It’s Time to Put the Political Axes Down
Is it even possible to level with each other anymore? Are we so polarized by politics that we can’t agree on anything?
America is in real trouble and rather than face our problems as adults, we’ve turned into something from Lord of the Flies. If Americans don’t put the political battle axes down and realize we’re being poked and prodded to fight each other, then every argument won will be for nothing. It’s time for us to address our mutual problems before they’re irreversible. (This is assuming you consider the destruction of capitalism, free markets, and our currency a problem and not a goal.)
So let’s address those problems one at a time:
1. Spending. Our country is spending itself into oblivion. At some point, common sense and context have to be considered to be able to prevent economics, statistics, and accounting from being abused by politics. And when someone is wrong, it shouldn’t be covered up with “creative” accounting or pushed “off the books.”
Let’s look at health care reform. Depending on which political camp you ask, health care legislation is either going to add to the deficit or be deficit neutral. That’s around a trillion dollar discrepancy. That’s how much math is now being tortured by politics.
The fact that we’re even considering what will amount to universal health care shows just how far off our foundation this country has been pushed with lies and deception. Our current entitlement liabilities have been taken off the books and equal over 106 trillion dollars in what’s called “unfunded liabilities.” This has been done so the American public can’t see how devastating “free” candy and lollipops are when politicians peddle promises every election cycle.
It’s easy to blame Democrats for their creative accounting, but the Republican Congress wasn’t much different in terms of their out of control spending. This is not a party problem; this is a problem of an entrenched political class. Term limits, term limits, term limits.
2. Government Corruption. Is anyone on the political left concerned not just with the massive, unread, outrageously expensive pieces of legislation being sent through Congress, but also with the fact that our representative government has turned into a rogue entity?
Was the Patriot Act only egregious because it was passed under a Republican? Where are all the people screaming about our rights now? Does selling out freedom matter less when it’s your own team who’s taking them away?
If conservatives are the sacrificial lambs now, at what point will government cross another group’s threshold of tolerance? The tea party/conservative movement isn’t about Democrats or “hating a black man in office.” It’s about conservatives being sick of government corruption on both sides of politics.
3. Energy. Energy independence is a part of a peaceful strategy to combat economic and military warfare on our country. It’s also a cornerstone to maintaining our sovereignty. This concern resides on both sides of our politics. So what’s the problem?
It’s hard to say. Some believe America is sitting on a wealth of fuel sources from shale oil, natural gas, coal, and crude oil. Many also believe that the global “oil shortage” is just a sham. Researchers in the natural gas industry believe we are sitting on a massive amount of untapped energy.
Others believe the world is approaching “peak oil” and that worldwide petroleum sources are now approaching depletion. Check out this page from American Shale Oil, LLC; they’re promoting shale oil as a viable alternative after peak oil.
Here’s the deal. Conservatives “put their axes down” right after liberals surrender!
Predictable News
Sometimes it’s not worth the bother to open a newspaper or switch on the boob tube to catch the news. Much of it could have been written by the average freshman journalism major before it hit the wires.
For example, Chai Feldblum, recently nominated by the president to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), last month published an article titled, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion” in which she made what would normally be an outlandish assertion.
However, considering the outrageous beliefs and statements of other Obama appointments, Ms. Feldblum’s views should have been anticipated.
“Just as we do not tolerate private racial beliefs that adversely affect African-Americans in the commercial arena, even if such beliefs are based on religious views,” she wrote, ”we should similarly not tolerate private beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity that adversely affect LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] people:” http://bit.ly/4P5EIj
Translation: We don’t care if anyone has a moral problem say, with homosexuals trying to recruit high school and junior high school kids to their lifestyle–which they do. Just keep it to yourself if it in any way “adversely affects” LGBT-ers, including if your stated beliefs make them feel bad.
The Libertarian Lexington Institute has released a report showing that more Americans can identify the Gosselins of TV fame than can identify the founding father of the Constitution or who the first chief justice of the United States was.
Talk about a waste of paper and bandwidth! Most Americans can’t identify the current chief justice or George W. Bush’s father, even if they do know who won the Golden Globule Awards and the unwed fathers of the progeny of Hollywood starlets.
The cause of the massive ignorance? The failure of schools to teach. As the report goes on to say, “(S)chool reformers need to do much more to restore history as a vital subject in American education:” http://bit.ly/8mQ3eF
Well, no shoot, Sherlocks! . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1434)
Is it not obvious that the long struggle is nearly over?
Is it not obvious that the triumph of Islam is inevitable?
There is little time left.
