Posted on 10/15/2008 6:21:56 AM PDT by connell
Then came la Terreur ...
Do you recall how Dr. Guillotine died?
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her.—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Thanks. What this says is clear and God’s truth.
I sent this to all my Email contacts.
What cave in Texas are you living in? LOL!
Well, we see the result. The nation's demographics are changing, with Democrats now taking several states that were once solid GOP. Most people under age 30, educated by MTV and the publik skools, lean far to the left and are indifferent to their own nation's survival. Speech codes are sprouting up. Diversity training seminars tell us what beliefs we're allowed to hold, at risk of being fired for straying too far outside the PC realm. People increasingly define freedom not as free speech, political liberty, economic liberty, or religious liberty, but as having a “right” to health care, housing, or other goodies, and as a “right” not to be offended by non-PC speech.
And the result is, not only have we lost our culture, but we're not even going to maintain the economic freedom or strong national defense that the “moderate” Republicans supposedly wanted to defend. They never figured out that the reason the left spent so much time pushing social liberalism was that once a society becomes socially liberal, it was automatically demand socialist economics and a passive, weak military. They seemed to think we could have a population of activist homosexuals, abortion-loving feminists, and Third World migrants who were committed to the military, to patriotism, and to economic liberty.
So the impending Obama elevation (if it occurs) will be the final judgment on “moderate” Republicanism. And that judgment is, it doesn't work. It only whets the public’s appetite for dependency and socialism. Looks like the hated Southern social conservatives and Northern ethnic Catholics were right all along.
But I have great confidence in the ability of some around here to tell us, if Obama wins, that his election proves we need to be even more socially liberal in future elections.
“Conservatives” and “Republicans” are separate terms. Republicans are going to have to earn the votes.
I don't disagree with you and think that we would be better off with a separate group of states with conservative principles forming a new country. I'm in the part of Virginia that would certainly vote to stay with the left wing liberals, unfortunately.
However, as I said, when it was tried the last time, the result was a rather decisive victory for the "once in, never out" side. What do you think B. Hussein Obama would do if, say, 20 states voted in a plebiscite to negotiate an orderly succession from the United States? Do you have any doubt whatsoever that his reaction would be the same as it was in 1861? Exactly what would happen when he ordered the US Military to capture the governor and legislature of the succeeding states is a difficult question.
Or, suppose it's 2013 and John McCain has served one term as President and decided not to run for a second. Sarah Palin has been elected President with another election in which the country was geographically divided. 20 states, including all of New England, California, Oregon, Washington and the Great Lakes states have a plebiscite in which they vote to succeed and join the European Union (California and New Mexico vote to become part of Mexico.) In this case, I hope the reaction would be to wave goodbye and start installing the fences.
The point being that the left and right might view succession differently.
Jack
Oh, yes, and I should have commented on this aspect: The constant attempt around here to link modern, far left, totalitarian, multiculturalist Democrats with the Democrats of the post-Civil War era is beyond bizarre. It’s like telling a conservative voter in North Carolina in 1984 that he should have voted against Reagan & Helms because the GOP was the party that invaded their state in the Civil War and later imposed Reconstruction on them. We’ve had a record number of posts this year arguing that blacks should reject Obama because the Dems housed anti-black politicians circa 1898 or 1936, as if that has any relevance whatsoever today. Anyone posting that “Martin Luther King was a Republican” stuff must truly think blacks are stupid. Either that, or they think we’re stupid.
I can see the next Congress releasing all in prisons that will aid the Cause. Many of the thugs are born organizers, probably smarter than Oboomerang.
This will be ugly. Those of us who do not fall in line will be eliminated, not just jailed.
If you don’t know how to pray, you had better start. And I don’t mean to allah (no caps for demigods). This could be the last chance for those sitting on the spiritual fence.
I was there once. No more. They can take my life, but not my soul. I am just a pilgrim here. Thank You, Jesus.
But, but, but, the Constitution is a ‘living’ document that needs to be brought into a contemporary interpretation, no?
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The North and South could have survived without one another. If the South had won and gone their separate way, it would have simply been another case of a region breaking off from an established nation, something that has happened many times in history.
But liberals cannot survive without conservatives. If we were to somehow ideologically segregate the nation, and then split it into two countries, the leftist nation would degenerate into savagery literally within hours. There would be hordes of people clamoring to get across the border into the rightist side in no time.
It isn’t that all liberals are dependent people. Some are quite wealthy. But those wealthy liberals use the conservative middle class as a buffer against the large number of liberals who are indeed dependent, prone to violence, and culturally degraded. If we were to split into separate leftist and righting nations, the upscale white leftists such as Kos, Streisand, and all the others would find themselves outvoted immediately by the welfare crazed, affirmative action demanding masses wanting “housing”, “health care”, racial preferences, and so forth. They need a conservative presence in society as a buffer to allow them to indulge their liberal fantasies against the reality of what socialism and diversity really mean.
Should a few thousands of "reporters" go on extended camping trips, the remainder may not be in a mood for espousing their commie rhetoric.
Just asking ...
“Fiddle-dee-dee.
War, war, war.
This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring.
I get so bored I could scream.
Besides, there isn't going to be any war!" — Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind
Considering the racist hatred shown by blacks on the subject of Obama, and tossing in the known violence left-wingers are prone to when they don’t get their way, I’m glad left-wingers don’t believe in firearms and we do.
“It was decided between 1861 and 1865 that the Constitution is a “once in, never out” document.”
I like to think of it as “Might is Right”. The South just had less might, but not anymore. The liberal north is weak and morally corrupt and has lost its manufacturing that gave it the advantage in the Civil War.
“’Conservatives’ and ‘Republicans’ are separate terms.”
Well said. The Republican party more closely supports the conservative American viewpoint.
This guy's right, historically, it's not our side that nourishes the fruit of violence. I think a PUMA will attempt to take him out, we'll get blamed and you'll be right; they'll round up the guns.
Bingo. That is the crux of the issue. Had we been divided by geographical lines, we'd be divorced already.
And I think it would be a lot less painful that way. As it is, one side has to hold victory over the other.
I'm just afraid because it appears that Socialism always wins. Heck, it's crept over the planet like a disease. We're the only Western nation that's kept it at bay this long.
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