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HELL NO! And it ain't over now.

Really, why do so many have this grotesque, defeatist, narcissistic fantasy that it'll be THEIR generation that sees the Collapse, and there is nothing we can do to stop Thelma and Louise from going over the cliff?

While Reagan said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction, he argued that it must be fought for, protected, and handed on to our children for them to do the same. He didn't throw in the towel. Neither did the people who fought back against CNN whey they tried to blackmail the gif poster.

By most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started. AND YET...I see a future. As did everyone along the journey in the US. You gotta have faith, and a serious assessment of the situation. And a backbone.

As noted elsewhere, Liberals have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy....for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa...Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic. THIS...is what'll bring down civilization?

It's also worth noting that safety in numbers is also at play. Moldylocks wrote of fear before heading out to Berkeley (where she got clocked) but she was comforted by the (alleged) numbers of equally-deranged secularists (who also got clocked).

I believe, in part, this is why Trump and his retinue keep using Twitter and rallies to remind we Deplorables that, indeed, there's more of us than them, and to not despair. Our steadfast and visible defense of all that is good and right is a partial antidote to this social virus. Everyone wants to win, and one can only hope that further winning will help turn these misguided souls to our side.

Today I stand tall. I am fearful that we may let this watershed moment in US history be wasted. But I am confident we won't.

Let us celebrate, fellow Deplorables. Let not our faces be long with #NeverTrumpism or CNN. We are on the ascent. Our President - a billionaire from Queens - is more like us than any other guy we've had in a LONG time. The future of our Nation - nay, civilization - where we'll always have 20% of the citizenry being chronic whiners, is bright again.

Bluto was right then, and today.

That is a post for the ages. Bump for later.

>>where we’ll always have 20% of the citizenry being chronic whiners

They aren’t just chronic whiners. They are “activists”. They are willing to take their whining to the streets and to get concessions from the people in power. The police won’t clear a street blocked by these whiner-activists, but some brave citizen will push through with his truck. But if he hurts one in the process (as he should!), the full force of the law will come down on him and the rest of us will do nothing. Would we block the courthouse so the judge can’t enter to try this brave citizen? No. We’re too busy working so we can have a nice vacation or a new boat or an early retirement.

You see, we are not activists. But, the Founders were.

We are in a war of ideologies today, not a war for independence. They see themselves as the Founders of a “Great New Utopian Progressive Paradise”. They ARE in a war for independence, at least they believe they are and beliefs are the source of motivations.

We are the Tories trying to defend a way of life that does not work as well in the Information Age as it did in the Industrial Age.

The overused comparison to the American Revolution does not apply today. You use a Bluto meme to illustrate your point, but where is YOUR Deathmobile and bag of marbles to wreck one of their protest marches? Are you taking the torch to your vehicle this weekend to armor it up?

By most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started. AND YET...I see a future. As did everyone along the journey in the US. You gotta have faith, and a serious assessment of the situation. And a backbone.

Great points, really the meat of the matter!

I agree almost completely with your assessment. I see this nation now as 1/3 conservatives, 1/4 liberals, and the rest Kardashian-watchers.

The challenge is that the libs have oozed into all the corners of power: academia, bureaucracies, mass media, even churches. Those are powerful opinion-shapers and the Kardashian set is easily led. The perception is that the libs are far more numerous than they are. Like the shield-beaters of ancient armies, they make a lot of noise and convince the foe that their numbers are legion.

Trump and the Deplorables are challenging that misperception, and reducing the noisemakers to their rightful numbers. Certainly there's hope.

But it's becoming less and less likely that we'll return to a Great America without a cataclysmic upheaval. And once the shooting starts, it's anyone's guess who will emerge the victor.

By most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started. AND YET...I see a future.

At the time of the revolution, the "ballast" people either didn't have any opinion at all or they generally took the opinion of the more involved people, who were as you say 20% Loyalist and 40% Patriots.

Today, the "ballast" people, at election time, fall in line the the Media propaganda.

That's the difference.

Well said!