Cease provoking the soldiers of Allah (swt).
Cease your blasphemies against Allah (swt) and His Messenger Muhammed (saw).
Cease oppressing Muslims.
Renounce your false religions.
Embrace Islam now and live in peace in submission to the will of Almighty Allah (swt).
Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
Allahu akbar!
So, Andie, you think it’s time to kiss and make-up? Why can’t we all just get along? Perhaps you need to read a bit of US political history. And one or two tomes on human nature. By all means, put your axe down. But watch your six oclock.
Spare me the rhetoric. You want to see some nasty political battles, go learn some American History where in the past there was duels and discrimination on a level we don’t see anymore (Eg: anti-Catholic legislation at the State & Federal level). America has a long history of nasty political fights, but that’s where we leave the fight.
I’m sure you can see some *REAL* Lord of the Flies if you look hard enough. Try a small island just southwest of Florida. Don’t like that example? Try Rwanda, or almost all of Africa. Or maybe you want some political fights in the “old school” vein. See Russia from the ’20s up to today, China for about the same time period, or several Latin/South American countries in the past 40 years.
You whine about our discourse, and ignore that we’re one of the few countries that don’t devolve into actual violence when our politics get so acrimonious. Go hit some books, learn some stuff about the world, and see how America handles its politics and problems in many ways is a lot *better* than the alternatives the rest of the world does.
The five points you listed are all REASONS to keep fighting. To continue your “Lord of the Flies” analogy, the boys weren’t “prodded” to fight, it was a battle for survival and sanity. Sometimes you have to sharpen your spear to protect civilization. In the novel, it mattered greatly who became chief. Jack stood for free speech, stability and safety. A vote for Jack and his corrupt choirboys meant violence and anarchy.
We’re all trapped on this strange island, you have to pick a side and fight for it.
Did you lose your train of thought part way through the article?
“What do you want?”
I want the right to vote taken away from people who live their lives fantasizing that the first time was always better than the last time.
Make the whole thing retroactive to the Garden of Eden. Then, instead of politics mankind would be ruled by one simple law as follows: “Eve, put the apple down, shut up and bring me another beer. Also do not give me anymore soggy cigars or wet toilet paper; and if you ever touch my remote control again you are doomed. Lighting will come down from the sky and strike you stone dead!”
“Is That Clear?”
If Year One Obama has taught us anything, it’s that Progressives/liberals are no more likely to stop fighting for their fanatical agenda than death-crazed Jihadis are. If we want to preserve what’s best about America, we should never put down political axes or otherwise drop our guard.
The current ‘unpleasantness’ is a spiritual crisis masquerading as a political crisis. On one side are those who believe that Christ explains the meta narrative. On the other are those who believe there is no meta narrative. In other terms, there are those who put themselves at the center of life, deciding that they are the arbiters of all values, and nothing greater than themselves exists, and, therefore, freedom means nothing is forbidden, denied, not permitted, etc. Their religion is nihilism, progressivism, small ‘l’ liberalism, materialism, earth and Gaia worship et. al. On the other hand are the followers of the truth, as in, “I have come to bear witness to the Truth”. More gasoline:
“The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not; whether blood will have to be shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.”
~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Put the axes down? OK – you first.
Now is the time to fight harder against those who are trying to change our country into something it wasn’t designed to be. Americans are fighting back against big government, high taxes, high spending, and corrupt, arrogant politicians. To stop fighting now when the progressives are on their heels would be the same as Lincoln deciding after Gettysburg that it was time to call a halt to the war. I say get Sherman saddled up.
Well, that was interesting: You start by telling conservatives to put down the battle axes, and then lay out a pretty good point-by-point argument for why we should keep swinging.
If this was just a political problem we could all breathe easier. It happens to be a battle of two realities; good vs. evil, capitalism vs. socialism, liberty vs. tyranny, honesty vs. corruption, God vs. Satan, Christianity vs. Atheism, the truth vs. the lie.
If the left wins it will mean the ultimate death of millions perhaps billions of people (read your history books and find out where the socialist road leads, you fools who say it can’t happen).
We’ve been living in a muddled mess (more like fence sitting) for many decades now and it has been thrust upon us to make a decision in one direction or the other. We will either move into a new age of enlightenment or we will move backwards in time into the darkness where only death and oppression exist. Men have not really completely escaped the darkness of the dark ages when they were denied personal access to God (the source of all liberty )some of these very same systems still exist because we let them and they are reaching out to take control again.
Time to choose.
