Soon, Within the Lives of Most of You, the American Dream Will Slip Away.

Vanity ^ | November 23, 2014 | Nathan Bedford

[nathanbedford]

[nathanbedford]

a vanity for your amusement.

[yldstrk]

The American dream is to be able to worship as you please. Hang on to this dream

[dennisw]

BLAME
-free trade
-abortion
-open borders immigration from the third world
-immigration from the third world is OK if it is small and legal

[Tax-chick]

Too many words.

[Cheerio]

Looking beyond the 2014 election and the 2016 election as well, as demographics continue to run against us, the Senate will also increasingly trend left.

Precisely. BUT if the Seventeenth Amendment were repealed as suggested in Levin's great book "The Liberty Amendments" - using a Convention of the States and ultimately being ratified by the states - the Senate could be returned to a state where it more closely reflected the will of the states just like you argue the House currently does.

An Amendment to Restore the Senate

As discussed briefly in the previous section, it is imperative that we repeal the 17th Amendment which allows for the popular election of senators. After generations of progressive efforts to re-define the governmental and societal structure of America, it has become commonplace for the people to refer to our nation as a democracy. In short, democracy is mob rule, and is in no way better than a dictatorship. Our government was set up with checks and balances in an effort to curtail all forms of tyranny, including that of the many over the few. The Reign of Terror is an historical example of the ‘unintended’ outcome of democratic governance that Americans would do well to investigate more closely.

Critics of a republican form of government will disingenuously equate it’s nature to the current manifestation of the Republican party, knowing full well that the term means something else entirely. The terms republic, republican, democracy, and democratic, as used here have vastly different meanings that are no longer common knowledge.

In addition to restoring the Senate to its intended status as a representative of the individual state governments, Levin’s proposed amendment allows the state legislatures to remove a senator by two thirds vote if they fail to uphold their duties as a representative of that state. This allows for a more direct balance of power between the state and federal governments and provides an additional curtail to the power and encroachment of the federal government.

[stars & stripes forever]

Soon, within the lives of most of us the American Dream will die and slip away because hard-earned American dollars will have been transferred to illegal aliens.

[LMAO]

It's clearly obvious that the president is becoming increasingly desperate and this latest move is being done to increase the Democratic Party base.

However, the only prediction anyone can make regarding the future is it eventually comes. It's going to take alot of teaching by conservatives and that is going to take people who can talk around the press to turn this around, if it is even possible.

Watching the GOP leadership roll on their collective backs for Obama isn't hopeful in the short term.

[Salvey]

We can either grab hold of the remedy supplied to us by the framers of the Constitution and embark on reforming our government according to conservative lines through the Article V process or we can passively watch the crackup.

Author omits a third remedy.

[Rapscallion]

Nathan, I would like to agree with you but I cannot. Your writing reflects an underlying belief that the American dream is all "politics". It is not.

It is partisan politics that are killing the once-great America. Politics are cynical. They kill the faith and love and trust of our people for one another.

God, work, productivity, family, and personal character are the things through which we can rebuild and retain the American dream.

Massive prosecution of the fraud, greed, and corruption would be a good start to renewing our people's faith in our country.

[wintertime]

We have lost the culture and the nation's K-12 single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools have played a large part in this destruction of culture.

It only took one to three generations of K-12 compulsory-use and single-payer schooling to give the nation two Roosevelts and Woodrow Wilson. Each election continues the swirl down the toilet.

Children who attend compulsory-use and socialist-entitlement schools risk learning to be comfortable with socialist compulsion as voters. Gee! If the voting mob can give a child tuition-free schooling, can't that same voting mob give a citizen **lots** of “free” stuff?

Also....The government's single-payer, compulsory-use, and socialist-entitlement schools have never been more than lukewarmly and generically Protestant. Today the religious worldview that is preached in every textbook, assignment, and school policy is godlessness. The children attending these schools **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must if they are to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise? No one should be surprised then that our churches and other cultural institutions have been corrupted.

