Is America Broken?
As many observers now fear, the results of the 2012 election spell the end of America as we once knew it. In a sober and detailed analysis of the American malaise, conducted from almost every conceivable angle, FrontPage columnist Matthew Vadum arrives at the conclusion that “strife and unrest will take over America…there will be an explosion that will rock society to its core.” Similarly, Bryan Preston, editor of PJ Media’s Tatler, anatomizes a “shift in the culture” leading to the “erosion of the rule of law” and the destructive belief in a “hollow messiah.” Joseph Puder is convinced that “an unfamiliar America is emerging in which traditional American values that made the U.S. exceptional are evaporating” and reminds us that the stock market fell 300 points a day after the election. Remarking on the mounting debacle of policy failures on which the president has doubled down while managing to cajole an apparent majority of Americans, David Goldman is surely right when he ruefully admits that “We Americans love no one better than he who helps us delude ourselves.”
Tom Blumer, for his part, points to just three, among many, of the Obama administration’s domestic projects intended to strengthen the Democratic Party as they weaken the nation: record-shattering enrollment in the food-stamp program, creating ever more dependency; a plan to close another 1.6 million acres of oil-shale development land in order to appeal to the eco-crowd; and a devastating uptick in job-killing regulations, especially with regard to ObamaCare and the socializing of medicine, thus ensuring a further degrading of the labor market. And Nidra Poller writing in American Thinker asks rhetorically, “Am I wrong in thinking that what has just happened bears no resemblance to a normal election?” Her prediction is chastening: “The economy will pursue its downturn. More and more Americans will be out of work. Anger will mount; social cohesion will continue to weaken. … Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the government and society will be more open… congressional investigations will be stonewalled.” Vadum, Preston, Puder, Blumer, Goldman, and Poller are only six of a plethora of respected commentators who are appalled by the seismic disruption of American civic life represented by the Obama victory.
Others argue that the electoral aftermath has been grossly exaggerated. PJ Chicago editor Rick Moran, for example, claims that it is “utter nonsense to posit disaster for the country when you base that prediction on a flawed, wildly imaginative analysis of what an Obama second term will bring.” Moran believes that “short-term fixes…will allow us to avoid any kind of massive economic meltdown,” that Americans will “look to the state for assistance less and less and support the idea of limited government more and more,” and that there “is nothing fundamentally wrong with Americans.” One might be forgiven for wondering what planet the man has been living on.
The facts are these. The vote itself remains highly problematic, given that there were (and are) millions of illegitimate voters on the rolls — illegals, dead people, multiple voters — and indeed, in every state in which voter ID was required, Obama lost; the reports of the New Black Panthers doing what they do best, standing guard at polling stations and expelling GOP observers; uncounted votes; the surreal Chavez/Saddam type turnout for Obama in some regions (in 59 Philadelphia districts, the tally was 19,605 votes for Obama, 0 for Romney); the disqualification of the massive absentee military vote owing to the suspiciously late arrival of the ballots; and the media cover-up of the damaging Benghazi scandal. All these factors clearly worked in favor of the Democrats, and may even have been engineered by them.
Nevertheless, whether fraudulently or not, Americans went to the polls and re-elected the most divisive, the most incompetent, the most enigmatic, and, ultimately, the most subversive president in the entire history of the republic. And the consequences, as we will begin to see, will be both catastrophic and perhaps irreversible. The economy is in a chaotic mess as the recession gathers momentum and inflation cripples the American dollar. Unemployment will continue to grow as small business is strangled in a blizzard of regulations (5,932 in the last three months) and big business and investors gradually relocate. Foreign policy is in ruins: the Middle East is a conflagration of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-American fury; China is robustly expanding its sphere of influence; and Russia is pumping geopolitical iron at the expense of an enfeebled, more “flexible,” America. “The American spirit,” writes Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick, justly, “has been overwhelmed by the European model of social democracy at home and appeasement and treachery abroad.”
America is broken. The Democratic Party has become a regime of oligarchic socialists that has conscripted a veritable colony of dependents to ensure its hegemony. It comprises, to quote Victor Davis Hanson, “the subsidized lower classes who pay no federal income tax and receive a growing array of federal largess coupled with, on the other end, a technocratic blue-state elite making $200,000 annually” — not counting its millionaires and billionaires who revel in plutocratic immunity. As Daniel Greenfield points out, too many people are now invested in failure — those who profit from a parasitical hold on entitlements and borrowed or redistributed revenue, and those who “feed off the infrastructure of the welfare state” and “get rich by helping the poor.” The economic miscarriage of the last four years, he continues, is “not a disappointment to them, but an encouragement.”
It doesn’t stop there. The Fourth Estate is now almost entirely corrupt, a political annex of the Democrats that retains its power to sway citizen-readers because it masquerades as a free and impartial press. The rift between red and blue states appears irreconcilable, and it is no surprise that petitions for secession are presently circulating in 22 states (as of this writing), including Texas, which was at one time an independent republic. These petitions may not be initially successful but they are signs of radical discontent in the present and harbingers of dissent, conflict and perhaps dissolution in the future — a future to be defined by Obama’s second term in the White House. No less worrisome, according to The Telegraph, “In October the number of background checks on people applying to buy guns, an indicator of future sales, increased by 18.4 per cent.”
America is no longer a confident, unified country — it has been a house divided against itself since at least the incendiary Sixties. But it would seem to this observer that the family squabble has morphed into an all-out and irresolvable quarrel about means and ends and the shape of America to come, leading eventually to fiscal collapse and possibly to internecine strife as well. The year 2012 marks the point of no return, an ironic confirmation of the Mayan calendar at the national level.
This is the state of affairs that a capricious, self-preoccupied, dismally educated, and credulous electorate has brought upon itself, dismantling piece by piece the very democracy that has underwritten it up to now. As Winston Churchill once quipped, “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” Assuming, of course, that Churchill’s “average voter,” in his or her current dementalized condition, can maintain an intelligible conversation for that length of time. The promise of unlimited goodies was enough, says historian Bruce Thornton, “to make millions of voters ignore Obama’s manifest economic malfeasance,” and vote their short-term personal interest over the long-term health and sustainability of the nation. Citing classical Greek historians Thucydides and Polybius, Thornton shows how, given sufficient time and success, democracy almost inevitably begins to work against itself when the “selfish calculus of…the individual voting citizen” trumps “the future wellbeing of the state.” “The ancient critics of Athenian democracy wouldn’t be surprised,” he laments, at the travesty of decadent governance and citizen complicity in the contemporary U.S.
The America we have taken for granted and insouciantly abused is no longer. The two-term Obama presidency, with its roots in the seditious neo-Marxist doctrines of Antonio Gramsci, Cloward-Piven and Saul Alinsky, signals what resembles the end of the great republican experiment. The American dream seems to have become just that — a dream — or what amounts to the same thing, the American nightmare. What its enemies could not do, a demoralized America has accomplished for itself. “And a man’s foes,” we read in Matthew 10:36, “shall be they of his own household.”
The only issue that remains is whether recovery and restitution, something akin to a reborning, is still possible. Recently, on a whim, I visited a so-called Metaphysical Emporium and purchased a crystal ball to add to my collection of exotica. But I must confess that, even when washed in salt water and set against a dark backdrop as recommended, it has been entirely unforthcoming on this question.
Similarly, Bryan Preston, editor of PJ Media’s Tatler, anatomizes a “shift in the culture” leading to the “erosion of the rule of law” and the destructive belief in a “hollow messiah.” Joseph Puder is convinced that “an unfamiliar America is emerging in which traditional American values that made the U.S. exceptional are evaporating”
It’s not just the culture that has changed, it’s the genetics. Of course, that’s taboo, but it’s still reality.
And genetics is a major diver of culture as culture doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Of course many factors are at play, and some people have the inherent skills to succeed – others not so much.
And it is this nonsense -’all peoples/cultures are equal’ – which has endangered/split the nation. Multicultural psychosis is a key weapon of the left, pitting class against class, culture against culture too. It is intrinsic to their divide and conquer tactic.
For if this was not the case, the powers that be would be keen on promoting the American ethos, yet being respectful of others differences. They understand the difference, but that doesn’t suit their hegemonic designs.
Thus, when authentic revolutionaries hold the reins of power, America becomes broken – on purpose!
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/07/when-authentic-revolutionaries-hold-the-reins-of-american-power-centers-via-the-most-radical-regime-in-u-s-history-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
This is not rocket science.
Adina, i agree. and i would describe the present ethos as more of an eerie dry heaves fascism.
and, fanaticism. plop into the new ethos the influence of an astonishing number of uninformed, ignorant, dumb, dense supporters of the 7th century savage cult of islam, with its psychotic hatreds and bizarre war mongering.
as for our populace, we only allow those who despise american values and ideals of jeffersonian democracy and western civilization, to have a voice. and to reside here, only if clinically proven to have small brains sucked dry of oxygen. especially, at school.
I’d say it was a confluence of both genetics and culture.
The black marxists exemplify this.
“The American spirit,” writes Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick, justly, “has been overwhelmed by the European model of social democracy at home and appeasement and treachery abroad.”
Oh I think we are in the process of leap frogging the “European model” while they are to some degree anyway backing off from it.
Europeans are not backing from it. It’s backing away from them as ‘it’ collapses in financial and social chaos.