While I agree with the points of what needs to be done, this article suffers from one major aspect. Stop telling people what they should do. If the points are presented as recommendations, that would be fine, but one of the main reasons the USA is in the current mess is that we have been listening to too many people telling us what we should do. When people I do not know, who do not know me, start telling me how to live my life, they sound more like those who favor state control. When you say that we should put our axes down, it is nothing more than the old leftist cry of ‘why can’t we all get along’. The reason we can get along is because too many people stick their noses where they shouldn’t be (one is one too many). No one is going to put down the axe if someone with an axe is waiting for them to do so. Are you proposing banning axes? Why not, they are not protected by the 2nd Amendmen
. Or are you merely hoping that some magic wand will be waved and the axes will change to free homes? Wait one…someone did wave a wand…and we got an Obama. Wanna try again?
Correction to my last post:
“The reason we can get along is because too many people stick their noses where they shouldn’t be (one is one too many).”, should read “The reason we can’t get along……”
The reactionary, incoherent tone of this article is getting to be all too common here at PJM. I blame the “big tent” fallacy, which falsely asserts that a “bigger tent” is automatically a stronger tent. Nothing could be further from the truth. Lord of the Flies is contrived fiction. Its addled ‘lessons’ don’t apply here.
Here’s the thing, and we’d better learn this right quick…
There’s a brand of parent who likes to use compromise with their teen-aged children in order to keep peace in the household. When this tactic is pursued to the point of absurdity, chaos is inevitable. Cell phone bills soar, midnight runs to the local police station increase, grades drop through the floor, teen pregnancy is a constant threat, screaming matches become the only mode of communication, drugs become a factor, etc. The very fabric of the family is destroyed. The parents realize that they have created monsters, but haven’t a clue what to do about it because compromise is the only tool they own or know how to use.
That’s where we are today in America. We have spent the last 70+ years demonstrating that compromise with adolescent, leftist morality DOES NOT WORK. In that, we are only the latest in a long line of nations to prove this point.
And Santayana is spinning in his grave.
If there’s a conflict, I know which ‘side’ I’m on: the side of Good. Not ‘Us’. Not ‘Them’. Good.
With me are many who feel as I do. Politically, they are leaving the Democrat and Republican Party in droves and broaden the ranks of the new Tea Party movement. They value individual liberty and know that it can’t be secured without individual responsibility. They know they’re not entitled to anything that isn’t listed in the Bill of Rights. They don’t expect to receive the fruits of others’ labor. They’re clear on the concept of “general welfare”, as defined by the Founders: it doesn’t and never will mean individual welfare. They value the rule of law. They honor the Constitution, the Republican Form of Government it guarantees and its built-in Amendment process, which was specifically designed by some of the greatest minds in history to regulate social change. Many of us have taken an oath to defend that Constitution and, by extension, the Republic that is built upon it. We’re not going to just sit back and watch our nation be destroyed.
If those who feel as I do are in conflict with anyone right now, it is NOT ONLY with the nihilist, radical, Alinskyite left, whose adolescent morality abhors ALL of those things we value, and who seek ‘revolution’ for its own sake, as a false path to relief from guilt and insecurity. No, that conflict is also with those who would endlessly compromise with the adolescents, in order to secure a little peace and personal power. Between them, those two groups represent an existential threat to everything I value.
So here’s the plan – the only one that will work. The moral adolescents need to be restrained, educated and then encouraged to mature. In that order. Unfortunately, those moral adolescents are now running the household – the people we elected as our representatives and leaders allowed that to happen.
So the first order of business is to elect morally mature adults who will honor the Constitution and put their service to the Republic above their own personal gain. If political axes are required to do that, or to prevent MORE damage to our social fabric, there are many of us who are happy to make them, sharpen them and wield them.
The right has been poleaxed and has had an axe cleaved into its back for generations. This was down by the marxists and their fellow travelers. The reason why they have become emboldened over the years is because we never picked up an axe ourselves but took the savage attacks and attempted to forestall our murder with reason, logic, the truth, and the Constitution. No. What is happening today should have happened years ago. We should have realized we were in a state of war since the early 60′s, maybe even the late 30′s. Since we NEVER PICKED UP THE AXE when it was called for the attacks became more one sided and vicious. It is our turn now. The Tea Parties, the Town Halls were a big SHOCK to the left. Look! We can do what they do. If we had been hitting the streets, lying, practicing the high art of deceit, committing calumny after calumny, treasonous and ruinous to our country, we would have not been spared. They have been because we were otherwise engaged, ignorant, or just PLAIN COWARDLY. The roar from the left is the roar of a wounded beast. Now is NOT the time to turn it down but to attack with the aim of total annihilation. We have watched and decided to use their tactics against them. That perhaps, in their minds, is the most unforgivable sin of all. We should consider the past year as a prelude. Now is the time to take off the training wheels.
