Posted on 09/12/2003 7:21:01 AM PDT by carlo3b
THE DEBATE! DID YOU SEE WHAT I SAW?A TRUE CAUSE FOR ALARM
While watching the debate last evening between the nine candidates for the nomination for the Democratic party, I was struck by the differences between those people on the TV and the people that I interact with everyday. It wasn't just the level of rhetoric spoken by the participants, one expects that the parties in a contest must clarify the divisions separating each, but it was the level of unmitigated bias and hatred loaded in the questions posed by the supposed news journalist, the answers given, and the audience responses. It was not only shocking, but very sad.
There seemed to be a visceral hatred, and a deep gulf between what we think of America in general and what they think of Americans in particular.
They have honed the art of fear, knowing if they keep an uninformed populous in constant fear, and demonize the other side with lies and falsehoods, unharnessed by a willing accomplice in the free press, they know that in the minds of far too many, Fear wins. Healthcare, Social Security, War, Recession, Race..THEY ARE COMING!
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-H. L. MenckenNow please don't get me wrong, I am not a Milquetoast kind of guy on any issue, (HA!) but I am an eternal optimist by nature. It wasn't at all a surprise that I wouldn't agree with most, if any of the positions taken by every candidate on the Democrat ticket. Nor am I suggesting that all Democrats are un-American or anti-American because they disagree with me. I am afraid that we disagree on what are the most fundamental tenants of our form of government, natural law and a moral culture. They cloak their insidious message in a controlled dialogue, and feeding empty platitudes, like fairness, equality, inclusion, and diversity. When it is the very opposite that they practice.
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
-Johann von GoetheThere was an absence of pride in the tone of every speaker. There were no words of optimism, no claim of greatness on their part. Only lesser degrees of despair. At one point they argued over which one would take back the Bush tax refund money quicker, that the viewers had just received in the mail. Much to my shock, to the rousing applause of the audience. They couldn't articulate enough their utter disgust of our victory in Iraq, and their love of an international control of our sovereignty.
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
-James Dale DavidsonThey fed the illusion, that we must take more from the Americans that produce, and give more domestically, and world wide, to whom they define as those in need.
"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need."
-Karl MarxThey mocked our morals, and spat out the hatred of their President and Commander-in-Chief, knowing full well that our enemy combatants are watching and that their words were going to bolster their resolve. They would rather do nothing than fight for our safety, peace through passivity, appeasement, and swords into plowshares. Abandon the war, and de-fund the military. That is now, as it has always been, the recipe for war. They are a ship of hope that seems bound to be sunk by the enemy of opportunism. No matter how earnestly we seek world peace there is always some war bent person, who's ideology and ambition that will kill peace in its infancy.
"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
-President George WashingtonWe must ask ourselves, all Americans, the single most important question defining our most crucial national interest. If Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong II, Adolf Hitler, or Joseph Stalin, had a choice of whom they wished would win the next presidential election, which would the choose? Any of the nine candidates vying for the Democratic nomination, or President George W Bush?
The bottom line is I believe we are at a crossroads in this great country, and the two party system is at least working better than we even imagined. The divide is crystal clear. The Democrats have figured out that the more they make us dependent, the more power they have to keep feeding the insatiable beast, more taxes from the hard workers, less payers to object. In the end game, everyone is a victim, and socialism, as it always has, will fail miserably, and so will we all.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander TytlerThe Republicans, for the most part, believe in the power of the people. However, to be elected, one must start with getting elected, and staying in power long enough to make the incremental changes to the betterment of all. But you have to get elected, and that sometimes is the Achilles heal of politics. Whom is saying what, to get in a position to do well, for the most, and which is a wolf in sheep's clothing? That dilemma is fraught with danger, and we are more often sodomized that satisfied. Trust your instincts, but verify your conclusions.
Trust, but Verify
-President Ronald ReaganBut you must vote, and hope!
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-PlatoWhen we look at the results of every pole, and most elections.. it has a clear and defined separation between the givers and the takers, the can do, and the won't try. So far, we are winning, but only by a razor thin plurality.
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam EwigAnd I, for the first time in my life, believe that I understand the pre War mentality. Stop it early, or suffer the regret, forever. I think I can see road signs, red flags, omens of history, beckoning us to beware of the danger ahead.
