Posted on 07/04/2014 9:09:50 AM PDT by Innovative
the Gallup numbers show that in 2006 the United States was one of the top countries in the world when it came to satisfaction with freedom. By 2013 it had dropped out of the top 25% of all countries.
A country in which 4 out of 5 people believe their government is corrupt is a country teetering between a populist uprising and a collapse into cynicism, passivity, and fatalism.
These results suggest we will either renew our commitment to the rule of law, the punishment of corruption and the insistence on honest self-government or we will cease to be America as the land of the free and the land of opportunity.
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I didn’t say that. But with the moral and cultural bankrupcy America has descended to, I do not see America as having a future. Not at all. And that’s not even counting the factors of a corrupt, statist government, mind-boggling debt, and open-borders turning the country into a third-world banana republic.
So you’ve given up then.
The moment the Supreme Court forces fag-marriage on all the states. A symbolic line-in-the-sand, that tells me it’s over. At that point, yes, America can go burn to the ground. That will be a country I’ll never lift a finger for again. I’ll be supporting secession.
Me, too.
I believe in The United States of America
AS DESIGNED.
“We’re breeding a generation of lazy, entitled potheads who can’t look up from their iPhones long enough to do anything but order a Starbucks.”
Speaking of which...
Berkeley To Force Marijuana Dispensaries To Provide Free Weed For Low-Income Patients
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“Newt squandered the 1994 Contract with America victory. He is dead to me.’
As I said, Newt was the one who orchestrated the capture of the House by the GOP, after 40+ years of Dem control. And the House is still under GOP control.
Do you have any idea what shape the country would be in, if both the House and Senate were under Dem control, with Obama president?
We would already be a third world country, with no hope of reversal.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to Newt.
Why not 1971 with Roe v Wade? There’s a thousand lines in the sand where we could have decided we were finished. Why not go ahead and burn it to the ground right now? If that’s what needs to happen, why wait.
Sheer symbolism. The need for a mental line-in-the-sand, in which it’s confirmed for me that America has truly crossed over into evil, and is no longer a country capable or worthy of salvaging.
Admittedly, I could argue that such a line has already been crossed, considering what is going on in this country. The populace elected a Marxist leader twice, the rule of law is dead, the culture serves up depravity like Miley Cyrus and her foam-finger and an NFL that celebrates a homo recruit slobbering cake off his boytoy’s face.
This is not the America I pledged allegiance to. This is a grotesque mirror-universe America. An America that stands opposite every value I cherish.
I think the real question is whether we will take action — i.e. VOTE, write to Congress and make sure everyone knows what is going on — or not.
Things can still be reversed. I think that’s the point.
Well, just as long as you fatalists stay out of the way of the rest of us.
I’m with you on that.
In speaking with my co-workers no one is aware what’s going on.
Being nurses,I asked what did they think about the diseases coming across the border.
“why,what’s going on at the border?”
Life is all about what is on the iphone.
I won’t be staying out of the way of those who turned America into such a faggoty, socialist sewer. I rank them a far worse enemy than al-Qaeda could ever hope to aspire to. And it would be a mistake to interpret my seeming negativity/fatalism as an avenue of inaction.
A nation of idiots playing Candy Crush at work. Geez.
You seem to forget that he turns on a dime, and the next thing you know, he’s sitting on a coach with Nancy Pelosi espousing “global warming,” he only ever speaks up and says the right things when he needs money.
I won’t fall for it again.
Besides, he’ll never do any winning for us again anyway, he’s not relevant.
Yeah, I’m sure you and your defeatist ilk are full of action.
Please lead the way, losers.
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