Posted on 11/05/2004 6:57:08 PM PST by Jack Black
DU is a minuscule group, compared to FR. They only get attention here because their despair is so entertaining.
In the end...it will be by a dramatic, miraculous spirit of revival in morality, patriotism and consitituional thought...or it will be through the most dreadful of circumstances that literally drives us to our knees and purges society of the malcontents by its natural selection.
...and, IMHO, God in Heaven will be the dispenser.
We must educate, communicate, defend, reason and have great faith in either case. On the first hand to bring about the former if it can be brought about (and I believe it can!)...on the other hand to have a faithful remnant to get through the latter and come out the other side with a nation, a constitution and a people intact.
Hard work and perhaps decades before it breaks one way or the other. But with moral issues at the forefront like abortion, open-unabashed homsexuality, and with the dangerous worldwide geo-political situation...its going to come unless we see that revival spirit first.
II Chron 7:14
Ya know.. for being the self professed intellectual elite, the Rats sure use a lot of gutter language.
I wonder if they know any adjectives that aren't 'rated R'?
It is funny, but Lawrence O'Donnell was on McLaughlin tonight and he was mouthing similar views. He even hinted at secession. He said something like the blue states who pay more to the federal government and get little in return will resent being governed by the red states who are welfare states. I could not believe what I was hearing.
My friends and I have taken to reading and discussing the DU people as the TFHC's....the Tinfoil Hat Club. Conspiracy theories so outrageous as to be laughed at by any normal person are spouted over there as written in stone fact.
The sad part is that their voice is probably going to become more and more the mainstream as the dems explore why they lost. They will invariably decide they were not mean ENOUGH if that is possible. Its sad that 47% or so of the population agree with them.
They are a small part of the population and really should not be given any attention at all. They are irrelevant.
Ahh. I sense a fellow traveler.
Do not despair! I personally think that a golden opportunity has suddenly been thrust onto us as Democrats. AA has a belief that change can only happen one someone has hit rock bottom. Perhaps there is a more rocky bottom out there for my party, but if so, I'm failing to see it.
The great cultural divide I believe to be somewhat illusory. It's a world view that is pawned off on us by those who profit from it.
I'm a Republican-American, but I Love You Anyway
An attempt, possibly in vain, to turn the tide.
I encourage those of good will to turn from this hopeless, bottomless well of defeat and embrace a new paradigm. Because, we need you.
You see, we Republican-Americans are not the stereotypes you have formulated in your minds. When you realize that, you might begin heading back to the surface.
Barack Obama, newly minted Senator from Illinois, realizes that. "We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and I have gay friends in the red states." I love this line, and the sentiment it represents. Remember it?
Continuing on this theme...
I am a Republican-American, but I drive a hybrid-engine Toyota Prius. Not because I'm green, but because I cannot see a future where our security is mortgaged to the mullahs of Iran. I have listened to you.
I am a Republican-American, but I have been privileged to have gay friends. One is a woman whose smile brightens many a day, and whose courage and strength of spirit compares to that of the Green Berets (and I have known a few of them, too). Another was a man who, knowing that I was "soooo straight," made it a point to make me laugh every time he saw me. The laughter ended when he died of a vicious, wasting disease that he contracted from a man to whom he had dedicated his life, and who had dedicated to him, as well. I try to be worthy of him by supporting those seeking to end that disease and its hold on mankind. I have listened to you.
I am a Republican-American, but I am saddened when those who seem so certain of God's judgment are unwilling to wait for it. If a woman chooses abortion, I believe she has killed a child. But I am sufficiently empathetic to permit God to work His will and lead her back from the Pit. I don't want her jailed. I can wait for Him to judge, and I have listened to you.
But, can you listen to me?
Can you hear this Republican-American when he supports George W. Bush? Are you tolerant enough to listen when I say that Dubya, faced with unprecedented crises and his own doubts, responded to that monstrous attack the only way he could? He didn't nuke anyone, as the evil tyrant you condemn would have, surely. No, he solemnly and resolutely made decisions and issued orders that, to date, have cost the lives of untold thousands. But those decisions have liberated millions, and help secure millions more. We have saved far more than we have destroyed.
Can you hear this Republican-American when he says that Bush's economic policies have provided a stimulant to the economy? That everyone who pays taxes got a tax cut? Or are you so blinded by ideology that you just want to scream "TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!!!"?