We have leapfrogged over the EU model and landed squarely back in the USSR.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
There exists other forms that are perfectly suited to a sacrilegious and immoral people. They are typically repressive, despotic and bereft of religious freedom and liberty. This is no accident. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are embedded in our constitution because they are granted by God and therefore inalienable. A simple perusal of History will document that a sacrilegious and immoral people inevitably will be ruled by a government not restrained by any such “quaint” concepts. The “self-governance principles the founding fathers wove into our constitution are not exclusively an electoral process but extend from the personal conduct of a “religious and moral” individual. In short: “A people will get the government that they deserve!”
The Democrats, Atheists, promoters of gay “rights”, pandering politicians, the ACLU and now a self-declared muslim president are sadly correct in their claim that: “America is not a Christian nation”. Now this nation is declining in every measure (other than the number of people on welfare rolls and masses of undocumented democrats pouring across our borders). As Adams stated, the governmental structure that he and the other founding fathers gave so much to create is “wholly unsuited”. The resultant social and and economic collapse we are mired in now spawns a concerted attack by a perverted government on the God-given rights and liberties that has been the foundation for the unprecedented success of this nation. If this nation is ever again to become the world’s beacon of liberty and freedom, we must return to the Grace of God or we must separate from those who will not. We absolutely will not survive on this road of moral decay and political corruption now being promoted and accelerated by the highest office in the land.
It is relevant to point out that the Constitutional clause prohibiting congressional regulation of religion was placed there to preserve the individual colonies’ right to continue the worship of God as they had came to this continent to do (not to allow a free rein for terrorists to operate under the guise of religion: koran 9-5 & 9-29) Those early European Protestants who were forced by conviction to separate from corrupt and morally decadent despotic governments, founded under the words of Christ the most remarkable nation ever to exist on His creation. We who still value God’s word now find ourselves in a similar situation.
This past Democratic National Convention was startling in the revelation of its’ true disregard for Christ. For those of you who did not witness it: On national television, three times by voice vote the democratic national delegates voted to exclude the word: God from the official wording of the party platform. It is frighteningly reminiscent of Christ’s prediction of : “Three times ye shall deny me”. It is past time that those in this nation who still value the word of God and a constitution based on them separate and allow the godless to create their own nation (Sodom & Gomorrah?) where they can sink into their own mire (and invite the wrath of God). Do not doubt it, the alternative is absolute failure and dissolution of this nation.
There was a study done at the end of World War ll wherein it was asked of America’s fighting men why they were so willing to give so much. The answers took many forms but in essence it was the love they held for their family and the consequences to them if they failed.
This nation was created and preserved by the blood of people who did not doubt that they had the God-Given right to determine their own fate and possessed the moral fiber to to defend that right. I pray that there still remain enough of us still willing to hold forth the Declaration of Independence and do the hard work that now must be done.
You are correct, sir! The 2012 election brought the sacrifices of The Greatest Generation to naught.
Wow. Leave it to David Solway to state the case so clearly and eloquently. America is doomed. And Americans can blame themselves for that. Secession is no longer just talk. It is starting to seem almost inevitable.
Secession, here in America, is the last hope of a continuance of western civilization.
“The rift between red and blue states appears irreconcilable….” “Appears” to be? If you really can’t see that it is, you need to wake up. I for one no longer have ANY feeling of kinship or allegiance to the blue states. They are not Americans to me.
Hey Mark, ram it! I live in a “blue” state because I do. I’m just as American as any one that just happens to live in the red zone. Michigan has about a 47% anti-obama factor. Wise up you putz. One’s geographic location has nothing to do with their IQ.(which your statement confirms) PS…stay off my side.
Yes – but his point is valid. We (I say “we” because Virginia – due to massive voter fraud – is now a blue state) may have to face a choice on whether we stay in a blue state or move to a red state. If push comes to shove I’m moving.
Mark, Chuck, Lolly…
Easy now, just remember, there really ARE no Blue States
Just look at the county maps.
All the states are ruby-red except for the urban enclaves.
California, Mass, NY, NJ, the supposedly “Bluest of Blue”? Even they look like small versions of the National Map…predominantly Red, with heavy concentrations of Blue in very specific places.
You could literally drive for HOURS in any one of them, and never encounter a “majority” liberal, Democrat, Blue, or whatever you want to call it, mindset or point of view outside of their narrow bands of bankrupt/elitest/segregated/crime ridden enclaves
They may outnumber us by nose-count in a few States, but they have no, shall we say, “depth”?
They are all concentrated in areas with NO FOOD PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES, and most often, narrow choke-points of approach/escape.
Switch off the power, don’t re-stock the shelves, and its Mogadishu within a week in Obamaland
When the “beautiful hip urban people” come screaming my way to escape the flames, chaos, human sacrifice and cannibalism, I’ll just shoot them too.
Really, whats the big problem?
I’ve been waitin’ all my life for this!
The Root…thanks for the “back up”. That guy telling anyone that happens to live in “red” that he feels no kinship towards the “blue” just sent me over…What a load of crap, red, blue…Michigan is really very conservative, when you get away from Detroit. I live in suburb of Detroit and I would estimate it’s 70% “real American”. So some shmoe that happens to live in…Tennessee, for example, tells me that he has no…because I live in Michigan? Sad and dumb. Thanks “The Root”. Lock and load.
I’ve been saying that all along. And even in the cities they had to resort to fraud to win. When you see the map county by county you also see that we have them surrounded. Think about it.
Chuck,
No problem. As to the comment “I for one no longer have ANY feeling of kinship or allegiance to the blue states” let me be clear also.
I have no “kinship or allegiance” to ANY state, Blue OR red.. None. Zero. Zilch. nada.
I’m an American, period. My loyalties and allegiances are to her, and no other. I’ve lived in many “states” and have no particular love for any of them. Their political boundaries are meaningless to me as a Free American.
My rights, Our Rights, as Americans, are God Given as explained in the Declaration of Independence. We declared ourselves at the founding, a solid and irrevocable Nation…the “United States”…not a mere group of states, loosely united.
Thus, I expect my American (federal, if you like) rights to BE Supreme, regardless of any “state” I chose live in. Whenever a State, or group of States, deviates to such unjust perversions of human freedoms that the clear meaning of The Declaration is unrecognizable, and such is committed under the color of “states rights”, I will oppose the forces of those states by arms if need be.
Should the Federal System actually ever become so corrupted (as it is) that we are no longer “Americans” as were are meant to be, I still will not ever entertain the notion of States, individually or by groups, retreating away from The Nation to form anything “new”. We will fight to RE-ESTABLISH the old Nation, the Original Nation, the Right and Proper order of America, where our rights are God-given.
Any formation of states, under ANOTHER banner, to counter, barter, threaten, bluff, fight or walk away from even the most despotic forms of Federal Tyranny, is simply acquiescence to their corruption, and acknowledgement of their Superiority over the natural God-given rights of man. I cannot allow such.
Thus we cannot ever raise arms against the Flag. We fight to restore the flag, the National Flag, to its rightful place. That those who may now have temporary CONTROL of that flag, who claim to “represent” its institutions and bureaucracies are in fact hopelessly corrupted imposters, is also irrelevant to me. They are not America, we are. We do not ever RELINQUISH our birthright to hold that flag ourselves, as Americans, regardless of any individual state residencies.
If we are ever to fight them, we MUST fight under the OLD flag, to rightfully seize it way from they who have stolen it from us, and turned it into something evil. We “rebel” against nothing. We DEFEND against assaults to Our America, no matter how long ago the wounds were inflicted, or how deeply entrenched now into her flesh these parasites have chewed.
There is nothing new or better that mankind can achieve than the Original Premise of The United States of America. It is the pinnacle of all human civilization, a damn-near holy position FROM which, there is only descent on every side and direction.
Under no circumstances will I permit the “formation” of anything less, no matter how painful or difficult or impossible that task may seem, even today.
VA has gone blue because Northern VA has so many federal workers or those dependent on government contracts, i.e. defense companies. Perhaps there was voter fraud and military voter suppression which played a role but I think VA has too many ties to the DC money tree.
Chuck, stop hyperventilating, wipe the spit from your chin and settle down. Why are you so excercised? It actually sounds like we agree on more than we disagree. You stay where you are and mind your own business and I’ll do the same. I just happen to not want anything to do with you anymore. You got some kind of complex or something?
I’d guess that the rebel flags will go up when we Red Staters are forced to cough up more taxes to bail out California and Illinois. This will not only be un-Constitutional, but it’ll be obviously, red-light-flashing wrong. O’bwana has acted exactly like every other black leader you’ve ever heard of — arrogantly pushing his enemies up against the wall and rubbing our noses in his third-world revenge against white Colonialists. Wow, won’t it be great when all of America is just like Johannesberg, or Detroit? Because that’s all that people with 2-digit IQs can maintain.
“What its enemies could not do, a demoralized America has accomplished for itself. ‘And a man’s foes,’ we read in Matthew 10:36, ‘shall be they of his own household.’”
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln
There has been much written after the elections about the state of the nation but one fact remains. As M. Thatcher said: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. ”
We are at or near that point along with the Europeans, the Japanese and many other parts of the world where socialism and corporatism holds sway – good-sized chunks of South America for example. The Oz-like socialist, statist economies supported by money printing and borrowing are beginning to crumble at an accelerating rate. Refer to Europe and the old USSR to see what the future will look like. It will not be pretty and the poor and old will suffer first and disproportionally.
really splendid post, viator. the poor and old (who are actually the same) are already suffering. the republicans would have won in a landslide if they didn’t continually tell americans how lazy and stupid we are, and almost half of americans, worthless.
no. this vote for obama came from a lot of people who can’t stomach him or his “policies” and total lack of ideas and political will. it is like having a hologram for president.
obama did not get voted in. the republicans got voted out. change. do it.
