Posted on 01/16/2011 8:11:57 AM PST by marktwain
Wow. So you remember the climate. But it was political, not murderous.
I think the media and the left misunderstand conservatives. We are in general law-abiders and constitutionalists. When we want to “take politicians out,” they’re still alive and uninjured. They’re not in power anymore.
That’s the whole point of constitutional government, that power can change without the sword or gunfights of the past, without overthrows, coups, assasinations and the like. “Rulers” are in power for specific periods and if they don’t behave, they will not be rulers anymore. But the military terms still apply, campaign, battle, thrust and parry. There’s nothing inappropriate about it.
Getting rid of the Left is like getting gum off the bottom of your shoe. A long arduous process. We will have to drive a stake through their heart and then drag them out into the sun. They never shut up and they never give up.
We can’t let their leaders slither back into the shadows like we did last time with Bill Ayers and friends.
Could it be that more and more Blacks are seeing the left for the modern day “carpetbaggers” they are, who NEVER intended to give them their “40 acres and a mule”?
That’s the first thing I noticed too ClearCase, I didn’t like the link to the south. That war was not about slavery, it was about the North wanting to assert it’s power over the South. I do agree, the wrong side won in my opinion. History is written by the victors though, so unless you have firsthand information passed down through the family, the truth is hard to discern.
Not really. Jim Jones was a major Marxist who was close friends with a number of California democrats, some who remain in power to this day.
Leo Ryan was murdered by the left. The only reason it is remembered as "non-partisan" is that the GOP was either too polite or to big a bunch of sissies (take your pick) to bring it up.
I would like to post a link, but I obtained the essay from an email. This is the closest I have found to a link:
http://www.intellectualactivist.com/
That's all true, but there's evidence they don't have the power they once had, and they're certainly headed in the wrong direction. Exhibit A: the election of Nov. 2. They tried everything, to no avail.
The media sold us a bill of goods in Obama, and people are pretty angry about it. For years the MSM's credibility was in question, Obama's election was cathartic. Academia is being exposed pretty much single-handedly by the global warming hoax, with the revelation that science has been manipulated. Movies that take direct aim at the right don't sell anymore.
All of this evidence is certainly a matter of degree, but at some point trust in an institution can be completely shattered by something seemingly innocuous.
The events of the last week provide just another example of the media's failed attempt to shape our opinions, in my view.
OK, thanks.
It is done. And will be more obvious soon. Michael Steel's replacement was a real indicator. Bring it on.
There was some poverty then (by todays standards) in both North & South. There was also industry in the South, but it was largely agricultural (& not all based on slavery). Protective tariffs on imported manufactured goods (benefitting the new Northern manufacturing) were countered by foreign nations by "tariffs" on American agricultural goods. This did divide the nation long before the conflict.
Throw in the 527 NGOs, many foundations and trusts taken over by the Left, labor unions, including the teachers and federal and state employee unions, and you have what Soros calls The Shadow Party. He planned it, organized it and is financing it. He fiances voter fraud plans like ACORN and related organizations. The Tea Party Movement is a legitimate grassroots citizen uprising and we must keep it up or lose everything.
To compare General Lee with any living person of note would be an exercise in futility. He was a man perhaps unique to his time, no politician, and the world in which General Lee lived was vastly different from the world in which we now live. Any comparison would be as pointless as it would be futile. Still, General Lee’s sense of honor and its necessary adjunct, integrity, stand out as remarkable, and both qualities are sadly missing from many of those who now strut on the world stage. We should perhaps spend a moment to reflect on the character of General Lee in evaluating those who now have become our leaders; I am afraid that nearly all of them would suffer from the comparison.
Bookmarked.
What absolute clarity.
Blaming the TEA Party didn’t work.
IMO, it only served to increase their membership & interest by outsiders.
It only worked because the mass media will give them traction and trumpet their lies and BS
If our mass media were neutral the left would be exposed such as their current lie that Jared Loughner is a right wing kook
bflr
They live in their own private hell of fear. Let's enjoy that.
However, do not underestimate their propensity to incite violence. The more they lose on the political front the more violent activity you will see on the left.
CA, with 12% of the US population has 32% of US welfare recipients.
What do you think will happen to the cities when those checks don't show up...or bizarrely, they show up and won't cash?
Professional "Community Organizers" (read: Communists) will incite the burning of entire cities. The calls for Aztlan will turn to "bombs for Aztlan" and there will be a REAL, armed struggle to keep NM, AZ, NV and SoCal part of the union. Especially as the white middle class continues to flee due to the general lawlessness and their minority status.
There are cities in the East and Mid-West that face the same fate at the hands of the Black underclass. Even the Black middle class has started their flight from them...many to SOUTHERN cities like Atlanta and Durham.
All of these places will be havens for the "Community Organizer" and hell for those trapped within them. Satan his own self is riding with them...and he's smiling from ear to ear.
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