Please tell me of this idyllic period where politics wasn’t contentious and filled with bitter acrimony on both sides. The fight over the Constitution and Bill of Rights wasn’t a quiet little tea party. It was a boisterous debate of opposites (federalist vs anti-federalist.)
Frankly, the antics and rhetoric of politicians and pundits shouldn’t be taken so seriously. Politics is a dirty business and it taints nearly everyone who goes into it.
What do I want?
I mostly want to be left alone by the government. I don’t want it telling me how to live my life, or how others should live their lives. And if I or others need help, I want it to lend a hand, not provide a lifestyle.
What taxes the various levels of government does need should fairly taken from everyone, and used as efficiently and effectively as possible.
If there is some kind of joke here, us folks don’t seem to be getting it. Is the title irony or is it just pasted to the wrong piece?
Haha, ahah, uhuhuh, hmm, hmm, duh, doooh.
In a Mexican standoff, unilateral disarmament is *not* a good strategy.
Personally, I’m all for hacking the evil bastards into bloody shreds.
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Servant of Allah: Go home.
Passionate beliefs from all sides are expressed passionately, those of us with minds of our own grounded in educated reality can hear all sides and make our own decisions, that is what free speech is all about.
We can simplify the debate. Obama said community interests are more important than are individual interests, and in this we find the differences between tyranny of the elite few over the many and individual freedom. There are only those two sides. Obama relates to the oldest, longest-running political system in the world, against the newest formed almost 400 years ago and proven worthy of a free people since, in America only. See Save Pebble Droppers & Prosperity on claysamerica.com.
Never, never, never, never give up.
— Winston Churchill
#16 goy:
“So here’s the plan – the only one that will work. The moral adolescents need to be restrained, educated and then encouraged to mature. In that order. Unfortunately, those moral adolescents are now running the household – the people we elected as our representatives and leaders allowed that to happen.”
Good comment, but I’d observe that the restraint you speak of inherently assumes that a discipline be externally imposed. And that leads to some very dark and troubling times.
The “kids” will fight this every step of the way.
Once discipline is credibly established, the inner-directed restraint will follow, and only then can we even begin to entertain dreams re-education and maturation.
Frankly, I don’t see such an environment comi9ng to pass in the United States, what with the “culture” of instant self-gratification that we are presently cursed with.
I wish I was wrong, but I don’t think I am in my assessment that the political and cultural chassis is too rusted out to be worth the attempt to restore the thing.
For those who entirely missed the point of the article, let me be clear:
It’s time for the “Democrat vs Republican” game to end. Politicians build their careers on pitting us against each other so they can embed themselves into one ruling political class. It’s time for people to stop being party-hacks and stand on principle. My point was to say to both conservative and liberal party-hacks, “lay THOSE political axes down”; It’s just a distraction.
Conservatives and liberals come from a common lineage: Classical Liberalism. It’s time for principled conservatives and liberals to find their roots and UNITE against their common enemy: TOTALITARIANISM. The original meaning of “liberalism” is individual freedom (not tyranny). Most liberals and conservatives who understand their ideologies and refuse to play party politics now consider themselves Libertarians. (No, I’m not saying, “go out and join the Libertarian party.” I hold them only as an example of ideological reconciliation.)
Libertarians are proof conservatives and liberals can find their common ground again. These are the axes that have successfully been laid down. These people prove that while we still disagree, we can be watchmen at the tower for the real enemy. This enemy, Marxism/totalitarianism/communism/socialism, has taken over our government. We The People need to unite, once again, to defeat it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to finish pulling all the “axes” from my backside
-I won’t respond again to this thread.
Andie Brownlow
Article Author
@24. Bilgeman: – …the restraint you speak of inherently assumes that a discipline be externally imposed. And that leads to some very dark and troubling times.
Hi Bilge’!
I’d say we’re already in the midst of pretty dark and troubling times. Yes, it’ll get ugly and painful. Interventions always are. The trick is to start the work before we miss the chance to do it peacefully, using the power of a fed-up Electorate, and are forced either to acquiesce or pursue restoration of the Republic by force of arms.
Outside that, I wish I could say I was optimistic about America’s ability to fix itself, by whatever means. But if such a thing is possible, the U.S.A. is probably the first nation in history that might achieve such a feat. One thing’s for sure, however: it won’t happen if we just “put the political axes down”.