” the republicans would have won in a landslide if they didn’t continually tell americans how lazy and stupid we are, and almost half of americans, worthless.”
sorry missy but this is a lie. it is the (self) proclaimed, (self) righteous intellectual superior elite progressives who’s mantra is americans are fat, stupid and lazy NOT the republicans. republicans believe in individual liberty and the exceptionalism of america.
Bad analysis Judy, that rarefied NYC air is getting to you. Leaving aside the 800 pound elephant in the room that the election was stolen, Obama was re-elected by a
generation of dopes, young people long on “cool”, short on common sense. They basically like a lemming mob of imbeciles walked off the economic cliff, taking their economic future with them.
Thank you, David Solway, for another PJMedia wake-up call. And thanks to PJM for the furtherance of an education much-needed but I fear too many can’t absorb. Those here who comment, too, I thank.
Even the rare few who disagree only spark interesting rejoinders.
No day of mine would be complete without the blessing of this, the best of all sites for learning, laughing and even crying. I pray for the country I have loved so well, and hope that the many who have given life or limb or precious time to save it have not done so in vain. God Bless the USA !!!
McKinnon, the Founding Fathers trusted their project to God. This is a test for the country. This is not the end. God has not abandoned us. He exists and his arm is not weak. He will show up in His usual mysterious way and preserve the project that was trusted to Him.
My son, when you come to serve the LORD, prepare yourself for trials.
Be sincere of heart and steadfast, undisturbed in time of adversity.
Cling to him, forsake him not; thus will your future be great.
Accept whatever befalls you, in crushing misfortune be patient;
For in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation.
Trust God and he will help you; make straight your ways and hope in him.
You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy, turn not away lest you fall.
You who fear the LORD, trust him, and your reward will not be lost.
You who fear the LORD, hope for good things, for lasting joy and mercy.
Study the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed? Has anyone persevered in his fear and been forsaken? has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed?
Ben Sirah 2:1-10
Thank you, Catino.
In order to prevent further descent into tyranny We the People must amend our Constitution. We must win the battle of the Republic; otherwise we will lose the “battle of democracy.”
“The proletariat [lazy, tax-eating, non-disabled, government-dependents] will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital [property] from the bourgeoisie [laboring, tax-paying middle class], to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state [self-serving Marxist Government]… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property… And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois [middle class] individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at… We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the [non] working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.” Karl Marx
We can win the battle of the Republic by amending our Constitution. Something along these lines would be helpful:
Amendment XXVIII
Section 1. The Declaration of Independence is the supreme un-amendable natural law of the United States of America
Section 2. Term limits for Congress (shorter) and the Supreme Court (longer)
Section 3. Amendments XVI and XVII are hereby revoked
Section 4. Supreme Court decisions shall be revoked by Congress with 2/3 or greater vote in both houses
Section 5. Federal taxation shall not exceed 10% for any individual, nor shall Federal taxation exceed 10% of the nation’s GDP. Federal taxation shall be a national sales tax
Section 6. Federal income shall only consist of a maximum 10% domestic taxation as per Section 5 of this amendment, plus foreign tariffs, plus the sale of domestically purchased U.S. bonds by U.S. Citizens. Federal income shall not occur through borrowing, except for the sale of domestically purchased U.S. bonds by U.S. citizens; nor shall Federal income derive by fiat creation of money
Section 7. Federal spending shall not exceed federal income. Federal spending during wars, which must be declared by Congress under Article 1, Section 8, may exceed domestic taxation only via foreign tariffs, plus the sale of domestically purchased U.S. bonds by U.S. Citizens, plus the donations of U.S. citizens.
Section 8. This section of Article 1, Section 8 shall be changed to: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States, and all provisions for general welfare shall be uniform throughout the United States and enumerated herein this Constitution; To borrow money on the credit of the United States as per Section 6 of this amendment; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and to regulate disputes of commerce among the several states…”
Section 9. This section of Article II, Section 1 shall be changed to: “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. Natural born citizen shall mean any person born within one of the states of the United States or upon the territorial waters of the United States, of parents who are both citizens of the United States.”
Section 10. This section of Article VI shall be changed to: “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made not in violation thereof, or which shall be made not in violation thereof, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme amendable secular law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
…shall mean any person born within one of the states of the United States…
You certain? Because written this way, it leaves the door wide-open to Anchor-Babies.
“…of parents who are both citizens of the United States.”
Yeah, he’s certain…
You over correct for current problems and would insure the necessity of future problems, especially on the taxation issue. Look at our expenditures during WWII, which went to 20% or more of GDP. We could never have conducted that war under your rules. Granted government needs citizen control, but trying to supply it by one time Constitutional changes will not work- people just need to keep on paying attention. Maybe provide for budgets exceeding x% of GDP being approved at the next election?
Also, natural born citizen must be born in US territory to two US citizens? How about to US citizens overseas? How about to one US citizen and a legal alien awaiting citizenship (i.e. a war bride)? You are engaging in overkill. A Constitutional convention to consider some of these issues would be a lovely idea, but I’m afraid your amendments would not be accepted in their current form.
“future problems” should be “future changes”
“Look at our expenditures during WWII, which went to 20% or more of GDP. We could never have conducted that war under your rules.”
We fought and won our War of Independence from Great Britain without an income tax, so 10% domestic taxation plus foreign tariffs, plus the sale of war bonds by U.S. Citizens, plus the donations of U.S. Citizens would be enough to win any war. Free people will not only fight for freedom, they will buy sufficient war bonds and make sufficient donations to ensure the cause of human freedom.
“Granted government needs citizen control, but trying to supply it by one time Constitutional changes will not work…”
“Citizen control” will die without a Constitutional amendment along the lines above because our middle class citizens are losing Karl Marx’s “battle of democracy,” and we will continue to lose the electoral battle because the government-dependent so-called proletariat class is becoming a majority. An amendment along the lines above would result in the American middle class winning the “battle of the republic.” This will work – it is the only thing that will work – our Founding Fathers gave us a way out of this tyranny via Article V.
“Natural born citizen must be born in US territory to two US citizens? How about to US citizens overseas? How about to one US citizen and a legal alien awaiting citizenship (i.e. a war bride)?”
They will be excluded from becoming President of the United States. This is a small price to pay for enhancing the probability of Presidential loyalty to We the People.
Section 2. Term limits for Congress (shorter) and the Supreme Court (longer)
Is this a mistake? Appointments to the Supreme Court are for life. We would have been better served by our Founders if they had imposed term limits on Supreme Court justices, perhaps terms of 10 or 15 years. They still would have been exempted from the politics of elections, but we would be able to get rid of justices, in time, who promote left-wing ideology over founding principles and the welfare of the country. Impeachment should also be an option for getting rid of justices who openly criticize the country and the constitution they have taken an oath to defend: namely, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges… and their power are the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and are not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves….When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves…” Thomas Jefferson
Clint Eastwood lost. Lena Dunham won. That says it all.
The Leftist program for our nation, indeed for all humanity, was stated most succinctly by John Milton:
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
Keep in mind which character speaks that line…
America… has been a house divided against itself since at least the incendiary Sixties
It just looks that way. The problem actually started in the 1930′s when the GOP realized the benefits of being a permanent minority party. They could just go along for the ride, be congratulated for their service to the country, and not do any heavy lifting. All the vitriol that we’ve seen over the past decades really results from the lack of disagreement on major issues.
The Democrats lose every election where Conservatism shows up. The Democrats win every election where Moderation shows up. The GOP refuses, steadfastly and adamantly, to run a national Conservative Campaign. The GOP refuses to win if that win means Conservatism. The GOP likes being in the minority where they can be seen as grand statesmen moving the country forward. That they’re taking us into the death spiral of socialism is irrelevant because they’re getting good press from the Democratic Party media machine.
“The Democrats lose every election where Conservatism shows up. The Democrats win every election where Moderation shows up.”
Time to have a Conservative Party and leave the Genuflect Obama Pansies.
One more step left to cross. The article stopped at the threshhold. Seems that doing that has got us where we are; fear of taking that next, necessary step.
Here’s the step, right out of the article: “The only issue that remains is whether recovery and restitution, something akin to a reborning, is still possible. Recently, on a whim, I visited a so-called Metaphysical Emporium and purchased a crystal ball to add to my collection of exotica. But I must confess that, even when washed in salt water and set against a dark backdrop as recommended, it has been entirely unforthcoming on this question.”
What is it you are afraid to say? I’ll say it for you. War. All that history cited in your article points unmistakeably and irrevocably to war. Now, shall we be Chamberlain? or Churchill? The American Right is Chamberlain.
I hate to say it, but you are correct. The spineless GOP leadership is kowtowing to evil. But unlike the failure of the Whigs in the 1850s, which birthed the Republican Party, a political realignment is no longer sufficient. Some form of revolution is the only option remaining.
There sure are a lot of folks on this site spoiling for a fight. “Revolution” and “secession” and all- and all the dead folks, mostly innocents, and destruction and ruin… what fun!
As long as we still have a vote, and something approaching the rule of law, we can still avoid that. We may not, but the possibility should be approached with revulsion and the utmost regret, not a bunch of high school macho.
ffThhe old saw was three elections to tyranny, and the judiciary must be completely subverted or eliminated in the second or early in the third. Obama cannot run again without a constitutional amendment or a too early attempted seizure of power. They won’t get the first and are far from the second, which would lead to their downfall with a minimum of violence. The next mid-terms and the ’16 elections are where the battle needs to be fought now, starting with voter ID laws and court actions to clean up the voter lists now- not a month before the elections. Local elections for county clerks and state elections for secretaries of state, too, when they come.
