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| Mark Steyn
Posted on 03/07/2014 7:11:21 PM PST by Valpal1
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Read the whole thing. Depressing but accurate.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:11:21 PM PST
by
Valpal1
To: Valpal1
I read the whole piece in National Review. Given where they are these days, I can’t believe they printed it - or keep Steyn on the roster. There is almost nobody telling the truth about where our country is headed these days, largely because so many “conservatives” want to go there too. It’s a blessing that Mark Steyn is still willing and able to speak out.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:15:33 PM PST
by
madprof98
To: Valpal1
I recall seeing what looked like a homemade ‘Obama for president’ bumper sticker in 2005 but that was in Cambridge, MA.
To: Valpal1
America is liberal. White conservatives are a dying breed in this country. I don’t see any role for the GOP other than to act as a caretaker for future Democratic administrations. We want to be like Europe. The America as we knew it was buried for good in the last presidential election.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:28:39 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Valpal1
Didn’t Breitbart say “Politics is downstream of culture”? Steyn argues that liberals (progressives) spend more energy changing the culture and conservatives more energy on changing officeholders.
Who has control of our culture now?
At a fast-food restaurant today, I ate lunch next to a trio of people who didn’t appear to be employed in an office setting or employed at all. Two women and one man, late twenties or early thirties. One of the women (in language salted with profanity) described her family and her relations with them. “Two of my relatives [cousin? uncle?] became Conservaahhtivvvve” (she drew out that last syllable with a cross between a hiss and a groan). She said they had regular, responsible jobs. Her contempt for them was on full display.
These are BO’s people.
And those others she dismissed so easily are paying her way through life.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:29:56 PM PST
by
thecodont
To: thecodont
Someday, we might be able to see Obamamania for the fad it was.
We’re settling down to become a softer and bigger version of Pierre Trudeau’s Canada when the Liberals ran the place there.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:38:00 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: JLS
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:42:24 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(Richard Warman censors free speech.)
To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...
Mark Steyn ping.
Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.
Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.
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posted on
03/07/2014 10:51:16 PM PST
by
JLS
To: Valpal1
Andrew Fletcher (1653 - 1716) - “Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
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posted on
03/07/2014 11:34:27 PM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Free Ukraine. Free Venezuela. Free Syria. Free Iran. Free the USA.)
To: Valpal1
Which is why Mark Levin says they can’t help themselves and that is why we need the Liberty Amendments.
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posted on
03/07/2014 11:37:48 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: goldstategop
The difference is that Canada remained populated with mostly with Canadians over the years, while our country has become “We are The World.” Demographics are destiny. In 2012, if Romney had the same voter demo as Reagan, he would have won a landslide. The depressing thought is that despite all our yelling about who is a RINO or who is the great Conservative, it might not mean anything but mental self pleasure. With the way our voting population is truly, none of those we champion can win. Cruz in 2016, loss. Christie in 2016, loss. See it might not matter. We are doomed.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:00:24 AM PST
by
gusty
To: Valpal1
We are in a period of mass social delusion.
This is often seen in decaying empires in terminal decline before their collapse, which is why I wrote this short story, FWIW.
Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:15:44 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: gusty
Our Quisling 'Rats and GOPEs could not get their way with the American electorate, so they slyly agreed to import a new one.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:19:39 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Valpal1
Culture trumps politics which is why, once the question's been settled culturally, conservatives are reduced to playing catch-up, twisting themselves into pretzels to explain (including in the pages of this magazine) why gay marriage is really conservative after all, or why 30 million unskilled immigrants with a majority of births out of wedlock are "natural allies" of the Republican party.When you put it like that, it does seem pretty stupid.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:45:52 AM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: madprof98
Time marches on, basically ... especially when sociocultural dynamics are unhindered by any adherence to natural law, biology, ethics, morality, etc.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:54:40 AM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: madprof98
There is almost nobody telling the truth about where our country is headed these days, largely because so many conservatives want to go there too.The problem is too much time has passed since the 60's punks deliberately changed our culture. They embraced drugs (today even elementary school kids are users), promiscuity, eschewed marriage in favor of shacking up and even worse, disparaged our founders and our history. I am not sure American history is even taught today. If so, it is a really distorted version. There aren't enough people around today to even tell that our culture before that was patriotic, didn't consider drugs commonplace and respected our history.
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posted on
03/08/2014 6:36:51 AM PST
by
saminfl
To: Valpal1; Jet Jaguar; Lady Jag; Slings and Arrows; null and void; maggief; Dog; BP2; Candor7; ...
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posted on
03/08/2014 7:28:34 AM PST
by
bitt
(If Obama is really worried about “the children”, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
To: bitt
To: Valpal1
and at this stage in the 2008 cycle I'm not sure I'd ever heard of Barack Obama.I used to work sometimes in DC, and had close contact with many high up government types. Would attend a few parties...
By this time in that election cycle, I KNEW Obama would be the nominee, and I was pretty sure he was going to be President. The talk and Buzz was all about him, even from more "conservative" types.
I remember warning people here, whose hatred for Hillary made them prefer the relatively unknown Obama over her. They though surely Whatshisname would be easy to defeat. I had heard and seen otherwise. Watching this debacle slowly unwind was nauseating.
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posted on
03/08/2014 7:36:42 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
To: thecodont
Steyn argues that liberals (progressives) spend more energy changing the culture and conservatives more energy on changing officeholders.
Unfortunately we've willingly given the culture to the left rather than seizing our rightful place in it. "Bravely" retreating is still just retreating.
I had the opportunity to speak with CL Bryant last month about Black History month. We agreed that fighting against black history month is a losing proposition. Instead we as conservatives of all races should seize our rightful place in black history with praise of men like Calvin Coolidge and Frederick Douglass. At some point, the fixation on the black part will fade and we can morph it into American history month.
Another thing I do is faithfully take part in a serious survey of television viewers (Viewers Voice). It gives me a choice to support more family friendly and educational television while downgrading the crap.
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posted on
03/08/2014 7:46:35 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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