Posted on 07/03/2015 7:57:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
As I've said, I was very alarmed, though not particularly surprised, by the two Supreme Court decisions last week in which the court's majority blithely bastardized the English language, the Constitution, the rule of law and the very idea of truth in order to further advance the progressive agenda in this nation.
But what troubles me more than the court's betrayal of its duty to safeguard the Constitution and the rule of law is the apparent complacency among the public about these decisions and the radical shifts we are witnessing in our culture.
Why do some seem resigned to the transformation of our society? Why have they surrendered? Do they strongly believe in anything anymore? Do they not understand the implications for the future of this nation -- if not for themselves, for their children?
We all seem to agree that to a great extent politics flows downstream from culture. The problem for conservatives is that the left understands this better than we do. They long ago took over our major cultural institutions, indoctrinating society through the schools, universities, media and Hollywood to their anti-tradition and radically secular ideas.
It has been a brilliant, grand deception because the left's ideas are anything other than the salt and light they present them to be. They offer themselves as tolerant, inclusive, compassionate and morally superior decriers of "hate." Yet they are the intolerant and often bitterly hateful ones who are trying to suppress opposing voices and who demonize everyone who dares disagree with their positions.
Leftists have been denigrating America's history, culture and values and denying it. But don't you dare suggest they don't love the country they have spent so much energy trashing and trying to fundamentally change.
They have insisted they just want the freedom to live and let live; they just want equal rights. In no way do they mean to encroach on other people's rights. They are harmless, seeking only an equal seat at the table.
Yet across the board their actions contradict their words, and their subsequent positions flagrantly breach their promises and assurances.
In economic policy, the founding American ideal of equal opportunity is no longer enough for them. By itself, it is inherently unfair, because some people have more talent, better connections or a privileged race or gender status. So they demand equal or more equitable outcomes. They use the tax code, administrative regulations and unconstitutional legislation to even the score. But isn't something screamingly wrong and unsustainable about a society whose lower half of income earners pay zero income taxes?
On same-sex marriage, gay activists said they only wanted equal recognition and an equal right to marry. They wouldn't dream of encroaching on the religious liberties of Christians. How quickly their true intentions emerged once they scored their Supreme Court victory. They were never going to be satisfied merely with a lawless Supreme Court decision forcing states to accept their redefinition of marriage. They are determined to use the power of the state and economic coercion to neuter and punish dissenters.
Leftists are not about live and let live. They are about wholesale control. Their movers and shakers see society as their project, and they can change everything and everyone through government and their domination of the culture. There is no live and let live in their bones.
In view of all this, it is amazing that so many conservatives, traditionalists and Christians are blind to the hostile, aggressive and unquenchable appetite of the leftist movement. It is chilling to me that they don't realize this trend is going to continue until there is either a cultural or legal confrontation or the left stamps out all dissent. The left is never satisfied even with winning; they must stomp out the opposition. Just look at what they've done to the Christian businesses with which they gratuitously picked a fight over same-sex marriage. Look at the concentrated assault on Donald Trump, even if you don't agree with some of his statements. Look at what they do to anyone who doesn't comply with their 1984-ishness.
I repeat: Is our side asleep? Have they given up? Are they numb? Do they care? Are they cowards? Would they rather be thought of as wonderful and tolerant by these intolerant people than stand up for what they believe in? Or do they believe in much of anything anymore?
I find it inconceivable that in the past five years Americans' opinions concerning same-sex marriage have changed as drastically as certain polls and commentators suggest. It's as if because President Obama came out and admitted he favors same-sex marriage, everyone else is compelled to agree. Even if the polls show this, I don't believe a majority yet accepts, in its heart of hearts, that same-sex marriage is the way to go. My suspicion is that it's more a reflection of the bullying and propaganda than a societal change of heart.
Could I be wrong on this? Could society be that fickle -- so apathetic about serious issues that they can turn on a dime? I'm not buying it. But I do believe people increasingly lack the courage to voice dissenting opinions against the politically correct position.
But I haven't given up hope. We can't give up on America. I don't believe American conservatism and traditional values are dead, but they are very, very sick. They need a doctor -- in the form of a fearless proponent of our ideas, which spawned the greatest nation in history and can help to bring it back. During this chaotic GOP primary process, hopefully a leader will emerge who believes in America and can inspire like-minded people toward a political revival. In the meantime, a spiritual revival in our culture is long overdue.