I don’t blame folks for thinking of the worst, but let’s not panic here. We can still do this as citizens before we start designing something else.
Amen Brother Dave
I suspect economic and social decline will accelerate rapidly in the next 2 years. The bail-outs of California, Illinois and New York are coming soon and combined with red states resisting setting up health insurance co-ops will drive a much bigger wedge between states and the federal government. Soon we will witness people migrating to “free” states and fleeing from oppressive, big government states. That will lead to sectionalism and then partitioning. All culmination in, as they say, a two state solution.
As someone pointed out earlier, most states are red outside the major urban areas. How about just making cities over, oh, say about 75,000 people separate entities, with their own Representatives and a proportional share of senate seats/votes, but separate from states government for government and funding.
And include the surrounding high-end suburbs where the rich liberals live. They wouldn’t live away from a big city very long.
We wouldn’t lose much business- they’d get out of tax free-fire zones pretty quick, and the Dems would have all of the country that they think is worth caring about. And we could keep the rest? Without a damn civil war? Constitutional convention- even with all it’s dangers?
Historical context is everything.
Sound judgement has become ” judgemental ” thus herd mentality supplants the individuals right to reason for himself. The end result – mothers that murder their children are set free.
Holy Matrimony becomes simply marriage so partnership with The Almighty in the creation of life is supplanted by the quest for orgasm with whomever one chooses.
The end result- men marrying men and women marrying women.
And of course there is the new religious war as one type of worship seeks to impose itself on others as ” Democracy ” replaces Religious Freedom as the barometer of a healthy society and provides a fig leaf for duplicitous political hacks.
Society is crumbling and the degeneration is happening at lightening speed. As the world community wallows in filth the great cleansing is imminent. The pain is only beginning.
” The rapid changes on both a technological and sociological level will result in a great social upheaval. The cataclysmic changes will result in considerable suffering, often referred to as the Hevlei Mashiah or Birthpangs of the Messiah. If the Messiah comes with miracles, these “birthpangs” may be avoided, but the great changes involved in his coming in the manner adopted by Maimonides may make these terrible travails inevitable.
Since in a period of such accelerated change parents and children will grow up in literally different worlds, traditions handed from father to son will be among the major casualties. The Talmud describes at length how there will be general dissatisfaction with the values of religion-in such a rapidly changing world, people will naturally be enamored with the new and dissatisfied with the old. Thus, the sages teach that neither parents nor the aged will be respected, the old will have to seek favors from the young, and a man’s household will become his enemies. Insolence will increase, people will no longer have respect, and none will offer reproof. Religious studies will be despised and used by nonbelievers to strengthen their cause, the government will become godless, academies will be places of indiscretion, and the religious will be denigrated.
In the generation when the Messiah comes, young men will insult the old, and old men will stand before the young [to give them honor]; daughters will rise up against their mothers, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law. The people shall be dog-faced, and a son will not be abashed in his father’s presence. It has been taught, R. Nehemiah said: In the generation of the Messiah’s coming impudence will increase, esteem be perverted. [Sanhedrin 97a]
The Wisdom of the learned will degenerate; fearers of sin will be despised; and the truth will be lacking. Youths will put old men to shame. [Sotah 49b]
Judaism will suffer greatly because of these upheavals. There is a tradition that the Jews will split up into various groups, each laying claim to the truth, as the Talmud says, “Our truth shall be divided into flocks” (Sanhedrin 97a). This will make it exceedingly difficult, almost impossible, to discern true Judaism from the false. This is the meaning of the prophecy, “Truth will fail” (Isaiah 59:15).
Maimonides, in his Epistle to Yemen even predicted that many will leave the fold of Judaism completely, without mali ciously intending to do harm to the Jewish people, and the nation shall suffer immensely as a result of their actions. This is how our sages interpret the prophecy, “The wicked shall do wickedly, and not understand” (Daniel 12:10)..
Of course, there will he some Jews who remain true to their traditions. They will realize that they are witnessing the death throes of a degenerate old order and will not be drawn into it. But they will suffer all the more for this, and be dubbed fools for not conforming to the liberal ways of the premessianic age. This is the meaning of the prophecy (Isaiah 59:15), “He who departs from evil will be considered a fool” (Sanhedrin 97a).”
http://www.moshiach.com/topics/what/the-moshiach-in-our-time.php
…“the subsidized lower classes who pay no federal income tax and receive a growing array of federal largess… too many people are now invested in failure — those who profit from a parasitical hold on entitlements and borrowed or redistributed revenue, and those who “feed off the infrastructure of the welfare state” and “get rich by helping the poor.”
You think ?
Some famous person recently noted that the “helping the poor” shtick is one of the biggest scams ever devised.
The promise of unlimited goodies was enough, says historian Bruce Thornton, “to make millions of voters ignore Obama’s manifest economic malfeasance,” and vote their short-term personal interest over the long-term health and sustainability of the nation.
In a nutshell.
Yeah, had a disagreement with my sister on this. She said she was for Obama because he was “for the poor”.
My response – he must love ‘em a lot, cause he’s about to make a lot more of them poor folks!
“Is America Broken?”
Yes, next question…
At one point I was of the mindset that we were watching the start of the decline – now I realize we have been in decline for my entire life and that the problems we have go back past my grandfather’s generation.
Kind of like the old dowager sitting alone in a crumbling mansion, dreaming of past glory, indulging in petty luxuries, while refusing the accept the reality of her degenerating financial circumstances and take action to head off ruin.
We have severe structural issues in our government now that preclude fixing the mess we are in.
Over 3,500 new regulations in 3 months?
No one can know all of the laws, and we are all law breakers now whether we intend it or not. There is no way we can go through the day without breaking some edict or other from some nameless, faceless bureaucrat for which we can be penalized, or even charged and fined or jailed for violating – even unknowingly.
You can’t “fix” that by tweaking anything. At some point the regulations become so onerous that nothing can be done.
I suspect we are about at that point now, or soon will be when Obamacare is fully implemented.
That 2,700 page document was just the law.
Expect 27,000 pages of rules and regulations to be promulgated by the agencies in charge who are given authority to make rules to implement this law.
Then of course as more and more problems come to light, that 27,000 pages of rules will expand ever further as they slap one bandaid after another over the mess until it is an impenetrable Gordian knot pulled tight around our collective throats.
At some point the system will collapse, probably slowly, but collapse nonetheless, and the old system will have to be replaced by a new system – and it’s best to start with a clean sheet of paper at that point rather than try to fix the unfixable.
Alternatively, simply taking the Constitution out, blowing the dust off of it, and taking a meat cleaver to the federal government that does not conform in the strictest sense to what is laid out in that document would be the best path forward.
Barring that, yeah, the nation is toast in the long run.
Get to work, you gotta pay for GloZell’s “lifestyle”
A bigger government can offer bigger handouts and bestow bigger favors for select constituencies. The bigger it gets – the more vicious and divisive we become …over how goodies (and hence votes) are doled.
Would a smaller government with less tax revenue result in less crumbs to fight over? In a scenario where there was minimal government assistance, would an open border an issue?
Starve the Beast!
One PJM poster wrote that normalizing the abnormal is the essence of the Progressive “push”, breaking down standards, any standards at all.
I’m paraphrasing that badly, but the gist made sense to me.
The assault is relentless, the resistance weaker and weaker. I read yesterday the progressives’ new push is to require pediatricians to offer the pill to underage girls.
The precursor to Planned Parenthood was conceived in the spirit of eugenics. Eugenics has been a big component of every filthy 20th century totalitarian, mass killings of in the name of the “success” of the ideology. Also party of Billy Ayers’ take on what had to happen in America if the “revolution” were to succeed.
“They” get to decide who is allowed to keep breathing.
Disposing of those human beings progressives deem less than desirable (from the point of view of age or illness) is a big component of Obamacare’s death panels, the Washington DC bureaucrats who will be running the show.
“Defining deviancy down,” the term if not coined, certainly popularized by the estimable Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moral and Cultural Relativism, Multiculturalism, Nihilism, Hedonism, Promotion of Diversity, Anti Wester Civilizationism, Maoist Third Worldism, Minority Identity Politics.
ANY imposition of cultural and moral norms by White European Christians is xenophobia, oppression, racism, sexism, etc.
Is America broken. Well, yeah!
GOP lost, and the country lost, because we have forgotten our roots. We are a nation founded upon the idea of liberty. But right now we have forgotten that idea. We need to remake the argument for liberty. Marginal tax rates is a silly sticking point versus whether or not we are a country of opportunity – which flows from liberty – or a modern day feudal society, wholly dependent upon the lords of the land deigning to give us a new set of used clothes for the year.
^^^^^
Someone that gets it!
We are Divided, but not Broken.
We divided ourselves, by Compromising too often over matters where there was no room for Compromise, starting with Congresses and Presidents after Roosevelt piling onto what he did and not leaving well enough alone.
Who knows, maybe Social Security as he devised it could still be healthy today?
Who knows, maybe with less intervention from the government the racial divide in terms of economic opportunity that Martin Luther King worked against could be much more healed now than it is?
We did not give ourselves the opportunity to know the answer to these questions because we were too prosperous to resist the urge to “Do Something.”
That urge has been the downfall of many prosperous societies, by the way, so we are not alone in this.
But Broken? Maybe not. We are healthier now than Weimar Germany despite following many of their policies. Then again, we started out healthier than they did.
Still, there is an age when the years you can claw back by stopping smoking or drinking (more drinking than smoking – the liver regenerates, the lungs don’t) start to be fewer and fewer.
