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A Great Awakening to the Fight Is Upon Us
amgreatness.com ^ | 11/2/19 | Mark Bauerlein

Posted on 11/04/2019 3:04:57 AM PST by a little elbow grease

Last week in a dinner speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., Princeton professor Robert George had some advice for social and religious conservatives: “You must fight.”

It was an exhortation that does him no good in the academic world.

It was fantastic.

One of the people cheering at the end was William Barr, who delivered his own call to arms last month in a speech at Notre Dame. “I think we all recognize that over the past 50 years religion has been under increasing attack,” he said. Traditional believers have felt the “force, fervor, and comprehensiveness of the assault” again and again. Barr called it “organized destruction,” a deliberate campaign to destroy the religious foundations of American society.

What progressives have rosily characterized as a noble movement for equality and freedom is no such thing, Barr argued. It is a coordinated effort of academia, popular culture, mass communication, and the entertainment industry to remove faith and the faithful from the public square, forever.

The Left has been making war by other means for 50 years, changing history textbooks, peddling films that mock fatherhood and faith. It’s been a successful war because conservative leaders and intellectuals have failed to assess the other side. And when conservatives have identified it for what it is, as in Pat Buchanan’s prescient 1992 speech, they were made a laughingstock in the press.

No more. Awakened conservatives don’t care what ABC News says about them. They’ve learned the Alinsky tactics of the Left, and they acknowledge that Alinsky was a brilliant man. But they have also discovered that Alinsky methods fail if the target refuses to be intimidated and announces that if you continue this war we will march into battle.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: civilwar; fight; war
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No more compromise, no more calls for bipartisanship
1 posted on 11/04/2019 3:04:57 AM PST by a little elbow grease
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To: a little elbow grease

The days of going alone to get along is over! Reaching across the isle always meant we were giving something up to appease the mentally ill


2 posted on 11/04/2019 3:13:49 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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The Rs in Congress need to pay heed to this message.

The true American populace is reaching a point of do or die.

They better pick up their slack or they will find themselves holding the wrong end of the stick.

3 posted on 11/04/2019 3:14:28 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Some pundit thought the democrats were starting a civil war, but like with slavery, they counted on republicans to accept the blame for it, for starting the war.

In France all leftists know civil war is at hand, but they cynically will let the right wing party take power once that civil war cannot be prevented, after preparing the ground work for it all these years.


4 posted on 11/04/2019 3:26:52 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified e)
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To: a little elbow grease

Excellent article written by a conservative professor of English. We need more of such defenders of the constitution and morality.


5 posted on 11/04/2019 3:29:13 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: a little elbow grease
Alinsky methods fail if the target refuses to be intimidated and announces that if you continue this war we will march into battle.

As some of us have recognized for quite a while now, it is time to put the fainting salts and kerchiefs away and man the cannons.

6 posted on 11/04/2019 3:49:16 AM PST by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: a little elbow grease

What about my 401K? /sarc


7 posted on 11/04/2019 3:52:13 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kudsman
As some of us have recognized for quite a while now, it is time to put the fainting salts and kerchiefs away and man the cannons.

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'gettin' there.

8 posted on 11/04/2019 3:53:26 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

Bttt


9 posted on 11/04/2019 3:58:50 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: a little elbow grease

Tucker Carlson’s awakening is something we saw here on FR in the first days JimRob created the site.

Tucker realized that liberals did not believe in free speech or religious freedom.

Liberals also once said abortion should be “safe, legal and rare”

Liberals once mocked conservatives that they do not want to take your guns, they just want reasonable restrictions.

It is clear now that the socialists were lying...like they did in every country before coming to power.

We knew their real intentions, but now the socialists have admitted it and cannot walk it back.


10 posted on 11/04/2019 3:59:32 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: a little elbow grease

This fight goes all the way down to local state and city school boards. Time to get rid of the sex ed classes they are forcing down our childrens throats: anal/transgender et al, LGBT agenda etc. We must fight from the bottom up. Never stop fighting and knowing who we are voting into office. These deviants won’t stop fighting and now we, too must jump into the fray and fight the judges who think they are God and impose their will upon us. We must NEVER GIVE UP.


