Posted on 03/05/2009 12:10:06 PM PST by joanie-f
Many conservatives, myself included, have backed away from the political fray since November 4, 2008. Each of us has his or her own reasons for doing so, but I suspect that those reasons fall into two broad categories for most:
(1) A sense of hopelessness and futility, even as regards the pen and the ballot box, to make a difference in the direction in which our republic is being steamrolled. Rampant ignorance and apathy brought us to the brink, and evil men in leadership positions are gleefully providing the final push.
(2) Where to begin even attempting to bring about activist solutions anymore? We daily awaken to new and incomprehensible affronts to our intellect and our sense of belonging. We are beginning to feel like strangers in a strange land. I have no use for my fellow Americans who voted for ‘change’ that was beautifully gift wrapped, but about whose contents they knew nothing. Nor do I anymore quite understand those well-meaning patriots who are chanting ‘Sarah in 2012!’ and the like. I suspect that they believe they can still work within a system whose foundations have putrefied, and whose rule-makers are corrupt to the bone.
Not only those two segments of our society, but also that beleaguered remnant of rational American patriots who have lost faith in the process, are being led down the road to oblivion by a man whose qualifications to lead at all, and whose genuine accomplishments, are no more impressive than those we might read on the resumé of someone applying for a job as a junior executive. This junior executive wannabe, in office for fewer than six weeks, is ruling with an iron hand, steamrolling over, and demonizing, anyone who attempts to stand in his way.
Talk about surreal. The Cheshire Cat would envy our predicament.
And what are this junior executive’s qualifications for doing this to a nation that has prospered unlike any other in the history of mankind? A complete disregard for the United States Constitution and the American people, a puppet/puppet master relationship with the mainstream media, the support of powerful international moneymen and special interest groups, and a terrifying anti-American background that evolved through intimate association with mentors who despise the foundations of our republic.
This junior executive wannabe has allied himself with movers and shakers in Chicago, D.C., and God only knows what other anti-American enemies of liberty outside of America’s borders. He has implemented as his ultimate goals: (1) the destruction of (what remains of) America’s capitalist system, (2) the implementation of Marxist rule whereby (3) incrementally more ‘Americans’ (in name only) will seek and accept dependence on a nanny state for the necessities of life, and (4) the bastardizing of the concept of what it means to be an American.
In what now claims to be ‘leadership’ in Washington, all of what passes for governing in the best interest of the people of America now boils down to a carefully-studied mastering of the art of deceit, courtesy of the likes of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky.
Our ‘leadership’ claims to be concerned about the average American’s pocketbook, the average American’s peace of mind and economic well-being, the average American’s quality of life, and the average American’s ability to wake up in a country in which he feels secure and free.
Yet virtually everything that our ‘leadership’ is doing – and at record speed since January 20th – not only flies in the face of that pseudo-concern, but bespeaks quite the opposite.
Spending our republic into literal oblivion, on the pretext that not doing so, and not doing so immediately, would result in instant economic/societal catastrophe for us all … is a LIE.
We are spending ourselves into literal oblivion simply because the majority of the requisite spending is focused on the implementation of a Marxist agenda, and that the realization of that agenda will simply serve to accelerate our demise as a world economic power is of no concern to those at the helm. Not coincidentally, our current course will result in an enormous increase in the number of American citizens who must rely on the government for their very existence. And so enormous will that increase be that the opportunity to turn back the tide will vanish forever.
An American president and congress that are sincerely determined to cure what ails us would be hyper-focusing on those fiscal and monetary cancers that are eating away at our economic foundation, to the exclusion of other politically correct issues. The fact that they are not doing so, while still feigning concern about the economic cataclysm lurking over the horizon, renders their concern about America’s future a convenient masquerade.
Rather than muster all of their resources to confront the problem of our ailing economy, they are instead using that illness as an excuse to impose all manner of Marxist dictates – most of which will simply hasten our demise, and none of which will derail it. Their concern is bogus. Their duplicity is frighteningly real. They are like an adult child, having administered small doses of arsenic to his mother over a period of time, sitting by her bedside in the hospital, shoving a myriad of papers at her as she lay dying, and demanding that she sign over everything she owns to him, so that he can find her a better doctor.
There is no rational connection between environmental extremism (i.e., ‘global warming/climate change’), the ‘need’ for universal healthcare, or the ‘need’ to nationalize private industry, and a cure for what ails us economically – other than the fact that the shackles that will unavoidably be placed on every American’s liberties as a result of the implementation of all three agendas will create additional and completely unnecessary economic hardship that will make today’s nightmare seem like a walk in the park. At the core of fascist doctrine is an economic model in which the state shackles what is left of private enterprise with monstrous bureaucratic handcuffs, and orders the utilization of privately held assets to realize public policy agendas.
Voilà!