Right now, Conservative need to go to War. War means that, although you’ll not want to engage in the kind of language I have engaged in elsewhere here, you are nonetheless more inclined to slap in the face someone who asks a question that it nothing more than Impertinent and meant to distract you.
Question like “How old is the Earth?” or “Do you support Abortion in the case of This or That Occurrence?” or “Do you believe in Evolution?”
Slapping may be worth resisting, but ending the interview is advised. The person asking that question is your Enemy and you are not any more civil to your Enemy than is vitally necessary.
Defeat your enemies. Utterly. Leave them not one shred of dignity – this allows them to think they still might win. Demand their Unconditional Surrender. Make them sign off on that Surrender. In Triplicate. Then show mercy. Then be nice. But not before.
Do this now, while we still have enough of the strength of our Youth to be able to do so.
Interesting post! We need to start standing up for what we believe in! Not with slapping them, but by stating our beliefs, and not getting drawn into the nit-picking, pointless conversations liberals love to engage in.
“Is America Broken?”
FUBAR
And most will never know how it got there nor care.
Most do not recognize the extent to which our country is broken/divided because they are too young to remember when it wasn’t. They have never experienced anything but “broken/divided”. This is the new normal. It is truly tragic because I believe we are headed for some very “bad” times and to think the opposition couldn’t possibly win is naive. There are too many of them and their ranks are growing larger as we speak.
“There are too many of them and their ranks are growing larger as we speak.”
The Free Shit Army ranks swell, but who will they scapegoat when the goodies run out? They will turn on each in the end though… they always do. The trick is to survive in the meantime and have notihng of value to be confiscated via taxes, penalties and fees.
Civil war is the only recourse.
Fight, or be a slave.
Yeah! And then the ruins will be ours! Dumb….
I wish I thought he was wrong, but I published the book, below, on the subject in May, 2010. I now think the election eliminated the last, forlorn hope of avoiding riots, and fiscal collapse, followed by social and political collapse. God help the Republic, as most Americans no longer will. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog
Robert A. Hall
Massachusetts Senate, 1973-83
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
(All royalties go to a charity to help wounded veterans)
For a free PDF of my 80-page book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com
Broken, broke and brokered.
Broken: The system is built upon a mountain of lies, slander and treason. We can’t trust our information stream, our educational system is a shamble and is only good at building self-loathing indoctrination. Our entertainment culture is a nest of traitorism.
Broke: Inanity thy name is socialism. A failed and necrotic hippie flashback does not make great fiscal policy. It drove Europe into the gutter. It collapsed the Soviet Union. It has kept Cuba and North Korea desperate islands of abject poverty. It shuttered Venezuela’s basic utilities. But, never let tens of millions of murders in its name stop a hippie from puking out some folk song logic about its triumphant return to ruin the greatest nation ever devised.
Brokered: If there is anything that hippies are worse at than hygiene and balancing a checkbook, it’s geopolitical security. Brokering away liberties at home while expanding those of thugs around the world seems to be a favorite trick. Making the world ready for war by becoming sniveling toadies to Thugocracies is a leftist specialty.
We may have indeed passed the point of no return.
Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party As Terrorist Act November 23, 2012
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/23/texas-schools-teaching-boston-tea-party-as-terrorist-act/
As the old saying goes (and it’s old because it’s true), one side’s terrorist is the other side’s patriot/freedom fighter. At the risk of transgressing Godwin’s Law, I will point out that the Nazis routinely labeled the underground resistance fighters as terrorists and routinely executed them on that charge. Our own government has called returning war vets “potential domestic terrorists.” The word “terrorist” has, like “racist,” become an all-encompassing smear word designed to demonize its targets and shut down all discussion.
“Moran believes that “short-term fixes…will allow us to avoid any kind of massive economic meltdown,” that Americans will “look to the state for assistance less and less and support the idea of limited government more and more,” and that there “is nothing fundamentally wrong with Americans.” One might be forgiven for wondering what planet the man has been living on.”
Not sure where Moran gets his optimism from. In light of the 2012 elections, only a fool would believe that some kind of threshold hasn’t been crossed. In earlier eras (say, only 20 years ago) a president and his party would have been given the old heave-ho after such a lousy performance. I think Moran either intentionally ignores the data or he is trying to protect his reputation amongst his peers (who are more than likely Progressive).
While I am not one to write dystopian fantasies about the future, I do look at numbers. And there is one breathtaking report that should have gotten much more press. It was the Oct CDC report concerning the 2011 US birthrate(s). The only section of the report that garnered attention was the section concerning teen abortion rates (they were down). The rest of the report recorded that in 2011 US birthrates were at record lows (63 births/1000 women). They were especially down for the 18-35 demographic (lowest in a decade); but they were up for the 38-44 demographic (up about 4%). Overall, our Total Fertility Rate (TFR) fell to 1.8 births/female, which was down from 2.1 births/female in 2007. If one considers that our TFR has been below replacement levels ( of 2.1) for 33 of of the last 40 years it should be obvious we have a huge problem. And in 2011, the ethnic group that saw the largest year-to-year fall was Hispanics (a 10% plunge.)And it has been Hispanics which account for our past 2.1 birthrates. If one considers our inverted demographic (a society where the eldery will soon outnumber the young), the economic picture becomes dystopian no matter who sits in the Oval Office. As Mark Steyn once quipped, “The future will be written by those who show up.”
You can’t have a future where the biggest single group is the elderly. You certainly cannot maintain standards of living that way. Rough times ahead.
On a more optimistic note, If it comes to a second war between the states, does anybody think for a moment that a fighting force comprised of Obama’s entitlement mentality loosers would be any match for patriots?
I think you underestimate the fanaticism of the left. These people will be indoctrinated into thinking that the secessionists are just a bunch of KKK rednecks who will lynch and kill them (“them” being black and hispanic).
Also, think about the squalid conditions that the OWSers put up with for weeks for their cause.
Throw in the brutality of the Crips, the Bloods, MS-13, the SEIU and probably some minority members of the military, and they will make it very bloody. “Red Staters” in blue states (such as myself) will be very vulnerable, even in a nice area.
I don’t agree with every syllable, but man do I long for some straight talk
Unbreak this place
Whittle’s speech was good, but I think Laura Ingraham’s at the same event was better
IMHO, we have not been this divided since the issue of slavery. While our issues don’t rise to that of abolition, there are many of them. And many of them, like that of slavery, leave little middle ground.
If you are pro choice, how do you compromise with pro life.
If you support gun rights, how do you compromise with those who seek a total ban.
And so it goes.
I don’t claim to have any solutions. But WE, all Americans will have to find a solution. I pray it won’t be the one of 1861.
Actually, the issues do rise to Slavery.
Choosing Life Over Death: We’ve not yet got ourselves into the situation China has with their One Child Policy (too few girls, now the largest market for human traffickers specializing in “obtaining” brides for Chinese men from places like North Korea, but this more to do with not every ethnic group in America is as enthusiastic about slaughtering their own unborn children than any positive effort on our society’s part to discourage the practice.
Debt Slavery: Is this not exactly what the current generation, electing politicians who will ruthlessly buy the voters off with “Free” Entitlements, has condemned their children and their children’s children too?
No, the issues rise to Slavery and equal Slavery in just how degraded too many of the American people have allowed themselves to become.
This is a War. Of Right against Wrong. Of Freedom against Slavery being imposed on people not yet born by people who will have the chutzpah to claim to love them.
And we have come to the place that no one who is not willing to Fight, Die, & Kill for what is Right & Good deserves the opportunity to even utter the word Peace, much less know it in their own lives.
Choose now how you would hold your Manhoods.
“And we have come to the place that no one who is not willing to Fight, Die, & Kill for what is Right & Good deserves the opportunity to even utter the word Peace, much less know it in their own lives.”
Great! Talk about macho- you are the man! I’m not sure what this kind of BS has to do with anything any decent American believes in, but I’m sure it made you feel really good.
I despise the Left, but I despise any ____ who talks this kind of BS just as much, and for exactly the same reason!
I don’t see any reason to profess false optimism. Thanks for pretending to be optimistic with the crystal ball thing, Mr. Solway, but it really isn’t helpful.
It’s over. This country demonstrated in spades that the subversives succeeded. I wouldn’t say they won, but they certainly succeeded.
Probably the best thing that could happen in the short run is a rapid collapse. But it’s more likly to be a two-decade oozing into the serfdom swamp.
Apparantly, the only significant group that cares is people over 55, but you aren’t going to see a revolution from them. They will simply maximize what they can squeeze out of the criminals, and do the best they can. And why not? Why stuggle to save the very people who voted for free lunch instead of common sense, even if they are your own children? You can’t fix stupid.
The only hope I see is a collapse so catastophic that people under 40 literally rise up in arm to overthrow the criminal bastards. And when a disaster is the best case, you know how screwed we are.
Mr. Solway may have been hinting at this when he talked about the Middle East, but also remember the most horrible thing that America voted for on November 6 – a second and final Holocaust against the Jews, where we are ALL eradicated. And even Israeli nuclear retaliation will not prevent that.
That may not have been what most Americans, including 68% of Jews, thought they were voting for. But it is what they will get.
You did not just seriously link to The Duffel Blog when referencing an alleged disqualification of military absentee ballots. That is a satirical website. Like The Onion.
Credibility fail.
To Solve the problem we need to get out of the present left/right controlled dialectic.
The Republican’s, Tea-Party and Neo-Con, re-elected Obama and have tolerated him, as representative of the same traitorous malaise that rules the Democratic Party that went right along with Bush.
