Posted on 12/05/2022 2:09:55 PM PST by The Louiswu
I'd tell you but then people would start taking sides and we'd be even more divided.
It will continue to go on until there are no more leftists.
Social media seems to have contributed to an outbreak of national neurosis. It amplifies every little issue into an emotional cauldron.
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Indeed. The real full-on crazy really amped up after about 2010.
well, Louiswu has been on FR for nearly 20 years according to the info by his name.I thought this post of his was a tongue-in-cheek joke.Guess not.
The division comes from the ones who want to change our country to socialism.. communism ..the ones driven by power and have a goal to take guns, shut up anyone who disagrees..
The division is between them and we who do not want their anti Christian, anti freedoms.. Anti parents.
Anti all.
Agree with that 100%, although thru posts, I have told a bit.
At any rate, my tagline applies: All will be well in the end.
It would be interesting if “our side” held meetings like the WEF and Bilderberg meetings for the progressive globalist agenda. But of course one difference between the sides would be that we are not elitists, and would frown on anyone who thought they were entitled to speak for our side without being voted into power.
This may be one reason why we’re apparently losing this cultural civil war on a global scale. Our side has only a limited presence in the marketplace of ideas, mostly on websites such as this one. Every other type of presence that we have is the filtered demonizing false premise filled caricatures presented by the globalist media and the politicians of the left.
Perhaps we should in fact have one such meeting of cultural conservative leaders, on a global scale, with the view towards creating an alternate agenda. When they say carbon neutral by 2050 or whatever, we say ... (perhaps) drill baby drill.
I think what we need is a set of alternatives to well-known progressive sacred cow agenda highlights, and try to level the playing field so that there’s a wider public debate. Instead of the “white nationalists telling lies” distortion, more of a “globalist say X, anti-globalists say Y, an election can decide.”
Some things are entirely a matter of personal opinion perhaps based on religious beliefs or moral values. For example, questions like same-sex marriage, gender rights for minority gender groups (self-defined), what to make of the Russia-Ukraine situation. Not all of us agree on these, while on the other side, very few disagree. The one issue that divides the left is Israel, there’s a faction “over there” who are stridently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and pro-Arab in general. That might also be a position some on the right might take although the majority on the right are pro-Israel and to whatever extent a gentile can be pro-Zionist, that also (at least a modicum of understanding, the fact being, pro-Zionist is really a mirror image of the belief that we belong in our own countries and not back in Europe).
I could see this anti-globalist agenda looking something like this:
1. Go slow on green energy and transitions away from fossil fuels, allow the market to decide, bring forward innovations only when they make economic sense.
2. Accept that some human modification of climate is inevitable, as well as realizing that some postulated examples are over-hyped, and with that balanced approach, rely more on mitigation than modification (example, if the seas rise, move away from them; if temperatures rise, adapt or exploit in some cases).
3. Marriage as a civil institution should be “gender blind” so there’s no discrimination, but religious groups should not be expected to cater to same sex marriage or any other practices with which they do not agree. The rights to freedom of religion and freedom of opinion should be paramount (the baker should not be forced to bake a cake, for example).
4. Genders are assigned at birth by body structure. To the extent that it interferes with no other lives or situations, people should be free to imagine they have changed their gender, but this should not give them any rights to go into places or social constructs where they do not belong, such as using other gender’s bathrooms especially for any illegal purpose, nor to participate in other genders’ sports unless invited by recognized sporting authority. No one should be coerced to accept transgendered “male” athletes as competitors in female sports.
5. Sexuality should be a private matter and things such as gay pride parades are a contradiction of that principle. Gays and other rainbow coalition types including (and perhaps especially) drag queens should not be in public schools interfering with the parent-child primary relationship that oversees child sexual development. The schools have barged into this area and should now butt out.
7. Borders must be kept secure and immigration policy enacted by governments must be totally respected at these borders. Any blurring of the purpose of the border (to enact the country’s legislated policies) must be ended. To be more specific, at this point in time, the US-Mexico border has almost ceased to exist as a point of enforcement of existing laws, and is instead a welcome mat for illegal immigrants. That needs to change.