Precisely when our president and his minions in congress should be spending every waking hour attempting to solve the looming economic catastrophe, they are instead choosing to arbitrarily throw money at it, so as to appear to be doing something, while simultaneously crafting all manner of tyrannical legislation aimed at suppressing our freedoms, redistributing wealth, destroying our economy, erasing our borders, and amassing unprecedented power for themselves.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in one of those smoke-filled rooms.
There are many things about the demise of America that speak to an evil so insidious as to be incomprehensible to most of us.
(1) The spark for the economic, and soon to be societal, destruction of America began decades ago, but it was purposefully fanned into a flame by the American left (see the Community Reinvestment Act and the Cloward Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis). The bursting of the home mortgage bubble, which served as the major catalyst for what we are enduring today, and which will eventually prove to have tentacles far beyond anything we imagine, is simply a carefully-manufactured crisis. It is a manufactured crisis that scoffs at and derides America’s work ethic and America’s concept of personal responsibility, and has succeeded in confiscating a good portion of the life savings of every hard-working American, as well as condemning the quality of life of his children and grandchildren to third world status.
None of those three considerations (work ethic, personal responsibility, thrift) are of any significance to our current leadership in Washington. And the value of all three is being premeditatedly eradicated in order to increase the power of the state and foster dependence on state largesse.
Yet our president, and his minions in congress, daily wring their hands and claim to feel our pain – while, behind the scenes, they are authoring all manner of Marxist legislation that will further trample on our liberties, increasingly rob us of the fruits of our labor, and incrementally install a brand of government tyranny that will have our children and grandchildren gratefully accepting the fact that they must ask government permission, and pay a tax, in order to breathe in and out, and put one foot in front of the other.
(2) The people who are purposefully crafting the demise of the most moral and most prosperous civilization in the history of mankind are actually the most base among us. They are bottom feeders.
I, and I believe most conservatives, believe that the measure of a man is his character, and that yardstick is especially important in our leadership.
Picture yourself in a foxhole somewhere in a war zone, or stranded on a deserted island. Who would you rather have in that foxhole, or on that island, with you in order to ensure your survival and obtain some peace of mind in a harrowing situation -- your neighbor across the street, or Barack Obama/Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid?
One of the things that so maddens me about the through-the-looking-glass nature of this travesty is the fact that the people whom the Marxists in the highest positions in our government choose to demonize, demoralize, and criminalize are the same people who are willing and able to do the kinds of work that these Marxists are truly incapable of doing. Our 'leadership' is meticulously following Saul Alinsky's credo that, in order to seize increasing power, one must 'frame a villain'. In the eyes of our 'leadership' in Washington, the 'villain' of their creation is anyone who seeks to make a profit, anyone who seeks to benefit from the sweat of his own brow, anyone who believes that one is responsible for one's own actions, and anyone who wants to be free to determine the focus of his own charitable giving rather than sharing his wealth with those who choose not to create their own.
Faith, duty, honesty, industry, personal responsibility, and ingenuity made America what she was in her finest hour. Most real Americans still possess those traits. Our 'leadership' possesses none of them. They are simply schemers with connections – unqualified to shine the shoes of those they demean and degrade, and yet somehow delusional enough to believe that they are a part of a chosen elite whose destiny it is to dictate how, and whether, the rest of us should live -- and powerful enough to make that delusion a reality.
(3) Hundreds of thousands of Americans, from the last part of the eighteenth century through the first part of the twenty-first, have voluntarily laid down their lives in the name of liberty. I daresay that all of those hundreds of thousands of Americans placed more value on allegiance and duty than any of those now in leadership in Washington.
We know almost none of their names, and yet they purchased with their lives the freedoms that ensured that we transform, with a sense of historically unprecedented conviction, thirteen beleaguered colonies into Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.
And now, fewer than six hundred self-serving scoundrels, incapable of comprehending the powerful measure of love and devotion that wells up within the heart of an American patriot, have succeeded in stealing that precious, hard-won inheritance and turning it into something black, dimensionless, and without a soul. And they are seeing to it that there will be no turning back. Expanding their base. Answering mightily to their special interests. Demonizing, even silencing, their opposition.
And we have no one but the American citizen to blame. His apathy. Ignorance. Self-centeredness. Ingratitude. Hedonism. The fewer than six hundred were placed into power by a band of adoring mental adolescents, who simply want to be allowed to go to the mall, download music/noise, and worship celebrity.
Mark my word: The mall/noise/celebrity fountain will continue to pour forth, while the nuts and bolts of a free society, the sanctity of individual liberty, the concept of personal responsibility, and the belief in reward for thrift, ingenuity and hard work, are breathing their last breaths.
God bless you all. It has been a genuine privilege to cross paths with so many modern American patriots!
~ joanie
These are troubling times, with no historical precedent.
I grok it!..............
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“These are troubling times, with no historical precedent.”
