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This Independence Day, Honor the Sacrifices Made When Voting this November
Facebook ^ | 07/04/2016 | walford

Posted on 07/04/2016 10:36:38 AM PDT by walford

This upcoming election will determine whether the sacrifices made by those before us to preserve and make flourish our way of life will have been in vain.

Will American continue to be a free country in which we are empowered to see to our own needs and have equal protection under the law? All of that is under attack by those who do not believe in freedom and distrust the American people. They wish to continue the deconstruction of our nation that is currently in progress by those in power who are, at best, indifferent.

This is not a time to stay home or cast 'protest' votes, because you don't like the available choices.

Do not get behind the elitists who are poised to thwart popular will and impose a candidate over the heads of a voting base beleaguered by propaganda from all sides. We have had enough of being betrayed by those who repeatedly broke their promises to defend us from the forces of tyranny that have grown ever stronger and more sinister in their deceptions.

The time for haggling and hand-wringing is over. All I ask is that you think for yourself, question what you are being told and cast your vote with a love for America in your heart -- because, on balance, our country is a force for good in the world.

Your future, that of the United States -- and possibly that of Western civilization itself -- hangs in the balance. If you ever wanted to be a part of something as consequential as anything in American history, it is coming this November.


TOPICS: Government; Society
KEYWORDS: election; freedom; vote
On this day in 1776, a new nation was founded on an idea: Freedom.

It was the first time in history that a country was based upon something other than place or ethnicity. The Founding Fathers built upon the thoughts and actions resulting from the Reformation and Enlightenment, deliberately crafting a government legitimized by a popular mandate.

No longer did someone rule by Divine Right. Religion and the Divine were not possessed by a Chosen aristocracy and the coercive power of government was not used to impose it upon the populace. Political influence and economic success could be attained by other means than birth. For the first time in history, one could use hard work, creativity and discipline to provide a need -- and in the process make things that were previously attainable to only the few available to nearly everyone.

One could attain economic success to mutual benefit in an industrializing society, rather than at the expense of others in agrarian medievalism.

It is no accident that the Industrial Revolution coincided with the American Revolution.

Prior to the founding of our Republic, there was doubt as to whether limited representative government would not degenerate into mob rule. The founding of the United States of America showed the world that freedom is the optimal human condition. It was demonstrated that people could govern themselves and the result would be justice and prosperity that penetrated to a far broader proportion of society than previously deemed possible. Seeing the technological innovation that was nurtured under freedom, much of the world strove to emulate this example.

Certainly this course has been imperfect. We can second-guess the choices of people from the 18th Century as they essentially created the field of political science from scratch. Their prejudices and experience certainly colored their actions -- and their posterity certainly suffered the consequences. But the Founding Fathers’ genius provided a structure under which we could reform our society beyond what they could have imagined -- and still remain intact through great upheaval and tumult.

Hence, we enjoy the longest continuously running democracy the world has ever seen.

But, from the beginning, there were always forces who did not trust the people and sought to disenfranchise them. To this day, they try to seduce the people into giving up their freedoms for the false security of dependence upon those who are smarter and know better. They try to demoralize the public into thinking that they cannot run their lives w/o guidance and provision from their Betters.

The threat to freedom is as great now as it’s ever been. Our way of life and our empowerment to see to our own personal safety and economic security are under attack on all fronts -- by those who smile and tell us that they will take care of us if we only put our lives in their hands.

There is an elite class who dominates the media, academia, the legal profession, politics and the entertainment industry who have been patiently conniving to make us ignorant, impoverished and disenfranchised. Then they turn their pinched faces to blame freedom for the crime, poverty and social dissolution resulting from their mischief as they offer to save us from ourselves.

We are not being attacked by force of arms, but by deception -- and it has had its deleterious effect over the past couple of generations. The middle class is the main target for destruction; people who can take care of themselves have no need for benign tyrants.

Has freedom had its chance? Is mankind doomed to suffer under tyranny? I don’t think so. But we need to wake up, recognize what is being done to destroy our way of life and fight back.

We owe that much to those who sacrificed so much to bring us the greatest nation the world has ever seen. We owe that much to our children who must live in the world we leave behind.

1 posted on 07/04/2016 10:36:38 AM PDT by walford
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To: walford

And the bible warnings did not cease to be true either.

Yes, a big problem today is lies and people believing them.

This problem isn’t even coming from people, in the final instance. This is coming from the demons. Ephesians 6 among other passages in the bible warns of them and of how to achieve victory in their face.

If the American people can honor the largest sacrifice of all, that on the cross of Jesus on Calvary, they will soon be in a more advantageous position. Jesus came to show us that God loves us and the problem with hate is on our side, not God’s side. The devil comes only to shower us with hate.


