untangle the players and the plot that targeted Donald Trump?
Will that half of America that sent Trump to drain the swamp care anymore after believing themselves disenfranchised in 2020 with illegal and fraudulent votes counted in battleground states? Will any American even believe his vote matters when fraud is written off as too small, or when time is too short and courts are too political to investigate and address the irregularities?
With a corporate media so large and so biased that it can silence these stories and more, can the tide turn? When our country’s free press proves more manipulative than the state-run media of authoritarian regimes, can our country be saved? Can truth prevail when all-powerful social media outlets control what voices and what news deserve to be heard?
When “two weeks to flatten the curve” turns the corner on a year, will the little people be big enough to say “Enough”? Or will the populace bend further? Will the tyrants who closed aisles, stores, and schools under the COVID banner find the flu, or global warming, or social justice equivalent emergencies? Will an America that bent the knee ever stand again?
Can a republic survive when unions are larger and stronger than the parents of the pupils left awash as educational nomads? Can a republic survive when those same children learn not to love our country but to hate it?
Can our citizens withstand a wokeness so widespread that it threatens to destroy the livelihoods and lives of those who dare to speak the truth? When law and order is branded racist and riots and violence are tolerated, is a rebound possible?
When calls for unity translate to demands for acquiescence and an abandonment of those classical liberal values on which our country was founded, society will splinter. As society splinters, foreign interference will escalate further—even though the mammoth media outlets ignore it—until a stranglehold leaves America a limp patch on the beauty our Founding Fathers devised.
Patriots have two choices: shelter with family and friends, living as free as permitted by our overlords, or join together to use every peaceful means to save our country. America is not too big to save, if We the People are big enough to try.
Where to start? Start small, or more precisely at the local level. Every single locally elected position should have a candidate dedicated to the preservation of our Constitution. If you can’t run, help recruit others who can. At a minimum, quiz candidates for public office on their positions.
Join with others to start a citizen-run local news outlet and cover local and statewide news. Attend and cover local meetings, including—and especially—local school board meetings. File public information requests to obtain information on curriculum and ensure our country is not defamed.
Pull your kids out of public schools if at all possible, while still monitoring, reporting, and demanding schools educate and not indoctrinate children. Parents who have no other options, speak out. Demand change and support those parents who do so. If good people stand tall and refuse to surrender their conscience and common sense, the silent majority will find its voice.
If We the People join together statewide, we can secure election integrity. Demand legislators and secretary of state candidates pledge to clean voting rolls, institute voter ID and signature verification requirements, establish tight controls over all ballots, dump computerized voting, and limit mail-in voting. Push for mandatory 24/7 livestream and video-recorded monitoring of every poll-counting place. And volunteer as poll watchers.
Demand candidates for federal office support election-integrity efforts as well. Then push for federal representatives and employees to disband from D.C. Power dispersed is power dissipated.
And pray. Our Founding Fathers did as they demanded a reclamation of the rights inherent in our nature, and so must we as we do the same.
better question is: Is a United States with at least 90mm communists and communists sympathizers worth saving?
How are we suppose to coexist with these people? Either they live under our tyranny or we live under there’s.... or we divorce. There are no other options.
Liberals don’t understand that socialism makes the Constitution null and void. If the Constitution is nullified, states can then decide fjrbthenselces to stay or leave the Union.
So now it’s the Federalist.
Running low posting Everything from Town hall?
Either Trump handles this from the top which will involve a lot less bloodshed or its going to get handled from the bottom and will be ugly. I hope Trump is prepared to do the right thing. I’m expecting it of him and yes its expecting a lot.
I refuse to accept that premise. We’re bigger than that!!!
The enemy is not "wokeness" any more than we were actually in a War against Terrorism.
Even more mind boggling is that we are not only at war with the American Left.
Behind all this strangeness coming from the Left is another enemy, fully intent of taking the reins of power in the U.S.
Communism in America didn't just appear because of its popularity. America is being indoctrinated and brainwashed through its schools, its media, entertainment, social media for a reason.
The U.S. is the last remaining superpower standing in China's way. China is Chung-Kuo — the middle kingdom, the center of the universe. The world belongs to China (the CCP).
The late, great Walter E. Williams was advocating for parting company 20 years ago.
Depends on who’s saving America.
Man? Yes, it’s too big a job but so was beating the mightiest military in the world with a bunch of rag-tag colonists in 1776.
The Hand of the Divine Providence of God Almighty? Not too big at all.
The present order is unsustainable. Time to write it off and start working on something better?
Scott Alan Buss thinks so.
Roaring into post-America Christianity
http://www.firebreathingchristian.com/archives/7168
The problem isn’t size. Smaller countries are also swamped by the deep state, corruption. Trouble is, conservative leaders have not carried a big stick. If Trump is gone, that will have been his folly... he allowed the left to cheat him, subvert him, overthrow him without raising a fist in return.
How are we suppose to coexist with these people? Either they live under our tyranny or we live under there’s.... or we divorce. There are no other options.
I would add, that they wouldn’t be living under our “tyranny”. What they consider to be our “tyranny” is actually less government,and greater individual freedom. But I know the liberals don’t see it that way.
How a divorce could happen is a good question. For example, all of the so called “red” states, have plenty of liberals residing in them. And all of the “blue” states, have big regions of those states full of conservatives. How we could manage a geographic split is a good question.
They had help. I doubt anyone will help us.
Beginning to look that way.
“Where to start? Start small, or more precisely at the local level. Every single locally elected position should have a candidate dedicated to the preservation of our Constitution.”
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I disagree.
When you have a MSM so corrupt, and so willing to subvert the truth and create/carry/push a unified narrative totally divorced form truth/reality; together with a population trained to listen to, believe and follow that very same MSM.
And, together with the very real fact there are dozens of evil wealthy people whose individual wealth surpasses the annual budgets of states, who are all unified globally in a push to control the world for themselves, and who have shown a proclivity to invest in the outcomes of all sorts of local political races.
It will be painless to the uber wealthy to give millions of dollars to thousands of hand picked corrupt people who will do their evil bidding. We already have the evidence this is happening all around the country in various local prosecuting attorney races. Who can believe the uber rich, seeking control of the entire world, would resist investing in lower political races if the desired end result to these evil people depends on it? The MSM is theirs, and we already have the proof how the MSM effected the stolen Presidential election. Because, absent this profoundly corrupt MSM, it (stolen election) would not have happened.
Regrettably, what will have to happen, as has been the case many times throughout history, blood will have to be shed. But, now that we have the internet and social media — under the control of the uber rich — to control the population, how will it be possible to stir the necessary numbers of men into the required frame of mind to effect the Revolution? I wish I knew the answer.
The late Dr. Walter Williams was a great man, the type of man the Founding Fathers were.
Secession. The other option.
-- Williams
“Either they live under our tyranny or we live under there’s.... or we divorce. There are no other options.”
Well, there’s one other option but it’s very messy.
Pres. Davis
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