“Can’t we all just get along?” – Rodney King Sheesh!
“For those who entirely missed the point of the article, let me be clear”
What makes you think you will do better this time around? After all, the whole premise of your article is wrong.
ALL progress comes from conflict. Do you have any idea how an oyster goes about making a pearl? The political warfare between left and right is what makes America great, just as it was what made Rome great. Just like Rome, America will fall when that conflict gets out of hand.
So the real question isn’t if conflict is good or bad, but at what point does it do more harm then good? And the corollary is have we reached that point? You seem to be arguing that we have. Yet the fact that neither side is willing to surrender proves we haven’t.
I suspect the crisis will be this fall. By October, either the Usurper will have fixed the economy to provide more jobs or the Democrats will be looking at the worst political defeat in the history of America. The Usurper is very vulnerable, since he has chosen not to prove he is a natural born American citizen, which makes him vulnerable to impeachment and conviction. So if the Marxists he is fronting for want to hold power and avoid jail, they will have to suspend the Constitution and hope those soon to be unemployeed Congresspersons go along with it.
Then the voting switches from ballots to bullets. The survivors might be given a chance to surrender. That is when the axe gets buried.
@25. AndieBrownlow: – It’s time for the “Democrat vs Republican” game to end.
Inasmuch as that particular conflict has become one of far-far-left demagogues vs. center-left quislings, I would wholeheartedly agree. But even on my third read, that point doesn’t come across in your article. Sorry. Perhaps it’s because you’re not quite clear on your use of ideological terminology. To wit…
- Conservatives and liberals come from a common lineage: Classical Liberalism.
Absolutely not! Contemporary, self-labeled ‘liberals’ (read: leftists) – at least as represented by the neo-progressive marxists and socialists who dominate today’s Democrat Party – have no lineage tracing back to classical liberalism. Their agenda is rooted in the morally adolescent and completely discredited ideology of Marx.
- Libertarians are proof conservatives and liberals can find their common ground again.
Not at all. “Common ground” implies compromise, which is what has led the Republic to ruin. And libertarians are proof that there’s a segment of the public so distracted by their pursuit of unreal perfection that they have ceased to be a viable political entity in any real sense, if they ever were. Just as Socialism represents an unworkable, too-far-left ideology due to its naive ignorance of human nature, Libertarianism represents an unworkable, too-far-right ideology – at least in the sense that the ideological line goes from totalitarianism (omnipotent government) on the left end of the spectrum, to anarchy (no government) at the opposite end. In the center of that spectrum is the realm of classical liberalism / conservatism / constitutional republicanism. And that center point is the type of governance we should demand, IMHO.
I can’t think of a rational reason why (we) classical liberals shouldn’t demand that the Republican Party hew to the only ideological line that will provide the Republican Form of Government guaranteed by the Constitution. As things currently stand, that still requires some wielding of political axes – just not in the traditional sense of “Republican vs Democrat”.
I’m never putting my axe down just as my Springfield XD IS chambered while in my concealed holster.
The left is merciless in its drive to destroy this country.
Talk like that is Mitt talk or paving the way for the next Rino.
We have to win, and the Left must lose. Mods can join us and keep their freedom.
Put my ax down? Nope. I have not yet begun to chop.
The liberals have degraded too much. Without holding them responsible for their crimes there is no foundation for taking the required corrective action. It also will not be simple to avoid catastrophe with action against the guilty liberals, just impossible withoout it.
They have us target fixated on doomsday they way the fixated Jonestown in the seventies and during their other experiments.
This may be tough to accomplish, but can anyone suggest a better way?:
The only infallible, unstoppable, guaranteed way to get a truly new Congress is :
NEVER REELECT ANY INCUMBENT! AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION!
The American voter must IMPOSE term limits by NEVER REELECTING ANYONE IN CONGRESS, AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION! In other words, don’t let anyone serve more than one term. That’s the only way to teach them that the voter is boss! The “one term limit” can be eased AFTER citizens get control of Congress.
Congress will never allow us to constitutionally term limit them by an amendment. Our only choice is to NEVER REELECT them. All of them!
The number of ‘good guys’ left in Congress is negligible, so if we threw ALL 535 members out, we wouldn’t do as much damage as the good we would gain by turning Congress into a bunch of honest, innocent freshmen.