The rot that we see manifested politically Is primarily spiritual and requires actions on several fronts. The godless and socialist indoctrination of our nation's children is merely one. We must rescue the nation's children from this godless and socialist environment. Unless conservatives do this, I doubt there is any hope of restoring the Constitution.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Foreigners will cease to buy LT Treasuries at 4% ... if the annual deficit continues, the rates will rise ... to 8% to 10%, adding interest to the debt. If FED uses more QE to buy the bonds, increased money supply triggers inflation.

Bottom line, the runaway spending will stop, but what type of DEM party will take the place of the current one.

[uncitizen]

Excellent summation of the situation.

We really have nothing to lose by trying to get an Article V Convention underway. I’ll do whatever is necessary to get it moving, but this is going to be one hell of an uphill battle convincing family, friends, and neighbors. These things don’t happen without the support of a very large part of the population.

[pfony1]

I have to disagree. We patriots haven’t lost yet. To be sure, there’s a lot of work we need to do to pass American values to the generations that follow us.

Let’s remember that “The American Dream” is not about wealth. It’s about the happiness we create by exercising our freedom.

Meanwhile, the “left” wants to demoralize us, to persuade us to just give up our fight.

I won’t give Soros that satisfaction...

[wintertime]

The problem is multifaceted, but fundamentally spiritual. The nation's voters are putting their trust in the god of government and not leaning on the Lord and His teachings.

Work in many areas is sorely needed, and essential. Some of them you have listed.

It saddens me that so few conservatives recognized that sending our nation's children into schools that are fundamentally godless in their worldview and are a single-payer and compulsory-use socialist entitlement will absolutely doom our nation. We can not to this to the hearts, minds, and souls of our nation's children and not reap a whirlwind of sorrow.

[Damifino]

The American Dream at one time always began “With hard work”. It hasn’t for some time.

[wintertime]

There is a solution outside of Washington in an arena untainted by many of the influences which render conservatives impotent in Washington and that, of course, is in our state legislatures ...
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You solution is merely giving Tylenol to a patient dying of fulminating infection.

The underlying disease is spiritual.

[nathanbedford]

I do not compare myself with Mozart but I do compare you with the Emperor. I do hope that the following excerpt of transcript from the movie, Amadeus, does not overtax you.

From the movie “Amadeus”

EMPEROR: Well, Herr Mozart! A good effort. Decidedly that. An excellent effort! You’ve shown us something quite new today.

[Mozart bows frantically: he is over-excited.]

MOZART: It is new, it is, isn’t it, Sire?

EMPEROR: Yes, indeed.

MOZART: So then you like it? You really like it, Your Majesty?

EMPEROR: Of course I do. It’s very good. Of course now and then - just now and then - it gets a touch elaborate.

MOZART: What do you mean, Sire?

EMPEROR: Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say? [he stops in difficulty; turning to Orsini-Rosenberg] How shall one say, Director?

ORSINI-ROSENBERG: Too many notes, Your Majesty?

EMPEROR: Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes.

MOZART: I don’t understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as are required. Neither more nor less.

EMPEROR: My dear fellow, there are in fact only so many notes the ear can hear in the course of an evening. I think I’m right in saying that, aren’t I, Court Composer?

SALIERI: Yes! yes! er, on the whole, yes, Majesty.

MOZART: But this is absurd!

EMPEROR: My dear, young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Cut a few and it will be perfect.

MOZART: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

EMPEROR: Well. There it is.

[OneWingedShark]

The American Dream at one time always began “With hard work”. It hasn’t for some time.

At this point in time there seems a lot against hard work — namely the high tax-rate, the literal dangers of confiscation should you step out of line, [for men] the liability of no-fault divorces with a divorce-court system that is geared against men. [again, for men] the anti-masculine stance of society (namely that masculine traits like logic aren't valued).

[nathanbedford]

perhaps you missed the references to culture.