8. There is far too much violent crime, and a disrespect for the sanctity of private property, in the modern social order. More needs to be spent on effective law enforcement and the judicial systems need to change so that apprehended criminals don’t serve overly short sentences or get free on bail multiple times for similar offenses. A much steeper graduated curve of escalating punishment, combined with a return to the death penalty, will help with these problems. Race hustlers trying to make it seem that there is a “racialization” of these questions should be shown the door in the public forum.
9. Free speech is a vital component of both the media and academic institutions. There have been movements to curtail or even end free speech in favor of managed “correct speech” practices. That will just weaken our countries and make them no better than China which is almost a failed state and the main source of globalist impulses in the first place.
10. The Russia-Ukraine misadventure needs to end. If Russia thinks their actions will hasten the demise of globalism, they are reading the cards wrong. They are giving additional prestige and credibility to the neo-con wing of globalism. If Russia is there for any other reason, that cannot be a legitimate reason. So by all accounts, Russia should end this ill-considered operation and let Ukraine recover.
The bottom line is, we need to be more positive and less reactive. We’ll set the tone of our agenda, not have it reflected from false narratives of the left. Example, Jan 6th was not an “insurrection” it was a protest directed by double agents and operatives into a situation that should have been avoided. But to call it an insurrection that was worse than 9-11 is such ridiculous hype that one is forced to ask what else is completely false about the official narratives. Most of us already asked that anyway and the answers are obvious. We are being told lies and half-truths about most things, and being asked to accept excrement wrapped up like presents. If we can offer people better alternatives, perhaps this will become clear to more people who haven’t done enough thinking about these issues.
Mr. Churchill
No not extreme. Practical yes. Prudent yes. Now all that is needed is the will to persevere.
Even here on FreeRepublic it has become much less civil and more divided.
I don’t know but I don’t think there are many moderators any more.
You can vote into communism but you have to shoot your way out...
Define “extreme” when it comes to defending the Constitution. And what is in the “middle” then?
Vast majority of the GOP is on the left.
We are a loosely affiliated region of tribes among an invasion force. There in no America anymore. The democrats ensured that and the swamp did nothing to stop them. Are there ANY democrats who are proud Americans? Look who leads them.
Here is how it ends:
1. SCOTUS is stacked before Summer 2023; probably sooner
2. a 2A lawsuit will find its way to SCOTUS, whereby the “militia” is reinterpreted (because a law cannot be passed through the House)
3. Musk and Trump go down; somehow; the first two assassinations or imprisonment
4. the 87K IRS employees are repurposed to work with ATF and determine who has guns; if the House defunds, the money will be stripped elsewhere; largely work-from-home gigs drawing from a series of databases to construct by-state/county lists
5. 2024- Democrats retake the House, by fraud, intimidation and assassinations by released felons and the most staunch ANTIFA members who get a chance to play “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” to do the dirty work, along with some pros.
6. election laws will be changed, ensuring conservatives never see power again: the states will be compelled to follow Congress
7. outlawing of semi-auto rifles gets on the books; tax stamps for bolt action rifles and handguns (who can pass on the chance to fleece gun owners?) follows; if you don’t pay, you get a squad at your doorstep
8. the National Guard comes into play once law is established; anyone who doesn’t follow orders fills up Ft Leavenworth for 10 years. Anyone who doesn’t turn in the specified weapons gets 10 years. The Guard will be re-stocked with children from broken families having no traditional values, ANTIFA, graduating college students who want their debt serviced, and selected immigrants by a special government program.
9. then come the real assassinations and imprisonments en masse; and it won’t be hidden at that point; there will be a construction boom in cheap prisons
All played out in front of a lazy, distracted, unintelligent, addicted citizenry that has never had to want for anything. And have forgotten God.
There are more events mixed in, but those are the highlights.
False comparison. Marxism didn’t exist in 1789.
If it helps, I can tell you I hate anyone who has voted for any democrat politician since 1960.
It ends with submission or civil war. It’s leaning towards submission right now. A single incident can change that quickly.
Hard men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times.
Hard times make hard men.
-Mike Rowe
There are a lot of hard men in the US. I liken this to a married man with an unreasonable wife... it’s just easier to keep your head down. But you know tht if it continues there’s going to be a spanking in the future.
Stolen presidential elections will do that.
I will not forgive or forget what they did.
If your lucky few are
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