Some of the reasons in favor of this approach:
• It gives us a one-term-limited Congress without using an amendment
• It encourages ordinary citizens to run for Congress
• It is supported by 70% of the country (see Rasmussen and Cato polls)
• It is completely nonpartisan
• If repeated, it ends career politicians in Congress
• It opens the way to a “citizen Congress” of guys like you and me
* It would open a torrent of fresh ideas to improve our government
• It ends the seniority system that keeps freshmen powerless
• It doesn’t cost money. But you MUST vote! Just don’t vote for an incumbent
• It takes effect immediately on Election Day
• It is the only infallible, unstoppable, guaranteed way to “Throw the Bums Out”
• When the ‘pros’ stop running, ordinary citizens will run, and win
• If it doesn’t work, do it again and again! It will work eventually,without a doubt.
NEVER REELECT ANYONE IN CONGRESS. AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION!
Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com
Email nels96@gmail.com for your free NEVER REELECT bumper sticker
From Will Rogers, “Diplomacy is saying ‘nice doggie’, while looking for a rock.”
As soon as everyone learns that mini-max is zero sum and optimal works if everyone accepts less, then maybe. Good luck with that in kindergarden thru the whitehouse.
From our Persian friends, Trust in Allah and be sure to tie up your camel.”
It’s no use replying to Servant of Allah. It’s a bot, probably courtesy of our more ideological Muslim citizens such as CAIR.
As for putting down our axes, I say we should… as soon as we no longer need to defend ourselves and everything that makes us American.
Go preach at Huffpo. When you have them convinced, we’ll talk. Right, bubbie?
Is it any wonder that we’re exhibiting all of the political savvy and maturity of a Third World banana republic, because that’s what we’ve morphed into thanks to thanks to fifty years of open border lunacy. No habla democracy gringo!
Brownlow are you for real? Everything’s political with Stalinists/demtards,think death panels.There will be NO restoration without rebellion.BTW,this is the 21st century,we use AKs. The axes are there for RINOS to castrate themselves so that they can realize their innermost desires and become biological,and not merely political, eunuchs.I’d lend you mine, but David Brooks borrowed it and hasn’t returned it yet.
OK, I’ll put down my axe. Just don’t ask about the rfle, K-bar and bag full of hand grenades, OK…?
Andie,
Unlike a lot of those responding to your article, I get it. There has been so much mud-slinging and name-calling toward opposing parties and within parties it’s ridiculous. Sane people know this needs to stop. The minute a politician starts the “blame game” instead of actually making statements on their viewpoints and policies, you know there’s no substance to them. The infighting destroys everyone. The greatest societies collapsed not from fighting those outside, but from fighting within. The fastest way to destroy any group, organization, company, nation, or church is breaking down the internal fibers. I completely agree with what you wrote. Hopefully people will read your article and understand what you stated. We’re adults, not third-graders. We need to rise above the name calling and childish behavior. I have been reduced to that a couple times, and I hate that I allowed someone to push me that far. I have better control than that. But, I’m working hard every day to keep a level head, discuss issues, and ignore the barbs from others both in my party and outside. We need to act like the responsible, tax-paying, working citizens we are.
Great article!
Isn’t your suggestion just what the Rino Republicans did? What the heck good did that do?
No, I say no, a thousand times no, we do not give in to tyranny. And tyranny is what we are seeing.
NEVER!
I agree with you Kerry #9 – Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
And I love the quote from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Thanks for sharing it.
#25 Mr. brownlow:
“For those who entirely missed the point of the article, let me be clear:
It’s time for the “Democrat vs Republican” game to end. Politicians build their careers on pitting us against each other so they can embed themselves into one ruling political class. It’s time for people to stop being party-hacks and stand on principle. My point was to say to both conservative and liberal party-hacks, “lay THOSE political axes down”; It’s just a distraction.”
Respectfully, I think it is you who entirely miss the point of what democracy really IS.
This isn’t necessarily an indictment of your intellect or character though, since this “culture” has taken pains to obscure the ugly fundamental truth about democracy.
Democracy wasn’t ordained by the Almighty. It wasn’t dreamed up in the groves of academe, and it CERTAINLY wasn’t the result of some government policy.
Democracy was born in the bloody no-man’s-land between two groups of heavily-armed Greek hoplites ready and willing to do battle,(i.e.: hack parts off of each other with edged weapons and thrust spears into their opponents’ bodies…a very ugly and nasty pastime, despite how appealing the producers of “300″ may have made it all look).
In failing to grasp this fundamental truth about democracy, you fall into this utopian fantasy that you can HAVE a democracy while only having one group of hoplites…or no groups at all.
You simply CAN’T. And nor would you want to, since the very fact of dressing up in armor and marching up and down Greek hillsides while toting bits of ironmongery entails that you are under someone’s command…which, as you would learn in Basic Training, is about as far from a democratic existence as you can get.
