Posted on 03/06/2014 8:07:07 AM PST by Sioux-san
This many years later, it still brings me to tears to think what my forefathers went through, and what we’ve done with the freedom they went and died for.
It was finally the Canadians who invented a moving artillery barrage, that ended that warfare. They fired a barrage ahead of the advancing infantry, so that when the barrage ended and the Germans would now get ready for them to cover over the top, they were already on top of them.
That’s how Canadians took Vimy when nobody else could.
I would argue that giving women the right to vote has also had quite an impact on the death of the West, as women DO think differently from men. This has impacted our leadership and the direction of society from the hard to the flaccid. Would like to see an objective study on the effects of that. No historian will touch that though.
One guy who has obviously read this stuff with serious intentions is Vladimir Putin, who has also determined that Russia is not going to participate in any further such suicidal activities.
A most astute and important observation.
Tied to the 1913 adoption of amendments 16 (income tax) and 17 (direct election of senators).
As far as I can assess, in college these days, every aspect of Western culture/civilization is explained through every conceivable negative dynamic of race.
It is true that the initial movement for women's suffrage was extremely radical, in the vein of radical abolitionism, "free love," etc. However things changed when Black men were given the right to vote while women were not. After that woman's suffrage began to be pushed as a way to increase the white vote at the expense of the Black vote. For an example of this phenomenon, please see the case of Alma White, the self-proclaimed "bishop" of her own church.
There was also another conservative element to the later woman suffrage movement. This was from the perception that women are inherently more religious and more moral than men. The early women's rights groups were very conservative socially, blaming exclusive male rule for social sin and claiming that the country was really ruled from the taverns. Hence these people were anti-liquor, anti-prostitution, etc. (just as the early twentieth century KKK was). One of the oldest proto-"feminist" organizations in the country is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (which is still around). It mixed a conservative and moralistic opposition to liquor with such "progressive" causes as women's rights and world peace. And the Prohibition Party (which is also still around in two separate organizations) mixed women's rights and other "progressive" positions with its own moralistic anti-liquor position.
Political ideology is a complex thing and some movements simply can't be understood in terms of contemporary ideology or alliances.
Thank you. I knew a little about the women’s temperance movement but did not realize it was aligned with the women’ suffrage movement. Very interesting insight.
It wasn't just aligned, it was coextensive with it. The two were the same.
Both the WCTU and the Prohibition Party were considered "progressive" in their day due to the stands they took on suffrage, labor, and world peace issues. Nowadays both organizations are considered "conservative" because of their social positions.
Yes, I get depressed when I am not thinking Biblically, but humanly. When I expect that the sweet times of early America should have kept going on forever, that I wish I could turn the clock back to little house on the prairie days (books not TV show :) ), or Mayberry RFD, small towns where children could run down to the drugstore for a soda without fear. Those were idealized, and of course they had big problems then, too, and not all people were true Christians, but I do remember feeling like our community was similar to that when I was very young.
But when I read the Bible, and especially Revelations, I get more in tune with reality and don’t feel so sad and frustrated, and expecting that golden time to come back, unless it is in God’s providence and mercy. I loved your last sentences, and of course that’s where I try to be most of the time. I can’t dwell on what’s lost but rest in the Lord’s peace and grace and try to glorify Him in obedience.
The Syrian conquest, capture and dispersion of Israel. That’s where it all started.
But I must trust the Lord in these last days, knowing that as his glory shines in us, the world gets darker (Isaiah 60:1-2). I know God wants to bless people - he certainly loves the world (John 3:16) - but he has much better and greater things in store for us and therefore at some point must make the necessary movers to "clear the decks" so to speak.
So my challenge has been to let go of America as the source of my security and happiness and rather embrace the Lord who is the source of all that has been good in America. As good as America has been and still is, God is so much better. This is God working on my heart away from trusting man to only trusting the Lord. So God is turning our hearts towards home. And in the meantime we fight and care for what's right, bless others, and let his light shine, but our eyes, as Jehoshaphat said, are on Him.
The Great War was a Cannae per week for over 200 weeks.
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