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| The Glue Holding America Together |
| 2013-06-29 |
| As it fragments into various camps, the country is being held together by a common popular culture Something likewise both depressing and encouraging is happening to the United States. Few Americans seem to worry that our present leaders have lied to or misled Congress and the American people without consequences. Most young people cannot distinguish the First Amendment from the Fourth Amendment — and do not worry about the fact that they cannot. Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln are mere names of grammar schools, otherwise unidentifiable to most. |
| Posted by:Au Auric |
| #11 That's easy g(r)omgoru, By then we'll have our new 'undocumented' slaves that will work in factories under conditions much like the chinese and the Democrat party will officially again be the party of slavery. So you'll have slaves doing the work while 'citizens' sit on welfare and taxpayers continue to work like dogs in the slowly shrinking amount of middle-class jobs. It really is too much like Pournelle's CoDominium series, especially with places legalizing pot to keep the 'citizen' class stoned and having a taxpayer class. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2013-06-29 20:47 |
| #10 What happens when Chinese stop selling on credit? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-29 13:42 |
| #9 With the Constitution being treated like aged Duct Tape, our present condition is not surprising and our future all but certain.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-06-29 09:59 |
| #8 Detroit was once one of the great cities of America, hey, in the world. Then it forgot why it was a city. Insert all the usual aggrandizing ego driven agendas that help kill the goose that laid the golden egg [of course being modern, urban, and hip, that ancient tale of human behavior could never apply to them]. Other then the pols and specials interests in exploiting the carcass of the place, no one cares or is willing to invest any of the energy and efforts in keeping it around. The 'takers' are engendering that same attitude among the real productive strata of America. It's not my city will become it's my country. As history is replete with examples, a crisis will arise, one of the those down the road, and the people that provided the real foundation of it all, will shrug their shoulders and say 'so what'. The Left can not, will not grasp that event. For them its always about power, to the last. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-29 08:31 |
| #7 Well said Threater Flusoper. Makes me quite sad to look back at how it once was, and of course there is the danger of turning into a pillar of salt. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-29 08:12 |
| #6 .just another day in the life of the republic: a corrupt bureaucracy dispensing federal gravy to favored clients; a pseudo-legislature passing bills unread by the people's representatives and uncomprehended by the men who claim to have written them; and a co-regency of jurists torturing an 18th-century document in order to justify what other countries are at least honest enough to recognize as an unprecedented novelty. I am sure Scalia is just channeling John Hancock, Jefferson and Washington and other men like Benjamin Franklin who all were tolerant and appreciative of what homosexuality could contribute to the best interests of our Republic. Like we really needed to be told the homoxesuals are just as good as Mom and Dad. And now we can look forward to marriage with your pets and with several of your closer friends. And when you go to Church you can sit right beside Bruce and Dwayne and smile cause they are just as good as anybody else. Levitcus is so tre yesterday. So is the entire Bible for that matter. Just a hate book that built Western Civilization. Fugetaboutit. |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-06-29 08:06 |
| #5 SSSMD; I fear you are correct and so predicted when the Obamanation was elected the first time. I asked yesterday in a different thread "Where do we get our values from now?" Few Americans seem to worry that our present leaders have lied to or misled Congress and the American people without consequences The reason for this is that moral relativism has triumphed to such an extent that the answer if you ask young people why they don't worry about this is "Everyone always does it and always have done it so what's the big deal." Corruption becomes a self replicating machine. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-06-29 08:04 |
| #4 The glue is long since gone. We're running on inertia now and when that fails the slaughter will begin. I have no illusions about that, I really do think civil war is coming. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2013-06-29 02:55 |
| #3 VDH is an oracle, a national treasure. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-29 02:15 |
| #2 "teach your children well" Crosby, Stills and Nash sometime during the 60's/// |
| Posted by: bman 2013-06-29 02:05 |
| #1 Probably the only thing kids today learn about Washington and Jefferson is that they were slave owners.And the only thing of interest about Lincoln was that he freed the slaves. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-06-29 00:25 |