Posted on 04/26/2011 8:04:55 AM PDT by Lexluthor69
In 2009 I wrote the following: I fear for my country. America has gone from a vibrant capitalist society to a dying socialist society almost overnight. We have become an impotent sleeping giant sprawled across the globe whiling away our days dreaming of a socialist utopia that does not exist and never has. If anything, we among all, people are the most to be pitied. How pathetic we have become. We have traded our shining city on a hill for a government low-rent housing project. The worst of it is we did it of our own free will!
Yes, democracy can be a dangerous way to govern a country as the German people learned when allied bombs were raining down on their cities. They chose the Furher of their own free will and they paid a price no nation should ever have to pay.
For democracy to exist, to thrive, and to survive, it is incumbent, it is REQUIRED, that the electorate is intelligent, learned, and knowledgeable people. Because it is they who decide, by their votes, whether democracy, in a free country, lives or dies.
The overriding question today is Can America even survive? The answer, realistically, is NO, she cannot not if she continues the course she chose in 2008. Having said that, we must also say that YES, America can survive IF she changes course and returns to her roots as a capitalist, democratic representative republic.
There is likely to be a historic internal struggle in America over the next few years to decide the issue of whether America lives or dies. It will be ugly as such struggles always are. The first indication of which form of government Americans really want is likely to come in 2010 when Americans return to the polls.
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There is likely to be a historic internal struggle in America over the next few years to decide the issue of whether America lives or dies
Try from now until the 2012 election if we get there.
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