Obama should be impeached, just as Bush/Cheney should have been impeached.
The Democrats were against impeaching Bush, because they knew that would interfere with electing a Democrat President, whom they wanted to inherit all of the dictatorial powers of the Unitary Executive, usurped under the manufactured auspices of the 9/11 attacks.
Now we have Obama, grabbing more power under the aegis of the 9/11 lies, to act as a greater warmonger than Bush/Cheney. Obama should have been impeached over the war against Libya, the murder of American Citizens in violation of the 5th Amendment, and for signing NDAA.
Only when members of Congress, take their Oath of Office as more important than political affiliation, then we will see a defense of this Republic which requires impeachment….This will happen only when citizens demand: Do your Duty or Resign!
Duty means defend the U.S. Constitution.
Now the other part of the equation on going beyond the fake left-right controlled dialectic, to save the Republic, is to a matter of dealing with economics, the present collapse from the point of view of nation sovereignty.
This means a revival of Hamiltonian National Banking. Restore the sovereign credit creating potential of the Federal Government such that investment in such long term investments in infrastructure improvements through public and private means may be set in motion. This requires the Federalization of the Federal Reserve, to stop feeding the casino economy, where the productive powers of private investment have been turned into gambling.
Furthermore the real reason we got out of the Depression of the 1930′s was neither just the New Deal nor the War, but the fact that the crisis of the Depression was caused by the fact that there was a “Profit Crisis” where the agricultural sector lost its profit margins due to the collapse of prices due to “Free Trade” starting in the 1930′s.——-(please refer to Charles Walter’s book The Unforgiven: How American traded Parity Agriculture for Debt and War, to so understand why Parity was immplemented at the start of WWII as a vital measure to win the war and why the economics of Parity worked and the economic facts supporting it and the most basic unit of private enterprise and all economic activity- the family farm)
Of course Obama will help further destroy the family farm as both parties have done. The issue is that America needs a union, but will not have it when our economics are not based upon production: Agricultureal and Manufacturing
The financial industry is not an industry and it is not supporting industry and innovation anymore in this country, but the Republicans and Democrats have both served foreign interests before the nation and American people.
Cheap consumer goods is a economic fallacy and the American Revolution nor Civil War were both not fought for Austrian School of Economics. The Austrian School is not American nor is Marxism which was deployed by the British to attack the America and our native brand of economic self interest and genius which needs to be revived.
It’s so broken and beyond repair I am no longer able to care.
Where will you move to?
As bad as it is here, do as Bill Whittle has suggested. Look at other countries. In Central Africa, for instance.
We need to care.
The balkanization began decades ago, but the overt campaign Obama ran is new. We can only hope that the favored groups start fighting among themselves over the spoils. I predict this will happen as this article from the Washington Post’s “The Root” shows the cracks already:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/president-obama-an-open-letter-from-black-america/2012/11/08/800ac31e-29b3-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_blog.html.
Ginning up tribalism is often self-defeating.
And could we stop talking about Voter Fraud and how Military Ballots were disqualified. It only gives the Smartass Trolls an excuse to Snark & Smirk about us, something they do at the drop of a smegma of snot out of their runny noses.
A good candidate wins despite the opposition’s best efforts to thwart them. Those efforts include Smear Campaigns and Voter Fraud.
Give enough of the voters something worth voting for and you drive right past the Voter Fraud and the Smear Campaigns.
A good candidate makes it unnecessary to slap the Trolls. They are too dumbfounded at how the world has turned against them to talk, much less type.
Socialist revolutions inevitably devour their own, and rapidly devolve into dictatorships of the worst sort. Look at Lenin’s crack-down on the ‘opposition’ in 1924 and after. And Stalin took the concept of eliminating the ‘opposition’ to unbelievable paranoid heights. Adolph the Aryan purged the Brownshirts to get power, and then proceeded to outlaw the ‘opposition’ into concentration camps.
The Labor Unions had better re-think their mindless support for Obama bin Lenin. When the Unions demanded their share of the NSDAP victory, Hitler called a Labor Convention at Nurnberg, met privately with the Union leadership to denounce them, and the SS took the lot to the execution ground immediately.
These are just two examples. If you want more, look at Mao in China, Franco in Spain, Peron in Argentina, Vargas in Brazil, just to name a few examples. But more importantly, this is our future if we do not act to avoid it.
On the one hand, visualizing such drastic outcomes seems hysterical, and not really believable in the light of day. On the other hand, historically such things often haven’t … nearly up until the moments they happened.
Far as I can tell, the kind of political ruptures that some have described don’t happen until similar ruptures have long since taken place in the minds & hearts of the citizenry. This could well be the point at which such an internal rupture becomes perpetual, if it hasn’t already. The American Left and Right have always opposed one another … but except in the most highly technical senses of the term, are we any longer each other’s countrymen?
Yes, we are.
We have to defeat the American Left at the ballot box and reverse as many of their policies as we can, reducing the balance in size and scope to reduce the damage they do. There will be more reduction than reversal, I think, but some reveral can and will happen.
We win doing what the Christians did in the Roman Empire. Christians were Christians. That was enough for Christianity to outlast the Empire.
Be Conservatives. Talk openly and without apology about what Conservatism means – assuming we know what it means, which is not an assumption I am prepared to make just now.
Answer people’s questions about what we believe as directly and simply as possible. Stop trying to be clever.
Some questions are traps. Turn their traps on them, as Jesus did.
Gain the power to reduce the Liberal footprint and use it as thoroughly and without apology as Liberals have used that power to impose their ideology on us.
Let them learn to live in a world where our ideas hold sway.
I would start by doing some serious education policy reform. Start by eliminating the Department of Education. And with Federal School Vouchers that strip the public schools of their best and brightest students (and eventually, teachers).
Oh, and although PBS can easily survive without federal subsidy, cut ‘em off. PBS needs to sell their shows the same way as HBO.
Great points, Edward! However, you failed to address the most important strategy — live as you believe!
If you don’t believe in contracption don’t buy and use them.
If you don’t believe in abortion don’t have abortions.
If you don’t believe in government handouts of any kinds then don’t take any.
If you don’t believe in government subsidies for industries then pay the ‘full price’ for their offered commodities — ultilities, dairy, fuel, home loans, student loans, etc.
If you don’t believe in government grants to states and communities then don’t use those services and improvements gained by such grants — sewers, roads, highways, airports, schools, etc.
While the list goes on forever, I’m sure you get the point of living in hypocrisy. Not so good by 95% of the people living by example for either their morality or government restraint.
That said, there are small segements of our society who have done quite well at living their beliefs — religion, morality, and government. The Amish and similar sects, the Mormons with their welfare programs, etc.
If one wants to be validated in their beliefs they have to not only have the “talk” they have to have the walk.
“If one wants to be validated in their beliefs they have to not only have the “talk” they have to have the walk.”
Says the man holding a gun to his victims head. I like public utilities like the next man.. a flat tax would be in order in the name of “fairness” to rectify it. However those who do not partake on those goverment goodies you listed are FORCED to pay for those who do. You think the IRS only enforces fed regs on the benefactors of government lagress?
Christians are being forced to subsidize an act they find evil. The fascists love that fact.
“Christians are being forced to subsidize an act they find evil.”
Would you kindly elaborate?
On the other hand, so many of the christians in the evangelical tea party movement claim disdainment for nearly all government subsidy spending yet they all benefit from it and would scream to the high heavens if any of it were taken from them. As a side note, most don’t have a clue of all the government handouts they take for granted and benefit from on a daily basis.
I don’t mind loud nosies of dissent if it is rationale.
“Would you kindly elaborate?”
Tax payer subsidized abortions. Planned partenhood. Murder mills. Call them what you will.
“On the other hand, so many of the christians in the evangelical tea party movement claim disdainment for nearly all government subsidy spending yet they all benefit from it and would scream to the high heavens if any of it were taken from them. As a side note, most don’t have a clue of all the government handouts they take for granted and benefit from on a daily basis.”
Would you kindly elaborate? List them as you will.
What do you think I meant when I said “Be Conservative”.
The Early Christians got in a lot of trouble for not participating in public sacrifices to the Emperor, the only religion that the Romans imposed on everyone in the Empire.
Christians also refused to buy the meat left over after those sacrifices (parts nut not the entire ox or bullock would be burnt – butchers would then sell of the rest).
I could be on Food Stamps right now. A number of the people in the real estate office I work in live on Commission alone and could also be on Food Stamps. None of us are. We wouldn’t dream of it.
Mind you, when the woman I helped get an apartment to live in while her home (damaged by Hurricane Sandy) is being repaired asked me to help her get the documentation she needs to get compensation from FEMA for a portion of the rent she is now paying I understood why she did so.
Again, good for you!
I do have a problem with the broad term “conservative” as has been used of late. I think most of the evangelical tea party movement are classical conservatives as originated largely by Edmund Burke. If I’m right, their causes are futile as the evolution of society has well advanced on the assumption of reason and would call for the complete dismantling of our constitution and the nation as a whole rebuilding it according to the classical conservative ideology.
“If you don’t believe in abortion don’t have abortions.” – Buckeye is right. Right now everyone’s tax dollars to to pay for Abortion. Cut that off and I can live with Legal & Safe Abortion – since that helps ensure the mothers can have children later in life.
“If you don’t believe in government subsidies for industries then pay the ‘full price’ for their offered commodities — ultilities, dairy, fuel, home loans, student loans, etc.” – Student Loans you have to apply for, but the rest … how do you calculate for ‘full price’?