"History is a vast early warning system."
-Norman CousinsThe only thing that can bring the masses of those that will not educate themselves to the issues, or the consequences, is guidance and insistence. In that endeavor we can not be dissuaded. But should that fail, the only alternative is to out maneuver, overwhelm, and ultimately overtake. Nothing short of the future of our Republic is at stake.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-George SantayanaWe must be stronger in our resolve, quicker in our responses, definite in our purpose.
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
-Margaret MeadIt is we, who must bring this country together, sooner rather than later. It is we, who must take control of events before we, and all of America, have events control our destiny. Our country is divided, and it is we, who must bring it together before it is too far gone and much too late to repair.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
-President LincolnFor those with the power of persuasion, must persuade! For those with the knack of organization, must organize! For those with the power of the purse, must spend for the cause.. donate!. And for all of us, VOTE, and VOTE, and VOTE, and VOTE!
"Live free or die."
-New Hampshire State Motto
A lot of Black kids get sent to all-Black colleges to connect with what they and their family think is their heritage. Many are middle and upper class and live in the suburbs or better areas of town. They have had good lives but feel they need to connect with their poorer brothers.
The connection is to adopt most of the bad and little of the good, hip hop clothes and speech, a tough attitude and hate for the "man." Colleges are the refuge of the 60's radicals and the ones at Black colleges have some of the worse Black Panther types. Put them and gullible kids together and you get an audience ready to cheer John Dean and his ilk.
Hopefully, when these kids graduate they return to their middle/upper class lives and see that making a buck and being good to family gets them the good life. Some may even see the light and vote Republican.
It's an incredibly sad statement about the status of the Democratic Party. They are SOOOOO far out in left field......so incredibly disconnected from "mainstream America".........that one can only pray that they become increasingly marginalized as more Americans truly begin to understand what these 'people' stand for.
I'm sorry to hear of your sad experience. You are right in what you say, however.
One thing that stood out to me about the "debate" {cough} was that because it was broadcast on FOX, ..NONE of the other networks that I could see, in thier nightly news, even mentioned them ! It carried over to the next morning. I could have missed some, but searched back and forth, and found no one even mentioning the debate.
When you consider WE are paying attention, almost to excess, MOST of the country are not. Rush, Glenn Beck, et all are basically preaching to the choir, and if the press, both media and print, in magazines, newspapers, and local stations along with network and cable tout the Rat line, and say it over and over and over enough...those that are occasional viewers/readers/ grab onto the sound bite, and claim it.
The Rats are smart. They are unified. They are relentless...and sometimes we eat our own.
Keep standing for what is right..and keep loving your Daddy.
Carlo..listening to you brings calm to many. It's like wrapping up in a warm bathrobe and curling up in front of a fire on a crisp autumn day. Thank you.
Given Clinton's loathing of absolutist vocabulary in general, anything could mean anything.
Hey cute stuff! He was one smart cookie, and so was this little Dude:
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
-Albert Einstein
THANK YOU CARLO
Your words spoke of the many things I feel.
We are very much as divided, and over a broader range of issues, as the country was prior to the Civil War -- it's just that the geography is not as clear, with the split being largely based on more-urban vs. less-urban areas.
There is half of the population that simply does not believe in the historical America, that is much more attuned with modern euro-socialism than traditional American free enterprise. That half does not believe in the right of nations to defend themselves from "freedom fighters" (terrorists) by taking offensive action. It does not subscribe to the idea of individual responsibility, nor does it wish to protect the freedom of individual action (unless that action relates in some way to sex). It's beliefs revolve around the general ideas of environmentalism, diversity, world citizenship, and the inherent "fairness" of socialist principles.
Because they are so close to half of the population, the days of overwhelming victories (like Reagan's in '84) are gone for the time being (until, perhaps, generational change swings the pendulum the other way, that is the hopeful thought anyway).
I've noticed this in my family. For now I biting my tongue and trying not to get into a screaming match with them.
A few of my family member went at me one night .. I tried to have a rational discussion, but it didn't work
Finally I just said .. You keep waging that finger and believing the Dem lies and you'll end up with more then a BJ
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