Posted on 07/18/2015 7:36:20 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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This is a significant article by Greenfield that will explain much of his understanding of the world. It is, for many of us, an intellectual road map for the cultural war in which we are engaged.
Lou
“Our Lives Are the Revolution”
I like that.
“Rape” (noun)
“The crime of using force or the threat of force to compel a person to submit to sexual intercourse.”
My and my wife’s ancestors – all of them – jumped through all the hoops to come here legally. And I have absolutely NO problem with productive, hard-working citizens from FRIENDLY nations jumping through the same hoops to become ASSIMILATED Americans. And I have no problem even with those from officially UNfriendly places who, having helped us there at some point, have been threatened with death for doing so coming here to become Americans after thorough vetting.
I caught a statistic recently that indicated over 70% of Americans want our borders secured and the illegal tidal wave to stop.
I’m betting that MANY of the folks destined to be settled in already established upper-middle class and higher areas will be these Third Worlders. You see, it’s all part of the BIG PLAN.
Can someone explain WHY Obama’s insertion of illegals/aliens – under threat of force – from all over the world into what little remains of American culture is NOT an act of CULTURAL RAPE?
If you’re a so-called “progressive” reading this and find it too complicated to fully grasp, here’s a simpler analogy: Think of Obama as a rapist, the remnants of American culture as his victim and the Third World aliens he’s forcing on many of our communities as his penis.
There, is that better?
Over 220 years ago, Mr. Jefferson put it in far more elegant terms:
”Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies (RAB: I would add to that dictatorships/tyrannies). Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislature. (They will attain public office and legislative influence.) They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.”
Thanks to Obama’s ongoing ravaging of America and culture here, we HAVE BECOME that “...heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.”
(The Cliff Notes version: They come HERE to escape THERE only to find that they have turned HERE INTO THERE!)
And, trust me when I tell you it will only get worse until the America WE knew (warts and all) will merge into the other Third World hellholes Obama and his minions will create here.
And if you’d like to better understand the INSANITY of what’s going on, check out this 6 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
The candidate that has the stones to identify this culture war and vows to win it will win.
Says it all. How we live determines the character of the culture. In Christian terms we witness to our condition by living our faith. This is the force leftists seek to destroy. They use fear, hatred, suppression, and any other nefarious means possible to intimidate and silence us. None of it works if we remain committed to our faith and seek in every way to live the life our faith demands of us.
Once you realize it is a war you’re in, the enemy has to be identified. This is where we have failed.
While ISIS, al Queda and others are enemies (plural), our true enemy is islam.
‘There are only two possible futures. Either the left will destroy itself. Or we will destroy it.’
The illustrious Mr. Greenfield leaves out the third option people are waiting for, that is, that the Left will come to its senses, which he leaves out precisely because it is not a possible outcome
“There is no party. There is no movement. We are all there is. And we had better make the most of it.”
Is he saying the “GOP” is dead as a party?
One of the great pieces of writing I have encountered.
I believe he is saying the primary source of power is our willingness to live our beliefs in spite of opposition. Strengthening the family in the face of the homosexual onslaught is an example. He is asking us to live in opposition to forces of evil and destruction not as a negative response but as an act of confidence and faith in the rightness of our cause.
Thanks....well put.
I believe he is saying the primary source of power is our willingness to live our beliefs in spite of opposition. Strengthening the family in the face of the homosexual onslaught is an example. He is asking us to live in opposition to forces of evil and destruction not as a negative response but as an act of confidence and faith in the rightness of our cause.
It’s doubtful anyone soon will offer a critique of Hope and Change better than Greenfield: This Culture War We’re In.
In a saner world it would be read from the pulpits tomorrow.
America will not go down alone but only as the latest recent civilization that defeated itself and took everyone else with it.
“There is no conservative organization on a large scale. Only a hollow business party, its crony capitalist attachments and its stunted media.”
That sounds pretty much dead.
Read the remainder of my statement
It is a response to all the well meaning Sean hannitys whining about the bias in the media hoping leftists to figure it out
“The left has outmaneuvered GOP commanders. They still have plenty of troops, but no initiative. Their command lacks flexibility. They don’t know how to use their forces and they’re still playing by outdated rules of chivalry that the other side does not follow. They’re a 19th century European cavalry formation and the left is the Viet Cong. They have long ceased to be a threat to the left.”
Yes, I believe he is saying the GOP is dead as a party. A 19th century cavalry formation is worthless against this onslaught. They are not a force against the left, and they have become disconnected from their principles, values and purpose. Assuming the principles, values, and purpose of a Ronald Reagan, for example.
Whoa, this is powerful stuff. One of his best.
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