“If you don’t believe in government grants to states and communities then don’t use those services and improvements gained by such grants — sewers, roads, highways, airports, schools, etc.” – Since I don’t see any way of not paying taxes, and tax dollars go to pay for these things, I see no hypocrisy in using them. Limited Government does some things … like sewers, roads, a postal service, etc.
Now, if Conservatives succeed in reducing the size of government, many of the subsidies you mention will be phased out. The roads and so on … probably still will be payed for by tax dollars.
But not the Abortions. There is nothing evil about taking the Interstate Highway to visit family or go to the Finger Lakes. There is no cause for anyone to object to someone else having a road paid for by their tax dollars if the road they use is also paid for by tax dollars.
But to ask me to help someone else murder their own child is another matter altogether.
Christians view Abortion as Evil.
It is as simple as that.
Some positions are Absolute, based on Belief, justified by Belief.
Employers of all Faiths or no Faith do not ask Jews to justify why they should not have to work on the Sabbath or on the High Holy Days.
You do not ask me or any other Christian to justify why we call Abortion Murder. You simply accept that we do not accept Abortion as a justifiable act except when the mother’s life is in danger.
If you wish to have civil discourse with me or any Christian, you simply accept this as a given and say no more about it.
I started the first response to you thinking that you might not be one of those self-righteous Liberals who like to ride into Conservative sites and taunt the people there for being so benighted as to believe what they believe.
If I am wrong, then I am done with you and will pray for your Misguided Soul.
Edward, how is anybody to understand another persons positions and the basis of their positions if not through some level of polite discourse? I, like many others are traditional republicans with a personal point of reference going back many decades. I am a Christian in my personal faith who has through all my inperfections tried to be a good person (a living example) according to what I’ve been taught and accepted through my religious indoctrination. I have witnessed the transformation of society — the transformation of churches and their doctrines and certainly the forced and otherwise transformation of the governments in the U.S. These transformations (evolutions) mirror in most ways the transformations taking place within and among societies since the beginning times of recorded history.
That said, one thing has never changed. Individuals, societies and nations governments have continued to war with one another over religion and religious beliefs. Nothing had created more death and carnage in the world to date! Nothing has been used and abused more than religious doctrines to seek power and control over societies than has religion in the hand of some.
The founders of this great nation had another vision — a new vision for a new kind of society. A nation and society granting through a controlling constitution, individual and collective freedoms from any religion dictated by a government. By the same token, a nation of peoples protected to freely accept and practice most any kinds of religion or no religion, without persecution of others or a government. That seems pretty consistant with those who may believe that the God who created us all gave to each of us free agency to accept or reject His word. If I’m not mistaken, God said it was He who had final judgement of us all, not some particular church doctrines or a government. Who then are you or I to judge another or force some particular church doctrines upon others?
I’m pretty happy to be living in a nation that lets me practice my religious beliefs apart from any other religions or government dictate. Other than that, all societies evolve and you can’t stop that!
“I don’t mind loud nosies of dissent if it is rationale.”
Because you are the living archetype of what is rationale.
Heh™
Are you able to make any sense of what Zeke is saying, Buckeye?
Maybe I have been looking at this computer screen too long.
Or maybe what I am looking at is a muddled justification for Cafeteria Christianity.
Can you shed any light on this?
Zeke, there are some things even a Limited Government – and let us be clear on this: Limited Government is the best Conservatives can hope for – should be doing.
Roads, Bridges, Sewer Systems, Police departments, Fire Departments are clearly of Common Benefit.
Student Loans create a Moral Hazard. They allow students to think they are getting Free Money. That “Never Never” has caught up with a lot of people and will (and has) prevented a lot of people from buying homes. Student Loans also encourage colleges and universities to raise their tuition at rates that outpace inflation. Basically, student loans are a bad idea.
And then there are subsidies for Birth Control and Abortion. Too many people already refrain from using them, or in the case of Birth Control are happy to pay for their own, and do not and should not have to pay for anyone else’s Birth Control or Abortion.
Why? Because they think Abortion is Immoral, and because they think people should take responsibility for their own Birth Control. People have the right to think that way, and have their beliefs respected.
Do not equate Birth Control & Abortion with Roads & Bridges. One is a personal choice, fraught with Moral Hazard (why have sex with someone you would not want to be a parent with?) and the other is a Road or a Bridge, used by all for various and sundry purposes.
Give up all subsidies? No. Strip away the subsidies for things that are clearly not part of the Common Good.
It is detrimental to the Common Good when people stay in a place where they cannot afford to feed or house themselves because a program helps them maintain a bare minimum. When the land gave out in the Dust Bowl, a lot of people left. They struggled in places like California, but found better lives than what they had destroyed through bad farming techniques in the Dust Bowl.
People who are too sheltered from the results of their failures never learn.
But you’ve thrown the baby in with the bathwater.
Let me put it to you in a sentence.
I don’t mind paying for the Roads and the Bridges and the Sewer Lines. If a I and a Liberal are driving down the same road, the I don’t care if the Liberal is using the road.
But if the Liberal is driving down the road to the Abortion Clinic, and expects me to pay for the Abortion Clinic and for the Abortion, which is happening because the Liberal’s Birth Control, for which I also helped to pay, failed … now I am upset.
The problem with Liberals is that once I have agreed to pay for a short list of items, they assume they can add to that list without asking me, and that I am Intolerant for objecting.
The Founding Fathers had a pretty unified set of values and beliefs, even the outliers like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. They assumed the American people would continue to hold these beliefs, and we did, for a long time.
Then the country got rich, and got to thinking we could do things we could not, and pay for things we could not.
Starting by recognizing what is held in Common and what are Personal Choices would be a good start. And that means getting some backbone into our Faith again.
The days when Churches could get by thinking the only Sin left is being rude in the Undercroft at Coffee Hour are over. Those Churches are dying, as well they should. The new churches take a harder line, and are stronger for it. Get used to it.
Heres the problem as I see it. You have a pecking list of do’s and don’ts for the government and even society at large. Well, go next door and you’ll find another person just like yourself who has their own different pecking list of do’s and don’t. So, who is to settle whose list of do’s and don’ts shall be the law of the land? The constitution settles that question with a great deal of definitiveness. If your issue(s) are religious based the government has no jusridiction other than to defend and enforce each persons constitutional right of freedom to believe and practice any religious doctrines of choice or no religious doctrines.
Some have repeatedly made the claim that their taxes paid to the government are paying for abortions against their religious values. I would certainly like to see any such ‘definitive proof’ that you and others making this kind of claim have. If Planned Parenthood is your only claim then I would not be interested in what you present. If however, you can attest to the financial accounting of Planned Parenthood who in 2009 provided 4,009,549 contraceptive services (35% of total), 3,955,926 sexually transmitted disease services (35% of total), 1,830,811 cancer related services (16% of total), 1,178,369 pregnancy/prenatal/midlife services (10% of total), 332,278 abortion services (3% of total), and 76,977 other services (1% of total), for a total of 11,383,900 services aside from 1 million screenings for cervical cancer and 830,000 breast exams then, I would be most interested. All federal government subsidies made to Planned Parenthood are designated by federal legislation/law and NO federal funding can be utilized for any clinical abortions. Believe it or not, there is oversight enforcement. especially good, are their health care services, too the poor segements of our society which saves taxpayers millions of dollars over conventional government health care programs.
Since the Hyde era of legislation forbidding the use of government funds for abortion, there is the old argument of government funding via private sector insurance payed with ‘pre-tax’ dollars. Then of course more recently, there was the issue of Obamacare providing for abortions through its government subsidized insurance provider network.
So again, if you can provide legitimate and definitive evidence that taxpayers money is used for abortions I would certainly want to review it.
Zeke, You’re asking for someone qualified to give you an answer. You’d have to look at what the USCCB is saying because I of course am just a housewife and layperson. Your local Catholic bishop would be able to help you, unless you’re in the Atlanta archdiocese (he’s an idiot); they all have email addresses and would be more than happy to answer a respectful question. You have to know who is who if you go looking at people online: Fr Z is qualified but “cliquish” and gives off that annoying “I’m way more Catholic than you could ever hope to be” feel. Bill Donohue is Catholicism’s answer to Al Sharpton, a religion-baiting persecution pimp. Pete Vere is a good resource; he’s Canadian but keeps up with American stuff and his writing is accessible. Ed Peters is a very very qualified canon lawyer, but writes like a lawyer. Richard McBrien isn’t actually Catholic but hasn’t left the church yet. If the source is affiliated with Opus Dei or Legion of Christ, get out of there before they suck you into their cult lol.
California always showed what the future will bring to the rest of the US. And it is not pretty. To those that complaint that the US is on the way of being like Europe i say:
i wish it would be so; i am more inclined instead, to think that the US will end up being a cesspool of corruption and crime just like Mexico and South Africa.
Social conservatives are often reviled, but didn’t a moral collapse lead us to this sorry point? And won’t a moral revival be necessary to get back on track? You can talk about economics and politics all day, but that’s about symptoms.
A society that does not value Life has no reason to walk the (now) difficult path of Fiscal Conservatism.
Save up for a ski trip, and you only save up so much, and with limited determination.
Save up for the education of your child just born (who you had the option of not having but chose to have anyhow) and you save much more, and with greater resolve.
And have you ever seen the stone and art work in cathedrals built by masons and limners who knew they were adorning the House of God? It is glorious. It was also a great gig. It meant steady work for years.
Glory to God in the Highest can and often does mean Peace & Prosperity for His people on Earth.
It’s that Gold & God that ain’t so grand. Because for all the reversal in the phrase the Conquistadors used, Gold & God was the order in their hearts.