11 posted on 11/04/2019 4:05:19 AM PST by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 /2010 - See you on the other side!)
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"Tucker Carlson’s awakening is something we saw here on FR in the first days JimRob created the site.

Tucker realized that liberals did not believe in free speech or religious freedom."

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Yes, yes.

I could not include the excellent sentences in the article about Tucker Carlson because of the "300 word" limit. His show is about the best out there now.

Mark Levin is SMOKIN' these days too. Last night he was great again with Mo Brooks and Matt Gaetz.

12 posted on 11/04/2019 4:10:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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"In France all leftists know civil war is at hand, but they cynically will let the right wing party take power once that civil war cannot be prevented, after preparing the ground work for it all these years."

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......... once more

13 posted on 11/04/2019 4:11:31 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease
This is exactly why Trump should have stumped purposefully for a "supermajority" in 2018 - he never once used the word. We wouldn't be going through any of this and he would be unassailable.

Instead, he wanted to grind against a Democrat House. Unfortunately that inattention to the composition of that grind House provided nutrootery the likes of which the US has never seen.

Right now we should be passing bills to restore religious liberty by supermajorities and filling Federal judiciaries with like-minded conservatives by supermajorities; and implementing the particulars of exile for coup plotters.

Now we have to do it the hard way, win a House majority right back in an election year.

14 posted on 11/04/2019 4:21:29 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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No more. Awakened conservatives don’t care what ABC News says about them. They’ve learned the Alinsky tactics of the Left, and they acknowledge that Alinsky was a brilliant man. But they have also discovered that Alinsky methods fail if the target refuses to be intimidated and announces that if you continue this war we will march into battle.

I hope so!!!!

15 posted on 11/04/2019 4:36:51 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: a little elbow grease

good article, thanks for posting


16 posted on 11/04/2019 4:44:10 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: a little elbow grease
I remember back when some folks on FR used to say that the Koran is a war plan.

Well, so is the Bible.

Although the Bible is also a roadmap to Salvation, God's guide to living, and a history of the Jews, it is quite clear in conveying the message that this is a world at war.

A war between good and evil...between the forces of God and the forces of Darkness.

17 posted on 11/04/2019 4:47:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: a little elbow grease

We must realize we ARE in a War - and primarily an Information war - a war against the Monarchy of the “Political Ruling Class” that is Protected by the INFORMATION State (Deep State). A war that THEY started decades ago right under our very noses.

They are conducting Asymmetric Warfare in part by “Weaponizing” Information, utilizing the MSM as their willing and enthusiastic Propoganda Arm.

Until and unless we are prepared to return the salvos using the SAME weapons utilized by that Information State, SPECIFICALLY directed at those that are responsible for this attempted “coup”, then we are just venting hot air and as Solzhenitsyn said “we simply deserved everything that came next”

Trump, Barr and team have the POWER to strike using these means,for they have Ready access to the needed Information- but will they? Will we? The Political Ruling class is made up of EVERYONE (Republicans and Democrats) inside the Beltway - we can expect no aid nor quarter from them (with rare exception) - WE must take responsibility for OUR own destiny or it is ASSURED that Others will.


18 posted on 11/04/2019 4:50:28 AM PST by jcwky (When the Gov't becomes lawless, it makes criminals of it's citizens...)
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To: Freee-dame
Excellent article written by a conservative professor of English. We need more of such defenders of the constitution and morality

You took the words right out of my mouth. I was so impressed I clicked on the author (rarely do that) to read who this brilliant man is.
19 posted on 11/04/2019 5:01:55 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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Trump should have... "

Thank you for your comment. Your idea presumes that the cohort of Rinos is not the decisive factor. I see very little progress against them and I do not see that PDJT sees them as the enemy or is even concerned about identifying them and resisting them.

20 posted on 11/04/2019 5:14:00 AM PST by BDParrish ( Please correct me! I never learned anything from anybody who already agreed with me.)
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