The big difference I see is the change in the media in the last 20+ years. Oh, I know they belittled Reagan and tried to plaster him with all sorts of ugly things ...... and they are now having to eat a lot of their words .... hehe! And I remember railing about the network news bias way back in the 60s when I really didn't even follow politics except in a very general sense.
But what they did to Reagan was child's play compared to what is happening now. I am just staggered by the accusations I am seeing on FR, much of it spurred by media articles, that come very close to outright saying that President Bush could have but didn't stop the attacks of 911, for political purposes or financial gain. Some actually verge on accusing him of being in on a conspiracy to plan these attacks! This is just so vile and vicious! And so obviously false to those of us who have "followed" the President through his days in office and have seen the compassion, the true patriotism, the faith, the godliness of this man.
So many of the sheeple believe everything they hear on tv or read in the paper. And some of this you-know-what gets repeated over and over. That's one of the strategies of the liberals ..... repeat something until people begin to think it must be true. That really scares me!
The one thing that keeps me sane some days is the certainty that the Lord IS in control .... we may not always see that but we know that it is true. Praise God!
The difference is today that Hillary's minions RUN the press now. And no matter what anybody tells you - they are full blown anti-American traitors - most of them Communists. Some of them feminazi's. All of them bereft of any moral anchor whatsoever other than what they decide is "right" or "wrong" (according to THEIR priorities - not according to any moral absolute. Kayak - to me it is total insanity because their spewing of the vitriol does nothing but egg on the enemies who want us all dead - or dead poor!
Francis Schaeffer called it "Escape from Reason". Of all the terrible messes we have lived through recently, what I see is a total loss of reason, like rintense said, of common sense. And, if you ever studied all the communistic or totalitarian nations in the 20th century, every one of them had this quality: an insanity about them.
They still do - wherever totalitarianism and/or anti-God (the One True God) extremism dominates a country's government.....reason, good sense, truth cannot survive.
It IS a spiritual battle primarily because for the past eight years this country was taken over by the insanely criminal Clinton gang. Think Caligula and the Godfather all wrapped into one.
That pure evil is still with us = but it will not triumph - even if it does cause great trouble and sorrow.
So, your urgency for prayer is very well stated and quite important. And, thank GOD, no matter how crazy, insane, or evil our times become, if we align ourselves with the One who is the same, today, tomorrow, and forever, we know that He will not fail us or those for whom we pray - even if we cannot see the effects of the payers visibly.
I am only awake long enough for one more post - To the Psalm!
During the time of Ronald Reagan we didn't have the internet, we only had the mainstream news, and some cable channels. We still had 2%rs back then, but they didn't have access to the Internet and 24-hour cable news, but they were there, I remember them very well.
In today’s world they have the internet to share their doomsday outlook and they gather like flies on a turd on the internet. This is a luxury they have never had before, but it also has led to their destruction. Because most of us would agree with their pure ideology when it's spoken in a rehearsed fashion. But when you mingle with these miserable souls you realize that they want things only one way, AND THAT’S THEIR WAY. Most of us understand that we can't have it our way all the time and compromise is an acceptable way to move forward. But these Bush Bashers we see today will never accept that idea, they would rather cannibalize the Republican Party before they would ever compromise. These people brought us Bill Clinton and never forget that.
The third party groups will never again be as powerful as they were because reasonable people that make up the majority of Americans don't like being around such sour, negative people. Their numbers have been declining every year since 1992 and they will continue to decline. So don't let them bother you, in fact let them spew their hatred loudly, because the more they do, the more they are disliked and ignored.
They make a good argument about the value of our Constitution and they come across as pure patriots, but the fact is, this country is for all of the people and our president is the president for all of the people and if they can't understand that, then they know ABSOLUTELY nothing about the constitution