The essential act of any democracy is the election. And an election is basically nothing more than a head-count to determine who has the bigger army.
#26 goy:
“Outside that, I wish I could say I was optimistic about America’s ability to fix itself, by whatever means. But if such a thing is possible, the U.S.A. is probably the first nation in history that might achieve such a feat. One thing’s for sure, however: it won’t happen if we just “put the political axes down”.”
Aye to that. The other thing is that when you’ve got your enemy on the run, letting him run away leaves iopen the possibilty that he might fight again another day…and what THAT means, where the rubber meets the road, is that the little 5 and 6 year-old American kids of 1991 get to have THEIR turn at fighting and dying in Iraq once THEY grow up.
That doesn’t “feel good” at all, O best beloveds…bad for one’s self-esteem. Even when the decision to get all “humanitarian” n’ sh!t wasn’t yours.
When your enemy shoots at you, shoot back more accurately than he, if he turns tail and runs, shoot him in the back. Settle this hash now…today. GEt it over with.
The only time to stop shooting is when the enemy surrenders unconditionally, and even THEN you don’t disarm yourself, since you’re THEN guarding prisoners of war.
That’s modern political life for ya, you’re metaphorically either a recruit in a hole in the ground getting shot at, or a prison camp guard in a tower, or you’re a “self-propelled sandbag”, (a Marine tanker once called me that over a coupla beers, and he wasn’t far off the mark)…good only for stopping bullets and providing cover to those with enough sense to hunker down behind your corpse.
#40AFWIFENC: You get what?Liste,you silly old holier than thou cow:politics,as practiced by marxoid thugs like Obama is a blood sport.The greatest societies collapse when they refuse to combatincipient tyranny and unpleasant realities;you sound like that other silly old woman, Chamberlain at Munich. Mccain took Brownlow’s advice;look where it got him and us. BTW: Who are you married to? David Brooks?
#44 deguellu
Sorry you feel the need for name-calling. There are ways to reach solutions without resorting to extreme measures. Look at what just happened in Massachusetts. We’re working together to make a difference.
The behavior which you exhibit on here is exactly what Andie is talking about. We must use civility to a point. Now, if marshall law was declared, you bet your a$$ I would be out in front with my shotgun. But, we are not to that point, so I refuse to be drug down in the mud with people that act like children.
Oh, and FYI? I’m a 35 year old military wife that works full time and has a family. I spend what free time I do have outside of family, work, and church volunteering with varouis organizations.
44@deguello
Try cutting back on the meth, deguello.
#44 deguello, suggesting that AFwifeinNC is married to David Brooks is beyond the pale. Brooks is a horrible writer.
#46 KOCHEVNIK Try some penicillin;I hear it works even on tertiary syphillis!
#47 TEAM RALPH OK,She isn’t married to Brooks,she merely cleans his house, and drags his first drafts out of the garbage and recycles them at PJM.
AFWIFEINNC You claim to be a military wife,and yet you want us to moderate our attacks on a radical,anti-military presidency that would grant civil liberty protections to the terorists who could one day murder your husband?Coakley’s destruction was prepared by tough ideological street fighters like Rush,Levine, Beck and Buchanan,not by”moderates”showing civility.We are in a cold CIVIL war,the Left wants to destroy the constitution turn the USA into a north American version of Cuba.This is no time to play nice.we must smash them;if you lack the stomach for this,run your churh socials,sing in the choir,and get out of the way of those who want to fight this scum.
50. deguello
“AFWIFEINNC You claim to be a military wife,and yet you want us to moderate our attacks on a radical,anti-military presidency that would grant civil liberty protections to the terorists who could one day murder your husband?Coakley’s destruction was prepared by tough ideological street fighters like Rush,Levine, Beck and Buchanan,not by”moderates”showing civility.We are in a cold CIVIL war,the Left wants to destroy the constitution turn the USA into a north American version of Cuba.This is no time to play nice.we must smash them;if you lack the stomach for this,run your churh socials,sing in the choir,and get out of the way of those who want to fight this scum.”
Believe what you may about me, but you apparently don’t understand a military strategy. Ask anyone that’s been in uniform. Fighting wildly or blindly will get you killed in battle immediately. Knowing what battles to fight, and planning accordingly is the best way to win a war.
