Posted on 12/31/2009 4:48:19 AM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
Many Americans today look out the windows of their self-centered, narcissistic lives and say, “How did we get to this point in our country?” To ask the question is to answer it. Because of our day’s stormy and dreary moral and social climate, people begin to look for scapegoats for all their ills. They rarely start by looking in the mirror.
Americans today - more so than at any other time - are mostly oblivious and ignorant of history and the changing philosophies of what brought us to this point. They are stuck in the mire of today’s social climate and cannot see past it. It is difficult to see when immersed in a rapidly decaying cultural environment.
Many events have set the stage for the decadent social conditions that now confront us. A step backward is needed to “put all the pieces” on the table for objectively analyzing and observing such trends and influences on American culture and society.
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JFK, the assassination, the entree to the Great Society, school prayer.
It was a very different time. You could leave your doors unlocked in many cities.
People were civil. They understood that making a living was not guaranteed. Every once in a great while, you could meet WWI veterans or SP Am War veterans. Once I even met a CW vet who’d been a child in the army. He was going on 110, and I couldn’t really speak to him, as he was old, as in not just being polite old, but so old that a small child would be hard pressed to count that high.
Little did I know that I would have to start counting to gazillions.
You are dead on with the JFK assasination being the pivot point. The day of the coup. Starts under Wilson..Fed reserve, IRS...then the National security act...from Republic to Empire....Obama aint Caligula but don’t think a Nero aint waitin in the wings.
Everybody I know is having credit card fraud perpetrated upon them in the last month. Bank branches are saying they are coming in 3-15 times daily. They foresee it getting worse before it gets better.
Outstanding work.
Of course Scripture stands on its own merit, but the context you install to develop the central theme (2 Tim. 3:1-7) is sobering and quite compelling.
Thanks.
I remember saying the Lord’s Prayer in schools, Sputnik, U2, bomb drills, the Cuban missile crisis.
All of it.
You’d meet salespeople who were single up into their 40s because they were uncertain they could provide well for a family.
Sex was taboo for teens. Sex ed had something to do with convertibles. Families ate dinner together, unless the father had his own business and didn’t get home ‘til 11, in which case food was often, well, ‘dry.’ TVs were small. You didn’t just run out and buy what you wanted; you had certain times of the year, e.g., birthday when you recevied presents. You were glad to have what you needed and a little of what you wanted. Hand me downs, rag bags and button boxes were normal. Even men cooked. And doctors made house calls, even on Christmas Eve.
I have hypothesized that LBJ really did not JFK. JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you...ask what you can do for your country.” LBJ turned that to, “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.”
We have a long ways to go before we get our country back, but here is a start: http://pushbackuntil.com. Go to town hall meetings for candidates, take a printout of the mandates with you, and ask which ones the candidate will support. Whichever candidate says he will support the most of them will be getting my vote. Then hold their feet to the fire. We can no longer vote for people and then ignore them for the next few years, trusting them to keep their word. No, we have to continually apply pressure on them to restore our country to a non-entitlement, no-big-government mentality. If we do not do that, we are toast.
I have hypothesized that LBJ really did not JFK. JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you...ask what you can do for your country.” LBJ turned that to, “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.”
We have a long ways to go before we get our country back, but here is a start: http://pushbackuntil.com. Go to town hall meetings for candidates, take a printout of the mandates with you, and ask which ones the candidate will support. Whichever candidate says he will support the most of them will be getting my vote. Then hold their feet to the fire. We can no longer vote for people and then ignore them for the next few years, trusting them to keep their word. No, we have to continually apply pressure on them to restore our country to a non-entitlement, no-big-government mentality. If we do not do that, we are toast.
“I remember saying the Lord’s Prayer in schools, Sputnik, U2, bomb drills, the Cuban missile crisis.”
I can remember, early 50s, attending school adjacent to a church and being marched over for an afternoon revival service.... the ACLU would do a Redd Foxx
scary! I’m glad I’m broke! lol... and use no credit cards..
Thanks and God be the glory!
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