Can you hear this Republican-American when he says that he is certain Bush is not an evil, stupid, wanna-be dictator, but an imperfect man trying to do an impossible job perfectly, because imperfection at this point invites devastation? Or do the voices of your allies yelling "BUSH LIED!!!! KIDS DIED!!!!" drown me out?
Well, if so, here's a bulletin: November 2nd showed you that you live in an echo chamber, and the walls of that chamber are closing in on you. As the walls get closer, the echoes will get louder, and you will be unable to hear me, until it is too late.
Until we are so enfeebled by partisan rancor that we will not notice that there are some moving across the Mexican border into our country that do not speak Spanish, and are not here looking for work. So we will do nothing to help the desperate migrant workers and in our inaction, do nothing to stop those with another, darker purpose.
Until we are so busy yelling at each other that we stop funding research and that evil disease finds new life as an airborne strain. It is ticking and purring away, right now, inside the bodies of millions of the afflicted. Mutating, hundreds of thousands of times, faster than influenza, until it finds a way out. When it does, it will not care if you live in a red state or a blue state. It will waste us both away into God's hands.
Until we are so irrelevant, so pointless, so comic that the rest of the world laughs at our fading skills and addled minds and gains the upper technological hand. When they do, they will economically avenge themselves upon us without regard to who voted for Kerry. Your job will be on the same ash heap as mine.
Until the Islamic fascists, emboldened by our uncertainty and division, achieve their weapon. They will use it without reflection, just as they use young women as slaves and young men as bombs. When they do, the effects of that weapon will surely disregard what paper you read, what web site you log on to, what blog you follow.
We cannot continue hating each other. We cannot continue defeating each other. We cannot, a house divided, stand. We need you, and you need us. Surely, there are soldiers in the Army that are yours, and there are poor, sick people that are ours. We must care for them. We must support them.
I am a Republican-American, but I have listened to you. I am a Republican-American, but I love you anyway. You are Americans, and we need you.
It is possible to turn the tide. If only you can still listen to me.
But can you even hear me?
"They are a small part of the population and really should not be given any attention at all. They are irrelevant."
Sounds like some famous last words last uttered in Germany circa 1923.
Tony refuted that a bit later, quite well, I thought. But all that screeching gets to me after a while. Two things with regard to this post: - President said just yesterday he was going to tackle entitlements. - I have a neighbor who voted for Kerry and who is just now learning from me that the bin Laden family didn't get out of the US without being questioned. He learned a bunch of other things, too. - There's hope, but we have to get into the universities and into the classrooms and start teaching these kids to think critically instead of swallowing propaganda.
Heard loud and clear.
From a Democratic American who has great hope for the future....
Great remarks...good luck with it!
There's hope, but we have to get into the universities and into the classrooms and start teaching these kids to think critically instead of swallowing propaganda.
You can start by making sure your own kids aren't buying it. When my three sons went to college I warned them to think for themselves when confronted by liberal professors. They emerged as conservative as they went in.
It is true, there is an unmistakable divide. At first glance, it looks political with left wing liberals on one side and right wing conservatives on the other. However, I think that political divide is symptomatic of an underlying much deeper divide and that is the one that is difficult to cross and that won't heal. On the one side are those who think that their own mind is the measure of all, there is nothing beyond us, and that death is the end. These people don't go to church, except for social reasons and comprise the core of the left. On the other side are those who have some sense or intuition that they are not the measure of all things, that there is something beyond us, greater than us, whence we came, and to which we will return. They may be Christians, Hindus, whatever, and comprise the core of the right. Throughout history, there has been little dialogue from one side of this divide to the other, but a good deal of fighting across it. The most lucid account of the divide itself is contained in seven dialogues called "Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher" written in Providence, RI, in the 1730's by the Irish philosopher Bishop George Berkeley (after whom, ironically, Berkeley University was named). There is nothing in today's newspapers concerning this left-right divide that is not laid there in those dialogues. Nothing has changed and nothing ever will with regard to it.
Ya see... that's just it, 47% DON'T agree with them.
If it wasn't for the MSM carrying their water, and the aged FDR types, they'd have perhaps 30%
Thank you. If you can, help others hear. I fear so many do not.
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