By the way, I don’t sing in the choir. I’m with the ladies’ group at church, but I’m a member of a local tea party group, co-chair of a group reorganizing precincts for Constitutionalists, and a Key Spouse for my husband’s squadron. If you don’t know what that is, I’ll break it down for you. When members of our squadron are deployed, they leave spouses and families behind. Our job is to help the families left behind. It’s a strictly volunteer force. And, I do it because no one ever did it for me, and I hated feeling as though there was no one to call in an emergency when my family is a thousand miles away.
Idiots are the ones that will get my husband murdered. The minute one of you yokels pick up a gun and start shooting in a panic, they will be called in for control, to prevent innocent lives from being lost, twits will start shooting the very people that fight for your freedoms. The very people that aren’t home protecting their families from the violence and riots, and could well lose to it.
Go ahead, get out there and act like an idiot. You’ll be the one responsible for innocent lives lost. Remember, when your Judgment Day comes, how will you answer to God for your actions?
Thanks for playing.
AFWIFEin NC: I’m a “yokel” am I?That’s rich from someone who uses”drug” for “dragged”.But that’s OK;It was “yokels” like Sam Adams and”extremists”like Jefferson who led the original tea parties and created our nation.Don’t worry about your husband’s safety on our account;though I never mentioned violence,should it,break out,the military will frag their libtard officers,and join in what will be the second American revolution.Your scenario is pure liberal fantasy and projection.Your husband has far more to fear from Obama’s pc neutering of our security,and his hatred of the military(prosecuting SEALS on the word of a terrorist,refusing to call the FT.Hood jihaddist a terrorist),than he does from patriots-If he exists-since no real military wife would write”drug”in an attempt to simulate “authenticity”.I think you are another libtard troll attempting to quell patriot enthusiasm,to protect a suddenly vulnerable presidency.BTW: How much does David Brooks pay you to clean his toilets?
It’s a war, ya pinhead. Freedom vs. Tyranny…Freedom will win.
51. AFwife – I’m praying that you’re not going to fall for any 3rd party BS. That’s the quickest way to lose our freedom. We are a 2 party system, always have been, always will be. 3rd party followers are delusional and dangerous…stay as far away from them as you can. Stay conservative and Republican and Freedom will win out in the end.
deguello:
I’m sorry if you don’t understand how the system works when it comes to a court martial. The court martial was decided by the SEALS, and the charges were brought from within the military, such as one of their fellow officers or an immediate supervisor. As much as I hate this administration, Obama did not make the decision to court martial them. It’s written under the code of the UCMJ – the same code by which Nadal Malik Hasan will be tried. I already had this discussion about the court martial with my husband. The U.S. military hold itself in the highest regard, with the strictest and highest standards for conduct on earth. Whether or not those SEALS actually committed an act that violates the code, I don’t feel they did. They chose the court martial to have a judgment carried out in public among their peers, instead of behind closed doors. If they were guilty, then they would never have requested such a thing.
The military I know consider him Nadal Hasan a terrorist, as do their superiors. I don’t give a flying flip what is broadcast on TV. This man is being prosecuted in military court to increase the number of charges placed on him, and to be sure to increase the chance of execution.
There is one person on this site that can verify I am what I say I am. If you have doubts, ask the author of the article. She’s in one of the locals groups with me.
So, without further adieu, I wish you luck on your tirade. I’m not planning on responding anymore. I have work to do for the next GOP meeting on Monday night. I have questions to prepare.
#56:AFWIFEINNCBLA BLA BLA.Last time I checked,the Ohole was still the Commander in Chief;he can stop the criminally insane pc harassment of our soldiers;he won’t ,because he hates them.You seem to have no problem equating Hassan with the persecuted SEALS,which exposes the moral chaos and nihilism chacteristic of libtards.The military you pretend not to know anything about, just issued a report on the FT. Hood “isolated extremist”,as our marxoid prez calls him,, that avoids any mention of Islamic terrorism.If it is true that Brownlow and you are involved in the resistance movement,then you both need to be purged:The movement needs you as much as an Olympic swimmer needs leg weights. I suggest you go work for Olympia Snowe or Mcain,I’m sure they’ll be happy to take you in.!A bientot salope gauchiste!Je te verrai quand la revolution commence!
Hey Brownlow,see above. Is this fool for real? What tea party group are you two sabotaging? They need to be warned!Go work for Code Pink!
54. Smitty:
Sorry I didn’t see your post earlier. I do believe in the two-party system, and am working locally to reform the Republican party to return to its conservative roots. I don’t believe a third party is viable for our system. I’ve been registered as a Republican since I was old enough to vote, and hold onto conservative beliefs in which the original foundation of the party is based on. Republicans have drifted from that, but we’re bringing them back! Thanks for bringing this up, and stay strong, because we will get out party back!