May God not give up on but once again bless America.
Divide the country by congressional districts (not state lines), and separate the “red” districts from the “blue” districts. The “red” districts are nearly contiguous, the “blue” districts exist as sometimes widely separated islands. The “blue” districts could then organize themselves into whatever cockamamie collectivist government they wanted, while the “red” district could then be free to re-adopt the words of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, with the important provision that the 16th and 17th not be adopted at all, and the 18th and 21st, which essentially nullified each other, not be adopted either. Most of the interpretation of the Constitution from the period of about 1973 forward could also be discarded, and every question raised in that period be revisited by a newly appointed Supreme Court, the present one having been dismissed in its entirety and only actual Constitutional scholars be selected to fill the vacancies.
And, erect a VERY secure fence and keep it well-manned and enforced, between the “red” district and the various “blue” districts. Anyone is free to emigrate from the “red” district, if they would be more comfortable elsewhere, but immigration from the “blue” district, to the “red” district, would be strictly controlled. Anyone with the least degree of intent to agitate for or try to establish any “reforms” that limit the freedoms enjoyed by all citizens of the “red” district, would either be denied entry, or expelled immediately from the “red” district upon discovery.
BUMP!
I agree. We are in the wilderness, wandering. This is all in the OT
Those who do give up on America can GTFO and STFU because I have no intent to fight for an America for the benefit of cowards in the fetal position in a foxhole.
We aren’t all necessarily resigned to America falling as much as we are resigned to what is inevitably coming and the suffering and pain with which our progeny will need to endure. As in the revolution for Independence the majority are noncommittal. Those who truly hold liberty dear are being stretched far beyond what our ancestors endured. There are few remaining alternatives when the soap box is corrupted and the ballot box is suborned. I’m going to start putting more time into the convention of states beyond that I don’t know what else there is beyond pain and endurance.
But remember this:Unfortunately, history always repeats.
Like CWII.
It doesn't always repeat but it certainly rhymes.
I think it’s like Ann Coulter and others have said. Americans haven’t changed their minds. They’ve been replaced. The flood of third world immigrants, legal and illegal, since 1965 or so, has changed this country irrevocably. Patriotic people born in this country are becoming a smaller percentage. The only way to fight this is to close the borders, deport illegals, and have an immigration moratorium, but that has been an uphill battle and it’s probably too late now.
It all comes down to the fact that the people wishing the nation’s destruction vote as a solid bloc.
>>What do you want RUSH to call for, BLOOD IN THE STREETS OF D.C. ? Rush will NEVER do that.
First, its not Rush. It’s his lawyer brother, David, who wrote that.
Second, if he’s not ready to call for revolution, what exactly does he want us to do? Picket politely? Vote for the GOP? Expect constitutional justice from the SCOTUS?
Twain was wrong. It repeats precisely. All these events we see today have exact analogs in Rome, in the Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany and any number of events.
Examples:
Gays made up much of the top Nazi/SS ranks
The Soviet Union was held together through propaganda for years. Many dissidents were labelled crazy and among other things, targeted by the leadership for ‘example’ status.
The Roman empire created bread and circuses for the people and the people to them to the exclusion of watching their leaders destroy them.
We all, or at least many of us on FR know these things. We just don’t want to make the ugly admission that America too is doing exactly what led to them and that the outcome will be EXACTLY the same.
We aren’t above it or special. We are human and many traded American exceptional ism for a new car, a big screen TV and n Iphone.
We all, or at least many of us on FR know these things. We just don’t want to make the ugly admission that America too is doing exactly what led to them and that the outcome will be EXACTLY the same.
Don't forget the increased employment of foreign peoples to do the work that Romans did not want to do--even in the military. The actual real ethnic Roman part of the population at the end was down to about 10%.
May America not give up on, but once more bless God.
It’s going to be in the middle of trials and tribulations, but maybe now America has been pushed to a point where it sees something worth defending.
This is not about policy on love or marriages or any such thing. This is about freedom to be governed according to the consent of the people.
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