2 posted on 07/04/2016 10:47:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: walford
It is no accident that the Industrial Revolution coincided with the American Revolution.

The industrial revolution happened in the USA during a time of steep protective import tariffs. Conversely the de-industrialization ongoing in the USA is happening with no protective tariffs in place. In case anyone cares about the truth.

3 posted on 07/04/2016 10:47:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: walford

Americans don’t have the luxury to “stay home” this November. In order to outvote the illegal aliens and foreigners, they are going to have to get off their asses and get out and vote for America.


4 posted on 07/04/2016 10:51:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: central_va

https://fee.org/articles/the-smoot-hawley-tariff-and-the-great-depression/


5 posted on 07/04/2016 10:52:28 AM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford - I use Facebook for blogging daily. Feel free to "friend" me.)
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To: central_va

And yet, many of our modern wonders depend on things that can’t be had domestically in sufficient quantity if at all. There is no one size fits all best policy for every commodity.

There are complaints about becoming a service economy, but in truth an economy is always a service economy. Its medium may vary, but it is always selling a service.

Some of the biggest political follies are those that lock up domestic resources, unnecessarily throwing our dependence upon foreign sources. This isn’t to protect nature, this is to move its travails to another part of this terrestrial ball, and usually where it would be done much worse than it could be done here.


6 posted on 07/04/2016 10:56:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“...In order to outvote the illegal aliens and foreigners, they are going to have to get off their asses and get out and vote for America.”


Don’t forget the dead and fictional characters.
http://spectator.org/25788_acorn-obamas-ex-employer-convicted-massive-voter-fraud-scam/

Grandma may have been a solid GOP voter while she was still with us, but you might find her voting Democrat after she passes!


7 posted on 07/04/2016 10:56:02 AM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford - I use Facebook for blogging daily. Feel free to "friend" me.)
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To: walford

The standard answer to such a proposition.

But Smoot-Hawley was a tax put on TOP of other taxes. Other taxes were not rolled back. Higher taxes are a buzz kill for an economy and for the taxes too, after a certain point. They did so.

Trump’s approach seems more sensible: EVERYTHING is negotiable. We won’t take protection off the table on sheer principle. But if you deal with us fair, we’ll deal with you fair.


8 posted on 07/04/2016 10:59:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: walford
Grandma may have been a solid GOP voter while she was still with us, but you might find her voting Democrat after she passes!

Social Security has to be notified IMMEDIATELY when "grandma" cashes in. It's the law!

It's some weird **** how the voting registration offices NEVER have to be notified. Very weird ****.

9 posted on 07/04/2016 11:01:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: walford
Perhaps we are undergoing the "furnace of affliction" referenced in the final lines quoted below:
" John Adams, on July 2, 1776, after a day in which the Continental Congress had adopted the Declaration of Independence, wrote to wife, Abigail:

"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.

"You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these states. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means. And that posterity will triumph in that day’s transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not…

"It may be the will of Heaven that America will suffer calamities still more wasting, and distress yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have this good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices which threaten to disturb, dishonor and destroy us. The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in States as well as individuals...But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe."

- John Adams

10 posted on 07/04/2016 11:26:57 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: FlingWingFlyer; All

Thanks to Obama’s open borders, amnesty and importing tens of thousands of muslim ‘refugees’ policies, we are no longer safe anywhere in our own country and our national debt is approaching 20 TRILLION.

We MUST make this the biggest Republican voter turn out in history.

Those who chose to stay home and not vote, vote third party or write in are casting a vote for Hillary to continue on with Obama’s policies.

GET OUT AND VOTE FOR DONALD! HE WILL PUT A STOP TO THIS INSANITY.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME!


11 posted on 07/04/2016 2:44:36 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
many of our modern wonders depend on things that can’t be had domestically in sufficient quantity if at all.

This country is capable of producing every single consumer product domestically if it warned too. A Fact. I see you are a globullist apologist and not a patriot.

12 posted on 07/04/2016 5:48:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: walford
Protectionism Didn't Cause the Great Depression

Only the disingenuous globalist hacks or plain idiots believe Smoot Hawley caused the Great Depression. What a contrived lie that is.

13 posted on 07/04/2016 5:51:34 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; central_va; loveliberty2

That’s all very interesting, but the OP was about making the case for voting — and doing so wisely. Honor the sacrifices our forebears made, rather than staying home or casting a protest vote.

The supporting arguments were about the fact that our freedoms, prosperity and people are are worth the trouble.

But thank you. >_>


14 posted on 07/05/2016 9:50:34 AM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford - I use Facebook for blogging daily. Feel free to "friend" me.)
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