The political division primarily represents a cultural divide that has grown over the years. At one time, most people (mostly black and white at the time) aspired to marry a good partner and raise their own family with their own efforts, and if misfortune came, they looked first to family, friends and church for help. Unfortunately, the population is no longer united in those aspirations. Many now no longer believe in the nuclear family, and they believe the economic system is unfair and they are entitled to receive the results of someone else’s labor. They expect the government to make good any deficiencies in their life. The election just reflects this cultural divide.
Personally, I don’t believe this can be repaired, not without an existential crisis. As the Soviet Union and many nations in Africa have shown, nothing in this world requires or naturally forces a country on to a beneficial path. I think the US is headed for generations of stagnation.
Mr. Solway, I’ve been searching for the definitive post-mortem on this despairing election and not been able to find it until now.
School Sucks: The American Way (Video)
Don’t let the title fool you. This video is actually about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s. Critical Thinking Question: In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be…But whose vision is it? And what were their ideals?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPnDZ1Txlo&feature=player_embedded
Hungry at Thanksgiving? Mainers struggle with food security
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/22/news/state/hungry-at-thanksgiving-mainers-struggle-with-food-security/
First, Obama did not “win” the election in any honest sense. I don’t have documentary proof of this, but I am convinced that this election was stolen in a manner of unprecedented flagrancy. This will become public knowledge at some point; I don’t know when. Could be a year from now, five years from now, twenty years from now. But it will eventually be revealed.
There is no way that an election billed by so many – including myself- as “the most important in U.S. history”…produced lower turnout than even the yawner of 2004. And, we have a lot more registered voters than last time, even. Consider the record audiences recorded during the presidential debates. Don’t tell me people were not engaged.
Obama “won” with fewer votes than McCain got in ’08. So, we are supposed to believe that with Obama’s sorry record to run against, with the Tea Party – which didn’t even exist four years ago – totally moblized behind Romney (I saw this first hand in my area), he got two million less votes than McCain mustered in ’08??
I live in the swing county of Wood County in the swing state of Ohio. I can tell you that Romney yard signs outnumbered Obama signs at least five to one. The weekend before the election, some union types were caught STEALING Romney yard signs, the indicator of a desperate campaign. But Obama “won” our county. No f****** way, not honestly.
And how about all those yard signs out about “Protect Religious Freedom”. Since when did voters consider THAT necessary??? I heard countless anecdotal reports of preaching against Obama from the pulpit…I saw this first hand at my wife’s Catholic church, and even my very own Reform Rabbi did the same in his New Year’s sermon (I swear I’m not making this up…and you thought all Jews here were ObamaZombies…not this one, and not even my rabbi).
This was a two-pronged attack. First, there was the usual Chicago Democrat thug tactics, such as dead/illegal/early-voting-twice types. Then, I am certain that hackers got into the data stream from the electronic voting machinery and simply deleted literally millions of Romney votes. Dumped them, plain and simple.
So, on the one hand, do not despair in the apparent stupidity of our voting public. Yes, that is an issue, but people, this election was stolen. As a whole, we are NOT that stupid. This was forced.
On the other hand, however illegally obtained, we appear to be stuck with this, and if fraud can be carried out on such a scale and likely go unpunished, then indeed, America is really over. Welcome to the United States of Venezuela.
Things are not ENTIRELY bleak. Just MOSTLY bleak. For example, if you look at a map not by red state vs. blue state, but rather, red COUNTY versus blue COUNTY, you’ll see that the overwhelming land area of the U.S. is red, even in many “blue” states. To the extent that Obama won legitimate votes, these are mostly concentrated in major urban areas.
I don’t expect a rapid U.S. collapse. Japan, for example, has tolerated much larger debt to GDP ratios than we’ve experienced yet or will perhaps even experience under Obama.
But yes, we are likely doomed to an irrevocable decline, and under an Obama second term, will probably wind up like the UK: a permanent has-been, third-rate power. Like the UK, we’ll effectively be an autonomous, self-governing colony of Saudi Arabia. Our domestic policy will be our own business…as long as we don’t get in the way of the local Moslems. We’ll have a large, permanent population “on the dole”. And in terms of foreign policy, as long as Obama’s in office – and if the Gulf Arabs can succeed in the meantime at equally corrupting the GOP – then we do what they want, period.
China is now the de-facto leading power in the world.
Israel is not necessarily finished. Perhaps she’ll hit Iran on her own anyway. I don’t know if she can still do this effectively by herself, but it is at least possible. If she does this, she’s free of Obama’s ability to blackmail her. And from there, I’ll expect Israel to align with China at the expense of the U.S. What choice will she have?
Nonetheless, our country still possesses great wealth. We have massive natural gas, shale oil, coal, and uranium reserves. We still produce more food than anyone. Believe it or not, our manufacturing output is still about the same as China’s if not slightly larger, last time I checked…though this is done mostly by machines, not people.
MAYBE we can make a comeback. I’m not counting on it.
With our media/academia as corrupt as they are, more realistically, I expect that Hillary will run in 2016, and in the same corrupt manner as Obama – rigged media and buggered election machinery, Soviet-style – she’ll get in and continue the same policies.
Hope I’m wrong.
“If I wanted America to fail”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc
The First American Republic is over. I think we can backdate it at least to November 2008, if not earlier, the economic collapse starting in February 2008, or even back ten years when the Senate failed to remove the slacker and criminal Clintons from office.
What comes next? I don’t know. I fear the worst. Events all over the world will count, affecting us, drawing us in, or watching us stand by paralyzed with fear and indecision.
Still it may not be all that bad after all, we may muddle through for years, decades, centuries. The world is actually awash in money and goods, what is lacking is good sense … and really, which would you rather have? That, my friends, is certainly the problem.
We’ve been talking to ourselves for a long time. That accomplishes nothing. If we don’t translate our beliefs into actions, we should give up. If we’re serious about change we need to make it happen. How? Set up a powerful organized nation-wide grass roots movement that works as well as the democrats’ organization. We need to stop complaining and figure out how to talk to people in ways they can understand. WE need to proclaim how our principles will benefit them (most of whom cannot conceive of jobs of 250,000 . We need slogans that we repeat over and over and over again Just like the democrats do. Just like any group that changes society does
Maybe we need to buy a newspaper, organize in high schools and the few conservative campuses, start an affordable on-line university as an alternative to alarming communist brainwashing on campuses, and more.
As for the bad rep that congress has we need to stop wasting time complaining and use every scientific and indoctrination tool available to show this nation what we could do and put Obama in the hotseat while we start campaigning for 2014 senate majority.
Great ideas, Joanne.
But interestingly, this country elected the likes of Reagan 32 years ago (I was never a huge fan of his, either, but compared with Obama, he sure looks good to me now). Apparently, we weren’t “talking to ourselves” then.
For the moment, my personal action plan has been to write my GOP senator and House of Rep. member, demanding that they investigate this rigged election we just had. And, I intend to send out a mass e-mail to my list exhorting them to do the same. A few letters here and there will do nothing, but if enough of us write…well, maybe…I can tell you that just about every Romney supporter I talk to really does believe the election was rigged. This is NOT a “fringe” point of view. Many, many people sense this.
[One problem I have is that my e-mail address list is a lot smaller than it was a couple of months ago. My computer was hacked in September and I lost my entire contact list of over 600. Six weeks before the election. Imagine that. I'm sure that was only a coincidence.]
Also, I boycott the MSM. A lot of you do, too, I’m sure. We need to encourage people to do this. It has an effect. I’ve read elsewhere on PJM that CNN is really getting nervous about how they are in free-fall with respect to ratings. We have to send a message to them – AND THEIR SPONSORS – that we don’t find them credible or worth our time. Of course, they can always get money from the Arabs…(I don’t call CNN the ‘Caliphate News Network’ for nothing). I’m sure that is how many of them stay afloat anyway.
I can’t think of anything else to do as a factory worker of modest means.
I used to get published regularly on the op-ed page of my local newspaper, but they won’t do this anymore. Either they won’t publish my letters at all, or if they do, they are edited with a butcher knife beyond recognition, to the point where it seems I am wasting my time (which is precisely the effect on my morale they are aiming at, of course). I’m being muzzled. Really.
The media is the central problem, backed up by the educational system.
In 2016, we could run a candidate that was George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abe Lincoln all rolled into one, and the press of today would demonize them to the max and brainwash most of the public with the mantra of, “Gee, the GOP just can’t seem to field a good candidate” yadda yadda yadda.
And if that doesn’t work by itself, then they’ll just tamper with the vote itself just to make sure. The same one-two punch we just experienced. We cannot win this way.
We have got to find an effective way to combat the lock the bad guys have on the media. I don’t know how to do this. I don’t have the spare change or time to start my own newspaper.
What are we supposed to do?
The Root ’83
“Easy now, just remember, there really ARE no Blue States
Just look at the county maps.
All the states are ruby-red except for the urban enclaves…
They are all concentrated in areas with NO FOOD PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES, and most often, narrow choke-points of approach/escape.
Switch off the power, don’t re-stock the shelves, and its Mogadishu within a week in Obamaland”
Duly noted. I sometimes have to remind myself of this widespread weakness.
Eric R.
“I think you underestimate the fanaticism of the left. These people will be indoctrinated…
Throw in the brutality of the Crips, the Bloods, MS-13, the SEIU and probably some minority members of the military, and they will make it very bloody.”
Most of the blood should be their own. Except for those with military experience, most of these potential actors are souped-up bullies without much strategic/tactical aptitude–good at generic violence but unaquainted with effective warfare.