I don’t think so, joanie-f. There is nothing new under the sun. The solutions are there, we’ve seen the same failures before, though perhaps not in our lifetimes.
Before we can clean up the opposition, we have to clean up our own camp. Too many republicans act just like democrats in defending “one of their own” when the person is just dead wrong on policy.
I agree.
Hell and Heaven both have been working toward this 3rd or 4th? fulcrum of all history and all creation.
The CROSS was the first fulcrum.
The RESURRECTION the 2nd.
The CATCHING AWAY could be the 3rd.
Armageddon & the Second Coming the 4th?
Yep - I grok it.
When this title graced FR I knew it was over! " (Iowa) State Officials Ban Tea From Tea Party-(Violates Clean Water Act!)"
Henry Adams wrote that no American ever dies in the land of his birth- meaning, of course, that the country becomes unrecognizable within a lifetime.
I’ve accepted that as a fact, though somewhat abstractly, and now I see it happening at unprecedented speed. We are a country but hardly a nation, fragmented and more and more separated from our roots. What seems to have held us together in recent decades was a shoddy kind of prosperity based on consumerism and debt, and when that breaks down, then what?
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The Obama administration is already beginning to fray, much ahead of schedule. The stock market is falling, unemployment is rising, and Democratic moderates are getting antsy over the massive spending and projected tax increases. The country will soon realize that Obama is out of his depth.
Almost certainly, the 2010 midterm elections will bring a surge of conservative candidates and many GOP victories. Then in 2012, Barack Carter, er, I mean Obama, is likely to be pitched out as a failure — and replaced by a conservative Republican running as the next Ronald Reagan.
I too have found myself withdrawing, a bit; rather than trying to follow every detail of each day’s political infighting I find myself focusing on the fundamentals.
Win the war for the fundamentals and the issues of the day will take care of themselves; lose the fundamentals and the rest will fall of its own weight.
The fundamentals aren’t taught anywhere; most conservatives have absorbed them from their families, from church, or they are self-taught, or all of the above. But for an ever growing majority of Americans the fundamentals don’t exist, they were never taught, they don’t know what the words mean, they don’t know that there ever were any fundamentals.
All they know is what the pony-tailed civics teacher taught them, and thats it. The things we know, that we assume everyone knows, they don’t in fact know and don’t know that they ought to know. This is what you’re up against. Conservative politicians knod toward truths that they assume everyone knows without clearly articulating them in hopes of avoiding a press lynching. But its not enough because while the old heads like us know what is meant the growing majority have no idea what it is that they are not saying.
Give control of education over to your philosophical enemies, and in two or three generations you are finished. The barbarians have broken through the ramparts, but the barbarians aren’t from outside at all, they are the wave after wave of new adults we graduate out of an education system that has gone toxic. They don’t know, and they don’t know that they don’t know.
Give control of the information media over to your philosophical enemies for two or three generations and you’ll find yourself marginalized, muttering to yourself and ignored by the growing majority. Your enemy gets to decide what happened and what didn’t. He gets to decide what opinions are acceptable and which ones are not.
Give control of the entertainment media over to your enemies for a couple of generations and you’ll find that history has been rewritten and all the touchstones of history have been turned on their heads. Orwell saw it all coming but he had no idea just how cool it would be.
So thats where the keys lay. The schools, the information media, and the entertainment media. Churches, families, and the individual conscience of the virtuous.
They, and their allies in the enemedia, will do what they can to corrupt the election process in 2010 whether it be adding bogus voters to the rolls in the form of multiple homeless or newly minted faux citizens.
We need to set up parallel institutions so our fellow-men are not dependent on the state for their sustainence. The farmer's coop movement and reinvigorated Christian charities were two of the good things that came out of the 1930's. We need modern versions of both.
A convincing victory in 2012 as we had in 1980 would assure a clean exit by the Obama crew. Parallel institutions make sense for many reasons, but our goal must ultimately be to put the country back on the right track.
After Zero appointed all those Clintonistas, I never dreamed it could be this bad. Clinton never attempted this much damage to the country.
Reality is indicating we have passed the tipping point on socialism. That is a basic difference from our prior history.
Nothing new under the sun except it is different this time.
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I read that book when I was young; scared the crap out of me.
Exactly - nothing is the same - all things have changed....including the American electorate.
Would that I could dispel your anguish concerning our predicament, but alas...
I won't run on because as usual, there's really nothing to be added to your thoughts. I'll share one thought with you however, and that is, the rumblings coming from the States re reaffirming their rights/duties under the Constitution may be our last and best hope of restoring our Republic. Of course I don't have a clue how that will develop over the next few months or years, and may come to naught, but conservatives are all but out of altitude and ideas. And I have come to notice, so many of them don't really care enough to DO anything.
God bless you joanie. I hope we meet one day in a land that knows no sorrow.
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